"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-04-04"@en . "1906-09-22"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318668/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE WESTERN CLA\nPublished in the Interests of the Working Class Alone.\njiin i\u00C2\u00BB\nV MHHI\n391.\nVancouver. British Columbia, Saturday, September 22, 1906.\ns_=\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2fries\nts* toss\nSI.00\nTHE CONFESSIONS OF A DRONE\nThrough the Columns of the New York \"Independent\" Joseph\nMedill Patterson of Chicago explains how he lives in\nComfort at the expense of the Workers.\nTho \"Indc|icmh\u00C2\u00BBnt\" has asked me\nf,ir a short economic autobiography.\nI comply in tho understanding thut\nI \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E, tulking about myself, the type\n,,f the idle, rich young man, not iny-\ns, if the individual.\nWere 1 the only erne in the country\nwho had such un easy time of it,\nthen there need lie no such thing as\nSocialism. But 1 nut far from teeing\nilie only one. There tire thousands of\nothers who produce, no wealth and\nconsume a great deal of it. Thero\nate thousands who produce no more\nihiin I. nntl who consume twenty\nii s as much. He it remembered\nthat wherever the first |tersonal pronoun 11 used it is used to represent\nth<' typo uml not the individual 1\nhate an Income of between ten anil\ntwenty iliousuud dollars a year. 1\nspend all of it. I produce nothing\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nnm doing no work. 1 (the txpe) cun\nki-ep \"ii doing this alt my lifc'iunless\ntin- present social syHtem is changed.\nWill III* HIS INCOME COMES\nFROM.\nM> income doet't descend upon me\nlike manna from heaven. It can be\nIn ! Some of it conies from thu\nprofits of a daily newspaper, sume of\nii 'nines from Chicago ruai estate,\nviii\" (rum the profits made by the\nr,!tn\.huniiI and other railroads .\ni. from thc profits of the? United\nState** Steel Coriioration; some from\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 !,.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 profitl of the American Tubai-co\ne oiupuny.\nv*. to Chicago re*al estate, I didn't\npill i! there. Soltle of it I have* never\nM*cn, It c.tniu into pc>N*u.**(Hion of my\nfninil) SOOM years ago, when it uus\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 l,im|kt. People came to Chicago to\nuuil. antl in proportion as their mini\nIsms increased, the value of ihis real\nroae automatically. The people uhie came t\u00C2\u00ABt Chicago to work\ni the Increase In value \u00C2\u00BBbut I\npel ihe benefttiof It. Then* are people who am willing to work mi this\nlet net I am not willing to do mi.\nHtus we arrange that thoy shall\nwork there and pay me that minimi\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Imtc for my |*ormissioii.\nKit to I'ennsy Ivania, Tolincrco und\nslocks anel bonds 1 know DO*\nthing whatever about railroads, ox-\ncepl hou lo read n tiine-tuttlo nnd to\nbios* heaven for tho oightevti-hotu\ntrain Yet 1 get un annual income\nfront railroads. It isn't the capi tei I-\ni-is who supply nn* with my income\nfrom railroads. 1 am one of them\nmyself\u00E2\u0080\u0094and WO couldn't nil be s\ncomfortable* together by merely\nhitntling each other money l.uck uud\nforth No. it must lie* the men who\nwork the \"-nilroods or the traveller*\nan I ship|>ers who contribute eiur in-\nctiincN. I'rnbnbly It is both. The\nmen who run the trains are* underpaid for the work they do, anil thowe\nwho ship or travel overpay for the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0I. ice they get. We capitalists get\nUi' margin between.\nv., J-KEIJ-'WS 11!^**; FOI! !>!Y!-\ndiinps.\nI have never be*en inside a sloe\nmill; antl ] know about tohnren only\nns ii consumer. Vet the milkers- and\nusers of Steel and tobacco send me\n\"\" their little checks twice a year\nI never hnve to elun thorn.\nTho big capitalist may wonder nt\nmy audacjty in claiming fellowship\nwith him when I confess to an income of well under twenty thousand\ndollars a your. Vet. after all. while\namong exclusively capitalist circles I\nam nothing much, still us compared\nwith the average American 1 am\nI'i <-t ty well off.\nFor instance, it takes to support\nme just about twenty UnMM ns much\n\u00C2\u00BB'< il takes Ui support an average\n\"diking man eir (Minor. Ami thc\nfunny thing about it Is that these\nworkingmen anil farmers work hard\nall year round, while 1 don't uork\nnl nil.\n1 have better lood, better clothes\nnnd n lietter house thnn the workers\nwho supply me with money to spend.\nI can travel erftener, to more inter\nest ing places, on faster trains nnd in\nmoro comfortable steamship calling\nI havo horses to ride and drive, eb-\nni'siic servants to minister to mj|\nwants, tho host physicians in case ol\nsickness, If I nm fond of books I\ncan without much self-sacrifice creato\nn respectable little library for my-\nsclf. 1 db not live all your round in\nthe smoky, nervous, crowded city.\nMy child will never go to work in n\nco'ton mill or n swoot-shop.\nIIUd'V-EN.TOY THE HF.ST : WORK\n-OET THE WORST.\nIn short. 1 lead a far moro highly\nclvlllted lifo than tho working people. I have ei'Tercel ma the choice of\n'ill the best things that mnn in his\nstay upon this earth litis discovered,\nevolved or created. The worksing\nl'eople do not hove this choice otTer-\nod thorn. There is left for them tho\nnhoddy things of life\u00E2\u0080\u0094hard work and\nsmall reward. I have little or no\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ork and the earth's best for ro\nward,\nThe work of tho working-iieople,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\"thing olso, produces tho wealth,\nwhich by somo hoous-poeuis arrangement Is transferred to mo. leaving\nthem bare, While thoy support me\nin splendid stylo, what do 1 tor\nthem? T/it the candid upholder of\nlho prosont order answer, for 1 am\nnot nwtvro of doing anything for\nihem.\nIt is said that I supply a wage\nfund out of whieh their wages are\npaid? 'Nonsense. If overy bond anil\nwithin the walls of a prison as outside of them.\nCity Stockade, Atlanta, Oa.,\nSeptember 4, 190\u00C2\u00AB.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIJNCLF. JIM'S CABIN.\nEditor Socialist Voice:\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Atlanta Work-House is called a \"Stockade.\" Under the old slave regime a\nstockade wus a kind of open corral\nin which tho newly imported as well\nas the rebellious slaves were kept at\nnight and this place inherited its\nmime from the older institutions of\nlike character. At the present time\nthere wre about ones hundred and\nseventy-five negro men and boys ;\nabout fifty negro women and girls,\nthirty white men anel three white\nwomen in this place, and this is\nabout the average the year around.\nNo work of any kind is done in tho\nbuilding. One squad works in the\nstone quarry; thin squad consists of\nthe physically deformed, the young\nboys and old mem. The majority of\nthe negro women work on the form,\na small number of them being util-\nThe most of thei men*\noth while and black, work the\nstock certificate ami overy real estate abstract were burned* today In\na huge bonfire, the vacated titles to\nownership falling naturally to tho\ncommunity, trains would pull out on\nschedule time tomorrow. The trainmen, dispatchers, su|M*rlntendentH,\nlocomotives, cars and tracks would\nbo there. The ci-devant, stock owner\nwould find himself nothing but a nuisance if hc went down to a freight-\nyard and lie-run to meddle.\nHAS A ChOOn TIME-AT OTHERS*\nEXPENSE.\nThat my life is so much complete\nthan the lives of tho workers who\nsupport BM hits ts-en excused on the;Ized ns cooks\nground that they are loss \"cultivat\n(\u00E2\u0080\u00A2d\" and therefore less fitted to esn-1 streets in chain-gang fashion,\njoy things which please inc. Hutl Everybody is around at threc-\nthat seems a little like begging the] thirty (3:30) a. m., for breakfast,\nquestion. Many of them are not asf after which which everybody moves\nwell educated, bseauee they had to I out to work, returning about 6 p.m.\ngo to work as boys in the fields, the so you set- we arc all union men and\nwomen- that is, are work eight hours\nbefore noon and eight hours after\nnoon.\nThe food served here is br follows:\nllroakfnst consists of a large chunk\nof cornbrcod, piece of fat (salt-i>etrc\ncured hog) and some black molasses,\nllinner consists of another chunk of\ncombread. another piece of fot hog\nanel lionns. Tho bill of fare for ruji-\n|ier is identical with that for breakfast, without, variation, except on\nSundays, when supper is dispensed\nwith altogether. Tea, coffee or beef\nis unknown ns is nlso wheat broad.\nThe sleeping accommodations are\nstrong and durable. There is no Is-el-\nBtead in the whole place. Evervbeidy\nsleops on the floor on a thin roatress\nmode of com shucks nnd corn cutis.\nThe hundred and twenty-five negro\nglusM factories, the mines, the mills\nwhile I was pursuing my leisurely,\ngentlemanly way through boarding-\nschool and University, I don't think\nit was entirety natural aptitude that\nmucked mo out for n university education, since 1 remember that frequently I had to pay money to tutors in drill into my head information of a icmurkably simple character. I wns fond of it good time*\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nthat I hud. (If course it took money\nwhich was obligingly supplied, via\nmy family, by the pressmen, the\nswitch-men, the cigarette girls, thc\nrolling-mill men, etc.\nHaving in this pleasant fashion\nachieved my education. I went to\nuork in my fnlhor's business 1\n\"started in n( the bottom,\" as the\nsaying goes. 1 became a reporter at\n$15 a week If my father hud lieen\na broker I would havo started in to\nswoop, out the offloe at $3 u week.\nMost of my college friends who went\ninto Wall Street seem to have done\nthat Ilut I knew it whs play-act in\nnil tho time, just as they did.\nHAD A SAFE JOB.\nI uus not living on *jtl.*i a week basis and they wore not living on a $3\na week basis. I wasn't afraid of los\ning my job just because it was a\ndull season and I was the greenest j -__\u00E2\u0080\u0094_\u00E2\u0080\u0094_\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncub cm the staff. I got my \"allow-Citizens of Free-Great America:\naiice\" in addition to the fifteen\u00E2\u0080\u0094-endj 1 will toll you a story of a Hostile allowance was by considerablejsian girl, Maria Bplridrmova\u00E2\u0080\u0094a story\nthe more substantial figure. The al- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u009Ef one of those thousands of Itussian,\nlownnco came from tho pressmen, j w-nmon who perish in the struggle for\nswitchmen, cigarette girls, the'other J freedom like flowers in the fire,\nreporters, etc., via my family. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '|'he> story is loathsome, it is ter-\nII is just this \"allowance\" that rible: it will shock you\u00E2\u0080\u0094you will\ninnke'S nil the difference. Suppose, startle with awe; nnd loathing, but I\nmen sleep in a room about thirty by\nfifty feet. The negro women sleep in\na room about, the same size. Tho\nnegro boys have a separate room,\nsome of the boys being as young as\nseven or eight yenrs of age. The\nroom in which the white men sleep\nIs about thirty by fifty foot.\nMy first night in this room was a\nnew experience, A large electric light\nburns all night in the center of the\nroom, and. besides the human inmates, there are many s|iecimens of\nother forms of life, such as electric\nlight bugs, flies, hc-dhugs, mosquitoes\nlice and rats; but in the struggle for\ntexis't-nce, tho human species survives and every night some of the\nindividuals of the other species meet\ninstant death.\nInstund of a whipping-post we have\nhere a whipping-chair. If you refuse\nto work or don't work fast enough\nto suit your \"buss\" or talk back,\nnext morning you are asked to sit\nin a chair made for the purpose.\nYou are locked in this chair without\nany possible means of oscaiie. The\nupper part of the chair is then turned forward and clown, thus exposing\nthat port of your anatomy, on which\nthe strap is placed by no gentle\nhands.\nOn Sundays we have preaching\nhere, beginning about 9 o'clock a. m.\nand lasting until about 1.30, p. m.,\nthe attendance lieing compulsory.\nThe first. Sunday I was here. I was\ngiven a seat by the preachers nnd\ninvited to preach, but when thc minister in charge came ho asked mo if\nI was a preacher anel I told him 1\nwas a Socialist speaker. He said:\n\"What is Socialism? Does it save\npeople's souls?\" I answered: \"Not\nlt fixes their heads!\" He said: \"Well\nthis meeting is conducted entirely tot\nthe purpose of saving souls.\" So, I\ndid not participate and as no souls\nwere saved nnd no heads fixed, thc\nmeeting seemed to me to lie an entire failure\nHoping to begin work in the California campaign b.v October 8th,\nI'JOii, 1 nm a*, over.\nMost Fraternally,\nYour Comrade,\nJ, R. OSBORNE.\nA VIEW OF THE PROMISED LAND\n \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTbe Comfort ahd Security of Life Within Prison Walls Graphically Contrasted With the Dangers. Uncertainties and\nInsecurities That Prevail in the Jungle Outside.\nWhen the coll door closed upon mc, {where a carriage stands waiting for\nand 1 found myself once more in]you. Liveried servant upon the box,\nprison, my mind flashed back through'ami another liveried servant beside\n33 ywurs, anel to a certain day, when [you ; and after a short ride, jail\nlonely ond destitute, a boy of 15, I j looms before you. One servant hands\nwander*\"! ln tho city of London. jyou out, another servant takes you\nOur ship had put in for repairs and M*> \u00E2\u0096\u00A0h\" door closes and jail absorbs\nA COURAGEOUS RUSSIAN GIRL\nMaxim Gorky TeUs of the Awful Cruelties Practiced Upon\nMaria Spiridonova by the Relentless and Blood-Thirsty\nRuffians of. the Russian Gar.\nsny to you. 1 ask of yon\u00E2\u0080\u0094o|ien your\nhearts! No matter how loathsome\nthe truth may lie, puniest mon must\ninstead of being un absolute idler, as\nat present. I go to work and oum\nfrom $_. proud of what you have\nor mantel activity would lie muni- achieved and aro achieving in your\ntest. Yet the RisewBRr** lor -men '.country, but also that you muy initio not work brings mo in just ftVs! nrdM on your children still greuter\nlimes ns much as tho salary forj hatred of oppression of man by mnn,\nwhich 1 do work. As regards 'he: still deeper and greater love of tree-\npeople who contribute* that alio'\nmice I urn an economic idler, even\nthough us regards some other bus!\nness I am a worker. Indeed I might\nfill n dual capacity as worker and\nIdler in the sumo business. As a report or on a newspaper 1 was a\nworker: as a memlier of a stockholding family I was nn idler.\nIDLER***. DISLIKE THK TRUTH.\nSince our capitalists havo not yet\nas a rule achieved tho hnbit of orna\nmental idleness to the same extent ns\nthe effete aristocracies, they bitterly\nresent being culled idlers. Thoy point\nwith pride to the fnct that nsid\nfrom their trips abroad nnd thei\ntho country thoy keep\ndo in\nTho peasants ol one of the villages\nnear the city of Tambov refused to\npay taxes until tho delegates whom\nthey intended to elect to the Duma\nand whom tho Government, for that\nreason, promptly imprisoned, wore\nliberated.\nThe Hussion Government views any\ndemand for justice on the part of\nthe people ns treason against supreme authority. Cossacks wore sent\ninto this vitiligo under tho command\nof an oflicer numed Lujenovsky, nnd\nthis fat cynic, with the face of a\nBatyr tuid tho honrt of a wolf, begun\nto pacify tho rioters. Several mon\nwore knoiitocl to death, many were\ngirls wore assaulted.\neveekends 11 \"\"\u00C2\u00AB2\u00C2\u00A3\"\u00C2\u00BB__a7__\"3| *\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB- \"*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'' crippled, women nn.l\noffice hours religiously, inn as to\nthai portion of thoir incomes which\nis '-allowance\" thoy nro, economically speaking, idlers. I\u00E2\u0080\u009Et us coined\nthat as to thnt portion erf thoir incomes which is salary thoy ate workers and earn thoir pay.\nIf n man produces *>2.000 worth of\nwealth a year, anel consumes $10,000\nworth a year, ho is overpaid, lf ho\nis overpaid, some must Ito underpaid.\nSocialism urges tho underpaid to\nunite and insist on receiving tho full\namount of the wealth thoy produce.\n__ __,,\t\nFN CLE JIMS CABIX.\nComrade .Tnmos Osborne. Socialist\ncandidate for Governor of Georgia,\nwho is serving a thirty-day sentence\nin n southern jail for tho heinous\ncrime of street-speaking, does'not allow any little experience like that to\ndull his sense of humor. Although\n\",Iin,\" is blind, having lost his oye-\nsigh) somo years since, ho possesses\nkoon powers of observation, and a\ncheery disposition thot enables him\nto w'nrd ofT tho shafts of adversity\nwith a \"novel touched mo\" nir, that\nwould be difficult to counterfeit. The\nfollowing cheery letter to the Socialist Voice, written nt his prosont' residence, tho City Stockade ol Atlanta, Oeorgia, turns tho lime-light upon tho Inner beauties of ono of capitalism's most venerable and oh*-\nIshdd Institutions, tho pristm. It\nalso goes to show that tho art of\n\"Having souls\" can bo practiced with\nabout tho samo degree erf success\nMaria Spiridonova was n pretty\ngirl, of small stature, whoso young,\nwarm heart was not yet nctpmintod\nwith the filth nnd awe of life. Sho\nlearned of the deeds of Lujenovsky;\nsho took upon herself the* role of\nNomosido, for in Kussia this avenging goddess is nn illegal person.\nWhen Lujenovsky stopped on thc\nplatform of llorisoglobsk depot, the\nCossacks who surrounded him be\u00C2\u00BBgnn\nto disperse tho crowd, but no one\npaid attention to tho little fragile\nSpiridonova.\nThree shuts wore hoard. They were\naimed with n firm hand. The corpulent body of Lujenovsky foil heavily\nto tho ground. Everyone was paralyzed; no ono noticed whence the\nshots came, The crowd thought thnt\ntho Cossacks wore shooting, and in a\npanic turned td flight.\nHut on tho platiprm stood Maria\nSpiridonova, and with a firm voice\nexclaimed:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Shoot mo!\"\nThon only did tho Cossacks notice\ntho little girl\u00E2\u0080\u0094sho stood pressing* tho\npistol to hor tetmpte. A Cossack foil-*\nod hor to tho ground with a blow\nfrom tho butt of bis gun.\nA CotSaok o'llcer, Abrnmov, sprang\nnt. hor, and, grnbliing her by tho\nhair, lifted hor into tho nil- with ono\nhand, whilo with tho other ho was\nraining blows on hor head. Thon ho\nthrow her little body violently to\nthe ground and shouted to the Cossacks:\n\"Beat her with all your force! No\nmercy!\"\nThen those strong, healthy, armed\nmen fell on the little, helple*ss body\nof tho girl and began to break her\nbones.\nAbramciv kicked hor with his he-vw\nboots. Hut not one sound escaped\nfrom the lips of the girl.\nHow she was tortured in tho police\nstation is too awful to describe, Ab-*\nrnmov and the police officer, Jdanov,\nkicked with their boots tho nake*d\nand senseless body of the girl from\none corner to the other.\nEven the Cossacks and the policemen\u00E2\u0080\u0094men not use\u00C2\u00BBd to compassion\u00E2\u0080\u0094\neven they wore revolted by tho tortures of the girl. Here is, word for\nword, tho testimony of a policeman\nwho was arrested {e-ir torturing the\ngirl martyr:\n\"I felt cold in my overcoat, but\nshe was carried nakc*el into thc\nstreet. She was lifted by the hair\nand was lashed with nagaikas and\nwas told to scream.\"\nA Cossack sergeant testified:\n\"I am a Cossack, and even I shiver\nwhon I think how sho was tortured.\"\nSpiridonova lost the sight of one\neye, became deaf from tho blows, and\nwhile in prison she became consumptive owing to injuries of thc lungs.\nblind, deaf, spitting blood, she was\nsentenced to ele*ath, but the judges\ndid not have the mercy to kill her as\nonce, and donth was remitted for 20\nyears' hard labor in Siberia.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWhon a man is boaton the blows\nbeat out of his soul, fii-st, respect\nfor his human follows, and it must\nbo remembered thnt all Russian officials boar on their cheeks tho traces\nof the slaps which they havo receiv-\ne*d from higher officials. Thc official\nof the highest rank receives moral\nslaps in tho fnee from his master,\nthe Tsar, who. in his turn was beaten by his father\u00E2\u0080\u0094and by a Ja|ianese\npoliceman.\nThe ambassadors of civilised countries shake in St. Petersburg the\nhands of men who have shed streams\nof blood of tho Russian people. The\nfinanciers of Europe nnd America\nsian government to aid it in the\nthink of giving money to the Rus-\nStrurgghc against Its people, wl|loh\nactually means money for murder.\nThat' tho bloody tragedy of the\nstruggle of the Russian Government\nwith its 'teople may coma to a speedy\nend, anel that it may bring victory\nto the right side, two conditions nre\nneee\u00C2\u00BBssnry.\nTo refuse! money to the Russian\nGovernment.\nTo aid the Russian people in their\nstruggle for tho right to live.\nMy deep faith in the noble nature\nof man gives mo the right to expect\nthat free America will not refuse\nhelp to tho people of Russia, n iieople which must lie free or perish.\nI liclievo in the groat vision erf the\nbrotherhood of nations: to me this\nis not n vision, lt is a religion.\nI soe ln tho future on tho shores of\nthe Retiring Strait two statutes like\ntho Statute of Liberty in Now York.\nThoy stretch forth thoir hands across\nthe Strait: thoy unite the two most\ndemocratic families in the world into\none great family.\nThis is the truth, for it Is so l*|oau-\ntlful.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Worker.\nI was paid off with the other sail\nors. A week later, on this particu\nlar afiernoon, I was wandering in\nthe district of Hammersmith with\nno money in my pocket. A poor woman, reading, I suppose, somewhat\nerf my forlorn condition in my face,\ngave me a slice erf hrc'ncl-and-butter\nand throe half-pence. I asked for nothing. A poln email saw hor give mo\nthe money. He tstckoncd me to him,\nand took me to the police station. I\nwas innocent as a baby of what it\nall meant. The next morning I was\nbrought before tho magistrates, and\nwas sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment in fold hath Fields for begging.\nI came out of that prison a rebel\nand I have isjen a reltel ever since.\nI did not understand for many a\nyear aitor, why the youth of the nation could lie treateel in this fashion.\nIt was all a mystery. Hut one thing\nwas (|uite clear to mo from the moment I entered Coldbath Fields Prison, and that wns that society was\nmy ememy. 1 have never since\ndoubted that. I now know why it\nis against mo, and all my class. I\nknow that it exists for property and\nnot for life. I know that the many\nwho are as I was that day, may rust\nand rot with ignorance, dirt and\ncrime, so long as a few privileged\nones may hold intact their property-\nrobbed from the workers, and may-\nadd more to it.\nWell, this all came back to me\nwhen I found myself again in prison.\nSo vividly did it come back that as\n1 stood and lookexl at that cyclindri-\ncal roll erf bedding, and the plank\nlied against the wall, and the prison\nutensils in a row, it seemed but a\nshort day ago that I had come\nfrom Coldbath Fields. I knew exactly how to make that roll of bedclothes, how to polish and place in\norder all my prison utensils; and I\nwas in but thirty-six hours before\nthey took off my jacket and gave me\n*\u00C2\u00BBnother with a star upon it and a\nne*ss. oliediencc. and order.\nAnel now, as I have just S|\u00C2\u00BBent five\nmore* days under lock and key, and\nwhile my impressions are vivid, I\nhasten to give my impressions of\njail.\nJail is a most remarkable institution, lt strikes me as the only institution in which the poor man is\nthoroughly cared for. Here he is\nprotected from all thieves, big and\nlittle. Here no rack-renting landlord\nwill call for his back rent. Here no\none will trouble him for past debts.\nHere the insurance agent will not\nloeik you up to tell you to provide\nfor your death. Of jail the language\nof Scripture may lie most aptly a*>-\nplied : Here \"tho wicked cease from\ntroubling and tho weary aro at rest.\"\nOne other general impression, and\nI will close with my subject in due\norder of its details.\nJail, I am convinced, is an immense advance upon nverage working-class conditions outside, and\ntherefore I advise two-thirds of the\nworkers outside*\u00E2\u0080\u0094-the unemployed, thet\ncasuals, and tho slum-dwellers\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nhasten to bring thoir conditions up\nto the jail standard of comfort, or\ngo to jail. Make the capitalist secure to you as workers at least as\nmuch order, decency, and nourishment as he will give you in his jail,\nor go to jail. And now let us define\nour object.\nJail is ihat institution through\nwhich tho dominant clnss lays by tho\nheels, confines and punishes all who\nprove dangerous to its rule. This\ndominant class prates religion and\nmorality, and makes profession of\ntho Christian rule: but its faith is\nonly in ono thing\u00E2\u0080\u0094force. Its final\nargument in opposition to your conscience or reason is jail.\nThc prosont dominant, clnss is a\npropertied class. Its great god is\nproperty, Consequently what it r\u00C2\u00AB*-\ngurds as great crimes, ore crimes\nagainst property. Ratter tho heads\nof your father and mother, wife and\nchild, hut stop short of killing them\nami ten to one you will got a milder\nsentence than if you stole a few\npounds' worth of pro|terty. I know\nthere are now a few judges *and\nmagistrates vvho plnce lifo liefore\nproperty, but. in the main whnt I\nhave said is true.\nSociety, as yet, recognises NO social law. It is anarchy! Individual\nstruggling against individual, to\nsnatch his own little good, without\nany concern about tho good of the\nrest. It is tho eternal jungle. Tho\nmethods huve changed, but the final\neffects are tho same.\nSociety, or tho thing which passes\nfor society, allows you to go blundering along, your difficulties Increasing all the way, your troubles pressing more and moro upon you, until\nsomo day you become maddened nnd\nstrike oiit. against some rulo of society. Thon for the first time society, represented b.v a burly policeman, recognises your existence. Ho\nplaces his hand upon your shoulder.\nHo marches you oft to the police-\nstation. Then to the pollco-rourt.\nHero, after a few legal preliminaries,\nall on ono side for tho man without\nproperty, yem are taken to tho door,\nyou.\nJail first takes off your filthy rags\nand gives ytiu a wash. To many it\nis the first wash for weeks, to some\nfor months. After your bath Jail\nnext places Imfore you some clean\nclothes. They may not satisfy the\ndemands of the latest fashion, but\nthey are clean anel comfortable, and\nthose are the first things that sensible people consider in clothes. You\nhave u pair of Socks, a pair of Woollen drawers, vest anel jacket. 1 want .\nto know how mauy among the un-\nennployed and manual workers, of\nthose who exist on casual jobs and\ninhabit the slums can command\nthese essentials of good clothing? 1\nsay if you can't command them you\nought to insist on having thorn, or,\nfailing to get them, go to Jail.\nAnd again lot mo enforce the point\nthat the clothes in jail are scrupulously'clean.\nThe working-man, then, now at\nInst protested, and purified from tbe\nfilth of his capitalist drudgery anel\nplaced in cl\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BBan e-lothe*s, stands ready\nfor his cell. His filthy rags have\nIteen tied into a bundle, and will lie\ncarefully preserved until such time\nas he shnll go forth to enter into the\ncapitalist scramble* once more. He-\nis now numbered and inarched off to\nhis cell.\nThis cell\u00E2\u0080\u0094about 9 ft. by 12 ft., I\nshould say, and very lofty\u00E2\u0080\u0094certainly\ncontains moro air space than is provided for thousands of families in\nthe warrens of the poor, and the cell\nis thoroughly hygienic and sanitary.\nHow many warrens of the poor arc\nthus?\nThe whitewash is snow-white on\nthe cell above, which is painted a\nsolier brown Itelow. The window is\nnot very large, but, owing to the\nwalls being so white* and clean, there\ndeems to be plenty of light.\nAnel you have this e*ell all to yourself, and you arc protected from any\nundue crowd of visitors. The train\nof your contemplations .will not be\nbroken by tho noise erf fools, whose\nnoise is the crackle of thorns under\na pot. Gabble is not allowed in\njail. And your food? Vory simple\nbut very pure\u00E2\u0080\u00941 believe now that\nthe only pure food is to lie got in\njail, and for the simple reason that\nhero it is so simple that it will not\npay the enterprising capitalist to adulterate it. You will not get any\nChicago abominations or tinned filth\nfor food in jail. In the first stage\nyour food is eight ounces of bread\nand a pint of oatmeal thm* times a\nday, anel your drink pure water.\nFurther on in your term a few potato-- are thrown in, and sometimes\ntowards the end a wee bit of meat,\nand for your drink pure water all\nthe way. Anel you need have no\nanxiety or trouble about your food,\nyou may lot your mind roam free on\nhigher things. When the time coincs\nyour food will be sure to arrive.\nTalk about F.lijah anel his ravens, I\ndo not liclievo those ravens were a\npatch upon your servants for prompt\ntitude and dispatch. Many a time I\nbelieve poor old F.lijah was kept\nwaiting for his rations; you will\nnever be kept wniting. With a regularity, equalled only by the immutable action of tho laws of the universe, to the moment your cell door\nwill be thrown open and your servant will sny: \"Here's your broad\nand there's your water.\" Verily in\njail only may you carry out the\nNew Testament rulo and take no\nthought for your lifo what you shall\nent or what yon shall drink, or for\nyour iKiely what you shall put on.\nAnd again, here neither moth nor\nrust will corrupt, nor thieves break\nthrough nnd steal. No burglars will\ntrouble you in jail.\nAnd tho protection offered you\nthroughout\u00E2\u0080\u0094I pray you consider it!\nIt is so massive\u00E2\u0080\u0094so romploto! Every\nday a doctor calls anel attends to\nyour ailments, and n parson calls to\n\"pray with you, or talk with you.oncf'\nmost marvellous of nil, every morning ono of your servants calls, stands\nin thc doorway, and says: \"Have\nyou any complaints to make?\"\nFancy! (Have you any complaints\nto make? Does anybody trouble\nabout your complaints outside? Why.\nin London, Manchester, Liverpool\nand Glasgow, and in all your big\nlaissez-fniro cities, a man may live\nthirty years without knowing his\nnext door neighbor, nnd ho may die\nalone, nnd days pass, and his corpse\nIsM-ome hn If-put rifled without anyone inquiring for tho spirit!\nAny complaints to make! What\nfine irony upon your society outside!\nWhy. thej only recognition of n sooinh\nlaw seems to come from jail.\nI have not mentioned the jnll bed.\nIt consists of a bedstead *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -~\n.AftrntUVi fcr.n, an. urns\nm\nm.\nh tern Clarion\nPuMlafced every Saturday In tks\ninterests of the working clsss nion*\nat tks Office of tks Westers Clarion,\nflack Block basement, 16S Hastings\nStreet, Vancouver. 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The breaking up\nof the old political movements pros-\nage- the coining storm that will relegate the rule of capital to the lumber room of history' among thc\nthings that were.\n392\nWatch this la_*l on your pa-\npar. lf this nun**, ls on It,\nyour subscription expires tks\nSATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1906.\nTHE STRONG ASS OF CANADIAN\nPOLITICS.\nAnd Jacob called unto his sons and\nsaid, gather yourseffves together and\nharken unto your father. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIssachar is a Strong Ass, crouching\ndown between two burdens.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Genesis\n49,1-2-14.\n\"The Canadian farmer Is the son of\nIssachar. He is the Strong Ass of\nCanadian politics. He is crouching\nbetween two bunions. One is the\nprotective tariff: the other is in the\nform erf bounties to corporations.\".\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThos. Brooks, at tho Farmers' Association Convention.\nBREAKING UP.\nIt requires no particularly keen\npowers of observation to note that\noltl party lines are undergoing a process of breaking up. The old issues\nno longer suffice to hold men loyal\nto their previous political training.\nFor some mysterious reason large\nnumbers of men are reaching out for\na new light to guide their footsteps\nand a new course by which they may-\nsteer to tha realization of those\nhopes and aspirations for a greater\nfreedom and a pleasanter life, that\nhas always been the motive that has\ndriven humanity along the pathway\nof progress.\nThe rernson of thc breaking up of\nold party lines and the abandonment of old political traditions is\nnot far to seek. As tho development of capitalist production becomes more complete and the ownership and control of industry more\nthoroughly concentratenl in the hands\nof a few giant concerns, the former\nconflict of interests in the business\nworld out of which arose the political differences between protectionists and free traders, gold standard\nand free silver, etc., etc., vanish.\nThe particular -policy that conserves\nthe interest of the huge capitalist\ncombines becomes the order of the\nday and ns completely dominant in\ncontrolling and shaping the political institution of a country ns they\nare in controlling its industrial affairs. In this event the previous political issues lose their sugnificance.\nThe old time slogans which once\naroused men to political conflict fall\nupon deaf ears. The former political\nalignment can no longer be maintained. The economic reason for\nsuch alignment no longer exists. The\nhour has strick for a new conception erf the material factors upon\nwhich civilization rests and for a\nnew alignment of those forces that\ninstinctively make for still further\nadvancement and progress.\nThe conception that is now fastening itself upon the minds of men is\nthat the material factors of wealth-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 production\u00E2\u0080\u0094land and machinery\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nthings which are collecti*vcl*y o*\u00C2\u00BBer-\nated, and upon the operation of\nwhich all depend for their sustenance, should be owned and controlled as they are operated, i.e.,\ncollectively. In other words, the\nmeans of production should be the\ncollective property of the- workers\nwho operate them, i.e., the property\nof the workinb-class; then securing\nto every memlier of the community\nthc opportunity to feed, clothe und\nshelter himself as a result of his\nown labor, without being exploited\nby another man or set of men. To\nbring about the nee-essary transformation of property from capitalist\nhands into thc hands of u working-\nclass state, for the purpose of ending the present class rule and freeing labor from exploitation, renders\nit imperative that the workers obtain control of the present, or capitalist state. This is the new political move to lie made upon thc\nchessboard of events. It is for this\npurpose that the new political\nalignment is being made, the prelude\nto which is the breaking up of the\nold political parties. The reason\nfor this 1 breaking up and the new.\nalignment of forces need not bo\nsought in the whim, caprice, or vicious tendency of men. it lies in tho\nmaterial factors upon which civilisation exists, the development of\nwhich has reached the point \"whore\nthey become incompatible with tneir\ncapitalist judgment.\"\nIn other words, human society can\nno longor feed, clothe and shelter\nitself under capitalist administration\nof industry. Tho greater the volume\nthe more impossible docs it become\nTho somewhat doubtful honor attached to tho position of \"the strong\nass in Canadian politics\" need not\nall bc heaped upon the farmer. His\npro-rata of tho load will be quite\nsufficient to gall him exceedingly\nonce he realizes the nature of the\ngame that is played upon him under\ntho rule of his present economic mas-\u00C2\u00BB\nters. The \"protective tariff\" and\n\"bounties to corporations,\" that\nBrooks had in his mind's eye, are\nmerely incidents of the game, and are I\nnot in themselves the cause of the\nsore spots that are becoming all too\nnumerous on thc farmer's back.\nThe working farmer, in common\nwith the out and out wage-earner, is\na victim of capital. Into its capacious and hungry maw he must surrender tho products of his labor, fortunate indeed, if he secures enough\nin return to keep himself and family\noutside the poorhouse. Out of the\nlabor of farm, mine, factory and\ntransportation is coined the fabulous masses of capital that constitutes the enormous and crushing eco/\nnomic power of the ruling class of\nmodern times. Every dollar of such\ncapitalization represents the unpaid\ntoil of the workers of city and country alike, and to which still further\ntribute must be paid in the shape of\nadditional surplus value in oreler\nthat they may still further prolong\nthoir existence as economic slaves of\ncapital.\nlf the farmers and the wage-earners will hut stop anel think for a\nmoment they will discover that they\nare in no sense of thc word working\nfor themselves. The farmer must surrender the product of his labor to\ntho capitalist concerns which control\nthe avenues through which it must\npass in order that its final price may\nbe realized through sale to the con-\nsumters, the latter is compelled to deliver his labor-power direct to the\nsame concerns. These capitalist\ncombinations and concerns are not\nin the business either for their houitltl\nor for the purpose of making life\neasy for those who come within their\npower. Thoy are in business for profit anel as they occupy a position\nthat enables tbem to absolutely com*\ninnnd the services of labor and seize\nits product they of course realize all\nthe \"traffic will bear.\" This means\nto workers only a bare living at the\nmost, no matter how great, their\npower of wealth production may\nlie. This must of necessity continue\nas long as the means of production\nare allowed to remain as the property of a ruling class and to be used\na\u00C2\u00AB capital or means of exploitation.\nSurely the working mnn is the\n\"strong ass of Canadian politics\"\nas it is by his consent alone that\nthe present economic and political\nregime is tolerated. That he can be\ninduced to give his consent to a\nsystem of property in the means of\nproduction that is continually heaping increased burdens upon him, not\nonly proves him an \"ass\" but an\nuncommonly stupid one at that. Tho\nterm workingman is here intended to\napply to thc farmer and the wage-\nearner alike. The*\"diflerence between\nlliein is one of appearance only. They\naro the equally exploited victims of\ncapitalist properity. Each is compelled to surrender his hide in exchange for a miserable and narrow\nexistence.\nIt augurs well for the future that\nboth the farmer and the wago-earner\nare beginning to chafe under the collar of capitalist rule. The hungry\nhorde of profit-mongering labor skinners had better refrain from bearing\ntoo heavily upon \"the strong ass\nof Canadian politics,\" lost they discover to their sorrow that what theyfr]\nmistook for an \"ass\" wss in reality\na lion in nn ass's skin,\n0 ' '\nNow thot Tropoff has taken It upon himself to shuffle off upon his\nown hook, it will save the Revolutionists the necessity of popping him\noff with a bomb.\nSevente-oh marines tohdehined to\ndeath for participation in the\nSWaborg mutiny, wore shot in Hel-\n-Ingfors, Finland, on Sept. 18. This\nwas not assassination, as it was\ndone merely in the interests of \"law\nand order.\"\n o \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA Sociulist local hus been established in Charleston, South Carolina.\nThat is Senator Tillman's state, _nd\n(\"that worthy recently said: \"lf Socialists invade tho South, we'll just\nhave lo shoot them, like niggers.\"\nThe Senator can now go forth with\nhis shot-gun and begin business.\no\nThe local daily \"epileptic\" came\nout on Monday lust with scaro head\nannouncements of the dissolution of\nthe Provincial Parliament and tho\ncalling of an election in December.\nThose fits are occurring with most\nalarming frequency. No condemned\nmurderer could be more nervous over\nthe probable date of his execution.\n *o\nThe postoftice employees of the United States have formed a national\nunion and will endeavor to secure\nshorter hours and an increase of\npay. If necessary thoy will strike in\norder to attain their purpose. Hurrah for government ownership! Let\nus expend our energies in getting\nmore nf it. It is a lot better than\ncapitalist ownership ss any one can\nsee, with half an eye.\n o\t\nTho last of the trumped-up charges\nagainst Vincent St. John erf the\nWestern Federation ot Mi nets is to\nlie quashed in the court at Grand\nJunction. Colorado, on October 8.\nThe foul conspiracy of the mine owners association to murder officials of\nthe W. F. of M., thus receives another body blow. The irresponsible*\nSt. John is to return to Idaho to\ncontinue his work of organizing tho\nminers.\n 0\t\nThc interest in Moyer Haywood\nand Pettibone persists in not dying\nout among the workers of thc United States. Enormous meetings are\nstill lieing held and most vigorous\nresolutions passed in denunciation of\nthe outrage perpetrated upon them\nby the clumsy ruffians erf capitalist\nproperty. The result of the election\nin November will go far to show\nwhether the protest is an' intelligent\none or otherwise.\n ! o\t\nIn its report to thc convention at\nVictoria the executive committers of\nthe Trades and Labor Congress remarks: \"That the Congress is truly\nthe Parliament of Labor.\" if such\nparliaments were sitting at Ottawa\nand the various Provincial capitalists as the duly elected instruments\nof the Canadian working-class, it\nstrikes us that thoir decrees would\nhave more far-reaching and lasting\nelfect. What do you think about it,\nMr. Union Man?\nTo that Street cortiCr\nsemi-anarchist freaks wh\" ***\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\nluueUnl of\nbuby\nns\ndenouncing political action\nplan, and vociferously proclaiming\ntho superlative' virtues ol siino \"economic\" contraption thut has MOD\nhatched from their own ignorance,\nlho following from Willium D Haywood's letter of acceptance la roc\noiiimcnded for consideration\n\"Tho economic power oi organised\nlabor is determined by united poiiticni uclion. To will demands inado\nun the industrial field it is absolutely necessary to control the bronchos\nof government, ns past experience\nshows every strike to have boon lost\nthrough the Interference of courts\nand militia.\"\nlt is now up to thoso worthies who\ncan soe no menace td the working-\nclass except in thc \"labor lieutenant\" and \"craft unionism,\" to cull\nComrade Haywood sharply to uc-\neount for his practical repudiation\nof thoir pet aberrations.\n o\t\nSTATE OF WASHINGTON\nTACOMA. Wash , Sept. 17,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Klict-\ntat Co.. Socialists, show signs erf\nlife. Thoy aro to bold o county convention in that county in tho vory\nneur future. Thoy stand for tho abolition of private ownership of tho\nmeans of wealth product ion,\nComrade A. T. Higby, erf I.ylo. is\ntho pioneer Socialist of that region,\nand ho reports that he is leading n\nstrenuous life.\nReports roach this offlce that enthusiastic moot Ings are lieidg hold\niu all parts of tho State.\nTwo more* locals wore granted char\ntors at tho last meeting of tho State\nExecutive Committee, and thore aro\ntwo more applications now on file*\n'cople begin to soe that if the\nworld woro full of enthusiastic Socialists, thoy could do nothing without thorough organization.\nOno Socialist in the* orgunizc-d\nmovement i.s probably worth more to\nthe cause than twenty iiuorgiini/ed.\nFrom all parts of tho State route\ndemands for speakers, anel there is a\nscarcity that is discouraging.\nD HCRGESS\n -o\t\nANATOI.E FKWCE SPEAKS\nFOR RISSIAN FREEDOM\nHnshinn r-VcuuUo- in a U-ivbtrkal\nrevolution.\n\"It has revealed to thn Workcre of\nthe onl ire world its mt*Sns nnd Its\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0nds, its powers and its destinies. It\nmenaces all despotisms, ull tippres-\nall oxploitution of man\nshaken by it\nSamuel Gompers, the Don Quixote\nof the American labor movement,\nwont down to the State of Maine\nto take a tilt at the Republican\nwindmill, Littleficlel, during the recent election. Like Cervante's hero,\nSam got the worst of it, and the\nwindmill escaped unscathed. Little-\nfield was re-elected to Congress.\nThus is Sam's policy erf \"rewarding\nour friends and chastening our enemies,\" vindicated as thc only correct and feasible policy for lobor to\nfollow. Great is Samuel!\n o B^\n.1. Ramsay Maedonald, the much-\nheralded labor member of the British\nHouse of Commons, brought joy to\nthe heart of the Victoria Timers during his recent speech in that city.\nAlthough J. Ramsay declared him'\nself a Socialist, he, \"in no uncertain\nterms disavowed all connection with\nthe Socialist Party as it. existed in\nCanada and the United States\nWith all due respect to J. R. and\nhis type it occurs to us thot there\nis something peculiarly suggestive\nabout the brand of Socialism that\ncan bring joy to the heart of a Brit\nish Columbia Liberal at this stage\nof the game.\no\t\nFrom the New York Workor wo\nlearn that when the public schools\no'f that city oiiencd for the fall term\non Monday, Sept. 10, it was found\nnecessary to put from 65,000 to 80,\n000 children on part time, owing to\nlack of sufficient school ac-cnmrneidn\ntions. The \"Worker\" does not fail\nto point out that a similar condi\ntion has prevailed for a number of\nyears regardless of what politicul\nparty was in power. Thc American\npeople are eviilently so busy enjoying\nprosperity that they have little timo\nto bother with such trifles as providing educational facilities for children.\no\t\nAccording to \"Thc llikuri,\" ono\nerf our Japanese exchanges, there is\nmuch discontent in the Japanese\narmy. Among the troops recently\ndespatched to Korea one entire com\npany revolted. About fifty of them\nwere sentenced to terms of imprison\nment ranging from one to two\nyears. Recently an entire regiment\nbroke away in Tokio on account of\nthe cruelty of their officers. The\nloader of this revolt proclaimed himself a Socialist. Tho revolters are\nnow under trial and will no doubt\nbe severely dealt with. \"Jlikarl\"\nsees in these outbreaks the beginning\nof serious troubles for the Japanese\nruling class in the near future. It is\nearnestly hoped that they may get\nall that is coming to them.\n o\t\nHaving failed to defeat Littlcfiold,\none of thc Republicans who hns especially aroused his ire because of\nhis unfriendliness to labor, the\ndoughty Gompers is now going into\n\"Undo Joe Cannon's\" district In\nIllinois to take a fall out of hirn. It\nwill bo rememhored that \"Uncle Joe\"\nis speaker of the House at Washington, and particularly obnoxious because of his contempt for the sons\nof toil. As tho only candidate running against Cannon is the nominee\nof the Socialist Party, lt will bo\nefulto interesting to know what Samuel will do under tho circumstances.\nThe Socialist candidate happens to\nbe a member of tho United Minn\nWorkers, one of Sam's revenue producers,\nDistinguished French Author, With\nFlaming Pen, Calls on World's\nWorkers to Support the Sociul\nRevolution.\nTho Committee of Free Russia in\nParis have just issued a re-markable\nindictment 61 the Russian Govern*\nment's complicity in \"pogroms.\" The\nwork is compiled by E. Sctnenofl\nand is ontitlod \"l'ne page de la Con\ntre\u00E2\u0080\u0094Revolution Russo (LeH I'o-\ngromes.)'\" The preface, written by\nVnutole Frahce, is to form a portion\nof a book, shortly to lie published\non Russia. Tho eloquent words of\nthis distinguished French Arademi\ncinn aro of more thon national inter*\nest. He speaks, it is true, to the\nFrench proletariat but, through them\nbe addresses tho workers of the whole\nworld, as the concluding paragraph\nof the preface attest', Wm~^\nHe begins by pointing e>ut that tho\nRussian people have tc\u00C2\u00BB work out\nthoir own ilostiny and thut outsiders\nnre not in a position te\u00C2\u00BB criticise\nthoir tactics. Ilut he goes on to\npoint eiut tho moral of the Itussiun\nstruggle for freedom and tho way in\nwhich tho workers of Frunce and of\nthe world can render help. Ho continue**!:\n\"Wo stand transfixed with admira\ntion and overwhelmed with anguish\nnt thc sublime refusal of these workmen, before the invincible front they\noffer to the cemdemned rc-giroo, A\nmultitude of picople exposing themselves with a single heart to the*\nblackest misery, to the tortures erf\nhunger and of cold, and counting\nonly, for its own safety and for the\ntriumph of tho cause, on its index\niblc will to suffer; has over anything\ngreater be-on soe in the world's history?\nAUTOCRATIC TREACHERY.\n\"Thc general strike, tho strike erf\nthc proletariat and thc 'intcllcctu\nals'\u00E2\u0080\u0094united for a few days\u00E2\u0080\u0094has con-\nquored Tsarism. This monster of\npower, of pritle nnd of wealth, goes\ndown before workmen who can bear\nhunger. Thc strike wns vicTorious,\nand the Tsar gave way. He promised a constitution, liberty.\nOne knows the rest, how tho military beauieaucracy to cancel imperial\npromise, organized massacres, massacres of workmen, of students, of 'in\ntedf|er tun Is,' of Jews. In three towns\nut the sumo time, black bands, carrying the imago of thc Tsar and tho\nflags of tho Empire, march, armed,\nunder thc escort of the poiice unci of\nagents of the public safety, against\ntho Jewish quarters. They kill, violate, pilago and burn, for whole\ndays and nights.\n\"This, also, ono sees at Baku, Odessa, Kiev, Nikoluciv, EliHul.-ihgriiil,\nnt RostolT-on-Don, Saratov, Tomnk,\nTosy, Ekatcrinoslnv, Tlflis. Thon wo\nlearn that all is calm. Wretched\nJews escaped from death, wept in\nsilence, sitting on thc ruins of their\nburnt homes, rtcar tho corpses of\ntheir butchered relatives.\n...'The tears of tho unfortunate, the\nblood of tho dead, cry out and wo\nhear them. We have the religion of\nhumanity. Wo know neither Jews\nnor Christians. Wo only know murderers nnd thoir victims. Dead of\nKeiv, Baku, of Saratov, and of Oil-\nesia, ghosts of Gomel and of llclos-\ntok, raise yourselves, show yourselves to the rich, to the happy of\nthe earth, you mutilated corpses, return, again and again, until the\nwhole world revolts with horror!\nA UNIVERSAL REVOLUTION.\n\"How long will tho mad agony of\nTsarism ondure? Of what terrors is\ntho monster yet capable? What regime can succeed it? Can tho revolutionaries and tho Russian Liberals\nbe paid for all their labors? Can all\nthc generous blood of 'intellectuals'\nand of the revolted who in the\nstreets perishod for justice* nnd for\nlihcrty have been shod In vain?\nWhatever may bo thc issue of un enterprise so vast and lerr'blo, tho\nRussian workers have, up to tho\npresent, exercised o decisive Influence\non their country and tho world. Tho\nme\nsums,\t\n1111111. Thrones aro^^^^^^^^^^^^\nancient Austria the revolution ruiu-\nlilos In Germany. Sucinl-l-oliiocruCv\npowerfully organized, but, up to BOW*\nplacid und good-natured, looks ovur\ntu St. I'etersbltrg and to Moscow\nand bt-f-ins to stir Itself. B\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BBhel has\ntuiu lhe Chancellor uml the deputise\nof tho empire of it, and the old Socialist has given to the counsellor of\ntho Kaiser thl*( sinister warning: 'Re-\nlloot: tho revolutionary uprising\nwhich is taking place in Russia has\nits echo In the heart of tho German\nworkman.1\n\"And we Frenchmen, is our political and social stute such that wo\nhavo no need to occupy ourselves\nwith tho groat chungos that are preparing In the world? Have we no\nblack bands? Is the time* of Mclino\nand Dupuy so far distant, when tho\nNationalist terror reigned in Paris,\nand when a Dominican monk publicly\nexhorted the 'Generalissimo' of the\nPreach army to tho maKsarro of Republicans?\n\"We tin not lose sense erf proportion. Tho affirs of our country arc*\nits light COQWdy to the soniliru drama\nof Russia. It is on the bunks erf tho\nNeva, tho 'Vistula, nnd tho Volga\nthat is being de-cided the lot of\nEurope ami humanity of tho future\nStrange change of nations unci ideas.\nOur brothers of '89 have taught\nESuTOpe the 'liourfreolHe*' revolution,\nand hero, in return, tho Russian\nworkers give us tho lesson erf social\nrevolution.\nGREETINGS AND HOMAGE.\n\"VU this hour, when noble* men,\nwhom it is for ut neither to urge on\nnor to hold back, lubor and sutler\nfor the eteliveranre of lho oppressed\nof Russia and erf the worki, th\u00C2\u00AB\nFrench proletariat ought to declare\nItttflf solid for tho Russian proletariat. If our governors, if our ruling\nclusses. itttempt at any time sonic\nmovement\u00E2\u0080\u0094 military, diplomatic, or\nfi italic ial\u00E2\u0080\u0094in favor of Tsarism against\nthe revolution, the French workers\nought to oppose it with all their\nmight.\n\"Lei ns plodgo ourselves here tei\nhelp, to servo by all the means in\nour power the- revolution, which, far\nolT though it may lie, rumble*** in \u00C2\u00ABur\noars, for thore Is already net distance between |\u00C2\u00BBcetple*s. Ijet us \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBnd\nfraternal greetings and rentttert Ail\nhomage to thc Russia which fights\nfor its liberty; to Finland so Arm in\nits hold on rights vlolatetl by a perjured ont|*eror. nnd to Pol und. which\nknows, with a glorious mixture erf\nterrorism and of wisdom, how to reconcile logitininto aspirations and\nnecessary solidarity, end let us make\nbeard this now great thought\n\" -Workers of .ill rotmtries tinito\ntO prepare for tho coining erf sis nil\njust ice and the |s\u00C2\u00BBeeco of the world-' \"\n K****ry Lsbor Union In Hit piovn,\nviU'U lo pls< r s rsrd unarr tl \u00E2\u0096\u00A0> hnd\n.11..nlli. Ke-cre-tsrirs virus* n, if,\nli.u w\nPhoenix Miners' Union, No *\nW. F. M. Meet, every' _3rdJ\nevening at 7-_o o'clock in Mm-,,-\nkail. V. Ingram, preaid-t w .\nPkkard, secretary.\nJ. Edward Bird, A. C. llrydon-jitl\n(too. E. McCrossnn.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2IM, MYOIN-JABK & McCROSSA!,\nIURKI8TKB-, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2OUf.TOBB, in\nTal. 8_9. P.O. Ilox, uaa.\n834 Hastings Bt. . . Vancouver, f| 0,\nSocialist fclcrj\ngAT Every Local of the Noeiaii-e\nParty of Canada ahould run % art\nunder this head, fl.00 (ier motnh\nSecretaries planes note.\nBrltf-h Columbia Provincial i:\nCommittee, Socialist Party of c n-\nada. Meets every alternate TV*.\nday. D. G. McKenzic, Secret\nBox 8j6, Vancouver, Ii. <\nDominion Rset*ative Comnilu-v, _*.\ndelist Party of Canada M\"_\nevery alternate Tuesday j .\",.\nMorgan, Secretary. 661 iuen.,nl\nStreet, Vancouver, B. C.\nLocal Vanoanver, No. I, s. p. of < t*.\nada. Bustneaa meettnici '1\nMonday evening st headquart 1\nIngleslds Block. Ill Camblf Kit--*,\n(room 1, second floor) r.t. 5.\ntlonai meetings every Sunday at 1\np. tm.. lie Sullivan Hall. Cord n\nStreet Frederic Perry, Bweur**,\nBm W. Vancouver, it ft\nteo-.nl Toeonto, S. P. of ('.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mem -is\nend and fourth Tuesday* Socta \u00C2\u00ABt\nlleadquaiters, IIS** Qu<- n .---< 1\nand defend their property rights in the meana of wealth produ.\ntion and their control of tbe product of labor.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever swell mt;\nstream fit profits, and to tbe worker an ever-increasing meaiut i\nof misery and degradation.\nThe interest of the working class lieu in the direction ot\nsetting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition ol\nthe wage system. To accomplish this necessitates the tranafor-\ntrtstion of capitalist property in thc rasans of wealth product.\ninto collective or working-claaa property.\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist\nand the worker is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possess) \"\nof the power of government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the oapitaliat to hold, the workc-\nto secure it by political action. This is the class struggle.\nTherefore, we call upon all workers to organise under the\nbanner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of enquiring the public powers for tbe purpose of setting up and en-\nforcing the economic program of the working class, as follow-*\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094J...The transformation aa rapidly aa poaaible, of capitals\nproperty in the means of wealth production (natural resources,\nfactories, mills, railroads, etc.) into the collective property of the\nworking class.\na. Thorough and democratic organisation and management\nof industry by the workers.\n3. Tbe establishment, aa speedily as poaaible, of production\nfor uae instead of production for profit.\nThe Socialist Party, when m office shall always and every\nwhere until the present system is abolished, make the answer to\nthis question ita guiding rule of conduct. Will this legislstion\nadvance the interests of the working claas and aid the workers in\ntheir struggle against capitalism?. If it will, the Socialist Party\nis for it; if it will not, the Socialist Party ia absolutely opposed to\nIt i 1 *\nIn accordance with thia principle the Socialist Party pledges\nitpclf to conduct all the public affairs placed in ita hands in such\na manner as to promote the interests of the working class alone\nAPPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIALIST\nPARTY OF CANADA.\nIi THE UNDERSIGNED, hereby apply for fncmbcrship\nin Local Socialist\nParty of Canada.\nI recognize the class struggle between the capitalist ila\u00C2\u00ABs niul\nthe working class to be a struggle for political supremacy. '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0>\npossession of the reins of government, and which necessii-ti'\"\nthc organization of thc workers into a political party distinci\nfrom and opposed to all parties of the capitalist class.\nIf admitted to membership, I hereby agree to maintain or cuter into no relations with any other political party, and plcdui-\nmyself to support by voice, vote and all other legitimate mean\"\nthc ticket and the program of the Socialist Party of Canada <\",1>\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0..\u00C2\u00AB*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n3\ni\n%\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\nw\n0\nw\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\nf\n9 Applicant Address \t\nJ? Occupation Age Citizen \t\n(jj. Admitted to Local 190 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nT Chairman Rec, Seer* ^\n0 .ATOBMV.in-s.fc.rtn.\n'llmliil\ncuutm, \u00C2\u00BBAln\u00C2\u00BBOTirt, Mitaw ooiwnu,\nPARTY MATTERS\nAND ANNOUNCEMENTS\n\u00C2\u00A7604\n\u00C2\u00AE\nft\n9 _\n@\ni\n@\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE ^^^\n,,,.,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,, columns have been placed al\n,hr disposal of the Party. Hecretarles\n, , \u00E2\u0080\u009Eculs are requested to take sd-\nv\u00C2\u00ABnt__\u00C2\u00AB of them \u00C2\u00ABn, at Intervals, re-\n\u00E2\u0080\u009Enrtin_ condlttona In their respective\nlocalities Communications under thin\n,''',', sBould be addressed to the Dominion or Provincial Secretaries. Lo-\n,ai jecreUries are further requested to\nl \u00E2\u0080\u009E to these columns for announce*\nmc'nis from the Eatecullve Committees.\nUv this means the bualness of the\nParty wiU *\u00C2\u00BBe facilitated and the Dominion and Provincial \u00E2\u0096\u00A0ecretartes\nr.iievod of a little off the Increasing\nburden of correspondence.\n9\ni\ni\n\u00C2\u00AE\n9\n9\n-o-\nI TO\nSTUDENTS OF SOCIALISM\nVANCOUVER LOCAL, NO. 1\nKegnlar business incetinf* Monday,\nSeptember 17, Comrade Leah in the\nchair.\nMinutes of previous meeting read\nand approved.\nWicrrants ordered drawn as follows:\nRent, Sullivan Hall gil.r.O\nCleaning Headquarters- Ml\nAdvertising 2.00\nLiterature Agent 2.20\nIn order to afford comrades sn\ncuy access to standard works on\nSocialism, the committee has decided\nto lay in a stock of literature. The\nfollowing are on hand and will be\nsent post-paid to any address at\nprices quoted. Two-cent stamps\nwill be accepted for sum* not exceed\ning 25 cents:\nTba origin of ths Fatally. (F.\nKngels) \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ,\t\nlie Social Revolution (Karl\nKuutsky) \t\nlhe World's Revolutions (Ern-\n,ht I iitcrmann) \t\nrhe Socialism, who they are\nund what they stand for,\n(John Spargo) 9 BO\nI lie Evolution of Man (Bolecbe) .SO\nModern Hocialism (Chas. H.\nVail) \t\nia h Strug-lea Sn America\n. \ M .Simons) ...\u00E2\u0080\u009E\n1 lie Communist Manifesto,\nKarl Marx 10 cents\nSocialism, Utopian and Sci-\ncntific, Marx & Kneels...io cents\nWaite, Labor and Capital,\nTotal $8.20\nThei vote upon neat uf forthcoming\nelection resulted as follows :\nNelson 18\nRevelstoke t\nVancouver 1\nFINANCIAL REPORT.\nCollect-on Sunday, Sept; 16.,.18.68\nLiterature sale* for week 2.20\nHues 100\n.60\n.50\n.50\n.25\n.10\nTotenl $6.85\nAdjournment,\nFUEPERIC PERRY,\nSecretary.\n o\nINFORMATION WANTED.\nThe mining partners of the late\nTurn Simrl nre anxious to be placed\nin communication with Win. Smirl,\nbrother of deceased. For particulars\naddress, A. Sliilland, Sandon, IJ. C.\nOther papers please copy.\n o\t\nA View of the Promised Land\n(Continued from Pace One.)\nhave l\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00AB-ti reduced to a condition far\nbelow the standard of comfort of\nthose? in juil; it is borne in upon\nyou thut iniii.y with great hearts\nunci strong bruins must huve resisted\nthc malignity and greed of the rut\nage, Labor and Capital, --..-..\nKarl Marx fi cents\\a* ^*f**!i}a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0M*?!W\u00E2\u0080\u009E_\"r?i\nm and Farmers, A. M.\nSimons 5 cents\ni ither works procured to order.\nAddress the Literature Agent, Box\n836, Vancouver, D. C.\nTO SECRETARIES OF LOCALS\nI-I ST OF SUPPLIES.\ni -list it ut ions, per down $ .86\nMembership cards, each 01\n', .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .itbm blanks (with platform) jier 100 36\nThe committee being a stockhold* (> \u00E2\u0080\u009E,\nr in the co-operative publishing; ;I1V\nice of Chas. Kerr & Co.. can pro-\n:rc literature for the locals st cost\nCampaign fund receipt books are\n' w ready and will be furnished to\nI .call\nnt to cents each,\n-o-\nFOR THE SINEWS OF WAR\nAs will he aeen food use has boen\nn ade of the moneys subscribed so far\nto the organising funds. Further or-\nitanlslng tours srs under contemplation\nif funds are available. Further sub-\nscrtpttoM are therefore urgently solicited as. with the \u00C2\u00ABrest Interest that\nts st present being manifested in So-\n(Ialism, no better time could be found\nfor spreading the propaganda and\nbuilding up tho organisation.\nIiOHINION ORQAJfflZINQ FUND.\niii\" following: sums have bean ro-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 clved to dats:\nI tn lance on hnnd l\u00C2\u00BB.*e\nIt. Wade. Port Harvey \u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n.1:8.60\nForward all contributions to\nDOMINION SECRETARY.\nPROVINCIAL ORGANIZING\nFUND.\nThe following amounts received up\nt\" 'I'-tl^^^^^^^^^^\nPreviously, acknowledged\nCurry\nW .1\n$11 A.'10\n4.50\nCAMPAIGN FUND.\nIt has been decided by the Provincial\nExecutive to build ttp a central fund\nto he used in gencrallv assisting in the\ncoming campaign ana more especially\nfor the purpose of printing and distn-\nbtitin-sc campaign literature.\nAll comrades wishing to collect\nfor this fund should at once apply\nto the provincial secretary for a re\nceipt book. No effort should be\n\"pared ln building up this fund.\nThe following amounts received up\nto date:\nPreviously scknowlcdged \u00E2\u0080\u00A2l4'}\u00C2\u00B0\nJ. P -oO\nTwo Clarion subs 1-00\nTotal n600\nForward all contrlbutiona to\nPROVINCIAL SECRETARY.\nbrought the capitalist jail to what\nit is. They must have dcSnanded\nmore and more : that the fighters\ndriven in here from the jungle should\nhere be recognised as human beings.\nand so these great-hearts must have\ngone on with their prison until now\nthey have brought the standard of\net tnfort fur above what the capital-\njist will allow two-thirds of his\nI drudges In the jungle outside.\nj My brother, with your rights bit\nj by bit slipping from you; with con\nIdttiotis around you fit for no boast;\n' with your food, work, und everything in a hap-haxard and insecure\nstate; you Heed huve no feur of jail.\nYou will find nothing here us bad us\nyou are daily getting outside. And\nadvice to you is, rather than let\nslip one title more of your rights,\nanel rather than allow the propertied classes to drive yon lower, al-\nways is- prepared ton _\" to |ndl.\nMere are some words said by the\ncliuplnin to nu> while he tnlW.il by\nmy cell door; \"Prisoners go forth\nfront here, women especially, and\nthey ure clean and healthy, and look\nsitne; and after a few months, and\nsome of them after a few weeks, they\nare back nguin looking mere wrecks,\"!\n\"l'rii iscly.\" I said, \"you are bear-'\ning out what wc Socialists say. Vou\ntake thetn out from your cesspool,\nand clc'cin them a bit, and then throw\nthem buck Into your oasapool again.\nAm, so it must go 0*4. And your\nprisons. und asylums, and workhouses must continue* to increase,\nuntil yon tackle the cesspool itself,\nam' put society itself on a right social busis.\" \"Well,\" hc replied, \"it\nis so.\"\nln conclusion, if one may point tho\nline of future prison reform, I \"would\nsay it ought to be in the direction\nof less confinement, more associated\nlabor for the men, less shutting up\niti cells. Rut I am nfrnid that without great pressure, while capitalism\nlasts, reform will be but slow In this\ndirection. RoOSUso, as things are\nOtltslde, the wily capitalist can see\nclearly enough, thnt If hn lifted ever\nso little the pressure of solitary confinement, unless he at the same time\nlifted the pressure of the drudge conditions outside, hn would soon have\nall the workers ln jail.\n-As ii is the confinement of jail is\nlittle punishment to me. Throw in\na feet books, nnd (ten. ink and paper,\nand I fancy it might become a positive luxury, nnd the capitalist might\n(mil it hard to kirk mc out.\nThc prisoner is not the lowest typs\nof mnn, nor nearly so. 1 have* Iwn\nthrough the workhouse and hnve\nytndied the ty|H* called pauper. I\nhnve sat in the jail church, und there\nstudied the type culled criminal.\nThere is nn immense difference. Your\npauper represents weakness, but in\ntwo-thirds of your criminals, so\nc-nlled, you come ncross force, shut-\nup or perverted, but which force in\na right society and rightly directed\nwould achieve grand things.\u00E2\u0080\u0094John\nTtinilyn in Justice.\n o\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSOCIALISM ABROAD\nSOCIALIST PARTY CAMPAIGN\nFUND\nVancouver Local I\nPreviously acknowledged *-**'S9\n-I. Matthews ,'S\nJ. lllaco 10\u00C2\u00B0\nTotal , -\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB'aft\nFrederick Perry, Secretary.\n o\t\nKeep vour optic upon tho Socialist\nspeaker who calls forth wordsint\npraise from tho capitalist press. The\nonly recommendation of value Ihoi\ncan tome from thut lourco is vtlliu-\ncution and abuse.\nGERMANY.\nOne of the phases of the activity\nDf Sw Oerman Social -Democracy, of\nwh ' *** is known than \u00C2\u00B0. T\"\nwnicn ic* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Labof Secretaries\"\nnnl,,r^\"Tormat.on\lureau9**for.hr\nt. \u00E2\u0080\u009E,r.i of the workers which the\nK^soSdttcSin -cooperation jr.vh\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . '. > .... *., *.!*.*_\nhelpfulness of organisations, these\ninBtitutions are powerful means lor\nteaching thc unorganized und bringing them into the unions und later\ninto the Social Democratic Putty.\nThe Neuc Preusche ZeltUng, in common with some* other capitalist p_-\npers, complains, that because ,>f the\nsemi-official position enjoyed by\nthese- oiliciuls (n position due to thc\nactivity of socialist legislators) the\nsocialist unions tnjoy an unfair _U-\nvuntuge; over the Christian Unions.\nThe Social Democratic Party has\njust undertaken the establishment of\ntwo \"Laborers' High Schools,\" to he\nlocated in Berlin. These.* will open\ntheir work during next Septe-mlter\nand thc session will last about six\nweeks. The party undertakes the entire support of the students while\nat tho school antl estimates that an\nexpenditure of between $8,000 and\n$10,000 wi!l be ni-c'essary. Thn students will be chosen by various local organisations of the party and\nthe trade unions, echo will also bc\nexpected to assist in their support\nin some cases. The students must\nbe betwoen 34 and '50 years of age,\nand the endeavor will tn* made to\nsecure a repreM-ritutive from; each\npolitical division of Germany. The\nteachers will Ik- largely drawn ltom\nthose already active in party service\nthus obviating the necessity of paying saluries. Thc capitalist papers\nshow their feur of the results Of sue!*,\nsystematic educational training for\nsociulist speakers, writers i.nd workers, by the abuse and ri-li'-ui- which\nthe>y heap upon it. 'lho llait-\noverscher Courier declares that :t Is\nnn attempt to crush fi.*c*tloiu of\nthought and to turn out a bit e f believers in \"\"Marxodoxy\" who will\nblindly follow thc party leaders. It\nnever seems to occur to them that\nan educates! following is apt ' o have\nits eyes opened instead of blinded.\nThe Oerman National Congress of\nthe socialists will lie held at Mannheim on September 23rd. Thc following are the subjects for discussion, with the names of the speakers\nwho will present thc topic to thc\nCongress:', \"Parliamentary Activity\"\n(1. Schopflin, \"May-day Celebration\"\nII. Fischer; \"The Political Mass-\nStrike,\" A. Bebel ; \"The International Congress of 1907,\" P. Singer;\n\".Socialism anel Popular Education,\"\nr. Zeikin and If. SchulU; \"Criminal\nLaw. Procedure, and Pumsh-ieint,\"\nA. llua.se. A Socialist Woman's\nCongress will meet the day before\nthe meeting of thc party Congress,\nand u Congress of Socialist Youths\nthe day ufter.\nThe principal Interest of the Congress this year, as lust, will center\naround the epiciation of the \"Mas*.\nStrike\" und the rotation of the purty\nto the Ijibetr Unions. Just at the\npresent time a hot discussion is in\nprogress over these points between\nthe Central Comiiiittc*e of the party\nund the Labor Unions. To add to\nthe confusion the \"LocalIsts,\" who\nseem in muny ways to lie the counterparts of the American \"Impossi-\nliilitists\" although in a much milder\nand sutler form thun the most of\nthose we have, are denouncing the\nparty munngvmeiit, and Bebel in particular. Of course thi! capitalist\npress arc; Certain that lhe purty is\ngoing to split all to pieces. They\nhave lieen certain of this constantly\nfor the past twenty years.\nREUIU'M.\nThe socialist daily of Brussels, lie\nPeople, has l\u00C2\u00ABee\u00C2\u00BBn publishing a series\nof articles exposing the shameless\nImmorality of King ix*opoid. They\nhave been giving picture- of his vur-\nious mistresses and describing his\nescapades in as great detail as decency will permit. Thc* result is that\na storm of denunciation has broken\nloose upon th<* Socialists in the\nClerical papers. They denounce the\naction of the socialists as unpatriotic, and tndeexl almost everything\nelse, but a desirable expose af a\nkingly role. This is another instance\nof who nre are the real defenders of\nthc family.\nSWITZERLAND.\nNo country in Europe is furnishing\nmore examples of military i-.itrnges\nagainst unarmed iieuccful strikers\nthan is Switzerland, the \"armed nation\" with its ideal military system,\ntoward which many American sccial-\nists sometimes cast longing eyes.\nDuring a recent lock-out in Zurich,\nthe streets swarmed with troops and\ncitizens wore insulted, attacked and\ninterfered with in every possible\nmanner.\nITALY.\nThe Italian socialist parly is very\nbadly divided at present, and there\nseem to be ninny reasons to expect\nan open rupture In the near future,\nalthough strong efforts are lieing\nmack* to avoid such a happening.\nThere are three factions within the\nparty ranging from the syndicalists,\nwho wish to substitute direct action\nthrough strikes for political activity\nto the extreme reform wing that\nwishes to almost merge the Identity\nof the party in some of the radical\ncapitalist parties. As hns happened\nelsewhere, these two extreme wings\nsometimes pursue so much the same\ntnctics that they find themselves together in the voting.\nFINLAND.\nTho recent reform of the suffrage\nwhich is about to become a law confers the suffrage upon women as well\nas men. For this tho socialist agitation wus mainly responsible. To\nlie sure the women comrade's took\ntho most active part in this phase\nof the movement, holding enormous\nmass-meetings throughout the country. One such demonstration, held\nlust December, wns attendod by over\n25,000 women, and issued a manifesto of which hundreds of thousands**!\nof copies were circulated.\u00E2\u0080\u0094lliterna-'\ntiotittt Socialist Review.\nand ought Irt all decency to toll-pfee.\nTwo Clarion agents aro kept busy\ndn lhe road in Hritish Columbia,\neach covering hia allotted territory\nat least once every six months. It\nis found* necessary to do this for the\nreason that the average workingman\nis either too busy or too cureless to\nattend to the matter of keeping his\nsubscription up of his own volition.\nOutside of thii' the paper depends for\nthe extension of its circulation solely\nupon such of Its readers as may\ndeem il worthy of lieing called to\nthe attention of others, and this\nwithout solicitation frtmi this office.\nTbe circulation is climbing steadily\nupward at the rate of about 75 [ier\nweek.\nThere is no room in the columns of\nthe Clarion for \"Christian literature\nor speeches.\" Presumably there are\nsultlcient publications in existence\nthat ure intended as vehicles for such\nand the Clarion publishers are altogether too closet observers of business ethics to infringe upon their\nterritory. 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Loose labels in retail stores are counterfeits.\nThe genuine Union Label ls perforated on four\nedges, exactly the sume as a pontages stamp. Counterfeits are some times perforated on three* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nand some times only on two. John B. Stetson Co..\nof Philadelphia, Is a non-union concern.\nJOHN A. MO-'FITT, Pw*s!dent, Orange, N. J.\nMARTIN IiAWLOR, Bocretary, lt Waverijr -_\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB,\nNow Tork. 5\u00C2\u00BB i\nrotm\ntu wiatmi ouuuoy. 1^^>^JI^^\u00E2\u0080\u009EII 00^^^'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0!\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I\ns\n9\nNEWS AND VIEWS\n| AS CIYEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION |\n\u00C2\u00AE Eellio\u00C2\u00ABl by It. P. PETTIPIECT*. to whom all e*orrespondenco for this department should be addressed. \u00C2\u00AE\nWHAT IS VITAL?\nIt is easy to demonstrate that Socialism is' the greatest fuct. the-\nmost vital factor in the political life*\nof the world today, when all other\nparties are bankrupt of political virtue and all resource except the baldest of time serving expediency, and\nwere our task confined to this it\nwould lie soon done.\nBut today when thc tide of our\nmovement is rising at a rate never\nequalled before, gnd every turn of\nthe wheel, of evolution increases our\nranks and adds a new confirmation\nto our analysis of society, it behooves every avowed Socialist organization and every member of the\nsame to see to it that both he and\nthey give expression both sound and\nadequate to the growing and already\nmighty force behind them.\nIt is increasingly evident that social and industrial conditions already\nsupply the main force behind propaganda, and that the function of tho\nactive and representative socialist!\nwill be more and more to give a\nright expression to the revolutionary\nspirit that, is fast becoming universal; to insist, without flinching, upon what is essential and intrinsic,\nand cut out or prune away what is\nnon-essential or mere exuberance.\nLooking to the vast and radical\nchange in the structure of society\ncontemplated by Socialism its implications are almost infinite, but an\ninordinate dwelling upon these, daydreaming in short, tends to a Utopian and flab*\u00E2\u0080\u0094 mental condition undesirable, at least, in the present\nstage \"of evolution which calls for\nmen of clear views, single aim and\nmilitant spirit.\nWith this conviction strong upon\nus and at the risk of being called\ndoctrinaire, we would, for once, emulate St. Paul and exhort our active\ncomrades everywhere \"to lay aside\nevery weight and especially the fad\nor fancy that so easily besets them,\nrun the race and seize every opportunity set before them.\"\nApart altogether from its merits',\na cause that is clearly stated, and\nfearlessly and consistently contended\nfor, commands respect and attention\nfrom all sides. Socialism is, or\nshould be, such a cause.\nWe are not unmindful of the fact\nthat among Socialists there is the\nsame variability of temperament as\namong other men and women; special\nclasses of facts appealing more\nstrongly to some than to others, but\nwe insist that-there is a minimum\nof both knowledge and conviction,\nbelow which it is farcial to call persons Socialists, a minimum however\nby no means iliilirult of attainment\nby the honest and open-minded, osp&-\ncially when stimulated by the corroborative experience so common to\nthe working-class.\nAs in \"Mathematics, or Freemasonry, one may graduate indefinitely\nto the high academic levels of Socialism where by the aid of Science\nand History the phenomena of life\npast and present is so well explained, and lie; all the better Socialist\nfor it. Such attainments however,\nare largely personal property anel\noften tinge i with .speculations. The\nprimary essentials of Socialism arc\nsimpler, and these must furnish our\nchief armament in the political field.\nThese ore thc vital weapons in militant Socialism.\nTo understand how industrialism\nand capitalist property have been\nevolved, how the worker by being divorced from the tools of production,\nand subjected to capitalist exploitation, is robbed of the major part of\nthe value of his product. How the\ncapitalist closs producing for profit\nonly come to regard such profit as\nthe primary purpose of industry and\nhuman welfare as incidental, prove\ntheir incapacity to administer the\nresources of society in the interests\nof society. How the capitalist class,\na fraction of society, is maintained\nand perpetuated by its control of the\nlegislative and evory other coercive\npower of the state and finally, how\nto depone the ruling class and secure, by legislative or such other\naction as may be necessary, the effective control of industry and the\nresultant wealth, the same to be administered in the Interests of the\nworking class. These are the vital\npoints In a Socialist political program, these nre the things which\nclearly understood and plainly presented to the working-class, gain\nacceptance, these are the things that\nbind men together for common hope\nand action, these are the things\nvital.\nINDEPENDENT LABOR\nUnction. Such tactics are familiar\nto observers with tolerable memories, nnd discount to zero the chances\nof any such movement in this province at any rale, and the ecperience\nof \"Independent Labor\" at Winnipeg with a. later example at Montreal, both point clearly to the Nemesis awaiting any halfway policy\nthat fails to satisfy the logical sense\nor meet the economic needs of thc\nworking-class\nWithout that 'wider 'knowledge*\nwhich comes of study and cxjicr\nience, \"Independent lAbor\" Aeetns,\non the face, to furnish a very seductive and attractive program and we\naro by no means unfamiliar with it.\nIt is a long and necessary step for\nthe wage-working class to acquire a\nprofound distrust of all capitalist\nparties, and so far it marches shoulder to shoulder with the Socialist.\nUut here it stops and hero begins the\nessential difference in conception and\ndivergence of policy between the La-\nborite nnd the Socialist : The Labor-\nitc distrusts thc capitalists as men,\ntracing his troubles to unjust administration of things and an unequal division of profits; the Socialist claiming no moral superiority for\nthe workers as a class, challenges\nand denounces the capitalist \"system\" of production as founded inherently upon the robbery of the\nworkers, founded not as a deliberate\nand conscious conspiracy against any\nclass in society, but evolved through\nthe changing antl expanding form of\nindustry, tit thc same time as effective in the creation of misery for\nthe workers and tho all-round degeneration of society in general as\nthough devised by a Nero or Caligula.\nIn politics and society the capitalist parties stand, equally, for a\ndefinite and fundamental idea\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nwit, the production of profit through\nthe exploitation of human labor,\nand the capitulist, though a more\nwilling and cheerful victim, is chained to the seat of the system as securely as the worker is to the\nwheels, and the relief he can afford\nto the worker is contained within\na narrow* margin, even supposing\nhis cupidity to be at war with his\nhumanity. The system, like the\nDevil\u00E2\u0080\u0094to whom in iiiani respects it\nwould do infinite credit\u00E2\u0080\u0094cannot be\nfought with feather fans nor sentimental appeals, but must lie met and\nopposed by something equally definite, fundamental and concrete.\nWhat is the objective point of Independent Labor? Docs it furnish a\nworking ideal to guide and inspire\nits supporters? Can it be weighed,\nmeasured or gauged for comparative\npurposes? Of its origin and first\nstep we know something and respect it; OS a manifestation of working-class feeling we are interested in\nit, but before it can lie seriously criticized it must be defined; we must\nknow whut it means and aims at.\nWe have a suspicion however, amply\njustified by Canadian experience, that\nthe whole content of \"Independent\nLabor'.' contemplated lies within the\nlimits of the capitalist system. If\nthe abolition of wagoslavery lie aimed at, then its promoters should find\ntheir place in the ranks of the Socialist Party. If less than this, and\nthe embryo comes to birth stage, we\nshall see a party dopendent for its\nvery life on the system that robs\nanel enfeebles it contending for palliative crumbs, but advancing no\ntitle to the whole loaf. With that\nnebulous contradiction a \"fair wage\"\nas its strongest watchword, and in\nso far as its puny and fractional\nsuccess may or can go, prolonging\nanil justifying tho existence of the\nprime agent of human degradation,\n\"the capitalist system of wealth-\nproduction.\"\nReduced to its lowest common denominator the essential difference between Independent I-abor and Socialism is that the former would try\nto regulate robbery, th\" latter guarantees to abolish it.\nthe Trusts it will find in Gary a\nsuitable location and rquipment for\nthe production of steel on a national\nscale. AH that will disappear in the\nsteel industry will be thc capitalist\nownership.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Wilshire's.\nTHE WORLD Qf LABOR\nMAX HAYS\nIn International Socialist Review\nFrom Many Sources Comes the Rumor of an \"Independent\" I_ibor\nPolitical Policy for the Workers\nin II. C, or as Expressed by\nDelegates to the Congress, foi*\nthe Wider Field of tho Dominion. |\nThis Is no novelty or new cry to\nthe men of this province with an cx-\nlierience long enough to take in tho\nhistory of the P.P.P. born at Kamloops, amid thc huzzas of an almost\nunanimous convention and which began to die from tho day of its birth\nanel was decently and quietly buried\nwithin a few months of its nativity; or the various attempts of\nscheming politicians in combination\nwith muddle-headed ignorant and\nA POINTER FROM THE STEEL\nTRUST.\nWhile we are waiting and working\nfor Socialism, thc development of\nour present industrial system is distinctly foreshadowing the methods\nwliich will be adopted under the new\neconomic regime.\nThe Steel Trust is now taking a\nsignificant step in this direction, as\nmay lie seen from the following:\nChicago, Aug. 7.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-The price, $1,-\n921,005, paid by thc United States\nSteel Corporation for its site for the\ncoming city of Gary, Ind., has been\nentered on the books of the County\nRecorder at Crown Point. This is\nthe largest real estate deal ever\nclosed in the Hoosier State.\nFour yeurs ago this property was\nassessed at only $243,950. It is\nplanned to spend $75,000,000 on\nthis site in the next eight yenrs. The\ncity is laid out and the exact location of every plant as well a* thc\ndross to be devoted to residences\nhave lieen determined. Tho tract\nmeasures 2,71)3.58 ncres.\"\nFormerly the industry was subsidiary to tho city. Today tho city is\nbeing specially built for the industry. .\nSocialists in speculating on tho future form of national industries have\ninvariably suggest eel just what the\nSteel Plant is now establishing. It\nis the province of capitalism to lay\nthe foundations of tho new structure\nfaithless members of the working \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00C2\u00BB._\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB.-\nclass to swing the labor vote in tho lof industry for the future economic\ndirection to suit a political clique | system to bring to completion. When\nor person hungry for office and dis- the Nation determines to take over\nThc powerful Brotherhood of\nTeamsters appears to lie in a bad\nway. What the combined capitalists\nof Chicago were unable to do has\nbeen done by a small bunch of quarreling leaders. They have disrupted\nthe union and sent thrills of joy into the hearts of the Jobs and Par-\nrys and Posts. At tho national convention in Chicago last month the\nlong-threatened fight between tho\nShea and Young forces broke forth\nin all its fury, and although disinterested third parties attempted to\ncompromise thc differences or secure\nthe recognition of a flag of truce for\na short period until efforts could lie\nmade to restore jieace, they met with\nfailure at every turn. Former President Young was determined to oust\nShea and the latter was just as firm\nin his decision to hang on to offlce.\nThere was no principle worthy of\nthe name at stake\u00E2\u0080\u0094it was just a\nplain, disgusting fight for spoils, and\nthe rule or ruin policy was the controlling force in both factions. Both\nsides did all in their power to pack\nthe convention with their friends,\nhowled at each other like a pack of\nhungry ward-heelers, and liehaved\ngenerally in a manner that brought\ndisgrace upon the whole labor movement. Finally the split came and\ntwo conventions proccedeel to Bhow\nthe world how to save the working-\nman, while incidentally two sets ol\nc'fnce-Beekers were made happy. It\nis unnecessary to relate any details\nof the dual conventions other than\nto mention that the prevailing\nthought of each faction was to develop the most effective means to\nsmash the opposition in the latest\nand most approved fashion. The\nbrotherhood had about 80,000 members. The fight seems to have split\nthe organization squarely in two.\nand the principle work in the future\nwill lie for both factions to strain\nevery nerve to triumph over the cni\nemy\u00E2\u0080\u0094not the capitalists, but the rival body. I am glad of one thing.\nNot a single Socialist was mixed up\nin this family row. There arc not\nmany Socialists among the teamsters for obvious reasons: there ure\nnone who hold influential positions.\nWhen Oeorge Innes, of Detroit, was\nboss of tbe brotherhood during n\nformer factional fight he never .hesitated to proclaim his hatred for socialism. He was forced down and\nout by* Shea and then hollered\naround for a year or two for secession and disruption, %,,,'e the letter\nalso kicked out some of thc New\nYork locals because eif alleged disloyalty in lining up with Young,\nwho gained more or less notoriety\nas the pal of \"Commissioner\" Dris-\ncoll, who hnd an original and highly\nprofitable way of inciting and sctt-\ntling strikes and boycotts. Of course\nneither Shea or Young or Emmet t\nFlood or any other so-called leaders\nhave the slightest sympathy for socialism. They are pure and simpler*\nof the ultra-conservative stripe, and\nmost of them delight to pick out\n\"labor's friends\" in thc Republican\nand Democratic parties and punish\n\"enemies\" according to the rules\nprescrilied by the Federation Executive Council. fJompcrs and his tribe\nof traducers, who are always telling each other that tho Socialists\nare union-smashers and disturbers,\nwill please take note of thc fact that\nthis latest secession movement, like\nnearly all others, was not engineered by Socialists, but by their own\nkind of people, pure and simpler*,\nso-called.\nTho national struggles of tho\nprinters and tho bridge anel structural iron workers gre still in progress, both organizations having\nbattled just, about a year against\noverwhelming otitis. It is well understood that when tho printers'\nmovement for tho eight_iour day lie-\ngan to make headway Parry's Manufacturers' Association, Post's Citizen's Alliance, Penton's Foundry-\nmen's Association and Employers'\nAssociations in the various building\ntrades and machinery trades combined for the purpose of destroying the\nInternational Typographical Union.\nThey regarded the latter body us\nono of the best equipped organizations in the country, and realized\nthat if the eight-hour dny was won\nwithout much opposition other unions would immediately imitate tho\nexample of the printers nnd enforce\ntho shorter work-day and gain additional strength and prestige. On\ntho other hnnd lf the printers' union\ncould lie defeated and disrupted it\nwould discourage the other organizations and make them tractable nn-|\neasily dismembered. Consequently\nmillions of dollars have been poured\ninto this fight by hoth sides and the\nbitterest feelings havo been engendered. During the past month the\nemployers fknown ns the United Ty.\npothetnc of America) held a convention in Buffalo, whllo the printers\nmet in Colorado Springs. \"No compromise!\" was the slogan issued by\nboth gatherings, and tho indication's <\nare that, tho struggle will continue\nMU\nurnM. %m, ii. j**\nIrtdt-nhllely In Bo_to t>lftc\u00C2\u00BB-*--- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-_\nus thero is a local union in existence\nor employers are in the business who\nrefuse to eoncedo tho printers' de\u00C2\u00BB\nmands. The history of the Typographical Union shows that, as a\nrule, the printers never give up a\nfight. They have been engaged in\ncontests with corporations that lasted a quurter of a century, having\nfought the heirs'ufter thfllr ancestor^\nhud disappeared. During the present struggle the printers have spent,\nup to date, about $2,000,000, receiving little financial **\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 front otheit\norganisations. The A. F. of L. levied the constitutional assessment,\nwhich brought in less than 150,000,\nutul the printers have been depending\nupon their iwn resources, having assessed themselves 10 per cent, of\ntheir wages weekly during the past\nton mouths. But in the fuce of the\nmost determined opposition that has\never been mot by any union 85 iier\ncent of the printers aro now working\non au eight-hour basis. In round\nnumbers 10,000 members enjoy the\nshorter workday, about 5,000 are\nstill on strike, and some 3,000 ure\nbound by agreement or have not\nmado a movo for other reasons. In\nnot a single city or town in North\nAmerica have the printers lieen lieat-\neii or given up the contest. Complete victory appears to be in sight,\nas the assessment will Ih- reeluced to\n8 per cent. In-ginning October 1 anil\ngradually thereafter. The strike pay\nhas ranged from $7 a week to single\nmen ta fl2 for married memlicrs.\nThe struggle of the bridge and\nstructural iron workers is somewhat\nsimilar to that of the printers. The\nAmerican Brielge trust, one of the\nUnited States Steel Corporation's\nbrood, has decided bo put the union\nout of business. The trust has ticen\nsubjected to enormous losses in the\nerection nf buildings and bridges and\nhus spent large sums of money in\nherding together a small army of\nstrike-breakers, private police, etc.\nBut the iron workers have been peculiarly fortunate in obtaining work\nfrom Independent contractors or in\nother lines ol trade, so that very\nISw are really on the strike roll.\nThey are just us determined today to\ncontinue their battle against the\ntrust as when it began a year ago\nThey realize that they hn.o a hard\nstruggle to go through, but it wns\nbound to come sooner or later, nful\nfor lhat reason thc iron workers are\nputting in their hardest knocks now\nin the endeavor to win or force tho\nOCtopUS to COOM tO a satisfactory\ncompromise.\nThere is no use in ignoring the\nfact that the contests of the future\niietween cupitul and labor will be*\nmore desperately fought than were\nthose in the pust. Besides the 000*\ntritli/.ntinn of capital into trusts,\nemployers' associations in every line\nof Industry have lieen or are lieing\nformed with the avowed purpose of\nbreaking up labor organizations\nwherever possible. The capitalists\nare becoming thoroughly class-conscious ami ate federating their associations and co-operating in every\nsanguinary struggle with labor.\nMoreover the former make no tlenial\nof the fact that they are asking for\nno quarter and granting none unless\nthey arc forced to do so, industrially, politically, socially or otherwise. Take any of the association\norgans tir listen to nny of their olll-\nc-ials aud spokesmen and you will\nleant that the American capitalists\nare lie-coming imbued with the same\nContempt and loathing for the working-class thut was displayed by the\nRoman patricians for the plebians or\nthe French noblesse for tho proletariat Immediately preceding the revolution. How many limes have our\nconservative nnd muddled lubor leaders cried out against \"arraying class\nagainst class?\" Now let tht*ro go\nand sing tlieir song to the scores of\nemployers' associations nntl trusts\nthat have pronounced death to organized labor. But even tho most\nponderous (lomperite will nut undertake to convert tho organized employers from their evil ways nowadays. No; the scheme Ib to fight\nback, antl especially on tho political\nfield.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 o\t\nVICTORIA'S VISITATIONS.\nOUR\t\nCascade Beer\nQueen Beer\nAle and Stout\nSells all\nOver the\nCountry\nSpecially Recommended.\nThe Vancouver Breweries, Ltd.\nTelephone 429\nPROMPT 8AI.K-\nQUICK KKTI HNS\n AM. lll'MNKSS 8TS1CTI.V CClNFlLIKNTlAt, -\nW. FURN1VAL 01 CO.\nAUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS. REAL ESTATE ANO\nCOMMISSION A6ENTS.\nLARGEST MART IN VANCOUVER\nCor. Abbott m\ Cordova Sto. Old Coo. lluildin-;.\nThe gods who preside over the destinies of this city are evidently bent\non leaving no stone unturned to provide the local Socialists with entertainment arid amusement. First wo\nhad Ramsay Maedonald, then Karl\nGrey unci are now awaiting the\nTrades and l\u00E2\u0080\u009Edior Congress. Rum-\nsay Maedonald spoke on the 18th to\na good house in the A.O.lt'.W. Hall,\nchuir was graced hy the presence of\nJf. McNiven, M.F.I'., a Uliernl-lA-\ntior stalking horse, who, electee] on\na '\"Labor\" ticket, has lieen in the\nHouse a thoroughly consistent Lib*\neral. \"Consistency's a Jewel.\" \"Ho\nis now engaged in making goo-goo\neyes at the proposed Independent. Labor I'art'.v. with some considerable\nsuccess, apparently, nnd will doubtless bc Victoria's \"Independent\" candidate in the next campaign, if thc\nparty materializes, if it does not, he\nwill he a candidate* anyhow or somehow. He opened tho ball\nby making the usual remarks\nthc usual chairman usually makes in\nmuch thc usual manner and created\ntho usual feeling of relief by Hitting\nflown as usual, He was followed* by\nQ. F. Grey, President of Victoria\nTrades and I\u00E2\u0080\u009Ebor Council, a recent\narrival from New Zealand where ho\nwas connected with tho Scrldon Government. Having already been three\nmonths in this city hc is well qualified to understand tho situation\nthrough, ut the Dominion and to.\nbuild a Canadian T,ahor Party that |\nwill fill this aching void nnd give\nthe Canadian workers whnt thoy\nreally want, It Is understood wo nro\nto havo model workingmen's homes.\nThis will still a most crying need.\nOf course, individually none of us\nwant a \"model\" home, In fact we\nwould prefer not to inhabit one, but\nwo know they would bo a very good\nthing\u00E2\u0080\u0094for other workingmen. Iii the\ncourse of his remarks he deplored\ntho fart that tabor hail but ono representative at Ottawa. Ralph\nSmith should commence n libel action against this mnn at. once. How\never, Grey is not half-bad. He is\ncapable, honest, thoroughly sincere\nand full of his \"mission.\" A man\nwho dfeams in secret that sesne* day\nhe may bo the Heeidon of Canada, lie\nwill presently find out what he is up\nagainst He will get his bumps und\nsee his embryo I.I..I'. Join the 1M\u00C2\u00BB\nP. nnd others \"with yesterday's seven thousand years.\" In the long run\nif he stays here', he will land in the\nranks of the Sociulist I'urty nntl\nwill probably make u useful ami effl-\ncieat member.\nAlter him came Mrs. Maedonald.\nShe spoke of tho tabor movement\nfrom the woman's standpoint. The\nusual sentimental Hlntrhforelirsn. Hun.\nshe spoke from her heart, simply,\nsincerely, and without affectation, in\nmarki-d contrast to her husbund's\ncareful poses and att it titling. Of the\ntwo she is evidently the Is'ttcr man.\nThan we hatl tU; Maedonald, her*\naided by the strains of that noble\nanthem. -The Maple I'-ufe.\" Why\nthe \"Maple Leaf\" pnsseth under\nstanding, lie is evidently a finlshi-d\nelocutionist Tha coat hwttniit-el Just\nso, the hand thrust into the breast,\nthe rising und failing of the- Voice,\nthe studied pose and manner, were\nall there. His H|K-e\u00C2\u00AB-h was non-com*'\nmittul throughout. He had threv\nhorses to ride- at once. He* was a\nTradea Unionist of the Ttpdea Unionists, an Intlo|>endcnt tabor Pnrty\nman. and also n Socialist. 0oo-\nKidering the difficulty of the* feat hc\ntook the fences very well. He iniide*\nthe Trades Union one wing eif the\nI. I.. P. ntul the Socialist the* otheT.\nThis no doubt is the tees-ret of that\nrare bird's scime*what erratic- flights\nThe Canadian Socialists have made\nno mistake in politely ignoring this\ngentleman. He Is not strong enough\nto have done us nny good mid too\nweak to do us any harm If he in a\nbig enough mon in the I I, P. to he\ntheir whip, the rank and file must\nbet lilliputian potatoes indeed. All\nof which goes to point the same old\nmoral, that wc n<*e*d not look abroad\nfor light anil leading, but must work\nnut our own salvntion In our own\nway.\nThe ontertslntnent provided for the\nfollowing dni. was much Is'ttcr It\nwas the welcome* to His F.*tc-*lle*ne-y,\nKarl Grey Great preparations hail\nbeen made and Several arches erect eel.\nThe Chinese- came in tor much e-e*n-\nsure, just, though Severe, Not only\nhail the\u00C2\u00ABy presumed to erect a much\nmore exjiensive and ornate arch thai\nthe whiles, but also had Hie hnr.li\nhood to decorate* It thctns.lv,., ,n\ntheir own wuy, instead ol lining\nwhite* labor. The Japanese \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0o*ctisJ\nthe most tasteful nnd Unique .,.(,\nby the wny.\nIlia Excellency (fine word thai) it\nrived on the Quadra about 1 \,.w\nSomebody Intermittently fln-ei it ml-\nute. Sometime* the gnu sccnuxl lo\nU- working tpiile* nicely, and tarn*\ntntie*** it didn't. This rulher s>|-.,tH\nthe effect but the intention*. Kern i,u\ndoubt ol the ls*st. His KxceHe_rjf\nthen got in His Honor'* raniitfi\nanil drove up lo ihe \"farliajneel\nlluilellngs when- lhe usual minwlndy\nrneele the usual Speech. A tm-uh iif\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2teeiple then sung what th<\ coultl\ninemtee-r of that stirring mult*)*,\n\"The Maple leonf.\" trhlle some .;nl-\nlilren directed several troll t Ita*.\nt'uets towards the* carriage - [\"Ml\nAre was vigorous and \u00C2\u00AB<;. .;:.*<\u00C2\u00AB!\nand It rc*\u00C2\u00AB|uirt*tl net little Bfllit) oe\nthe- part of the ladies to avoid ih\u00C2\u00BB\nmissile* ai.d k<*e\u00C2\u00ABp their huts srt of Governiii' i I ititit\nthnt he*, elireetly In front nl thi I\nP, It. Hotel. The* \"thin r.M line'\nwas i>xi-<*M*.lte.|> niter ii.'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '. m* the*\nhuil to Im> scat te* reel out to I rhietly silly bo\s, who\nso extingulshe-d under their larR*e*M.\nmet a as In re'tnitid one .>( the- old\ngag, \"Wot'a yer earn (\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" ' 's'>\nto keep tne 'at up.\" Thri.'in 1\nutartlul ranks drove His K_ce*lle*nrj\na vwll gloomed, tiiild-heiii'l\"!\nble loosing Knglishiiiiin It*wide Ian\nsat His Honor, former I \ ki i *-\n\".liinii'.v\" Dunamuir, beefj anil .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\nfed looking, curried himself with ita\neasy assiiriince. of i, man with \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 be!\nlei-proof meal ticket.\nHut tenth His F.tucllent-v nntl lb\u00C2\u00BB\nHonor with orl!****-! by a third is-e**\n! punt nf the carriage, a naval\n'with n bunch Of hen feathers sink\nIng nut of the top nf his III --\nhut\nIn spite of the mnrtiitl dlapli\nervthing *.Vnt i.T pesrsabl) '\"*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\nsilence* was only slighllv itismr rll*\nsnme reinit'iiii'e men who gave lhn*\neheors once. They cheered altngettar\nso well that there . I* nn rnntti '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<\ndmibt they had l*e*en rehear-..nf ; .ott\u00C2\u00BB\ntakingly for some time\na\n{BURNS & GO.\nI HAROWAREand .\n| Second Hand Dealer i\nCook Htoves and Toole a \u00E2\u0080\u00A2_\nSpecialty.\nWo have a large quantity ol\nglass fruit jars for sale. Pints,\nflOe: |ier dflMH ; quarts. 00c ;\nand 3 quarts, 70c.\nStores\u00E2\u0080\u0094137 and Ij8 Cordova\nSt. E.\n(Hardware, Junk and Furniture.\n-n\u00C2\u00BBM\u00C2\u00BB7l VncNvtr, I. f. |\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00C2\u00BB>\nC. PETERS\nPractical BMt\n^^^^^^^^ McllbMlft*-!\nIlanit-Msdc Boots anel Shots to order In\nsit stylrs. Krpsltlnjr prsitt|itl)> and ncsl-\nly done. Stock \u00C2\u00ABl staple rcsdy-niscle\nSliors stwae* cm baud.\nMU WHttnttttt km. MiMrt flusMt.\nWAGE-LABOR\nAND CAPITAL\nDT KARL, MARX.\nRlngle copies, E osnli\ncopies. 2a cents; lf, OOplei\ncents; 40 copies. 11.00; I-\ncoplee snd over, t rent\" I\"\ncopy.\nThese rates Include post i \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nto any part cit Canada oi i'i\nUnited Kingdom.\n:\n| \"Tha Western Clarion'\ntftttt)t)t)ttt*ttttttt)t>*4>***\nII'IIKN IN VANCOUVER, STOP n*\nTHE DOUGALL HOUSE\nAllium* KTRi:il\n-1mt Class liar. KioeMcnt K\"\"\"*\nCAMK OPEN DAY AND N**--,T'\nIh-tces Moderate.\nA cheap wny of heating nn isolated room, (or any room fnr thn'\nmatter) is by tho llnkus Heater, which uses gns for fuel.\nThis TTi'iiter Is gotten up in the shape of a grnto flro, bul the\ngns logs aro filled with water. After the water is heated tho got\nis turned almost off nnd tho hot water throws off a eorofortahl-*,\neven heat at a vory low cost.\nVancouver Gas Company. Ltd.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB mm**mm**t"@en . 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