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/ «_> \ .gisi^-iv. 44 n't, •5 OCT9-T905 <•< bis WESTERN CLAftf^N Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alone. ii-mii" 341. Vancouver, B. C, Saturday, October 7, 1905. Subaerlptton Price Hts Va*a Sl.00 jjORAY FOR MACKENZIE KING ,1 the way from Ottawa lo Sugar-coat the Pill Administered to Nanaimo " Miners by tha Western Fuel Company. Hi. Ottawa Governor labor has re- rocord and ineid- tho socialists' ftS-PM' .,, moit ■„ n-pnrtincn ,.(,l true i" " ■-, connriiifl '"""vTIH."','" '"-i*1 ''°r ,h'' '""' r-rotociinK -*"*1 twthatiae tho '"'',,,,. i.. ,„• ,he capitalist. irtml mu 1 ■ij,,, iho local mines minjj 10 the niinen, re- jl department* of a eupi- h,'!, vessnry to enable 10 \he eight-hour f Minn'li rl" p^'Yinimportatloh to and rli" ihe company claiming „ this »•'*• i„ coi '" . , \ «,vl. ngo, Mr. Mackenzie fvpiit- Minister uf I~bor, ur- !(,', pci-ne. In a provgoiiH vou were informed of M lhll,.ni' of a committee with ',„,. ,0 settle »n Uhttlf of the Owing lo Comrade Huw- Enlhwaitn'H quick action in coun cil) minimi'"
"'I and '"ni»" parties hereto asfol- >'<-s, terms and con- were this equals with the "> consideration of "iiditions hereinafter 'he mutual advanta- 10(15 t«K III,. ' at both No. 1, and luring the month of Pt-That ■",* ••* nr.,, „ slli'll continue In effect .''.'"" ot this agreement, cx- 11 Mu provided, Icheatod '"'"*in thnt *• ,lon'- lleoMn u "f the rosults ot -his blil , ; '"' K»ng said that he rs. 1 :. " .copy of what these conditions ore M ink,. ] IOok "■ the Company's of his we refused to i>ay in 'he closing of the nonet .Ii,s'. ll ft.) (', I III'11 "",I|",IIV Purposes to „ ln N'umb, minors One jxir charge Shaft, month use "" or not. Not only '"" the box-imshers ' hii„(,s "- ■*"-"■ Dox-pusners, ii". »,., i',r-'u-'l.V down to the •in thi« 1 Company kindly 0I1 ''■« clause to estabWt* the. ''"111! Ijlglh , ih^ ^l;1"1'at ion, "(_eariy"» the "1 lho as soon us it can Socialist member's Will c',.'" I("lso. which good ~ooi,Pr ""l,,||(''* next session, if mis,. dirty job capitalist BCarcclj ri_.,|uire. A Bocialisl in the audience asked us to tl loaning oi this paragraph. Mr. King stood nobly b.v his einpluy- «-rs an<) Hod il Into seeming harm- lessness. This conscioncolcss acrobat "ddresseii a Methodist congrega- tioii on tho follow ing Sunday night, yet woll-rooaning people ask, "Why the workers are leaving tho Church?" Third—-Tho systom of dotkago m- spocllon as practiced at *.o. l mine slutll lie affective al both Sn. nnd Northfield ini'ies with penalties lor refuse matter, in lieu of suspension, US follows. Up to and including .~,i> lbs of refuse por car, double dockage; over Till and including loo lbs of refuse per cur, dismissal after Investigation Provided thai any parly dismissed, may have right of appeal to the Su- perintendenl of Mines, whose decision shall be final. The custom in Nanaimo is to dump a box of coal, (about L600 lbs-, go through it with a microscope and a One ,00th comb :n search of atoms of rock. The writer has boon laid o!T lor a week for loading 100 lbs in a box, from a work place where it was an utter Impossibility to keep the conl c-lcan. In lho snme circum- slaiies under Ihe new method the victim i.s discharged. But If he hup- pons lo have a taste for humor he may appeal to the same identical gentleman who discharged him. Nor ifa this all. I p to date, this ron- lemptiiile system has only boon practiced at No. 1 Shalt. Ily the new agreement, we have ''won" tho system for Northfield also. I "nt il a year ago. we produced a certain grade ol coal for 68 cents pei- ion. By means of the dork-age system referred to, the company demands an entirely diflereol grade of coal, a superior made, entailing considerable more labor in ils production, I,nt only pay tho same price, 168 cents.) Yet the officials of the Company blantantly asserl "wehave not loucned the wage." Bul lo continue wi'h the agreement: Fourth— lhe i'i,mpany agrees lo a minimum rate of three dollars i$'l.) per shift for miners In lhe lower seem workings of No. , li is .i- derstood thai the Superintendent of Mines shall Im- lhe judge as to the ability of lhe party to earn su,h minimum. 11n other words tho Company will pay $8.00 to any party the\ choose. Another joke al the miners' expense, and looks remarkably like what tho Company has done all along.) Fifth—The company agrees to recognise und meet n sub-commit tee of IhriH- from the committee of live on matters relating to this agreement or any new matters ?hnng'n<- n, status thereof. Any vacancy on the Committee "f five to bo Qllod at a duly called mass meeting of the un- derliiound employees nf lho t'oii,- pany. tne Committee of five to have the handling of the Cheekwolghmon's and (las Committee funds. (The ioke here happens to lie upon the Committee, and will Bo very ap- parent before ihey grow much older.) Sixth—The Company icvs m: lo discriminate against any former employee and to reinstate any former employee applying for work ns rapidly as tho mine conditions ond trade permit. All parlies applying for work shall, by thcdT signature. endorse this agreement. "As fast as tho mine conditions nnd trade will permit." Continent is eairely unnecessary. The next paragraph really belongs to Clause Two, but is inserted here to avoid making Clause Two. too suggestive." Seventh—The terms anil duration of ihis agreement shall be for n P<-''- iod of two years, beginning Oct, 1st lOOfi and terminating September 80, 1907. Eighth—This agre-ment to bo ofloc- tlVO shall hear the signature of the Manager and Superintendent of the Mines for ihe Company and the Committee or live, for the men. and the approval signature of the President of the Company. Signed, sealed and delivered the day and the year above inentionr-- For tne Company. T. U- STOCK- FT'I", Manager; T. Graham, Superintendent. ..,..., Witness. W. I,. MacKKN/.lK MM,, Deputy Minister of Labor. Foi 'lhe man-KlCIIAMI* .1. R, MacK'KN/.fl'., JOHN W. ORA- HAMK, GEO. JOHNSON. JOSEPH HARDY. ,„ , Approved. President Western The Company concedes this roduc- r miners' tools, which pracli- olTset Ihe cost of transporta- |,v thO miners: Axes from $1- scoop shovels, $1.25 to k shovels, S1.">0 to k shovels, $1.",0 to chad, No ,,ne but a man that browses (or hopes to) on the hack of his fellow, can have any Interests in misstating the facts. If the Com-«aoy finds itself in n position to get a 98 cent grade of coal for 08 cents, let them take it, but spare us any cant about not touching the wage. And, if at the end of four months' strike, we are so weak that, we have to accept whatever terms the company offers, let as lace the facts, that the Company understands as well us we do. Who do we extieci to fool With this agreement, which clause b.v clause ill the plainest language asserts that the Company will do just as it likes? The writer does not su.v thnt this or uny other committee could huve done un.v better, but it is H certainty that If there hud Uoen no committee, W0 could not have fared nny worse, while W0 might have been spared the humility of signing as palpable a burlesxpie us ever masqueraded in the form of an agreement. Whose intoresta demands that we should forget Ihe fact that We were iu trying to fool ourselves. Parallel with every Incident in human experience (here lies a lesnon, and all there is to wisdom is to apply the knowledge so obtained to tne problems of the future. If we realize that WO were beaten and analyze the position, we.shall find that the cause lies in the position which we have chosen for our battlefield, which would suggest a change ol location. Then- are only two locations where we come in contact with the capitalist class, the industrial and political fields. If we accept the lesson laught, us by our failure in the former ond carry the light into the latter field, per capita eaters of the Burke and Gibson typo, and gas-bags and gutter-snipes of Ihe Smith and King types, would find their occupation gone, hence these imps of capitalism would have us contradict out own experience and senses and continue plowing tho barren sands of slrike and boycott to grow only a crop of poverty and disappointment. PARKER WILLIAMS. The following in s -pposed to have Appeared in the "Nanaimo Daily Rag- hag'' the morning following the slrike sett!< men' under head lines something as follows: "AGREEMRNT SIGNED AND STRIKE IS OVER." "Prosperity is in Sight.' (For some of us I IIISRRAH! HEARKEN To THE TOOTS, I1UK- KAII!" "Details of agreement duly conceived with love in the Iieiut of its sponsors." Memorandum of Agreement entered unto this 30th day of September, A. li. 1905, between Ihe Western No Pule Co., hereinafter called the "mas t<-rs" and certain wage-slaves, hereinafter called "the slaves." Witnesscth: That tor and in consideration id the tact that the slaves aforesaid had taken inlo their numskulls, by courtesy colli—I heads, that they were rive men and not slaves, and that such things as stomachs did not elTist (socialist arguments to the contrary notwithstanding) and had for the period of four months, refused to work upon the said masters' generous terms and had for the time positively repudiated the well- established doctrine (according to It- Smith, D.D.,) that the interests of masters and slaver were identical. Therefore lit is mutually agreed that for tho next two years the aforesaid masters will Socktett to the aforesaid slaves as loi lows: 1. The rates, terms, etc., will be the same as thoy always were, via., profit for the exploiters and grub slakes for the slaves. •J. The slaves shall pay for transportation to Protection Island whether they want to or not, nnd whether they go there or not. It is expressly agreed, howewr, that if the said slaves will stand for this that the masters aforesaid will knock oil a dollar a month later on; if the said slaves will agree (nnd by their signatures they do agree- to work twenty-four hours per month or two and one-half days lor nothing. ,'t. The said sluves must make coal out of dirt und further find the dirt ,o do it with. Hut it is hereby agr I thnt if they, tho said slaves, I urn over to Ihe aforesaid masters any dirt in return for thoir grub stake, the following things will happen ."ill pounds of dirt, double dock- uge; 100 pounds of dirt, gel the suck. N.B.—If Ihey don't like getting tho suck they can ask Slocked about it. 4. The masters ugree to gi*ve the slaves the average coat of existence in B.C., or three dollars per day, provided ulwuys that they produce nol less than $10 worth of coal per day, clean and lumpy, Hut the said masters will give them $8.00 anyway, if Ihey nre good looking, und siv ihe Superintendent coming. r>. The said masters will see three of the humble representatives of the slaves once in awhile if they feel lik"> it, more especially if the slaves get too restless. These three slaves are to have thc handling of tne gas funds and the check-weighman's wages. 8. The masters solemnly agree on their sacred jawbone, and without having their "tongue in their cheek" thnt they wont discriminate against any of the sluves that they can make good easy profit out of. Prices of Too.s. 7. As the slaves rehpiirc to use some additional instruments or tools of production to get out the coal, in addition to the ordinary mine machinery, the masters hereby agree, and they will keep this pledge, to let the aforesaid slaves pay for their tools, and will not charge them much more Ihan twice the cost. I'.S.—They will knock five cents off a crooked pick handle nnd 15 cents oil' a sick shovel. This concession will surely ma—o those idiots wha demand the full product of their to*H look lil<«. :*0 yen. 8. This agreement is nn honorable se,tlemen,. and might, or might not Im- called n "hori/.ontnl proposition" and will therefore bo signed by: I. The Messrs Squeeze,!,, liustem, Kickem & Co., Snn Francisco, pth- e*-wise known as the Western No f'tjle Co., U.S.A. _!. The Committee. (Yes, Sir! | !) :i. The wage-slave. (Great, Scott, must we!) 4. W. Mnckemdig, Horn. D. D. (God Save Kitoig.) And the wind blows through the whistles. "ANONYMOUS." Nanaimo, n. 0. o (Comrade Ilowtharnthwaite's letter, reference to which has been made by "Old I'lug," in another column, seems to have been the means of pro- vent ing thc miners from getting erven n worse dose- than the one they received. Its publication ut ,his stage however, can do no good. We waive publication until some future time, with this advice to the comrade When in the future one of these miserable decoys of the capitalist class invades the "sanctity of his home,' or approaches him anywhere else and proposes or tries to work any dirty scheme for ,he benefit of the master class, neither waste time in bandying words wilh him, nor in writing letters to a servile press, but promptly kick the cur into the street) and lie done with him.— Editor Western their Clarion,) DRIFTWOOD FROM THE BEACH Mil mU Iwim Brtight li •■ thi Tide at Oar Exclufii. ("arnegis, l'hipps, Bradley-Martin, and other successful American labor skinners have made quite a fad of securing large game preserves in Northern Scotland, where they lavishly entertain their friends wilh excellent shooting and fishing. These preserves are well stocked wilh various kinds of game, both large and small. During*a day of successful shooting recently, a guest of Bradley Martin shot a "gillie" in the I kg- o I Machines in some of the hosiery ! factories of the world make 300,000 stitches in a minute. Shoemakiug machines drive 300 steel tacks in a minute and build up 1,500 pairs of heels in a day. A cutler will make a carving knife in ten minutes, where once the hand workman spent five hours. The modern nailmaker turns out a hundred pound keg of nails in two hours, where once he would have required two weeks for the task, One man now tends twelve screw cut- tiing machines which turns out nine screws per second, a speed 4,000 faster than hand work. A mule frame with one man and two boys, will spin as much cotton yarn in a day as 1,100 women could have done working the old hand spinning wheels. All for the reason that time i.s more than money in these modern days of rush and go. "How soon can I get that?" is the question of the man of affairs. How he gets it is no concern of his. And this mnn of affairs is becoming more impatient of delays day after day in geometrical progression. o First the capitalist reapers run over the labor field and like lhe "headers" of the bonau/a farms skim off the product of the field. This is called capitalist industrialism. Second, the capitalists who have bagged the Increase then fall upon each other and pluck and rob and bludgeon one another to see who shnll get the most of it. This is called high finance.—S. It. Herald. o—————— There seems ,o he a widespread movement in the United States for the suppression of Socialist street speaking. From all parts of the country come accounts of the nctivi- ty of tne police along this Iim-. We sincerely hope they wiill keep at it persistently. These high-handed police measures are n<*cessary to show the American sovereign that the republic is a farce irnd his boasted liberty a sham. When he gets that well fixed in his mind there will be something doing. o When the census of 1900 was taken it was found that 11,300,081 horsepower was utilised in manufacturing as compared with 5,054,655 jn 1890; 8,415,887 in 188,1, und 2,340,142 in 1870. Since then the power used, has been increasing at an even more rapid rate, so that the Scientific American in 1901, estimated that over 15,000,000 horse-power was used in manufacturing in 1904. Reports indicating the prospects of an exceedingly hard winter in England continue to come in. Visitors in London, according to a cablegram to the Chicago Kecord-Herald, say they have never seen so many beggars in the British capital as there are at the present time. Certain thoroughfares fairly swarm with those who are in the last stages of poverty and misery, and at the entrance of thc large restaurants, crowds are waiting to pick up a chance penny, ln the district of Westham aloue four thousand persons are without any means of earning a livelihood, and from all over Great Britain come reports of thousands of unemployed organizing to demand relief. In one day no less than five tragedies resulted from lack of employment or food. One man murdered his children because he toiilri not bear to see them starve. Despite this abject poverty, however, it is said that a manufacturer of popcorn, who engaged large numbers of people to peddle his wares on tho streets, found thai as a general thing those engaged in this work went home as soon as they had earned 3s, although some of them earned as much as £2 in a day of continuous work.—The Sun. o , In the great coal docks at Cardiff are monster cranes handling coal in quantities displacing armies of men. The record of these- cranes is loading u steamer with 9 234 tons of coal in twenty-eight hours, trimming the cargo automatically as it has loaded it. At Barry also these cranes have unloaded 1,900 tons of coal from a .steamer and allowed tho vessel to sail again on the same tide by which it. came into the docks. Our own Haiti more, however, J ieldhl nothing to the Briton in this work, ln thnt Maryland capital are coal loading mechanisms which in a twenty-four hour day can handle 150,- tons of coal if only enough vessels could be brought alongside to re- receive tho cargoes. In tne same way the ore handling devices at the gneat steel mills of the United States are wonders of the world. Almost without the aid of hands iron ores are loaded and unloaded at the docks at a speed not to be touched by all the men who could be crowded in for the work. In one day a modern steel mill may turn out 2,7110 ions of rails, surli- rient for laying twenty-one miles of track. IN REVOLUTIONARY THROES While Reactionaries Palter With Reform the Proletariat Coetiaees to Shea* ito Blood ia the Struggle lor Freedom. lbi'iTIl, Fuel Uli l|h'i.',"'(,Vi(,,,s 1hnt «w'h ■»<*•■ "' work S,'_fmel-t( lief ore thev ' ICirt- , '8 ^ere Mnc- "**'°~,k th , * "' his deadliest "'k|"r ,„,.' ■ s,ni,1l'M the mas as n'l'i decoy l"i ho "Ur act. capable of nny invefg|ad "Ull fusing as our us into a trap, ignutures we are to |,|T'.'rts of tion I rally tion paid 11.35 to |1( large rock (1,85: small rocH $1.50 to from from 25c fl .'I.',- track hatchets, I com SI 25' four-fool crosscut saws from $.1.1.-,' to $2.50 ; hand OT" $1 86 lo $1-75; ten-inch files, 25c to 20c; pick hnndles, from lo 20c. I have said little of the explanations mnd« the committee seems to to do With the ni committer the Company I-*****-"-*1 cou because from bv Mr. King, have had nothing ^Itt'Tnconcelvahlo thnt any work- 1,1 |je fooled with such Russia is making ready for th.i Du- „ta_VFHrirmt "fi i ericmi of speech, without freedom of the press, without righi of mooting without a habeas corpus. Surely such a curiosity the world has never seen before. Only the Russian bureaucracy could have invented a position like this, nnd only Russian Liberals could have entered it in a serious spirit. Everywhere (he Liberals are debating whether they should take part in the elections or not. A few say no, but the majority say yes. Their argument is lhat if they abstain the reactionaries won't, and so the Duma will be filled b.v the enemies of the people, As if it would be any good if the Duma were filled by friends of the peoplel The Duma is nil the same condemned to impotence, so far as tho "good" goes; anil ns to the Liberals entering it with the view of proclaiming it n National Assembly—woll, we. know better; they are not Mirnbenus. Characteristically enough, while th*| Liberals take the same in dead earnest, in a Couple of weeks' time the Zemstvoists will again meet in Moscow, and some fine speeches will bo made to prove the desirability of accepting tho Duma. The reactionaries know very well what they are about. A curious project is set on foot to guard the peasants' representatives against "evil" Influences by lodging Ihem, when arrived in St. Petersburg, all in ono house, under police surveillance, without right to leave the building except under es- ,.,,,-t, etc. it is hardly to be expected that this ingenious plan will bo realized; but it is valuable for the light it throws on the state of mind 'rf the reactionaries, as well as on thu folly of the Liberal hopes. It is always thus. The reactionaries, whether in llussia or elsewhere, know their mind, the Liberals do not; and while the former are making history in their own brutnl fashion, the liberals live by dreams and hopes. How little the country itself shares the views of the Liberals is shown by the fact that the revolution Is alive as ever before. Tn tho Caucasus the revolution is gaining the up. per hand, both over the Tartars and their allies, the Government. The Baltic provinces are on the eve of a general rising, while thc blowing up of the Hritish ship, laden with arms in the Finnish gulf, shows that Finland, too, is rapidly approaching a crisis. Blood is flowing everywhere in such quantities that no stock is now taken of it either by the press or by the revolutionaries themselves. The recent affair at Hielostok is a case in point, but little notice was taken of il in the English press, and yet for a while the town was a regular scene of battle between the military and the proletariat- Nearly 60 were killed, while the brutalities knew no end. Among the victims were two young girls of the llund, who have taken part in the street fibht ing. Ono of them was living abroad when the news came of lho massacre of January 22. "I i .,i.--t go," she declared, "else I 11 mlMl the revolution. And she did go, i nil found her death from a sol Iter's bullet—Th. Rothstein, in Justio. During the last year this number has been increasing still more rapidly. Moreover, this calculation takes no account of all the power used on tho railways and in moving the steamships upon the lakes arid rivers and along tho coasts. It leaves out of consideration all power used in operating mines, on farms or in office buildings, all use of wind power and by the tens of thousands of automobiles, and tho multitude of cars operating on our streets and Inter-urban lines. These omitted items are certainly much larger thnn the ones that are included. We arc safe, therefore, in concluding that at least 30,000,000 horse-power is now utilised by tho peoplo of the United States. All of this has been developed during the last fifty years, and much more than half during the Inst generation. Look a little closer at these figures. "Engineers, compute each horsepower as equivalent to tho work of eight men. That means thot 240,- 000,000 servants, with arms of steel breath of steam, nnd nerves of electricity, are now ready to do the work of the American people. Thero are about twenty million families in the United States. Consequently there nre twelve of these servants to each household. These servants ore using the most perfect tools. They never grow tired. It would seem that tho time had come of which Aristotle wrote when the "spindle and shuttle would move of thoir own accord," and when, so thought, the old Greek philosopher, "there would no longer be need of human slaves." The family of today should lie able to live at least twelve times as good as that of Revolutionary times, and yet do no work beyond over-seeing these mechanical slaves. Moreover, there nre millions more of the same race ready to be set to work as soon as mankind desires their services, Today those who do the work of the world are rather the slaves of the inanimate creations, instead of ownincr them. Socialists demand that the workers wake up and vote to own tho mechanical slaves, that men themselves may be free nnd that all may enjoy the wealth which they aro capable of producing.—Appeal to Reason. Norway has not been credited with the greatest celerity in her movements as a people, and yet she has something approaching a record in the manufacture of paper. At 101- sonthnl recently a notary was taken to the woods, holding a stop watch under onth in order to testify to rapidity in paper making. Tho woodsmen began cutting at three trees at 7:35 in the morning. The wood Was cut into blocks, macerated and reduced to pulp, and the first sheet of finished paper came from the mills at 9.34 o'clock. These sheets were driven two miles to a newspaper office, which at 10 o'clock presented a finished, printed newspaper. Thus, in two hours and a halt a standing tree became a daily paper, carrying with it some of the developments of the recent schism between the two sister kingdom. o The enormous displacement of hand labor by machinery is strikingly instances in modern dredging and excavating appliance*. The great crane shovel, which cuts its way in canal digging through soil and clay and mire, will lift 3,600 tons a day under ordinary conditions, thus accomplishing the work of 2,400 men with hand implements. One of tne great suction dredges, working in the harbor channel, will pump 3,000 tons of sand and,silt in an hour, depositing its load hundreds of foet away as occasion demands. How many men and how much old time para- phrt-nnlia such a machine displaces aro hardly to lie estimated. o In thc matter of the rapid steel construction, the United States still is in the lead, as demonstrated in a fifteen story building in William St., New York. In twenty-five days the great steel skeleton was ready for the* stone facings, and in six weeks later the building, complete, was filled wilh tenants. In this building are express elevators which are run 1,- 500 feet in a minute, or at the rate of a mile in a little moro than throe minutes. o To read of an inhabited subterran. ean city seems strange, yet a place of this character actually exists ln Oall- cla, Austrian Poland, and with a population, too, of over 1,000 men, women and children. It Is called the City of the Salt Mines, and has a town-hall and a church. This latter has several statues, all of which are carved from rock salt. While speakers at the Trades and Labor Congress held tn Toronto were condemning the Increase in expenditures for military purposes, the Manufacturers' Association were listening to a strongly worded plea for still further additions to this expenditure.— Weekly Sun. o An American chocolate wrapping machine will do up 100 packages of tho confection In a minute. ¥ J 1 s w MR','*'. / flff fe SIK WEBTMtH OLUtlOy. V-LNOOUVga, B. 0. SATURDAY, October 7 th, lhe Mm Us Published every Saturday in the interests of tbe Working Class alone at the office of the Western Clarion, Flack block basement, 165 Hastings street, Vancouver, B. C. SUBSCRIPTION: SI.00 PER ANNUM Strictly ln Advance. Yearly subscription cards In lota o! five or more. 76 crats each. Advertising ratss on application. If you receive this paper lt Is paid for. Addreas all eommunlcatloes to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. 342 Watch the label on your paper If this number is on it, your subscription expires next issue. class strubgle lies jus, before irs. A struggle to the death between the two economic classes into which society is today divided, the capitalist* class and the working class. That struggle will be for the mastery of the means of wealth production, tho former class to maintain their present ownership and control in order that the present slavery of lubor may bo perpetuated, the latter class to seize control in order that it may strike the shackles of wage-bondage from its limbs. This is a glorious struggle from the standpoint of labor, because freedom is the stuke for which tho battle is f-ught 1 •-.- bor has too long been a "good thing" to be ruthlessly exploited by conscienceless rulers. It will become a good thing for itself once it awakens to its mission in the im [lending conflict. From all sides come signs portent ious of an early awakening. o SITUATION AT *NANAlMO. SATURDAY, October 7th, 1001 A GOOD THING. One good man on tlie farm is worth two men in tho city. He produces enough for himself and family, and has a surplus to put into the channels of trade. Ho builds up the local merchants and transportation lines. His products are handled by the commission men, merchants and dealers of towns and cities. All make profit from the work, and that money assists in supplying caixital for conducting business enterprises. The farm products are generally sold and the cash handled several times before reaching the original producer Then the farmer purchases his supplies from the merchants and pays an additional profit for handling.— Seattle P.-I- That the editor of tho "F.-l." knows a good thing when he sees it, is beyond question. From reading the above it is plainly evident that he considers the horny-handed agri. culturist one of the best things that ever happened, And truly ho is u'.l of that, for has he not, along with his fellow good thing, the wage- worker ol the factory, mill, uiicnuid railway, for lo these mauy yv.t.'S, poured the rich products of his toil into the "channels of tid^, >»» order that tho ravenous un-1 unpii-ri- pled lot of. business scalawags might have a glorious time. fighting amongst themselves for possession of itl And what does the pouring of surplus products into tho "channels of trade" mean, if it be not the surrendering of those products to the swashbucking pirates that sail tho cammercial seas? Stripped of all humbug and pretense the farmers and wago-workers not only keep themselves and those dependent upon them but also the entire business world with its innumerable rabble of boosters, parasites and retainers. And what do they get in return? Nothing short of'that harsh treatment, and contumely that is properly tho portion of the spineless, weak and submissive vassal wherever he may be found. It is idle folly to flatter the workman, bc hc farmer or wage- slave outright, with fulsome encomiums about his dignity and jjs manhood. Tho truth of the matter is that he possesses neither, not can he so possess so long as he remains, as at preserit, the cringing cowardly bulwark of his master's tyrannies. And who, or what is the master that forces him under the cruel lask of necessity to pour his products into the '-'channels of trade," That master is capital, that peculiar form of property than can only utilize the means of wealth production for the purpose of exploiting or robbing the only useful portion of Viman society, the working class. The farmers and wage-workers of tho United States need but to familiarise themselves with thc- history of their own class to become familiar with thc most gigantic and unscrupulous plundering that was over perpetrated upon any people in all the history of mankind. It is by their labor and that of their predecessors that this one-time western wilderness has been converted into a laud more prolific of wealth than any other, part of the globe, and it is under the administration of capital that these very workers themselves have been reduced to thc level of paupers, and countless thousands of them even forced to lead lives but little short of chronic semi-starvation. Of course the farmer and wage- worker build up the "merchants and the transportation lines." mid afford tho commission men nnd dealers the opportunity of mu-;'ng pio- flt. But to the extent that thoy build for this business fraternity they tear down for themselves. The profit of the "business world means to labor a loss. And so it must continue, until this workingman, bo hc either farmer of wage-slave, shall hav»- awakened to a realization of the robberies perpetrated upon them by capitalist property, their master, and have arisen as men and The workingmen of Nanaimo and Ladysmith mny well enjoy the distinction of iK-ing tho first in Canada to feel tho revolutionary impulse sufficiently strong to cause them to give it expression nt Iho poll*". They are tho first in Ihe Dominion to elect representatives of their economic class to the legislative chambers. It is peculiarly noticeable that s the workingmen become conscious of their real position in present-day society nnd awaken to the necessity of revolutionary action along those lines which tend towards such n transformation in property rights as will strip the present ruling class of the [Miwer ,0 continue its rule and robbery there occurs a most decided change in their view of things in general, and in their conduct relating to those differences which so often arise betwixt themselves and their present industrial masters. The recent strike in Nanaimo furnishes an excellent illustration in point. Various observers have commented upon the circumstances prevailing in connection with it, and have remarked the practical absence of the usual phenomena attending similar occur and international organizations with thoir inevitable and BXpensivB stalls of boosters, fakirs and wind bags. A sharp rise in prices is recorded in. Tokio with evei.\ indication of increased business activity. Increased business activity of course means the rapid coinage of 'he marrow of the working-class Into surplus value to bo converted into additional capital in order that, the process of labor- skinning may bo still further extended, enlarged and accelerated. The Japanese workers will soon bo brought up to the enjoyment of the "strenuous life." already attained by tho workers of the older capitalist countries. CORRESPONDENCE. A lot of skives who found them solves in such straightened circumstances that their clothes had become reduced to a few tattered rags, and their food to crumbs and crusts, decided to band themselves together for tho purpose of bettering their con dition. After a lengthy consultation over the selection of a name befitting their purpose, it was decided tnat inasmuch as tho means nt their disposal necessitated the exercise of economy in order to maintain thoir existence, thoir organization should be known as un "economic" one. This decision so appealed to the risibilities of their masters, that they burst their buttons with laughter, and in order to recoup themselves for the damage, they cut their slaves' allowance liclow the former figure. This was a groat victory won for organized labor, although tho victors had less to oat and wear than was formerly the case. o An exchange gravely remarks "that no civilized mnn should work monition eight hours a day." This is a chunk of wisdom thut should havo been dug up long ngo. It would have prevented some of us falling into the notion that it was the province of man, either civilized or not, to work ns many or as few hours per day as he found necessary to provide himself with the things ho required. We are of the further opinion, however, that no civilized man rentes. Large numbers of the men with "*• brain in his cocoanut as big went quietly away in search of employment elsewhere, and it appears that those who remained, as a rule, took but little notice of the Company and its affairs, and in no manner attempted to interfere with its arrangements. While it is probably true that moro or loss friction occurred between individuals, or factions among tho men, it appears that the general aspect of the situation throughout the strike period, was one of calm and dignified quiet and peace. There was little to indicate tension or suspense and nothing at any time to .portend probable departure from tho usual path of decorum travelled by an ordinarily peaceful community. Whatever friction and ill-feeling may have developed between individuals, or factions, among the workmen, might as well, and probably will be dropped. As to the .agreement, the full text of which will be found in another column, it embodies for thc menn all that any reasoning being coo .! eil- pect from Ihe present status 0' capitalist property and its labor irar- kct. Of necessity, each successive agreement entered into between the employers anil workmen, must l.e less favorable to the latter because tho conditions of the labor market are continually becoming more un. favorable to them. There is one fact in connection with the Nanaimo strike rhat should not bc lost sight of by the workmen and that is the danger that the Western Fuel Company scents in their political action along working-.'lass linos. Tho eight-hour law vidcntly proved a thorn in the flesh, and the Company has taken i>ains to lot it be known to the men. This should be taken by the men as a .trong tip as to what line to follow in the future. Tho reference in the irgree- ment to the restoration -,i the hours of labor existing before the passage of the act was doubtless mala by the Company for the purpose of indicating to the men the location of the tender spots in its anatomy. Tho only blow that can cause ihe capitalists to emit, a genuine nipi-.-a., is ono landed in such a way as ,0 curtail their power to skin their victims. While the Nanaimo mon are working under their pres.-nt two years' agreement, they -houlri not neglect to exercise thoir political rights in such a manner as to fortify them for the supremo sniggle, which must reach its climax in the near future, by which their dass -vill assume ownership and control ,s its means of living. In the meantime, all that .1 be gotten from the labor market can be secured by the men n eh , -i-<u- lar locality acting in -'in. • s did thc .Nanaimo men in »,ling ibv. lute dilficulLy. Nothing ,s •'.-•l itltlr as a mustard seed would do a stroke of work, from the cradle to the grave so long as ho found enough silly assos always ready at hand to do it for him. The economic power of capital does not lie in Citizen's Alliances, Manufacturers' Associations, etc. It is embodied in its title to mill, mine, factory, railway, etc, upon which tho workingmen depend for their living. The economic organizations of capital are the Standard Oil Company, the U. S. Steel Corporation, the Ueef Trust, tho Railway Companies, etc. It is against such organized economic power that "pipe dreamers," in the labor world expect to win victories in the economic field, with bat- tallions of wage-slaves, who upon the average, do not possess sufficient economic power to enable them to provide the second shirt to thoir backs. Fenimoro Cooper wrote the "Last of the Mohicans." May the time speedily come when tho story of tho last of these "pipe dreamers" may tie likewise written. . Exception has lieen taken to the stntement that the laborers in the vineyard of capital, work for nothing and board themselves. Inasmuch as the capitalist recoups himself for the wages paid, out of tho sale of the commodities produced by hie laborers, it follows that labor pays its own wages. Therefore labor boards itself. As the workers get nothing besides thoir wages, which, upon the average, are but sufficient to keep them in workable condition, it logically follows that thoy work for nothing, board themselves, and on top of all this pay the sum represented by the profits of their employers for the privilege of so-doing. Talk about a "good thing," thc working man is the best that ever iK-rambul- ated down the speedway of history. That which the members of human society aro compelled to use together in order to produce the things required for their sustenance, should bo held ns collective or public property. Tho things required for individual use or consumption, should bo the private properly of the individual to the extent to which he has contributed his time to the process of collective or social wealth production. This would bo equivalent to every member of society receiving the equivalent of his labor, thereby supporting himself. Could an honest man demand more? Could a freeman accept less? o Wages to the biped is only tho equivalent of oats, hay and stable to the quadruped. The four-legged slave gets his at first hand, while thc two-legged one gets an order on the storehouse which ho may subsequently realize upon. The one is as free Van Anda, Toxada Island, B.C. Editor of Western Clarion. Dear Comrade-It will bO inU-rost- ,„g to you and comrades throughout the country to hear that tho long period of peace which our local u"s enjoyed bus conic to an end. During the three yonrs of its exist- once, a steady undercurrent of quiet agitation has been kepi moving along by its handful of members, which came to tho surface at tho recent byo-olection in a manner which up. pears to have been extremely alarming to certain of the Liberal Btripo in this place. There i.s only one person, us far as wo know, on Texada Island who claims the right to determine , what shall Ih. tho political views of mon who wish to got thoir living here and ie is adopting a method of doing it which is so well known elsewhere as to bo easily recognized, although it is being carried out in a slow 1111- lerhandod way in order' to escape popular notice. Van Anda being nn out of the way place it may be well to mention that tho Marble Hay mine is practically the only moans of support for the population. This mine is a typical specimen ol western capitalism. Eight years ago the deposit of Copper ore now being worked was unknown. It is situated on the land which at that time belonged to Mr. Palmer, of Toronto fame, who valued tho land for its limestone. This Mr. Palmer, hired mon to sink a shaft on the cropping to a depth of about 800 feet, and then 'landed lhe property over to the Tacoma Steel Company for the sum Of $,">0,- 000 to bo paid in instalments. Turing the following two years the work men employed took out sufficient ore to pay thoir wages und all other expenses together with the cost of tho mine. The workingmen who made this piece of valuable property for the Tacoma Steel Company, wore slaves. Their material necessities forced thorn to do it and over them stood the boss slave who maintained discipline by menns of the well understood throat of discharge. Furthermore, the workingmen who made this mini' for its owjiors, were only allowed to do so on tho assumption that they were possessed of tho genuine slave mind and would take care of their master's interests at stake on election day. This part of the business is looked after by another boss slave who is Induced by his masters to believe himself n suporior typo of being in order to keep him to his duty. The unsavory character of this duty is apparent in -he dodge employed to carry jt out. An honorable task can be carried out in an openhanded manner, nnd without concealing its object from tihe public, but when an employee is fired from Marble Day Mine because ho is a Sociulist, he is simply told to ask no questions. Slince the election, our local has lost the active support of five members, because, being out of a job, then cannot qo depended upon nnd will probably go away. Wo have the satisfaction of knowing, however, that tho Socialist movement amongst, the workmen hero is advanced to a point where it can take care of itself. P. T. O. _ Every Local of tho Socialist Party of Canada should run a carl under this head, fl.00 per month. Secretaries please note. SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. 0. Dominion Executive Committ.00, A. It. Stebbings, John E. Dubberley, Ernest Hums, C. Peters, Alf. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; J. O. Morgan, secretary, 551 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C. Union Directory When They Meet; Wh,r,. m,-„ * Mr Uv. ry I.nbor Union in tl,7T7</V/v' vitecl to place a cant under lhi.i?W!rt*'M it li '»""'"- Secretaries tZVu^^ Sue J Phoenix Trades and Labor r- Meets every alternate £0Unt John Riordan, SSldSt- HS* Brown, vice-president; p I?*?' casse sergeant-at-aruu' VV11 „ U bury. sccreiary-treas,,ri.r P 'aN 198, Phoenix. I) C ' ■'-• Ho Phoenix Miners' Un ,01*. No. LOCAL VANCOUVER, NO. 1, S.P. of Canada. Business meetings every Monday evening at headquarters, Ingleside Block, ai'l Cambie Street, (room 1, second floor.) Educational meetings every Sunday at 8 o'clock p.m., in Sullivan Hall, Cordova Street. D. P. MILLS, Secretary, ltox 8!lri, Vancouver II. C. LOCAL TORONTO — Moots 2nd and and 4th Tuesdays, Temperance Hall Hathurst St. F. Dalo, Secretary, 41 Henry strcot, W. Q. Cribble, organizer, 180 Hogarth Ave. W. F. M. Meets every •?„?',< evening at 7,~o o'clock in I,la hall. Francs Knott i,r <. ■ «*-• * Berry, l^g'1"-, / by smoolhy Smith, Tho terms that tho strike or lock-out aro settli-d on nro worse than could have been settled on fourteen weeks back, but the men had boon gulled by outside influences thnt they could bring the company to time and get back something we hod lost besides, Along came this other skate from the out- nidi; and we receive the dose at his hand. Now, Mr. Editor, it is very- near time tha, tho workers of this and every other place understood that they are powerless to increase tho wages or even hold that which thoy have, against adverse circumstances. These labor troubles nro getting more frequent as time'goes on, and will got worse nnd worse while industry is run for prolit. Profit is going to lie made, and the workers cannot stop it on the industrial field. Tne political field belongs to the workers when they got sense and man hood enough into them to take it, but so long as they aro willing to be hood-Winked by the labor skates of tne .lohn Mitchell, Knmmy llom- persi Ralph Smith and MucKon/.ie King brand, Ihey will get it in the uock as they have got it now after four months' fight, and it will serve them right. One of. ,he honorable schemes of MacKon/ie King, will appear in Mr. llawthornthwuito's letter. OLD PLUG. broken its baneful rulo. A glorious strength by maintaining natirnal quadruped. Nanaimo, B.C., Oct, 2, 1905. Editor Clarion— The Nigger in the wood pile referred to in connection with Mr. Ralph Smith's visit to the East has hatched out in tho form and porson of tho frop'it.v Minister of Labor; MacKen- zio King, who is a regular Smithite and just as good u. bunco stooror nnd decoy (hick of labor as the Renowned Ralph himself. As you are aware tho mines have been closed down for the past four months on account of the eight-hour law put through in the. interest of tho coal miners of British Columbia by J. II. Hawthornthwaite, the Socialist member, which came into effect on the 1st of Juno, last. Tho Western Fuel Company say that thoy could not work their mines at a profit therefore thoy would have to close thorn down unless the men would consent to pny a dollar a month for transportation to Protection Shaft, which the men refused to do all along, up to tho arrival of smoothy King on the scene. No later than September 21 .st, the men took a vote on the terms of ono dollar, and they turned it down by 247 votes ngainst nnd only 0 for, a report of which can be soon in the Free Press of September 22nd, and a statement, of Mr. Btockctt's in regard to this vote of the United Mine Workers in the same issue, proves Mr. Stockett to bo correct, that wo would have to pay the dollar per month, and that ., ., -,, , , , . we have had to do, but the dose had as tho other, with creature comforts . ,_•_■'_ and security decidedly in favor of tho tnl *■" --dminaKtored |,y nn out shier, BSTABMSHE D is,,, The VOICE Tha Oldest labor Pap., |„ Cm-| Always a feurlcssscx,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,],, cause of labor. For o„e dollar the naner -111 1 *»nl to ftiiy sddreM foVone year Workingmen of all country will soon recognize the fact that 'th" must support and read their iSS papers. wr Issued every Friday. The Voice Publishing Co., Uniite, WINNIPEG, .man. J. r.nu'Aiii, Him,. Uao, B, mu llBVDoimn BIRO, eRYOOH-JAGK & tU:min„\ BARItl-*T_R8, BOI.iriTORg, Hi Hallway Block. t«i. Ma I'.n. »„, r* 314 Hulissa Street - Vancomr. I —THE- Miners'Magazim Published Weekly l,y tht Western Federation Of Miner* A Vigorous Advocate ol Labor'- | Cause. Clear-Cut nnd Aggressive. Per Year $1.00 Six Months, r,0ij Address: MINERS' MAGAZINE, Denver. Colorado, TIIK OWLS. THE HATS, AND THE SIN. The Owls, lints and several other birds of night on a certuin June day gathered in a thick Chicago economic fog, where they abused their neighbors in a very sociable manner. Their satire at last fell upon one Samuel (!., the Sun, of the "pure and simple'' solar system, whom thoy ull agreed to be very troublesome, traitorous and "turpitudin- oiiH." After which the "pure and simple'' Sun. who overheard thorn, Hixike to them thusly: "Gentlemen, 1 wonder how you dare abuse ono that you know could in an instant scorch you up. nnd consume every mother's son of you; but the only answer I shall give you, or the re- venge I shall take of you, is to shine oh."—Adapted from Bsop'a Fablos. TIIK HIGHEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. Tho new steel arch bridge of tho Cape-to-Cairo Railway, across the Zambesi River, just below the famous Victoria Falls, wns formally opened September 12, in tho presence of » delegation from the Hritish Association for the Advancement of Science. It is 420 foot high, and was built on tho cantilever principle without central supports, becoming an arch when completed. Tho first. COnnoction between the two shores was made by firing a rocket across iho gorge. This carried a cord, hy which a wire was drawn over, then a small cable and then a great cable, with an electric trolley. Over this was sent half the materinl for the bridge, so that the work could be carried on from both skies at once as well as that for ono hundred and fifty miles of railroad. To balance tho weight of the trusses as thoy were built out from tho piers, immense wire cables were passed through inclined shafts sunk through the solid rock and connected by tunnels. C. PETERS !rZ^,\ ■*._ Shce Mali | [land-Mad. n,„.ts nnd Slim-* tu crd,i in all styles, Rerwiiinji ptmiiiul- mid 1 til- ly done. Mock <,l sUpl. r«i,l) -air SI,o*-h nln ,,>'•* on Im,i,l. 24S6 teitaiinittf Ave Mcutit ,"leuul I Kurtz's Own ., Kurtz's Pioneers Spanish Blossoms WAGE-LABOR AND CAI'ITAL ( Hy KAKI. MARX. Single copies 5 cents. 6 copies _-.s<*:nt8. ,5 copies, 50 cenla. 41 copies $1.00. 100 copi< a and over .2 rents per copy. These rates include postage to anv part of Cattail;, 01 the I'niliil States. Printed in the Office of— 1 The Western Clarion nga Street Vancouver, D.C. 16.-, Hiisliiie,:. 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Counterfeit- »" ,„ J times 1 times iwforaUd on three edges, anil ■<■'"' ,. „ -1 on two. John B. Stetson 00., of PbllaWl non-union concern. JOHN A. MOFP1TT. President, Oritng* N.J. IsA-TlTlM LAWLOH, BecreUry, 1" w *'** New York. PU* __■ _■_■_■ ■_■_ October 7th, 1905. -___ "" wiaraMy clarion, vancouvie, %. o. Ethics of the Traders from "Mass and Claw," by W. J. Ghent. | Mil* . interesting to look at It m».' '' _ ... ihe ilistinctive phases of . ss [unction ami morality tn-wli'--*""" , , ,hC ..i..mil uini ot ihe prodncing l"""'" -phe producers, particularly fnffM-rn-TK. have two prime Ldccs oguinsl the traders, and ""',, ihi-ir retainer, as well-two ^"„,,,s „i,.,cis.,lly and profound- -", ci,. r,|.»l of Ihose is the «,.,,. indifference ol the comlortalile ,r«! III*.-'' .,, .ho poverty of which near- I, ,n the wago-earners nro in peril I -which i» tho actual and inoacap- I i , ,,( hi enormous number of ■ii,,. ,.«i.-iit and social conse- | ihL'in •■" „.- Ms nuvorty have boon of- mm* ol mm i tpicturwl, l«oihaps mosl era|*i.c- Er aaii c.n'ini'ingly In two oil L„.,|; well l-noiui passages one lb,- Hi- late I'rofoMOl Huxley and ■ ., ( I,. \|, Krederie Harrison. Kv' cuniuit i tt*-1-* *»' rultsraisd, |lu> im-uuilH-ni to return over ami Hm-niniin '" """'' '*"*cihl° and tell *Ed!wripii< i'" for sn acUipinte un- Egtimil,ng "i 'ho basic condition of tLtrial i Ij under privute eupi- Uili,',,, In I1 ssor Huxley's words: "Ati\ii;ic wh<> is acquainted with Ibe state el the p<i|«ilalion of all «t Industrial centres, whether in Ibis or other countries is aware Li amidst n Inrgo nnd increasing Lh ol that population thore reigns Lniii,. ,na< condition tbnh the French call la misore, a ionl for which 1 do not ihink there , ,,ni -_a-t Knglltto equivalent- lt condition in whiih tho food. hrniih and clothing, which are nec- mr) for the men- maintenance of , functions of the body in their formal gtate ennnot be obtained; in Hiiih men, women and children are |nn-ii| to crowd into dons when in dean*; i* abolished, and the- most or- Inarv conditions of healthful exist- [ ,ir>. inino sible of attainment ; i whi- h iho pleasures within leexh In- reduced to brutality and drunk- lincss in which the pains acauinu- }_. nt iiiin|«)und interi'st in thill** ot starvation, disease, stunted Hrlopnieot, and moral degradation; uhiih ihe prosiioct of eyeu steady Ll how-si industry is n life ol un- jierMul battling with lii-ngvr, wl,..! Iij ., pauper's f*Tu.vo," lllr Harrison's Minimury, published IB) years oorlier, furnishes u plc- ahnoal identical: Tome, ni least, it would Ik- on- lirh in condemn modern society ns Intly an advance on slavery or scrf- lin ii the permanent condition of plui.tr> were to be that which we Ji'iiil. ilmi ninety per cent, of, the Rial producers of wealth have no Inn-thut (hey can . all their own lymid tho end ,u* the week": have no It "i soil, or so much us a room Iai belongs to them; have nothing lvalue ot nny kiml except as much Id furniture as will go in a curt ; »vi' the precarious chance of weekly V> which barely stillice to keep fi" in health; are housed for the pari in places that no man lin -. til for his hor.se, are miparut- J»y so narrow a margin from des- ►uiiiin thai ,, nioii^i of bud trade, BfflenB, or unexpected loss brings 'm face to fm-,. with hunger and '"I""-'" . . This i.s ,he nor- tale of the average workman in or i iiHnir.v." I" "f European cities, fin Mr. imsoa'a declaration, of tho coun- districts as well) thut these lr,ls aro writ ten; but thoy apply 'i, though with a somewhat lessor ol exactness^ to the greater " Vmerk-a. Hay after day. 1 year, this general condi- —a condition somewhat "| times of prosperity, but ,"'-i"-ni.;ii,iv worae in times of '"" rhe producers .-*■<• the *afortn).,_ i '•"'>' I hisses in the serene eti- '''"' of all the luxuries that inon- v •*•■} uml thev see thai '"■ •"•',>• is but slightly alT.t-t- '"■ by the presence of the I'oor. Whil,. multitudes ,, l""1 "di ken In the slums, the 1 f'neoa of entertainment and 'How, ami the inter- *pr of ti„. stricken is borne Mrv Tr ' Uy 'h<- '""'S,H (,r l||ii;h I' consctonco and pity gives „. n'ar> Pain, It is stilled by a '" 'hiiritv ni fti entlurea P.lllli; ■top. pfi-moni '•nt Jn I,, ins thrown like a coin f*111' ns the giver's earring. ■M. til UiVl.m -. ». A .__ .. ''Wu Past | I.i 1 some ns yet unsatod I'i,., ■ ..cn,x'"'V is *~*-e main nul or sen n,,l f, Whil'' ,noH" who nre too '•"-.lv" ,s''"siml indulgence devote icllOB u ''' c**lture, a jwirauit that ij '» characteristic phase in a I th,. ni,""!"1''1'1-*' *>■-•■■ can weep » tl am "" vvooa of a»Cordelia 1111111111 i i. r«i ti, can withstand un it II,,, i, ,, "" "'lliniUMU llll- 01 n s. * C!WOkfl atl(l K1"1^'1 "trving family in the next I'ts ^s-'"1'1 ,fr,0V--i-ce of the pfo- t„ ^»'<nl aloofness—indilTer Hie s,„.i,,i c ,: . .. Ill "'"I n,r!,,!y.„'!,f,'?,n*'01*' of »c('"l'n " ' ' " 'S ha rd- ,,,,",,,„--,-*— i mini,-!- "'inl fivlitvgs of the pro- ttlon. ?',i man MnS-' Social dis ■ •'M'ow dllTeronces „f oceupo . " manual labor becomes th '">se who do the hard- roughest work aro, barring I aim F-'nnl uiul i -ops in out<-*«t-*i on tho low- V" Who „, ,(Hittl sto-^way, and P m-T.ii,,. it, , e r"rthest removed 'pn,,(lns" l0,'»r nro at tho top. u„, d( nni aro perpetually sung "''■mini ii i 'lon<*R,.V and worth ■I,,,,. ntiJ lnbor |,y our ministers. '"'"I I'olilici «ay. inns aro nul uiul. sincere enough; for it is recognized that if there were „0ne to do the hard labor there would be no ease „ml comfort for tho retainers. But for all the hon- esty, dignity and worth of his toll, ■the manual laborer is commonly looked upon as a socially inferior being. Social standards are set, directly or indirectly, by the trading class, ntul it thus naturally tomes about thut manual labor is a soda, disqualification, and lhe exploitation of lubor a social virtue. It i.s rare, even among petty employers, for the master to hold social relations with any of his workmen; and, as for the larger employers, they dp not even know their workmen by sight \,, minister who preaches the worth ot hard work to ii trading-class congregation could possibly welcome lo lus social 'ir- cle ii manual laborer, nnd oven ihe ward politician, though he must him- N..|f. associate with workmen to got their votes, is compelled lu draw di«- tinclioAS against them in his homo, llou (irmly roOted, bow geticrully prevalent, is this feeling regarding manual labor is well Illustrated iii the different social standing of clerks and mechanics, 'l*he clerk is, in the broad sense, a producer, and under tl |U8ter system of Bocioty, wherein his work would be ns invariably useful ns is thnt of the mechanic, would ly- ii producer even In the narrowest sense. Hut his work, though manual, is looked upon as more "genteel " than that of the carpenter and the shoemaker, nnd thus, though his wages are miserable, his duties generally servile, involving enforced lying nnd trickiery, and his ethical and intellectual average is low, yet his Social grade is everywhere far above • hit of the better paid, more highly Skilled, more intelligent ond more moral mechanic, whose qualities have placed America in tho forefront of industrial nations. It may Ih- askod if the average type of worker, more or less conscious of an ethic of usefulness anil ihe radical worker, conscious of class interests and antagonisms, really want or expect social intercourse with the exploiters and the idlers They may or may not, according to circumstances, individual character, and locality In general, the social feelings me warmer, more spontaneous, less artificial, among workers than among the members of the "Alp- |«.[-"ilasses. To them moro than to others is it true, in the words of William Morris, that "fellowship is heaven, and the lack of fellowship is h II " The isolated trader, the isolated scholar, may be indifferent to Intercourse with his kind; liut the isolated workman, shut out from friendly association, cannot Ik- indif- fprenl, Vssodation with his kind is a necessity Ol his being; and since his social !',-<-lings have a less artificial s more universal basis, than that which obtains among the members ,,f other classes, it is not unnatural thai In- should wont nnd seek association with other kinds as well. Locality. loo, is influential. In th.. Mi,Idle and Par West, as a general thing, thc barriers against mx ial intercourse are much less formidable than In the Bast, and workman and capitalist muy often be ac- qjjaintancea and friends. "The farther Wos' ono goes." as Professor lOly expresses a Well known fact, "the more democratic becomes society." Keen in those Western localities where antagonisms between the classes nre conscious and strongly In-ld (except, of course, such localities as the mining and smelttiiig ilis- tricts of Colorado, where abnormal CO—ditionS prevail), there muy bo inter-class association on extremt'ly friendly terms. The units of the var ions classes may recognize one another as human beings, with tnovad- ablo claims to fellowship, even I hough they have nntabonist ic interests. In the Knst. ho-Arovor, the long continued separation ,,f the classes, has brought about differentiations in customs and standards of living that make inter-class association practically impossible it ,iiii hardly bo su|-pos,.<l thai under such circumstances the worker has much desire for. or nny expectation of, Intercourse with his "siocinl betters." Iti,i im the workers to desire or expert social Intorcouree with tho upper clusses is one thing; lo resent the sociul inferiority in which Ihey are In-ld because thoy do manual labor and have no money lo expend for display is ipiito another. It is not SO much the lack of fellowship that is resented as the assumption of superiority. Mon may !><•. for rnnnj causes, instinctive Ol' reasoned, disinclined to friendly association with certain oilier men. und without offence. Ilut when the cause of this disinclination, obvious and acknowledged, is the artificial and sordid tests which nre almost universally applied by the comfortable classes, a natural and enduring resentment is croatod. To be conscious of doing tho productive work of the nation, to kmow that tho greater part of this product is taken b.v others and lhal tiioso who lake it, even if i_*nonint and bestial, are thus enabled to set them.-u'lves apart ns n Btopbrlor class looking wilh scorn upon their victims, can hardly bo supposed to conduce to working-class patience with the prevailing order, or with the social nnd ethical standards which aro its natural product. The social feeling of a groat part of the woll-lo-do classes toward the producers is often, if not generally, that of a mild indilTerence or a passive disdain. Hut i" the moro cultured fraction of those it fre<|iienlly takes on the hue of active contempt. Befinemonl Involuntarily shudders nt iho rough garb nml unconventional ways of the workers and at the militant assertion on their part, of a tight to a larger share in tho pro- duct of their toil. Our current fiction generally reflects this attitude; though ol late u growing curiosity to hear about "how tho other half lii'ves" has created an economic demand for stories of "low life." and a plentiful ,-rop of wuh productions' has consequently disappeared. It is: notable that in few or none of these are trie blood and sinew of working-class life depicted; tho theme is apparently without- artistic value to tin; "emitivulod" mind. Whut is wanted are typos of tho ec- ceotric, the abject, tho miserable, of beings who "know thoir places," who aro without a sense of social wrung or a determination (o mend matters.' Over these the "cultured" sensibility can weep or laugh—at a distance -—proud and happy to be possessed of such delicate sympathy, while it. I would only be shocked or bored by a depiction of the life of tho real workers. I It is in the social and political writings intended for ihe "culr_red" that this active contempt is most plainly shown. its most characteristic expression is perhaps to be found in the work of the Into Mr. 15. I., (,'odkin The working classes, in the *9-w nl this represent alive of the "cultured*' phllistines, were pretty much nil Ihey ought not to bc. Tlieir , "brustpienosa of manner nnd carelesa- nos.s about dross" wore signs, nol of ' rreodom, Im, of "imperfect liviliva-' tion." The conversation of ionic of those whom he had observed was I "profane. Indecent and slangy, and trivial," and showed no sign of "any desire to risv in tho scale of intell- ' genre ,,r refinement." "I think." he I wrote (a one of his papers intend,il for posterity, "(lie manners and ]»-r- sonal appearance of a largo part of our working population might. be greatly Improved; that thoir lives might be made far more refined and picturesque without any change of occupation; thnt their houses and oilier surroundings might bo made far Ix-ttor, with moro knowledge and ellort on tho part of themselves anil their wives, if less money were s|»ont on drink." In a wordT ho taught what the "cultivated" Philistines can.- most to hear, and his writings reveal, perhaps more comprehensively than thosd of any other contemporary publicist, the attitude generally taken by the members of this class toward Uio producers. Exceptionally interesting, therefore, is his treatment of social distinctions. "It is a little difficult to discuss this branch of the subject without seeming i<> treat it too lightly. Social inferiority is a common complaint of So ialists ev.T.vwhoro against the classes which do not work with their hands. Hut nobody has as yet pointed out how i, is ,o In- overcome any more than how differences in strength of mind or body are to Ih' over ome. One of the dearest liberties of the human race, is each man's liberty of choosing his own associates, His choice, too. is not regulated simply by attractions of mind or character, but manner of living. I associate, except in rare instances, with those vvho live like myself, who have the same ideas of social enjoyment, vvho dress and bo- have in social life much as I and my family do. whose walk and conversation I find interesting and instructive. Workrtigmen do the same thing I venture on the assertion that it is very rare intlnil for nny man or wo. man to be kept out of uny society which would enjoy his or her presence, l'eople do not, ai> a rule, associate to assert a principle or spread ideas. They associate for purposes of enjoyment; workingmen do so themselves, Congeniality, or similarity of manners is what has drawn sociul lines over since man began to consort with his fellows. To arrange society on legal lines is beyond human powers. To be told by any human power what company 1 must keep, is to be a slave, and the restoration of social slavery is not possibfe. Birds of a feather havo flocked together since civilization began, and probably will do so until it perishes." One may smile at such banalities as that people generally associate with others who have tho same ideal of socihl enjoyment, or at the affected supposition that any one—even the most rigid of mechanical state Holt 'out inued on l'age Four.) 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PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialist Party of Canada, iu conventi tn a rembled, affirm ou * allegiance to and support of the principles and prog .an- of the international revolutionary working clan. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should 'u-tly belong.. To the owners of the means of wealth production belongs the product of labor. The present ecuiic mic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is master; the worker is slave. So long as the capitalists remain in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the .state will be used to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever- increasing measure of misery and degradation. . The interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property m the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker is rapidly culminating in 1 struggle for possession of the powei of government—the capitalist to hold: the worker to secure it by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all worker* to organize under the banner of die Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic, program, of the working class, as follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, <t capitalist property in the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railways, etc.,) into the collective property of the working class. a. Thorough and democratic organisation and management of industry by the workers. 3. The establishment, aa speedily as possible, of production for use instead of production for profit. The Socialist Party, when in office, shall always and everywhere until th« present system is abolished, make tho answer to this question its guiding role of conduct:. Will this legislation advance the interests of the working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against capitalism? If it will the Socialist Party is for it; if it will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely opposed to it. In accordance with this principle th* Socialist Party pledges itself to conduct all tl e public affairs placed in its hands In such a manner as to promote the interests of the working class alone. 3, APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA the undersigned, hereby apply for membership in ♦ I,ocal Socialist Party of Canada. I recognize the class struggle between the capitalist class and the working class to lie a struggle for political spremncy, i.e. possession of the reins of government, and which necessitates the organization of the workers into a political party, distinct from and opposed to all parties of the capitalist class. If admitted to membership I hereby agree to maintain or enter into no relations with any other political party, and pledge myself to support by voice, vote and all other legitimate means the ticket and the program of the Socialist Party of Canada only. Applicant Address Occupation Age Citizen. Admitted to Local Chairman • -9 .Rec.-Sec. '-, I I 1 ' * „_-—___i_J__,—_ . ._..__!5_ ■ifpfe. ., - *" "•' ' i SATUMUY. October ;tn l'.io.*-. *lilu ... iifexlj ..M ',"$$19 mi ^Ilii ■*• "sag"* ': : _t__" I •ii pi 1 1 i-a f- ill ft) Socialist Party of Canada DOMINION EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS. J. O. MORGAN, Secretary. Vancouver, B. 0. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 3.—(Room 10, Masonic Block)—-Present, Comrades Leah, chairman; Peters, Organiser Kingsley, and the Secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted The following correspondence was dealt with. From Otto John, Montreal, requesting information as to forming a local and application for charter form. Received and complied with. From Toronto local enclosing %2 for Stomps. Received and complied with. Receipts. Toronto Local, stamps f? .00 Adjournment. PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 3— tRooni 10 Masonic Block)—Present, Comrades Leah, chairman; Peters, Organizer Kingsley and the secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting were read nnd adopted. The following correspondence was dealt with. From Fernie, enclosing application for charter with 28 names and $8.00 for supplies. The charter wns granted. From Van Anda Local, enclosing $5.00 as a donation. Received. From Vancouver Local, enclosing monthly report. Received and filed. From Alex. McLennan, Kelowna, enclosing application for charter. The charter was granted. From George E. Winkler, Penticton, enclosing "SO cents dues as member at large. Received and complied with. It was anoounccd that A. M. Lewis, of. California, had been engaged to speak in Westminster during Unfair and at Vancouver, and possiljly other points subsequently. The secretary was instructed to consult the locals as to time and place of convention. Receipts. George E. Winkler Fernie Local, charter, etc. .. Okanagan Local, charter etc Van Anda Ixical, donation .. Vancouver local, stamps $ .50 8.00 6.00 5.00 5.00 $24.50 Adjournment. DOMINION NOTES. Considering that tne party has not at the present time, any organizer in the field, the number of enquiries from all parts of the Dominion is gratifying. Com. Otto John, writing from Montreal, says the prospects are excellent for forming a local in that city., the German Woi'Mngmen's Club of which he is a member, containing many sj nipathisers. Certain comrades in Hamilton, Ontario, have declared their intention to form n local. Comrade H. BL Stuart in Fredericton. N.H.. keeps a-hustling, and gives the promise oi possible new locals in that province. Comrade J, Taylor, writing from Sydney Mines, C.H.. stated that the Socialist CUjb already established there is dosirious of affiliating with the parly. 'Phis has been elicited by the agency of a stray copy of the "Clarion." Com. C. I-'. Lowrlo, in the heart of the wilderness at Claroholm, Alta., manages to keep his local going and to hold propaganda meetings; an objection lesson to locals more favorably situated. It is rumored ,hnt Dawson, Y.T., Local has over one hundred members. This is not officially confirmed. t should like to hear from Dawson somewhat oftener. Local Toronto would apjiear to be doing a power of work and has great prospocte, but this office has no official knowledge of them, no monthly reports, being forthcoming, o PROVINCIAL NOTES. I am happy to report an increased interest throughout the Province. For this reason, the Provincial Executive Committee have decided to ask the locals to nominate a meeting place for the Provincial Convention. Locals may take this ns a preliminary notice. Vancouver Local is pulling itself together after the summer vacation, and is shaping well for the winter's work. Victoria, Nanaimo and Greenwood have failed to report for several moons. Rossland local has reorganized, with Angus McW-od as secretary. A new local has been formed at Fernie, B.C., with 28 good men and true. Comrade Moore is secretary, and writes very hopefully of the future of his local. The comrades in the Okanagun Valley have organized and their secretary, Com. Alex. McLennan, has been in the city receiving the charter and supplies. From hns reports, this locul should make it go. Several of the members have been old members of other locals. Comrade E. Upton, secretary of Van Anda Local, sends in a five- spot, saying that the local does not need any stamps, but has no doubt this committee needs the money. Hiis a good judge. The committee has secured the services of Comrade A. M. Ijcwis, to speak in New Westminster during the Fair, and in Vancouver on Saturday and Sunday, the 7th and 8th of October. Should any other local wish lo have him, f will try and arrange if possible.—.1. G. Morgan, Secretary Capital is a term applied to the means of production when used for the purpose of making a profit out of labor. That profit comes solely from the unpaid sweat of ,he workers. Capital implies over-lordship or mastery. Wages implies servitude or slavery. The one is predicated upon the other. Ihey are the two sides of the sume shield. o Leslie's Weekly ways that "the honest worker who, having his task set for him, does it faithfully and well, is usually given full and ungrudging credit." This, however, by no means assun-s us that he is given good wages for his work, and, in the last analysis that is .the thing that most concerns the average slave under capitalism. o It is related of Mr. Diogenes, who has now been dead for some years, that hc nt one time used a lantern to aid him in his search for an honest man, and even then he failed to discover one. There are evil-disposed pessimists at this day who assert that it would be impossible to find one even with the aid of nn electric search-light. o Upon his return to Russia, M. Witte, the Russian peace envoy was made a Count by his gruteful master, the Czar, as a reward for his splendid services in arranging terms with Japan. Thc soldiers of the Manchurian army may count. the ties looking for jobs, when they return to Russia. : 0 The more powerful capital becomes by virtue of its more complete concentration, the more helpless ia the industrial field become the properti- less slaves who must perforce sell their labor-power in order to perpetuate their existence. O- A German inventor has perfected a dish.washer which turns out 6,000 dishes nn hour, washed and dried, and ready for the table. The ancient and honarable dish-washer guild should protest against its introduction. o A Yankee invention for wrapping powders of any nature, and in any- given quantity, is so rapid in its work that, a score of these machines will wrap all the drugs in powder form which the United States cun take in a year. o A lath cutting machine will cut 52,000 laths in a day, representing tne work of forty men. o TIIE RATS AND THE CHEESE or unjust, and that they are con- to change for the Thieves flock togo- oelvably subject better or worse. the,, and so do harlots and pollti* in Cod yet wrl ntti by odic sol to I V) RELATING TO MERCHANDISE A slight disturbance occurred in lhe third week of the month among some laborers of the firm ol Lach- ance. & Kennedy, who were dredging the Brewery Creek for the city. A dozen men, who were not thought by the employers to be worth $1.50 per day, the rate paid to the others, were offered $1.85 and they refused to work. They were immediately replaced by stronger men, who were being $1.50 per 9-hour day. Additional men were wanted on the job, but there were none to be had.—Labor Gazette. The (insufferable impudence of own- ners of an inferior quality of merchandise expecting to receive for *t the price of a first-class article, is indeed reprehensible. Small wonder that they were supplanted by "stronger" men," i.e., men who could deliver the goods of number one quality. And yet there are numerous workingmen who do not yet realize thc ridiculous position they, as supposed human beings, occupy under the glorious rule of capital. With the means ot production endowed with the quality of 'it*!, the labor-power of the workman is held in the category of commodities; a thing to be bought and -.old like any other article of merchandise and subject to the same laws of the inar- k«'t that apply to all others. It would seem that when the .'xmii'tion of Canada, through its slave market reports, sets forth the position of the laborer as plainly as in the above quotation, the thickest-heade^l ass in the whole drove ought to be able to see it. The laborer i.s held in this posi- tion, not because of the vicious disposition of the beneficiaries of capital, but by virtue of the present system of property in the means of production. This system of property must of necessity divide society into the two economic classes—Capitalists ami wage-slaves. It is -ittressed, bulwarked, defended, and made possible only, by the organized jiowers ol Uie state, under the control of the capitalist class. So long as that control remains undisturbed, so long must the present posiuion of the workingman remain unchanged, and his JsttoW**? wr continue as merch-n- di«e for sole In the marta-t and sm> ject to Hs merciless conditions. Somo. there are. who fancy a short cut to glory may be discovered by way of some ridiculous "economic" assininity. To such befuddled ones, a few more drastic lessons must be administered before they will be able to see that the road to the emancipation of labor can only be opened by tne seizure of the reins of government by the enslaved working- class, nnd the using of the powers of the state for tho purpose of stripping the present capitalist class of economic power, by wiping out their title of ownership in the means of wealth production, and vesting the same in the community as a whole, where it properly belongs. o Some preacher down in New "Vork says, "In the business world it is difficult to find men who are honest. We see financiers to whom we have confided trusts exposed as knaves." | Wonder if this pietistic gent ever read in tho good book something about the impossibility of gathering Smyrna figs from Canada thistles. If so he should know that a system of property, tho fundamental basis of which is the robbery of labor, could no more produce honest men, thnn the aforesaid thistles could tiring forth the toothsome fig. Our mental knapsack becomes plethoric with sadness when we realize what a considerable number of. our dearly tieloved pulpit-thumping brethren there are who do not seem to understand the very scriptures they are suuposed to expound. (From Esop's Fables, and most respectfully dedicated to our Liberal and Conservative brethren. God Save the King.) Tht dignity of labor is, no doubt, an asset of great value. Something, as it were, in the nature of a "pearl of great price." The disposition, therefore, manifested by the "working plug"' to seize upon all the labor, and in consequence, wear gll of the dignity which it entails, thus depriving the poor capitalist of the opportunity to obtain even a small share of that valuable assett, is reprehensible indeed. It should be pro j hibited by law. If Dees a government maintain, Why may not Rats, of stronger brain And greater power, as will be thought, By Michiavellian axioms taught? And so they are, for thus of late It happened in tho Rats' free state Their prince (his subjects more to please) Had got a mighty Cheshire Cheese. In which his ministers of state Might live in plenty and grow great. A powerful parly straight combined, And their united forces joined To bring their measures into play, For no so loyal were as they; And none- such patriots to support As well the country as the court. No sooner were those Dons admitted But (all those wondrous virtues quitted,) They all the speediest means devise To raise themselves and families. Another party well observing These pampered were, while they were starving, Their ministry brought in disgrace, Expelled them and supplied their Peace; These on just principles were known The true supporters of the throne, And for the subject's lilierty, They'd (marry would they) freely die But lieing well fixed in their station, Regardless of their prince and nation,.. Just like the others, all their skill Was how they might their paunches fill. On this a Ra», not quite so blind, In state intrigues as human kind, But of more honor, thus replied: "Confound ye all on either side; All your contentions are but these, Whose arts shall best secure the Cheese." A discussion is being carried on through the columns of ont; of our j United States exchanges, as to the . "greatest necessity" of the Socialist Party. While we admit that our opportunity for observation has boon limited, we feel Inclined to suggest that if a large number of its propagandists were equipped with loss mouth, and more sense it might help some. ATEIMTS of MMufwh-c -WlHt t*M» Jbpsipgfw of MMi*f»ct-*CT». Bngtneef*- and others who rt-ali w the advisability ot having their Patent business transacted by Expert— Preliminary advice free. Charges moderate. Oar hrrentor** Adviser sent upon request Marion ft Marion, New York UfeBldc Montreal; and "Wachin_tou, D.C, V.&JL, ETHICS OF THE TRADERS (Continued from Page Three.) cialism—expects to' compel by law persons' who are mutually distnste- t ful to associate. One may also [cheerfully admit that birds of n feather flock together, at least when they can get together. But "no may stUI observe that the social tests which individuals employ in choosing their associates may be ideally high or low, gross or fine, just lu Cl th tin wl sti clans. ButTso ethical teacher thinks therefore, to sanction the tests ot social valuation wnich these persons flsmplov. The morally superior ol an\ two thieves might conceivably Ih* the one who had instincts and standards above those of his kind, and who chose at times to associate with honest men. Tho standards of choice association may lie all that Mr. lklin maintained them 10 be, ntul be utterly unjustifiable. II the hoice ol the average num. as lutes, "is not regulated simply by ructions of mind or character, but manner of living." the test is an ous one to all right-minded per- s, and it is, therefore, something criticism nnd correction, Those ,o fail to understand this are siin- r those who can complacently rebate with Mr. (iodkin: "I usso- ute except in ran- instances, with ioso who live like myself, who have ie same idea of social enjoyment, ho dress and behave in social life much as 1 and my family do, whose ulk and conversation 1 find "meriting und instructive.'' Their outlook upon life is meanly circumscribed, and the ethical judgments they re enabled to form are woefully in- [loqiiatc for beings of the present day. As Miss Adams writes, in in- ructive and wholesome contrast: We aro learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but t>y mixing on thc thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of ono another's burdens. We realize too, that social perspective and sanity of judgment come only from contact with social ex|>er- ience; that such contract is the sur- -st corrective of opinions concerning he social order, nnd concerning efforts, however humble, for its improvement. Wc have learned is common knowledge that much of he insensibility and hardness of the vorld is duo to the lack of imagina- .ion which prevents a realization of experiences of other people. Already 'Jlere is a conviction that wo are under a moral obligation in choosing our experiences, since the result of those experiences must ultimately determine our understanding of life. We know instinctively that if we grow contemptuous of our fellows, and consciously limit our intercourse to certain kinds of people whom we have previously decided to respect, we not only tremendttously circumscribe our range of life, but limit the scope of our ethics." Besides these two grievances, there is a very serious accusation which lies in the minds of many of the producers, and is openly expressed by some against the "rich," meaning the trading class, and its higher bu si«ess retainers. The accusation i: of dishonesty,—not the incidental dis honesty shown in the common practices of commercial life, but a funda mental dishonesty in the very natur of trading-class incomes. It arises from the conviction that the rich derive their comforts nnd luxuries solely from the toil of ,he producers and that thoy gtya little or nothing in ret inn. Their conviction follows thc ethics of usefulness, which rc-enri res service of n demonstrable social utility as a condition of receiving a living; and tho question that it prompts in the producer consciousness is this: Of what economic use are the rich? Those of the rich who are more.or less directly concerned with production comprise throe types—the capitalist per so, tho speculator, and the "legitimate" business man—though it often happens that two, or even all three, of those roles are played by one and the same person. To the producer, the speculator appears solely as an exploiter—as ono whose entire income Is exploitation. He renders no service of any kind to society, .and he levies an enormous tax upon production. The man in "legitimate" business, however, admittedly renders service. There must bo directors of industry, otherwise the wheels would soon come to a stop ; and since tho producers havo not themselves chosen such managers to preside over their activities, the business mnn, in their default, takes the function upon himself. He directs or selects others to direct the operation of production and distribution. Confessedly, his motive is not social usefulness, but merely profit-making; but by his social service ho undoubtedly earns a living. How much is ho entitled to? Obviously, to the producer mind, not to nil "that he can make," but to no more than the computable value of the service he renders to society. Profits and high salaries are consequently looked upon partly as earned wages of superintendence, but in larger parts as exploitation. Finally there is the capitalist, he who does not toil, but who nevertheless makes heavy drafts on thc product of those who do. His income, judging by Working-ClaRS ethics, is almost wholly exploitation. He performs, it is admitted, at a certain point n momentary function of service; for in the act of "making an investment" he exorcises a solo tlve influence as tietwoen tho various candidates" for the post of director of industry, or ho says "yes" or "no" to the desire Of some industrial captain to enlarge the field of his direction. In making tnis selection he does not, of course, weigh tho relative probabiMties of social usefulness of this or that mnn or undertaking— he thinks only of the effect upon himself, of the nature and volumes of his returns; yet choice made on private grounds has at least a partial tendency to bring to ihe front men and enterprises that nro of general use. Hence, admitting for tho mo- im-nt the rightfulness of private capital, the capitalist is entit.ed to com ptmsation wherever ho performs the selective fund ion-to a fee each time he makes n now investmetnt. The sum ♦ otal of those foes rightly earned by flu- enure capitalist clnss Is not, however, an appreciable fraction of the present income of capital. Interest, rents, and dividends as unearned, wrongfully apportioned and wrong fully held. This selection, it should bo borne, in mind is the sole economic function of the immeii.se financial hierarchy, from the rank of millionaires down through grade after grade of lesser men to tho olfice boy. When it i.s considered what nn enormous tax, ia the shape of interest, dividends, pro- lit s, and salaries, is taken out of the producers every year; and when it is further considered whut a simple function—even though ut its best -it requires high talent—this selection ia and that it could be more scientifically and cheaply performed by a commission of statisticians, process expert? und master mechanics, A may be perceived how well-founded is the conviction of the producers that tho whole tribe of financiers and their re- lainers is relatively useless. One may even go farther; and seeing that the only active force preventing the adoption by the people of the simple and just way of arranging how much and what productive work shall be done each year, is the opposition of the financiers nnd their retainers, commercial and Intellectual, one is forced to conclude that the net service of ttiese men in return for their enormous levy on the producers, is a negative quantity—that it is obstructive and anti-social. BRIDSON'S B Powell Street, Cedar Cove TRY OUR BREAD, CAKES, etc Mounting Larnr Game Headi „ gMcl|ll. JOHN COOPER -* . Taxidermist and Furdresser 826 Pender St. 9m, People', ThMl.,| VANCOUVER, II WANTED: by Chicago wholesale house, special represent alive for each province in Canada. Salary $20,00 and expenses paid weekly. Ex|>ense money advanced. Business successful; position permanent. No investment required. Previous experience not essential to engaging. Address (ieneral Manager, 182 Lake St. Chicago, 111., U.S.A. 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