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NEXT WEEK—International Labor Day The Week Published by W. E. Peirce, In the Interest ot Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Vol. XV, No. 44—15th Year 44 Victoria, B.C., Canada, April 27th, 1918 5c a copy $2.00 a year OH! CANADA 99 Plain Talking—and Talking Plainly The time has come in this fateful struggle for the plainest of plain speaking.—Colonist, April 20. FOE onco we heartily agree with our morning contemporary. "The time has come for plain speaking," and we propose to do our share of it—and to ask the Colonist to eome out straight and sny what it hits to say and not be continually making suggestions I that it cannot possibly back up. Over and over again the Colonist j has hinted at pro-German propaganda in Victoria. It did so last 1 Friday and Saturday hut it does not dare come out with a statement 1 of who the propagandists are. This is not plain speaking. It is only [insinuation. If the Colonist knows of a single ease in Victoria of [any one who is engaged in German propaganda or has received a cent I of German money let it come out boldly and say who he is and The 1 Week will join in an effort to run him to earth. The Colonist can [do nothing of tho sort and is afraid to do tlie plain speaking it talks I about. If it means by its insinuations that any of the staff of The 1 Week are pro-Germans and are receiving in any whatever German [money for their work, we brand the Colonist at onco as a liar. The Colonist is so obsessed with the idea that patriotism consists I in blindly following our lenders, no matter where or what they lead to, that it has lost all sense of discrimination. What it needs is not I so much plain speaking as a little plain thinking. Mr. William Hard, in his article, "Down With Talk! On With | the War!", in the May Metropolitan, says all rulers like to attributo j their failure to tho propaganda of thc enemy. When there is a strike I in any German munition plant, thc Germnn Government attributes it j to American propaganda. Every country has its "propaganda." AVe [have ours. "Doubtless the "German propnngudn" in Italy was excellent. But no "propaganda" does any good unless it has some [local discontent, some local distrust to feed on." This is what the Colonist fails to recognize. The grave unrest | that exists in every country on the face of the earth. It sees this Imirost in Germany, and every effort of the Socialist Party there to [overthrow Pnissianism is hailed with keen delight, unci yet at the [sumo time it argues that the American Socialist Party, which it claims is only a brunch of this same German Socialist Party, is work- ling against the Allies in favor of the Uollcnzollerus. This is not plain speaking: It is plain poppy cock. Before the Colonist is entitled to expect "plain speaking," it | must learn to "speak plain." We would recommend the Colonist to read the whole of Mr. I Hard's article. It is not a pacifist nrtiele by any means, but it is full of sense—and that is what we are after. He points out the difference between the statement of war aims ns laid down by the [Versailles assemblage and those of the British Labor Party. The former reads: "Tho Supreme War Council decided that the J only immediate task before them lay in the prosecution of the war [with the utmost vigor and the closest and the most affective co-opera- [ tion of the military efforts of the Allies until such time ns the pressure of these efforts shall have brought about in the enemy governments \ and peoples a change of temper which would justify the hope of the conclusions of pence on terms which would not involve the abandon- ' ment in the face of nn aggressive and unrepentant militarism, of all the principles of freedom, justice and respect for the laws of nations I wliich the Allies arc resolved to vindicate." Tliere you have a statement that sounds fine but gets us absolutely nowhere. As Mr. Hard says: "It is the sort of definition that j any set of diplomats can put together at any time, for any side in [any war. It is a definition in the diplomatic sense—in common sense [it is no definition ot all." Compare it wilh that of the 'Lnbor Party, Thoy laid down cer- [ tain ideas with regard to conquered territories. They laid down cer- Ltnih ideas with regard to colonies and dependences. They demanded [the absolute freedom and integrity of Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro [and Roumania. Thoy contemplated certain territorial changes. They I outlined a League of Nations. They sketched through the League Inn international co-operation for the reducing of armaments. They ■ proposed a vast reorganization and reconstruction, democratic, of [which "the peoples themselves must be the guarantors." And they spoke as the. representatives of a great and powerful organization, so Igrcat, so influential, politically, that no government could or can prc- \rcnt them from speaking. "We stand for the immediate establishment actually as pnrt of I the treaty of peace with which the present war will end, of a universal lenguo of nations, a snperiiutioiinl authority with an international I high court, to try nil justiciable issues between nations nnd nn inter- i national legislature to enact such common laws as can be mutually i agreed upon, and an international council of mediation to endeavor fo settle without ultimate conflict even thoso disputes wliich nre not justiciable. We would hnve nil the mil ions of the world most solemnly undertake nnd promise to make common cause against any one of these that break away from this fundamental agreement." Will lho Colonist, fry to prove that this is pro-German or can it understand fnlk ns plain ns that? m !fi m m Look What We Are Up Against- m m i m m m m m m 1 i m m § m m m m m m This Is the Law (1) It shall be an offence: (a) To print, publish or publicly express an adverse or unfavorable statement, report or opinion concerning the causes of the present war or the motives or purposes for which Canada or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or any of the Allied nations entered upon or prosecutes the same, which may tend to arouse hostile feeling, create unrest, or unsettle or inflame public opinion. (b) To print, publish or publicly express any adverse or unfavorable statement, report or opinion concerning the action of Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or any Allied nation in prosecuting the war. .(c) To print, or give public expression or circulation to any false statement or report respecting the work or activities of any department, branch or officer of the public service; or the service or activities of Canada's military or naval forces in the prosecution of the war. (d) To print, publish or publicly express any statement, report or opinion which may tend to weaken or in any way detract from the united effort of the people of Canada in the prosecution of the war. (e) To print, publish or publicly express any report of or to purport to describe or to refer to the proceedings of any secret session of the House of Commons or Senate held in pursuance of a resolution passed by the said House or Senate, except such report thereof as may be officially communicated through the director of public information. (/) Without lawful authority to publish the contents of any confidential document belonging to or any confidential information obtained from any government department or any persons in the service of His Majesty. (2) Any person found guilty of any offence hereunder shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding $.5,000 or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or to both fine and imprisonment. Sfi m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m i m 1 m m m « Si m m m m m Now, then, everybody join in the chorus. ^ Look out for the high note and don't laugh when ^ you come to the last line:— |jn] M Oh! Canada, we stand on guard for thee, |M And with our lives we'll guard thy Li—ber—///. i Here is something tangible that anybody enn understand, something thnt the people of any country will be willing to stand behind in earnest nnd sny: "Wo will agree to this and the governments thnt won't agree will have to got out." But killing of Germans, ns Mr. Hard snys. whether in millions or tens of millions, will not do nny good. When wo nre through with this killing business—when we have wiped off the earth every man in the Germnn Army—nnd swept from the sea every mnn in the Gorman Navy, we shall still hnve the Germnn Nation to settle with, and if the spirit of domination docs not then exist there it. will only have been transferred to somo other nation. It will still he just as necessary to form a League of Nations for the world's protection; and we shnll then have to do exactly the same thing thnt we might do now. The Colonist seems to have got it into its bend that the way to make tho world safe for humanity is by silencing those who dare to disagree with the Union Government. This accounts for wholehearted approval given to the new press regulations. Wo willingly give it credit for being in earnest in the mnlter. So aro we in earnest—very much so. We are just as ready ns anyone to fight, Pnissianism to the Inst ditch, but unlike the Colonist we do not discriminate between the imported nnd the domestic article. Some litlle time ngo n certain doctor of lnw is reported on pretty good authority ns saying in reference to somo men who were being bitterly persecuted: "Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply yc be found even to fight against God." The advice of Gamaliel is as good today as it was then. The undercurrent of Pacifism that is permeating the whole world today is not German propaganda—Germany has nothing to do with.it—it is tho voice of God himself, the still small voice speaking through the common people. It may be possible by Act of Parliament to silence the speakers. It may bo possible to destroy them altogether. But the voice itself can never lie silenced. It will continue to speak until its message is heard and heeded by every government on earth. Bolsheviki Its Programme aud Possible Influence as an Industrial and Political Factor The eondeniiiiiation by the subsidised press of this and other countries (Germany included) of the Bolsheviki should incline one to n calm, dispassionate study of its purposes and more especially as its influence and growth is attracting world-wide attention and interest. Facing a break-down in the present system of industrialism or social order which is daily manifesting its inability to meet the ever changing conditions brought about by the world war, any contribution toward a solution of our present difficulties should receive at lenst a respectful hearing. . With this object alone in view, The Week presents to its renders the salient features of tht Bolsheviki programme, compiled from information supplied hy one of its adherents, a gentleman in close touch with Petrograd. It is not until nn examination and analysis of the social structure under capitalism and Bolshevikism is made that one is able to discover the apparent reason for the hostility and alarm, the Intter has occasioned iii financial and administrative circles or the reason for refusing to give the Bolsheviki recognition by thc Governments of Great Britain, Franco and the United States. Before entering upon the subject matter of this nrtiele, it might be well to point out that, the pence pourpnrlces of the Bolsheviki have been practically reaffirmed by the Allies ns an acceptable basis of negotiation. The spread, however, of this new doctrine among the workers of Europe presents a greater menace to the present order of industrialism than any issue which may hnve led to u conflict between the world powers for world domination. It presents on open challenge to capitalism nnd seeks to remove the evils inherent in that system by an immediate overthrow of the system itself. In doing so it presents the worker with a formula for acquiring control of the industrial and political machinery from those now in power. It claims to be constructive in purpose, determined and uncompromising in the manner in which these chnnges should be made, international in its workings and humane in its application, It infuses the warmth into its administrative machinery which is absent today. Proclaims for universal pence nnd understandings instead "I war and the debauchery of tho workers. It is for happiness nnd prosperity a-* against poverty nnd uncertainty, attaining this through n systematic, .scientific application of industry to the needs of the people. Bolshevikism is a combination of the Socialists' nnd Syndicalists' platform, political action nml industrial control by the workers themselves, Tin: Bolsheviki. To fully understand the Bolsheviki (Russian wnnl for majority) and its social programme, if would be necessary to understand the government thut preceded it. In Ibis wny only do we gain n proper historical perspective which will enable us in judge for ourselves whnt relationship the Russinn social upheaval bears to similar upheavals in England when Magna Charter wns demanded, or again, when Cromwell broke the Arrogance nf the British monarchy, or again, when the prospering American Bourgeois capitalists threw off the yoke of George Tl I. In order in understand lhe social system of nny given period in the evolution of human progress it is necessary to examine the fundamental economic structure on which that socinl organism is based nnd tn enquire into the method <d' administration. By economic aspeol it menus the method employed in securing n livelihood (food, clnihiii!r nnd shelter), in other words, the method of production. By the administrative nspecf is moanl the governing nr method of administrating the productive forces sn ns tn insure n continuous subsistence with tho grentesl amount of leisure for the ruling clnss, nnd the establishment nf laws, rules, morals nnd customs therewith. To simplify this rensoning we will draw n simple diagram of the feudal system ns il once exisied lu England, in Franco and in Russia on the outbreak of the present wnr. 1 Page Two THE WEEK SATURDAY, APRIL 27 FEUDALISM. Economic Aspect. Land is the dominant factor in production and the chief source of subsistence. The land is owned by big landlords and agriculture is carried on by peasant communities, who work for a bare subsistence, being slaves to the land whieh thoy do not own. Eighty-five per cent of the population is engaged in agriculture mid tbe remaining 15 per eent constitutes the professional and middle classes and the rising enp- itulist nnd his wage workers. These latter are virtually slaves to the industry they do not own. . Administrative Aspect. The administration of feudal rule is conducted by a Czar or autocrat having arbitrary power and supported by n caste of nobles wdio share in the system of private ownership in the essentials to life and gain subsistence therefrom. The nobility performs no useful lnbor, but holds in its command the army and navy, which constitutes the force necessary for the protection of their interests. In opposition to this system stands the rising bourgeois or capitalist, who, having acquired wealth and power from his private ownership and control nf industry, seeks now nlso to control the government, to make laws and to establish customs for the conservation of his own interests as opposed to those of the feudal caste. The agitation for reform and political representation is carried on against the Feudal regime by the rising commercial element, or capitalist, and in order to strengthen their position they enlist the moral support of the large mass of peasantry by promises of land grants, and the support of their Wage workers by promises of political liberty, freedom of speech, of the press and public assemblage. By this means was established the first Duma or People's Parliament in opposition to the old order of things. As in England, in France and in America, feudal power is finally overthrown and the power usurped by the capitalist, who, having now acquired complete economic power, dominates also the administrative function and proceeds to make laws in his own interests, disregarding the interests of producers and consumers entirely. Such a government was established under Premier Rodzianko, and later perpetuated in a milder form under Kerensky. This form of society was not acceptable to the Russian working class, who perceived its failure as an alleviator of distress in countries where capitalism held full sway, as in in England, France and the United States. The economic and administrative aspects of Russian capitalism were identical with those of Canada, the United States and England, as shown by the following diagram:— CAPITALISM. Economic Aspect. Administrative Aspect. The dominant factor in produc While such industry is manng- tion, namely, land and machin- ed by the individual owning it, or ery, is operated socially by the by a board of directors, a special working class and owned private- political administration is neces- ly by the capitalist class for production for profit (dividends) in the following essentials to life: • 1. Manufacturing industries. 2. Agriculture. 4. Transportation and telegraphs. 5. Distribution as wholesalers, commission merchants and middlemen. 6. Government services, soldiers, police, hospitals, jails, etc., etc. sary for making laws, etc., in the general interest of a capitalist class. To accomplish this, the capitalist calls a convention by means of his various associations, such as manufacturers, grain aud fruit growers, railroad owners, wholesalers, etc., and them nominates from among his number certain individuals for political office, to represent his interest in Parliament. Such nominees are rele- agted to certain territorial dis tricts or geographical constituencies in which electoral contests are held. The voting is done by an organized mob of men and women, who are swayed by prejudice, political promises, trickery and sentimental clap-trap. The candidate so elected is not responsible to the eelctors, but to the capitalist class who nominated him. When the electors manifest their displeasure with him, he will refer to the mass as a howling mob, and his press and pulpit show their contempt for the voters by using this same term. The candidates elected, wehther Liberal or Conservative, represent the interest of the capitalist only and arc of their own number, and they become the recognized government of the country. Thc above diagram of society represents the present state of affairs, and it will lie seen how little use is the political liberty accorded thc working class without a corresponding liberty in the ownership and control of essential industries. Hence it becomes imperative if the workers are to acocmplish their historic emancipation that they organize themselves on the economic field into powerful industrial units with the avowed purpose of gaining complete possession and control of the economic power. Such organization implies a complete change in the administrative function, ns will be seen by the following diagram of the new order known as BOLSHEVIKISM OR SOCIALISM Economic Aspect. The working class, owning all tho essential industries, not only continues to operate them socially, but proclaims them social property, owned nnd controlled by the working elnss. Production is carried on for use, not fnr profit, the organized AlMIINISTItATIVE ASPECT. The political administration formerly instituted ns an adjunct to class rule ceases and an economic, administration of lnbor takes its plnce. [nstead of holding elections in geographical districts, nr constituencies, tbe elections nre held in worker* receiving the equivalent lent of all they produce. Machinery for the first time is employed as an emanicpator of mankind, making possible a higher and nobler existence for all. Under Socialism, the principal labor organizations are grouped as follows: 1. All industrial workers and their affiliations. 2. All farm workers. 3. Miners, smelter men, etc. 4. Transportation and telegraphs. .r>. Distribution workers, as retail drivers, hotel ancl restaurant workers. (i. Soldiers, government service, jails, police, hospitals, banks, schools, etc. the various economic organizations of labor, where recognized merit and ability is nominated and elected to a local hoard of directors, known as Soviet, or local soldiers' and workmen's council. The council or Soviet truly represents the interests of labor in every occupation, and the former owners of industry, once known ns capitalists, are invited to join tiie ranks of labor, to float or sink according to merit, and ability, and they will be accorded equal privilege with other toilers nnd paid in accordance with their service to society. They also shall receive the full product of their toil. ., These local Soviets choose other delegates to the national administration, which becomes the government of the country. Un-' der this administration, rent, interest and profit cease. The workers own the industrial machinery, and consequently the manufactured products, and the selling price represents the value of labor expended in their manufacture. Church nnd state become completely divorced. The legal fraternity and judiciary are abolished. Criminal offenses against the state are tried by a local jury, which impose the sentence. Capital punishment is also abolished. Banks and bank deposits are prqclaimed state property and become an adjunct to the national industrial fabric. Depositors are compensated on sums up to $5,000. All national debts and obligations contracted by the old regime are repudiated and nil legal papers based on the private ownership in the necessities of life become null and void. In Russia, the arming of the working class soldiery furnished the means for their emancipation, bnt not without fierce opposition from both feudal lord and capitalist, supported by loyal Cossacks. In Germany, Austria and the Allied countries the hostility toward the Bolsheviki by the capitalist (his press and pulpit) is equally marked. To crush the Bolsheviki has become the chief war aim of the international capitalist class, and it should be the aim of the international Socialist movement to prevent this. Not only is the Bolsheviki menaced from the rear by the armed supjiorters of the old regime, but he is simultaneously confronted by the blood thirsty, rapacious Hun and his loyal imperial troops, who are determined to crush the working class. If under such conditions the Bolsheviki is compelled to sign a treaty of peace, it will be a treaty extorted under painful duress, and consequently null and void by the code of international law and the German law as well. An agreement to be binding must be entered into by parties who are free and equal, not by an armed highwayman compelling n signature from a defenceless being at the pistol's point. Whether the Russian Socialist republic is to be carved up between Germany and Japan at the request of the interntaional capitalists remains to be seen. Of this we are sure: The economic oppression wliich has created Bolshevikis and Socialists will continue to create Bolshevikis and Socialists. The germ of knowledge and discontent is not destroyed by oppression but husbanded and cultivated thereby. It will eventually sweep the ruling class into oblivion. "Without the ^capitalist ploughman the Socialist farmer could not succeed." Criticizing Russia ACCORDING to the new regulations, no ono is allowed to "print, publish, or publicly express any adverse or unfavor- L able statement, report, or opinion concerning the action of Canada, Great Britain and Ireland or any Allied nation in prosecuting the war." This leaves it open for us to say all we like about Russia. Sho is no longer an ally and she is not "prosecuting the war," so we presume wo may be permitted to criticize her to. our heart's content. In doing so, let us make it perfectly clear that it is Russia, wo are criticizing and not any other country. A short time ago—about a month as near as our memory serves us—our morning contemporary made the statement thnt the present Russian Government (or misgovernniont) had amongst other equally atrocious things gone to the extent of seizing all the press in the countries and suppressing all those who were publishing anything that they considered likely to endanger the Russian Revolution. That they had in fnct simply put the screw on any publication which they thought represented the old capitalistic regime. The Week joins with Aunty in saying "Naughty, Naughy" to the Bolsheviki. How could yon do such a thing? No truly democratic government would ever dream of it—and no free country ought to stand for it for nn instant. But then, of course, the Russians are only a very simple folk who need to be "shown how" by more advanced' countries—like Canada. We don't do things like that. If we did the Colonist would be up in arms at once. The great fault wo find with the foolish Bolsheviki is that they condemn other people for doing the same thing they do themselves. Evidently they consider that right and wrong is more a matter of geography than morality. Then the Russians are so careless about the- rights of property. When they wnnt n thing, if wo enn believe the reports as they come through our truthful dailies—they simply tnke it—that is if it is a "thing" and not a "person." A little question like the conscription of vacant lots would be settled by them in less time than it takes the editor nf the Colonist to sharpen his pencil—but then, of course, Ihev don't know any better. According to the New York World, in certain emergencies thc Bolsheviki are as capitalistic as anybody else. For example, "When they are short of money they raid the banks, and some of their more enthusiastic disciples make levies, upon stockings." Oh! Russia, Russia, what are you coming to ? Have you no regards for the rights of property ? We don't do things like that in our country. We protect the poor little banks and don't allow the cruel public to get after them. But this statement of the New York World, means if it means anything, that it is a capitalistic characteristic to raid banks—and we are not inclined to quarrel with the definition. We sympathize with the poor Bolsheviki who unskilled in currency manipulation, take the crudest way of securing bank assets. It is capitalistic in a small way, no doubt, but as bank raiders the Bolsheviki have a good deal to lenrn from somo of our modern financiers. New Press Regulations THE WEEK is not yet in receipt of an official copy of the now regulations dealing with the printing nnd publishing of seditious literature. This will no doubt come to hand in due timo nnd in the meantime we must presume that the copy as issued in the daily press is correct. The Times, in chmmenting on it, says thnt, "It does not think that the press of Cnnnda will stnnd for it for ten minutes—thnt is, ' if it is interpreted literally." If it is subject to tlieir interpretation they arc quite satisfied with it. This is a very good way of looking at things. Taken literally we can't stand for these regulations, but let us all put our own interpretation on them and we will O.K. the whole lot. The Colonist endorses them holus bolus, of course. Anything ' that come officially from Ottawa must be swallowed in British Columbia without a word of protest. The Week refrains from making any comment until it is in receipt of the official copy. In the meantime it defies the owners of either of the local dailies to allow their respective editors to say just what they like for a week. Our armies in France are hammering away at the poor German soldiers because that is the only way they have of striking at Pnissianism. We also hammer away at our local editors because that is the only way we have at hitting at Local Pnissianism, but we have no animosity against them personally and would be only too delighted to hear them speak out what they really think themselves. We feel sure it would cause quite a flurry in Victoria. Going Forward—Not Backward DESPITE appearances, thc Russian revolution is not fighting for its life; that is an illusion; what is fighting for life is the thing that opposes it; that is the fact that underlies the appearance. Twelve months from now the Russian revolution will he just that much farther advanced than it is now, and it will, besides, have infected to a far greater extent the proletariat of all other lands, including that of the autocratic enemy, though the present agony of the Russian people may be even increased rather than diminished. It will not.even be left to fight its own fight unaided, for the entire "civilized world" is, though unintentionally, fighting its battle. Let us remember, while recalling the tremendous events of the last twelve months, not only in Russia, but throughout the world, that that world, after all, never goes backward; that progress is the reality; retrogression the illusion.—New York Call. m LETTERS TO THE Ml EDITOR m (Letters to the Editor on any subject of general interest will be published in these columns. They must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, which will be treated in strict confidence if so desired. Short Utters are Preferred.—Editor.) From Darkness to Light To the Editor of The Week: Sir.—Since the hypocritical clergy has taken action to stop the true gospel from the people, I call to your attention some of the dark doings with which they hold the people in ignorance. A structure of enlightenment is to be built in this landi whieh, to finish, every man of intellectual power must contribute. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.—Hahakknk, 2:14. The structure which I refer to is tlie structure of "Spiritual Liberty," as the spiritual part of man must have room to expand and grow, the same ns any other God given privilege that man is blessed with. God who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the accurate knowledge of Hhe truth.—I. Timothy, 2:4. Unless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the worship of God Those who go forth into the world and profess to be the teachers of men should be giants of intellect and fully prepared to contribute to this monument of spiritual liberty. But we are not su doing; instead of preaching the gospel of glad tidings some of them have preached recruiting. Mnny say they do not feel that they pos:-*ess the ability to contribute lu this structure of spiritual liberty, but I say none who possess the power to reason are exempt, for if they cannot plnce in the arch of this structure the golden keystone, which is Jesus Christ, that shall securely bind Ibis structure together, they can cany mortar or stones, which are as imperative in this structure is the polished "capstone" whieh completes this great pyramid of emancipation. I do desire to contribute my mite towards the completeness of this grand structure of free thought, which when completed will stnnd out upon the horizon of time as a towering monument to Christ nnd His cause. Roman Cntholoeism, as taugrn by our modern priests and inspired hy the papal power nt Rome, is naught but the distant rumblings of an antiquated chariot of darkness. No wonder Apostle Paul said: For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.—Acts, 20: 29. These are the words of a man who had been a Roman Catholic priest for thirty long years. He says: "I was bound to this bewitching spirit of darkness by the cords of superstition, and never dared to look above mv blind superiors for wisdom until 'something.' which I will call fate, broke the wisdom's dungeon and permitted the light of spiritunl liberty to filter through my being, wliich nwoki reason nnd common sense." A. SUTHERLAND. Mr. Dooley on Industry 'Tis a sthrange thing whin we come to think iv it that th' less money a man gets for his wumik th' more iiic- issary it is to th' wurrld that he shud go on wurrikin'. Ye'er boss can go to Paris on a combination wedding an' divoorce thrip an' no wan bother's his head about him. But if ye shud go lo Paris—excuse me fr luiighin' mesilf black in th's face—th' indnsthrces iv the counthry pines away. amrnBAL act (Form F.) Certificate of Improvements NOTICE. Arrow Mineral Claim, sltunte In tho Victoria Mining Division of Sooke District. Where located: On lot »3, Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE thatl, Wallace C. Munkley, of Victoria, B. c„ tho lawful holder of the above named mineral claim, Free Miners Certlllcate No. 171IIS-C, Intend, sixty days from lho dato hereof, to apply to the Mining Hecorrler for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of ohtalning a Crown Grant for the above claim. And further lake notice that action, under section :i7 must lie commenced before the Issue of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this '.'4th day of April,, A. D. 11)18. WALLACE C. MUNKLEY, Owner, •lone '.'2. Victor Vlgellus, Agent. SATURDAY, APRIL 27 THE WEEK Page Three itDCAMO AC A DAI CUEUICT DITCCIAM J0U give us comforts we had not the earth, too? Can people go on, UilbnlTlu Uf A DULjULVIuI UUuulnlVthere' A«d we are grateful. But we except by laws? Surely not. There IN NEW YORK CITY MENTAL STATE OF SLAVIC RADICAL SHOWN BY PROPHECY THAT UTOPIAN REPUBLIC WILL YET BE REALIZED GERMANS, HE SAYS, CAN'T ESCAPE THE REVOLUTIONARY INFLUENCE build our republic on top of yours— must be some arrangement to make your good and more of it." order among men as among the stars. "But can you do it? How about But it must be fair to all, not favorit- this separate peace business? The ism laws. Only the crazy ones want Kaiser isn 't going to let you do things no law. Aud we '11 shut them up if the way you've planned out. You they bother. The Bolsheviki are not said you wouldn't make 'separate like that. We are not anarchists." peace." "I'm certainly glad to hear all "The German people will make this tbis," I said. "We've made a mod- peace. They will push the Kaiser, est little attempt in our Republic to They will be heard. He will give way. strike the balance between liberty He's in a trap. If be fights, revolu- and license; and we have not found it tion; if be does not fight, revolu- an easy task. We're trying yet, and tion." we'll have, to keep on trying. There "How about those peasants des- are so many different kinds of peo- troying Tolstoy's library? Tolstoy pie and so mnny different kinds of was their friend, nnd libraries are ideas to reckon with. You think you good things to keep." hnve struck the balance, when—bang! "They don't understand—the pens up comes some new kind of person ants. They have to be taught." or theory. We think we have done In the meantime, what? You've ns well as any so far." /Well and good. Did I not tell you "At the worst, it is a better force that wc know and will build on than the imperialistic force. Only you?" ,, . -, - ...... . ., „, , ■__ '„„„ „„,.«• i ignorance makes them do these things. "Yes. So you say. But what makes the poor and would like to that no more means anything good. „,, .„ , .„, ., ° ■ ■ e n a ,' i ,m • • i 77 T, ,, , «,: „ : » «. "hey soon will know. The others you so suspicious of us over there? letter off. This is what the It only puts mean things into the . , J , , ,„, . . .. •'. , ,, . . v j r _ e knew, but were perverse. That is the We don't want your country. You difference. We are not afraid to let can't conceive over there of one coun- loose the peasants. Better that they try wanting to help another country, be loose than tied any more. They can you? You can only conceive of will learn when they nre untied; one country standing with claws out, never when they are kept under.'' ready to grab another. Don't mix You seem to be certain you can us up with the Germans, please. That are not like I. "The people are educated economi- A Russian Point of View cally and Understand, for have we "What are you Russians trying to not been through it? We know how do over tliere, anyhow?" I asked my it should be economically. We'll give Russian lnundrymnn. you a republic like nothing the world A shrug und a smile were my only has ever seen. I know my Russia I'' answer. Tact is needed with a Rus- "Well, we used to say, 'Scratch a sian, so more insinuatingly, I began Russian and you find a Tartar.' Now again. it is, 'Scratch a'Russiau and vou lind .. ,"' ",B ""*•'"•""<•■> »'""*' "»«, no, it i »i r> i i „„„:fiDn ii ' let loose n torce you ennnot control "Tell me, who nre the Bolshc- a paenst. viki?" "Don't say pacifist 1 *'—amusement "There are some people who are changed to seriousness—"It is a word sorry for see them better _^^^^^^^^^__^__^__^__^__^_^^^ Bolsheviki are like." mind. Say, 'Scratch a Russian and "Do you, for one minute, think that you find a brother.' " hobnobbing with the Kaiser is going • • • to make anything right? After, de- HI. posing your own Czar, in order to The Bolshevist Plan give the people a chance, you certain- "So you're going to give us a rely can't hold any such idea as that." P«bli» such as the world has never fuse to take them up again, the final collapse would come with swift and startling suddenness. If they keep ou along the line they are now travelling, that collapse will be somewhat prolonged, but its eventual arrival is as certain, as that tbe sun will rise upon the morrow. May tbe working class become sufficiently addicted to the weakness of acquiring wisdom to be nble to so steer its course in that eventful day as to bring order out of rilling class chaos and usher in nn era of Bolsheviki decency, sanity and humanity in the arena now made bloody and ghastly by the age-long curse of human slavery.—B. C. Federationist. "The Kaia*<,"—most care! lessiy seen? I hope you don't mean to call f tl,e sum'" "# \ »««% "} «J » *"* to° m»«h' ,We icoBiv r j hone von hnvmi't ffot Homo itt.o mote that." hope you haven't got some little mote that.' in your eye, put in, say, by the Kaiser '' I know. But Russia is much both- this—"Oh, he isn't for much longer, ours old-fashioned?" The new century is here It has no "Id 140 years; many thing..i change G(jrman ^ ered ^ her ^ Kniwm And the Kaiser doesn't like 1 say nothing against America, lt , , .. . \ • ... < , ,, Kaisers. And the ^ ^ ^ bj ^ ^ ^ b great t t art . repubhc day soon." pie. But we'll begin differently- wl£a,mistj,ke m>. , ., , Tel1 J™"' """to*™" we haw. without your mistakes. Yours is a , The laundryman a owed a smile to proved wha we mean Did we not help capitalistic republic; ours will be a slllne *" a >»»f™\"'rough h.s great Cuba and then g,ve her back to her- republic of full brotherhood. earnestness. Then he said: self? Did we try to grab Mexico "First, we will have a Parliament, "We have no fear of beams or when we had a chance awhile ngo? from all the people, rich and poor motes; no, nor of Kaisers. We bave We were in heart with Hungary in and middle class; thev will all talk confidence. We will take ont all the 1848, and always w.th Poland. We ve know all -we were learning or he together and arrange; but so that the ''earns and all the motes and all tbe had sympathy every tame with the Know an we we.c uauniiit,, ui n«. o o Kaisers in time" nations that went out seeking free- would have stopped it. He did stop r.el shall exploit the poorer ones no time. ^ ^ ^^ ^ Jf ^ all he could. All imperialists keep '"ore* , -»• with Don.t n it „** bv being the people in ignorance, for otherwise So you are going to let the rich Reminiscences suspicious of us " they could not exist. So in Germany. People in the game, are you?" «Is this as cold as siberia*,.. j ^ see a,, th;; But a„ broth. But. each nation must settle its own Sure. Some think we want to do askedj as j entered the ,aundry „„„ You se ,mve had ^ things, not any other nation for it. ™ay with the rich. Not at all. Only buter morning. friends ^ ^ sq trodden It only makes them madder to tell the too-rich \ou see, in Russia, as „ohj sibcria was „ot so bad Gov. (]o un so lmh.-mM Hion, uhnt tliev must, do." I told you, the Czars gave lands and O,.„mo„tc «™ ht;„,i ti,»„ u.« „„. ., __ V ._ 7. ___,..7n • t. ...... . MINERAL ACT (Form P.) Certificate ot Improvement! NOTICE. Trional Mineral Claim, situate ln the Victoria Mining Division of Sooke District. Where located: On lots 93 and 153, Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE that I, Annie M. Maxam, of Victoria, B. C, the lawful holder of the above mineral claim, Free Miners Certificate No. 17197-C, intend, slxt days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining* a Crown Grant for the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issue of such'Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 24th day of April,, A. D. 1918. ANNIE M. MAXAM, Victor Vigeiius, Agent. C. H. SMITH &CO. Photographic Supplies Pictures Picture Framing Other Things Too! 611 Fort Street June 22. the Bolsheviki. "In other words, he is between the devil and the deep sen?" "Y'ou have snid it. Now, the Germans need education—" Here I laughed. "Tell that to a German." said I. "Yes, education. The Cznr did not them what they must do. »^ "You can see for yourself that the treasures to the few. We want it what they do- It wag nice ;„ sibevia ^.'^ mi ^ m be Wends [o world is not going to stand for the more even—but not just even. It Thel.e wag mmh d work done in ,. ,, Kaiser any longer." ""hi "ever be that, Then, in Rus- s*beria.» "Oh, he won't be much longer. But Sl»i "'ere are 20,000,000 military. "How did you get there, anyhow?" killing won't settle anything. They've These all must be supported by the uYou see,'l was only a kid, going been killing for three years and more taxes on the people. Think the rich to scllool anrt playing around—that -has it settled anything? All that support them? Oh, no! We think is the first j remember. I did not has to be sottled is in the mind. Rus- >f they all work, the 20,000,000, then think, Thcn 0M day one of my sin is a big country: one hundred nnd things will begin to be better. That's eoral.Bdes said to me: 'Go with me to eighty-nine millions of people we wj'y Trotzky will have nothing to do tbe lecture.' We came to a big for- have, and every one of them a revo- W"* fWthing military. We'll get estj and thei,e wei.e a thousand boys Jutionist 1 "Whnt! One humored and eighty nine million bomb-throwers!" I' ex clnimed. "No, no! Only when necessary eniments are blind. They know not they know not what'it is to have a iend. But we will be friends tc 1 the world." "Nations, are like people, I suppose; they seem to have to find out everything for themselves. Now, we all knew the Germans wouldn't meet you fairly and squarely in this peace deal. Did we not try them out, with all patience for two long years?" "True. But it was best for us to rid of all that as soon as we can. Of ^ "prrb Til"standing^under"the "* ,We have sPread ,new,8' Th»' course, it will take time." trees. 0n a platform t|)ere wag a will do much, very much. You will ;'I guess so. Human nature isn't stlulent from a bi g seminary, and he sef" .... , „ . going to change easily. It's human ,alked_ r ,earned how 500 rg ag0 "How is it that the Russians and, -.-,-. --„ --,--. "a'm'° , y°" Bolsheviki are up a„ Rl,gsia belonged to the •farmers Germans are so different?" I asked. Not now. It is no longer necessary. a&"™t." alld they had the iand and they couid "The ^ussianp would no stand be- No more bombs. It is education. You " we». we'll help human nature to ,ive But then the n,|erg took u a ing fooled and exploited. The Germans talk to mc and I tell you. You tell change quickly by some ways we and n0 mm.e W(m) the p ,e ,ad and seem to like it. Haven't they a spark vour friend and so on. That way- have. The new Russinn Pnrliament f,,ee And flft they b , of manhood in them?" till all is changed. It. mav tnke long, will arrange many things when it gets to tMnk how to t back the;r iand "The Kaiser plays a better game No one can sny when. But it will together. One thing we'll surely hnve n gtarted j„gt a mtl but it with his people. He makes them satis- come, and it will come through pence. -«"» recall. When a man in New and ,y_ ' A]ld H was growing, and lied some ways* The Czars were s0 Guns never educate. If Trotzky goes, Russia gets elected nnd loses his bend we must flll he, and lan to tIu,ow bad to the people they had to rise, there are a hundred behind him, nnd n"(1 imSei^ his promises, he'll get off the ke This j iear„ed." There was n0 other ***■" the next ono who steps in his plnce recalled. Why wait for his term of ,,How 0,d mK then?" I "For all that, I believe you are dif- will be maybe a better man. There office '« expire, and have everything agked ferent by nature. You have sympa- are many 'educated men in Russia, S° wrong because of his getting a big .. Tbi!.teen." And by and by, I '"^ as J™ say' A German doesll,t professors, thinkers, but they were in head?" too talked and told 0'therg. Then ^ the meani"S of the 7''d' T1hnt prison. Now they nre free.. We want "'Even when they're not elected, the Japanese war came along, and.we ls.why we think you can't do this to talk and talk and make it all out. snme feel themselves better than wou,d mix with „,„ goldierg and te]] thing your way. You can keep on It will all be settled so, not by guns." others," I remarked. them „ wag our chance You know trying your way, but we will keep on "But you will hnve to do some- "About thnt we'll teach them slow- ,low that war ended_ Then came thfl trying our way, just for safety. And thing," I persisted. ■>'■ % »«" hy, we'll all begin to see revolntion of 1905. The Kaiser and we'l see who does the most in the The eyes of my friend nnd laundry- that work is good for all; and every the C?M. ahvavs he,ped each other, end' ,„ „ t , , mnn opened wide and glowed. The kmd of work, if men do it honesty, g0 now the Kaigel, he, d the Czal. "Yes, we 11 see. Maybe, for a long wonder of living, and of comradeship ■> good. No more will they say: 'The „ ingt ug We wel.e badIy beat(,n time, we'll try and work nnd talk and shone in them ns he replied: Pom tailor,' or 'He is only n shirt T, t me then and j wfls gont to tell; maybe we'll fight some For all ..-— » . lf/mnv ' on >«Sl.u Jo n oavunnf » All _.. ' .° .. tllO nfmtllM in HlB WArlli Will ltnVfl t.O KZirBKALAOT (Form F.) Certiflcatt of XmproTtmtati NOTICE. Safety Mienral Claim, situate tn the Victoria Mining Division of Sooke District. Where located: On lot 93, Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE that I, Harry D. Reid, of Victoria, B. C, the lawful holder of the above named mineral claim, Free Miner's Certificate No. 17199-C, Intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant for the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the Issue of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 24th day of April,, A. 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Oh, believe me, yon don't have' to think about him. is not for long." "Wheiv will they see?" "More see now than you think. II. Tricking the Kaiser _ , . , . ,. office of the Genernl who hod charge Because that man there irons shirts o{ „,„. ,nce_ And „„„ d„v he sflid. and I am his boss, are we any dif- ,rll t yon „ „,,„„„„_, The 0enera, ferent? T work with my brain and dnmkj ^ „,„„ he had had „„„„„,,, I plan. He works with his hands. he wo„,d si n nnvthin„. So my He But am I any better? No! Right friend made (1„t papors and „ fals0 now there is to be a strike. The shirt pnssport| am, on„ day the General ironci's wnnt 1 cent more a shirt, nnd ,,„,„,. „,„„„,, „,„, B, *,od Thcn T they ought to have it. Some of the mothers. " I miln prion's year! But "P'o'toUon. Instead, plenty for all, aud comfort and nappy lives. And each one doing the thing lie loves I made a friend. He worked in the best, nnd living fnirly toward others. This is what we Bolsheviki want. To work for it is grand. 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Aprl3-Mayll WILL HISTORY REPEAT? m_^——_^^^^^^^_^__ O" March 18, the anniversary of The officials were much surprised, thc hoisting of the red flajr over the Banoni __,____^__^_ went back to my mother. . 1™S™ «»» » «J«W Lct, "s,com- "Thc officials were mu... „ _„ The laundryman was thoughtfully b'.ne not to give it. I say No! I m fol. T wns well known. Bllt what eou|(] citv of Paris by th(! Communards in .regarding n line of shining shirts with my workmen. We stand together. lhoy say, There were the papers all 1871, the striking workmen in the when I next entered his shop. He » is right. And all goes well. As signe(] by thfj Genml After „ while Austrian railway shops returned to turned ond welcomed me. »J my '"He shop, so m the country, j said: >vn K0 back, Vn give mv. work ululci. p,.essul.e 0f the military, "I see that some of your gentle, "ie country is only one big shop. ge,f up , But my mother ^.j. ,No an(, gt once pr0Beeded to loaf on tlie loving Bolsheviki are fighting," I • » • You ]mve ^ n]1 ym] cm fm, yom ^ ^ M ^ i|ldustl.y „nd pel._ snid. "What can it mean?" IV country. You are too well known to severance of the dyed-in-the-wool "But the Cossacks fight ns," he Beams and Motes help any more. Go to America.' So I.W.W. of the happy land of freedom replied. "We must defend ourselves. "How goes the problem you nre I R0t a false passport aud sailed. And to the south of us. All of which is a We can no more he exploited be- trying to work out in Russia?" I nsk- I eome here alone with nothing nnd pretty tough proposition to deal with, tween the royal nnd the rich. We ed. "Whore is united Russia?" ,10 friend. I shoveled snow nnd help- as the intellectual militarists will no have been ground between these two. "Where's united any country just ed in houses and did anything till I doubt be led to fully appreciate ill Now we must hnve our own lives now? Are there not differences in pot this laundry business. And now time to come. Take' it all around, to be free. You see, it is this wny: England? And in France? Even in I nlwnys work'for freedom, for the and human slavery is a tough proposi- The Cossacks are friends to the royal your country here? In its time every Russian is idealistic and he must so tion anyhow, no mnlter how you look people. The Czars gnve them lands— kind of everything and every kind work. It is a grand time. It is worth at it. It's a tough proposition for sometimes one man owns 50,000 to of everybody all come up to be living in a time like this. I've worked the slave to live under it, and it's an 00,000 ncres. Ts thnt right while straightened out nnd innde over. Do „|1 my life this way, and I'll work exceedingly lough proposition for tlie some have none? The air, the wafer, you not see?" till I die. For' we' do renl things, master class to so bolster Ihe infam- the lnnd, they must be free lo nil; "Well, I begin to see my country hie: things, things that mnke much ous thing up as to prevent its collapse no more the nir than the lnnd. How hns somo faults. But we've been difference." at any moment, nnd the burying of would it be if some men held back hospitable," I pleaded. "We've "There nre some things, however, bolh slaves and masters in the ruins. the air nway from other men? We opened tho doors wide to nil yon tlint shake my faith," I said. "For If Ihe slaves of the various Christian nil llu-hl for freedom. We must live." people, and, when you come, we give instance, somebody snys you menn to nations now so gallantly lighting, "But the people are not educated, yon free education, whether you be- mnke tho world' go without any bleeding nnd dying Cor freedom, de- You yourself sny education has been come citizens or not. Isn't lliis be- laws." mocracy and the rights of smnll na- kcpl from them. How then enn Ihey ing brotherly?" "Oh, nol Thnt is nonsense. Do not lions, were nil to lay down Choir tools, know what is wise or best or right?" "Tt is true—and il is fine. And n,e 8(nrs go by law? And Ihe sun nnd say upon the First' of May, and re- "WORLD TRAVAIL TO PROCEED NEW BIRTH" SPEAKER: CLIFFORD ROBERTS OF VANCOUVER PANTAGES THEATRE SUNDAY: APRIL f! AT 7:30 P.M. AUSPICES ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS ADMISSION FREE! EVERYBODY WELCOME! EVERYBODY COME! NO COLLECTION! m Page Four THE WEEK SATURDAY, APRIL 27 That it will be time for us to quit Dr. Naumann, in his Berlin paper no means of stilling it except by when these other two parties "butt writes this: "The great majority of quenching the fires which are the in." the German people do not desire revo- sources of its agitation, and they can- lution if it can be avoided by timely not be quenched by a counter irrita- 9"f That readers are asked to watch measures. It would be fatal, however, tion which would only add for announcements of the next meet- to believe thnt the revolutionary wave fuel until the whole ing of the new Labor Party. from the East can be stopped either ablaze." 1 by the police, the censor, or the press- A few more miles of copy like that That Dooley says "Workers of the "re of Government. When the caldron and there will be hope even for (he world unite! You have nothing to is beginning to bubble over there is Germans, use but your brains, and you haven't DON'T MISS THIS .to tlieir system is CAPITALIST PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR GETS A GLIMPSE OF WHAT IS COMING, AND SOUNDS THE ALARM TO HIS CLIENTS - <5i «6b *5= ct» *8» <V> <& W <Q* &* <9? °P <3P 3P ? SOTTO VOCE ? — J BY THE HORNET WThat Shakespeare said, "The quality of Mercy is not strained.' It droppeth as gentle dew from heaven." That William could not say this about the new press regulations. That the Hornet would like to know National Kitchens in England England is to have national kiteh ens Public baths and park buildings will be turned into kitchens and town (From a sermon halls into dining hulls. Street cars Haynes Holmes at the Ch aud omnibuses Will carry the finished product to thousands of small distributing stations. Varied meals will be provided for everybody at the lowest possible price and there will be special invalid kitchens. Don't Grumble to Waitress Don't grumble when you nre told in course, to tl the restaurant that you can't have which I believe THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION The following article has come into is moving very steadily and rapidly our possession. It speaks for itself, in this direction. Mr. Schwab sees it. It is a circular headed "Batometer It is to be suspected that President Letter and the Babson Composit- Wilson sees it. The fear pulls at the plot," and is prepared by the Bab- nerves of the world's biggest finan- son's Statistical Organization, Inc., ciers and leaders. Russia has gone. preached by John about the Russian Revolution is flint and has been sent as a confidential Germany trembles. England beads ' " ~ urch of it is economic as well as political. The communication to the big financial mightily in the same direction. Italy's lhe Messiah, New York, December Russians have gone to the bottom of corporations in the United States and temperament lends itself to the same ~" 1917, published in full in Unity, democracy, and are dealing not mere- Canada. Where black type appears thing. France will go if the others do. 17th, 1918.) ' ly with the question of political in- >« tllis article >' was written in ra(1 30, January A thin: ie most I happening important mains to be spoken of. Russian jto be this, that or the other thing because event of modem times. I realize they are facing them "as an essential '" aU countries has pushed this move- ™hnt l,„ wn..M «„v nl,,,,,* H,„ if ),„ !tis agninst the nm' regulations. Get that it is unpopular these days to wax part of the social problem, and are "'ent ahead. The United States has wna*; no woum say aoout tliem it lit used to them „|u, ,,(, gM you,M ,mv_ enthusiast over this vast overturn thus nt least well started on the way seen less of it than any of the war- stitutions, but with the questions of in tno circular: of 1917, and this land, of industrial employment, of what Shall We Do With the of all, still're- public ownership, and so on. That Radicals" I refer, of they will be able to answer all of u,,aer various names the radical Revolution, these questions today, or, even tomor- movement advances. Somebody ought the greatest row, is of course impossible. But ,;o tel1 the truth about it! The war were alive uow. ing things so easy. That most likely it wouldn't be lit to print. A back yard can grow a crop mmm^^ well as the rural garden. Some tlle samc course today as the drift people have an idea that a poor soil rf P"blic sentiment in regard to the __^_m_ will not produce a crop. This is a mis- Fl'ench Revolution a century nnd a them will put a lot of writers between take p;„ jt ,veji and -Pei-tilize it with Quarter «g»- When the French peo- That the strict enforcement of the devil and the deep sea. That Henry David Thoreau said: "Under a'government wliich imprisons any unjustly, the true place for n just man is in prison." leaves and street scrapings. SUB ROSA That Wendell Phillips said: "If there is any thing that cannot bear free thought, let it crack." of the Romanoffs. The drift of pub- toward the establishment of the first "aS countries, but in nil lands the lie sentiment in regard to this Rns- real democracy the world has ever movement is immensely stronger than sian Revolution is following exactly seen. it was three years ago. The prime * * * example is Russia. There the Rndi- Again, I hnve faith in the Russian cals are supreme. They are all Radi- Revolution because I have faith in cals. Between Kerensky and Trotzky the Russian people. No race in the the difference is only one of dates, world is possessed of finer qualities s0 far as a capitalistic country is con- hands in 1789, the people of England of genius. Especially is this true in cerned, there is little choice'. Those went wild with enthusiasm. Delight the higher fields of moral and spirit- men and their "Comrades" all over was only increased by the burning of uni life. No people in modern times llie world enre not for Russian or the Bustile in July, and the nboli- has produced such literature and any other nation, but only for The tion of class privileges in August. As music as these Russians. No people International! They care not for the tho Revolution, however, marched on, has dreamed such dreams of the new Russian revolution or any other spc- and came more and more into the and better day of brotherhood. No eiHe revolution, save it is as a part hands of what was called the mob, people has kept so close to the springs of 'he revolution. They all seek lo sentiment across the channel began of mystic experience, and drunk so organize the proletariat, or wage visibly to change, and it was not long deep of tlieir living waters of the earners of the world, ns opposed to before England was not only oppos- spirit. Especially has no people so the propertied clnsses, to wipe out lining the Revolutionists, but actually suffered nnd striven and sacrificed tional lines and to put the proletariat for freedom. Tried in the fire as i"'o possession of everything, silver is tried, they have come forth No Possible Compromise pie took matters into their Last week I referred to the mis- carriage of justice carried out under — the ordinary proceedure of the law. That Thomas Jefferson said: "Thc And I deprecated the attitude of sun- tree of Liberty must be refreshed dry so-called ministers in calling for from time to time with the blood of summary vengence on their fellow taking up arms against them patriots and tyrants. It is its natural creatures suspicioned of possessing So with the Russinn Revolution manure.' ^ undesirable streaks in their make-up. At first, everybody was overjoyed a people cleaiWdlnTiope^ede'emed • This movement is not government Th**- ™l,nt tl,p0n mm, *«\A ,„„v i,. N™ ,„» i,„„ ,1 . ,, , „ b,y th? overtnrow of the Cznr, and for the patient toil that must still be ownership, or abolition of inheritance That what these men said may be No* we have the report hat the the triumph of the people. Then, in done. These Russians will not foil or any of the things tlmt we think of interest to our reiiders and it mav hanging of the miner, Robert P. !?„«;„ ns »n>.lim. ;,, !?,..,„„„ „,„ i.. , T , ,. ' • \ , •„ •,. m, _„. A p " „ ,■„ r,,; • ' 1*-uu*-1- V "ussin, ns eniliei in Trance, we be- we may be sure. To have accomplish- associated with it. These are only n0t• *■'« , "f' '" y ri\?\aS 'nn I 'S gM t0 discovei' that these Pe°Ple ed the Revolution is in itself a suf- 'he fringe of the garment of Rndi- -m. j ,, tt "7, ■, ,, T,', f , hnSty' The C°r" wei'e diflerent Pe°Ple fr°m what we That the Hornet hopes it won't oner tells us the leader of the mob had imagined Thev had ideas worry any of the staff of our two great wns well (or rather ill) filled up with which we "could not accept, and were whisky; and that the victim had pre- doing things with their country which viously posted proclamations of his seemed highly reprehensible from our ficient guarantee of what they are! calism. Radicalism is this system referred to nbovc which is to be sub- Dumb and Stupid Middle Class What about the United States? Two things may save it. One is the possibility of nn early victory over Germany. The other is tho lurge mass of "dumb and stupid" middle-class people in this country. We use the words "dumb and stupid" from the standpoint of the Radicals. American workers have very little class consciousness. A long war would give opoprtunity for tho Radicals to indoctrinate our people. Here is a vital reason why wo must now give our maximum efforts to winning the war in the shortest possible time. But whether the war is long or short, we have something to fear from unemployment tljat will follow the conflict. Whnt can we do, if anything, to stem this tide? The propertied class has had its innings, and in having it has succeeded in getting the hutred, or nt least the suspicion of thc working classes. Are they going to have their inning now? The wave may not rench the United Stales this time, but it will reach us sometime. Nothing can satisfy the workers bul to try it out for themselves. If they should profit by tlie mistakes we and our fathers have made and run the country for the common good, they would succeed and keep control of things. If they go to extremes there will be another reaction. Facing a World Movement The course that we have most faith dailies. And lastly, may I say, that I have confidence in the Russian Revolution "That The Times has been copy- loyalty in several cities in the coal viewpoint'Tf not'ttdrTwn" Sf™dilv IfT' -1 "? "°' 'U "" Sl"'e thttt ing the typographical style of The belt; that just before he was hanged therefore, during the past'six months •"*ifT,have notfot S°ld °f tl,e ™*'--'- he snid- "All rb-lit bnvs Go „l,«,,l *i • i , slx months rlght psychology even for the present and kil mfbut wrap me ™ in th end iT™™ T "^ ""l sitnati°n' The embarrassment of the me, wiap me up in the and while we arc not ready as yet Germans on „,e eagtem ^ ,. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to regard the Russians as enemies, we hnve long since ceased to think This man Prager may or may not of them as friends. Now all this to thing from The Week—which would have been worthy of death, I know my mind is Snexcusable. We are also be improvements. not; but one thing I know; that when blind lenders of the blind, indeed, if -1 Iiea'' of any minister being hanged we cannot see what is going on' in sW That the hard worked legislators by a mob because of loyalty to his Russia, and have confidence in the over the Bay finished their labors on personal convictions I will let you ultimate outcome. My faith in the Tuesday, know all nbout^ it ^ wonder of the great movement is ab- solutely unshaken, in spite of all fol- That as a parting shot they voted Here let me break off this serious lies and disasters, for a variety of Weekl^^^^^^^^^^^ That it is quite an improvement. Hag when you bury me.' That The Times might copy other quite as apparent t7my:mindTs"the L,et .'!lis feo> ** impressed upon stituted for the present social order. m ^ wlllch to oSset tnese convul- There is no possible compromise be- slons ls the 4««lopinent of as large tween the. programme and the present a dass a3 Posslble of Property own- social order. It is one or the other. ers' This "■* one reason why we have It cannot be both, or part of each, championed the providing of homes, The Co-operative Commonwealth will the 8cUinK of stock *° employees, and co-operate with nothing except itself! the admission of_emptoyees to share military weakness of fte Bolsheviki ™ h'V.tho. spectacle of our own Mr. We have at least witnessed the ironic Francis threatened with being held ns hostage for Berkman nnd Goldman. See it in the club held over us today by Russia in the Mooney ense. See it in the fnct Hint Bolshevik representatives aro to be in attendance U1'g°a in__om' Confidential Labor Bul in management. The more people we have in this country who are real owners of property and the fewer people we have who are absentee owners, the stronger will be the buffer which we can put up against this radical regime. This is what we have continually $5,000 to Lady McBride and $5,000 to stuff and sing with Gilbert: the Brewster'family. Things are seldom what they seem; Skim milk masquerades as cream; High-lows pass for patent leathers, Jackdaws strut in peacocks' feathers— seo any Very true; so they do. That this was not a wise move on the part of Honest John. to In the first plnce, I believe that we must give the Revolution time to do its work. What right have we to demand, what has never yet been accomplished in the history of mankind, the successful organization of Also last week I made nn innocent a great people, suddenly emancipated That the late Sir Richard McBride remark nbout the civil service bill and from tyranny, in a period of half a had an incomo quite sufficient to wno snouW be chosen to operate it. year? Recall, if you will, the chron- provide for his family and thnt tliere Now comes car-loads of advice from a ology of the French Revolution. It is no reason why his widow should re- delapidated plnce somewhere in the was on the 14th of July, 1789, that ceive any more consideration than .neighborhood of this city. Saanich, the Mobof Paris captured and burn- That the Hornet fails reason for such a grant. the widow of any common soldier. * ""'"I*! '' ia called. Anyway these ed the Bastile. It spectacle of this hopeless and helpless government'at Petrograd extorting from the Central Empires the only concrete terms of peace which have appeared from that source since the opening of the war. Why such terms should he offered to such an enemy, unless Germany, in the present condition of her people, hns quite as muoh to fear from revolutionary agitation in the Enst as from military offensives in the West, I cannot imagine! All this is the veriest surmise, of course; but it fits in strangely well with the Christian teachings of a ment Um wol,,(, ovm, wm|1(] be in jail buslness men ami investors will wake "' "' °° "" if they were in this country. "P to tlle situation and work along Want to Keep Property Titles 'lie lines suggested we believe that The main difference between us there will be comparatively little to Americans and our European friends fear during tlie next few yenrs. If, is thnt they see and appreciate this however, we persist in ignoring the on the trial of the I.W.W.'s in Chicago, to see that "justice," from Russinn standards, is done these men. See it in the'' appointment of John Reed, of "The Masses," and under indictment for sedition, as consul- general for New York City by the i^^^^^^m^i^^^^^^m^^m Bolshevik Government. Or' think of bearing on general business and in- Trotzky, of New York's East Side, vestments. Everything depends upon now the bend and front of Russia! Hie vision which we exercise in denl- The great men of this Radical move- '"B with tlie situation. If American letins. We feel, however, flint it is duo to nil clients, to present to them the renl facts about this situation. We are facing a world movement which is bigger than any country or nny clnss. Stock Market Affected This movement will hnve a vital man named Tolstoi, and justifies ns at least in asserting that tliere is an experiment being tried here, whicli is not necessarily doomed to failure. I believe, therefore, in Russia and wns more than the Revolution. Those of us who dis- menace, while comparatively few of facts, or dreading to deal with them, fellows inform mc that it would be three years later, in September, 1792, believe are moved by the unfortunate us appreciate it. It's one of the most we wait fear-stricken for the cahr That a tag day would have been Just "s weU if \ werf to .min<1, ^ tllat the Revolutionary armies met in order but that a vote of public "^Tr*.." ..".,.W"t?!..about «« Jnvadera of republican France on money was not. That for everything Sir Richard did he was paid fully ten times over during bis life time. to the military fortunes of the Allies. This aspect of the matter I things that ore entirely their pre- the field of Valmy. It was exactly serve. Tt seems from what I enn five years later, in July, 1794, that gather thnt there are. six thousand Robespierre wns guillotined, nnd the seven hundred nnd eighty-nine elec- Reign of Terror brought to an end. tors on the voters' list out tliere, nnd We nre expecting the Russians, in with the exception of one thev arc in oilier words, to accomplish in six , ., ,. , „, „ ,. r . . ,' ,, , ,, , ., i. j, ii anomalous situation ot an alliance qt entire agreement in supposing that months, under the most unfavorable _, L._ __L...._ ... . , ,,_ That there is nothing to entitle his they possess the representative who conditions, what it took the French dependants to any specinl considers- is pre-eminently fitted to fill flic posi- nlmost as many years to accomplish! would not ignore nor underestimate. But I must insist, on the other hand, that this question be judged first of all in tlie light of the former tion. That this being the case, any grnnl to them is only charity. tion of Civil Service Commission Moreover should the Government venture to go outside the Province for n man, they assert that Borden will be called upon to read the riot act. Or take the chronology of our own American Revolution. The lighting ended with flic victory of Yorktown in the fall of 1781. Two years Inter, 178.'!, enme lhe treaty of peace That the dependents of Sir Richard (All right, Mr. Censor. I nm referring between England nnd America. Then relation of the whole stupendous event powerful and important elements in mity to overtake us, then we have the world nt the present moment. It only to look at Russia to see what has put Imperial Europe at stand and will happen in the United States, attention. It has spread rebellion Already the above situation is a fac- through Germany. Recently it has tor in the stock market, and in all made clear, through the publishing of business circles. Clients should watch Stnte pnpers, that world financiers this situation above all others. Unless met nt Berne last September to bring definite action is taken to offset it, we nbout pence. The reason they did so must prepare for the hardest seige was their fear of the growth of this United States business has ever Radical movement if the war went known.—From "The Canadian For- on. Tlie same tiling is back of Lord ward." Lansdowne's letter. The landholders want to keep tlieir property and titles. They sec both menaced by Radicalism if the wnr keeps on. The world nnd those of the late Premier, to tlio Hon. Reeve Borden.) And you, arc entitled to AS MUCH CONSTD- Gentlemen of Snnnieh. I thank you; ERATION ns the dependents of Mr. nnd when I meet Premier Oliver on n Tommy Atkins AND NO MORE. Zepplin trip to Europe T will lny ynur views before him. Thnt so long ns a tag day is good enough for the one it ought to be good enough for the other. W That speakers in public sometimes say more thnn they mean. Thnt Mrs. Rnlph Smith, nt the High School on Friday, is reported ns say- That tliis may be true but the Hornet would like to know how Mrs. Smith found it out. That he wns not aware we were in danger of an attack from cither thoso quarters. nccceded six long years of disorganization, confusion, lawlessness, with no central government of nny kind to hold together the thirteen separate colonies. In telling the tale of this unhappy period of our history, John Fiske entitles one of his chapters, "Drifting Toward Anarchy." and the story of disorder whicli he there Oh, yes, two other fellows gol after me this week about Mr. Bowser's re- mnrks on the patriotic fund. They say he said that some civil servants narrates, is one which we find it most hired by the new Government nre not convenient fo forget. Not until 1789 contributing tn the fund. They sny wns the constitutional convention ns- Ihis is not so, but thnt the boot is on sembled in Philadelphia, nnd national the other foot, nnd thnt they know of sovereignly nt lost established. It is ing: "There is nn power in Heaven conservative employees who hnve been well for us to be patient with the or Hell Unit can break through the in Hie service for years who nre nnt Russinns. If they do ns well as our British lines." responding to the solicitnted dedur- fathers did, in a period not of months lion from their pay checks. Tn the but of yenrs, Ihey will be doing well. opinion of several of my Liberal nnd Secondly, I have faith in the Rus- Conservative friends, Mr. Bowser is sian situation, because the Rcvolu- a grenl variety of unprintable things, tion is n fundamental thing. All the * * * democracies which the world hns seen Now, my gnod friends, plcnse do not thus fnr, have been exclusively poli- of be nlnrmcd for my snfely, for that tlcal democracies. Economic and in- large, nlmost nil embracing order in dustrial conditions have remained ^HH^^^^K council from Ottawa docs mil lake absolutely autocratic, with the fatal That he thought we were only lighl- Provincial politicians under its pro- result of "a house divided ngainsl ing tlle Central Powers. I net ing care. ilsnlf." Now the wonderful thing democratic nations in a democratic cause with the government of the Czar; and secondly, in the light of Ihose ultimate destinies of humanity to which we arc told the operations of this Great War nre nil the time directed. We are seeking a free world, let us remember, nnd here in the twinkling of an eye, is n great nnlion nf 150,000,000 people, enslaved for ages, suddenly free! What is this, I ask you, but the accomplishment of the very thing we sny we nre nfter! And enn we expect to hnve this thing without its price? And shnll we not get the price back again in Ihe end? Present military advantage, for whatever it may bo worth, is undoubtedly lost, hut the spiritual gain of both tho present nnd the future is incalculable. You are only playing nt food saving yet. In England nnd Prance they are "doing" it. Victoria's Watch and Clock Repair House 1124 GOVERNMENT STREET ALL WORK GUARANTEED. JEWELLERY REPAIRS AND ENGRAVING PROMPTLY EXECUTED. THE CHEAPEST HOUSE FOR WALTHAM AND ALL THE HIGH GRADE AMERICAN AND SWISS WATCHES. F. L HAYNES Produce Is the Call "Whosoever makes two ears of corn or two binder of grass to grow where only one grew before deserves better of mankind and does more essentinl service to his country thnn the whole race of politicians put together."— Swift. Plant Every Acre Every extra acre of wheat farmers can put in this spring will save somebody from starving. Europe Is short nbout 000,000,000. Superior Fruit Service Dan W. Poupard Fruit Specialist Balmoral Block Douglas Street, Victoria Phone 3321
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