"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-03-31"@en . "1909-07-17"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318830/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THIB In\nJtUMB.tB\n536.\nVancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, July 17, 1909.\nsubscription Price gti Mat\nNECESSITY FOR SOCIAUSM\nComrades. If. you had something to\nsell, you would try to persuade a prospective buyer, lhat it was what he\nwanted, in other words you would\n.show him that he had need of it. Now\nwe members of tbe Socialist Party\nTo go to work,\" etc.\nYou are not yet convinced -perhaps ugetu, labor 0\u00E2\u0080\u009E the ayerage \"about\nthat you do deliver up to the master\nclass. You think because you are paid\nby your employers that they keep you,\nand not you keep them. You give up\nhave an economic theory, a cure for j your four-fifths of your product, it goes\nthe ills of society today. To get the j to the master class in pleasure yachts,\n, people whom this will nenelit, to take j Teddy Bear dinners, midnight orgies,\nit up, we must show them that they] etc., etc., it also helps along those\nThe productive power of the working\nclass has increased wonderfully since\nthe advent of the rule of capital, lees\nperhaps in the cultivation of the soil\nthan in any other branch ef productive\nlabor. A few generations ago the\npeasants could and did, refrain frjim\n44\nMORTIMER FUND.\ndays in each year. They seldom worked\non stormy days. They could only work\nwhen nature gave them light. They\ndid not have to worry about sherriff's,\nnotes, mortgages, land values, worlds\nmarkets. Yet, with the crude methods\nof that lime they produced an existence for themselves and a fat living for\nhave need of it. At the present lime lean years of hard times known as U^ nla8tel.g\nI do nut Ihtnk our members are giving! want of confidence times, financial I\nThe productive power of those who\ncultivate the soil to-day, is many times\ngreater than was that of the peasant.\nit is a very rare farmer that can rein prosperous times your four-fifths\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 enough attention to this part of the|8tringences, etc. etc.,( please forget!\npropaganda, we carry on. I believe j that these are caused by spots on the\nthat if we can show the working-clas-l sun.)\n.ses that they have need for Socialism\nthat they wiH study up the matter\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2and eventually become Socialists.\nHence this article.\n1 believe that society as a whole\nrtieeds Socialism, but as the plutocratic\nfraln from useful labor even on Sun\n\u00C2\u00B0'_^!u^1\"s.\"^fl!!! n\u00C2\u00B0lZTf.^ da>''aad wl,u modern \"*,ins aPara\ntus farmers perform considerable useful labor when nature does not furnish\norgies and competition, is piling up\nthere comes a time when the warehouses get full ,with no buyers, then\nthe masters who empioy you for profit\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2class are fairly comfortable and can aIone| tunl you a$ri(u for committing\nunanage to get along fairly well in\nithis world, we can be content to con-\n.flne ourselves to the working-classes.\nThe first thing that the workingman\nshould get into his head, is, that he\nIs on (his earth, not for his own bone-\nJit and .pleasure, but for somebody\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0else's benefit. That the only excuse\nfor his existence is that he can toll\ntor somebody else. As Shelley well\nputs it:\n\"'Tis to worl; and have such pay\nAs jusl keeps life, from day to day.\nIn your limbs, ns in a cell.\nFor the tyrants' use to dwell.\nSo that y,c for I hem are made,\nljootn and plough and sword and\nspade,\nWilli or without your own will bent.\nTo their defense and nourishment\"\nBut toiling, for somebody else Is\nslavery carps the critic, und we abolished thai long ago. Right here, Mr.\nWorkingman you must understand\nthat though We have changed the outward visible sign of slavery, that the\ninward substance is there, just the\nsame. You are every bit as much a\nslave as the chattel slave, and a good\ndeal more of a slave than the feudal\nserf. Now Mr. \"Employee,\" \"Assist\nant\" \"hired help\" etc., before I can\nprove to you that you are a slave, I\nmust tell you what slavery is and\nthen you can see if it fits your case or\nnot.\nFirst as to the name, you may call\nyourself an employee, or assistant, but\nhave trouble with an employer and\nyou will find in legal terms that It ls\na case of Master and Servant. That\nEnglish word servant, if you look very\nclosely Is derived from the Latin\nroot \"Servus\" a slave. So legally you\nare a slave in name. So much for the\nname. Now as to the fact itself. Herbert Spencer's definition of slavery is\nas follows. \"How much Ib he compelled to labor for other benefit than his\nown, and bow much he can labor for\nhis own benefit? The degree of slavery varies according to Ihe ratio of\nthat which he Ib forced to yield up.\nAnd that which ho Ib allowed to retain.\" I think It should be clear to\nyou now, that. If you deliver up part\nof the product of your toll, that you\nare a slave. The question ls, do you?\nYou are under the opinion that the\nchattel slave gave up the whole of his\nproduct, and that you receive the whole\nof yburs. That shows where you are\na mental slave, just thinking the very\nthoughts your masters wish you to\nthink. The chattel slave had to earn\nsufficient to reproduce his wasted\nenergy and a return on the capital\nrequired to keep him till he was able\nto labor, before he earned anything for\nhis master. In other words, he gqt\nfor his labor-power, the cost of its pro\nduction, and\"so do you; what Is over\nis surplus for the master class. Now\nthe cost of raising and keeping a chattel slave was greater in preportion to\nthe total amount of the product that\nhe turned out, than the cost of raising\nand keeping you, Mr. Wage-slave, is to\ntbe total amount of product you turn\nout. Consequently according to Mr.\nHerbert Spencer, you are a greater\nslave than tbe chatted. You simply\n\"Go to work.\nTo earn the money\nTo buy the goods\nTo gain the strength\nthe crime of making too much. You\ngo through a period of hard times, get\na little bit thinner, lose all the property you ever owned, beat up and down\nthe country a bit, till times get a bit\nmore prosperous, then yon go through\nthe cycle again, just like a monkey\ndoing a circus stunt.\nAfter getting into your head, my\nfriend, that you are a slave, an abject\none at that, and that you exist for no\nother purpose than to make your masters lives easy and luxurious, think of\nIhe awful poverty that the working\nclasses are in. By poverty, I do not\nniean that they are starving or dying\nof hunger. Thomas Carlyle Bays, \"It\nls not to die, or even die of hunger,\nthat makes a man wretched; many\nmen have died; all men must die. Bui\nit is to live miserable, we know not\nwhy; to work sore and yet gain nothing; to be heart worn, weary, yet isolated, unrelated, girt in with a cold,\nuniversal Laissez faire.\" To live\nmiserable, we know not why, to have\nthe dread of hunger, to work sore and\nyet gain nothing;\u00E2\u0080\u0094this is the essence\nof poverty, they all belong lo the working class and nearly all the working\nclass belong to them, and that. Is one\nof the reasons why you need Socialism\nand need It soon.\n.Mr. Workingman are you going to\nallow yourself to continue aB a slave,\nand your class in such abject poverty,\nor are you going to show your manhood and resent such things. I do not\nknow much about that land of many\nmansions beyond the skies that you\nhave to die to get to, but I do know\nthat there Is a happy land right here,\nand many mansions here for you too;\nI know hat by co-operation, you can\nmake a paradise for yourselves here,\nthat the majority of the evils from\nwhich you suffer, are from economic\ncauses and that they can be changed\nby man. Brothers of the working\nclass your conception of the heaven\nbeyond the skies is but a tawdry thing\nbeside the paradise that you can have\nhere, when everybody will have for a\nmotto the words of Col. R. Ingersol.\n\"The object of life Is to happy,\nThe place to be happy is here,\nThe time lo be happy Ib now,\nThe way to be hapy, Is by making\nothei-B happy.\"\nYours in revolt,\nEDMUND PULCHER,\nBrandon\nlight.\nThe peasants enjoyed a much larger\nper cent, of the values they produced\nthan do Ihe farmers. True, peasants\n,eould not produce multi-millionaires\nAll institutions educational or otherwise, that have the endorsation of the\nOapitalist class, are maintained for a\ndouble purpose. First, to increase\nthe productive power of the workers,\nnot, in order to benefit the working\nclass, but to increase the surplus val-\nues(profits) for the Capitalist class.\nSecond, to mentally chloroform the\nworkers, so thoy will not detect how\nand where they are robbed of the values they produce.\nA very small per cent, of those who\nculMvate the soil own farms. If the\nother fellows have the farmer's notes\nor a mortgage on his place, they own\nlt, and even the few that are free from\ndebt have to struggle trying to keep\nout of debt. They are all at the -mercy\nof property they do not own. Capitalist properly. Railroads etc.\nIf you are as interested in the welfare of the farmers, their sons and\ndaughters, as you claim to be, you will\njoin Willi us Socialists. Our mission is\nto secure for the working class of Canada, ownership over the industries of\nthis country: we believe that is ihe\nonly way the working class can free\nitself from the rule and robbery of\nCapital.\nC. M. O'BRIEN.\nBox -1)47 Calgary, Alta.\nThe Mortimer Fund is as follows.\nIf there is any omission In the list,\nplease notify the undersigned and it\nwill be rectified:\nW. S. Ellis J 1.00\nCalgary 8.00\nFernie 10.00\nEdmonton 3.50\nWinnipeg German Branch 3.00\nSandon 5.00\nVernon 8.25\nBerlin 3.50\nMontreal 5.00\nE. Johnson 2.00\nH. R. Siemon, Port Moedy 5.00\nWinnipeg English Branch 23.25\nRed Deer 2.10\nHamilton 13.00\nBellevue 14.75\nVancouver 33.00\nP. M. Draper 2.00\nToronto, per Gribble 21.50\nPort Moody 3.45\nGrand Forks 3.00\nPhoenk 2.00\nCape Breton 10.00\nKelowna 5.00\nW. K. Bryce 1.00\nSointula 8.25\nGibson's Landing 4.50\nR. Maxwell 1.00\nColeman 10.26\nBrockville 1.00\nOttawa 3.00\nWest Ft. William 1.00\nGait 1.50\nWest Toronto 1.50\nVictoria 100.00\nA. H. Grewar\t\nBrandon \t\nJ. Coxon \t\nBeaver Point \t\nComrade Bwing, Sask\t\nToronto, per Wrigley\t\nOkotoks \t\nR. P. Pettipiece\t\nT. E. Kelly\t\nA Friend \t\nJ. Edwards \t\nM. -Martin \t\nT. Millar \t\nW. Turnbull \t\nW. Fleming \t\nLettish Local, Port Arthur.\n1.00\n2.75\n.58\n5.00\n5.00\n6.00\n3.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\n1.00\nli.70\nECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT\nLocal Nanaimo 26.50\nTotal $384.75\nW. H. STEBBLNGS\nSuite 7, Lydia Court,\nWinnipeg, Man.\nTHE GALL FROM THE WEST\nWILFRID GRIBBLE.\nM. L. A. FOR SLAVES ONLY.\nP. Talbot,\nLacombe, Alta.\nDear Sir:-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nYour letter to hand. I have carefully noted the many arguments you\nadvance in favor of having the Agricultural College established at Lacombe. I have also carefully considered the many arguments advanced by\nthose who are interested in having the\nAgricultural College established at\nStrathcona. Both sides try to make\nlt appear that they are battling wholly\nin the interest of that uncertain quantity the public. I can readily see that\nmaterial Interests are the basis of the\nwhole controversy. The college will\nadd considerably to the property values in the place where It is established.\nIt does not matter to me nor the class\nI represent which place secures the la-\ncreased values. ,,\nWeary of Capitalism's yoke,\nResentful of its chains,\nThe rebels fled, and west they sped,\nTo Ihe mountains, woods and\nplains;\nThey journeyed long, for their hearts\nwere strong,\nAnd their aims and holies were\nhigh:\nWest, ever west, and this tb5 E-astlng-s Street, Vancouver, B C.\nSUBSCRIPTION:\nJS.C-0 )Por Year, 50 cents for Six Months,\n25 cent:; for Tbroo montlis.\nStrictly ln Advance\nBundles of 5 or more copies, for a\nneri'Srl of not less than three months, at\ntho rate ol' one cent per copy per issue.\nAdvertising rales on application.\nIf you receive tills paper, it Is paid\nfsv.\nIn* making remittance by cheque, ex-\nK&ange must be added. Address all\neonumink-ittions anil make all money\n\u00C2\u00ABrder.\" payable to\nTHE WESTERN CLARION,\nSoot 836. Vancouver, B. O.\n537\nWatch the label on your paper. If this number is on it,\nyour subscription expires the\nnext issue.\nSATURDAY, JULY 17, 1909.\nWANTED\u00E2\u0080\u0094A FRESH START.\nThe Huddersfield (England) \"Worker\", expresses Itself as bitterly disappointed in Britain's \"Labor-Socialist\"\nsepresentatives. And yet it is far from\nSting an impossiblist paper. To the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ontrary, it appears somewhat of that\nmild and \"reasonable\" type of Socialist\nso much admired by our friend the enemy, and seems lo have been quite prefaced to rejoice at even a slight step-\nat-a-time movement in the direction of\nSocialism on the part of Ramsay Mac-\nskmald and his confreres. Even this it\ntails to find In their records in the\nHouse, ln fact it suggests that \"it\nlooks as though the Liberals were\nmaking the running and dishing the\nLabor men.\"\nIt insists that Kier Hardie, Macdon-\nsiiid & Co. might find something better to devote their attention to than\nanswering Blatchfcrd, casting cold water on Graysen and expending their\nenergies \"on matters in which the So-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0iallsl wing of tlis party is less interested than the mere trade unionist\nway be.\" It concludes that\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"They seem loo ready lo rest content with mere replies to, or at lacks\niipen, what they regard as Graysonism.\nWe cannot be content with negations,\nwith triumphant exposures of the fal-\ntesious hopes and desires of the 'young\nnan in a hurry.' lt is good to be in a\nftorry. It is good to think lightly of the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2nJiRcuIties. It is good to be impatient\nof rules and forms and ceremonies.\n4nd it is good to be anxious to get on\nwith the work of building up the Co-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2nerative Commonwealth. There is so\niBHch to be done that it is high time\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0the Socialist Party within the House\nhas] made, a start. For in purely Socialist work a start has still to be\nmade.'.'.\nWhen the news was heralded around\nibe world that some half-hundred stalwart workers, \"mostly Socialists,\" had\nwon their way into that gentleman's\ndob,-the. British House of Commons,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2real were the rejoicings and high the\nhopes In the world of Labor, and those\nor ns who were Inclined to be skeptical\nwere regarded as mere chronic knockers. Since then, those Labor representatives have successfully demon-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0strafetJ the absolute futility of reformist-policies in general and of the 1. L.\nP.i in particular, for which Indeed we\nowcthem thanks. Of course, to these\n-iiepreeentatlves this Is by no means\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2dear. For has not the I. L. P. elected\ntbem than which it Is hard to Imagine\na greater success in their eyes, unless\nIt *\u00C2\u00ABito elect more of them. Previous\nlo that they were unheard of nobodies.\nSow they are notables, In fact, fast\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2eeonjing even notorious. They can\nmake world toura and be received with\nenthusiasm, \"even by people who have\naoiijtnipathy with Socialism.\" They\nirao, iua body, go to Germany \"on a\nmission\", (save the mark); In the\nwords of\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ramsay Maedonald. \"to meet\nXiayors, Ministers, and leading men of\naft classes and schools of political\n^bought.\" Though the trip was marred 4y the fact that from the German\nSocial-Democrats they \"got no encouragement/\" yet by what we hear they\nHad a pleasant time, and \"were received by committees\u00E2\u0080\u0094to which the\nSocial-Democrats were asked to send\nTenresentatlves, but did not except at\nDnsseldorf, but where they subsequently withdrew\u00E2\u0080\u0094and by big towns\n2fte Cologne, officially.\" With the result, whatever it was, Ramsay is greater pleased. (They have a happy faculty, these I. L. P. representatives, of\nalways being greatly pleased with the\nresults of their existence.) \"It greatly euhaneed Ihe reputation of the Labour Party itself.\" Except, of course\nwiih the German Social-Democrats, and\nthey don't matter.\nIndeed and Indeed, except that they\nism hardly be called working class candidates, how well Bakunin's forecast\nfits these very men: \"Working class\ncandidates, transferred to bourgeois'\nconditions of life, and Into an atnios-\noltflve of completely bourgeois political\nideas, ceasing to be actually workers\nSu order to become statesmen, will be\ncome bourgeois, and possibly will become even more -bourgeois than the\nbourgeois themselves. For il Is' not\nmen who make positions, but, on the\ncontrary, positions which make man.\"\nThe \"Worker\" is right; \"in purely\nSocialist work a start has still to be\nmade.\" Nol alone in the House of\nCommons, but, practically. In the propaganda Held also. There are few Socialists in Britain; lliere is an increasing number who would like to be- Ii\nis noWeaders they lack, they have tar\ntoo many;- what is needed is a fool-\nkiller at large among the latter, instead of the*torcb of Revolution they\n! carry ihe rush-light of Reform before\n| the workers and having how led them\nInto the bogs of Parliamentarism, who\nis to extricate them? The workers\nthemselves, and no other. In his sentimental way. Grayson touches t-hc\nI right note in his recent speech at Neth-\nerton:\n\"Those methods have kept you in a\ngroove. I don't think Socialists need\nmuch re-enthusing, but there was need\nfor an intellectual spring cleaning, a\nreconsecration lo their task, with a\nfresh supply of facts and arguments\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nan armour that no opponent could overcome. * \u00C2\u00BB * * There was no\nother argument than that mankind\nshould own the .means ot production,\nand if they made anything it should be\nmade for the good of humanity, and\nwhen they distributed it the product\nmust be to beautify and beautify the\nlabourer's life. Before they laid their\nheads on their last pillow he hoped\nthey would be able to look on an earth\nwhose children were not wage slaves,\nbut who were emancipated workers;\nthe stroke of whose hammer was accompanied by the notes cf a free and\nhappy song. That was their ideal.\nThey believed they could do it. They\nmust never get tired of holding aloft\nthe torch of Socialism.\"\nYes, clearly, that is what is needed,\n\"a fresh supply of facts and arguments.\" Facts, irrefutable, iron-clad',\n\"doctrinaire\" facts. After having repudiated \"German-made\" Marxian Socialism and devised a \".Modern Socialism,\" an \"English Socialism,\" to\nwhich no middle-class reformer or\nhide-bound trade unionist could take\nexception; which would admit even of\nan \"entente cordlale\" with the Liberals; would build up a great Party and\nwould, success of successes, elect the\nelect; after all this, it is now a case\nof back to JIarx and ho, for a fresh\nstart, t'larionetle and I. L. P.er and\nS. D. F.er have, lo, these many weary\nyears, been bewailing the hard lot ot\nthe consumer, voicing the bitter cry\nof the children, warning of the \"sinister designs\" of Russia or Prussia,\ndenouncing British \"misrule\" in India, insisting upon work for the work-\nless, immediately demanding this, lhat\nand the other. Doing all things but\nmaking a start in the \"purely Socialist\nwork\" of elucidating to the producer\nhis enslaved position in society; the\nwhy and the wherefore of it, and the\none remedy.\nDark Indeed would be the outlook\nfor the Socialist movement in Britain\nwere It not that signs are not wanting\nof the speedy coming of a Revolution\nwithin the workers' movement; a casting out of the devils of Compromise\nand Respectability. Of a wholesale\nsearching for \"a fresh set of facts and\narguments.\"\nWorld over, as the revolutionary period approaches, the decadence of Reformism, the inanity of middle-class\nIdeas, the intellectual poverty of the\nintellectuals, is writ large and larger.\nAs the industrial system evolves toward its final transmutation, the Socialist movement evolves parallel to it.\nWhen society is seized with the pangs\nof childbirth, the midwife will be\nready.\ndaily if well advertised.) Some of\nthem have even been suspected of\ndoing, good by stealth. They are\nliurnan beings and there is no reason\nwhy many of them -should not be\nquite human. Arid the human genus,\nihovjgh perhaps the,most stupid^ is by\nno-means the most brutal of annual,\nspecies.\nHowever it is quite another story\nwhen ihey get down to -business\".\nThey cease then lo be human and become merely the \"outward and visible\nform of the Inward and invisible spirit\"\nof their property. And property is\ncold, meuhsnical, unseeing, merciless.\nHaving no function bul to accumulate,\nKecking nothing of the ruin and desolation it leaves in lis track, it moves\nblindly unswervingly on to its own\ndestruction, and chained lo its wheels\nthe human race must move with it.\nFor all are slaves to property; the\npoor to anether's, the rich to their own.\nNOTES FROM THE TRAIL.\nSLAVES TO PROPERTY.\nFrequently kindhearted, sentimental\nsouls are wont to lament \"man's Inhumanity to man\" which \"makes countless thousands mourn\", more especially if thai Inhumanity is practiced\nfar off In some alien land. They shudder with horror when a Russian Revolt is put down wllh rapine and\nslaughter and even, upon occasion,\nthey sadden at the contemplation of\nworkers being half starved and overdriven, and Ihe lives of children being\nground out of them in mills and factories. Our humanitarian friends are\napalled when confronted with such conditions. Some of them seek to alleviate them. A few add their cupful to\nthe ocean of distress by writing verse\nabout it. With most of them their\nhearts overflow in words of btiring indignation and they let it go at that, and\nattribute the mercilessness of the oppressors to original sin, human depravity, lack.of godliness or such other\ncause,\nThe fact of the matter is that no\nhuman attribute has anything lo do\nwith it. It is property that is the\nguilty party. The capitalist grinds the\nfaces of the poor with absolute indifference to their sufferings, not out of\nany spirit of fiendish malevolence, but\nmerely at the behest of his property;\na behest that he must obey. Capitalists are not demons incarnate. Most\nof llieni are reputed, to be not at all\nbad fellows, and we are not inclined\nto altogether disbelieve it. Many 5)f\nthem delight In good works, (espe-\n(By W. J. Curry)\nBusiness at Rupert is not brisk at\npresent. Doing one another's washing,\ntrading with one another and peddling\n\"hot air\" in such an atmosphere does\nnot bring that amount of prosperity\nwhich was expected. Now that the\nmuskeg on which the pioneers of Rupert builded their homes has been sold\nfrom under them by Messrs. Rand &\nCo., tnose early birds who, in defiance\nof the G. T. P. Co., squatted on Ihe\nproperly will have to move or pay\nrent to the lords of this soil, the majority of whom, we understand, reside\nin Vancouver. This should serve as\na lesson to the wage-slave to obey his\nmasters, be con-tent with his wages\nand not to try to climb out of \"that\nstation in which it pleased God to\nplace him.\"\nLeaving Rupert on the Hudson's Bay\nCompany's boat \"Hazleton.\" we tied\nup at the wharf at Port Essington In\nthree henrs. During our stay there 1\nshook hands with Comrade Garvie of\nVancouver Local, who has placed his\nlabor-power with the Cunningham Cannery Company for the season. There\nis now quite a bunch of Socialisis at\nEssington. ' The Jap and Chink have\ncaptured about all the jobs in the fishing industry on the Skeena and Ibis is\nopening Ihe eyes of the workers as to\nthe nature of capital and has prepared\nthem for the seed of rebellion. One\nrebel expresses his regard for modem\nsociety on such days as the 4th of July\nand Emidre Day by running upon his\nflag pole the \"red flag of anarchy\"\nmuch to the disgust of the more respectable people and to the amusement\nof \"undesirable citizens.\" At Essington we took on more passengers and\ncargo, and at four o'clock, with a farewell toot, the boat headed .up-stream\nwith the wind and tide in our favor.\nFor.many miles along the north side\nof the river we saw the cuts and tunnels of the workers employed by the\nrailway company, but there were very\nfew men at work. We were informed\nthat the work was so hard, the food\nand lodging so poor, the wages so low,\nthe storms of rain and sleet so frequent, and in season the flies so numerous and hungry, that when an offer\ncame from Alaska to employ them, the\nmen forfeited their pay, If any was\ncoming, and left almost ln a body. Another reason why so few wage-slaves\nwere seen along the line of construction is said to: be because of an affliction, chronic and epidemic, among the\nreaders and even the staff of Socialist papers like the Clarion, viz, \"financial stringency.\"\nIt is said the G. T. P. ls short of\ncash. In spite of the fact that this\ngreat artery of commerce Is about to\ntap the marvellous' resources ol\nwealth laying dormant In the northwest and In the hides and tallow of the\nworkers and run It all Into the pockets\nof the shareholders, O. T. P. bonds are\nnot in demand and the company Is\nhard up. When the working plug Is\nout of cash and a job, he Is frequently\nrun ln by the police, lodged In a lousy\ncell and forced at the end of a club and\ngun to work In tbe chalngang for the\nbenefit of the property owners. The\nsquawk of hunger on the part of promoters of Ihe G. T. P. had a vastly\ndifferent effect on the government than\nthe appeal of the destitute man or the\ncry of the hungry women and children\nof the working class.\nThe Laurier government, hearing its\nmaster's voice, firstly, guaranteed interest on the bonds besides giving\nother concessions; secondly, put up\nten million dollars to help build the\nroad, and, thirdly, has intimated that\nif more is necessary, it will be pleased\nto cough up additional funds.\nHow true is Marx's assertion lhat\nthe \"governments are but the executives of ihe ruling classes,\" and the\nworker who votes for anything 1ml\nSocialism is voting for hunger, degradation, lousy cells, pool-houses and\nchain giings for his class. It Is only\na pity that all who vote for wage\nslavery could not get a good dose ol\nthese luxuries as a lesson. The faci\nIs that the G. T. P. Is not good enough\nfor the men who understand the proposition, and within a very few years\nthis railroad and the \"Northern Metropolis,\" known as Prince Rupert, will\nbe used as a club on the heads of those\ncorporation puppets now at Ottawa\nand Victoria.\nBetween business hours the capitalist inay.be sporty or even reckless,\nbut buying, stocks is strictly business,\nand lit- V'Bil Jiiip.ws.the differen\u00C2\u00A3ftjj&.\nt#oen a. winner'to bet on and the hide\nof a pack mule stuffed with,buncombe\nor a wooden rocking horse made to in\nterest grown-up children and goverh-\nmeunil grfaters. But the children do\nnot want industrial slocks at presenl.\nA land boom Is on and so we see them\nfight ins; and lieiug as they gamble\nwith parts of the earth's surface, too\nmenially obtuse, too morally v.-arped to\nkiitv.v that they are but social leeches\niisin^ the land stolen from the Indian\nas a medium through which ihey suck-\nthelr profits from the veins of Ihe producer. There are only three possible\nways of acquiring wealth: Producing,\nbegging or stealing it.\nReasons Why G. T. P. Bonds are Not\nin Demand.\nThe promoters of the company said:\n\"We will get the northern trade.\" but\nthe men with the cash well know lhat\nElondyke and Atlln are in rapid\ndecline and that more and more of\nthe freight going to Yukon points is going via St. .Michaels and from Seattle\nand Frisco.\"\nBul think of the Oriental trade!\nAgain too late! Too late! Reports\ntell us that Japan and even China are\ntaking less and less of the products\nof the Western world and sending\nmore and more abroad.\n1 About fifteen years ago Japan began\nto import enormous amounts of steel\nproducts, especially machinery, from\nUncle Sam and John Bull. There was\nnothing too good or high-priced, and\nso Jonathan and John shook hands and\nchuckled over their stroke of business.\nBeing traders and capitalists, they\nknew little or nothing of Ihe basis ot\ntrade or the origin and outcome ol\ncapitalist production. Now Japan is\nmaking the finest kind of machinery\nfor sale, and she and China are already\nthrowing lumber, coal, copper and\nmanufacturing goods into the world's\nmarket, while India is installing a ten-\nniillion-ddlku- steel plant. In India the\naverage wage is six eents per day.\nwhile ihe natural resources of Ihe\nOrient have hardly been touched. Jonathan and John Bull are slowly realizing that selling the tactics and am\nmunition of trade and commerce to\nthe heathen was not such a brilliant\npiece of business after all.\n.Markets are today world markets.\nWe are even now getting butter, mutton, eggs, etc., from Australia and New\nZealand and fruit from South America. This world competition for trade\nIs compelling the installment of more\nproductive machinery and of increasing economy in the produetion and distribution of commodities, so that with\nevery turn of the industrial wheel\nthere Is a greater and greater surplus\nof wealth which must he disposed of\nas the purchasing power and therefore\nconsuming abilities of the workers are\ngrowing less, both actually and relatively.\nToday capitalism faces a crisis\nwhich means its overthrow. The last\ndumping ground, the Orient, Is requiring less and less of our products while\nIt is beginning to produce a surplus of\nits own. But the surplus products of\nihe Western world must be disposed\nof or the wheels of Industry stop or\nslow down, and the workers actually\nsicken and die from poverty just because they have created so much\nwealth! But though millions have\ndied and are dying from this cause,\nenough will live to overthrow the class\nwhich now rules and robs them, and\nthis spectre of rebellion, together with\nihe impossibility of finding markets,\nare today Important factors in causing\ninvestors to turn away from propositions so remote and questionable as\nthe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company's bonds.\nThey tell us that Socialism is the\ndream of the workers, but to the capitalist it Is becoming a veritable nightmare. In Europe organized labor has\nthrown down Ihe gauntlet to their rulers. In Canada, the United States and\nEngland trades unions are stampeding\nfor the red flag of social revolution.\nThe intelligent capitalists are beginning to read and understand the handwriting on the wall which tells them\nthat thlelr days are numbered; that\nthey have been weighed in the balances nnd found wanting. But the\nsmall capitalist, the trader, the land\ngrafter, the professional men, the political and Intellectual tools of the corporations are, as a rule, too busy making a living, chasing butterflies, blowing bubbles, building houses and tracing townsiles in the sand to see the\ngreat tidal wave of revolution Bumping toward them, and their Ignorance\nIs only equalled by their conceit.\nOnly when these classes nave been\nthrown out of the fools' paradise In\nwhich they live and have struck Ihe\ncold- barren rock of poverty on which\nthe wage-workers stand, will they see\nthe world as It really ls, and only then\nwill they assist in destroying the\nbrutal and insane form of property\nrights now existing and help to usher\nIn the co-operative commonwealth.\nIf I read aright, the rude awakening of\na goodly number of this class here on\nihe Pacific coast Is near at hand.\nSocialist Directory\nM)0 Kvery Local of the Socialist Partv oi LOCAL POET MOODY B B. wn di\nT-Z-a- .x. ,., ...J _ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .-j .....,__ ...,- <.._.. i s. v. n, tt u,,..!..\u00E2\u0080\u009E..!. _' rT^?\"-*.\nCanada slwui) run a card tinder this iicad\ntl.nn per menWi. Secrelaries please note.\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,\nSocialist Party of Canada. Meets\nevery alternate Monday. D. G. McKenzie. Secretary, Box S36, Vancouver,\n13. C.\nB. V. ot C\u00E2\u0080\u0094Business meetings first\nbundny In each month. J. v Hull\nSecretary, Port Moody, ,33. c\nBHITISH COLUMBIA. PROVINCIAL\nBHecuMyi? Csmmittee. Socialist Party\nof Canada, Meets every alternate\nMonday, D. G. McKenzie, Secretary,\nBox s:iu. Vancouver, B. o.\nLOCAL REVELSTOKE, B. C, HO. 7, 8.\nT. ot* C. Propaganda and business\nnieetliiKS at 8 p. m\u00E2\u0080\u009E the fourth Thursday of each month in lodge room over\nold post offlce, near opera house Everybody welcome. R. F. Gavrdan\nbecretury; W. W. Lefoaux, Organizer\nALBERTA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ommltlfte, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Mundny in\nLabor Hall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postofllco. Secretary wiy be\npleased to answer any communications\nregarding the movement in the province.\nA. J. Prawning, See, Box >i Cal-.\ngary, Alta.\nI LOCAL Ill-.HI.IM, ONT., NO 4 S. I'. (!!\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 C.-\nI strata i very second and foattli U'edaisday\nevening, ill s p.ni , 55 King s,, ,.,,, 0,,posile\n1 Markei Hotel. II. Mnrlin, Scev. 1,1 Wel'er .St\nansi\nMANITOBA PROVINCIAL XSXECU-\ntlve Committee. Meets first, and third\nMondays of everv month. Jubilee Hall,\ncorner of King und Alexander. The\nSecretary will be pleased to furnish\nany Information and answer any correspondence relative to the movement;\nSecretary, it. '-. James, 32c, Hargr&ve st\nWinnipeg, Man.\nLOCAL NELSON, S. P. OP 0., MEETS\nevery Friday evening at 8 p.m., in\nMiners' Hall. Nelson, B. C. Frank\nPhillips. Organizer; I. A. Austin. Secy.\nLOCAL PHOENIX, NO. S, B. P. OF C.\nmeets every Sunday at S:30 p.m., la\nMiners' Hall. James Carson, Organizer; John Appleby, Secy.\nLOCAL CALOARY, ALIA, NO. 4, 8. V.\nof C. Meetings every Sunday at 8\np.m In the Labor Hall, Barber Block,\nEighth Ave. E. (near postotllce). Club\n1 and Bending Boom, McTavish Block\n817 Second St. E. opposite Imperial Ho el.\nPreils. Houlklier, Orgs., B, * 647; j, Gibiis,\n1 ox 647.\nONTARIO PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE\nCommittee. Meets In Finnish Hall, 214\nAdelaide St., Toronto, on 2nd and 4th\nWednesday. Organizer., W. Gribble\n184 Hogarth Ave.. Toronto;\nP. C. Young, Secretary, 1,-40 Pupe Ave,.\nToronto.\nLOOAL BELLEVUE, ALTA., NO. 13, S.\nP of C\u00E2\u0080\u009E meets every rirst and third\nbunday evenings, Bellevue Town Hall\nC. Stubus, Secy.\nLOCAL VANCOUVER, NO. 1, S. P; Or\nCanada. Business meetings every\nTuesday evealng at headquarters, over\nKdgett'a Store, 151 Hastings St. West.\n?'. Perry. Secretary. Box 836.\nLOCAL COLEMAN, ALTA., NO. \u00C2\u00BB.\nMeets every Sunday night In the\nMiners' Hall and Opera House at 8\nP.m. Everybody welcome. Socialist\nspeakers are invited to call. H J.\nSmith, Seoy.\nLOCAL VANCOUVBR, B.C.. NO. 45, FINNISH\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets\"every second and fourth 'I'linrsday in\ntin- month at 151 Hastings St., W. Secretary,\nMatt Mnrtilla\nLOCAL VICTORIA, NO. 3, 8. P. OF C.\nHeadquarters . and' Reading Room,\nRoom 1, Eagle Building, 1319 Government St. Business meeting every\nTuesday evening, 8 p.m. Propoganda\nmeetings every Sunday at Grand\nTheatre.\nW. G. McCluskey, Secretary, Box 770.\nLOCAL. EDMONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, ft.\nP. or C. Meets every Thursday at 8\np.m., ln Trades and Labor Hall,\nFounfch St. BiAstie.-is and propaganda\nmeetings combined. J. R. Huntbach,\nSecy., 161 First St. S.; R. MucOuarrle.\nOrganizer, 623 Second St.\nLOCAL NANAIMO, NO. 3, 8. P. of C,\nmeets every alternate Sunday evening\nln Foresters Hall. Business meeting\nat 7:00 o'clock sharp. Propaganda\nmeeting commences at 8:00 o'clock|\nJack Place, Itec. Secy., Box 826.\nLOCAL PERNIE, 8. P. of C, HOLDS\neducational meetings In the Miners'\nUnion Hall. Victoria Ave.. Fernle,\nevery Sunday evening at 7:45. Business meeting llrst Sunday In each\nmonth, same place at 2:30 p m. J.\nLancaster, Sec. Box 164.\nLOCAL GREENWOOD NO. 9, 8. P. OF\nC, meets every Sunday in Miners'\nUnion Hall at 7:30 p.m. Business\nmeetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each\nmonth. T. Y. McKay, Secretarp Pro\nTern.\nLOCAL VERNON, B. C, NO. 38, 8. F. OF\nC, meets every Friday nlr-ht at 7:30\nIn Tlnnsins' Hall, cor. of Seventh nnd\nTronson Kts. Business and propaganda combined. Geo. W. Paterson. oec-\nretary, Vernon, B. C.\nLOCAL HILLCREST, ALTA., NO. 15, 8.\nP. or C\u00E2\u0080\u009E meets every Sunday after\nUnion meeting in Union Hall, Hillcrest\nMines. Alta.; Alex. Whyte Literature\nAgt; Carl Johnson, Secretary.\nLOOAL WINNIFIiO, 8. P. OF C. HEAD-\nqual-ters Klonoyke block, corner of Pacific\nand King Business meeting every\nSunday morning 11 a. m. Propaganda\nmeeting Sunday evening 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. VV. Cummings, Organizer.\nJas. W. Amer, Secretary, 336Maryland\nstreet. r\nLOCAL LADYSMITH NO. 10, 8. P. Or\nC. Business meetings every Saturday\n7 p.m. In headquarters on First Ave.\nParker, Wllti&ms, Sec, I.aJysniith, B. C\nLOCAL ROSSLAND, No. 35, B. P. OF C,\nmeets in Miners' Hall every Sunday at\n7:30 p. m. A. McLvod, Secy., P. O.\nBox 674. Rossland Finnish Branch\nmeets in Finlanders' Hall. Sundays at\n7:30 p. m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Box\n765 Rossland, B. C.\nLOOAL TORONTO, 8. P. OF C.-Z-ENO-\nUsh Branch. Business meetings\nHrst nnd third Wednesdays of\neach month, Finnish Hall, 214 Adelaide\nSt. W. Speakers' class meets alternate\nMondays and Tuesduys at 134 Hogarth\nAve. Economic classes meet every\nFriday night nt 314 Wellesley St,\nSpeakers supplied or shortest notice to.\nOntario Locals. Corresponding Sec, A.\nI.yon. 1.14 Hsgarlll Ave. -\nLOCAL OTWIWA NO. 8, 8. F. OF C,\nBUSINESS MEETING 1st Sunday la\nmonth at 7:30 p.m. at Roberts-Allan\nHall, 78 Rldean St. Propaganda meetings following Sundays at 3:16 p.m.'\nEconomic class, Monday night, 8 p.m.\nHistorical class, Friday night, 8 p.m.,\nat 379 Wellington St. Charles Lestor,\nOrganiser,\nE. S. Oldham, Cor. Secy., 1030 Broo-\nson Ave.\nLOCAL COBALT, NO. S, 8. P. OF O.\nPropaganda and business meetings\nevery Wednesday at 8 p.m. ln Miners'\nHall. Everybody invited to attend.\nArthur L. Botley, Secy., Box. 446.\nLOCAL MONTREAL. QUE., NO. 1, SV.\nP. of C\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets in Labor Hall. St.\nDominique street, Sundays at 3 p. m.\nlleaequarters No l St. Charles Ilorromce St\notto Julm Secretaay, 528 Cliausse\nDirectory of Western Federation of Miners in BritisJ.\nColumbia\nExecutive Board Member\nWn*. Davidson, Sandon\nDISTRICT ASSOCIA1 :ON NO. 6.\nPresident\nVice-President\nSecretary-Treasurer\nJno. A. McKinnon, Rossland\nThan. J. McKay, Greenwood\nA. Shilland, Sandon\nNo.\nName\nMeeting\nNight\nSec'y.\nP.O.\nBox\nAdi.\nAtlln \t\nCamborne\nGrand Forks..\nGreenwood ...\nHedley \t\nKaslo <\t\nKimberly\nLardeau \t\nMarysvllle\nM. ft S. U.\nMovie \t\n. Nelson \t\n8 Phoenix \t\n38 Rossland ....\n'\" Sandon \t\nSllverton \t\nSlocan \t\nTexnda \t\nTrail M & M..\n861Ymlr\nWed\nWed\nSat\nWed\nSat\nSat\nSat\nWm. Wtnslow....\nPatrick O'Connor\t\nCharles Blrce....\nC. Bennett\t\nMike McAndrews.\nJoe Armstrong\t\nFred Mellette....\nSat\nSat\nSat\nWed\nSat\nSat\nSat\nSat\nMon\nWed\nC. Gairns\t\nJames Tobln .... J\n. W. K. Madden I\nGeo. Heatherton..\nT. H. Rotherham..\nH. T. Rainbow....\n. A. E. Carter\t\nChas. Short\t\nB. Lundln \t\nMalcolm McNeill.\nPaul Phillips\t\nR. Sllverthorn...\nJ. A, -McKinnon..\nL. R. Mclnnls...\nRobert Mnlroy...\nBlair Carter\t\nO. B. Mcintosh..\nWm. Ilrsketli\t\n|A. Burgess\t\nJ. Hays \t\nisines Roberts \ni\ Phillips \t\nW. A. Plckard...\nGeo. ,*asey..,.\t\nA. Shilland\t\nFred Llebscher..\nD. B. O'Neaill...\nT. T. Rutherford,\nF. D. Hardy...,\nW. B. Molsaac.\n12\nM\n124\n4!\n391\nO\n12\n35\n106\n284\n421\nK\n85\n90\n888\nS77\n606\nDiscovery\nCamborne\nOrand Forks\nGreenwood\nHedley\nKaslo\nKimberly\nFerguson\nMarysvllle\nMoyie I\nNelson\nPhoenix\nRossland\nSandon\nSllverton\nSlocan City\nVan Anda\nTrail\nYmir\nTYOLAISET CANADASSA\nJos tuhilotte jotakin tietaa\ntyovaen puolueeata ja soaial-\nismin edistykaesta Canadassa,\nniin tilatkaa kohta.\n\"Tyokansa\"\nBox 197, Port Arthur, Oat.\nSe on Canadassa ainoa Suo-\nmen kielinen aanomalehti, jo-\nka taisteleesinunkinpuolesta.\nEdistat tyovaen luokkaa tila-\namalia Tyokanaan.\nMakm ainooitiin, $1.50 vuoiikerta\n\"VMslmka\" Mikiia. |l.\u00C2\u00BB\n.TEIMTS\n[PROMPTLY SECURE!\nwe solid, the business of Manufacturers,\nBngtncers and others who realize the advisability of having their Patent business transacted\nby Experts. Preliralnarysdvlce free. Charges\nmoderate. Our Inventor's Adviser sent upon\nrequest. MSrlon It Marlon, New York Life mdg.\nVoulrell J ' lid Washington. D.C, U.S.A.\nC PETERS p,,e,,c,, BMl\nHand-Hade Bpoti and Shoe* to order in\nall style*. Repairing promptly and neatly\nly done. Stock of staple ready-made\nShoes always on hand.\n\u00C2\u00BBSI Wnlmlsittr Ave.\n\"The Class Straggle\" \"S'lSiKW^t\nHulled for Site In ilfimpn-, nrci.tn wniiloit.\nCHARLES H. KERR it 00., 183 Kioile Btreat, Qhlcftgo, 111\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0van\nPropaganda Meeting\nSunday Evening, 8 o'clock\nNational Theatre\nFormerly the Cameraphone\n58 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0s-i\u00C2\u00ABMMKMMiniasHilsMiaVni SATURDAY, JULY 17,. 1909.\nTHE\n1 11 .\n.WESTERN CLARIQJL_VANCQUVER, BRITJSH, COLUMBIA.\nTHRE-&\nThis Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive Committees, Locals\nand General Party'Matters\u00E2\u0080\u0094AddrtSS All Communications to\nD. G. McKenzie, Sec, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C.\nPRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES.\nSupplies will be furnished Locals\nby Executive Committees at the following prices:\nCharter (with necessary supplies to start Local) $5.00\nMembership Cards, each 01\nDues Stamps, each 10\nPlatform and application blank\nper 100 2B\nDitto in Finnish, per 100 50\nDitto ln Ukrainian, per 100 50\nDitto in Italian, per 100\n....B0o\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE.\nMeeting, Monday, July 12th, 1909,\nPresent, Comrades Wirme (chairman), Mangel, Morgan, Peterson, Stebblngs and the secretary.\nMinutes ot previous meeting approved.\nCharters granted Locals New Finn-\nland, Sask., and Lachine, Que.\nResolution of Ontario Executive concurred in and ordered published.\nPort Arthur Finnish Local's proposition received per Ontario Executive,\nAnd secretary Instructed as to the publication thereof.\nCorrespondence dealt with from Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta Executives.\nLocals Amherst, Springhill and Cape\nBreton, N. S.; Albert, N. B.; Windsor,\nOnt., and North Battleford, Sask.\nFrom Organizers dibble and\nO'Brien, and from Int. Soc. Hureau.\nReceipts.\nOntario Executive $14.00\nManitoba Executive 10.00\nAlberta Executive 25.00\nLocal Cape Breton, stamps 15.00\nLocal Springhill, N. S., stamps.. 1.80\nLocal North Battleford, Sask.,\nstamps 3.00\nLocal Lachine, P. Q\u00E2\u0080\u009E Charter.. 5.60\nLocal New Filmland. Sask.,\nCharter o.r.O\nI \"Whereas, on page twent-flve, last\nI paragraph, the Finnish comrades take\na position apparently in contradiction\nof the vital principle of the recognition of the class struggle as a requisite\ncondition of membership in tile Party.\n\"Be It Therefore Resolved, That\nfurther action In this matter he suspended pending an explanation of their\nmeaning regarding this paragraph;\nami,\n\"Be It Further Resolved, That this\nExecutive take the position that if\nthe Finnish comrades cannot accept\nthe existing membership pledge, requiring a recognition of the class\nstruggle as a condition of membership,\nthat tney are in duty bound to withdraw from the Party.\"\n.Members present, Zalklnil, Llndala,\nStroud, Watkinson, Colombo, and\nYours ln Revolt,\nW. GRHEN,\nSecretary pro tem.\nTotal\n7H.90\nB. C. PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE.\nMeeting. Monday, July 12th, 1909.\nMinutes of previous meeting approved.\nWai-ants authorized for poslage and\nduty, $5.00; to Lestors, $23.25.\nCorrespondence dealt with from Locals Hosmer I Ukrainian), Phoenix,\nMara, Kamloops, Nanaimo and Victoria. From Organizers Harrington\nand Tomashavsky and Comrades Hawthornthwaite and Larson.\nLocal Vancouver, stamps $10.00\nLocal Vancouver, Finnish, stamps\nand supplies 5.50\nLocal Vancouver, Finnish (Co-\nSECRETARIAL.\n'and earried on many weighty arguments, Joggins is alright, you will\nhear from the Comrades there.\nThe next morning we proceeded to\nAmherst where we looked up Comrade\nA. Collins. In the course of the afternoon we spread the news that there\nwas to be a graud Socialist rally at\nVictoria Square that evening. A crowd\nut about 1,000 gathered. Mounting the\nband-sland the writer pfoeeeded to enlighten them to the best of his ability\nin the hour at his disposal before the\ncrowd diverted them. The military\nband acted very decent, waiting about\ntwenty minutes for us to finish. About\n100 followed us\" to -the hall where another good meeting was held.\nAll In all, this trip has greatly encouraged me. Amherst is seething\nwith revolt and ihe Comrades are\npatiently waiting for the coming of\nComrade Gribble. 1 am sare the Amherst Comrades will not. feel offended\nif I prescribe a little more study.\nCAPITALIST LIBERTY vs. LIBERTY.\nThe Old Flag! It stands for Liberty, Free Speech and Freedom of the\nPress.\nThis motto, in'that it refers to the\nUnion Jack, is submitted to my readers that they may indulge in paroxisms of ghastly mirth. Of all grim\nwitticisms, conceived in the tortured\nbrain of sour cynic,>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 It stands preeminent. Accompanying my cradle's\nswing, it became the burden of my\nschool-day song and ever shone before\nmy youthful vision, until\u00E2\u0080\u0094I innocently attempted to carry out its principles\u00E2\u0080\u0094then I saw the point.\nUnder the protecting folds of so\nbenevolent a banner, Comrade Hemming and myself recently arrogated\nto ourselves that vaunted right of\n\"Free Speech,\" and delivered of our\nminds their wisdom, to all and sundry who strolled within range of our\nPROPOSITION \"TO REFERENDUM.\nComrade, the Maritime is swinging j seductive voices. Therein the practl-\nThe atentlon of Locals is called to\nPort Arthur Finnish Local's proposi- j Com Wm. DavenportrBrantford\ntlon. Locals wishing to endorse the Total\nsame should do so forthwith. Considerable delay has already occurred on\naccount of the proposition not having\nbeen submitted through the Ontario\nExecutive. While we are no sticklers\nfor red tape, it would hardly have done\nfor the Dominion Executive to usurp\nthe jurisdiction of the Ontario Provincial Executive.\ninto line. The organizing fund at present stands:\nPreviously acknowledged $17.80\nCol. at meeting, Toronto, per Com.\nA. Lyons 100\nLocal Toitonto Eng. Branch 10.00\nCom. R. Woodhouse, Toronto 1.00\nCom. Stewart, Toronto 50\nLocal Sidney Mines 5.00\nCom. A. Baker, Brantford 50\nCom. F. Oddy, Brantford 50\nCom. J. W. Fogal, Brantford 50\n50\n$37.30\nYours in Revolt,\nROSCOE A. FILLMORE,\nAlbert, N. B\nCHILD SLAVERY ON THE FARM.\nComrade Editor:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFrom Saskatoon, I crossed country\ninto Alberta and addressed 14 meet-\nIn regard to the proposition Itself, inSs- Thel- over mai\u00C2\u00BB line c- p- R- int\u00C2\u00B0\nli\nlt might be remarked that a Dominion\nconvention at this time, involving as\nit must so heavy a drain upon the\nParty's resources, is not altogether the\nwisest move we could make, from a financial viewpoint, especially as regards British Columbia where an election seems imminent. It would seem\nwiser for the Provinces to fund their\nprovincial convention assessments,\nand when a sufficient sum had accumulated, to pool their funds and hold\na Dominion convention.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIn case the proposition arouses\nmuch, discussion in these columns, correspondents are requested not to write\nat too great length, as shorter communications will be given Ihe preference; in other respects both sides in\nthe controversy will be given an even\nshake. It should, however, be remembered that abuse is no argument, but\nmerely the sign of poverty in argument. V\nWOODSTOCK, ONT.\nWestern Clarion, and Comrade:\nJust a line from Woodstock, Out., to\nmox campaign) 7.05 lit you know that the tide of the Socialist Party has reached this part of the\nGlobe. With enough force to have\nComrade Gi-'-en of Toronto, spend a\nnight with ns, June :14th. After a number of us listened to Comrade Green\naddress for an hour and a half, lt was\nsignified by all present that they would\nmeet on July 8th and form a local.\nHoping that every man that was\npresent will carry out this now and\nform a good strong Local in Woodstock. I remain.\nYours In Revolt.\nLocal Kamloops, stamps 2.00\nLocal Mara, stamps 2.00\nLocal Nanaimo, stamps 10.00\nIxical Hosmer (Ukrainian),\nstamps 2.00\nLocal Phoenix. Constitutions... 4.00\nTotal $42.55\nALBERTA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\nMeeting of Alberta Provincial Executive held July 7.\nPresent, Hyatt, Foln, McDonald and\nthe 'secretary.\nCorrespondence dealt with from\nMeeting Creek, A. Stewart, Moose\nJaw; Finnish Publishing Co. and Dominion Executive.\nFormation' ot Ukrainian branch of\nCalgary Local, approved.\nReceipts.\nCalgary -..$ (1.20\nCalgary (Ukrainian) 5.50\nMeeting Creek 4.75\n$16.45\nExpense*. -\nCard In Clarion $ 3.00\nDominion Executive 25.00\nPost Offlce rent 1.00\nA. J.\n$29.00\nBrowning,\nSecretary.\nONTARIO PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE.\nDear Comrade:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAt a special meeting of Provincial\nExecutive last night, June 30th, the\nfollowing motion was^passed:\nMoved by Green, seconded by Watkinson: \"Whereas the Dominion Executive has drawn the attention of this\nProvincial Executive to the Issuance\nof a pamphlet by the Finnish Locals\nin Ontario, and other Provlnes, said\npamphlet arguing in favor of immediate demands; and,\n\"Whereas the Finnish comrades\nstate lhat the pamphlet was issued for\ndistribution among Party members,\nnnd not for for general propaganda,\nconsequently we are of the opinion\nthat the pamphlet, being issued as a\ndiscussion ot our platform, ls not a\nviolation of Party law; and,\nF. F.' BRIGNALL.\nCELEBRATES THE FIRST.\nDear Comrade: \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ..\nOn July 1st the anniversary ot the\nbirth of \"our\" country, It entered my\nnoddle t'hat I shouid celebrate the\nevent by making an effort to hammer\nthe spirit of revolt Into some of the\nminers of Jogglus. N. S. Accordingly\n1 embarked upon an excursion steamer\nand at 11 a.m. was diligently searching\nthis mining camp for \"undeslrubles.\"\nNeedless lo say I found them. The\nU. M. W. of A. voted me their hall\ngfhtls. At 6.30 p.m. we called the\nmeeting to order. About 25 were present which was a good attendance considering the fact that there were games\nof baseball and football in progress.\nAfter speaking about fifty minutes I\ncalled for signatures on an application\nfor charter, seven Comrades responded\nand- those who signed assured me that\nthey knew several more who would\ngladly do so when given the opportunity. Comrade Walter A. Grlce, secretary of the U. M.W., took charge of\nthe application and It will be forwarded In a few days, bearing probably\ntwenty-five names.\nAbout 8 p.m. I hustled for my boat\nand upon arriving at the landing found\nthat she had nvallcd herself of the opportunity to leave Iwo undesirable citizens (Comrade Tlngley of Albert accompanied me) behind. Obviously the\nonly thing for us to do was lo return\nto the hotel, whicli we did.\nAt 9 p.m. having gathered a good\ncrowd on the street we proceeded to\nInitiate them into the mysteries of the\npresent economic system. At twelve\nwhen we retired the crowd still stayed\nSouthern Saskatchewan, where I addressed 0 meetings and made the acquaintance of many fine Comrades. I\nam now in .Manitoba, but will address\na number of meetings in Saskatchewan\nas I return to Alberta.\nWhile in the farming districts, I\ndiscovered there was an extra good\ncrop of mosquitoes, the best, they said,\nin seven years. They tortured the\nhorses so, in many cases, they had to\ncease plowing. How much the children suffered is beyond my power to\ndescribe. But neither Ihe horses nor\nthe children, had lo worry about\nsherriffs, notes, mortgages, land values, worlds markets, failure of fall\nwheal, late spring, prospects of being\nfrozen out, hailed out, burnt out, either\nby hot winds or prairie fires, the loss\nof horses or cattle from disease.\nMosquitoes are only one of the many\ntortures lhat the men and women have\nlo endure. There is the many diseases\namong themselves, particularly the\nchildren, such as, the many different\nkinds of fever, diptheria, quinsey, la-\ngrippe, chicken pox, mumps, measles,\nand other diseases that are common\namong people who have to live In such\nmiserable little dwellings, the cold\nwinds nnd keen frost of the winter.\nThere are also house Hies, fleas, bedbugs, that il is almost impossible to\nescape, no matter how hard the women\nfolks slave in trying to keep the shacks\nclean.\nThe horrible child slavery that exists\nIn the industrial centres is equaled\n(If I had the ability to describe tt as I\nknow it to exist) by the child slavery\nIn the farming districts. Very poorly\nclad, out early in the morning in the\ncold wet grass In summer, and the\nsnow in winter, doing the many chores\nSat children, because ihey are light\non foot, can do as well and in less\nlime than grown up folks. There are\nalways so many chores that the children cannot do, that keep the grown up\nfolks busy. Then a hurried breakfast\nof, us a rule, very coarse food, dinner\nIn hand, Ihey hurry several miles on\nthe average to school. Fatigued and\ntired out, they sit on the hard wooden\nscats In the dull country schoolroom.\nThe teacher In order to hold his or\nher job must Impart Borne technical\nknowledge to Ihe children, so as to Increase their productive power. Here\nthey get a change but not a rest. The\nteacher must worry and torture them\nuntil it is time to get home and do the\nevening chores. The same grind every\nday.\nIf the price of the coarse adulterated\nfood and the shoddy clothing that those\nchildren gel was given them In wages\nI doubt if lt would amount to one-half\na cent per hour. Children like all\nother living things, follow the road of\nleast, resistance. That accounts for\nthe difficulty of keeping them on the\nfarms. They escape as soon as Ihey\ncan. Then the supposed wise folks\nsay these children could have had a\ngood education, but Ihey ran away.\nFarmers are rapidly discovering thai\ntheir ownership of their Job Is a myth.\nThat like the rest of their class, they\ndo not own, capitalist property. That\nthe Capitalist class controls all the\nfarmers produce, he who colli rolls Ihe\nproduct of my labor is my master, I\nam therefore his slave. Farmers just\nget wages, poor wages at that. However slaves are only worthy of a\nslave's portion, which Is Just enough\nto enable them to coiillnue to slave\ncal Joker had us on the hip. You see,\nIt's all ln the definition ot \"Free\nSpeech,\" which means, according to\nthe machinery of Winnipeg law administration, \"the articulation of\nideas under police supervision.\" For\nour ignorance in this respect we spent\nseven days in the monkey cages of\nhis majesty. I believe the magistrate\nsaid something about a fine, but, of\ncourse, we couldn't pay for the city's\namusement, of which we were the object\u00E2\u0080\u0094that would be too much.\nIt is useless to waste further words\nupon the question ef discrimination,\nfor the police department and the city\ncourt quite candidly admit that they\ntlo now, and propose further to give\npreference to the Salvation Army in\nthe use of the streets for propaganda\npurposes. The old fight for this small\njot of freedom must be fought anew.\nAnd It must be fought by the working class, for it is against that class\nand Its doctrines that this so flagrant incident of oppression is directed. It remains to be seen whether\nthere burns a spark of true democracy\nIn the breasts of Winnipeg workers,\nwhich will inspire them to a staunch\ndefence of their inherent rights.\nOne tiling is certain, Comrade Hem-\nming's and my own Incarceration\nwas due to the fact lhat our politics\nare of a different hue to those of our\nmasters. We were therefore political\nprisoners\u00E2\u0080\u0094in this laud of the free.\nWe got on very well in gaol, apart\nj from a feeling of relationship to train\ned rabbits, when examined by visitors through the bars, the time passed pleasantly enough. We had plenty\nto read, thanks to the Comrades who\nwere still at large. Of the prison officials, we can, even were we so Inclined, speak no ill. They were as\nconsiderate as rules and regulations\nwould permit.\nOne incident Is worthy of most especial mention. As one of the distortions of capitalism, I will carry Its\nrecollection to my grave.\nOn the morning of our prison Sunday, there visited the scene of insult\nseveral celestial delegates selected by\nGod to voice His various sentiments.\nj Collecting such of the prisoners . as\nhad not been there before and were\nnot wise into a small room, the representatives of Divinify placed themselves between us and the only exit\n(with design, as we soon learned)\nand opened fire.\nFirst, we were exhorted to give\nthanks to God for the privilege of\nbeing where we were, then we got a\nmost severe keel-hauling for being\nthere, which didn't strike me as being fair to the Almighty. However,\nIt was later made manifest that if\nwe would quit boozing (no provision\nfor teetotallers) Christ would help1 lo\nget us out again. That resembles a\nmalicious effort to arouse dissentlon\nabove. One brother told how he had\nremained adamant to the influences\nof the saving grace, until he nearly\ngot scalded to death, which scared\nhim so bad that he Joined the Salvu-\nilon Army and was there to tell us\nihat he wasn't any better than we\nwere, but that Christ had made him\nwhole, and It was his for glory. After\na duet, whicli classically Illustrated\nthe horrible anguish of lost and riven\nsouls, the orgy was crowned by a pe-\niltlon to the Supreme Power to pour\nIlls bountiful blessing upon the police\nstation.\nThis broke the cord of toleration.\nIf God is ever so unfortunate as to\nhear the Blckly drooling which issue\nfrom the anaemic \"minds\" of His\nsnivelling iletilenanls, it would give\nHim such an attack of vertigo as to\ncause Him to fall out of Elysium.\nWith all this, my Comrade and I\nreturn wllh heightened spirits to the\nconflict. And never shall our energies\nbe relaxed until, ir lit* be left us\nthe conquest be achieved, and Liberty\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094illusive goddess\u00E2\u0080\u0094reign over all the\nworld \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the home of the working\nclass.\nSPES. In The Voice.\nand produce young slaves to take their\nplaces when they are worn out. The\nfnrmers are fast taking up the study of\nSocialism. They are eager for our\nmessage.\nC. M. O'BRIEN.\nBox 647 Calgary. Alta.\nThe Canadian Socialist Party, like\nall the Socialist parties of the other\ncountries, is working with the present\nconditions in sight. Or anyway it\nshould so work. This again provides\nthat the platform at all times must be\nkept in accordance with the present\nconditions; it is to be amended as\noften as the state of things needs.\nNow is the platform defective regarding same Important matters, not In its\nprincipal but in its practical side. In\nthe platform none of the immediate demands, which are at (iresent found in\nthe Socialist Party Platforms of all the\nother countries of Ihe world and which\nthe proletariat of every country very\nbadly needs, are mentioned. The\nplatform does not once say what kind\nof legislation the Party advocates, by\nthe way, tt is only mentioned that\nthe C. S. P. stands for such a legislation whicli will benefit the proletariat\nIn their class struggle. A sttperficlal-\nness like this explains nothing and it\ndoes not\" satisfy in the slightest de\ngree the workers, wherefore we can\nnot get them with us, If the platform\nIs not enlarged.\nWe are convinced that the Party\nPlatform mast at least contain some\nof the very Important facts, by means\nof which we reach the winning post,\nthe Socialist society, and not only a\nfew principal sides of the last show\nof the social revolution, as the platform now does. Only thus, I. e., by\nthe means ot a practical platform can\nwe get the masses with us and put a\nstop to the reactionary work of the\nbourgeoisie, which it is doing encouraged by its own class Interests. The\nspecial metion In this case ls published in book form: \"The Canadian Socialist Party and Social Democratism,\"\nto which we here refer.\nAnother important question which\nought to be especially considered, Is\nthe format!** of the propaganda work\nto be more practical and to be In more\naccordance with Its purpose.\nThe state of things in Canada re:\nquire large exertions for the organization of the propaganda work, but just\nfor this reason as much attention as\npossible ought to be given to this\nquestion.\nOwing t* what has be?n previously\nsaid, the Pert Arthur Finnish Socialist Local decided at thoi'- meeting held\nthe 24th April, 1909, to move for a\nreferendum in the 0, S. P. on Die\nmatter of holding a general Party\nConvention for the whole country.\nThe matters which we are going to\nsubmit to the Convention are, as above\nmentioned, the enlargement of the\nParty platform and the organization of\nIhe propaganda work.\nIn order to have all the possible\nbenefit of the Convention, it needs the\nmost thoreugh preparation. To get\nenough time for these preparations\nand propositions, we submit that the\nConvention be held on or about the\n15th of September next. The meeting\nplace of the Convention we submit the\ncity of Port Arthur, Ontario.\nIf this proposition ls granted, the\nPort Arthur Finnish Socialist Local,\ntogether with the other Locals of this\nplace, will promise to arrange the practical business for the Convention.\nPORT ARTHUR FINNISH SOCIALIST LOCAL.\nSubsidiary Proposition.\nWhereas, the above proposition contains no provision for financing the\nConvention, the Dominion Executive\nCommittee submits that an assessment of two dollars ($2,00) per member be levied for that purpose.\nIxicals that favor the above propositions are hereby called upon to notify their respective Provincial Committees as soon as possible before\nAugust 7th.\nShould the majority of the Locals\nIn any Province favor the propositions,\nthe Executive Committee should endorse them and so notify the Dominion Executive not later than August\n14th.\nIf thus endorsed by a majority of\nthe Provincial Executive Committees,\nIhey will at once be put to a'general\nvote of the Party, ln accordance with\nArticle IV, Section 1(d) of the Constl-\nXere and Tfow\nBy \"LEEDS\"\ntut Ion.\nFraternally submitted,\n' D. G. MrKENZIE,\nDominion Secretary.\nWHAT IS A TRUST?\nIn his noteworlhy book, \"The Truth\nabout the Trusts,\" John Moody says:\n\"In the usage of today the term 'Trust'\nls applicable to any act. agreement, or\ncombination believed to possess the Intention, power or tendency to monopolise business, interfere wllh trade, fix\nprices etc. By this definition we see\nthat not only are consolidations of\nformer competing plants 10 be looked\nupon as Trnsls. but all large businesses\nwhich posess the foregoing characteristics are Trusts, whether made up of\none planl or a hundred, and whether\nactually possessing monopolistic feui-\nIres or nol. Thus, franchise corporations and groups are Trusts, railroad\naggregations are Trusls. posessors of\nexclusive power and privileges of any\nsort, as well as mere producers on a\nlage scale must be looked ui>on as\nTrusls.\"\nThe usefulness of the Clarion is limited only by its circulation. It ls astonishing the number of workeus one\nmeets who hare not heard of the Clarion or the other Socialist papers. You\nadmit that those articles and letters\nwhich appear each week are the real\ng_oods, but how limited their power\nis unless a large and ever increasing\nnumber of readers' see them. Now\nis the time to pile up your votes for\nelection day. The Clarion will make\nthem as fast as you wish, so let\nevery local concentrate Its energies en\npushing the circulation. The results\nwill surprise you.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *\nIt may mean hard work, but a Hat\nof nine subs from Comrade Cribble\nshows that the slaves of the Maritime\nProvinces, as elsewhere, are susceptible to the truth, If we only take\nthe pains to put our position before\nthem.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAre you qualified to vote in civic*;\nelections? If so, get your name oil\nthe voters' list.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nComrade G. H. Robson renews hie\nsub. for another year. He designates*\nsociety's divisions as 'two bunches\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nparasites and slaves.\" He also remarks, incidently, that \"The Clarion\ncertainly contains the information\nnecessary for the wage-slave to have\nbefore he can free himself and, society from the cures of capitalism.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\n\"Yours for a red hot one,\" says the-\nredoubtable Stebblngs, and moves the\nWinnipeg list up another notch, with\na bunch of. four.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nComrade H. J. Robinson Introduces\na couple of inbestigators from Toronto, \"the Good.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWhose fault Is lt that the number\nwho sent in one sub. this week is se\nsmall? Will I have yours, soon?\n* V %\nJ. G. .Morgan, Vancouver, B. O; A.\nHall, Thunder Bay, B. C; J. E. Cook,\nVancouver, B. C; J. L. Thornley, Fernle, B. C; W. McDonald, Vancouver,\nB. C; H. Norman, Vancouver, B. 0,j J.\nV. Hull Port Moody; Chas. Chaean,\nTenlno, Wash., U. S.>A.; Alex Lyon,\nToronto.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA man lost and perishing In the\nforest and refusing to be guided to\nsafety when found, ls somewhat like\nthe workingman who \"refuses\" ta\nread a Socialist paper.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\"How few think kindly of the thinking few. How many never think at\nall who llilnk they do.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFor workingmen to attempt to elect\nother than Socialists to administer the.\naffairs of a city, is merely to repeat\nthe follies of the past.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 e\nUntil labor conquers poverty, the\nmotto, \"Labor omnia vlnclt\" will remain a standing joke.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIt Is your ballot that decides the\nquestion: Shall capital or labor write\nthe law.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 e\nWas the rushing of 500 cut-throats\nto Glace Bay for the purpose, If necessary, of shooting hot lead Into their\nfellows, an evidence that \"the people of Canada are religiously Inclined?\n\"All class struggles\nstruggles.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Marx.\nare political\n8ANDON, B. C.\nComrades: -\nAt a regular meeting Of Sandon Socialist Local, .No/36, held on July 6,\n1909, your communication of June 28,\n1909, asking for a -donation from each\nof the Locals was acted on as follows:\nThe 1 al voied $10, a donation ot\n$5.00 nnd five subs, for the Clarion.\nPlease find enclosed order for $10.00.\nYonrs ln Revolt.\nNORMAN HURLBURT,\nSecretary.\nPORT MOODY, B. C.\nDear Comrade: \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEnclosed find M. O. for $8.00, for\nfive Clarion yearly sub. cards and 20\ndues slump for Local Port Moody,\nnnd n year's Clarion sub. .\nYours for Revolution,\nJOHN V. HULL.\nCARD OF THANKS.\nIs your name on the voters' list.\nIn behalf of myself and Utile ones,\nI wish to thank all friends for their\nkindly help and sympathy lu our sad\nbereavement, especially the Socialist\nComrades for their splendid loyalty\nto the dear one whose loss we so\ndeeply mourn.\n1 wish to acknowledge receipt of\nIJtSiOO from the Tailors' Union,\n$358.26 through Comrade W. H. Steb-\nUlhgB and-$26.50 per D. G. McKenzie,\nfor this I extend our henrlfeli Hianks.\nLENA L. MORTIMER,\nSt. Vincent, Minn. FOUR\nTHE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nSATURDAY, JULY W, 1909.\nOUR LONDON LETTER\nWithin a week the members of the\nWomen's Social and Political Union\nwill4have accomplished another \"raid\"\non the House of Commons and the papers will then again be filled with the\ndeings or the Suffragette. In view of\nthe many misconceptions which people have in regard to the Suffragette\nmovement in England, It might not be\namies here to explain what relation it\nbears to the Socialist movement.\nMany seem to think that the Suffragette and Socialists are identical,\nand yet nothing could be more erroneous, for with the exception of a few\nSuffragettes being Socialists and a few\nSocialists being Suffragettes, there is\nnothing in common between the two\nmovenfents as they are now constituted ln England.\nIt is not to be inferred from this article that our Comrades here are anti-\nfeminists\u00E2\u0080\u0094they are far from that, and\nthe wemen in the Socialist movement\nhere \u00E2\u0080\u00A2empare favorably in number and\nenthusiasm with those of other countries. The Socialist movement In the\nUnited Kingdom, as part of the International Socialist movement, advocates\nthe enfranchisement of women. Adult\nsufferage as it Is understood here\nmeans the right to exercise the franchise and to hold public office regardless of sex, creed, color, or property\nqualifications. It means that when a\nperson becomes of age\u00E2\u0080\u009421 years ls\nlooked upon as the minimum age limit\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that all persons shall be allowed to\nexercise all the privileges of citizenship which a free people are justly entitled to.\nIt ls because of this principle which\nwe Socialists advocate, being so broad\nthat it divides us from the Suffragette.\nIt Is because the Suffragettes advocate\na narrow, illogical policy that the two\nmovements are at variance with each\nother. Both, the Women's Social and\nPolitical Union and the Woman's Freedom League, the two Suffragette parties in England, advocate the enfranchisement of women, but only on the\nsame basis as now enjoyed by men,\nthat is, with property qualifications.\nSuch an illogical position has, of\ncourse, no place in the Socialist movement, and the only excuse the Suffragettes can find for such an unjust\nattitude Is that \"It will help THEM to\nsecure the franchise more easily.\"\nIn other words, women of wealth and\nposition seek to secure their own political emancipation by climbing up on\nthe backs of their less fortunate sisters. They claim freedom for themselves, while they refuse the same\nright to others of their own sex on the\nflimsy excuse of expediency. Could\nanything be more unjust? The Suffragettes argue that after they once\nsecure the ballet for the propertied\nsection of their sex they will in turn\nsecure the same rights lor the disinherited, but there is nothing that can\nbe advanced to show this will be the\ncase, and there is much that can be\nbrought to prove that they will do directly opposite to what they now promise.\nThe propertied woman has identical\ninterests with the propertied man, Ihal\nis, the subjection of the working class,\nand such being their interests, how is\nit conceivable that wealthy women,\nonce they secure the franchise, will be\nwilling to grant political freedom to\ntbe working class women, any more\nthan wealthy men now care to extend\nthe franchise to the working class?\nThe argument has been advanced\nthat woman being more compassionate\nand mindful of the sufferings of others\nthan man, would revolutionize the social system once she obtained the ballot, but facts do not bear out this assertion. For women figure largely as\nthe employers of servants and yet lt\ncannot be said that they show any\nmore consideration for their employees\nthan the owner of a factory does for\nhis \"hands.\" Indeed, I hose of the\nworking clasB who are employed in\nthe factory, shop or office, usually have\nmore freedom, are less sweated and\nbetter treated than the average house\nservant. It is just for these reasons\nthat the servant girl problem is so\nacute today. Wealthy women, or those\nwho employ more than one servant, are\ngenerally complaining about the scarcity of good servants, their outrageous\ndemands, etc., etc., but they fall to realize that lt is because of better conditions that can bo secured by the working class from the mule employer in\nthe factory, shop or otlice, that the\nworkers leave the female employer\nwhenever opportunity offers. The difference, however, is not. great and supposing that there Is little or no difference between male or female persons\nof wealth as far as their Ideas of justice, consideration, and enlightenment\ngoes; does lt not prove that a move\nment which advocates political freedom for less than one-third of its sex\nis a reactionary movement and will do\nas much, If not mere, harm than it\ndoes good? It certainly look* that way\nand coming events will undoubtedly\nprove this.\nThe Suffragette movement in England is \"eminently respectable\" and\nthe Woman's Social and Political Union can raise shillings to pence raised\nby the Social Democrat Party, because those who subscribe te the Suffragette cause know that should the\npropertied woman secure the ballot another bulwark will be raised in the defence of the capitalistic system of society. Even the church is beginning\nto look with favor upon the Suffragettes and the church has the reputation ot knowing a good thing when it\nsees it. Canon Scott-Holland of St.\nPaul's Cathedral, London, is quite in\naccord with the present Suffragette\nmovement in England and what is\nsanctioned by St. Paul's Cathedral is\nas \"correct\" as a pair of trousers in a\nshop window In Piccadilly.\nIt would seem quite logical that a\ncrumbling, decayed church, whose\nsparse congregations are now mostly\ncomposed of women of the middle and\nupper class, could be sagacious enough\nto realize that in order to retain its\n\"establishment\" it must secure the political aid of its congregations. These\ncongregations being women not of the\nworking class, why should the church\nnot favor anything that will perpetuate\nits power when it hears rumblings of\ndiscontent and sees the handwriting\non the wall?\nMuch more could be said against the\nSuffragette reactionary movement in\nEngland, but space forbids; so in conclusion let me point out why I think\nthe Suffragettes will eventually gain\ntheir ends. First, because whichever\ncapitalistic party needs votes, will\ngrant the limited franchise to women.\nSecond, because a middle and upper\nclass women's vote will offset many\nvotes for Socialism. Third, propertied\nwomen will be of great aid to an established church when once they are allowed to vote. And, fourth, because\nthe \"respectability\" of the Suffragette\nmovement, containing as it does, few\nof the working class, is in itself a\nguarantee to the aristocracy and te the\nplutocracy that it is a perfectly safe.\nsane and harmless movement.\nThe reason the Suffragettes are now\nallowed to carry on their cemedy and\nare not granted the vote at once is\nfor exactly the same reasons that war\nscares, horse races, and football games\nare gotten up, namely, te keep the\nworkers from thinking of their poverty. The emancipation of women, either\npolitically or economically, will never\ncome through a middle class movement\nbut only through the well' wide movement of the proletariat.\nYours for the revolt,\nROBT. E. SCOTT.\nLondon, June 26, 1909.\nIN SUNNY ALBERTA.\nSIGNS OF THE TIMES.\nThe workers are learning to think\nfor themselves and to organize in their\nown interests. This is a natural consequence of their association in large\nindustrial establishments, their education ln the schools and their enfranchisement. From the first flows their\nsense of solidarity, from the second\ntheir Intellectual training, from the\nthird their conBclousness of political\npower.\nOnce upon a time people believed in\nthe divine right of kings. Today they\nbelieve In the divine right, of capital.\nBut this latter belief is passing away\nas surely as did the former. So alBO\nis the belief thai poverty Ib a blessing\nIn disguise. The church is losing Its\nhold over large sections of the community. Among working men and\nwomen a feeling seems to be prevalent\nlhat the church Is controlled by the\nwell-to-do In Ihe Interests of the well-\nto-do, at any rate, the old teachings\nno longer suffice to allay their discontent. An unti-rellglousness akin to\nthat, which characterized the French\nRevolution is developing among the\nproletariat of Europe and America.\nIn the domain of political economy,\na like unorthodox? is manifesting itself. A large and Increasing number\nof working people are studying economics, not, however, the economics of\nthe schools and colleges, The economics which Ihey are studying are the\neconomics of Karl Marx, economics\nwhich have a revolutionary import and\nwhich, though meriting the title of the\n\"dismal science\" because of the unpleasant thruths they contain, nevertheless bear a message of hope to the\ndisinherited of all lands.\nBEST IN B C\nSVrXiUS\nHdltor Clarion:\nDear Comrade Editor,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Clarion readers may be interested In an account\nof wage slavery in southern Alberta.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2I notice Comrade O'Brien mentioned\nme in the issue of June 27th as earning $6.35 in three weeks, and it was\nsubstantially true.\nOn May 3rd I pulled out of Calgary\nfor the south on a steam shovel, with\nnothing in my pockets, but hope in my\nheart, as I looked to clear a good stake\non tbte shovel. Alas for my hopes!\nOn arriving at Parkland, a flourishing town at that time of one store and\ntwo houses, I was ordered to take a\nposition on the extra gang, who were\nbusy laying the foundation of Park-\nland's greatness in the way of sidetracks, and I was the unlucky wlelder\nof a shovel for nearly three weeks.\nThe wage slaves on this gang were\nlargely of the Galician species, whose\nambition ls to get unlimited supplies\nof pickles at meal hours; at least that\nwas my Impression as they struck once\nfor them. The few \"white\" or British\nslaves engaged in the exercise of shovelling dirt under the eye of a vigilant\nSwedish driver, were of a miscellaneous type. Some were the possessors\nof that means of independence, a homestead, and in the endeavor to secure it\nwere compelled to take any job to\nearn the necessary money. Still another I found with all his worldly possessions on his back, who was filled\nwith admiration for the glorious empire on which he had the privilege of\nbeing allowed to work. Yet another,\nwho thought it romantic lo be able to\nthus \"rough it\" In the West, and as\nall our troubles were dispensations of\nthe Almighty, it was no use kicking\nanyway. It was certainly romantic to\nclamber at. meal hours into a filthy\nboxcar, and scramble for the various\ndelicacies that adorned the festive\nboard. I might enlarge on the exquisite taste, too, with which the good\nthings of life were served to us, but\nwill refrain. Nights were passed in\nthe seclusion of the Pullman sleepers,\non luxurious wooden bunks, and the\nprivilege of hunting for greybacks was\npermitted the men, and no extra\ncharge was made.\nPrice of labor power was $1.50 per\nday; board, $4.25 per week; doctor's\nfee, $1.00 per month. Wet days you\nneednt' work, but if you wanted the\nvalue of your board money,' it was\ncompulsory to eat. After nearly three\nweeks as aforesaid of this gentle physical exercise, I was moved to accept\nthe offer of one of our sturdy, independent Canadian farmers, who had\ncompassion upon me, ami made me\nthe princely offer of $35 a month and\nboard, and drew pleasing contrasts\nbetween farm life and the extra gang\nexistence.\nAll nature' wore a roseate hue that\nnight. Was not my master a prosperous man, who had sold his homestead,\nbought a half section, erected a two-\nstory house, nad numerous head of\nhorses and cattle? Truly, all seemed\nwell. But little by little my hopes\nwent glimmering, tilt today, six weeks\nlater, 1 am congratulating myself on\nhaving escaped his clutches with $20;\nthe rest is yet to come. When, in\nTaft's language, \"God knows.\" For the\nsad truth was forced upon me that the\nland was not paid for, nor his house\nor barn, machinery, stock; not even\nthe food he ate, und a heavy mortgage\non ln addition; no crop in sight for\nhim; in fact, he has the appearance of\none who is doomed* to descend to the\nlevel of the ordinary wage slave.\nBut as for me, I console myself by\nthinking that I nave been one of those\nsturdy tollers who make \"our\" West\ngrow; for has not Parkland now an\nelevator, with two more to come, several stores, restaurant, shacks wherein the citizens of this world-centre reside? A booze dispensary Is promised In the near future, a real eslate\nshark ls already in attendance, and 1\nam told that lots may now be had adjacent the depol at $400 each, and the\nhumble wage slaves who made it possible, still remuln peaceably ln their\nbox-cars, or, like myself, prepare to\nlake up the weary search once more\nfor a purchaser of this labor power\nwhich all good slaves carry, to our\nsorrow.\nSub. hunting among the farmers is\ndecidedly slow, as their poverty Is as\nself-evident as ls the prosperity of\nthose who flourish off their labor. I\nhave found, however, quite a number\nof undesirable citizens scattered over\nthe country, mostly Socialists from\nsentiment, rather than from a class-\nconscious knowledge of their position.\nComrade O'Brien Ib well spoken of by\ni hose who have heard him, and I hope\nthe good work he has done ln Alberta\nis also being carried on in Saskatchewan.\nI will conclude now, hoping this will\nbe of some little Interest to prospective tourists to Alberta.\nI remain yours ln revolt,\nF. 8. F.\ncv&x^\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB*a\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABft\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE*6\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00A3$\u00C2\u00AE#*\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00AB0\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB-#*\nIt matters not what political faith\nyou profess, lt is your duty to get your\nname put on the voters' list.\nTHE WORKERS DESTINATION\nThe decreasing purchasing power of\nmoney on this continent is the subject of fresh comment. \"A dollar today in Center Market,\" says the Washington Post \"will not buy as much for.\nthe table as' 50 eents would a few\nyears ago.\" \"It is getting so\" says\nthe Toronto Daily News, \"that among\nthe poorer people meat Is a luxury that\ncan be indulged in only on rare occasions and then only the cheaper and\nless nutritive cuts. One of the chief\nfactors in the progress of the United\nSlates during the century past, has\nbeen the abundance of cheap food-\nsi uffs. More than anything else, it\nhas established the high standard of\nliving which has made Ihe American\nworking man the most effective In the\nworld, and the lowering of this standard of living from whatever cause,\nmeans a revolution in the American\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ononilc system. Certainly times\nive not improved lately for the man\non a fixed wage or income.\"\nThus saith the Toronto News, and\nhe Soclalisl agrees and at the same\ntime follows the argument to its logi-\nil conclusion. Lowering the American standard of living means that it\nwill arrive at about the same standard as the European. Industrial\nEurope and America are competing\nfor the world's fast decreasing markets. Japan and China are rising on\nthe industrial field also hungering for\nthe same market. The Jap and\nChinese standard of living is much\nlower than the European and American. If the American standard can\nfall to the European, then It is only\nright to assume that the European and\nAmerican standard together will fall,\n(with Capitalistic developemeut,) towards the Oriental standard.\nThe Oriental standard of living will\nprobably tend to rise slightly, but not\nfast enough to make any appreciable\ndifference. Capitalism in Europe and\nAmerica is rushing on at breakneck\nspeed, and in a short time the workers the world over will have a common standard of living. The standard\nof living for the world's workers will\nbe, generally speaking, slightly higher than the present Oriental standard.\nFrom a revolution in the American economic system wil follow a revolution in the world's economic system.\nEconomic revolutions have a cause,\nand that Is, Capitalist exploitation of\nIhe worker. Changes In economic\nconditions are always followed by\npolitical changes. The effect of continued working class exploitation and\na universal standard of living for the\nworld's workers will result in a worldwide political revolution, capture of\nthe powers of state by the exploited\nworkers. A change in Ihe ownership\nof Ihe means of production from Capitalist ownership to Co-operative ownership, from exploitation and wage-\nslavery to freedom and human development.\nExploitation and oppression awakens\nconsciousness, when that oppression\ndevelops on a class, the working class\nfor example, then a class consciousness develops. Exploitation of the\nworld's workers results in a worldwide class conscious revolutionary\nmovement. Consciousness is intelligence. Intelligence is the power to\nacquire knowledge. The workers of\nthe world rapidly acquiring a knowledge of the source of their misery\ndevelop a class haired which finds its\nexpression in the Revolutionary Soelal-\nls Movement. Thanks Mr. News.\nF. G. S.\nVERY IMPORTANT.\nIt Ib exceedingly important, that\nstrenuous attempts be made at all\nstreet corner meetings, to sell literature. Propaganda meetings at which\nliterature is not sold are failures,\nWhen the crowd is largest, then some\ncomrade ought to mount the rostrum\nand give a strong ten minute talk on\nbooks, a talk that has been prepared\nbeforehand. This talk should be calculated lo awaken Interest In Socialist\nliterature, stimulate people to read\nalong our lines, Inspire them to pursue the subject to Its farthest end, and\nmake thorn unloosen their purse-\nstrings to buy the pumphlets lhal are\nbeing advertised at that particular\nmeeting.\nW. R. S.\nAnother Chicago professor nas made\na discovery. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 They are making discoveries, these Chicago professors.\nHaving seemingly discovered all\nthings that are, they are now discovering many things that aren't. This\ntime It is discovered that the women\nare at the bottom of all our troubles.\nThrough their Insane craving for luxuries, they drive their men folk to\ngrind the faces of the poor to compete\nfor jobs, to graft and steal. We were\nsure they would be found out one of\nthese days.\nOur masters are certainly a great\nhelp to the Socialist propaganda. Just\nwhen Organizer Gribble is in Cape\nBreton attempting to educate the\nslaves to their position and to the facf\nthat government ls but the instrument\nof the master class, they are sending\ntroops to Glace Bay, with two machine\nguns, \"to quell the strikers.\" This is\ncertainly pointing the moral and adorning the tale to good purpose.\nPLATFORM\nSocialist Party of Canada\nWe, the Socialist Party of Canada, ln convention assembled,\naffirm our allegiance to, and support of the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class.\nLabor produces ail wealth, and to the producers lt should belong. The present economic system ls based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products of\nlabor belong to tbe capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore\nmaster; the werker a slave.\nSo long as tbe capitalist class remains in possession ot the\nreins of government all the powers of the State will be used to\nprotect and defend their property rights In the means of wealth\nproduction and their control of the product of labor.\nThe capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling\nstream of profits, and to the worker an ever Increasing measure\nof misery and degradation.\nThe Interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting\nItself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of tbe wage\nsystem, under which 13 cloaked the robbery of the working-class\nat the point of production. To accomplish this necessitates the\ntransformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into eellectlve or working-class property.\nThe Irrepressible conflict of Interests between the capitalist\nand the worker is rapidly culminating ln a struggle for possession\nof the power ef government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist to hold, the worker to\nsecure it by political action. This is the class struggle.\nTherefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the\nbanner of the Soalallst Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic programme of the working class, as follows: 1\n1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist\nproperty in the means of wealth production (natural resources,\nfactories, mills, railroads etc.,) Into the collective property of the\nworking class.\n2. The democratic organization and management of industry\nby the workers.\n3. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for\nuse Instead of production for profit.\nThe Soclallet Party, when In office, shall always and everywhere until the present system Is abolished, make the answer to\nthis question Its guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the Interests of the working class and aid the workers in\ntheir class struggle against capitalism? If it will the Socialist\nParty is for if, lt it will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely\nopposed to it.\nIn accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges\nItself to conduct all the public affairs placed ln its hands ln such\na manner as to promote Hie interests of the working class alone.\nREAD\nCOTTON'S WEEKLY\n50c per year\nTwo for a dollar\nSPECIALLY FINE FOR PROPAGANDA WORK.\nSix months 25c.\nPublished at Cowamville, P.Q.\nIP YOU HAVE\nUKRAINIAN\nneighbors, send for a bundle of\n\"Robatchyj Narod\"\nthe organ of the Ukrainian comrades in Canada.\n50 cents a y,-ar\n132 Stephen St Winnipeg, Man.\nThe works of Spencer, Inger-\nsoll, Huxley, Darwin, Blatchford,\nPaine, Haeckel, Laing and other\ngreat writers. By mail for 25 and\nSO cents. Send for catalogue to\nThe People's Book Store\n142 Cordova St. W.\nTHE S. P. OF C. BUTTON.\nPrice.'each 50c\nTo.Locals five for $2.00. Apply to your\nProvineial Secretary.\nWANTED. Every Socialist and\nUnionist to take Shares Brandon\nLabor Temple Co. Capital $15,-\n000 in $1.00 shares, payable in 4\nmonthly instalments. Write for\nprospectus. E. Fuleher, Bex (173,\nBrandon, Man.\n60 YEARS'\nEXPERIENCE\nTrade Marks\nDesigns\nCopvriohts Ac.\nAnyono nemtliil? 11 did rh and description may\ni.iilukly usci'iiiilii our \u00C2\u00BB>|iintnii freo whether no\ninvr-tiltnii is (iiitlmlilr t':iiL'iilnlilo. Ci'irtmiiileii-\nllnu\u00C2\u00ABiirloti>MMiildiiiill\u00C2\u00ABl, HJNDB00K on Patent!\nsi'iit troo. (ll'lost ncoiu'y fur seourllio pntenta.\nI'litciiiH mlum thriniati .Vunn & Co. receive\ntpeetal notice, ivii liout chitriro, in tlio\nScientific American.\nA hnndsmnoiy HIiiRtralPd weekly. Lnreeit clr-\n1'iilnf inti of iuiv ricient ill\" journal. Terms, $3 a\nvoni\". four months, 91. Sold by all newsdealers.\nMUNN SCo.3616'-1-\" New York\nIlrmmli omra. IBS V St. Wns'ilniituii. II. C.\nWANTED\u00E2\u0080\u0094Minett to keep away\nfrom the Nicola Valley, at the\nstrike it still on.\nd. k. Mcdonald,\nPresident.\nWhat to Raid on Socialism\nByCtiarlet u. Kerr, Kdltorof tun IntemaUoual\nSocialist ltevlew. Kljbty beautifully printed\npaeet, with many portraits ot socialist writers.\nI Deludes a simple, concise statement of the principles of \u00E2\u0080\u00A2oeiaflsm. One copy free on request,\n10 mailed for 10c; 101 for 11.00; 1,000 for 110.00.\n0HARLE8 H.KERR * CO.\nI S3 Klnite jtrggt, Chicago, III.\nDemand Cigars Bearing this Label\nWhich Stands for a Living Wage\nVancouver Local 357.\n556\nTO HOUSEKEEPERS\nIfllf you would like to spend less time in your kitchen\nand woodshed, and have much more time for outdoor\nlife, recreation and pleasure, look into the question of\ndoing your cooking with a Gas Range.\nTelephone your address to our office and we will send a man\nto measure your premises and give you an estimate oi cost of\ninstalling the gac pipes,\nVancouver Gas Company, Limited.\naananatai"@en . "Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Western_Clarion_1909_07_17"@en . "10.14288/1.0318830"@en . "English"@en . "49.261111"@en . "-123.113889"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . 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