"de20aeea-1e44-4227-bf7f-8a77f66d852a"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-04-04"@en . "1911-02-25"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318726/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " 620.\nii\nII DRIES GET IT .\nRIGHT AND \u00E2\u0096\u00BAEFT\nThe Class Nature of Conservative Measures Closed by-\nSocialist Members.\nVancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, Peb. 25, 1911.\nsub-ciriptlon Priee mt ||\nnxtXAX 11.11\nMonday, Feb. 13, 1911.\nMonday, Feb. 13, 1911.\nLittle of Interest to wageworkers\ntranspired today. Minister of Finance\nPrice Ellison made his Burget \"speech\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094(which wsb type-written for him),\nand Bowser's Act relating to Fire Insurance was in Committee. Parker\nWilliams found occasion to criticise\nthe latter for the powers given to the\nInspector, who is to be a composite of\ndetective, policeman prosecutor, judge,\njury and pallor.\nThe Coal Mines Regulation Act came\nup again, Clauses 89 to 102 provided'\nthat special rules shall be established\nin each mine to deal with the varying\nlocal conditions prevailing, such rules\nto be endorsed by the Chief Inspector,\nand have force as If they were part of\nthe Act. The Minister of Mines may\nobject to and propose alterations to\nany rule made by the management,\nand the latter can demand arbitration\nif they disapprove of the proposed alterations, (but the miner cannot).\nClause 92 provides thut before the\nspecial rules are sent to the Chief Inspector Ihey shall be posted up, together with n notice that any employee\nwho has an objection to offer can send\nit to the Chief Inspector, for two\ni weeks.\nParker Williams objected that the\nclause as written could be complied\nwith In such a manner that the rules\nwould not come under the notice of\nany one at all.\nMcBride's reply was inaudible, and\nWilliams answering said that it would\nbe a fatal error lo allow Ihe Premier's\nstatement to pass. No attempt had\nbeen made to enforce the old Act, and\nt as far as the House was concerned, if\nthe new Act was to be enforced, they\nwould have to consider the rules as\nentirely new.\n. McBride stated that the Department\nwould spare no effort to carry out the\nrules. It was of very great importance\nto do so. He appreciated the close\ninterest Parker Williams was taking\nln the matter, and was grateful for his\nassistance. He would not oppose any\nsuggestion to make the Bill more effective. If Williams thought It necessary to go further ln notifying the\nminers of the special rules, he, (McBride) nad no objection. Any proposal\nto do so would be considered.\nClause 103 Hawthornthwaite drew\nattention to the marginal note, which\nstated \"Employee subject to same pen\nalty as owner, etc.\" in the Bill alongside the clause, as not accurate, and\nMcBride said It would be rectified.\nClause 110 Hawthornthwaite suggested that the words \"so that\" iu the\nfourth line be struck out, and \"shall'1\nbe Inserted after \"person\". The alteration was made, and the passage now\nreads \"No person shall be punished\ntwice for the same offense.\"\nClause 111 (Disqualifies certain persona from holding position as a court\nin respect to any offense under the\nAct) Hawthornthwaite amended by adding after \"manager of a mine\" the\nwords, \"or any person holding stock\nor financial interest in any mine.\"\nThe rest of the clauses down to\nclause 115 passed without amendment,\nthe schedules at the end of the Bill\nwere taken aa read, and the committee\nrose. (Several Important amendments\nby the Socialist members are on the\norder paper, and the BUI will probably\nnot go out of the committee and report\nstages without further amendment.)\nTuesday, Feb. 14.\nBill 12, \"An Act respecting Railways,\" was In committee, and Parker\nWilliams objected to clause 208 which\nprovides that a farmer had absolutely\nno claim against a railroad company\nfor cattle killed on the road-crossing,\nor within half a mile, If there Is a\nperson in charge, and allows anyone\nto Impound such stray cattle.\nMcPhlllips and Bowser replied, and\nthe result of the argument was, briefly,\ntbat under the Act a farmer had a\nmighty poor show of getting compensa\ntion for any of his . lhat might\nbe killed on thi railway. (The Act,\nhowever, will be of very limited application as it dealt, only with railways\nunder the lurlsdlction of the provincial government, 1\nWednesday, February 1E.li.\nTh'. debate oi. he resolution agnlnst\nthe proposed reciprocity treaty with\nthi' L... otates, moved on February\nC.'< , was continued by McBride, who\nsi ke strongly in support of it.\nHawti, -nthwalte suld ht had been\nmon im >ressea by tho manner than\nthe aattiv 'f MoUride's speech In\nfavor the resolution. The premier\nwas inclines tb pride him-elf on being\na Britisher tnd Ul i tendency in that\ndirection mi^ht 11 ind him somewhat\nas to the value questions of more\nthan a provincin. oharaoter. As far as\nhis own knowledge v .it the people of\nCanada would as so n deal with the\npeople of the United States as with\nany other country in tho world If lt\nmeant good business.\nMcPhlllips No, No.\nHawthornthwaite. Bu thoy would.\nWhat dominated men If It was not\ntheir material Interests? Sven the\nmember for the Islands himself would\nput his patriotism and imperialism in\nhis pocket and do business with the\nclient from whom the most money was\nto be extracted. He (the speaker)\nwould like to see frien\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" relations\nwith the United States lultivated as\nmuch as possible. They were largely\nof the same blood au-l race as ourselves, and with similar traditions and\ninstitutions. The boundary line was\npurely an artificial one, and tin sooner\nIt wen removed the better it would be\nfor humanity and civilization.\nMcBride had treated the matte'\nlargelj aa a political one between the\nConservative and Liberal pi n i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i. and\none thing the premie, hac *\u00C2\u00AB' i he\ncould agree with, that the J i*rence\nbetween the two old parties wat- only\na small and sentimental one, i nine-\nthing that the Socialists had consls,\nly maintained, and for which they now\nhad the authority of McBride hi\nHe hoped the time would sooi\nwhen they would be force'' to I\ntogether, ao that the workers ct,\nwhom they had to fight.\nAfter criticising McBride's\nences to the Coast lumberme\nhad declared in favor of reciprocity)\nas a direct threat, the speaker retorted\nto the proposed agri' i\u00C2\u00B0nt us <, good\nthing, -is was anything that t 'led to\ndestroy the artificial barrier.! between\nthe nations. It would be a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0, joi' thing\nIf they were all torn down a; d prev int.\ned from being put up again the (\">\u00C2\u00AB-*tj\ntallsts of the United States lesired In\nsee their lands and resource., reserved\nfor their own exploitation, and the\ncapitalists of Canada took the same\nposition, and on both sides of the line\nthey kept up the patriotic, flag-waving\ncries ln order to preserve the distinctions between the different countries\nof the world, ln the endeavor to maintain their position at tbe cost of mankind. Those natural values, it was\nwise to remember, were purely potential, and could not be realized until\nhuman labor was expended on them.\nWhat these capitalists really exploited was human labor.\nThe principle that all progrt is\nsprang from the method of productlor\nwas now accepted by the greatest\nscientists of the world. Other factors\nhad an influence, but progress depended mainly on the method of product) A.\nThe United States had outstripped the\nworld In advanced methods, and was at\nthe head of the list of civilized nations.\nThat might not be palatable to a patriotic Britisher, but it was the case, and\nthey must accord the United States\nthat position. Why continue those artificial barriers? He failed to Bee any\nreason tor doing so, unless It could be\nshown that a direct advantage could\nbe gained by the people of B. C. He\ndisliked to place himself In opposition\nto Parker Williams, a practical farmer\nhimself, who had Bald that In hh\nopinion British Columbia was getting\nthe worst of the deal, and believed that\nreciprocity and freo trade placed them\nat a disadvantage. That argument\ncould not bu denied. It had been said\nthat the treaty would be an advantage\nto workers ln the cities, by reducing\nthe cost of living, but that argument\nwas absurd, and had no foundation in\nfact. Under a high tariff wages would\nbe high, but so also would be the cost\nof living. If free trade obtained, and\nprices were low, then wages were low\ntoo. In the last analysis neither system\nwas of any advantage to the worker,\nthe cost of whose produclion (regulated by the law of supply and demand)\ndetermined his wages. That wus not\naltogether the ease of the farmer, and\nhe supposed he and Williams were\nforced to line up and vote for the\nresolution before the House, but ha did\nnot wish to let lt puss without explaining their position.\nMany believed thst Ihe world was\nour own and man our brother, but\ntoday all were living under the sway\nof competition and whether they liked\nlt or not they had to protect themselves by every means in their power\nas long as the present system continued. Those economic forces would continue to work until a new and cleaner\nsystem came, and the differences between nation and nation were broken,\nboundary lines and customs barriers\nwere removed, and if the Socialists\neo id do anything to help that process\nihey would do it. They would take\n. ery opportunity to explain theii position and advance their view. When\nthe majority understood that position\nthey would speedily put an end lo\npresent conditions. The Unitei! dtati.'\nhad the highest tariff, yet thore thej\nhad enormous and growing poverty,\nand they could see the same ln Great\nBritain under free trade. Neither\nsystem would solve the problem. If\nBritish Columbia lived under a tariff\nmountains high they would find that\nconditions would still grow steadily\nworse for the majority of the people.\nUnder free trade it would be the some,\ntho same forces would speedily work\nout, and conditions must, and would\ntend towards the conditions prevailing\nIn Qreat Britain today. There was\nnothing to be proud of In those conditions or In being a part of the British\nEmpire. He was very reluctantly compelled to vote for the resolution. (The\nresolution then carried, only Brewster\nvoting against it.\nThursday, Feb. 16, 2:30 a. m. The\nmember tor Grand Forks (Miller)\nmoved the second reading of an Act to\namend the Legal Professions Act. He\nexplained lt as being ln the interests\nof the legal profession in British\nColumbia, who are being subject to\ncompetition by an influx of cheap\nsharks oi* the Bame kidney as themselves.\nParker Williams said that the Socialist Party in the House had been pretty\nbusy so far, and he had had no time\nto look up the original Act to see what\neffect the proposed amendment would\nhave. He had expected Miller to give\nthe House some idea of the import of\nthe Bill, but he (Williams) found that\nhe would still have to look into the\noriginal Act tor that Information. One\nthing he was sure of, and that was that\nit would be of no interest to the workingmen of the Boundary district. Unless somebody produced some good\nreasons tor not doing so, he would not\noppose the second reading.-\nHawthornthwaite Bald that he was\nnot ln the House when the BUI was\nIntroduced but Judged from a quick\nglance at it that lt was a BUI to introduce more shyster lawyers into British\nColumbia. He had a great respect tor\nmany lawyers, such as the member for\n'he Islands and the Attorney General,\n(laughter) but the Rill introduced by\nthe honorable member tor Grand Forks\nwas la the interests of sneaking little\nhorse-thieves. In the United States the\npeople protect themselves by making\nexamples of such by shooting them,\ntarring and feathering, and riding them\n(Continued on Page 3)\n\"Will Never Come\"\n\u00C2\u00BBit.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2rive\nup\nfee\nrefer-\n(who\n\"Socialism will never come.\" That\nis the last ditch in whicn the enemy\nmakes a stand. After yon have almost spent your energy in assisting\nhim to lay the spectres of his Imagination which he raised as types of So-\nCl ism; the dividing up spectre; the\n\ ltd ghost of equality; the abolition\nor! private property bogy, and the hundred and one other phantoms of his\nfebrile brain; after you have done this\nand you are leaning against the fence\ntor support wondering where he is going to jump next, he takes to the last\nditch, and assures you from his wide\nand deep study of human nature that\nit Is impossible \"Socialism wlll never\ncome.\"\nHe agrees with you that labor Is the\nsource of all wealth, he admits the logical sequence, that to labor It should\nbelong; he begins to see the robbery\nwhich la hidden under surplus value;\nhe probably knows from woful experience the periodic panics caused by\nglutted markets; he tells you that he\nta a Socialist at heart and always has\nbeen, but and then he shakes his\nhead \"Socialism will never come.\"\nThis man is a type of thousands, millions perhaps, who seem to be permeated with an idea of the fixedness of\nthe present form of society. They look\nupon lt with all its horrorB, its contradictions and absurdities, as the\nvery pinnacle of perfection which ls\npor ihle to man. They say, before you\ncan proceed a step further, you will\nhave to change human nature, forgetting that human nature too is largely\nthe product of human environment and\nIt coi-ptantly adapting itself to the\nchimges in civilization\nBut instead of everything being as\ntbey imagine ln a state of fixedness,\neverything Is, on the contrary, In a\nstate of flux. This Is plain to them\nas regards past history, but they cannot apparently focus their mental eye\non the changes which are undermining\nour industrial, political, social and religious life of today. When capital-\nIsm falls, lt will not fall alone, but will\ndrag down with it all those institutions which it built up to protect Itself\nfrom assault. We, who do not wear\ngreen spectacles, can plainly see the\nREFORM, SDCIAL\nAND MORAL\nTheir Alleged Objects Attainable Not by Reform But Only\nby Revolution.\nbeginning of the end of bourgeois rule\nand we can also see the crumbling of\ntbe foundation of some of the institutions which have helped it to gain and\npreserve its power. With the introduction of capitalism and its freedom\nof trade we have also the introduction\nof freedom of religion. Freedom to\nthink what you like and believe what\nyou like about Oods, and Devils, and\nPrincipalities and Powers, and so we\nhave the origin of all kinds of sects\nfrom the Holy Rollers to the English\nChurch. And just aa free competition\nhas left capitalism high and dry, freedom of thought Is leaving religion\nhigher and dryer day by day. The decay of capitalism haa ItB reflex In the\ndecay of the sects. According to the\nannual reports from England we are informed that Wealeynn Methodism has\nshown a continuous numerical decline\ntor the past five years. The Baptists\nand Congregationallsts and Church\nmen are also bemoaning the steady decline of members. Their activities are\nbeing multiplied; more churches are junder which society ls regulated. That\nbeing built but still the rot spreads. I|g to say, that whatsoever is wrong\nRevivals, concerts, bazaars, smoke- 'socially and morally with the people,\nTo need reforms of any kind, there\nmust be something wrong; something\nwhich needs reforming. As there are,\nin various places, such movements\nknown as Social and Moral Reform\nleagues, It of necesalty follows that all\nla not well with the people, socially\nor morally. It may be a matter of\nopinion as to the extent of the evil,\nand as the majority of- Social and Moral reform leagues are composed, to a\nlarge extent of fanatics, lt is of little\nuse expecting to come to a sane conclusion through them. However, I do\nnot propose dealing with the composition of the leagues, but rather, whether\nor not morality is Improved by reforms, such as are practiced today.\nNow, I would like to ask, what ts\nthe cause of immorality? Environment\nplays, it is admitted, a very important\npart What determines the environment? Economic conditions. Then.\nI would like to ask, does social and\nmoral reform deal with the economic\nconditions and consequently the environment? No! Do we find social\nand moral reformers seeking to establish a condition, whereby people could\nbe elevated from their existing environments to a place where it would\nbe possible tor tbem to develop higher\nideals?\nWhil'st people are perpetually in a\nstate of semi-starvation, can we expect Immorality to be eradicated? Can\nwe imagine a child reared in squalor,\nmisery, and vice, developing into a\nmoral adult? The young woman, can\nshe be expected to keep pure and fresh\non the paltry wages that too often are\npaid her? One might go on naming\nother causes but the above will do as\nillustrations. What does social and\nmoral reform do tor them?\nIn some countries, special courts are\nuseil for the hearing of mic-demeanours\nof children and where special punishments are administered, with a view\nof reclaiming them from becoming habitual criminals.\nThe effect upon the children has\nbeen a failure. By the time they bloB-\nsom forth as criminals, they have passed the period when the foundation of\nthe character is laid.\nThe reformer again takes no care\nabout the young woman, until she is\nforced, by economic necessity, upon the\nstreet. She Is then hunted from place\nto place. The evil, however, cannot be\ngot rid of ln tbat way. She has to\nlive, and for a time at least, she is\noffered a good standard of living by\nthe sale of her virtue. Instead of becoming better socially nnd morally, the\npeople are getting wor.te. What is the\ncause?.\nI mentioned earlier that we nre the\nproducts of an environment; that econ.\nomic conditions? The order or system\nvlronment. What determines the economic conditions? The order osrystem\nrooms, recreation, rooms, pleasant Sunday afternoons and numerous other\nhooks have been baited but all to no\npurpose, the membership declines. It\nwas thought at first that God had gone\non a journey and that this loss, in\nspite of all the sighing and groaning\nIn prayer meetings, was only temporary. It is now known, however(-that\nGod has gone for good. Borne churches\nhave been restating their creeds to try\nand bring them more into line with\nscience and thus wlll prolong their existence somewhat, but the great majority will stand pat, like the bull on\nthe railroad, until they get a heave in\nthe chest tbat will make them quit\ntheir idea of fixedness. Heaven and\nearth shall pass away let alone Methodism or any other brand of religion.\nWe Socialists can't help these\nthings any more than you can. We\nwould advise you, however, to study\ntheae changes and if you think our Socialist conceptions and interpretations\nof them are not correct, let us have\nyours.\nGEORGE F. STERLING\nis due to the existing system of society, and if we want a better social\nand moral people, we must change the\nsystem.\nIt ls agreed that good housing accommodation, good food, good clothes,\ngood education, some recreation and\nsome work tend to Improve the morals, so what syBtem can wo have that\nwlll give us those thingB?\nToday the people are worse fed, 111-\nhoused and have shoddy clotheB, very\nUtile education, and very litle recreation Indeed, and a hell of a pile of\nwork (If fortunate). And that Ib the\neffect of the existing system, known\nas the competitive system of production for profits. The Bystcm required\nmust be the antithesis of that one. Socialism answers the requirements. It\nIs not enough, however, simply to make\nthat assertion. It must be proved.\nSocialism stands for the collective\nownership, by the people, of all means\nof production. Each and every Individual must produce tor their own and\nfamily's need. That ls where the proletarian of today comes ln. Instead of\nproducing for a bunch of parasites, who\ntake, approximately four-fifths ot his\nproducts, he will only need to produce\nfor himself and family. His working\nhours will of necessity be shorter,\nwhich wlll leave time tor education,\nrecreation and study. Better housing\naccommodation will be possible, also\na higher standard of living. A feeling\nof contentment wlll take the place of\nthe present feeling of uncertainty.\nHigher ideals will be developed and\nmorals Improved. The children will\nbave imparted to them all that is best\nand healthy, will live and develop under the most favorable conditions. The\nresult will be healthy men and women,\nhealthy homes, healthy morals. That\nls how lt will effect the proletariat\nHow wlll It affect the parasite class?\nImmorality among the parasite\nbunch is as much a plague spot as\namong the very poor. It Is, however,\nhe outcome of different causes, though,\nnone the less, it can be traced to oar\npresent system of society. The immorality among them is due, either to idleness, or the love of luxury. With th*\nadvent of Socialism, however, idleness would perish, and when It comet\nto having to produce for oneself, the\nlove of luxury would die a natural\ndeath.\nThe next question ls how to get the\nchange? When our early fathers want-\nad anything they went right after It.\nToday if we want a thing we are apt\nto say its a shame we have not got lt,\nand let the matter drop.\nIf there is anything to be dropped, It\nmust be that attitude. It Is no use\nsaying ItB a shame. No use believing\nin some supernatural power. No use\nbelieving in the goodness of man's\nheart (whatever the quality of that organ may have to do with the behaviour\nof man). No use believing it will come\nany other way than by our own energy and insistence. Than by ths use\nof that power which is ours, and which\nconstitutes right. Something is wanted. That something is a change In the\nsystem of society. That change will\nmean to the proletarians, participation\nin the good things of this life. Tbat\nparticipation will mean health and\nhappiness and enjoyment for our children.\nTo social and moral reformers, I say;\nstop tinkering with effects, eradicate\nthe cause, for by patching up , you are\nkeeping back the day when the proletarians shall have ceased to exist at\nsuch, and shall come Into their own by\ncollectively owning the means ot life.\nW. Laurence.\nMORE CLA8S STRUGGLE.\nChicago, Feb. lflth.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The queerest\nstrike on record is on here today.\nThousands bave walked out because\nthey wanted more pay and shorter\nhours, but the Sheet Metal Workers at\nthe New Columbia theatre struck rather than obey an order to loaf at full\npay.\nTbe hanging of a door is responsible\nfor the trouble. Heretofore carpenter!\nhave hung the theatre doors and tbey\nstarted to hang thla particular one.\nThlB door, however, was no ordinary\none, but was covered with sheet metal\nand the metal workers declared that It\nwas their job. The carpenters claimed\ntbat tbey should do it. To settle the\ndifficulty the contractors offered to pay\nthe metal workers their full sixty cents\nan hour to loaf while the carpenters\nfinished the job. Nothing doing! When\nthe same offer was made to the carpenters they, too, refused to loaf. When\nthe contractors ordered both unlont to\nleave the door unswung, the metal\nworkers struck.\u00E2\u0080\u0094News Item.\nBehold,\" he said, our lands, woods,\nmines, mlllH, ships,\nSee on yon pole our ensign wavea\nand dips.\n\"I see,\" my friend, I said, \"I also know,\nYour kind sleeps mostly down in tea-\ncent kips. two\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094- *'\"- -\"-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\nJZS.\nthe Western clarion. 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It this number it on It,\nyour subscription expires the\nnext issue.\n8ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 1911\nHISTORIC MATERIALISM.\nHistoric Materialism, or the Materialist Conception of History is that conception which arises from the examination of historic facts in the light of the\ndetermlnist principle. History is the\nstory of the human race, or of a portion of it. Consequently it is in the\nnature of a landscape painting In that\nit necessarily confines itself to the\nprominent features, rather than to detail. What are the really prominent features of history depends of course on\nwhether hiatory is viewed from the\nclassical or the materialist standpoint. The main difference between\nthe classical and the materialist conception of history is that the one deals\nwith deeds, and the other with happenings, as will appear.\n. The histories extant belong, almost\nexclusively, to the former school, and\nnaturally so because their writers have\nbeen taught, and have accepted as a\nmatter of course, that man is a free\nagent, more or less the master of his\nown destiny. \"Prom which it follows\nthat peoples, and the human race generally, are also free agents and their\nhistories consiat of their actions. Of\nthese actions, the most spectacular appear to the classical historian as the\nmost important.\nSo we flnd the classical histories devoted almost exclusively to chronicling\nwars, rebellions, and the deeds and\nmisdeeds of rulers and conquerors,\nwith a marked tendency In the more\nmodern histories to extol the virtues,\nreal or supposltous of their monarchs\nand \"great men\" generally, and particularly these more recent, and to\nconceal their faults and failings. Further, the charge ls frequently levelled\nat their authors of seeking to glorify\nrulership and class institutions for the\npurpose of blinding the ruled to their\nreal Interests. We are, however, disinclined to credit them with so much\nill-disposed acumen, and are of opinion\nthat the appearance of doing so arises\nnot from any design on their part as\nfrom the tact that they themselves are\nimbued with the class ideas which\nthey promulgate as a matter of course.\nOn the other hand, history of the materialist school is the very reverse of\nthe above. Its basis is that man ls\nnot a free agent but a creature of circumstance. That he has not been\ncreated but has grown, and is growing.\nTbat environment has moulded him to\nhit present form and characteristics\nupon a base determined by heredity,\nwhich Itself, again, is but the effect of\nthe environment of bis progenitors.\nThat his actions are merely the reactions of a so-constructed being under\nthe impulses of the circumstances sur-\nrundlng him. Their individual mem-\nbest being thus, the races and peoples\nare also creatures of circumstance;\ntheir'histories are the records of their\ngrowth and development, and the important features of these histories are\nnot* the spectacular effects, but tbe\nunderlying causes which occasion\ntheae.\nHistory, then, ls elevated from the\ncategory of more or less informative\nand Interesting literature, and is trans,\nported to the domain of science. It be.\ncomes a department of biology. Its\nstudy ceases to be a genealogy of\nkings and princes, a tabulation of dates\nor a critique of tbe characters ot individuals. It becomes a research into\nand piecing together of a vast chain of\ncausation. Attilla, Alexander, Napoleon, Washington, cease to be mighty\nheroes or villains and become mere Instruments ln the working out of human\nevolution.\nMan's primal imptiise is to live\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nprocure his living. The circumstances\nattendant upon the procuring of his\nliving are therefore the circumstances\nWhich will have the greatest and most\nfar-reaching effect in determining his\nhabits and ideas. Cannibalism, however repulsive it may appear to us, to\nthe canlbal, being a part of his mode\nof procuring a living, seems a mere\nmatter of course. Socially the means\nof life may be more readily and securely procured; Boelal life appears, therefore, perfectly natural. By the enslave,\nment, ln its varied forms, of tbe weaker\nby the more powerful, the latter may\nprocure the means of life more secure,\nly and easily. Slavery appears to them\ntherefore, right and just, ln fact, the\nprevailing mode of slavery always\nseems no slavery at all, and the discontent and revolt of the enslaved\nseems culpable and even ungrateful.\nAll things that tend to justify and con.\nserve a system are themselves justified and accepted. Behind It all lies\nthe primal impulse to live and procure\na living, more or less complex as the\nprocess of procuring the living may be\nand whatever wants and desires may\ngo to make up the living to be procured.\nIt is the study and elaboration of\nthis discovery which haB given rise to\nthe general formula of historic materialism that, in any given society, its\nstructure, government, laws, religion,\nphilosophy, habits, customs and Ideas\nare determined by its mode of produc\ntion of the means of life.\nANNEXATION\nATEIMTS\ntmSnmMm$m\n\"*Sti MUCIb WC MUIUCM Oi nsiiuislCItlrtfrs,\nHWftTaceru and others who realize the ed liability of baring their Patent business transacted\nbv K\u00C2\u00ABpeit-t Prellmlnaryadvice free. Charges\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mdeial, Oar hr*eaUt*t Adrlaer *\u00C2\u00ABy-*?K\u00C2\u00BB\nrequest. Marlon* Marion, NewYorklife Bids,\nMontreal: '-nd Waikington. 1* C, V.&JL.\nThat wild annexation talk of Champ's\nls likely to make it bad tor reciprocity, and rob it of the only, good feature that adorned it. For, whatever or\nwhoever else reciprocity might or\nmight not be good tor, it waa, till\nChamp's mouth flew open, good for the\nre-election of the Liberal Party. There\nwas nothing else in the lime-light, or\non the stage even, in the way of campaign material tor either party. True\nthe Liberals had instituted a \"Navy\"\nbut they haven't had it long enough\ntor the booze bills to become public.\nOtherwise, session Tatter session, they\nhave done nothing, painstakingly and\nalmost Interminably. The Conseva-\ntives could hardly make a case against\nthem on their record for it is, for poll-\nticians, one of alabaster purity, thanks\nto a liberal use of the good old fashioned whitewash brush. And for the\nLiberals to dig into the Tory record\nfor campaign material would be too\nmuch in the nature of antiquarian research to be relished by the average\nelector. So reciprocity was good, and\nno criticism thereof would buy the\nTories much.\nBut now it looks not so well. Wben\nlt comes to waving the old flag, that's\nright where the Tories live, and so,\nwhat with born Tories, electors whom\na tariff reduction catches near the\npocket book and patriots, they might\nroll up quite a vote. For the British\nobject is patriotic it he ia nothing elae,\nparticularly if he is nothing else,\nwhich he mostly Is. He loves his\ncountry whether he has one or not, and\nhas a really touching attachment to\nhis native soil the further away he la\nfrom it, even if he has had to leave\nit under pain of starvation.\nConsequently if this annexation talk\ncan be exploited as it promises, the\nlikelihood is that a Dominion election\nwill be postponed to a more auspicious\noccasion. It may even go to such\nlength that reciprocity may have to\nbe abandoned for the time being and\nJim Hill be compelled to wait tor his\nincreased volume of traffic.\nBut for us,' we would like te be\nshown what difference annexation\nwould make anyhow. Laying aside\nBuch minor differences as the wording\nof a constitution or the color scheme\nof a yard of bunting, what have we got\nor not got that the bunch across the\nline hasn't or has. We have frenzied\nfinanciers, captains of Industry, drunken judges, debauched senators,\nwealthy timber thieves, expert labor-\nskinners, Anglo-Roman-Franco - Teutonic-American capital, and so forth.\nWe have slaved on both sides of the\nline and one coal mine was very like\nanother, and, aa to our fellow-slaves,\nIf we had fallen among them from an\nairship we should have been hard put\nto it to tell whether that aggregation\nof Missourlans, Nova Scotians, Taffies, Scotties, Geordles, Cousin-Jacks,\nSlavs, Huns, Finns, Italians and New\nAfricans, were \"Canadians\" or \"Americans.\"\nOne system grows out of another sys.\ntern by evolutionary process, just as a\nnew machine grows out of an older\nmachine. Most .. modern machines\nwould be impossible of construction\nif it were not for the parent machine\nwhich, made the parts of their successors.\nLocal Enderby has undergone the\nInitial organizing process and we have\na nucleus of membership on which to\nbuild up a good local. All unattached\ncomrades ln Enderby or Mabel Lake\nValley or Deep-creek should join the\nEnderby local. Send your name to\nPercy Rosoman, Enderby, B. C, the\nsecretary of the new local\u00E2\u0080\u0094and don't\nforget to send $1.00 along with your\nname; this is the Initiation fee and\nalso pays the flrst month's dues. All\nreceipts will be acknowledged. If you\ndon't take the Party paper\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Western Clarion, enclose $1:0*0 extra for\nthat and I will see that you get it.\n(Percy Rosoman, Secy.). Other officers\nat present are Bernard Rosoman, treasurer end G. O. Desmond, organizer, J.\nPilkington, literature department. Jim\nJohnson was sick but will be amongst\nus and he Is a host in himself when he\ngets busy. P. ROSOMAN,\nPARIS COMMUNE.\nIn commemoration of tbe fortieth\nanniversary of the inauguration of the\nParis Commune a banquet will be held\nln the Headquarters of the S. P. of C,\n2237 Main Street, Saturday, March 18,\nTickets I1.00.\nBRANDON DRAW\nEditor Clarion:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe result of the draw held by\nBrandon Local on February 15 was as\nfollows:\nNo.\n(1)\u00E2\u0080\u0094P. Taylor, Sydney MlneB 166\n(2)\u00E2\u0080\u0094D. McKenzie, Brandon 492\n(3)\u00E2\u0080\u0094L. Kemp, Brantford, Ont 481\n(4)\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Laidlaw, Winnipeg 47\n(5)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jake Hart, Brandon 571\n(6)\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. Peakman, Brandon 575\n(7)\u00E2\u0080\u0094M. J. Matherson, Vernon, B. C. 869\n(8)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Erie Kahn, Brandon 20>\n(9)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sam Tereskl, Brandon 141\n(10)\u00E2\u0080\u0094John Webster, Portage la\nPrairie 64\n(11)\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. J. Hlggens, Brandon ....416\nThe draw was made by R. Kellaway,\nwho is the President of the local\nbranch of the Bricklayers' and Masons' International Union. The draw\nwaa a great success and we wish to\ntake this opportunity ot thanking the\nreaders of the Clarion for their assistance.\nYours in revolt\nA. T. HIGGENS\n. Secretary of Draw Com,\nVancouver Economic Class\nThe \"root hog or die\" idea Is bad\nenough, but when it comes to both\n\"root\" and \"die,\" it ls worse yet. The\nreason why the wage object dies before his time\u00E2\u0080\u0094of overwork, starvation etc,\u00E2\u0080\u0094ls because he does not get\nto the root of the trouble at all.\nPARAGRAPHS.\nThe Okanagan comrades ought to\nconcentrate their \"fire\" on Armstrong\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that heretofore unapproachable town\nwhere hall rent is so high and so many\nyellow-legged ha-de-dooes of the decadent middle class Infest the fertile real estate. This town is our weak\npoint. Are there not some comrades\nthere who are determined enough to\nmake use of Desmond while he ls here,\nand stay with him till that town and\nIts environments have been circum-\norganlted?\nThe Equivalent Form of Value.\nWe have seen that commodity A (the\nlinen), by expressing its value in the\nuse-value of a commodity differing in\nkind (the coat), at the same time\nimpresses upon the latter a specific\nform of value, namely, that of the\nequivalent. The commodity linen\nmanifests its quality of having a value\nby the fact that the coat, without having assumed a value form different\nfrom its bodily form, is equated to\nthe linen.\nThe fact that the latter therefore\nhas a value is expressed by saying\nthat the coat ls directly exchangeable\nwith it. Therefore, when we say that\na commodity la in the equivalent form,\nwe expre8s the fact that Ib directly\nexchangeable with other commodities.\nWhen one commodity, such as a coat,\nserves as the equivalent of another,\nsuch as linen, and coats, consequently\nacquire the characteristic property of\nbeing directly exchangeable with linen,\nwe are far from knowing In what proportion the two are exchangeable. The\nvalue of the linen being given in magnitude, that proportion depends on tbe\nvalue of the coat.\nWhether the coat serves aB the equivalent and the linen as relative value,\nor the linen as the equivalent and the\ncoat as relative value, the magnitude\nof the coat's value is determined, independently of its value form, by the\nlabor time necessary for its production.\nBut whenever the coat assumes in\nthe equation of value, the position of\nequivalent, its value acquires no quantitative expression; on the contrary,\nthe commodity coat now figures only as\na definite quantity of some article.\nFor Instance, 40 yards of linen are\nworth\u00E2\u0080\u0094what? 2 coats. Because the\ncommodity coat here plays the part\nof equivalent, because the use-value\ncoat, as opposed to the linen, figures\nas an embodiment of value, therefore\na definite number of coats suffices to\nexpress the definite quantity of value\nin the linen.\nTwo coats may therefore express\nthe quantity of value of 40 yards of\nlinen, but they can never express the\nquantity of their own value.\nA superficial observation of this fact,\nnamely, that ln the equation of value,\nthe equivalent figures exclusively as\na simple quantity of some article, of\nsome use-value, has misled Bailey, as\nalso many others, both before and after\nhim, into seeing, in the expression of\nvalue, merely a quantitative relation.\nThe truth being that when a commo.\ndlty acts as equivalent, no quantitative\ndetermination***** Its value Is express-\nThe first peculiarity that strikes us,\nin considering the form of the equivalent, is this: use-value becomes the\nform of manifestation, the phenomenal\nform ot Its. opposite, value. . -\nThe bodily form of the commodity\nbecomes its value form\t\nBut, mark well, that this quid pro\nquo exists in the case of any commodity B, only when some other commodity\nA enters Into a value relation with it,\nand then only within the limits of this\nrelation.\nSince no commodity can stand ln the\nrelation ot equivalent to itself, and thus\nturn its own bodily shape into the expression of its own value, every commodity ls compelled to choose some\nother commodity for Its equivalent, and\nto accept the use-value, that ls to say,\nthe bodily shape of that other commodity as the form of Its own value.\nOne of the measures that we apply\nto commodities as material substances,\nas use-values, will serve to illustrate\nthis point. A sugar-loaf being a body,\nis heavy, and therefore has weight:\nbut we can neither see nor touch this\nweight. We then take various pieces\nof iron, whose weight has been determined beforehand. The iron, as\niron, ls no more the form of manifestation of weight than is the sugar-loaf.\nNevertheless, In order to expresa the\nsugar-loaf as so much weight, we put\nit into a weight-relation with the Iron.\nIn this relation, the iron as a body\nrepresents nothing but weight. A\ncertain quantity of Iron therefore serves as the measure of the weight of\nthe sugar, and represents, ln relation\nto the sugar-loaf, weight embodied, the\nform of manifestation of weight.\nThis part is played by the iron only\nwithin this relation, into which the\nsugar or any other body, whose weight\nhas to be determined, enters with the\niron. Were they not both heavy, they\ncould not enter into this relation, and\nthe one could therefore not serve as\nthe expression of the weight of the\nother. When we throw both into the\nscales, we Bee in reality, that aa weight\nthey are both the same, and that, there,\nfore, when taken In proper proportions,\nthey have the same weight. Just as\nthe substance iron as a measure of\nweight, represents in relation to the\nsugar-lc.*f weight alone, so, in our expression of value, the material object,\ncoat, in : elation to the linen represents\nvalue alone.\nHere, however, the analogy ceases.\nThe iron, in the expression of the\nweight of the sugar-loaf represents a\nnatural property common to both bodies, namely their weight; but the coat\nin the expression of value of the linen\nrepresents a non-natural property of\nof both, something purely social, name.\nly, tbelr value.\n(Continued next week.)\nDISCUSSION IN CLASS ON\nEXTRACT FROM \"CAPITAL\"\nCLARION, FEB. 18, 1911\nThe value-form expresses a definite\nquantity of value, besides value ln\ngeneral.\nEvery variation in tbe productiveness of labor is accompanied by a\nchange ln the amount of labor time ne.\ncessary to produce a commodity.\nWe shall see how such change affects\nthe quantitative aspect of the relative\nexpression of value.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 If the value of linen varies, so that\ntwice the precious amount of labor is\nnow necessary to produce a given\nquantity, and in the meantime the value of the coat remains constant, then,\ninstead of the equation 20 yards linen\nequals 1 coat, we have, now, 20 yards\nlinen equals 2 coats, because one coat\nnow contains only half the amount of\nlabor contained in 20 yards of linen.\nLinen has doubled in value.\nBut should the labor time necessary\nto produce linen be reduced by one-\nhalf then 20 yards of linen equal\none half coat. In this case the value\nof linen has fallen by one-half.\nThUB, the value of coats remaining\nconstant, the relative value of linen,\nexpressed in coats, varies directly aa\nItB (the linen's) actual value.\nShould the value of the linen remain\nconstant and that of the coat vary and\nthe labor-time necessary tor the production of a coat become doubled, we\nhave, 20 yards linen equals one half\ncoat; If the labor time necessary ln the\nproduction of a coat be halved, we have\n20 yards linen equals 2 coats.\nHere, the value of linen remaining\nconstant, its relative value, as express,\ned in coats varies inversely as the\nvalue of coats..\nIf the labor time necessary for the\nproduction of linen and coats should\nvary at the same time, in the same\ndirection, and in the same proportion,\ntheir relative values continue to be\nthe same. Their change in actual\nvalue can only become evident when\nthey are compared with a third commodity whose value has remained unchanged.\nIt may be seen that should tbe labor,\ntime necessary to produce linen and\ncoats vary at the same time, ln the\nsame direction or opposite directions',\nor ln equal or unequal rates, etc., the\neffect may be deduced from the examples given.\nChanges in the magnitude of value\nare not shown clearly in the equation\nexpressing the magnitude of relative\nvalue.\nEWEN MACLEOD,\nSecretary Press Committee.\n(Class meets every Sunday, 2237\nWestminster Avenue, 3:30 p. m.)\nMathematics class at 2 p.m.\nSocialist Directory\nEvery local of the Socialist Party\nof Canada should run a card under this\nhead. $1.00 per month. Secretaries\nplease note.\nDOHIIION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE\nSocialist Party of Canada. Meets\nevery alternate Monday. D. G. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 1688, Vancouver, B. C.\nCOLUMBIA PBOVINCIAL\nExecutive Committee, Socialist Party\nof Canada. Meet** every alternate\nMonday. D. O. McKenzie, Secretary,\nBox 1688 Vancouver, B. C.\nALBERT A PBOYXNCXAX, EXECUTIVE\nCommittee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Monday ln\nLabor Hall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postofflce. Secretary wlll be\npleased to answer any communications\nregarding the movement in the province. F. Danby, Sec, Box 647 Calgary,\nAlta.\nMANITOBA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE\nCommittee: Notice\u00E2\u0080\u0094This card Is\nInserted for the purpose of getting\n\"YOU\" interested in the Socialist\nmovement. SOCIALISTS are always\nmembers of the Party;trio if you are\ndesirous of becoming a member, or\nwish to get any Information, write the\nsecretary, W. H. Stebblngs. Address,\n316 Good street, Winnipeg.\nLOOAL FEBNLC, B. P. of O. HOLDS\n. educational meetings In the Miners'\nUnion Hall, Victoria Ave., Fernle, every Sunday evening at 7:46. Business\nmeeting first Sunday in each month,\nsame place at 2:30 p. m.\nDavid Pttton, Secy., Box 101.\nLOCAL GREENWOOD, B. C, NO. 9,\nS. P. of C, meets every Sunday evening at Miners' Union Hall, Greenwood.\nVisiting comrades invited to call. C.\nG. Johnson, Secretary.\nLOOAL LADYSMITH NO. 10, 8. P. ol\nC. Business meetings every Saturda*-\n7 p.m. ln headquarters on First Ave\nJ. H. Burrough, Box 31, Ladysmith\nLOOAL VANCOUVEB, B. O., NO. 46.-'.\n\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00AB&V im. hlletB every second and\nfourth Thursdays ln the month at -237\n\"Myntti Ayenu<- Secretary. Wri.\nI',iSA\u00C2\u00AB XEBW0:,r \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00B0- \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 38, \u00C2\u00AB. \u00C2\u00BB\nof O. Meets every Tuesday, 8 p. m\n?v0r& \u00E2\u0084\u00A2,L' \u00C2\u00B0' iV Ha\"- Tronson St\nW. H. Gllmore, Secretary.\nLOCAL VICTOBXA, NO. 9, .\u00C2\u00AB. P. OP 0\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2douiirtera ulld Kead|llg Roo~\nEJ3 Johnston St. Opposite Queens Hotel. Business meeting every Tuesdaj\nevening 8 p.m. Propaganda meetings\nevery Sunday at Grand Theatre.\nT. Gray. Secretary.\nLOCAL COLEMAN, ALTA., NO. t.\nMiners' Hall and Opera House\u00E2\u0080\u0094Prona-\nganda meetings at 8 p. m. on the first\nand third Sundays of the month. Business meetings on Thursday evenings\nlollowlng propaganda meetings at \u00C2\u00BB. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nOrganizer, T. Steele, Coleman, Alta.;\nsecretary, Jus. Glendenniiig, Box 63\nColeman, Alta. Visitors may receive\ninformation any day at Miners' Hall'\nfrom Com. \V. Graham, secretary of\nU. M. W, of A. *\nLOCAL CALOABT, ALTA., No. 4, B. T.\nol c. Meetings every Sunday at i\nP-,'.mLj,n tlle Labor Hall, Barber Block,\nEighth Ave. E. (near postofflce). Club1\nand Heading Room. Labor Hall, r,\nMachln, Secretary. Box 647, A. Maedonald, Organizer, Box 647. (\nLOCAL EDMONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, 8.\nP. of C. Hearquarters 622 First St..-\nBusiness and propaganda meetings\nevery Thursday at 7:30 p.m. sharp\nOur Rending Room ls open to the public tree, from 111 a.m. to 11 p.m. dally\nF. Blake, 649 Athabasca Ave., Secretary. Treasurer, T. Btssett, 322 Fourth\nSt., Organizer. j\nLOOAL MICHEL, B. C, NO. 18, B. T. OF\nC, meets every Sunday in Graham's\nHall at 10:30 a. m. Socialist speakers\nare invited to call. V. Frodsham, Secretary.\nLOCAL LETHBRIDGE,, ALTA., NO. 18.\nS. P. of C\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets 1st and 3rd Sunday In the month, at 4 p.m. Itt\nMiners' Hall. Secretary, Chae.\nPeacock, Box 1983,\nLOCAL REGINA, SASK., NO. 8. MEETS\nevery Sunday at 7:30 p.m., in Trades\nHall, hearth Street. Busine-s meet-.\ninga 2nd und 4th Fridays at 8 p.m.\nTrades Hall, Secretary B. Simmons,\nBox 1046.\nLOCAL MABA, B. 0., NO. 34, S. P. of C,\nMeets flrst Sunday In e\ery month in\nSocialist Hall, Mara 2:30 p.m. Cyril\nRoscman, Recording Secretary.\nLOCAL MOYIE, B. C, NO. 30.\u00E2\u0080\u0094MEETS\nsecond Sunduy 7:30 p.m. in McGregor\nHall (Miners' Hall), Thos. Roberts,\nSecretary.\nLOCAL NANAIMO, NO. 8, 8. P. of C.\nmeets every alternate Sunday evening\nIn Foresters Hall. Business meeting\nat 7:00 o'clock sharp. Propaganda\nmeeting commences at 8:00 o'clock.\nA. Jordan, Secy, liux 410.\nLOCAL NELSON, 8. P. of C, MEETS\nevery Friday evening at 8 p. in., it-\nMiners' Hall, Nelson. B. C. I. A. Aus\ntin. Secy.\nLOOAL PBINCE BUPEBT, B. C, No. 83,\nS. P. of C.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets every Sunday in\nhall in Empress Theater Block at 2:00\np. m. L. H. Gorham, Secretary.\nLOOAL BEVELSTOXE, B. C, NO. 7,\nS. P. of C. Business meetings at .Socialist headquarters fourth Thursdavs\nof each month. T. S. Cassidy, Orgu'n-\nizer; B. F. Gnyman, Secretary.\nLOOAL X0B8LAND, NO. 26, 8. P. of C\nmeets in Miners' Hall every Sundav al\n7:30 p.m. E. Campbell, Secy., P. O\nBox 674. Rossland Finnish Branch\nmeets in Financiers' Hall, Sundays al\n7:30 p.m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Bo>\n54 Rossland.\nLOOAL VANCOUVEB, B. 0., NO. 1\t\nCanada. Business meetings every\nTuesday evening at heudquarters, 2237\nAVestminster Ave.\nF. Perry, Secretary, Box 1688.\nLOOAL SOUTH FONT GEORGE NO. 81,\nheadquarters and public reading room,\nShow building, Hamilton street. Business meetings every Saturduy night nt\n8 p. m. Nell McLean, secretary, John\nMclnnls, organizer. Comrades contemplating coming to Fort George are\nearnestly requested to write for reliable information.\nLOCAL WINNIPEG, MAN., NO. 1, 8. P.\nof C. Headquarters, 628 1-2 Mala\nStreet. Room No. 2, next Dreamland\n1 heatre. Business meeting every alternate Monday evening at 8 p.m.;\npropaganda meeting every Wednesday\nat 8 p.m.: economic class every Sunday afternoon, 3 p.m. Organizer, Hugh\nLaldlow, Room 2, 628 1-2 Main Street.\nSecretary, J. \v. Hillings, 270 Young\nStreet.\nLOCAL NO. 24, TOBONTO, ONT.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 '\nHeudquarters, 10 and 12 Alice 8L J\n(near Yonge). Business meetlnge i\nevery 2nd nnd 4th VVednesdav; props,\ngandu meetings every Sunday at J J\nand 8 p. m. By arrangement with I\nToronto University popular scientific >\nlectures every Monday at 8 p.m. duping the winter. Address all commu- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nmentions to Secretary, No. 10 and 11\nAlice St.\nLOOAL BBANTFOBD, No. 10, 8. P. Of a\nMeets nt headquarters, 13 George St\nevery Tliursduy und Sunday nlghU.\nBusiness und Speakers' class on Thure-\naays; Economic Class on Sundaya\nWugo workers Invited.- A. W Baker\nSecretary, 0 George St. W. Davenport, Organizer, 141 Nelson St.\nLOCAL OTTAWA, NO. 8, 8. 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CURRY\nRoom 501\nDominion Trust Bldg.\nPrice List of Literature\nIssued by the Dominion Executive\nCommittee\n\"Slave of The Farm,\" or\n\"Proletarian in Politics,\" to locals subscribing to the publishing fund, $1.00\nper 100, to others 26c per dox.\n\"Socialism and Unionism\" to be published.\n\"Value, Price and Profit,\" to subribert\nto publishing fund $2 per 100, to other*\n30c per doz.\n\"Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism\" to subscribers to publishing;\nfund $6 per 100, to others 76c per del\n*+\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AEm\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE**\u00C2\u00AEi\n,0K\u00C2\u00A3 . ^is o*N;:oxoHtfKs;'\n'*rM iNHC.\nCK'tl\nrxH--' SATURDAY, PiBfiUAfiV 25th, -1411\n\"Til \u00E2\u0096\u00A0hiii\nTHE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nmmi.iscoej^..\nThree\nTHE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA\nThis Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive Committees, Locals\n' and General Party Matters\u00E2\u0080\u0094Address All Communications to\nD. G. McKenzie, Sec., Box 1688, Vancouver, B. C.\nALBERTA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE\nRegular meeting of Alberta Provincial Executive held February 13th,\n1911.\nPresent Comrades Turnbull, Howell (chairman), McLean, Danby and\nOrganizer O'Brien and Gribble.\nMinutes of previous meeting read\nand adopted. Correspondence dealt\nwith from Locals Frank, Meeting Creek, Lougheed, Innisfali, Bel-\n. levue, Canmore (Finnish), Blairmore,\nColeman, Dewberry, Coleman (Finnish), Medicine Hat, Markervllle, Les-\nHevllle, Edmonton and Dominion Ex-\n; ecutive Committee, Com. Mc Ney, and\nMr. A. Alexander.\nCommunication from Local Toronto\n, read and ordered filed.\nCommunications read from Read\nLHlll comrades; held over until next\nmeeting.\nComrade Adolf Hrelllkea admitted\n| member-at-large.\nOn motion, secretary instructed to\n[communicate with Com. Budden with\nfa view to placing him ln the field as\n[ organizer.\nCharters granted Frank, Dewberry\n^and Leslieville Locals.\nRECEIPT8\n(Local Meeting Creek, stamps ..| 1.50\n[Local Blairmore, Charter and\nsupplies 6.00\n(Local Bellevue, stamps 3.00\n| Local Innisfali, stamps 2.40\n[Local Meeting Creek, stamps and\ncards 1.50\n, Local Edmuton, stamps 6.00\n, Local Coleman, stamps and supplies 16.25\ni Local Bellevue, stamps 5.00\nI Local Coleman (Finnish) stamps 5.00\n| Local Markervllle stamps 2.00\n' Local Lougheed, stamps 5.00\nLocal Leslieville (charter and\nsupplies 5.50\nLocal Calgary, stamps and supplies 10.00\n, Local Frank, charter 7.00\n' Comrade F. J. McNey, stamps ... 1.00\n* Comrade Adolf Hrelllkea, stamps 3.00\nTotal $69.15\nEXPENDITURES\n^Com. C. M. O'Brien, organizing\npurposes $15.50\nDom. Executive Com., on acct 25.00\nWestern Clarion, (cord) 3.00\nl Postage 3.08\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2. Com. Gribble, organizing 10.00\nDom. Executive Com. on accl 7.00\nTotal $63.58\nIn order to facilitate matters locals\n' are urged to be prompt in forwarding\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA their qua-terly reports.\nFRANK DANBY,\nSecretary\nTORONTO ONTARIO\n[Dear Comrade: \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nRe referendum for Dominion convention I have been Instructed to ask you\nUf you will send the returns In full to\n| the D. E. C. with a request for them to\n[be published in tbe Clarion.\nThis local favorB the convention by\n[\u00E2\u0080\u00A2a vote of 13 for and none against.\nYours in Revolt\nARTHUR TAYLOR\nNOTICE\nSaskatchewan comrades who desire\nspeakers or literature of the Party\n[will kindly write to F. G. Allen, North\nLBattleford, Sask. ThlB province is\n[fit and ready for an organised effort\nfat propaganda and such can only be\n[brought about by the efforts of all\n[comrades within Saskatchewan, The\n1work is bard and a strong organisation\nLis absolutely necessary In order to\n(make any head way.\nA. BUDDEN\nIN 3UNNY ALBERTA\nComrade Editor:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDuring last week our Comrade O'Brien has been visiting us round this\nv part of the country.\nHe gave a splendid lecture in the\ni Black Spring Ridge school house, Wed-\n1 nesday the 8th, to a crowded house,\nhaving a very attentive audience. I\n' was net there myself but comrades and\nI friends there told me tbat both audi-\nlence and speaker were good.\nThe collection reached $4.00, and a\nj bunch of subs to our paper were taken.\nOn Friday night O'Brien was at the\nPlainileld school house and had a good\n' audier.ee who listened patiently to ev-\nI ery word, while O'Brien poured out\n'the right message. Being mostly\n| farmers, he showed them, \"sons of the\n.soil\" that they were in Just the same\nfix as any other wage-slave. The Independent fake was dealt wltb, every\ni point being Illustrated In a way of the\n[speaker's own. He got his audience\n1 going and kept them going, several\n, old I. L. P.'s getting an eye-opener.\nOur Comrade Alex Frazer rendered a\nsong in good style. Comrade Frazer\n1 ls an old I. L. P. man, but he said O'-\n1 Brien was the best he ever heard, and\nI think he will be one of us after this.\nSeveral questions were asked referring to \"Independents,\" O'Brien's attempt to get the vote of sympathy\nwith Queen Alexandra, amended so aa\nto Include the widows and orphans of\nthe Whitehaven disaster, and one\nfarmer asked how it was they did not\nproduce foodstuffs seeing they grew\nwheat. All were answered to the satisfaction of tbe questioners.\nO'Brien said he would like to come\nback at some future date, and give\nthem a talk on \"value\" which he had\nonly time to deal with sparely on this\noccasion, someone suggested a vote\nwhich showed in favor (if that\namounts to anything.\nThe collection amounted to $5.00,\nand also a sub or two for the Clarion.\nSome of the \"rubes\" have goot food\nfor thought for a little while anyway.\nYours in revolt\nH. KAYE\nREPORT OF OKANAGAN ORGANIZATION, JANUARY, 1911.\nMeetings held\u00E2\u0080\u00942.\nEconomic classes\u00E2\u0080\u00942.\nClarion Subs.\u00E2\u0080\u009410.\nLiterature sold\u00E2\u0080\u0094$23.00.\nLocals formed\u00E2\u0080\u00941.\nLiterature Agents established\u00E2\u0080\u00941.\nBalance of organizers time was taken\nup with systematic personal work.\nComrades In isolated localities get\nln touch with\nH. GILDEMEESTER,\nDistrict Secretary\nMara, B. C.\nMICHEL, B. C.\nMichel, B. C, 8-2-11.\nDear Comrade:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nOn February the 4th C. M. O'Brien,\nM. P. P. in Alberta, gave us a very interesting address. He dealt very\nclearly with production and analyzed\nIt so that the most Ignorant could understand, and, what part he played in\nthe drama of life. He demonstrated\ncollective production, and showed how\nless than one hundred parasites owned\nwhat millions of slaves produced and\nwent on to show them, (the slaves)\ntheir position in society and the value\nof their labor power.\nSome of the high caste as they\nbe classed in the same category as the\nAsiatics but nevertheless they were\narratlcs but nevertheless they were\nbound to admit that national and racial\nprejudice is on the decline and that in\nthe final they would tie bound to accept them into their organizations,\nindustrial and political, and try to\nraise within them that spirit of revolt\nwith which every class conscious Blave\nis possessed, educate tbem and teach\nthem that they are an active factor in\nproduction and you will soon see the\nresult.\nThe speaker dealt very plainly with\nhistory and its concepts so that every\nperson In the audience should at least\nrealize that history as it is put before\nus at the present ls evidence of the\nbarbarous methods used to keep the\nslave in subjection.\n*\"\" VINCENT FRODSHAM,\nMENZIES, SA3K.\nComrade Editor:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nLocal Menzles wishes me to make\nreport of discussion at regular business\nmeeting held February 12th, regarding\nsuggestion as to the desirability of\nestablishing P. JI. C. for Saskatchewan\nand publishing department to S. P. of\nC.\nWe think the time has arrived wben\nthe old political parties and their supporters be forced to take further notice to the existence and determination of the S. P. of C. as to what we\nintend to do and how we intend to do\nit. Tbat we are catching on to the\ngame as Its played and tbat we've had\nabout enough of it and that we are out\nto put an end to lt by capturing the\nmachinery of government, the transformation of the capitalist class ownership of the means of wealth production into the property of the working\nclass and the abolition of the' wage\nsystem.\nTo accomplish this aim we have got\nto organize. The more perfect our organization the better will be the results. Therefore the comrades of this\nlocal desire to see the scattered locals\nof this province be brought into better\nunity by means of a provincial organization. We would prefer, however, to\nhave said movement accomplished if\npossible independent of the emdlation\nBring your dull razors to\nSMITH'S BARBER\nSHOP\nClarendon Pool Room, opposite\ncit bum\nWe-tminit-i Avenue\nVancouver, EC\nof a convention, believing that our\nparty .is not in a position financially to\nundergo heavy, expense.. The Comrades\nhere are^ ln bearty.accord with--'the\nidea as to. furthering the interests of\nSocialism by the establishing of a publishing department to the S. P. C. This\nlocal recognizing the usefulness of such\na movement hereby pledge ourselves to\nbecome a contributer to the fund; when\ncontributions are being called ln please\nnotify.\nAs to the progress of our movement\nin here lt Is not all that ls to be desired though the farmers are kicking\nagainst conditions cursing the machine\ncompanies. With invitations to attend\nour meetings tbey seem to be very slow\nIn coming to hear what we have to\nsay.\nAt our next meeting we will get into\na nest of our horny handed brethren,\nthe G. G. There we intend to deal with\nthe effects of labor saving devices,\nvalue, etc., to show them the hopelessness of their tin pot movement. Not\nbeing thorough masters of economics\nwith a hard bunch to deal with we expect to get some heavy buck-saw business but I think will show them by\nthe time we get through that we have\na bit of the saw any way.\nWALTER MENZIES\nRecording Secretary\n\"It is a dream,\" he said, \"It will never\ncome\n'Tis competition maketh business\nhum.\"\nI looked at him with pitying smile, I\nknew,\nEaton would darn soon have him on\nthe bum.\nThe worship of greatness in any\nshape or form is an atavistic trait in\nti.o human animal which reappears\nmostly in those more closely related\nto the tailed and fur-covered ancestors\nof the race.\nTORIES GET IT RIGHT AND LEFT.\n(Continued' from Paps* 1)\nSo far as wealth production is concerned, the wage-beast Is a distinct\nsuccess. So far as the retaining of,\nor enjoyment of the product he is,\ncomparatively, the most complete failure the world has ever seen.\nNames of sub-getters for the week\nappear below:\nLestor, North Battleford....' 16\nD. Galloway, Vancouver 4\nT. B. Legge, Brandon, Man 4\nJ. Peuser, Vancouver 3\nA. F. Farley, Guelph, Ont 3\nW. Davenport, Brandon, Ont. ^ 3\nDesmond, Vernon, B. C 3\nF. Hyatt, St. John, N. B. 2\nE. Davles, Toronto, Ont 2\nJames Thomson, Medicine Hat,\nAlta i\nGeorge White, Nanalmo, B. C 2\nSINGLES\nJas. Cartwright, East Wellington, B.\nC.i H. Elmer, Lincoln, 111.; C. McM.\nSmith, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Gordon Brown,\nVictoria; B. C; A. W. Baker, Brant-,\nford, Ont.; Alex Whyte, Mountain\nMill, B. C; W. M. McKenzie, Lake\nBuntzen, B. 0.1 G. Waples, Steelton,\nOnt, N. D. Thachuk, Canmore, Alta.;\nJ. Rolls, New Westminster, B. C.i F. E.\nArmstrong, Claxton, B. C.i Wm. Shlels,\nCity.\nLocal Brantford, bundle $2.60\nLocal Winnipeg, bundle 25\nJas. Thomson, Medicine Hat, Alta\nBound Volume.\nLocal Mara, B. C. card\nB. L. J. Maintenance 1.00\n* * *\nDidn't have room for them last\nweek so here's a few to go with them:\nSINGLES\nW. J. Urquhart, H. W. Schllchter,\nCampbell, Angus Ross, W. W. Lefeaux,\n\"Smith,\" Vancouver; H. Barlow, Victoria; W. B. Downing, Milestone, Sask;\nCarroll, Schlnt Wheat Centre, Alta;;\nJ. Hough, and H. Valley, Nanalmo, B.\nC.j H. Trull, Colquitz, B. O.i A. Douglas, Cascade, B. C.| J. F. Johnson,\nEnderby, B. C; Roscoe Fillmore, Alberta, N. B.; F Ibbetson, Toronto,\nOnt; E. Hogg, New Westminster, B.\nC; G. Bloomfleld, South Hill, B. 0.1 F.\nG. Parkes, Revelstoke, B. C; Banks,\nWest Burnaby, B. C; V. Frodsham,\nMichel, B. C.i and the Prince Rupert\nIndustrial Association.\nBUNDLE8\nLocal New .Westminster and K.\nJohnson, Montreal.\nLikewise: ,\nC. M. O'Brien 7\nC. Lestor 5*\nG. Desmond , 4\nM. Stafford 2\nH. Way 2\nW. Menzles < 2\nD. Forrest 2\nF. J. Wallador 2\nOVER OS YEARS'\nEXPEr-UENCC\nTrade Marks\nDesigns\nCopyrights Ac.\nAnyone lendlni \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 aketoli ami doacrtptkm *naj\nuloklr ascertain onr opinion free whether ao\nry f-tTMourln-KMt\nquickly i\nIllTBBUOl\nIStrl-HlTCOllilllGlltl\n I taken tbrouih\"Muiiu\"*\"3\nrpttimi mtica, without ohwft, la thu\nommuuica-\nmotfr-M. Oldest Munc* tkr MourlnffMUiiU\nPatent! taken tbrou-fh Muuu.-fc vk* ncmlrm\nScientific mcrkaii\nA h\u00C2\u00BBn*K-m\u00C2\u00ABly Ulmtnrt-d wm*1t. leytest dr.\neuUOion ol any iduillHc Journal. T-rmi for\nCanada, *\u00C2\u00BB.\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00BB lees, poetate prepaid. Bold try\naU-KW-dj-aUit.\n& Co \u00C2\u00AB6fBro\"h-\u00C2\u00BB New Yqi*\nout of town,on a tall. - Even. Miller\nwould net say there were not enough\nlawyers, in British Columbia, and this\nBill would open the back doors. of\nBritish Columbia to these people..\nThere was not a hamlet in the province\nwithout several of those sneaking,\nthieving little sharks, preying on unfortunate working-men. If they were\ngoing to open the Act they should tear\ndown all the barriers. It required no\nspecial ability to become a lawyer\n(laughter) and it should be made possible for any one to become one. Organized labor had no greater opponent\nthan the lawyers, who bad built up for\nthemselves an impregnable position.\nIn the United States the people had\ntaken measures to protect themselves\nagainst those swine, in England they\nwere protected by the law, but in\nBritish Columbia they were at the\nmercy of these sharks. He disagreed\nwith Parker Williams as to the Bill.\nIt was one of the very few occasions\non which he had had to do so, but the\nBill opened the doors for these petty\nsharks.\nHe (the -speaker) had not been in\nthe Boundary district during the last\nelection, but he had heard of the great\nthings the present member for tbat\nconstituency (Miller) had promised to\ndo for the workingmen if he was\nelected. He had never raited his voice\nonce for the men he had practically\nsworn to represent, and judging him\nfrom that standpoint he had no right\nin the House. Fancy Jack Mclnnis, the\nlate Socialist member for the same constituency doing that! His voice was\nconstantly heard, and he Introduced\nbill after bill into the House\u00E2\u0080\u0094eight\nhours for smelters, Inspection of camps,\nthe general eight hour day,\u00E2\u0080\u0094labor bill\nafter labor bill, all of tbem of a class\nthat shoud come from the member of a\nlabor district. They no longer heard\nthe voice of labor from that district,\nbut instead they were banded measures\nlike this Bill to amend the Legal Professions Act.\nHow he (Miller) came to be returned at. all would be a mystery were it\nnot known to be a fact that the corporation there had driven from the district a great number of Jack Mclnnis'\nsupporters.\nThey had enough of that type of\npetty shysters in British Columbia\nalready, and, although sorry to oppose\nParker Williams, he would go on\nrecord as opposed tn it.\nParker Williams Immediately reminded the House that he had said\nhe would not oppose the Bill unless\nsomebody produced a,n objection to it.\nHe had how heard quite sufficient to\ninduce him to oppose the BUI.\nThe second reading then carried on\na vote of 3 \"noes\" to 33 \"ayes\", the\n|\"noes\" being Hawthornthwaite, Williams and Jardine.\n..Ayes 8haw, Watson, Fraser, McKenzie, Manson (Comox) Lucas, Brewster, Miller (Skeena), Tisdall, Callanan, Miller, Jackson, Cawley, Caven,\nBowser, McBride, Ellison, McPhlllips,\nCotton, Schofield, Behnsen, Hunter,\nManson (Dewdner), Young, Taylor,\nRoss, McGowan, Gifford, MeGuire, McKay, Parson, Davey, Thompson\u00E2\u0080\u009433.\nParker Williams resumed the debate\non the estimates, which had been introduced by Price Ellison on the previous day. He said that Brewster had\nraised some questions of very considerable moment, but had not dealt with\nthem from a Socialist standpoint.\nThose matters referred to what would\nseem to Indicate gross carelessness\nend negligence on the part of the\ngovernment, but no Conservative\nmembers showed any wish to touch\nthose questions. The new member for\nYale (Lucas) had made an Interesting\naddress which might Indicate that he\nmight become a really useful member\nof the House, but unfortunately they\nhad heard the same sort of thing liefer from the member for Comox (Man-\nson) last year, but he was now quiet\nand ready to learn, and they had no\nmore sugestions from him. The member for Yale would be equally apt in\nlearning what he might und might not\ndo.\nThe speaker then went on to refer\nto the Conservative nomination convention for Yale, at which the people\nof the constituency had settled on a\nlocal man, but during the short space\nof two nights that comparatively unknown gentleman from Vancouver got\nthe nomination. It was another case\nof the skilful work of the Conservative\nmachine. \u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nTurning to the estimates, the speaker said they were very interesting as\nfar as Newcastle district was concerned. The appropriation for his district was not near keeping pace with\nthat for other districts. Newcastle\nhad known, as had other districts, and\nmore than some of them. In the last\n4 years 32 Individuals had settled within half a mile of his own home,\u00E2\u0080\u0094he\nwould not claim that average for all\nthe district, but taking any square\nmile, they would find more people than\n8 years ago. There had been a considerable Increase in the mining population In the vicinity of Ladysmlth.\nAt the \"Jingle pot\" mine from 75 to\n100 men were employed, the opening of\nthe mines at Northfleld had Increased\nmaterially the population of Departure\nBay, and at Alexandria, where the\n'population consisted 4 or 5 years ago\nof Ave. or six fa*nllies,'.tbere,we*--j fioiv\npossibly .400 people. .NotwlthBUndtag'\nilLth'at .development,'.tie district- was\nonly allowed $2000 for new work! Un.\nlike Conservative districts, when they\ngot through with the money they got\nthrough, and got no more money, from\nthe government, even If the work was\nhot finished. How did that compare\nwith tbe treatment accorded other\n.districts? For the last period of 8\nyears the appropriation for his district\nhad increased from $9000 to $26000.\nThe Increase for other districts he had\nselected as being on a level with Ladysmith, or nearly so, in population and\nextent was as follows. The figures\ncovered the same period.\nMembership\nin schools\nAppropriation (from 1909\n1902 1911 Report)\nSandon ....$5,000 $75,000 168\nGrand Forks 5,000 55,000 88\nGreenwood . 2,500 50,000 221\nRevelstoke . 8,000 75,000 223\nKaslo 8,000 74,000 194\nNewcastle . 6,000 25,000 440\nWhat explanation could be given of\nthe difference In the appropriations?\nIf the reason was to be found ln the\ndifferent rates of increase in population, the number of children in the\nrural schools should have some bearing on the population of the outlying\ndistricts. (The speaker then dwelt on\ntho figures given above, and proved\nthat the appropriation had no bearing\nwhatever on the population of the respective districts, and then took up the\nvoters lists as a possible standard by\nwhich the government might have decided the share to be given to each\ndistrict with the same result, Kaslo,\nGreenwood, and Slocan showing a decrease on their voters lists, and Newcastle a slight Increase. The poll tax\nwas then quoted as also bearing on the\nquestion of population, and it was\nshown that while Newcastle had increased the amount collected by 40%\nin the last 8 years, Revelstoke, Slocan,\nKaslo and West Kootenay contributions had decreased 4 %, indicating a\ndecrease in population).\nIf that was not a satisfactory answer\nto any point that might be taken on the\nrelative development of Newcastle and\nthe other districts, then figures would\nnot answer lt at all. They had to step\nInto some other field and find the explanation.\n(The speaker here produced a chart\ndrawn to scale, showing the trend\nof appropriations granted to Newcastle\nand several other districts for the\nperiod in question.)\nGrand Forks kept in the same class\nae Newcastle until 1909, and then It\nstarted to go away up In Its appropriations, leaving Newcastle far behind.\nThe same thing happened in Greenwood. What peculiar circumstances\nhappened ln 1909 to cause such an increase in those appropriations? The\nonly possible explanation lay ln the\nfact that those-districts had formerly\nreturned Socialists to Victoria, and\nnow were represented by Conservatives. Grand Forks vote jumped from\n$14,000 to $30,000 immediately, at the\nsame time as Newcastle received\n$13,000. Why was not the increase In\nthe latter district in the same proportion? Greenwood went In slow\ndegrees from $2,500 to $10,800 and then\nto $30,000 In one leap. It had returned\na Conservative. Was there a grain of\njustice in that? Compared with other\ndistricts Newcastle had been dealt In\na grossly unfair maner. No reason\ncould be advanced to justify such a\nlow proportionate Increase. The only\npossible construction that could be put\nupon it was that the government was\nusing the provincial treasurt to boost\nthe fortunes of Its politcial followers.\n(Here McBride shook his head). \"The\npremier may shake his head until he\nturns It right round.\" It was his(WII-\nHams) duty to his constituents to examine legislation and criticise the estimates.\nMcBride asked if It was not true that\nu member could put in a requisition for\nmore money for his district?\nWilliams replied that the Premier\nwas right, he could do so, but what\nwas the process by which Shatford,\n(Simllkameen) (whose activity In the\nHouse was confined to making a raid\non the treasury once a year) (laughter)\nmade an estimate of the cost of public\nworks? What experience had he on\nthe cost of public works? There was\nabsolutely no justification for saying\nthat he knew what his district required ln the way of money grants. /\n/ With a parting shot* at Shatford,\nwhom he described as coming to Victoria every winter at considerable cost\nto make a raid on the treasury, \"living\nIn a garret at the Empress Hotel\"\n(greatly to Shatford's indignation, for\nhe rents the most expensive suite on\nthe first floor, and to the amusement\nof the other members,..who .wer* all\naware\" of tbe fact) the speaker turned\nhis attention back to the goyertimsat\nThe only possible explanation of the\nway/fhe estimates were distributed lay\nIn the manner in which the different\ndistrictB had changed \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 their political\ncomplexion. He would not have blamed the Minister of Works if he bad\nbeen good to bis own constituents. He\n(Williams) would find It pretty hard to\nbe fair in that position, but tbe matter\nunder discussion was so brazen that\nhe felt tt impossible to do anything\nelse but call attention to it. The\nestimates were not based on a requisition by the member for a district, but\non a requisition by the government\nAgent, and road superintendent. In tbe\nNewcastle district tbey had as' decent\na man for superintendent as ever walked, and his requisitions were as small\nas he could possibly get along with.\nIn Conservative districts the road\nsuperintendent was the nominee of the\nConservative member, and his duty\nwas to see that the Conservative\nmachine was properly running and ln\ngood order. It was not tbat way in\nthe Newcastle district.\n(As 6 o'clock had arrived Williams\nasked If he could adjourn the debate\nuntil 8 o'clock.McBride raised no objection but said lt was an extraordinary\ndeparture from customary proceedure,\nto which statement Parker Williams\ndid not agree.)\n8 p. m. (The flrst night session).\nMiller's Act to amend the Legal Professions Act passed tbe committee\nstage, and the Introducer moved that\nthe report be adopted. Parker William*\nobjected, and the Bill was held up, -\nParker Williams then continued his\ncriticism of the government method of\napportioning the estimates. He said\nhis afternoon's duty was not a pleasant\none, but it had to be done. He had\nalways made a passably good hired\nman, and his view of his position- in\nthe House was that it was the position\nof a hired man to tbe people of tbe\nNewcastle district and lt was not from\nany personal motive that he had stirred\nup that evil-smelling mess, but because\nhe looked upon It as the only thing\nto perform his duty to the people\nhe represented. The present order\nof business had been handed down\nfrom .past ages in an historical\nprocess. It arose from the time when\nthe King, running out of money, had to\ncall parliament together and ask for lt\nParliament would tell the King what\nthey thought of blm, and give him the\nmoney. In the same way, today they\nwere entitled to tell. the government\nwhat they thought of them before passing the Estimates. It was the only\ncourse open to them.\nNot only was a partisan spirit shown\nin the apportionment of the Estimates,\nbut Conservative members had control of everything in the shape of employment In their districts. Government agents, assessors, game wardens,\nroad foremen, all kinds of Jobs were\ndealt out to people who were made\nuseful at election time for party purposes. The Conservative party bad a\nhungry horde of heelers useful for any\npurpose, and had now pretty well built\nup a machine, and in addition had \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\npress always ready to run McBride's\nphoto every two months and vilify any\none who ventured a criticism of him or\nhis institutions. The Conservative\nmajority could not be broken up too\nsoon. The machine extended into\nevery hole and corner in the Province,\nand the noise It made went back to\neastern Canada, and some people there\nthought British Columbia had a statesman. A machine was being built up\nwhich it would cost .something to\nbreak down, and in it was tbe only\nfield In which McBride had shown any\nability. Notwithstanding the existence\nof that nearly Invincible machine, with\nall the leverage and advantage lt gave\nthem, the Conservative party waa\nafraid to face a fair and square election In British Columbia. The bye-election In Pernie was like a case of sheep-\nBteallng, and If an unknown candidate\nhad come forward at the last moment\nIt would have thrown the whole\nachlne out of gear and prevented the\ngovernment carrying on the election\nat the time It did. The polling day waa\nfixed to occur on the day following the\nnominations to prevent an expression\nof opinion by the electors, and that was\na fair indication of the courage of tie\nparty, In spite of their machine. The\nsame could be said of the Yale bye-\nelectlon. No notice was given of the\nIntentions of the government until\nevery one In the machine was ready to\nJump Into position, and at the last\nmoment, when all the Information required was in the hands of the government party, the election was thrown\non the hands of the people. The op-\n(Continued on Page 4)\nPropaganda Meeting\n.Speaker W. W. L FEAUX\nEmpress Theatre\nSunday, Feby. 26th. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm\nVow\nriii-miii\nif/'jillfilli\n\"~*~3s?s\nTORIES GET IT BIGHT AND LEFT.\n(Continue-) from' page 3.)\nposition was not given a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0(air chance,\ntbe machine was set to work, and the\nusual thing occurred. Lucas came\ndown to Victoria, not as the reprecen-\ntative of tbe people, but of a political\nmachine. Their whole record was\nbuilt upon tbe increased revenue, but\nthey were entitled to no more credit\nfor that than for the Increased real\nestate values ln Victoria and Vancouver. It arose from things over which\nthe government had no control. The\nclaim for credit for present conditions\nreminded him of an old Indian chief,\nwho was thought by his fellow tribesmen to be as mighty a man as the\nConservative party thought McBride,\nand to insult him was to Insult the\nwhole tribe. The chief used to get up\non a stump and pray for the sun to\nrise. To believe that any one could\ndo that made blm indispensable and\ndue care was taken of blm. The tale\nreminded him at every stage of the\nPremier (Laughter). But the old chief\nbecame sick, and the tribe were in\nawful trouble, thinking they had seen\ntbe last ot the sun, but when it came\nup as usual lt dawned on the tribe\ntbat lt had not depended on the old\nchief at all. All that could be applied\nto McBride. (Laughter.)\nThere seemed to be no limit to the\nmachine policy. The government still\nhad not sufficient support, and when\nit waa possible to get more they would\ndo so. They would never get any complaint from him (Williams) if he was\nbeaten in fair tight, but no one in that\nHouse could do any damage to htm ln\nLadysmith.\nTho Conservative party got very enthusiastic over British institutions, and\ncould show a good type of patriotism\nas Dr. Johnson ever knew. An official\nopposition had certain functions to fulfill ln tbe line of criticism, and as a\nkind ot check on the government The\ngovernment did not seem to like the\npresent opposition, but wanted it to be\nas docile and meek as their 39 supporters, who s.-.t still, and never allowed the sound of their voices to be heard\nin the chamber.\nWhile every job from rat catcher up\nand down was in the hands of a Conservative member, with opposition\nmembers it was different. He (Williams) could only learn by gossip and\nrumor (and he was usually very well\ninformed) as to what was doing, and\nby a process of deduction he could\nusually flnd out what the government\nwas up to in important matters. A\nfew years ago they had removed from\nLadysmlth a government Institution of\nsome value, but he did not know\nenough then to look for any underhand,\nsneaking moves, and had been given\nabsolutely no opportunity to protest.\nThey had a right to remove any institution in the interests of economy, but\nin the name of common justice, if they\nhad any respect for the people tbey\nshould give them a chance to be heard.\nThey did not do so.\nA road superintendent had been appointed in the Newcastle district. He\nwas a decent, upright,, and straight fellow, but that did not alter the fact that\nbe (Williams) had some right to be\nheard when appointments were to be\nmade. He had heard of it by reading\nthe local paper. Was that method used\nwith Conservative members? How did\nthe Minister of Works (Taylor) reconcile those actions with his oath of\nofflce, to act Impartially towards all\ndistricts in the discbarge of bis duty?\nHe had no complaint to make as to Mr.\nWoods, but only as to the method of\nthe appointment. Before the constituency became Socialist they had two\nroad foremen, then It was reduced to\none, and Anally he was taken away too,\nand they had to get along without one\nat all.\nTbere had been rumors of the provincial policeman being removed from\nLadysmith, and he (Williams) went to\nthe Premier about it, and was told that\nhe would not be moved. Within two\nweeks that policeman was moved up to\nSouth Wellington. In a Tory distiict\nthe policeman was under the thumb of\nthe member. It was a question If either\nthe Premier or the Attorney General\nknew the real reason for that removal.\nHe (Williams) knew it, but would only\ntell it to the Premier privately.\nAs the representative of Newcastle\ndistrict he insisted that he had a\nright to know what was going to be\ndone in the district. The fact of shifting the policeman had placed him\n(Williams) in the position of a common liar. He did not relish that position at all. If the Premier bad wished\nto discredit him he could not have done\nIt any more effectually than to let him\ngo among his constituents and tell\ntbem that the policeman was going to\nstay, and then make events disprove\nhis statement.\nHe had another Instance of the same\nmachine policy. He had gone to the\nDepartment of Works and said that he\nhad heard a rumor that there was to\nhe a new road superintendent, and\nTaylor admitted that there had been\nsome talk along that line, and If he\n(Wlliams) was not badly mistaken,\nhad said he would consult him In the\nmatter. That was 10 days since. Now\nthe first thing he knew the appointment was announced in that day's\nissue of tite Nilnaimd Herald, the first\nintimation he got from any quarter.\nWhere wis tbe justice of reducing\nmembers to get information in that\nway when tbey sat in opposition? He\n(Williams) did not want the power of\nmaking these appointments. He would\nnot be a \"safe\" man for that. One\nSocialist would look as good to him as\n20 Couservatives. But Conservative\nmembers made their appointments and\nopposition members heard of them\nthrough the press. In Department matters the government should rise above\npolitics. The new road superintendent\nwas an upright and safe man, but while\nthe people of Newcastle brought their\ncomplaints to him (Williams) he insisted that the government take notice\nof him. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nWhere was the consistency of the\ntwo methods of making appointments?\nMany other Instances could be quoted,\nand everywhere tended in the same\ndirection with the great Tory party.\nEven the ministers of the Crown stooped to the meanest, dirtiest, party poll-\ntics.\nThe Speaker: Order, order.\nParked Williams. The language was\nstrong, but tbe facts were evil-smelling and stronger than any decent man\ncared to go up' against. The Tory party\nand the administration should always\nconfine themselves to decent methods.\nHe would say that he had never seen\nany politics in the administration of\nthe Provincial Secretary's Department,\nand he (Williams) was afraid that that\nlittle fact lent a sanction to the whole\noperation of the party machine. He\ncould say nothing more painful than\nthat He (the Prov. Sec.) rose above\nthe standard set by the Premier himself.\nWhatever the effect of his attack\nmight be, he (Williams) had endeavored to do his duty by his district by\npointing out the way things were done.\nHe believed that the sense of justice\nwas sufficiently strong In ordinary\npeople, and If the people of the Okanagan or any other dlstrl\"' were aware of\nwhat waa going on, they would give\nas emphatic a condemnation of the\nmethods of the Conservative government. That was his conception of Conservative workingmen, in spite of the\nPremier's reference to a remark he\n(Williams) had made during the afternoon.\nThe member for Newcastle resumed\nhis seat in a silence that was almost\noppressive.\nThe House then went into committee\nof supply, and during the sitting Parker\nWilliams protested at the manner in\nwhich the votes were being rushed\nthrough. The different items, that ln\nformer years were voted separately,\nwere now being voted in groups, and\ntbe members not having had any notice\nof the change were not prepared to\nunderstand what was being done.\nThe protest was ineffectual anjl the\nprocess continued. There is dissatisfaction even among the Conservative\nrank and file, but they never venture to\nkick at anything.\nFriday, Feb. 17., 2 p. m.\nThe House went into committee of\nsupply and Hawthornthwaite objected\nto some Items in the miscellaneous\nbill of expenses. He took exception\nto tbe vote for $500 for the Strathcona\nSeamen's & Loggers' Institute, Vancouver, and contributions to other charitable asociations, and refused to be\nsatisfied with the Premier's explanation. He objected to the provincial\nfunds being granted to mere pettifogging charities run by a lot of sanctimonious busybodies, little, petty,\nswindling charity organizations, that\nunder a sane system would not be\nnecessary, who went about in a superior way distributing tracts to men\nwhose unfortunate position was due\nto the deplorable conditions of modern\nsociety.\nTlsdall (Vancouver) defended the\norganizations which were doing a\nmuch appreciated work.\nHawthornthwaite replied that both\nthe Premier's and Tlsdall's remarks\nwere ln the nature of broad generalities. If money wbb to be given away\nIn that manner, why not give sffime of\ntbe members of the Legislature, who\ncertainly needed looking after as much\nas anyone else. By the present system\nor production the House was actually\nrobbing those men of the wealth created by their labor, and the grants to\ncharitable organizations were only as a\nsalve to conscience.\nTisdall objected that the loggers of\nBritish Columbia are not by any\nmeans robbed, but, on the contrary,\na well paid class receiving a just\nequivalent for their labor.\nHawthornthwaite admitted that the\nlogger In British Columbia received\nthe market value of his labor-power,\nbut denied that the money was a just\nequivalent of the value of this labor's\nproduction, out of which the wealth\nof the capitalist class was built up.\nSociety recognized the fact and at intervals was wont to hand out as\ncharity such grants as these, and lay\nthe unction to its soul that It was doing a most worthy and benevolent\nthing. At the same time it went on\nin its uncivilized course, building\nDreadnoughts for the purpose of\nwholesale murder. For his part he\nwould be glad to see everyone of them\nsunk today\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the fools that went\nout ln them. The Canadian navy was\nTHE Wfeffikk CLARIQR VANCftUVim BRittBH MUM6U-\nOB**************-*******************-*\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\n---*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *- - - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0in ., I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u0094-\u00E2\u0080\u0094.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\t\n-*\"-\"*-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'ii nil Mil\nSATURDAY, r-IMUArtV Mth, .iii.\nout practicing at Esquimau that very\nmorning, in order thai the men engaged upon it might become the more\nproficient in the gentle art of slaughtering their fellowmen. The loggers\nmight get the-full market value of\ntheir labor-power, but they did not get,\nunder the present system of production, the full actual value of the wealth\nthey created. These men were forced\nto go into the wild places of the Province and live their lives ln shacks\nunder the most horrible conditions. He\nwas glad to see that the Government\nwas taking a move to improve the existing conditions In the camps, but he\ncould assure the House that the Inspectors would have to have pretty\nstrong noses ln order to successfully\nperform their duty. After his hard life\nin the woods, sick and disgusted the\nlogger would come down to the city\nof Vancouver with its traps of vice and\ninfamy, (countenanced and supported\nby the Vancouver member,) and would\nfall a victim. And then the unfortunate logger would be herded into one of\nthese charity Institutions and the parsons and their kind would pray and\nslobber over him. and sun\" themselves\nin their own righteousness. This vote\nwaB merely a doling out of charity as\na slave to conscience, and he thought\nshould be struck out.\nThe vote carried.\nParker Williams, referring to the\nvote of $13,500 for game protection,\nsaid lt was developing Into graft pure\nand simple. There were now a number\nof people gallivanting over the country\nas professional game wardens ln an\nattempt to show that they were necessary in the scheme of affairs. The\npractice was to recommend a closed\nseason for grouse or pheasants in one\ndistrict, and an open season for deer,\nand reverse the application to another\ndistrict. Naturally, tbe game that was\nnot protected would suffer, a shortage\nwould be reported, and another shuffle\nwould take place, providing more work\nfor the game wardens.\nHawthornthwaite asked for an explanation of the vote of $10,000 for the\nexploration and development of Strathcona Park.\nRoss (Minister of Lands) said it was\nall to be for the purpose stated.\nHawthornthwaite wanted to know\nwhere was the item of expense covering the recent exploring expedition?\nThere were rumors that an investigation would do no harm. He had heard\nthat 50 or 60 men were employed, with\na fleet of canoes, and 23 tons of refreshments, solid and liquid. He did\nnot know it that was so or not. If it\nwas correct he could readily see how\nthe minister of Finance, (Price-Ellison)\nwas able to see two rainbows at once,\n(laughter) In fact it was a wonder he\ndid not see four! (Laughter). The\nMinister of Finance had drawn a very\ninteresting picture of the dangers of\nthe trip, but surely they did not\nconsume 23 tons of provisions!\nPrlce-Elllson replied that they did\nnot have any too much, in fact they\ncould have eaten more. (Laughter).\nHawthornthwaite. I have nothing\nmore to say (Renewed laughter).\nAgent General's Office in London.\nSome strange items of expense.\nHawthornthwaite asked why the\nvote for the above had been increased\nby $15,000?\nMcBride said it was necessitated by\nthe tremendous development in tbe\nprovince resulting in an Increase in\nthe business of the offlce in London.\nThe Premier then devoted himself at\nsome length to an eulogy of the Agent-\nGeneral.\nHawthornthwaite replied that he was\nvery pleased to hear the lengthy explanation of li. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0> l.'remier, but why on\nearth should the gentleman not be popular? He noted that Mr. Turner had\ndonated money out of the public funds\nto the Pilgrims' Club, Dr. Barnardo'B\nHomes, Tariff Reform League, Church\nLads' Brigade, National Hospital for\nthe Paralysed, Royal Colonial Institute, the Boy Scouts, debating societies, etc., etc. Why even the member\nfor Newcastle would be popular If he\ngave money away in that fashion!\n(laughter) As to the Church Lads'\nBrigade and the Boy Scouts, Socialists often objected to the employment\nof children as a disgrace to any\ncountry, but now the master class, not\nsatisfied with that were going to teach\nthe children the art of war, how to\ndestroy and stab the workers of other\nnations. Baden Powell, that prince of\nmurderers recommended that those\nkids be taken to slaughter houses so\nthat they would get used to the sight\nand smell of blood. One South African\nhero had read of that statement, which\nhe had made before, and had written to\nhim and denied it, calling him a liar,\nbut he was 500 miles from him\n(Hawthornthwaite) at the time\n(Laughter). He had replied by quoting from Baden Powells own book.\nMothers did not want their children to\nbe taught the art of murder, but the\nBoy Scouts were organized for that\npurpose, and if his remarks were given\npublicity by the capitalist press they\nwould withdraw their boys from it.\nThe movement was going on all over\nthe world. The average working man\ncould not much longer be depended on,\nbeing no longer attracted by military\nglory, and so the idea now was to get\nthem young, 10, 11, or 12 years of age,\nfor the purpose of inculcating military\ntraining and glory into their young\nminds. That had been denied at first,\nbut It was now universally fe*cognizda\nas a fact. He (the Speaker) Wanted an\nopportunity to put that knowledge\nbefore the country. Parents did not\nwapt their children to. be taught such\nthings, but Baden Powell was the hero\nwho boasted of cutting down tents over\nsleeping Boers and stabbing the half-\nawakened men through the canvas, and\nthat sort of thing was being instilled\nInto the minds of those boys. Many\npeople had no conception of what was\nbeing put Into those children's minds,\nand when they did understand what\nwas being done the better It would be\nfor the children and their parents, and\nmankind.\nThe Agent General was not content,\nand went farther ln handing out the\npublic funds. Those funds were being\nused to help the master class in the\nclass struggle.\nThe Socialists did not advocate the\nclass struggle, but pointed to the fact\nthat it existed, and was being waged\nbetween the wealthy, ln possession,\nand the workers, dispossessed, of the\nmeans of life. The capitalist class\nfound Its political expression In two\nparties, known as Liberal and Conservative. McBride had recently admitted that the difference was purely\na sentimental one, and that was the\ncase, there was no real difference between them. They lined up together to\nprevent the workers obtaining possession of the means of life. In the public\naccounts he found that the funds of the\npeople of British Columbia were being\nused to aid the master class ln that\nstruggle. Those funds were received\nfrom the workers and unfortunate\nfarmers, and were being used to help\ntheir enemies. There was an Anti-\nSocialist League ln Great Britain,\nwhich institution was receiving aid\nand assistance from the master class,\nmore particularly from the Conservative party there, and now the Agent-\nGeneral of British Columbia was subscribing out of the public funds of the\nprovince to that body\u00E2\u0080\u0094funds which\nhad been provided by Conservatives\nand Socialists alike\u00E2\u0080\u0094without a vestige\nof autboi ity to do any such thing. The\nLeague had recently sent some scabs\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nstokers\u00E2\u0080\u0094to South Wales to assist in\nbreaking the miners strike, and the\nfunds of the Province were being used\nfor that. He could only hope that they\nwould get a good stoking after death\nin the region some thought existed\nbeyond the grave\u00E2\u0080\u0094though he himself\nhad no such belief. If there was a hell,\nhe hoped they would get It. The moment the Agent-General began to use\nprovincial funds to boost the Anti-\nSocialist League it was time to take a\nhand. Nine out of ten men in that\nHouse would fill the position with\nequal ability. Mr. Turner was only an\nold business man, who had got the\nofflce and was trying to impress the\npeople with his ability in order to\nincrease his salary. He (Hawthornthwaite) moved that the whole Item be\nstruck out, and protested against retaining Mr. Turner who was utterly unfit for the position and should be discharged.\nMcPhlllips defended the Boy Scouts.\nThe fundamental principle was that no\nmilitary instruction should be imparted, and no military officer was entitled to be connected with it Somewhat\nInconsistently, the member for the\nIslands proceeded to say that the Boy\nScouts would be better able to take\npart in the defense of their country\nwhen needed by reason of their training and with the whole world armed It\nwould be an insane policy to remain\nquiet and not inculcate a knowledge\nof military training. As for the contribution to the Anti-Socialist League, it\nwas not in any way Inimical to the\nBtate. Hawthornthwaite had declared\nthe policy of the Socialist party to be\nthe dethronement of the state. He\n(McPhlllips) could not sec any harm In\naiding an organization of reputable\ncitizens who held that the Socialist\nparty was almipg at the dethronement\nof monarchical and governmental Institutions in the Empire, in reply to\na question from Hawthornthwaite as\nto what he would think If a Liberal\nPLATFORM\nSocialist Party of Canada\nWe, tbe Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm\nour allegiance to and support of the principles and programme of the\nrevolutionary working class.\nLabor produces all wealth, and to the producers It should belong.\nThe present economic system ls based upon capitalist ownership of the\nmeans ot production, consequently all tbe products of labor belong to\nthe capitalist class. The capitalist ls therefore master; the worker a\nstar*.\nSo long as the capitalist class remains in. possession of the reins of\ngovernment all the powers of the State will be used to protect and\ndefend their property rights in the means of wealth production and\ntheir control of the product of labor.\nThe capitalist system gives .to the capitalist an ever-swelling\nstream of profits, and to the worker an ever-increasing measure of\nmisery and degradation.\nThe Interest of the working class lies In the direction of setting\nItself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage\nsystem, under which is cloaked the robbery of the working class at the\npoint of production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production Into collective or working-class property. .\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and\nthe worker is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of the\nreins of government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure it by\npolitical action. This is the class struggle.\nTherefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner\nof the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the\npublic powers for the purpose of setting up and.enforcing the economic\nprogramme of the working class, as follows:\n1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist prop\nerty in the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories,\nmills, railroads, etc.) into the collective property of the working class.\n2. The democratic organization and management of Industry by\nthe workers.\n3. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for\nuse instead of production for profit\nThe Socialist Party- when in offlce shall always and everywhere\nuntil tbe present system is abolished, make the answer to this question\nIts guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the interests\nof the working class and aid the workers In their class struggle against\ncapitalism? If it will, the Socialist Party ls for it; If It will not, the\nSocialist Partv is absolutely opposed to It\nIn accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges Itself\nto conduct all the public affairs placed in Its hands ln such a manner\nas to promote the interests of the working class alone.\nhave been made In 1909 to give the\nBoy Scouts one or two weeks training In camp at Bisley, and other suitable places. In September the War\nOfflce issued instructions that a number of Boy Scouts should take part in\nthe army manoeuvers, and Boy Scouts\nhave come to be recognized as a definite\n(though unofficial) branch of the service, as a training ground for the regular forces.\"\nBaden Powell's book of instructions\nadvised the boys to take a trip into\nthe woods, and appoint a sentry to\nwatch the camps. A watch was then\nsupposed to be stolen, and they proceeded to deal with the sentry, and\nhe (the speaker) would ask the House\nto watch the proceedings. A mock\ntrial took place, and the rest of the\nkids dug a grave; then they were to\nstring the sentry up to a tree and leave\nhim there. Baden Powell suggested\nthat it would be a splendid way to\ncollect money, to do It on a public\nplatform. The boyB were wained not\nto take up with extremes in politics.\nHe knew better than to mention the\nSocialists by name. He also pointed\nout that Great Britain was tottering to\nits doom and called on the boys to\nkeep It up. He alluded to the mass of\nmiserable unemployed as responsible\nfor their own condition, with no Ideas\nabove their beer and tobacco. Fancy\nthat overfed swine calling the unemployed a lot of drunkards!\nThe position he (the speaker) had\ntaken aB to the Boy Scouts was borne\nout and sustained. They were organized for the future slaughter of the\nworkerB, and not to fight for their\ncountry. The workingman hud no country. He would cheerfully work for\nany one, be he German or Hottentot.\n, , , Who should he be loyal to? Only to\ngovernment were in power and trMtr\Kntm \u00E2\u0080\u009E,- hlg claB8. \u00E2\u0080\u009E the mothers\nAgent-General in London used provln- of ^ proylnce these ^ .^\ncial money to oppose the Conservative\nparty, the member for the Islands replied that there was little chance of the\nLiberals getting power and anyhow\nthey were known as His Majesty's\nloyal opposition.\nHawthornthwaite replied that It was\nthe constitutional privilege of the\npeople of Great Britain to dethrone\ntheir monarchs if they wished to and\nthe Socialists would not be disloyal to\nthe people of the Empire in doing that.\nThey recognized that the \"divine rights\nof Kings\" was played out. But the\npoint was that those funds were contributed by the people for public purposes and that man was using them tor\npolitical purposes.\nAs to what McPhlllips had said about\nthe Boy Scouts, he wished to deny lt\nemphatically. Quoting from the Canadian Almanac, Sept. 4, 1909, the speaker\nthen read \"11,000 Boy Scouts were reviewed by General Baden Powell. The\nBoy Scouts (or \"General Robert's\nBoys\") form a further development of\nthe \"territorial forces\" idea, which was\ninstituted by Lord Roberts in 1908.\nCorps of Boy Scouts have been formed both from the secondary and elementary schools, and arrangements\nreported they would see the matter\nfrom a different standpoint. That old\ngentleman in London had no right to\nuse- the public funds for such a purpose. The Socialist Party was unquestionably a danger to the state,\nbut in matters of administration they\ngave their support, and the members\nknew that. But for the other function\nof suppressing and slaughtering the\nworkerB they would never receive support from the Socialist Party.\nMcBride replied at some length, and\nthen Hawthornthwaite moved to strike\nout the whole vote of $25,000. The\nmotion was defeated, and he submitted\nanother one to reduce the vote to\n$24,990.30 saying that as near as he\ncould reckon that would make up for\nthe amount contributed to the Antl-\nSociallst League. He demanded a division and the amendment was defeated on the following division.\nAyes\u00E2\u0080\u0094Williams, Hawthornthwalte-1\nNoes\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shaw, Fraser, Braden, Brewster, Manson (Skeena), Wright, Miller\nJackson, Cawley, Caven, McBride, El\nlison, McPhilllps, Shatford, Shannon\nSchofield, Behnson, Hunter, Manson\n(Dwedney), Young, Taylor, Robs, Parson, Davey\u00E2\u0080\u009424\nJ. H. 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