"de20aeea-1e44-4227-bf7f-8a77f66d852a"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-03-31"@en . "1912-03-02"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318828/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " WESTERN\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*-*,\nOWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA\nPUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING CLASS ALONE\nt E.BER 657\nllTIATIVE, REFERENDUM\nVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912\nSubscription Price Al HA\nPER YKAR CDliUU\nAND RECALL NONSENSE\nNostrums Concocted By Ruling Class Interests For\n, the Salvation of the Dear People.\nThe human capitalist-minded animal is as far sighted as a rule, as a\nblind man. Real foresight he seems\nto lack altogether and in Its place is\nequipped with a kind of dull intuition.\nDriven ever harder by the evolutionary forces arrayed against him, he yet\nwill cavil and boggle and catch at every straw to stay the process, It is\nnothing to him that the particular\nstraw he has grabbed Is also swim-\ni ming in the same stream, it is some-\nj thing tangible and as such gives him a\nI little comfort.\nThe current of events Is at this par-\nItlcular time almost choked with\nj straws of various kinds and brands,\nI more or lesB stupid or obnoxious\n[which make tl*.e dissemination of the\n[Socialist thought harder than ever.\nThe first in the affections of all re-\nj formers is the Referendum and Re-\nIcall; great things are expected of it;\nlit is grand, democratic; a weapon\n[which if properly wielded shall insure\nt for all humanity absolute dominance\n(of Its legislature, shall strike the\nj shakles from the limbs of labor and\nset a rejoicing world free. To the\nI Socialist however, it presents itself in\n' quite another light. A look Into the\n' matter will not therefore come amiss\nj since the idea is devoured with avidity by those who hang on the fringe\njof Marxian economics. It exerts an\n[influence over all who are either too\n| lazy or two busy to read or who have\n[not grasped the full significance of\n^Socialism. Slicker bait always finds\n[suckers a plenty\u00E2\u0080\u0094else wherefore ils\n] existence? The leaders of the U. F.\nI A. and 0. G. A. have a certain sense\n[of their economic position and stand\n[therefore quite strongly for the meas-\nlure. The small business man also feels\nIthut the Referendum is the \"hand of\nIGod on earth,\" sufficient reason surely\n[for the wage plug to look thereon\npvith suspicion. Democracy is the soul\nland marrow of the rast vanishing mid-\nIdle class; government of the people,\nIby the people for the people is their\n[ideal legislation, their last words upon\nI'law making.\nThe interests of one class are usu-\nlally opposed to that of any olher and\nlthis fact in itself should set us to work\n(sizing up the Recall and Its concomittants. Why then do we find the lead-\nlei'B of the farmers movement and the\nIsmail business men interested in this\nllssue? Why do they give time and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0money to spread the notion. The\n|largest amongst this small fry are\nsmall capitalists and these of late\nlyears have been sore oppressed by\nlegislation in the Interests or the great\ncorporations. Things have gone all\nawry, \"predatory wealth,\" aided by its\nexecutive committee (popularly\nknown as the parliament house), has\nbaten most of them up and even now\n}s on Its way lo get the rest. As this\niiany headed hydra reaches out and\nrives them all Into a corner, smilingly pondering whom shall it devour\nliext, the victims shout and clamor for\nDemocracy. \"The country ls governed\nIby an autocracy of wealth\" (strange\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0news Indeed), they yed and desperately clamor for the recall and referendum. Think how splendid It would be\nJif all those henchmen of \"trust rule\"\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0could be recalled and the parliament\nInlled with \"farmers friends.\" In pass-\nling it might be well to point out to\n(those comrades who think well of this\n(measure, that since the majority are\n[capitalist-minded our members who\n[happen to get elected could be recalled\n(about once a week.\nThe small merchants have also nothing in common with the U. F. A. and\n[o. G. A. Their interests are not Ident-\nlical. Almost every session of the gab\nhouse at Ottawa these gentlemen\nIthrough their \"retail association lobby,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0introduce a bill asking that the exemp-\nltion law be suspended. This law was\nPropaganda Meeting\nTHE ELECTRIC\nTHEATRE\nSunday, Men. 3,8 p.m.\nSpeakers:\nJ. W. WILKINSON\nJ. H. MoVety, Chairman\nIntroduced to keep the claws of the little merchant from throttling the goose\nthat laid the golden egg. In their\nhaste to get \"theirs\" the retailers used\nto send the sheriff out and take all the\n\"soil slave\" had, even his seed wheat.\nThe masters could not tolerate this for\none moment as it had a tendency to\n\"ruin the country.\" Where would that\n8 per cent, interest be If the slaves\nwere forced off the land? Capital invested In mortgages is invested of\ncourse not in land, but in the hide of\nthe slave toiling thereon. Where would\nthat market (so carefully manufactur-\ned by the Immigration laws) go to if\nthe \"farmer\" be not left with his tools? j\nHence the exemption law, exempting\ncertain necessary tools, machines,\nhorses, etc., from seizure for debt. An\nodious thing and unjust; you may well\nimagine, in the eyes of the small merchant.\nThink how grand it would be if the\nretailers could Initiate a number of]\nlaws in their own favor snd the farmers followed with something for themselves. Also the great wage class\nwould be up and doing. The farmer;\nls no friend of the Retailer, both regard each other as robbers. The farmers get together to make the local\nmerchants bring down his prices, they\neven start co-operative stores in competition to him. Robbery as a consumer is the slogan of both. The railways, Ihe factories and the mills could\nhe made to bow to the \"sovereign people.\" The retailers could set back the\nclock and put such legal fetters upon\nT. Ealon and company as would crip\npie them forever\u00E2\u0080\u0094maybe. To this the\nfarmers of course would object stren-\nously. The farmers would make the\nTerminal Elevators quit mixing grades\nof wheat. It is not feir or just that\nthe poor consumer In England be defrauded so.\" That the wheat after Ihe\nfarmer has sold it belongs to him nn\nmore and just what the buyer likes\nto do with it Is none of his concern\nnever occurs to the farmer. \"Our''\nwheat must not be mixed and Canada's\nreputation damaged thereby; the\nsacred rights of property are only visible to the soil slave at a socialist\nmeeting. They could bring down the\n100 per cent, profit Ihe Massey Harris\nare supposed to be making, they could\nestablish a \"fair\" profit. Since they\nhave \"proved tint, ihe value of a bin\nder is $411.00 it would be an easy mat\nler to reduce the profits of the bi'\nCapitalists through R. R. Legtslattm\nto a \"reasonable return.\" AVhut couli*\nIhey not do In the inlere:ts of justice \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThey could tench the s'nall mercbanl\nthnt fuch a tiling as \"8 profits\" (whal\never is meant, by the term) cannot be\nextracted from his customers wllh impunity.\nOregon Is pointed out often enough\nas an example of Democracy triumphant, but there Is no evidence to show\nI that the condition of the slave has Im-\nIproved any or thut the Capitalists are\nany less musters than they were before the coming of the R. R. A study\nof the working of the Referendum in\n[that state shows the hand of small\nbusiness ln all that goeB on. Any attempt to enlarge the salaries of state\n[officials is met with stern refusal from\nthe people. Innocent babes; the\n[cheaper the Capitalists get the state\n[adminstered, the more they have for\nother purposes. The wage slaves who\nJ vote against graft are a joke und are\nwasting good time, It Is the small capitalist who Is most anxious to suppress\nthis \"horrid graft\" because helping to\npay the expenses of the state he feels\nthe burden more than the larger man.\nThe larger men can pay to corruption\nfunds and never feel the strain, the\nsame action upon the small man'B part\nstrains his resources to breaking point.\nThe big man always proves the winner,\n, However the Referendum has a slgnlfl-\nj cance which must not be overlooked.\n! Whenever a master class grows strong\nenough to become conscious of its position, at the same moment It realizes\nIts class antagonist, the slave class\nand the gage of battle is down between them. The masters struggle to\nretain the condition of affairs just as\nthey are, they throw the whole weight\nof their economic power Into Ihe scaleH\nto stem If they can the ever-changing\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094ever moving course of social evolution. Where physical force can be used\nwith safety it is freely Indulged ln and\nWORKERS ARE ROBBED\nAS WEALTH PRODUCERS\nMiddle Class Theory of the \"Robbery of the Consumer\" Ruthlessly Exposed.\nTO SECRETARIES OF B. C. LOCALS.\nComrades:\nYour Provincial Executive Committee wishes to call your attention to\nthe probability of a Provincial election within the next few weeks and\ndesires to urge upon you the necessity\nof taking immediate steps toward participating in such election. Whereever\nit is possible a candidate Bhould be\nput in the Held and an energetic cam-\npa! tn carried on in behalf of our movement.\n\"Where more than one local exists\nin a Riding, your attention is called\nto Art. II, Sec. 3, of the Constitution,\n'or guidance in the matter of the nomination of candidates and the conducting of a campaign.\nAs the time is short your committee\nurges the necessity of laying this matter before your respective locals at the\nearliest possible moment.\nFraternally yours.\nThe B. C. Provincial Executive Committee.\nPer E. T. Kingsley,\nSecretary.\nLater\u00E2\u0080\u0094The election will be held on\nMarch 28. Nominations to be made on\nMarch 12.\nN'ow get busy.\nA BRUTAL SYSTEM\nA cowardly outrage has just taken\nplace In Lawrence, Mass., where 25,-\n000 textile mill workers composed of\nmen, women, and children, are on\nstrike against the reduction of wages.\nOn Saturday, Feb. 24th, 50 children\nescorted by their parents were waiting\nfor a train that was to take the children lo Boston where Socialists and\nunionists were going to take care of\n:hem until the strike was over. Just\nbefore the arrival of the train, armed\ning wealthy and knowing that they\nhad the powers of government behind\nthem decided to cut the wages as soon\nas the new reform bill for a 54-hour\nweek became law. Workingmen can\nyou afford to sit down and patiently\nwait for the abolition of the present\nsystem? What Is happening In the\nStates today will happen in Canada\nand in every country in a few short\nyears. Right now is the time to get\nbusy. Right now is the time for every\nThere are quite a number of per-,\nfectly sincere individuals who are Socialists as far as they know how to be,\nfonC-orkes. ,tCio . ,u c aan aheb '\nbut are not really Socialists because\nthey do not know enough to be so, who\nspeak of the workers as being \"robbed\nat both ends,\" that is, as producers and\nconsumers. Any well-posted Socialist\nknows that the workers are robbed as\nproducers and as nothing else, that\nthey cannot be robbed as consumers.\nIts like this: The function of the working class ls to produce, that Is their\nONLY function.\nThe working class consume, it is\ntrue, but only because they must consume so much coarse food and shoddy\nclothing to keep them more or less fit\nas producers. The consumption by the\nworking class is merely incidental.\nThe function of the owning, the master\nclass, is to consume. That is their\nonly function.\nThe fact that a few individuals be\nlonging to the capitalist class, do a\nlittle useful work when they feel like\nit, and that one here and there in the\nworking class owns a few shares of\nstock, out of which they draw a small\namount of profit does not affect this\nin the slightest degree, for it is not an\nindividual but a class question. There\nare classes in Society. Human beings,\nas has been shown in a previous article, can only be classed on property\nlines.\nThe function of the propertyless\nclass is to produce, the function of\nthe propertied class to consume; the\nworking class suffers, the masterclass enjoyB, the working class works\nor looks for work (the hardest work\nof all, I know from experience), because they are forced to do so; the\nmaster class, as such, do no work,\n(except work the workers), because\nthere is a class which is willing to\n\"keep them.\" What is meant by \"keep\nthem?\" What else, but to provide\nthem with things to consume? They\neat good food\u00E2\u0080\u0094consumers\u00E2\u0080\u0094the working class provides it\u00E2\u0080\u0094producers.\nThey wear good clothing\u00E2\u0080\u0094consumers,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the working class provides It\u00E2\u0080\u0094producers.\nThey live in fine dwellings, they\nhave steum yachts, motor cars, jewelry, in short, the best of everything\nand plenty of it\u00E2\u0080\u0094consumers,\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nworking class\u00E2\u0080\u0094provides ALL these\nthings\u00E2\u0080\u0094producers. Oh! its simple, if\nyou'll only come down to earth and\nlook at things as they really are, cast\nNow we will imagine him going to\nmarket on Saturday night with his\nwife to purchase necessities.\nWe will also imagine there has been\na period of \"stability\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094that prices\nhave not gone up or down noticeably\nfor some time. We will Imagine the\ncouple purchasing a pound of butter,\nalso that butter has been twenty-live\ncents a pound for so long that they\nregard that as a \"fair\" price, just as\nthey do the fifteen dollars wages as\n\"fair.\"\nBut, this Saturday night, the polite\nclerk Informs them that butter has\n\"gone up\" to thirty cents, and our\n\"honest working man\" and his wife\ncomplain of the robbery of prices going\nup. But suppose they had been informed that butter had \"gone down,\"\nto twenty cents, would they have complained of the way the grocer was being robbed? Ah no! lt all depends who\nIb gored. But this is not where the\nworking ox is gored. He is gored\nright where he works and nowhere\nelse. The working class (this cannot\nbe repeated too often) Is robbed at the\npoint of production, and nowhere else.\nThere the greater part of his produce\nls taken from him and after he has\nonce lost it he has no further concern\nwith it, he has no control over its\nprice, he has no Interest in the gamble\nwhich takes place ln the market, except to study and understand lt so\nthat he will know what is really the\nmatter, where and how he Is robbed\nand how to stop It.\nIt is a hopeful sign that the working class is not being carried away by\nthe present outcry against high prices,\na cry that is mostly confined to the\ndying middle class.\nVaguely, instinctively, the workers\nas a whole, are trying to maintain or\nraise their wages.\nVaguely, the workers realize that\n\"while they have no control over the\nprices they must pay for commodities,\nthat they have no power as buyers, as\nsellers of what they posBes, they' have\nyet a little power, and are using that\nlittle power in the way they know\nbest to get as high a price for their\nlabour power as they can.\nThe fact that this is so is a proof\nthat they are ripe for our propaganda.\nIn the writers opinion the workers are\nmore ready to receive the message\nthan the various Socialist parties are\nto give it through their propagandists\nand papers. After all, our message Is\na plain and simple one. Let ub cut\npolice und militiamen appeared on the I Local to start a systematic dlstribu-\nscene With a brute named Marshal \"on of Clarions and leaflets. What is\nUullivan in charge who immediately the Clarion for? Is it simply for Soc-\ntave the command to disperse thel'allsts to read? No, this paper should\ncrowd. The children were torn away I be in everybody's house in your town\nfrom their parents whom you can eas-1 or city. Its cheap enough. You can\nUy guess, resisted. This seemed to get one hundred copies for a dollar\nbe what the cowardly police and ml-1 and surely there Is enough of you to\nlltla wnnted for they Immediately ! club together and get a bundle for dls-\nstarted to beat Insensible the men and | trlbtltion every week. You can also\nwomen and scattered them in all dl- make it advertise your meetings and\n(Continued on Page Four)\nreci.ons and eventually jailed, 10 children, 8 women and 5 men. Ever since\nthe strike began some of the most\nbrutal deedB that only human beings\nare capable of doing have been done\nby the police and militia at the Instigation of men (?) higher up. Young\ngirls have been mercilessly beaten and\nthrown Into jail; women and even\nchildren have been killed in this strike\nand hundreds have been injured.\nThese workers are not defending their\nhomes for they have none. The wages\nreceived are so small thst two and\nthree families occupy one room between them; grown up sons and\ndaughters sleep ln the same room;\nsingle men and women are forced to\noccupy the same room. Can you expect anything else when rents are\nhigher than wages; when the cost of\nliving is so high that workers receiving $100 a month complain. Where\nls the moral and reform league, the\nchurches and the good christian people we hear so much about? Can they\nremedy this?\nOn Feb. 17th, one hundred and\ntwenty-five children were sent to New\nYork to be cared for until the strike\nwas over and this last attempt which\nwould have helped the strikers to resist the bosses a little longer was frustrated. There are several mills In\nLawrence and one of them Is the biggest in the world and the bosses lie-\nLocals by buying a rubber stamp and\nstamping everyone. There are hundreds of workers that only need the\nopportunity to read something aboul\nthe present system that will start\nthem thinking right away. If tliere is\na man (?) amongst you who is too\nproud or afraid to distribute these\npapers the Socialist Party is no place\nfor him and he should be kicked out.\nIf you are not a member of the party\nyou are no more a socialist than a\nconservative is. There is no excuse In\neither case. As an individual you can\nbecome a member at large. You can\nget a bunddle and distribute them in\nyour districts. You can take a hand\nIn helping to abolish the present system. The striker uses the only means\nhe knows of. It is up to you to put him\naside your obsessions, stop guessing! out big words. Let us cut out learn-\nand start thinking, stop being de- ing for ihe sake of learning, or, for\nceived by the superficial appearance j the sake of showing how much wo\nof things, and start looking for what ] know and how little the other fellow\nis underneath. I does, let us learn for the one purpose\nRobbed as consumers! Bah! Look of being efficient soldiers of the Revo-\nhere! You'll admit that we are rob-1 lution, for the purpose of being able to\nbed as producers. You'll admit that! TEACH AND TO DO. In conclusion,\nbeing so, the more we produce the\nmore we're robbed.\nWell and good, the same logic ap\nto quote the man who laught the workers in a manner no one else has ever\nequalled we must teuch them that \"In-\npiled on the other hand, if we are rob- stead of the conservative motto, 'A fail-\nbed as consumers, the more we consume the more we are robbed.\nWell, I'd like to be robbed that way.\nFurthermore, if It was bo, (which it\nis'nt), the capitalist class being the\nlargest consumers, would be robbed\nthe most. You say the producers are\nrobbed, that all the producers aro robbed. That is right. Well now. If the\nconsumers are robbed, all the consumers are robbed, and once more if you\nhold this view, you must logically contend that the capitalists are robbed.\nSome one may be saying, \"Look at\ntbe way prices are going up.\"\nAlright, but prices go down too, and\nall individuals, buying the same quantity of the same goods pay the same\nprice, as a rule, whichever class they\nbelong to. To show that anyone is\nrobbed by paying increased prices, you\nmust establish an arbitrary fair price,\nwhich has never been done, and can-\nday's work for a fair day's wages,'\nthey should Inscribe on their banner\nihe Revolutionary watchword, 'Abolition of the wages system.' \"\nWILFRED GRIBBLE.\nGems From Robert G. Ingersoll.\nwise. You cannot realize half of the not be, but, granting Its possibility,\natrocities that are going on all over1\nthe world or you would be working\nevery spare moment of your time helping to put the other fellow wise. He\nIb waiting for you. He is ready for\nSocialism, but he knows not how to\nobtain lt. He doesn't know where the\npower lies. The only thing he knows\nIb that it isn't fair, or as a Christian\nwould say \"it isn't right.\" You've got\nto show him that it is right as long\nas the present system remains, lt Is\nup to all of us to get buBy right now\nand help abolish this brutal system.\nWM. WATTS.\nand granting that if prices went up the\nbuyers would be robbed, we must also\ngrant that If the price went below the\n\"fair\" price the seller would be robbed, and, as Mr. Dooley says, \"Tliere\ny'are,\" which would be nowhere, you\nwould find yourself, like a man lost in\nthe bush, going round in a circle.\nWe will try a simple illustration of\nthis point. Let us take a man and suppose him to have been drawing fifteen\ndollars a week steadily for some time,\nso long that it is second nature for him\nto regard that amount aB \"fair\" wages\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094he is an apathetic wage slave.\nBeneath the loftiest monuments\nmay be found umbitlon's worthless\ndust, while those who lived the loftiest lives are sleeping now in unknown graves.\nThe civilized man is governed by\nbis intelligence uninfluenced by his\npassions. A savage is'controlled by\nhis passions uninfluenced by his intelligence.\nThe lives of millions are not worth\nliving because of their ignorance and\npoverty, and the lives of others are\nnot worth living on account of I heir\nwealth and selfishness. The palace\nwithout justice, without charity, Is as\nterrible as the hovel without food.\nLOCAL VANCOUVER\nPropaganda\nMEETING\nEvery Sunday Evening\nEmpress Theatre PAGE TWO\nTHE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nSATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912.\nHE WESTERN CLARION\nPublished every Saturday by the Socialist Purty of Canuda at the office of\nthe Western Clarion, Labor Temple,\nDunsmulr St., Vancouver, B. C.\nPOST OFFICE ADDRESS,\nTEMPLE, DUNSMUIB ST.\nLABOR\n81IISCBIPTION.\n11.00 per Yeur, 50 cents for Six Month-,,\n25 con In for Three Montlu.\nStrictly In AdVHilce.\nBundles of 5 or more copies for a period\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2f not lass than throe months, at the rate\nef one cent per copy por Issue.\nAdvertising rates on application.\nIf you recolve this paper, lt Is paid for.\nonly asks a hearing.\" It might be better said \"she demands a hearing. He\nwho recognizes her mandate and goes\nforth to obey it must flrst grasp the\ntruth he would promulgate. The economic groundwork upon which is\nbased the philosophy or doctrine of\nSocialism is not a matter to be mastered overnight. It involves and necessitates close and prolonged study\neven with men of the keenest intellect. He who would accept the mandate of Truth and go forth to do effective work, ln this glorious cause, by\nvoice, by pen, or by official connection with the political and economic\nactivities of his country and time,\nmust be possessed of this knowledge.\nIt alone is the sheet anchor that will\nhold the revolutionary movement head\non to the storm of reaction that will\nsweep against it. With that knowledge\nhe can do valued work In any Socialist Party in existence. Without it he\ncan split hairs at the fireside or upon\n. the street corner and start new parties\nrco-WMch the label on your paper. If. , . . .. \u00E2\u0080\u009E m .. ... .\n030 this number is on it, your sub- galore, but the cause of Truth will be\nIn making remittance by cheque, exchange must be added. Address all communications and make all money orders\npayable to\nTHE WESTERN CLARION\nLabor Temple, Dunsmulr St., Vancouver,\nB. C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2crlption expires the next issue.\nSATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912.\nPATHETICALLY HUMOROUS.\nIt has been said that, \"hell hath no\nfury like a woman scorned.\" This\nmay, or may not be true. Having\nneither scorned a woman nor taken a\ncensus of hell we are in no position\nto either affirm or deny. Be that as it\nmay, however, we are quite sure that\nearth has no more pathetic a figure\nin all of its creations than that of\ngenius unrecognized and talent unappreciated.\nThere may be a lot of talent in this\nworld that has not as yet, commanded\nthe appreciation of the multitude.\nThere may be genius galore that has\nso far escaped the notice of the passing throng. In so far as such talents\nor genius is attached to the person of\nindividuals who are unconscious of\nsuch possession, such individuals do\nnot come within the scope of these\nlines. However much the world may\nbe losing through non-recognition of\nsuch genius there is nothing even BUg-\ngestive of pathos ln the position of the\naforesaid Individuals. Being unconscious of possessing either talent or\ngenius their souls cannot be harried\nwith sorrow because of a lack of appreciation of their intellectual virtues,\nupon tbe part of the unthinking multitude.\nBut to those who know that they\npossess talents far above the average\nand who freely offer to sacrifice it for\nthe salvation of mankind, only to meet\nwith a stubborn lack of appreciation\nof both talent and sacrifice, our sympathy goes out in a compassion that\nwe hope will prove a solace and a soporific to their harried souls.\nWho should be better qualified to\nset a value upon the talent of an individual than the individual himself?\nEven though but recently exiled from\nthe protecting influence of a loving\nmother's apron strings ls that any\nvalid reason why a great light should\nno further advanced, nor the coveted\nfame any nearer of realization.\nHowever pathetic a figure the possessors of unappreciated talent and\nability may become, there is at least\none saving feature of their case. Like\nDon Quixote, they are all so sincerely\nearnest in their cavorting after recognition and appreciation of the talents\nthey possess only in their own ludicrous imagination, that the humor of\nthe situation is almost sufficient to\noffset the pathos of it. It is almost\npathetically funny, if such a thing Is\npossible.\nTHE COMING ELECTION.\nTO WHOM IT- MAY CONCERN.\nThis offlce has been favored with a\ncommunication recently from somewhere up in the Kootenay's, charging\nub with expending energy in attacking Cotton's Weekly that could be\nbetter expended in some other way.\nThis complaint was droned out at considerable length and some rather\nstartling predictions were suggested\nas to the awful and wide-spread consequences our folly was likely to lead\nto.\nWe beg to inform the writer of the\ncommunication that we have expended\nho time or energy in attacking Cotton's Weekly or any other sheet. If\nCotton sees fit to run a paper and people in Kootenay or elsewhere feel called upon to push Its circulation, or ln\nany other manner assist in its publication, neither Cotton nor his assistants require our permission so to do.\nWhat Cotton may publish or his readers may read is none of our business.\nWe are commissioned by the Dominion Executive Committee of the'S. P.\nof C. to run the Western Clarion as a\nParty paper. As a member of the\nParty we are not interested in promoting any other paper, either in Canada\nor elsewhere, no matter how loudly It\nmay proclaim its Socialism. We believe that should be the policy of every Party member. A paper that is\ndirectly under control of the Party\nmembership, is not in a position to\nnot suddenly dawn upon him and he i stray away from the course determin-\nfeel himself irresistibly impelled to\ngo forth and yank a sinful world from\nthe pathway to destruction and gently\nbut firmly plant It upon the broad highway leading to righteousness? But so\ncold and callous ls the multitude that\nit will, many a time and oft, refuse to\ngrant due appreciation to the talented\ned by that membership. This cannot\nbe said of outside publications.\nWe do not believe the mission of\nthe Socialist Party is, either here or\nelsewhere, to be eternally responding\nto the hungry squawks of papers and\nother publications, be their Socialism\never so far above suspicion. Socialist\nones, no matter how zealous. With no publications\u00E2\u0080\u0094also speakers, etc.,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\napplause, no glad acclaim to cheer him ,should be aids to the movement, to as-\non in his mission of regeneration and , sist in building lt up and making It\nredemption, our talented zealot soon stronger and more effective, Instead of\ndegenerates into a most pathetic figure, all sad and forlorn.\nbeing puling infants hanging on to\nIt for sustenance. If any sheet de-\nIf hope becomes entirely eliminated j serves assistance at the hands of any\nfrom his breast\u00E2\u0080\u0094which is usually the; Soclalls' worthy of the name, It must\ncase with those of too tender years\u00E2\u0080\u0094 carry a message\u00E2\u0080\u0094 u vigorous message\nhe sinks to the level of the fireside i \u00E2\u0080\u0094In its every column, to the wage\nphilosopher, eternally engaged in deft slaves of the world, Instead of a con-\nly and accurately splitting hairs in a j tinual wail of distress and begging for\nmaze of argumentation that ends now-,succor,\nwhere and begins In the same place. | The Western Clarion sub list is\nIf shreds of faith In his own import-1 slowly and steadily growing. We nre\nance In the great scheme, of things now running 5,000 copies per Issue. It\nstill remain with him he usually goes Is still far short of paying Its way.\nforth to set up a new Party, in the vain I But In time it will reach that point,\nhope of being the \"big toad in a large J Until that time comes whatever short-\npuddle,\" that he knows he ought to be,age occurs will have to be met from\nby virtue of his splendid talents. ithe general treasury of the Party and\nThe Socialist movement has been | when that is empty\u00E2\u0080\u0094as lt usually Is\nblessed or cursed with this sort of\nambitious talent\u00E2\u0080\u0094god save the mark\u00E2\u0080\u0094\never since its Inception. There is al-\nA large number of workingmen\nthroughout the land have entirely lost\nfaith in the ability of the various political parties of Capitalism to do anything to relieve the economic pressure brought to bear upon the working class under the present system,\neven were they actuated by a desire\nto do so. These workers are looking\nfor relief to come by way of some\npolitical movement that Bprlngs into\nbeing as an expression of the interests of the working class Itself. They\nare rapidly awakening to the fact that\nthe Socialist movement of the world\nexpresses the hopes and aspirations\nof enslaved labor to break the bonds\nwhereby it is now chained to the\nchariot wheels of capitalist exploitation and outrage. The workers of\nevery country on earth are looking\nforward to the crystallization of these\nhopes and aspirations into concrete\nand effective action along the lines of\nconquering the public powers on behalf of the working class and the use\nof those powers for the deliverance\nof Labor from the thraldom of wage\nslavery. That they are not to be disappointed is evidenced by the tireless and unvanquishable persistence\nwith which the Socialists push forward their assault upon the entrenchments (the State) by means of which\nCapital enforces its brutal regltne of\nrobbery, rapine and slaughter against\nthe working class.\nIn the heat of a political campaign\nthe time is propitious in which to\nprecipitate Socialist sentiment into\nconcrete action. Then is the opportune time to fan the flickering spark\nupon \"liberty's altar\" into a consuming and irresistible flame that will\nspread consternation in the ranks of\nthe industrial bandits snd commercial\npirates, who, vampire-like, suck their\nsubstance and power from the quivering flesh of their economic slaves.\nFortunately for the workingmen of\nB. C, the exigencies of capitalist political chicanery have necessitated another election of members of the Provincial parliament at an early date.\nIt is expected that official announcement of the fact will be made within\nthe next few days. Although the time\nwill undoubtedly be short between the\nannouncement of the date of the elections and the day of polling, the heart\nof every busy Socialist will leap with\njoy at the prospect of the conflict.\nDuring these campaign times, while\npolitical discussion is rife, the workingman is particularly receptive to\nreason, and the task of converting him\ninto a staunch defender of the interests of his economic class In human\nsociety is rendered easy.\nHowever much the political expression of Capital is split into contending factions during the coining campaign, the fact wlll still remain that\nbut two political movements will be\nin the field. The one, though perchance spilt into several noisy factions, will stand for the present system of property, based upon wage-\nslavery and production for profit. The\nother, the Socialist Party, will stand\nfor the freedom of Labor and production for use. Either position is ir-\nreconclllable with the other. Between\nthe advocates of each there la an irrepressible conflict of Interest that\nwill not down. It is war to the knife\nand the knife to the hilt between\nthem, and this must continue until\nwage-slavery Is abolished and production for profit has become a matter\nof past history.\nEvery sign upon the horizon Is por-\ntentlous of the Social Revolution that\nshall sweep Capital from Its throne\nand usher in the day of Industrial\nFreedom and Peace. The Class Struggle waxes fiercer, Ihe enthusiasm for\ni Liberty grows stronger. The \"social\nj atmosphere Is surcharged with the\nmembership of the convention to be\nheld as per above notice. Only members ln good standing will be eligible\nto participate in the proceedings.\nE. T. KINGSLEY,\nSecy. Prov. Ex. Com., S. P. of C.\nLocal Vancouver 69 meets in Labor\nTemple basement, Sunduy, March 3, at\n3 P. M.\nTHE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.\nways a plentiful stock of it at hand\nThe pathetic part of it\naforesaid talent-\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the deficit will be made good In the\nsame manner it has for the past\nseven years.\nIn replying to ,our Kootenay\nwe do so for\nis\u00E2\u0080\u0094for the j correspondent,\nthat the multitude the benefit of others who may get sim-\nhas long since become rather cautious liar notions in their heads. We have\nin accepting a man at his own valua- read the \"Appeal to Reason\" and Cot-\ntion. The man of average intelligence ton's Weekly ever since their first pub-\nnow Is quite capable of distinguishing\nbetween shallow conceit and genuine\nmerit. He who has a message to deliver, that Is of any value to humankind, und is possessed of sufficient\nknowledge of the subject to enable Ruskin, Tennessee, and then to Kansas\nlicatlon. We read the former for years\nbefore it became an advocate of Socialism. It wus first the Coming Nation, a populist paper, of Greenburg,\nIndiana. It subsequently moved to\nhim to deliver it in an understandable\nway, will have no difficulty in obtaining a hearing, but he, who, puffed up\nby bis own conceit, expects to\nkeep himself in the limelight by a\n\"diarrhoea of words,\" had better devote his talents to the promulgation of\nsome doctrine that requires less study\nand application lo master than that of\nSocialism, or his expectations will not\nbe realized.\nIt hss been said that; \"Truth wears\nno mask; bows at no human shrine;\nseeks neither place nor applause; she\nwhere it became the Appeal to Reason.\nIn so far as an analysis of Capitalist\nproduction is concerned\u00E2\u0080\u0094and that is\nthe groundwork of the Socislist movement\u00E2\u0080\u0094we confess we have learned\nnothing from the columns of either.\n\*ot that we could not learn, but be-\ncnuse these sheets never have given\n?ven the most rudimentary instruction\n;ilong such lines. Their proprietors\neither can give no instructions along\n\"conotnic lines, or they consider such\nleaching of no consequence. We believe such teaching to be necessary.\nelectricity of the coming storm.\" Every Socialist candidate elected is a\nlightning flash presaging Its rapid approach. Let the workers see that\nthese flashes follow ln such rapid succession that capitalist tyranny will be\nspeedily swept into oblivion by the\nretributive wrath bf a working class\nthat has been outraged and enslaved\nall down the centuries of civilization.\nVANCOUVER CONVENTION.\nNomination convention will be held\nin the headquarters of Local No. 1,\nat 212 Hastings Street East, Wednesday, March 6th,.at 8 p. m.\nW>A. PRITCHARD,\nSecretary pro tem.\nAs there are' four Locals in Vancouver Riding, viz., Lettish, Finnish, Local Vancouver No. 1, and Local Vancouver No. GO, the above call for a\nconvention cannot be considered as\nthe proper method to pursue. Steps\nshould have been first taken to create\na committee as provided In Sec. 3, Art.\n11, of the Constitution, such committee to have arranged for a convention and the carrying out of all work\nincidental to the campaign in case a\nticket was placed In the field. As the\ndate of official nomination of candidates has been fixed on March 12th,\nthe time Is too short to allow of the\nstrictly regular course of procedure.\nTherefore, on behalf of the Provincial\nExecutive Committee, the secretaries\nof the various Locals are requested to\ntake immediale steps to notify their\nBy Josephine Conger-Kaneko.\nIn these days of rapid reforms, \"insurgents\" and \"progressive\" politicians, it Is sometimes perplexing to the\nperson who has the interest of society\nat heart to know just \"where he Is at.\"\nln olher words, he can't tell the difference between the things the Socialist\nmeans to do for society and those the\nother parties or reformers promise to\ndo, and are doing. When Socialists get\nsome power, as they have done in certain localities, they at once busy themselves with such measures as cleaning\nthe streets, looking to tenement laws\nwith a view of bettering housing conditions, taking steps toward shortening\nhours of work, enforcing factory Inspection, prohibiting child labor, demanding payment of .taxes by the rich,\nand so on, and so on. To all of which\nthe social reformer heartily agrees.\nEven club women will agree with every\nmeasure ever introduced by Socialists\nin any locality in the United States.\nWhere, then, is the difference, asks\nthe well-meaning reformer, between\nthe work of the Socialists, and that of\nother Individuals snd parties who also\nwork for shorter hours for labor, for\nsanitary homes, and better civic conditions? And he has a right lo his\nquestion. Also, his question should be\nanswered^ ever so often, that he may\nnot forget the answer, and may finally\ncome to understand its meaning.\nThe reformer, through a spirit of\naltruism, and a hazy understanding\nthat It would be better for society as\na whole, would make conditions better\nfor the \"oppressed classes.\" The\nSocialist would have the \"oppressed\nclasses,\" which is the working class,\nas a whole, make conditions better\nfor itself, to \"the end that it might finally come Into control of the laws\nwhich regulate the conditions under\nwhich it lives.\nIn this Social Revolution Kautsky\nsays, \"It Is not the striving after social\nreforms but the explicit confining of\none's self to them which distinguishes\nthe social reformer from the social\nrevolutionist\u00E2\u0080\u0094a political revolution\ncan only become a social revolution\nwhen it proceeds from an hitherto oppressed class.\"\nThe freeing of the negro slave by\nthe Northern Yankee was a vastly different thing\u00E2\u0080\u0094to the negro and to society\u00E2\u0080\u0094than if he had freed himself.\nThe latter would have implied an intelligent capacity to use his freedom\nalter he got it. It would also have\nmeant that he INTENDED to use It\nafter he got It. When the little coterie\nof American traders precipitated the\nAmerican Revolution they were perfectly aware of their reason for doing\nIt, and they quickly followed up the\nadvantages gained by their act.\nSo the Socialist works constantly to\nthis end: That the working class may\nbetter Its condition, gradually, or otherwise, as the case may be, consciously\nand always INTELLIGENTLY, to the\nend that one day it may wake up and\nfind itself master of the situation, and\ngeneral boss of the works.\nNaturally the Immediate demands of\nthe Socialist appeal so strongly to the\nreformer, and to the average person\nwho is chafing under the heavy harness of the capitalist system, that political parties are constantly pushed to\nthe extremity of granting, or apparently granting, certain reforms that \"look\njuBt like Socialism.\" But they are not\nSocialism, from the fact of the difference In their Intent and purpose. They\nare only palliatives, or \"quieting powders.\"\nDon't lcl the working class man and\nwoman mislead themselves on this\npoint to the end that they wlll sit down\nand let the capitalists and reformers\ndo It for them. That Is just what our\nenemies most desire.\nAn oppressed class cannot be free\nuntil lt frees Itself! This is the revolution the Socialists are working for.\nSocialist Party Directory\nDOMINION BXECUTITE COMMITTEE\nSocialist Party of Canada, meets second and fourth Monday. Secretary,\nE. T. Klngsley, Labur Temple, Duns-\nmull' St., Vancouver, B. C.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL\nExecutive Committee, Socialist Party\nof Canada, meets second and fourth\nAlonduys in month at Labor Temple,\nDunsmulr St. 10. T. Kingsley, Secretary.\nALBERTA PROVINCIAL NXSCUTITE\nCommittee, Socialist Party of Canada.\nMeets every alternate Monday in Labor\nHall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postofflce. Secretary will be pleased to\nanswer any communications regarding\nthe movement In the province. F.\nDanby, Secretary, Box 847, Calgary,\nMANITOBA PROVINCIAL BXECUTITE\nCommittee: Notice\u00E2\u0080\u0094This card Is Inserted for the purpose of getting\n\"YOU\" interested In the Socialist\nmovement. SOCIALISTS are always\nmembers of the Party; so If you are\ndesirous of becoming a member, or\nwish to get any Information, write the\nSecretary, .1. D. Houston, 493 Furby\nSt.; Winnipeg.\nSASKATCHEWAN PROVINCIAL Executive Committee, Socialist Party of\nCanada. Meets every flrst and third\nSaturduy ln the month. 8:00 p.m., at\nbeaduuurters, Matn Street, North Battleford. Secretary will answer any\ncommunications regarding the movement ln thla Province. L. Budden,\nSecy., Box 101, North Battleford, Sask.\nMARITIME FROVTNOIAL BXECUTITE\nCommittee, Socialist Party of Canuda,\nmeets every second and fourth Sundays in the Cape Breton offloe of the\nParty, Commercial Street, Glace nay.\nN. S. Dan Cochrane, Secretary, Rnx\n491, Glace Bay, N. 8.\nLOCAL GREENWOOD, B. C\u00E2\u0080\u009E NO. 9\nS. P. of C, meeta every Sunday evening at Miners' Union Hall, Greenwood.\nVisiting Comradea Invited to call. C.\nPrlmerlle, Secretary.\nLOCAL FERNIE, S. P. of C.j HOLD\neducational meetings In tbe Miners'\nUnion Hall, Victoria Ave., every Sunday evening at 7:30. Business meeting first Sunday in each month, Miners' Hall at 2:30. W. L. Phillips, Secretary, Box 504.\nLOCAL ROSBLANR, NO. 15, S. T. tl 0.,\nmeets ln Miners' Hall every Sunday at\n7:30 p.m. E. Campbell, Secretory, P.O.\nBox 674. Roaaland Finnish Branch\nmeeta In Flnlanders' Hall, Sundays at\n7:30 p.m. A. Babble, Secretary, P.O\nBox 54, Rossland.\nLOCAL xtZCWWL, a. C, NO. 18, S. P.\nof C, holds propaganda meetings\nevery Sunday aftemcon at 2:30 p.m. In\nCrahan'a Hall. A hearty invitation Is\nextended to all wage slaves within\nreach of us to attend our meetings.\nBuslnesa meetings are held tbe firs*\nand third Sundaya of each month at\n10:30 a.m. In the same hall. Party\norganizers take notice. A. S. Julian,\nSecretary.\nLOCAL NELSON, S. T. ot C, MEETS\ne.very Friday evening at 8 p.m., in\nMiners' Hall, Nelaon, B. C. I. A. Austin. Secretary.\nLOCAL FRINCB RVFBRT, B. C, No. 53,\nS. P. of C. meets every Sunday tn\nball In Empress Theatre Block at 2:00\np.m. L. H. Gorham, Secretary.\nLOOAL RETBLSTOKB, B. C, NO. 7,\nS. P. of C. Business meetings at Socialist headquurters fourth Thursdays\nof each month. B. F. Gayman, Secretary.\nLOCA^ SANDON, B. C, NO. 36, 8. P. OF\nC. Meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.\nIn the Sandon Miners' Unlor Hall.\nCommunications to be addressed\nDrawer K. Sandon. B. C.\nLOCAL VICTORIA NO. 3, 8. P. of C\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nHeadquarters and reading room, 1319\nGovernment St., Room 2, over Collls\nter's gun store. Business meeting every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Propaganda meeting evefy Sunday, 8 p.m., at Crystal\nTheatre.\nLOCAL VERNON, B. C, NC. 38, 8. T.\not C. Meets every Tuesdav, 8:00 p.ra\nsharp, at L. O. L. Hall, Tronson St\nW. H. Gilmore, Secretary.\nLOCAL TANCOUTER, B. C, NO. 45,\nFinnish. Meets every second and\nfourth Thursdays In tbe month at 2237\nMain Street. Secretary, Wm. Mynttl.\nr.OCAL SOUTH FORT QEORQE, B.C.,\nNo. 61, meets every Friday night at\n8 p.m. in Public Library Room. John\nMclnnls, Secretary; Andrew Allen,\nOrganizer.\nLOCAL TANCOUTER No 1, S. P. of C\t\nBusiness meeting everv Tuesday evening nt Headquarters, 213 Hastings St.\nEast. .1. A. Maedonald, secretary, 1724\nAlberni St.\n:.OCAL COLEMAN, ALTA., NO. t.\nMiners' Hall and Opera House. Propaganda meetings at 8 p.m. on the flrst\nand third Sundays of the month. Husi-\nness meetings on Thursday evenings\nfollowing propaganda meetings at I.\nOrganizer, T. Steele. Coleman, Alta.;\nSecretary, Jas. Glendennlng, Box \u00C2\u00ABJ,\nColeman, Alta. Visitors mav receive\ninformation any day at Miners' Hall\nfrom Com. W\". Graham, Secretary of\nTJ. M. W. of A.\nLOCAL EDMONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, 8.\nP. of C. Headquarters 622 First St.\nBusiness and propaganda meetings\nevery Thursday at 7:30 p.m. sharp.\nOur reading room ls open to the public free, from 10 a.m. lo 11 p.m. dally.\nSecretary, A. Farmilo, 622 First St.;\nOrganizer, W. Stephenson.\nLOCAL CALQARY, ALTA., NO. 4, S.P.\nof O.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Business meeting every Saturday evening at 8 o'clock at the headquarter)-. 139 Eighth Ave. East, between Third and Fourth streets. F.\nTipping. Secretary.\nLOOAL RBOINA NO. 6, BASK., MBSTB\nevery Sunday, Trades Hall, 8 p.m.\nBusiness meeting, second Friday, I\np.m., Trades Hall. B. Simmons, seers- '\n_Aly'^ JJ\"^_Garnet St., P.O._Box_1046.\nLOCAL BRANDON, MAN., NO. 7, 8. P.\nof C. Headquarters, No! 10 Nation -5\nBlock, Hossar Ave. Propaganda meeting, Sunday at S p.m.; business meeting, second and fourth Mondays at 8\np.m.; economic class, Friday at 8 p.m.\nSecretary, T. Mellnlleu, 144 Third St.,\nHramlon, Man.\nLOCAL LBTHBBIDOE, ALTA., NO. IS,\nS. P. of O. Meets first and third Sundays ln the month, at 4 p.m.. In\nMiners' Hall. Secretary, Chas. Pea- (\ncock. Box 1983. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nLOCAL MOOSEJAW, SASK., Ne. 1, 8. P.\nOP C.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Propaganda meetings every\nSunday, 7:30 p. in., In tne Trades Hall. _\nEconomic Class every Sunday, 3 p.m. '\nD. McMillan. Sec. Treas., South Hill\nP. O., Sask.; A. Stewart. Organizer,\nSouth Hill P. O., Sask. All slaves welcome.\nLOCAL No. 1, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,\n8. P. OF C Headquarters S28 tt Main\nStreet, Winnipeg, room 2. next Dreamland Theatre. Business meeting every\nSunday morning, at 11; economic claaa\nWednesdays, at 8 p. m. Secretary's\naddress. 270 Young Street. Propaganda meeting every Sunday evening\nin Dreamland Theatre. Main Street, at\n8 o'clock. Discussion Invited.\nLOCAL OTTAWA, NO. 8, S. P. Of C\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nBusiness meetings the first Sunday ln\nthe month nt 3 o'clock p.m. nt headquarters. Secretary, Sam Horwlth.\nHeadquarters, 36 1-2 Rldeau Street.\nPhone 277. Address, 322 Gladstone\nAve.\nLOCAL OLACE BAT, NO. 1, OP N. 8.\nBusiness and propaganda meeting\nevery Thursday at 8 p.m. In Macdon-\nald's Hall. Union Street. All are welcome. Alfred Nash, Corresponding\nSecretary, Glace Bay; Wm. Sutherland,\nOrganizer, New Aberdeen; H. G. Ross,\nFinancial Secretary, offlce ln D. N.\nBrodie Printing Co. Building, Union\nStreet.\nLOCAL SIDNEY MINES NO. 7, of\nNova Scotia.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Business and propaganda meetings everv second Monday\nat 7:30 In the S. O. B. T. Hall back\nof Town Hall. Wll'lam Allen, Secretary. Box 344.\nUKRAINIAN SOCIALIST FEDERATION of the S. P. of C, is organized\nfor the purpose of educating the\nL'krainean workers to the revolutionary principles of this party. The\nUkranlan Federation publish tbelr own\nwceklv organ, \"Nova Hrnmada\" (New\nSoclctv), at 413 Kinlstlno Ave., Edmonton. Alta. English comrades desiring Information re tho Federation,\nwrite to J. Senuk, Fin. Secretary.\nIn the presence of Death how beliefs and dogmas wither and decay!\nHow loving words and deeds burst\ninto blossom! Pluck from the tree of\nany life these flowers, and there remain but the barren thorns of bigotry and creed.\nWe live on a grain of sand and\ntears we call the Earth, and what we\nknow of the Infinite is Infinitely limited, but little as we know all have a\nright to give their honest thoughts.\nPRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES,\n(To Locals.)\nCharter (with necessary supplies to start Local) $5.00\nMembership Cards, each 0*1\nDues Stamps, each 10\nPlatform and application blank\nper 100 25\nDitto In Finnish, per 100 50\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Jitto In Ukranian, per 100 50\nConstitutions, each 20\nDitto, Finnish, per dozen 50\nPLATFORM\nSocialist Party of Canada\nWe, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm\nour allegience to and support of the principles and program of the revolutionary working class.\nLabor produces all wealth, and to the producers it should belong.\nThe present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of tha\nmeans of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to\nthe capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore master; the worker a\nslave.\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 stream\nof profits, and to the worker an ever-increasing measure of misery and\ndegradation.\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 tha\npoint of production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation\nof capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective\nor working-class property.\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and\nthe worker is rapidly culminating ina struggle for possession of tha\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 tha\npublic powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic\nprogram of the working class, as follows:\n1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property\nin the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills,\nrailroads, etc.) into the collective property of the working class.\n2. The democratic organization and management of industry by\ntha workers.\n3. The er'*blishm\u00C2\u00ABnt, as speedily as possible, of production for\nuse instead of production for profit.\nThe Socialist Party when in office shall always and everywhere\nuntil the present system is abolished, make the answer to this question\nits guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the interest*\nof the working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against\ncapitalism? If it will, the Socialist Party is for it; if it will not, tha\nSocialist Part yis absolutely opposed to it.\nIn accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges itself\nto conduct all the public Affairs placed in its hands in such a manner\nas to promote the interests of the working class alone.\nSUBSCRIPTION\nCARDS\n5 Yearlies - -\n- $3.75\n10 1-2 Yearlies -\n- 4.00\n20 Quarterlies -\n- 4.00 SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912.\nTHE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nPAGE THREE\nCORRESPONDENCE\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMIT- are looking for the time when the\nTEE.\nMeeting Feb. 26, 1912.\nPresent: Forrest, Mengel, Anderson, Gribble and Uie secretary.\nGribble in the chair.\nMinutes of previous meeting read\nand approved.\nApplication for charter from 18\nComrades of Cumberland, B, C, was\nreceived through the Provincial Executive Committee. The charier was\ngrained.\nApplication for charter signed by\nnine Comrades of Red Ituven, Alta.,\nwas received from Alberta Provincial\nExecutive Committee. The charter\nwas granted.\nCommunication received from Leonard Budden, secretury of Saskatchewan Provincial Executive Committee,\nin reference to the affairs of the committee. As the committee is practically defunct, all of its business having been left for some time solely in\nthe hands of Comrade Budden, he requested Dominion Executive to remove seat of committee to either Regina or Moose Jaw. The secretary\nwas instructed to write Local Regina\nrequesting that it create a Provincial\nExecutive Committee to act until other arrangements might be made by\nthe Saskatchewan Locals.\nCommunications from Local Ersklne, Alta.; Local Sandon, B. C; Local Dewberry, Alta.4; and Local South\nRaven, Alta., were received and dealt\nwith.\nAs the office of the Dominion and\nProvincial Executive Committees and\nthe Western Clarion has been removed to the premises in the Labor Temple occupied by E. T. Kingsley as a\nprinting office, thus saving to the committees the $1B.00 per month formerly\npaid at Homer-Richards lane, It was\nordered that the sum thus saved be\npaid to Comrade S. Lefeaux for services as accountant to the committees and the Western Clarion.\nFinancial report to Jan. 31, 1912,\nshowed balance on hand of $233.67.\nReport accepted. It was ordered that\nfinancial reports for each month be\nrendered at the first business meeting in the month following.\nAdjourned.\nE. T. KINGSLEY,\nSecretary.\npresent system will be abolished.\nHOW THEY COME\nevery cry of distress from impoverished men, women and children Ib an indictment of the capitalist system and\nalso of a professed Christian people\nwhose votes make possible this hell\non earth.\nThe brutalities and crimes of the\nold slave masters were not more revolting or inhuman than the crimes\nof the capitalist masters of today.\nPROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\nHere's a few Comrades that's been\nhustling subs., but what's the matter\nwith the rest of you? If you would\ngel a bundle of, say, live a week for\nthree months, which would cost you\n66 cents, you could give them away\nand eventuully get the sluve to subscribe. Think it over.\nAlf. Budden, all over Alberta 17\nW. Gribble, Cumberland 12\nD. A. MacLean, Calgary, Alta 8\nF. Teeple, Brandon, Man 6\nDan Cochrane, Glace Bay, N. S....\nR. Whitfield, San Francisco, Cal.\nA. S. Julian, Michel, B. C 4 I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nW. Minton, Fernie, B. C 4j \"The Truth\" is a new ranting paper\nE. H. Flegg, Winnipeg, Man 3! published in Vancouver, it is controll-\nP. J. Hunt, Mllden, Sask 3 j ed by a bunch of business men calling\nM. Lightstone, Edmonton, Alta\nS. B. Darnley, Tolt, Wash 2\nF. Tipping, Calgary 2\nFifty-four labor leaders of the United States have been Indicted by federal grand juries ln connection with\nvarious explosions that have taken\nplace during the past six years in lhat\ncountry.\nThe United Mine Workers at the\nlate convention voted for industrial\nunionism and Political action and de-\n5 dared In favor of the Socialist Party\nand the full product of their toil.\nCAPITALISM INDICTED:\nCapitalism allows a handful of\nmen to own the land and all the\nmeans of life, so that those without land and capital are obliged\nto work for the owners of the\nmachinery of production on\ntheir own terms or starve.\nCapitalism keeps a reserve\nI).\nSingles.\nMcDougall, Winnipeg;\nC. IIet\n2 themselves The Good Government\nLeague. It squeals about prostitution,\ngraft, liquor, gambling and everything\nin general and offers a remedy that\nhas been tried in hundreds of cities\ncalf, City; Mrs. Yates, City; A. E. i and failed to do any good. If you see\nTipper, City; B. Oston, City; E. Simpson, Victoria; K. Dzwidzinsky, Cranbrook, B. C; A. E. Hart, Fernie; 'D.\nPaton, Fernie; R. Walker, Barnsley,\nMan.; Miss Dally, Bowen Island, B.\nC; W. W. Lefeaux, Revelstoke; I. A.\nAustin, Nelson; J. Allison, Nanaimo;\nTho. Gray, Mara, B. C; J. Sidaway,\nCity; 0. Brandt, Edmonton; Wm. McQuold, Edmonton; F. E. Bishop, Medicine Hat; M. McCombs, Heart Lake,\nAlta.; H. Machell, Matsqui, B. C.\nBundles.\nLocal Glace Bay 25\nIxical Edmonton . 200\nLocal St. John, N. B 25\nKlmberley Miners' Union 5\nSub. Cards.\nW. Gribble, 36 yearlies, 36 half year-\nlies; C. M. O'Brien, 20 yearlles, 20\nhalf yearlies, 20 quarterlies; J. C.\nTurner, Fernie, 10 half yearlles; Wm.\nMcQuold, Edmonton, 5 yearlles, 10\nhalf yearlies; F. Tipping, Calgary, 7\nhalf yearlles, 2 yearlles; W. Minton,\nFernie, 3 yearlies.\nCumberland ls the only place that\nmakes a move this week. Locals\nshould get their organizer to look up\nthe expiring subscribers.\nVancouver, B. C 1\nVictoria, B. C 2\nBrandon, Man 3\nEdmonton, Alta 4\nCalgary, Alta 5\nWinnipeg, Man 6\nToronto, Ont 7\nPresent: Forrest, Mengel, Anderson, Gribble and the secretary.\nApplication from 18 Cumberland\ncomrades for a charter was approved,\nand same referred to Dominion Ex-'Fernie, B. C 8\necutive Committee. j Moose Jaw, Sask 9\nCommunication from J. E. McGreg- j Montreal, Que 10\nor, Crawford Bay, B. C, requesting j New Westminster, B. C 11\ninformation as to how to proceed in , Cumberland, B. C 12\nthe matter of organizing and apply- j NelBon, B. C 13\ning for a charter, was read. Secre-j Ottawa, Ont 14\ntary reported the Information had S. Ft. George, B. C.\nanything labeled Good Government,\navoid it as you would a slimy crawling\nsnake in the grass.\nBecause there are not enough men\nto man the Battleships of the American navy five of them have been put\nout of commission.\nPremier Asquith and other government officials met the representatives\nof the miners union and appealed to\nthem on the grounds of patriotism\n\"not to tie up the industries of the\ncountry by striking on March 1. Why\ndon't the government appeal to the\nmine owners \"on the grounds of patriotism\" to give the workers a decent\nwage.\nPremier McBride says the C. N. R.\nhas made good. Three-fifths of the\nmen who built it will claim otherwise.\nWhich do you prefer, McBrldes' railway policy or the full product of your\ntoil.\nHARVARD'S BLACK HUNDRED.\nbeen'forwarded.\n 15\n| North Battleford, Sask 17\n 1G\nCumberland, B. C 17\nRegina, Sask 18\nBrantford, Ont 19\nLadysmith, B. C 20\nHERE AND THERE.\nCommunication from secretary of IN. Battleford, Sask\nLocal Sandon, reporting healthy\ngrowth of Local, 70 new members\nhaving been admitted since Jan. 1.\nCommunication from Comrade J. F.\nJohnston of Enderby, reporting that\nLocal Enderby has for some time been\npractically dead, but he ls determined to reorganize and put new life\ninto it.\nSecretary Instructed to notify Locals through columns of the Western\nClarion of Impending election, and\nurge upon them necessity of taking\nsteps to actively participate therein.\nFinancial report showing balance of\n$23.45 on Jan. 31, 1912, was received.\nAdjourned.\nE. T. KINGSLEY,\nSecretary.\nRESULT OF FINDLAY'S\nPROPAGANDA,\nEditor Western Clarion:\nDear Brother:\nIt is the pleasure of this Local of\nwhom I represent, to congratulate you\non the attainment of Free Speech in\nVancouver. I am sure every one of\nus has felt for your Party, since the\nstruggle began. No doubt the Mayor\nwould like to have seen an end to the\nexistence of such a Party, but thanks\nto the Comrades of the Socialist Party,\ntheir flag ls flying higher and, yea,\neven wider than it did before. The\noutrageous ways the police acted has\nbeen shown to the citizens of Vancouver and I don't think any right-\nminded person could ever agree with\nthem. We are pleased to see you get\nsuch large meetings, a fact in Itself\nthat goes to show the way in which\nthe wage slave is waking up. It certainly must have been a dream to him\nto fancy any other so-called party\ncould assist him after what he has\nseen for a few Sundays back. Sorry\nIf I have taken up any of your valuable time, also hoping you will find\nspace in your paper to publish this\nand wishing you all the success that\nIb worthy to your Party, I remain\nYours sincerely,\nH. DYER, Recording Sec'y., Local 26.\nI. U. of Elevator Constructors.\nP. S.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Our Brothers are all seeking\nregistration on the voter's list, and\n(By Watts.)\nComrade John Mclnnes has been\nnominated to contest South Fort\nGeorge constituency In the B. C. elections.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00C2\u00AB\nComrades Charlie O'Brien and Alf.\nBudden are organizing in Alberta.\nWatch their smoke.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nE. H. Gary, steel magnate, made a\nsensational speech in New York on\n\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB *\nFeb. 12. He said: \"Unless capitalists,\ncorporations, rich men, powerful men,\nthemselves tuke a leading part in trying to Improve ihe conditions of humanity, great changes will come, and\nthey will come quickly and the mob\nwill bring them.'\nGary sees \"the handwriting on the\nwall alright, but its toe late.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWe have a few bound volumes of\n1909 and 1910 Western Clarions left\nwe are offering them at SS1.50 a volume for a quick sale.\nSend ln your orders for 1911 bound\nvolumes at once.\nBy Roland D. Sawyer.\nForemost'in every campaign of the\nRussian Cossacks to oppress, intimidate and kill the subjects of the Czar,\nis to be found a band of aristocratic\nyouth, whose object Is to urge on the\nCossacks and to represent the ruling\naristocracy on the scene. Here ln\nAmerica our universities have oft-\ntimes furnished athletic aristocratic\nyouth to break strikes by scabbing,\nbut never before have any of our colleges sent men out to use the bayonet\nand bullet and play the part of the\nCossack. It has remained for Harvard University to start the ball rolling. The Boston papers huve been\nfull the past week of pictures of Harvard's \"company of 100 militiamen,\"\nsent to Lawrence to help break the\nstrike of the starving mill workers.\nThese men have been pictured as\n\"stalwart athletes,\" \"sons of some of\nour best families.\" The photos from\nthe papers which show these big 200-\npound men, well fed, well dressed,\ncomfortably smoking their expensive\ncollege pipes, makes them contrast\nvery strangely with dwarfed, haggard-\nlooking mill workers.\nReports from the field show that\nthese Harvard soldiers outdo the\nother soldiers already on the field.\nTwo thousand soldiers parade the\nstreets of Lawrence, led by Harvard's\nBlack Hundred. Insolently they drive\narmy of about 10,000,000 peo-.\npie who are always on the verge\nof starvation. This army gives\nto capitalism the power to dictate Its own terms to the workers and to the out-of-works as\nlo wages, hours, conditions of\nemployment, etc.\nUnder capitalism they receive about one-fifth of what\nthey produce. They work ten\nhours, produce $10 worth of\nsomething, and receive $2 for\ntheir labor. Government reports tell them this, but most\nof Ihem can see It in the very\nfactory where they work.\nUnder capitalism the means\nof employment are privately\nowned. The worker's job Is\nowned by the capitalist class.\n\"The man who owns your job\nowns you,\" said Horace Greeley. There was a time when the\nworkers did not believe the wisdom of this statement, but it is\nno longer so. Too many have\nbeen fired, and they know better now. The capitalist not\nonly owns the man he hires,\nbut he can give him away and\nnot lose a penny. However, he\nnever worries about giving the\nworker away. Instead he gives\nhim a swift kick and the worker\nis gone.\nCapitalism allows the privileged few to own all the means\nof life, yet It does not compel\nthe owners to employ those\nBeeking employment. For that\nreason unemployment must always exlBt. The system of profit could not exist without a reserve army of unemployed.\nUnder capitalism the part the\nworker earns and does not receive passes Into the hands of\nthe capitalist class. That class\ndemands interest, dividends and profit on their investment of wealth,\nwhich the workers created. The worker is not only exploited, but he ls\nforced to pay a premium on the\nwealth of which he has been robbed.\nCapitalism systematically manufactures prostitutes. Hundreds of\ngirls and women must starve or sell\ntheir bodies for bread.\nFREE to every\n-SOCIALIST\nEvery socialist in the world should get FREE\nthis thrilling story of the \"Ball and Tyler Rebellion***\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094an uprising of the people against the nobles and\nchurch in mediaeval England. Not one in a million has\never seen this rare document which is merely one of\nthousands of wonderful \"original documents\" in the\nLibrary of Original Sources\nwhich AH. socialists can get on an easy, co-operative\nplan. This marvelous library is an eye-opener\u00E2\u0080\u0094it gives\nthe TRUTH that for ages capitalist Influence has kept\nfrom the people to keep them under subjection. Here you\nsee the gradual rise of the people thru 7,000 years, from\nslavery, serfdom, feudalism on to capitalism, all of w'lichr\nshows you as plainly as a cross-roads guide board how tin-\nSocialist Republic is developing out of the present system.\nShows How the Socialist Republic is Coining\nGives\u00E2\u0080\u0094for the first time\u00E2\u0080\u0094the real facts behind the ordinary\nsurface events which you read of in histories \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the rock-botlem facts.\nd-hot from those daring men in all ages who had the courage to tell the\nmUTH even though they lost their lives for it \u00E2\u0080\u0094and you know how\nmany of them did. This daring work is . is.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jn,\nthe lime kind on the eailest co-opera-\ntlve plan ln the world. MOT only the\nintroductory edition will be distributed\non this plan, so write today or you mar\nbo too Into, as the large edition Is going\nlike hot cakes.\nPublished Expressly for Socialists\nand other progressive people who do their own thinking. All socialist\nwriters, editors and organizers use it and urge every Comrade t\u00C2\u00AB set it at\nonce. Socialists in the United States and Canada are using more of this\nwork than of all others combined. No.other work gives more than\n5% of this red-hot stuff.\nThe Socialist Victories\nin Milwaukee, Schenectady, Berkeley, Pasadena and\notherclties were won because the comrades there have been\nstudying all sides of economics and government \u00E2\u0080\u0094or to\nput it in plain words\u00E2\u0080\u0094Socialism. Then when the election fights were on they were able to show the rest of\nthe people just what Social'sm is and the reason for\nit. Men will vote right, you know, when they know\nwhat right is They have not been satisfied with\nthe government of greed, privilege and plunder\u00E2\u0080\u0094they have been merely kept in the dark\nbut now when the comrades open their\neyes, they VOTE RIGHT.\n.Are You Prepared\nTo Do Your Part?\nThe old capitalist papers and\npoliticians are beginningti>takenotlce\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094tbey are getting scared. The hardest\nlickamuRtbestruck NOW. Arevouprepared to help? Berger, Spargo.Warren,\nSimons. London,Waylanu.Gaylord, Untermann, Irvine, Lewie \u00E2\u0080\u0094ALL leaders\nsay the boat preparation you can make f.\nto read the Library of Original Sources\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"greatest work extant for socialists.\"\nIf you want to help \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and we\nknow you do\u00E2\u0080\u0094send today for the won.\nderful \"Ball and Tyler\" story and flnd\nout how you can get a whole library of\nof attentive detectives and stenogra- with ball cartridges were ordered If\nphers Is anxiously listening in the \"preserve order\" at any cost. The\noffices of Standard Oil. strikers in the procession, who werp\nThere is an easy way to fight it. i led on by Beveral women, insistot\nEvery meeting should be as open as (upon their rights and the charge fol\nthe meetings of the Socialist party, j lowed.\nEvery move of the trade union should The strikers and their sympathl*\nbe as bold, as progressive, and as de-iers are highly Indignant over the ao-.\ntermined as the moves of the Social- i tlons of the soldiers.\nCapitalism forces its workers to I ists. Otherwise the unions will con-1 The general strike was started as-\nslave twelve hours a day\u00E2\u0080\u0094and some- tinue to play into the dirty hands or ] a protest against the action of the?\ntimes sixteen hours a day\u00E2\u0080\u0094often sev- the detectives, and, for their own pur- street car company in refusing it*,\nen days a week. It denies leisure and | poses, the detectives can always start employees the right to wear their ua-\npleasure to all but the chOBen few. I something in trade union circles that 'on buttons.\nIt has ordained that the working man will be used against the unions\u00E2\u0080\u0094that\nand working woman shall never travel far from their home, and then it\ndestroys the beauty of home life by\nis, they eati unless the unions decide\non absolute publicity for all 'heir acts.\nWhen they do decide upon publicity\nhuddling an entire family in one or i they will become much more daring,\ntwo rooms. It separates children and | much more militant than they ever j brilliant, more or less powerful. That\nparents. Thousands of mothers have J have been in the past. The secret: light is reason, and he who blows that\nLearn to strike at the ballot ai**f.\nthese outrages can be avoided.*\nNairn e has furnished every human being with a light more or less\nto part with their babies daily while\nthey themselves go into the mills.\nUnder capitalism 939 persons out of\n1,000 die leaving behind them no property worth mentioning. Fifty-five per\ncent, of the children of the workers\nnever reach the age of five years, as\nagainst 18 per cent, of the children\nof the capitalist class.\nThese are but a few of the workers' grievances, but they are enough\nto forever damn capitalism in the\neyes of all civilized men.\nGORDON NYE.\nWHY NOT A GOVERNMENT BY\nSPIES?\nAccording lo press reports a nifty\nlittle Instrument knows as a \"dictagraph\" was Installed by the Federal\npeople from their own doorways,| authorU-eB ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E tte. offlceg ot ^ Intar.\nworker is the worst of conservatives.' light out is in utter darkness. It has.\nHe Is the one who holds to the de- been the business of superstition r-\nBAYONETS USED IN BRISBANE\nSTRIKE.\nliable.\nWives who cease to learn\u00E2\u0080\u0094who sira-\nply forget and believe\u00E2\u0080\u0094will nil the\nAustralian Troops Charge Peaceful evening of their lives with barre*.\nWorkers Who Insist Upon Right., jalgha and bitter tears. The mint\nto Parade\u00E2\u0080\u0094Many Wounded. ! should outlast youth. If when beauti\nBrisbane, Australia, Feb. 10.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A\nbloody outrage occurred here today\nwhen troops with fixed bayonets\nfades, Thought, the deft and unsee*.\nsculptor, hath not left his subtle Haa:\nipon the face, then all is lost. Tliere.\ncharged Into a crowd of strikers and is no bame within to glorify thiv-\nwounded many. The strikers had or- wrinkled day.\nganlzed a procession Intended as a !\t\ndemonstration of their strength. j Chris. Frederickson of Daldwiot.\nWhen the Brisbane officials Were |Man., enquires lor a brother by the*\nadvised of this plan, troops armed iname of S. L. Johnson^\norder people not lo look out of their I\nwindows, drive back the Indignant\nmasses as their leaders are thrown\nInto jail, The city of Lawrence Is\nbeing systematically terrorized after j\nthe most approved Russian fashion, j\nOur ruling State machinery, headed\nby Governor Fobs, who sends the |\ntroops, and who Is a candidate forjdous Importance and one that should\nthe Presidential nomination, our State ue l'\"6he(I t0 the \*T! llm\"- \",st\nnational Association of Bridge ami\nBtrUCtural iron Workers, und through\nj it the conversation of President Ryan\nwith various union workers were overheard and Btenographlcally reported\nby spies In a room below.\nThere is here nn idea of tremeii-\nmachinery is being used and the peo-1\nnow union labor Is hemmed In with\npie's money spent to drive these men \ 8l||es- Tllere \u00E2\u0080\u00A2>re 8llles ln the rank8'\nand women back to peonage and slav-j There are spies hovering buzzard-like\nj ery. Harvard's Black Hundred shows\nLook up the ad for Free speech\npostcards.\nThe late Liberal government estimated the cost of building the G. T, P.\nat $13,000,000 it has already cost $110,-\n000,000 now the Conservatives are going to spend more on lt which will\nbring the cost up to $236,000,000 with\ninterest and all this amount will only\nbuild the line from Winnipeg to Moncton. Don't you think the working\nclass could do better than that?\n. . .\nThe McBride government cannot\nface the music, so they have called\nthe election for March 28 and will use\nIhe September voters lists. This Is\ncommonly known as a square deal.\nThere are spies waiting\nfor employment and willing to work\nthe dictagraph against any labor organization. Hut why use lt only\nagainst labor organizations?\nOne might be installed, for instance,\nand hasteaway to teach the strikers ]'n *he \u00C2\u00B0mceB of the malefactor of\na lesson. To this class the strikers | S1**-**-1 wealth. Or one might be placed\nthe length to which class feeling runs\nhere In Massachusetts. These wealthy\nscions of our rich families see their\nfamily income endangered by the\nstrike, they cut the exams and school\nare but \"damned dagoes;\" an Inferior\nstrata, whose divine mission is to\ndrudge for the benefit of their masters.\nAnd God help the poor Italian, Jew,\nSyrian, Hungarian, Canadlnn or Belgian who gives these men any excuse\nfor an act of violence, for it will be a\nbroken head or arm or n stab In the\nback.\nEvery pang of empty stomachs,\nCHANGE OF ADDRESS\nWestern Clarion\nB.C. Executive Com.\nDom. Executive Com.\n1 Labor Temple, Vancouver. B.C.\nIn the Outlook office so that the Con\ntrlbtitlng Editor's changes of attitude\ncould be recorded. One might be ln\nevery committee room of every bank\nand financial concern. One might be\nplaced in Republican nnd Democratic\nheadquarters. One might be placed,\nto enormous advantage, In Tammany\nHall, and the secret orders of Mr.\nMurphy might be taken down Btenographlcally and given to Ihe world.\nIt would be a much better method\nthan scouring wastepaper baskets to\nget a glimpse of private correspondence. Men will say things they are\ntoo wise to place on paper.\nThere Is no hint that such an ap\npalling Instrument Is in the office of\nJ, Pierpont Morgan, or that a group\nLet Us Purchase Land for You at\nGovernmentPrice\n$5 Monthly Will Give You\nSnug Income Every Year\nA Co-operative Partnership\nProposition\nThe Western Farming \u00C2\u00AEr\nColonization Co., Ltd*\nOffice 5 Winch Bldg. Vancouver, B. C.\n;\nFILL IN THIS COUPON AND MAIL TO US TODAY\nWESTERN FARMING &\nCOLONIZA TION CO., L TD.\n-\nDear Sirs:\nPlease send, free of cost to me,\ninformation\nre above land.\nName \t\nAddress\nCity or *Cown\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\ VAGE FOUR\nTHE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nSATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912.\nHAWTHORNTHWAITE, WILLIAMS\nAND ASIATIC IMMIGRATION\n\"This mouldy old herring was drag-,cards and\n_V-tl out into the light again on Wed-j or- j, r,_ UEe(j [ts power\n: y the I4ih. in st. by the Premier 0 \u00C2\u00BB]le employment of\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Moving the following resolution and their presence in the schools? It br.d\nfijfeu Liberal representative (Brewster, | not rn hh.s he had Introduced :: Bill\nrerulatins their eni] loymenl lu certain\nmeaning had not been grasped, .ie\nhad so often and so clearly expressed\nthe principles of Socialism in the\nHOiise, in the presence of the member\nfor Alberni, that he had not thought\nit possible to be misunde; stood. The\npades. Hud the government j previous day he bad not tried to enter\nwell in respect j\nOrientals, ;:r.d\nmo a discussion on Socialism, bul had\ndied to keep to the point. If he allowed Brewster's stateemnt to go by,\nit, would be interpreted that the Socialists were willing lo let the Japanese\ncnler, now, to compete with lhe white\nworker. The object of the Socialist\n>vus to destroy competition. Capital-\ninn was based on competition, and lt\nmeant death and Injury to the workers.\nThey wished to do away with ll and\nsubstitute co-operation. When competition was removed, what harm could\nthe Oriental do to the white man by\ncoining here? They came today because conditions in their own country\nwere so bad, and they had come to this\nto better their conditions. Very few\npeople did not have an inborn love for\n- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ih.iiii), moving ihe amendment at-\nH 'h,I. iloth spread themselves theI industries which was within the power\n-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-i way tbey know how lo prove' 0- (nc, Pr-vk.ce to enact, That had\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*'' \"* \u00C2\u00B0wn particular party was the| been a onanoe for the Conservatives to\ntame and only organization which de-j Bhow their Sincerity In ihe question,\nBred really and truly to protect the w.hkll ffaa cne affecting the life and\n**4>He voting-man from lhe oompeti- health of the white workerB In the Pro-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2at the Oriental. Sure signs of an vlnce| but ,he ,.eC0rds of the House did\n- .-a. iv appeal lo that horny-headed In- not Bhmv 8 slngle Conservative had\n-ivi.lual voter. I voted for lhe BUI.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Tliat whereas the feeling in the! But the worst feature of the Oriental\n..\"vovince of British Columbia has long j mention was their presence in the pub-\nijtxn opposed to Asiatic immigration; , 1]c pchools. with the resulting effect\n.BMil \u00E2\u0080\u009EI)on the minds of the white children\n-Whereas numerous reprssentations which was an adverse one owing to ,. ..\u00E2\u0080\u009E .. _\u00E2\u0080\u009E . . .\n- . . .. .T . , ., . ., , ., .the country they were born in, and\n.ir-\u00C2\u00BB*i-\u00C2\u00BBe been made by the Legislative As- the different moral conception of the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 , . . . , ,. .\n,,..,,_., . .. __\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , , \u00E2\u0080\u009E , ... . . , preferred to go back after an absence.\n;:*s\u00C2\u00BBnbly of this Province to the Federal two races. Or enta chi dren had know-1' .. \u00C2\u00B0 .. \u00E2\u0080\u009E . . . ~. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\n.m. ... .., . ^ ... i .<. , .. . ... So it was with the Orientals. The cll-\n-Bittliorlties, setting forth the views of i ledge that white children did not at- .. A .. .... \u00E2\u0080\u009E ._ ,.\n._ , ' ,,',.\u00E2\u0080\u009E . , . matic and other conditions in the\n-.Ae people at various times as being ain until near maturity, and the feel- countries W6,.e guitable t0\nmm -favour of effectual exclusion; and I ing in the Province was very strong on | {hem anfl ,f they cou)d (,0 8Q they\n\"Whereas on account of the action that point. The government, with full | woul{1 fer t0 Btay there. So, when\n.-al the Dominion Government on sev-| power to act and with money to burn,. M tltIon had been destroyed and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*** occasions in disallowing local leg-j would not spend a few thousand dollars I Soclalism obtained thev would come as\nJ-HteUon, framed on the lines of the! to establish separate schools, or make |vlg ,n gearch Qf p,easure Qr educa\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mwnimonly called 'Natal Act; with the .known the. least intention to act in the\nxifcijeet of preventing such immigration, J matter. Notwithstanding the great\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"fee local Legislature has been pre-, prosperity credited to the Province\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0sated from exercising authority on | they did not, and would not, vote any\n:.5!\u00C2\u00BB own behalf; and > money for that purpose, and had sign-\n\"Whereas a Delegation from the! all'y faiIed to snow an>' sincerity in\nOovernment of Brilish Columbia,!(iealin-- wiUl either uhaEe ot tne 0rl-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0wliose report has been submitted to Iental <\"iueEtion-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-abas House, has recently made further! He agreed with some of the remarks\nwwwa urgent representations on the sub- made by the Premier as to the Oriental\nttxx to the Federal authorities to the, races. The Socialist Party did not ie-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0jsfl&ct that the immigration from Ori-,'sire to cast the slightest slur on them iers have waded through shambles to\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-***-.*-ul countries still continues in a de-JThey had come to this country, i.s ev- maintain the course of law and order.\n*i!!-r-*e constituting a menace to white eryone else had come, to hotter their Where diplomacy must be used, \"the\n\"atoour and the desire to preserve Brit- j condition, and there was no reason to good of the people is the mode to em-\nSOA Columbia as a white man's do-1 say harsh things about them. While Ploy- it is as natural to the profit\n'here they should have fair play and ! mongering, trading, masters of today\n' protection of the law from anv indig- J as ducks are to water, buying and sell-\nBta. heartily concurs in the repre-\"1*^ There might be sociological and N flourish in fraud and chicane;\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^aliens made by the said Delega- \u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB*1 \u00E2\u0084\u00A2aso^ preventing assimilation. | hence their ideali. All movements put\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0tStm to the Right Honourable R. L.: but when her\u00C2\u00AB *<* *ere entitled to into motion to more firmly entrench\nBorden, Prime Minister of Canada, j eve'*-*' Protection. They ht.d not always | the masters as masters and render the\not it. The anti-Oriental riots a few ! position of the slave more slavish are\n' wrapped up in a \"good of the people\"\nNOT WANTED.\ntion, and be welcomed.\nThe resolution passed, (the amendment being defeated) the Socialist\nmembers refraining from voting.\nTHE REFERENDUM AND RECALL.\nContinued from page one\t\n\"justice\" upheld amidst rivers of blood\nand indescribable misery. Their sold-\nmslrni:\nTherefore,' be it Resolved, That this\njon'd desires to express its great satis\n.aB-tlon at the announcement that theVP!\"*s ^\u00C2\u00B0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" Vancouver did not orig-\nBtevCTnment of British Columbia willlina,e witn the whlte workingmen, but\n:*\u00C2\u00BB -consulted in connection with the! *rom 1uite other elements\u00E2\u0080\u0094some of\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0tww Treaty with Japan so far as con-\nthe very business men who were now\naideratlon \"specially\" affecting British ! Professing, indignation at violence\nCi-Smnbia may be concerned; and j whlte workers were now being ac-\n1 cused of. Oriental labor had been orig-\ni inally introduced (under Conservative\nrule) because the labor market was not\ni sufficiently supplied, but that condition\nI no longer oblained, and labor was get-\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I ting to be a perfect nuisance, and the\nIMx. Bcewster moved in amendment,^Conservative party had changed its\n--\".-coridea Hy Mr, Williams, to add the! attltude_ when a working man gets\nSceVuwing after the word \"and,\" at the;hungry now an(] puts up n squawk\n**nt- oI tne nrst Preamble: ]about ,t_ tney break a p0|lceman.8 club\n\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"Be it further Resolved, That His!\n\"Hantntr the Lieutenant-Governor be re-\nmweted to forward a copy of this Reso-.\n'auiuon to the Honourable the Secretary,\n.-af State at Ottawa.\"\npackage. If the ministers of the gospel\ncan be induced to take the matter up\nall the better. They are given the outward appearance of a balm for the hor.\nrid sore of wage slavery. As for Instance free trade; Cobden and Bright,\nslobbered and wept over it. Dr. Bowring waxing eloquent, called It 'Jesus\nChrist on Earth.' The abolition of the\nchattel slaves in the U. S. A. was heralded as a divine act, whereas it was\nan effort to unloose a huge quantity of\nwage slaves for the capitalist markets.\nThe exemption law already mentioned\nis and was instituted solely for the\n-Be It further Resolved, That this! ove]. n,B' head \u00E2\u0080\u009E they contlnued t0 do ; farmers benefit, as we have seen the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Btaise regrets the absence of any as-jlhat ,t wou]d on]y inorease the d,ffl.\n-Huna-ice from the Premier of Canada | cuIty and make thjngs dancei.ous tor\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 fls-x any legislation passed by this ] ,he ming powe].s ,n B c The bus)ness\n.- \u00C2\u00A3fo\u00C2\u00BBae for the purpose of regulating, n hJd foum] m ,hat thg j cQm\n'-teBigratlon into British Columbia will i peted wjth them ,n bU8lneM and tbeir\naot be disallowed by his Government, \ ,Bg wag againgt them Qn that &Q_\nrand that in any Treaty arrangements\nentered into by the Dominion Govern-\nswaixi with the Empire of Japan the\ntiSitrs of both the Dominion and the\nftxoyinces of Canada to regulate the\namraigTation of Japanese subjects will\nise maintained; and.\"\nThe Premier In his address, which\nwits delivered in his usual campaign\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0noanner, alluded to the \"strong influ-\nsWmWSBsf' around Laurier that had sue-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0OBttied in defeating Ihe Natal Act\ncount, and had been largely the cause\nof the outrages in Vancouver he had\nreferred to.\nThe white worker, were it not for\nthe sociological and racial differences,\nwould welcome the Oriental to B. C,\n; but at present their coming creates\ni confusion. Were it not for those reas-\n! ons the Socialist party would have no\nobjection to their coming to the country, and under a different system they\nwould be welcomed, but now they were\npasfled by the local legislature, the.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2fc-pimese competition in tbe |abori not desired here, and should be kept\noaarket, much greater now than ever,\nind the fact that Hindu labor was not\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"s-iiiccess\" in B, C, \"We protect'our'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mile, then why not protect 'our' white\nworkingmen from unequal foreign\nUn petition?\"\nHawthornthwaite said that when\nout with as little friction as possible.\nIt had been suggested that arrangements could be made for the Chinese\nand Japanese governments to restrict\nthe emigration, and that course would\nprobably produce ihe least friction.\nWhat connection was there between\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2--vr the question came before the! all those matters and the resolution?-\nSmote he always felt that an election W\"1** was t0 be taken ,ne,'el>' aa an\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2a-*, not far off. It had cropped up in | eulogy of Conservative administration\n\u00C2\u00BB90O, 1907, ln 1909, and in the years '\u00C2\u00AB* ('a'\"'fla and B- C- wllicn McBride\nj-**- previous to Dominion elections,! \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABate-l t0 P,ace on recora- He (the\n3\u00C2\u00BBe votes and proceedings and the' speaker) did not see why the Socialist\nOr\u00C2\u00BB!nr Paper being studded with slm-l Part*** *hmM s\u00C2\u00BBPP\u00C2\u00B0rt the resolution,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2aw resolutions. The Conservative!\"*\"11 'hey would seriously consider\n-putv \"had been trying to outdo thel what attitude they would adopt. He did\n-U-terals and would doubtless make It! not want to see the workers of B. C.\nm-mxr cry In the coming elections, but deluded into believing that either the\nme was convinced that among the! Liberal or the Conservative party was\n-Mri-tag people it would fall flat, Tor!'heir one and only friend In this mat-\nthe,' would understand exactly what |'er.^They had no t'eason to place any\nJt meant. There might be a certain\n\u00C2\u00ABi*0'--erity and seriousness this time in\nMcBride's professions, but when the\ni\"rtrmier had accused the Liberal party\nlieing insincere in the matter, he\nthem in any matter affecting their interests, if they were to be judged from\nthe records ln B. C. and Ottawa.\nOn the following day (Feb. 15) Brew-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2verlooked the fact that a Conserva-j ster, after a lengthy speech in sup-\n\"B\u00C2\u00BB*s government was in power when port of his amendments, finished up\n1fcric.nt.als arrived ln the greatest num-\n****\u00C2\u00B0*Mn.\n-.The Premier had dealt upon the eco-\n-\\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00ABtmic, ..phase of the question as lt af-\nlae-ueu'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: the white workers living and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2sWM-es, but had not referred to Its ef-\n%vet on tbe educational system, and\nt)*- employment of Orientals in dan-\nSexrms industries. The matter of ex-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2aamnion lay largely In the handB of the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Ottawa government, but In other re-\nWpoctH the power lay entirely In the\n'jKadB ol the Provincial government,\n*i\u00C2\u00BBd the matter of education was pure-\n\u00C2\u00ABy a concern of the local house. Mc-\nIKiide had said that Laurier had used\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Sbfrerae' ln dealing with the question,\nArt. he (McBride) could give Laurier\nby professing to be astonished at Haw\nthornthwalte for saying that under another system (Socialism being meant)\nthe Orientals would be able to come\nIn unopposed. As everybody would\nhave to work under that system, he\ndid not see but that the Oriental\nwould still be competing with the\nwhile man.\nHawthornthwaite spoke to the\namendments. While endorsing the idea\nof an arrangement with the Oriental\ngovernments to restrict Immigration,\nhe characterized both the resolution\nand the amendment as having been\nproduced for political effect. Replying\nto Brewster's criticism of himself, he\nsaid that he was surprised that his\ngrain growers are not trying to bene\nfit themselves alone, not at all, they\nare uplifting humanity. The struggle\nto suppress the booze traffic is not so\nthat slaves may become more sober and\nefficient and need less wages to exist\non, not at all, it is purely a movement\nin the interests of humanity and so\nforth. Now rises the question of Referendum and Recall, there is that nigger in the wood pile? So long as the\nwage slaves are Capitalist minded, so\nlong as they tolerate the wages system, so long as they are content to exist under the profit and loss rule in\nwhich all the profits go to the masters and the losses to the slave; so\nlong will it be perfectly safe to place\nin their hands the Referendum and\nRecall. Nay! It may even become necessary to do so in order to check the\never increasing number of Socialist\nmembers. An easy thing indeed to\nmake public sentiment. A word or two\nto the newspapers a carefully circulated bunch of money in the constituency from which the Socialist member\nwas elected and the Recall would be\nput In force. It would be perfectly\neasy to continually Recall men who\nhad been elected upon the Socialist\nticket by sympathizers or thoBe comrades who do not understand the general laws of Capitalist production. The\nmasters, poor fellows suffer a perverse fate, they forged the workers'\nballot in order to overthrow the Lords\nat the time of the Chartist agitation;\nit is about to be used against them\nwith deadly effect. They introduced\neducation, to make the slaves more efficient and forged.the weapon of their\nown undoing. They have nourished\nthe Idea of Democracy until the slave\nthinks it is indeed for him and is beginning to use it. They have talked\nabout \"our country\" until the slave\nreally thinks It is his country and will\nspeedily see tt is his, In deadly earnest.\nAnd now they have forged the Referendum, so long aB the slave thinks slavishly all Is well, but let the Socialist\nthought dominate the working class\nand this weapon will be turned agalnBt\nthem. Till then the Referendum is\nnone of ours, it belongs to the Radical\nDemocracy who are the Socialists' bitterest enemy, because a hidden one.\nAnd in conclusion all society voting\nagainst the development of society can\nnot stay ItB onward march very long.\nTry and dam Its course with legal .fetters and It will burst over, under and\naround your dam, however stronglj\nbuilt.\nALF. BUDDEN.\nI stood on the quay at St. Johns,\nNew Brunswick, and watched the passengers disembark from the Empress\nof Ireland, which had conveyed them\nfrom their happy homes In England.\nIf they bad lived in happy homes one\nwould scarcely have believed such to I\nbe the case, eo wretched, so ragged,\nso miserable did they appear. However, this may have been due to seasickness or lo the fact that tbe steer-\nape accommodations on these palatial\nliners would turn the nostrils of a\nBelt-respecting hog. Why tho word\n\"palatial\" by the way? Like a palace,\ncontaining every luxury, every convenience, every arrangement that can\nconduce to the welfare of the passengers\u00E2\u0080\u0094of the firat-class passengers of\ncourse\u00E2\u0080\u0094while the great majority of\nthe denizens of this floating city, crew\nand passengers alike, are packed together like herrings In a box and fed\non the cheapest grub procurable.\nBefore me was a great stack of baggage. Each package bore a name-\nJoe Smith, Wm. Brown, H. Jones\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nln huge capital letters the inscription\n\"NOT WANTED\": \"Joe Smith, NOT\nWANTED.\"\nHere comes Joe Smith, at least, an\nindividual who grabs the trunk with\nthis name on it. He is followed by a\nbig man with a fat cigar in his mouth\nand a uniform adorned with bright\nbrass buttons on his exterior. This\ngentleman Is the customs officer\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nmost, important personage\u00E2\u0080\u0094and he\nhas a great appreciation of the fact.\nWith a piece of chalk he makes a\nmysterious sign on Joe Smiths belonging, and departs.\nWe get into conversation with Joe\nSmith. How did he happen to leave\nthe Old Country? we ask. Well, he\nreplies, couldnt get work; tried everywhere. On the factories and warehouses and shops was the notice, \"No\nHelp Wanted. For months I was\nlooking for a job. At last I heard of\na job out in Canada and the man I\nam going to has paid my fare in advance; I dont know what I should\nhave done If this hadnt' turned up.\nJoe was quite confidential. Further\nconversation elicited the Information\nthat his future employer would pay\nhim $15 a month and his board If he\nstayed all summer.\nNot Wanted In England: There\nare thousands that are not wanted.\nWhat to do with them is the trouble\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe Unemployed? Cant' find 'em work,\ncan't feed 'em unless they do work,\ncan't very well shoot them or string\nthem up\u00E2\u0080\u0094they might get hostile. Let\ntbem go to Canada; we don't want to\nbe bothered with them.\nBut are they wanted in Canada?\nYes\u00E2\u0080\u0094by the employers\u00E2\u0080\u0094in order that\nwages may be forced down by the\ncompetition for jobs. But the workingman knows what the immigration\nmeans: It means ultimately the lowering of our standard of living; nnd the\nworkers constitute the great majority\nof the population, though they are\nslow in realizing this fact.\nJoe Smith iB Not Wanted in England; he is not wanted by most of\nus in Canada\u00E2\u0080\u0094at least not aB a competitor for the jobs loaned us. The\nshipping agent pats him on the back\nand tells him how glad the Saskatchewan people will be to see him (the\nshipping agent pockets a five-spot\nover the transaction), and the Government pamphlets assure Joe Smith\nof the prosperity that awaits him.\nSure, the more Joe Smiths the more\nprosperity\u00E2\u0080\u0094but not for Joe Smith.\nThe propserity is for the capitalist\nclass.\nBut you can have too much of n\ngood thing; and the capitalists can\nhave too many Joe Smiths. They have\ntoo many in Vancouver right now;\nthey dont know what to do with them.\nAnd our hero, who has by this time\narrived at the \"City Beatulful,\" to\nquote from a recent Issue of the Vancouver World, finds he ls still \"Not\nWanted.\" He is an undesirable citizen, not allowed to giber with\nhis fellows on the public streets or\nto discuss with them the somewhat\nInteresting question of where the next\nmeal Is to come from.\nBut the time is coming, and the day\nIs ever growing nearer, when every\nman willing to do his share of the\nworlds work wlll be welcomed in any\nland; when every child born into the\nworld will have as his heritage his\npart in the natural resources of the\nearth and the accumulated wealth\nwhich centuries of labor have produced, which wealth Happens to be\nat the present time ln the hands of\nthe Idle capitalist class. Labor has\nproduced the railroads, the factories,\nthe steamships, the Bawmllls and all\nthe great machines of production and\ndistribution\u00E2\u0080\u0094but these are owned hy\nthe non-workera, the Idlers, and are\nonly at the disposal of the workers\nas long as profits can be produced for\nthe owners. No profits, no work\u00E2\u0080\u0094no\nwork, no wages\u00E2\u0080\u0094no wages, no food.\nNOT WANTED. The time Is coming when these words will be applied\nto quite a different bunch of people.\nKing George and Queen Mary will not\nbe wanted, the Duke and Duchess of\nConnaught and all the rest of the\nroyalty and aristocracy wlll not be\nneeded ln our business. The Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Carnegles,\nthe Rothschilds, and all the other\nF. 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We will shake the\nwhole bunch of parasites and their\nheelers and hangers-on\u00E2\u0080\u0094and unless\nthey fill the bill as useful citizens they\nmust go. Every member of society\nshall, according to his abilities, do his\nshare of the socially necessary labor,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and according to his needs receive\nof the food, clothing and shelter and\nthe luxuries and refinements of life.\nNOT WANTED. You are wanted.\nRight now, everyone of you, employed\nand unemployed alike. You are all\nneeded, right now, to do your part In\nthe greatest conquest of the ages, the\nconquest of right over privilege; of\nthe oppressed and downtrodden over\nthe tyrants and oppressors. Let us\nget busy all of us.and enlighten and\neducate our fellow workers so that\nere long labor may come Into her\nown and slavery, poverty and degradation may disappear forever from\nour midst.\nALF JOHNSON.\nWEBSTER'S '\nNEW\nINTERNATIONAL\nDICTIONARY\nTHE MERRIAM WEBSTER\nThe Only New unabridged dictionary in many years.\nContains the pith and essence\nof an authoritative library.\nCovers every field of knowl.\nedge. An Encyclopedia in a\n. single book.\nThe Only Dictionary with the\nNew Divided Page.\n400,000 Words. 2700 Pages.\n6000 Illustrations. Cost nearly\nhalf a million dollars.\nLet us tell you about this most\nremarkable single volume.\nWrite for sample\npages, full par.\ntioulara, etc.\nName this\npaper and\nwe will\ntend free\na set ot\nPocket\nVancouver City\nand Suburban\nReal Estate\nB.C. Acreage and Fruit Lands\nW. W. Lefeaux\nHollyburn (West Vancouver)\nVancouver and Eevelstoke\nPRE-EMPTORS LOCATED\nA square deal guaranteed\nE. H. 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