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tlffk - ; M ^OI^^S OF -TS^E blisbed intbetntetcsrsorthe WorKliA - ■m. m ai e iii»> •♦i1 jj Vancouver. British Columbia, Saturday, March ,16 1907 aalwc rim loo t-rtee Pl» V*AS Sl.00 THE PRipCIAL HOUSE * ONCE MORE IN SESSION ? HjwlharnthwaMi'elnd Mcinnes Sat Dunns Opening Cere-j moiiy—Work Planned by Socialist Members—The New Member for Grand forks. The Legislature of the province had put the clergymen in quarantine as it were by refusing to allow him to sit there till he had lieen for three months dear of the clerical business, nor would they allow him to be the trustee of a school, yet they allowed the Salvation Army, which was practically the same thing, to break into the labor market of the country. The fart was, in his opinion, the Salvation Army, with its mas- jquerading and semi-military antics, did | more, to bring religion into contempt than any like number of atheists in this .country; ai... the irresponsible character I of the majority of the officials of that could be anything in that argument. This immigration business, however, carried out by the government, had always been an absolute failure. If they took the census of Canada for 1896 and for 1906 and compared them they would find that the population had decreased by some 12,000 or 14,000 if the number of immigrants arriving in the country were counted out. This meant that these immigrants had displaced native born Canadians who were naturally best adapted for the country. He pointed out further that if wages were better here than in the state of Washington workmen would come here and Thr Ijn'islaltire opened on Thursday, Mirth .ill, with Ihe usual capitalistic il wraith and pomp. Duns- ■snir, the coal baron, arrayed in gold- „-<<! livery and cocked hat. was attend \ti In ,i body guard in a costume sotne- sr.ii Miml.tr, When he entered all, with rk cxcei lion of Messrs. tiawthornth- the r^.ts of that British justice of which •sue snd Mcinnes, the Socialist mem-. they heard so much. jlrrv. tost to receive him It was notice- t that these two men kept tlieir seats, trul possibN it unnerved the Licutcn- \ui Itovtrnof, because : il.c Speech from | ment had overlooked its duty in allow- so that Ihey were fast becoming a toy _* t'lesc metl,u> took «P the home of for tbe rich man. If the provincial po- ! ,j1c s,,,m dweller in the old country and lice could not hunt down the criminals ! dumP hl!" <?ow" h<;rc VVhat this co»n- vi ith out the assistance of these men, he ry, rw*u,rcd WaS t.he ,yp* of man who ssked the government to re-organize the | !'.a,') e^Jlno^.,LcoT.out hin? force so that it could, and not introduce this pernicious system which struck at organization was such that the govern- there would be no need of any immigration scheme at all. If wages were better on the American side, people would go there, and a change in wages would scatter thc labor supply all over the continent, from San Francisco to Cape 1 lelf. Thc mnn broti-jht out here, wet- nursed by the Salvation Army, was not thc man to do any good in this province. They were told that in Manitoba and Ontario thesc had proved a desirable class of immigrants. The same thing was said of the Dotikhol-ors, if they Government and Salvation Army. .. ... ..,...,..-„ One thing to be noticed in British Co- :, , . - , . before be got l»«nbia **l*\* was the upward tendency ITZ f^ n fc , JW° T^.' nn the throne, 0* everything. In consequence of high , '"' " * X ,u g ^At? IK .is evident thnt his vwee became very! Prices there «as more than domal $5fc ?"*&**"? were off w,th ,he'r md Shaky. I'aiker Wili-ams acthrhy. the advance in copper from ctelm and forming a promsion oMhe «jv tburni during the opening ceic- ' 12 Ot** to 26 cents had caused the de- Innocents. (Loud laughter). Then thev were not eulogised so much. Then it was said that Mr. Whitney had endorsed them. Well, that was about the worst recommendation they could have. Mr. Whitney had a brother who was the head of a company that owned a sawmill on Parry Sound, and he owned everything else there, stores, pumps and all, and the consequence was that it took a man about three months there to find -""• bow much he was in debt. (Lauehtcr). He no doubt liked to see I men brought out in this way, because «*■*•• w tlut on Ihe wliole Ills Honor t vclopmcnt of mines which had former* tKriici' .ery little lion ji from thc So- i 'v 'a'n ****** and owing to the fact that ny, v | lumber had nearly doubled in value that I the Socialist* arc not discour-' .ndustry was more active than it had Isp-i ' . pan failure* to obtain legisla- ■ been for a long time. Thc result of all I: - the amelioration of the cndi- thi* w.is that the price of labor had bc- I the *or%ing that i> shown by .fcun to ri*c, and when the surplus popu- Vik p ■■ is they have already placed on (latum had l-een absorbed in active in- .' Btbi-jei lapcr. Mi. Ilawthi rnthwailc idustry, and all other commodities Iud Is. i-*ve notkc that he will once more j 1***, tmtet also began to rise. J,' "An Act regulating the hours ] It was about this lime that the P! pi W*)t in certain itifiuMfie.*." (more! nance Minister with his military in ,1) called the .Smc.icr Bill). He ; stincts began to read the War try, and I w|1Cn thev got hard up and "could get re introduce An Act to amend , found out that the Salvation Army m oth,., worki hc cou|d hire them for - kci'ulalion Act, iwm. Tin* . was dealing in something licsidcs salva-, about three months for next to noth- c purpose of giving all cm-; tion. (, Laughter). Just about this time jng in stotcs a half-holiday in each ' alvi the Premier was in Ontario, where The Premier and the member for Dcl- ii to shorten their liour* gencr- ;hc came i.i contact with Premier Whit ta said they wanted their own kith and li .-.Idi'ion to that, he will again l_ey, who reported favorably on the _tt-j kin to come into thc country, but it \eiir. -i to have tlie *' Workmen's Com- | migration work of this organization, and | should lie shown that there was a ne- iwti-■:! Art' at'ien'Vd to give greater he 31m, took it up. Tbey said there was I cetsity for men of any race before there ;• .'ion to families oi tivose killed a *>Iiorta»'e of labor, but in reality tin* pjurcd v>lu!c iu tlu anpkiyincnt of . govcrnmait Iud no knowledue whetlver j ^~^~>-—:_--...-——: ^rr*-- ,'■ ■■*..-* ler*. j there was or not. The Minister of Fi- J ;■■ ■ Williams will .i;'*t:i iritrod-icc nance had at no time put himself in Ha til : . smite fortnightly instead of ,cot:tact with tlie facts. He had only con- Isw i.:.-, |.awi-.cnt of wages to working- [suited the cmplovers, but while ihe men |s<' :bu\ui« labor said there was a shortage, Tne three Socialist members have jthe men selling labor said there was n assigned * piae^iat the cud ol the)not The Finance Minister had only |frw* ; a ot tlie C)pi*>sitiou benchca, [heard the employers' side and that was Kr Mdm.es, the new member, is alv.ut | not the way to gel at thc facts of the Id *i looking :vjm in lhe House, case. One gentleman said the olher li- boa.i 4 lively interest in lhe pr.> Amy that fruit was allowed to spoil for ■■ and lias already placed on the Mtnt of lal-or, yet those who raised the «•"■- ;-i sfm.e questions as to the|gyc_teH outcry for lalx.r in Victoria •omlxT of accidents in nie'alhlerous j nete Bullcn Bros., and he would like effld d-.iring thc pasl year. It is pre Itrj Know what kind of fruit ihey grew. -daner) that he will be a very useful rep- . jt* hi* own district it was the Hamilton ■sesu'.ivc of thc 1'aity. an-l -i- he »as Powder Company, and about the only <( h lo the House on the straight So- | fruit they raised was giant powder The Race. Mr. Williams argued that present conditions were abnormal and did not justify any attempts to bring out thousands of immigrants. Sawmills that were idle a few years ago were now running night and day. They were simply discounting the future, and if this province was going to start bringing in immigrants at the*first indication that wages were rising, they would find in two vears time they would be confronted with the problem of the unemployed. In his opinion the government should at the very first opportunity cancel this Salvation Army agreement. If there was a shortage of labor on farms, let the government appoint a Commission to inquire into it, and ask why it is that farmers cannot afford to pay wages that will enable a man to live. "The Premier says the government has no intention of interferin- with the labor conditions of the country," said Mr. Williams, "but if a man comes along and holds a club over mv head and assures me that he is not going to hurt me, I shall know at the same time that he may at any moment bring it down upon my head, and then his words and actions won't harmonize very well" (Laughter). QUERIES AND ANSWERS RELATING TO TACTICS fr,.. Many Points Covered and Objections Answered That Have a Direct Bearing Upon Correct PotiticaJ Action By the Working Class. (Continued on page three.) ■mUt ticket, h>' is free from one disad Iniitiir under which Mr Davidson la- |lwc<l in the last llou*c. I'arker Williams' Speech Following is thc speech delivered by lltr Parker Williams in lhe Home ot) Fk*'_- in icplv to speech made by jMclirulr am) Oliver from the Cqrwenra- ■t-ve- ,n.| I i1m*i;iI standpoi:'" rr-pective- Ib Both had extolled the Sanation jArmy immigration project. Mr Oliver |**-ir.s it wu a good thing to bring in ''wr kitli and lir." from beyond the |!«'. while the Premier -.aid the "ovem lemt w<mld siov.- 'litem away on (arm-- pd noi ii icrfcrc with labor condition! |A» nil! lie seen. Comrade Williams |air.pi-. tor*, their arguments to pirns I'ftcctivcs ami Other Things Tht debate on the sddress in reply to IHa- S-w-f*.-l, from the Throne was re hsmrd „„ ''-.-...iday by Mr 1'urkrr Wil lbjnH w)*o said he eupeoaed that on "wh ati ...'-;..ion consrstnl.itkm* were lift .irder He was not a«arc lhat the Ijttti't of tlie elettion made much dif Iktrnrp to him per*.onnlly, but no doubt It wu vitmfactory to the (KWemrrJent, l«id sh.j-.sc.l tbat ther had the endorae- Ittiw. of the people. Yet In some re- W«ti if they examined the activity of l«<* nivcrtmicm for thc past year, it [*oul<l not compare favorably with inactivity for three preceding ses th"*! ^',crc **fe some things on ™*n lie could not altogether compli ?*"t tlicm, and one was in connection *™h1,!*r ''•'•i'.1""'- «' the men who held •g!,,h*- r- P. R. train at Kamloops last **_ He had no sympathy with these "wgrtic gentlemen from the other side, Premier said there was no dissatisfac Hon in labor circles, yet within two mlcs of that House there was a strike <*n at tile present time. Notwithstanding this shortage of la- l*.r, he could tell them that there were co...) miners iu Ladysmith and Nanaimo who could not get work just because Ihey held certain opinions distasteful to the 'men who owned the coal mines. If hbor was so short, how was it that the C. P. K. had men not far from Victoria today wotking for $1 OO per day. while THE CONGO ATROCITIES HND ABLE APOLOGIST Anthropological Professor Hears His Master's Voice and Does -Valiant Stunt on Behalf of Rockefellers' Rubber Investments. The English press has lately been must build the Cape to Cairo road. You teeming with reports as to the vile | know we wanted the Transvaal. We practises of the Belgian government in j found a way to get it: we have it. So ! the Congo Free State. The hiimanitar-j we w;n an(i so^ way t0 get the ian sympathies of the British bourgeois have been excited and have found expression in the Congo Reform Association. They are much shocked at the horrible atrocities that are being perpetrated on the natives, and as a consequence British Giristian civilization is up in arms. Of course to suggest that hc was informed that thc city of Vic- J there is some dirty little scheme of the toria was employing men at its water- j |}r,tisli ruling class behind this altruis- works at Ei- Like at $1.50 per day. If 1 tic sentiment would just lie what one this shortage was only temporary, would would cxi>ect trom a materialistic So il !>c f.nr on account of a fewdays labor search] to flood the market for the bal- cialist. but along comes Prof. Starr of Chicago I'niversity. who has lieen on a i- of thc twelve months? Under any trjp t0 the Congo in the interests of Congo.'' The Belgian ruling class, realizing their inability to cope successfully with the more powerful British pirates, have approached Uncle Sam with a view to securing his co-operation. Uncle, however, like his British cousin, keeps his Christian principles well under control. They can be turned on or shut off at will. He at present refuses to be shocked. There is nothing in it; in fact, there is more in taking a calm dispassionate view of the case. The fol- ttrtUtnSUnCtt, «as it the duly of the anthropology, and plainly says so in so i lowing little news item taken from the government to interfere m any way with the labor market' The majority of the people of British Columbia were wage workers who made their living by selling thru labor-power in the market everv day, snd if it \u-rc true that the price Of the commodity was rising, why could not the uovcrnnirnt let it rise to such B poim that it offered a natural inducement for laborers to come iii of lheir own accord? Instead, the government Steppeu in and made an agreement with an organization to prevent wages from going up. 1" assuming this right to regulate the labor market h* rongratulated them that they were en- dorfsns some of their (Socialist) ''''■i-hev'raised a great cry about tlie prior fanner, and hov. hard it was for hm ,i,or. if the government was so for the poor farmer it was many words: i Literary Digest may serve to show the "What has happened in the Congo j power behind the throne that compels since April to produce the present state this view: of mind? What is the motive underly- i "John D. Rockefeller, jr., has just ac- ing the hitter attacks upon Leopold and quired large holdings in the Congo the Free State which he established? Is rubber region." it truly humanitarian? Or arc the laud- | Moreover, it will help to show how- able impulses and praiseworthy sym- disinterested Prof. Starr is. Chicago to gel pathies of two great peoples being used for hidden and sinister ends of politics? '"The same steamer which vook me to the Congo carried a newly appointed British vice-consul to that country. On one occasion he detailed to a missionary friend his instructions as laid down 'in his commission. I was seated close by those in conversation, and no attempt' was made on my part to overhear or on their part toward secrecy. His statement indicated that the prime object of his appointment was to make a careful examination of the Aruwitni I M-, *" w Miv.v ...nv llOtly, Li In, '"c bands of private detectives rni1 when Ill we allowed these gentlemen -madness of their "* thev dealt with to M ii...«.«s_i_tt._fi. .°!i,,,;!r,..h^'A^,^;^s Citv. Ihe-ri «as a young Canadian « .come, in here we"wcre treading •*•" I l*?plc ,, "pm them on a ranch fif- , „v ,„,,, ....... fc«>.«. gr "nd ffVT S the 'his ^^J^Zhcrc, and in two | ,ur;,-„„ irom three years abroad. \vnr''(,C (lp,cr,ive was absolutely the „ ".type of criminal, nnd there was this country. . m. *--•— , •„ tw0 i --_••-. f ,hrcc ycars abroa.i He teen miles from *_™Q *«* ^ [K that we had been in the Co»go ln,e, from forgerv to grave rob weeks yo« "ll1 ,ee comer in Vancouver , '■ tliatjiad not hccn'brtitight horn |;I,"" ''heir motive f,.i Altering thc „'"' "as reward, nnd when busl jpj, Sc;ir'-e, tbey were not aliovc « crime so that they should be kept .-■ , j,,,. S'Oually active. This evil was creep | lem by bringing ,n,,> both criminal antl civil courts, these. ,,0king for «"rk ...ines While it was a iti sawmills or mm*. ,d )U). g. ,„tv that the small »;nn" 7- l.Vee State, and on several occasions conversed with me about my journey. We had never referred to atrocities, tor ing the : .■■■-* ' ((lirii .,, .iii\ a wage i"*»."'", conditions. ..... ■- -•■ *-•- usiness , prewnt afford U nUr««itS. he ,,„ particular reason m the , croal. I draw imn » ," „,ul ,0lVfl the prob- nmVersation for he stateme )e kept <!>•! npt 1,,nV /:....ooo such men as \>Qt course, thc Belgians Wl conditions, nor politics. One day, With ' i preceding nt, hc said: 11 lose thc We have got to have it. Wc i Congo. I'niversity has drawn nearly all of its material sustenance from Standard Oil. | Prof. Starr holds down at a good salary the chair of Anthropology in that insti- j tution "nuf scd." The following is I continuance of his report: "Of course, 1 saw much to criticize, j It is true that there are floggings, and chain gangs, and prisons, t have seen them all repeatedly. But there are flog-! gings, chain gangs, and prisons in the United States. Mutilations are so rare that one must seek for them; and I had I too much else to do. There is taxation . —yes, heavy taxation—a matter which j I shall discuss quite fully further on. And in connection with taxation there is forced labor, a matter which, of course, I disapprove, but it appears as ! just to all the groups of eminently I practical men to whom I have referred." ! Carlyle, speaking of the British Isles,' once said: "There are seventy thousand people in these islands, mostly fools." Thc same remark holds good everywhere. Fools in Britain and U. S. , undoubtedly lielieve that all this fuss Over the Congo is made over the condi- | tion of thc natives. In this case it is rubber and railways, and the natives,; like our own wave-slaves at home, are considered only as so much raw mater- ! inl to be ground up in a Christian Pro- | fit-Mill. It pays Christian John Bull at present to he shocked at these atrocities and it pays equally Christian Uncle Sam to condone them, and there you arc. J. T. M The following questions have been put to us by a B. C. comrade with the request that we reply through the Clarion columns. We take pleasure in so doing: 1. Should Socialists form a permanent alliance with any capitalist party f Not under any circumstances where the capitalist class is dominant. The Socialist movement, being the expression of the proletarian side of the class struggle, no Socialist could do so, without betraying the interests of the proletariat, and thereby forfeit his right to assume the name of Socialist. Where the revolutionary bourgeoisie is itself a subject class to a feudal aristocracy a proletarian class could consistently support it whenever it seeks to strike off the feudal yoke. .Vs on this continent no such situation has ever existed, such alliance is neither permissible nor possible. » * * * 2. What was the question fought out by Bebel and Jaures at the last meeting of tht- Internationalf How did the contest resultt We are not in possession of sufficient information as to proceedings of International to answer. Bebel tends to the Revolutionary position and Jaures to what is called Opportunism or Revision. In our opinion, the contest ought to have resulted—and probably did—in favor of Bebel. **.««. 3. Was Millerand's course in voting for appropriations to strengthen a capitalist army essentially different from voting to strengthen financially a dominant corporation, Undoubtedly, yes. A dominant corporation could only be strengthened at the expense of the petty capitalists. The sooner they are squeezed out the better. Every economic advance that makes for the concentration of capital makes at the same time for the Socialist regime. The condition of the proletarian is no better under competitive capitalist production than it is under a dominant corporation. It is oftentimes worse. The petty capitalist must buy the commodity labor-power at its lowest market price and cannot permit his humanitarian (?) ideas to possess him for an instant when dealing with his victims. On thc other hand large corporations—excepting where the proletariat acts in a revolutionary way — are often disposed to be as lenient as possible under the circumstances. Moreover, the petty capitalist when reduced to the condition of a proletarian will acquire a practical experience of wage- slavery- of which he has at present only a theoretical conception. This will tend to clarify his vision as to the issue. Millerand's action in strengthening the army simply increased the repressive power of the capitalist state, which has been, and undoubtedly will again be used, to subdue the proletariat. No Socialist could consistently support such a measure. • * * • 4. // representatives in the Legislature must seek palliatives in order to commend themselves to their constituents, why should not the lines within which they shall work be clearly defined by the party? In the first place, the lines within which our representatives shall work are clearly enough defined for a Socialist to comprehend, whatever they may lie for others in the last two paragraphs in our platform. To string out palliative measures in a sufficiently comprehensive manner to embrace everything that might be introduced would fill a bulky volume. Moreover,, where this has been done, it has only obscured the issue, which must ever be the keynote of a Socialist campaign, "Thc abolition of wage-slavery." It is not advisable in our opinion to register votes for palliatives that would not be recorded for this main—in fact only—issue. The reformer should vote Liberal, Conservative, or so-called Labor. Reforms do not come by reason of Socialist advocacy of reform, they come when the capitalist class see the necessity of them to offset the effect of the revolutionary propaganda, or when they arc beneficial in making the skinning of thc proletariat a smoother process. * * * * 5. Do you hold with those Socialists who mock at brutalities committed upon members of the ruling class, In the first place, if every last one of the present ruling class in every country on earth were subjected to the same degree of the unspeakable misery, degradation, brutal outrage and inhuman torture they have dealt out, it would be but a drop in B bucket when compared to the aggregate of suffering their exploited victims have had to endure at their hands. When we think of what is going on in Russia, in the states of Colorado and Idaho, and in fact everywhere, our only regret is that it will be physically impossible to fully compensate the capitalist class and their villainous tools. Every time we hear the echo of a report that has sent some of the brutal thups of the ruling class over the "divide' our heart is lifted up in ecstacy, tempered only by the reflection that it was too sudden. The so-called Reign of Terror in France sent only l,<;O0 parasites to the guillotine. In Paris 50,000 heroic Communaros, men, women and children, were brutally outraged and shot by the most despicable gang of respectable, cowardly, swindling thieves that ever encumbered the earth. Mock at them? We could calmly eat our breakfast with a good appetite if we knew right now that every mother's son of them were being swept off the face of the earth. * * * * fi. Do yon think it good policy at this stage to talk much about substituting bullets for ballots, and do you think a working class toithout sufficient understanding of its position in society to vote straight, would be likely to shoot straight? It is good policy at any time to tell the truth, ar.d the truth is that no ruling ckss ever voluntarily abdicated. In tbe final analysis everything rests on force. It is, of course, perfectly evident that if a workingman would vote avainsf his class he would shoot in the same direction, but it ought to be equally evident that the power that gave, the same power can take away. The capitalist class gave the working class the vote, and it can take it back again. Whether it does so or not, it is absolute folly to allow the workers to drift on to the Revolution with out a proper knowledge of what they may be compelled to do. Had thc Communards been less scrupulous in their dealings with the bourgeoisie they would have fared better. * * * * 7. /Did vou ever know a man well grounded in the Socialist philosophy to be in leading strines to the church, and do you consider it good tactics to be constantly condemning the church to those outside our ranks' First part of question, No; latter part, Yes. This subject has already been discussed at length in recent issues of Clarion. * * * * 8. Do you blame the capitalists particularly for exploiting the workers under present conditions? Does the lamb blame the wolf who eats it? Or does it pet philosophical and—reflecting that if it were not there to furnish food the poor wolf would die—voluntarily submit to be eaten without bleatinc about the affair? * » * « 9. Have you any theory as to how Socialism will be brought into effect in Canada? Do you think il must ueces- sarilv come with violence and bloodshed? First oart: By the capture of the state by the proletariat Second part: We don't know. When we reflect, however, on how mercilessly the ruling class in Canada have suppressed comparatively insignificant revolts against oppressive conditions, we have not much hope of a peaceful climax. J. T. M. The.l. W. W. is conducting a strike of mill workers at Portland, Ore. It is threatened that unless the demands made arc granteu all the lumber mills of the Pacific Coast will be shut down by making the strike general. An excellent opportunity is afforded our I. W. W. brethren to demonstrate how adverse conditions of the labor market mav be neatly and expeditiously overcome by the workers provided they, know how and are possessed of the proper spirit. Japanese capitalists have set up an ethical code in regard to the employment of children in their factories that might well be copied by European and American labor-skinners of the Christian variety. Tbey do not employ children under 12 years of age, because it does not really pay. Capitalists are at all times *ealous in their desire to "develop the country. It is about time thc workers manifested similar real in trvimr to turn this development to their own account. John Mcinnes, Parker Williams and J. 11. Hawthornthwaite, the three Socialist members of the Provincial House, arc to speak at Socialist Hall, Nanaimo, on Sunday, March 17th. I 1 i I '■■\ ;; emm_u_ "l'lWNf—iinui.i" " ■■ ■ni'* [ mu miwisiKumiiiiiii TIB W1STHH OUMOK, VANOOtTVlt, *>»tt» OOttflllti. ****** Ihe Western Clarion Published emery Saturday in the intereata of tbe working claaa alone ■t the Office of the Western Clarion, Flack Block baaetnent, 165 HaatJngi Street, Vanco-rrer B. C SUBSCRIPTION: $1x0 PER ANNUM Strictly in Advance. Yearly subscription carda in lota of fi or mora, 75 cents each. Bandies of 5 or more copies, for a period of not less than three months, at the rate of one cent per copy per issue. Advertising rates on application. If yon receive (Ada paper. It ia paid for. In making remittance by cheque, exchange must be added. Address all communications and make all money orders payable to THB WESTERN CLARION Bos 836, Vancouver. B. C 417 Watch thia label on yonr paper. If thia number is on it, your subscription expires the next issue. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1907. NOT ALL DEAD YET. The employees of thc Southern railway are to contribute one per cent, of their earnings for this month for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of a fellow by the name of Spencer who was killed in an accident on that road on last Thanksgiving Day. This Spencer was president of the road. It is claimed this move for the erection of a monument to the old cuss's memory originated with the employees themselves. We know enough about the way these schemes are usually worked to recognize a fishy odor about such claim. At any rate, a lot of exploited wage-slaves must have a wholesome amount of self-respect if they would contribute even a farthing for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of any one of the tribe that lives by sucking their blood. It might be a wise precautionary measure to erect a stone pile on this Spencer person's grave as a safeguard against his possible resurrection and resumption of activity in the labor- skinning process. But even this would not require an outlay of one per cent, of a month's earnings of 40,000 insufferable idiots. Half a dozen loads of rock at about a dollar and six bits a load would fill the bill nicely. But then the fools are not all dead yet, more's the pity. AND NOW FOR ACTION. More than a year has passed since Charles Moyer,. William D. Haywood and George Pettibone, of the Western Federation of Miners, were seized by official thugs of the ruling class, acting under orders of Governor Gooding of Idaho and his fellow-contemptible the Governor of Colorado, and incarcerated in an Idaho bastille. The story of their cowardly and ruffian-like seizure and kidnaping is familiar to millions of American citizens. No event of recent times has attracted more widespread attention and discussion than this affair. No more brutal, shameless and dastardly assault has beer, made upon the working-class of the United States by its vile rulers than the seizure and incarceration of these men. It may safey be taken as an omen of that which the workers may expect to henceforth receive at the hands of the class that holds political and economic mastery over them, unless they consent to remain meek, obedient and submissive slaves. Fortunately for thc human race, the workers are not remaining silent and submissive in the face of the atrocities perpetuated upon them. They are not inclined to meekly accept the brutalities heaped upon the working class by the capitalists and their miserable hirelings. They are manifesting a disposition to resent such brutalities and for every blow received give two in return. The number of protest meetings being held in reference to this Colorado-Idaho affair is continually increasing, in spite of the fact that over a year has elapsed since the arrest of the imprisoned men, and no opportunity of trial has been of- forded them. This flagrant violation of the alleged traditional rights of the American citizen has undoubtedly proven a potent factor in awakening the workers to the significance of the move against Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. As this significance dawns upon them they begin to develop the spirit of men and a determination to resent the brutalities of their rulers. The more sy,*d- ily this spirit and determination develops the sooner will mankind bc delivered from the present nightmare of capitalist pillage and rapine. "Soft ft-ords butter no parsnips." The fool in his folly refuses to recognize the class war that must be fought to a finish between the slaves and their masters. Simple to a degree is he who fancies that the capitalist class will surrender its privilege and power in response to the altruistic appeals of sentimentalists and other white-livered nincompoops. He is blind indeed who refuses to scc tliat the present ruling class is each day more plainly manifesting its determination to maintain its position at whatever cost in blood, provided this blood can be drawn from the veins of the slave class. Like all previous ruling classes, it is generous to a fault in shedding blood to maintain its power, provided slaves and hirelings furnish the blood. If blood is to be shed, and it is inevitable if enslaved labor is to break its chains, let the workers sec to it that the ruling class furnishes its share. Every workingman in the L'nited States should provide himself with arms against the day of need. Upon an armed working class it would be impossible to perpetrate the atrocities that may be practised with impunity upon an unarmed one. It is time the proletariat awakened to the task in hand, and that it is awakening there is ample proof upon every side. The following from a speech by •-. G. Rolfe to the miners of Pittsburg, Kansas, affords an indication of the trend of thought among an increasing number of workingmen. Ere long much more radical utterances will be heard throughout the land: "Thc time has come for rebellion. The courts have refused us a fair hearing; the right of petition has been refused us, and we must now prepare to use the last recourse—force of arms. The Dred-Scott decision was followed by the Civil War. The Moyer-Haywood-Petti- bone decision will bc followed by a rebellion of the working class. Arm yourselves, keep a steady nerve, and get something to kill squirrels with, for the woods are full of squirrels and there is going to be a killing." If the workers be wise they will stop at no rebellion. Their action will be so sweepingly revolutionary as to wipe capitalism and its accursed wage-slavery off the map. The day of protest, petition and supplication has nearly passed. The day of action is at hand. Be wise in time; go not into battle with empty hands. meetings. If there is anything the Socialist workingmen of Vancouver cannot stomach it is fusion and compromise. A motion was carried at a regular business meeting of the Local to "publicly disavow all connection with Walter Thomas Mills' meetings." Tbe diminutive giant's admirers and «vor- shippers rallied to bis rescue and at each succeeding meeting attempted to remove the ban, but it was no go. At thc meeting on Monday evening last the entire matter was given a six-months' hoist in such a manner as to put the quietus upon it for good. Of course a few worshippers and admirers of the great '"Socialist-maker" are much disgruntled over the dastardly' repudiation of the famous man by the revolutionary* element in Local Vancouver. One suspension from the Local has occurred in consequence of the af- not know any better. More probably, however, the stuff is all paid for at so much per, by corporations with money to burn, with the object of discrediting genuine Socialism by confusing the public mind. He Didn't Know the Answer. Poor A'.len Studholme, the sole representative of the "Labor" party in the Legislature-one of the promoters, by the way, of the Public Ownership scheme— doesn't cut much of a fieure in the House. He has had a good deal to sav but his words carry no weight, simply because there are no ideas behind ihem, and he has no grasp of the situation. He always speaks up for Labor but not being a Socialist is easily handled by the glib-tongued capitalist partisans and made to look very foolish. And, of course, the party press of both sides eagerly report his discomforture, being pleased to see a "Ubor" representative discredited. Here is what the Hamilton Times, the Grit paper that helped to elect him in order to beat a Tory, has to say: fair, and one resignation has been ten- Toronto, Ont., Feb. 27.—(Special )— dered. Whether more are to follow ln fussing the companies act before remains to be seen. These free lancers of thc Mills type are merely nuisances to the proletarian movement. Speaking as the servant of no organization, their solicitude for revenue is more than apt to clothe their ef- the Private Bills Committee this morning, Mr. Studholme and Mr. R. R Gamev differed on the construction of the liability of company directors for wages of employees for at least one year. Mr, Studholme said that he spoke as a workingman. You are always talking about being ****&*% mUt* it mm FUSION REPUDIATED. Walter Thomas Mills, commonly dubbed the "Little Giant" by hero-worshiping females of both sexes, has shed the effulgence of his oratory upon the British Columbian heathen upon divers occasions during recent months. However, he came across the line once too often and in an unguardcu moment succumbed to the constitutional weakness, which afflicts the free lance in Socialist propaganda, of catering to thc prejudices of those he addresses in order to not unduly frighten the shekels from the vicinity of his purse. An attack of this malady usually proves fatal in British Columbia. It proved decidedly so in the case of Walter Thomas. The oratorical gent came to Victoria during the latter part of December last to address a meeting. It so happened that a move was on foot there at the time to effect some sort of a fusion arrangement between the "Labor Party," the "Moderate Socialists" and the revolutionary bunch, the purpose being to frame up a joint ticket to bc offered to the voters for their support at the election on Feb. 2. As the Victoria electoral district was entitled to four members of the provincial house, two candidates were to be given to the "Labor Party," one to the "Moderates" and one to the revolutionists. It was a nice little scheme and Walter Thomas took kindly to the job of assisting in the launching. With those well known oratorical powers that have enabled him to rout the enemy upon many a windy battlefield, he plead the cause of fusion and urged the support of. the multicolored political abortion that was to be set up. At the time of Walter Thomas' fusion stunt no Local of the S. P. of Canada was in existence at Victoria. The so-called revolutionary element took out a charter shortly after. To what extent, if any, this body was implicated in the fusion scheme we do not know. Be that as it may, however, the advocacy of fusion by Walter Thomas soon became noised about, and trouble began to brew for his especial benefit. It seems he has a course of ten lectures calculated to transform the most stupid supporter of capitalism into a real lovely Socialist, provided these Socialist-makers arc administered at the rate of one per month. The time intervening between one dose and the next gives the victim a suitable opportunity for digesting and assimilating the Socialist-making pabulum prepared according to the Mills formula. Before the astute gent had succeeded in making the necessary arrangements with Local Vancouver, S. P. of C, for delivering his monthly doses to the economic heathen of Vancouver, the story of his advocacy of fusion in Victoria became common property. Local Vancouver refused to stand sponsor for any further Mills forts with a garb calculated to satisfy ! a working man," declared Mr. Carney the prejudices of their hearers, rather |"- »m a \orkingman and have done as 1 ■ . , . . .»„•.»•.»„ much work as you. You are not the than one intended to set forth the farts j on,y working -,_„ on -*,rth. I have upon which the Socialist movement j worked in the lumber woods, and know bases its action. In fact, all such occupy what work means." a position that makes it possible that the I. Not being a Socialist, or «^erstai»d- • ■ . . _ * f\T*. *. : ng the class struggle, when the odorif- susptcion he entertained that they ate Mg^ Camey«pning this antiquated gag merely adventurers in quest of notori- j on •,'-., Studholme sat silent and al- ety alon-r with the easiest possible way j lowed this flagrant bit of sophistry to to make a living with the limited talents i go unanswered. A humiliating position, , ,, . , ._, ,. ., i truly, for a champion of labor! Any at their command. There are altogether j g£g^ -_ his p,!;ce wouM Uvc nlM too many threadbare professors, pulpit- 1 ,t,e bluff and told Gamey and his fellow less parsons and other bum intellectuals : labor skinners lhat the fact that they hanging on to tlie skirts of thc Socialist ■ might have worked more or less at some . r .■• —n. remote period had nothing whatever to movement for a ..vmg now. The soon- ' ,...'., " .„.. ";.;,». „„,- ;„ , , , ,, , , ,do with their present position and w- er they are shaken off thc better. It , terwts as the upholders of capitalist requires something more than a large , exploitation. But what better could be mouth and a diarrhoea of words to plant expected of any non-Socialist ? So long the seeds of revolution in the minds of as workingmen are ^tisfied to elect . , „,, . , , .. men merely on a trade union record, the workers. Whatever knowledge the ; witnou, any understanding of Socialist workers obtain of the present system, I economics, they must be content to see the necessity for its overthrow and how them bullied and browbeaten into silence to go about the job, they will have to *V "cry mouther of capitalist platitudes, get for themselves. Neither a Walter ; A Iru'tle<.s F,8ht Thomas Mills or any other garrulous \, PMrdebiirg Day was duly celebrated ... . . „ / ..:;." . last week by such of the South African wind-bag who talks for a living can be , velwan, as wcre „<*, unavoidably de- expected to bring it to them. To ac- ' tained in jail, or absent by reason of quire it demands no small measure of having been hanged, or committed stiic- persistent application upon the part of -de-causes w-hich have considerably - u 1 -. r> . _. _ thinned out the ranks tn the interval, he who seeks it. Oratory never yet de- !,{ m rccor<J o{ foc|) cam ^ -^ kept mohshed an error or enshrined a truth. ;t wou|d be an eye opener as to the de- Platform gymnastics and resonant loqu- I moralizing effect of organized murder acity never yet established a fact of any ! and plunder in the interests of the value to humankind. The race has had ', P.«*«ra« and for «fj^.%y»» ptre. Incidentally, some of the news- altogether two much of that sort of ; papers took occasion to ask inconven- thing for its own good. It is time to cut t icm questions as to the disposal of it out. If for no other reason the cut- sundry funds raised by subscription ting out of Walter Thomas Mills is to '< duri"K ** *>«« « ,hr «xcttement and . . . ,j • . . *'__ never aunhrd to the ostensible purposes be commended. It is to be hoped thc fof which they we„ <.,-,••«.■<.<■. j, same rule will be applied to all other ; .*<■-, there is a Patriotic Fund of some self-constituted saviours who are "sac- ! $100,000 unexpended and lying around rificing" themselves upon humanity's al- I somewhere and then there if^-or was- . , . .. • • . I also a South African Memorial Fund— Ur, at least in their minds. j ^ no mvmoTU, Th„ rCT,jnds me that (> . shortly after Queen Victoria's death i there was a woman's memorial fund ! started and every servant girl and sew- i ing girl in the city was. asked to give j something What has become of all the Toronto, March 5, 1907. quarters and dimes collected by the Billy Maclean's Public Ownership As- , patriotic and public-spirited ladies who sociation, which is supposed in some ran the show ? And there are others— way not very obvious to the naked eye j but their ultimate disposal is a question to help the little capitalist in his half- j of antiquarian rather than sociological hearted fight against the big corpora- ' interest. It really doesn't much mat- tions, succeeded in getting itself born j ter to the credulous and enthusiastic last week. It is a fine assortment of people who put up the coin whether the what Eugene Debs would call mixed ; stuff was blown in at Woodbine Park, pickles, an incongruous collection of j spent for ice-cream and matinee tick- has-beens and would-be's, worn-out po- ; ets or poured inlo holes in the ground litical hacks and soreheads, and the ; at Cobalt. Only purely as a nutter of usual crowd who are always ready to j curiosity one would like to know, attach themselves to any new movement j Who's Got It Now- with an eye either to prestige or pick- ( -., , . . . . . . ings. There are Tories who never J** }. *»* '"'getting what I wanted gave a Grit vote in their lives and Grits i jfj^ »»»M Paardebiir* Just about the who would vote for the most brazen ,,mc W*» £**** /i"11 ,ut of •?'* corporation-monger of the outfit, pro- i.-."., "fthung their battles oer again, vided he had the party endorsement Of 'he TiT'.., .5°° n .T' •!*_*_! course, the affair is run wide-open - General Botha •• ith a Dutrh majority of nothing like a pledge or a renunciation "P"^nta ives in the Transvaal-and of old party affiliations required It ";du™g '■"- '"val British element lo doesn't take much foresight to see its *J_»JnE -3_«w£*___i ** _ °." finish. No doubt with the advantage cl,*^d ,bv ,h£ aW«_*P*Mat people of free advertising it will flourish fa- ?f„Q,f^*. ,No *'™d" ther- «s a fall- moitsly for awhile and everything will ,nf, °u,°.f .*n,crcst Jn ,he *• A Men'or; go swimmingly until election time Then fe" . VVh,ch ,^cm,nd, m,c "f a Vor* * * the tug of war to capture the vote will Yankfe wa<, ,??aM'nK ?,.,'>"• v»'°' « »•'» go on merrily between Grit fakir and ?"?•-^ at Runk.r ,,1**** ."hereupon, • Tory heeler, and there will be quarrels . Hntisher remarked that he really did- and recriminations resulting in the in- ;n' *** "**,,,le American, had to blow cvitablc collapse. How the shrewd, i $*>"£' W^'. ,hc British won at hard-headed corporation magnates must! £"** »'• ',.droJ'e *°" ,Tank» 0,f at laugh at such tactics. As for the great : £e P°'nt ?f » fclTOfci, 'You may bulk of "the people," the little capital- ; fe "«ht' <"a"J?er. replied the Yankee, ists and taxpayers about whose interests 1)^,°H *&,',.no*' the Public Ownership advocates are so I Who* «ot South Afr,ca now? much concerned, they are utterly apath- i PHILLIPS THOMPSON. etic in the matter. Their fidelity to | o- partyism and their dislike of "Social- j *•*.„ ,. _ -• . . . „ , , Um" is stronger than their sense of self- ! c^L^*3 *"£ w',at.,s ^.Revolutionary oreservation 1 Socialist, anyway? Anything like a Rus- preseryatton terrorist, for example? - The "The Collapse of Socialism." "World," Of course the Public Ownership j With a similar situation as that which splurge is none of our funeral, and no j at present confronts the Russian prolet- The Paris Commune of 1871 The Greatest Proletarian Uprising in History In Commemoration of this Historic Event Public Meeting will be held in GRAND THEATRE, CORDOVA ST SUNDAY, MARCH 17th, 1907. Every worker should hear the story of how 50,000 Parisian Workers were relentlessly slaughtered to appease the wrath of the French Ruling Class. Doors open 7J - Meeting 8 P.M. Admisssion Free. Everybody Invited. m in ■■iwwiwMw-BMMpnwswwai ECONOMIC DEFINITIONS. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND MEMORIAL FUNDS. Socialist need care two cents when or how the farce is played out, but unless one has schooled himself into an attitude of utter indifference as to what the prostitutes of the capitalist press may say on any subject—which is the only way to preserve one's peace of mind—it is rather irritating to hear this ariat, wc should hope and expect to see a Revolutionary Socialist do equally well. We learn that the drug stores are not to open at all on Sunday if they are not to be allowed to sell anything else than drugs. Obviously such limited sales would hardly meet expenses and inas- namby-pamby, capitalist-minded crowd [ much as drug stores, like every other continually referred to as "Socialists" i capitalist institution; are run primarily and to read thc exultations of the plut- ' '— .*-■■• ocratic hirelings over the "defeat of Socialism" in London. Just now every malignant little newspaper pustule on for profit, their decision not to open is a perfectly reasonable one. Our hope is that some of the spiritual fraternity , may be seized with a good, griping the rump of capitalism is having its j colic, or some other malady on Sunday, fling of rejoicing over the London over- and with a closed drug store, fully rethrow. Double-column despatches un- alize the admirable arrangement of Sunder big headlines announce the collapse . day closing. of "Socialism" in the British metropolis. 1 Well, perhaps after all, this may be sheer Toronto, Ont., March. 12.—The lo- ignorance, for it is wonderful how little cal Socialists have passed a resolution most editors of Canadian dailies know, approving the action of the Socialist outside of party politics, lt may be members of the British Columbia legis- that the fellows who run the Mail and lattire in refusing to rise in honor of Empire, Hamilton Times, etc., really do tbe Lieut.-Governor.—Press despatch. Capital—Wealth used for the purpose of increasing itself through the exploitation of labor. Surplus Value—A value over and above his wage which the laborer puts into an article produced. Social Value—A value made possible only by the co-operation of the laborers in the productive process. Market Volar—A value above (on the average) the cost of production, and at which tbe article Mils, Labor Power—Work; the only thing the proletarian can sell in order to gain a sutMristence. With this commodity Ite sells himself. Commodity Something that is produced for sale. II ages—Amount paid to laborer for his labor-power. Taxes'—Thc consumer is not fobbed-- only the producer. The laboring class pays all taxes in tbe ultimate. The ownership of the land is necessary to the proletariat along with all the other means of production. Tariffs—Have nothing to do with wages. Wages tend to seek subsistence level of wage workers, no matter by what artificial means the selling price of their products may be increased. • • • • The foregoing definitions were sent to us for publication by a correspondent who claims to have drawn his inspiration from Marx and other writers whose economics are based on Marxian fundamentals. To us some of his definitions seem to contradict the others. We cannot assent to his definition of labor- power as work. In our opinion labor- power is capacity to work. Work is what the laborer experiences when delivering his commodity labor-power. We have no «Mice|rtion—even srith his illuminating definition—of the meaning of the term social value, unless thereby he seeks to indicate exchange value, which, however, he dace not mention in his list of definitions. Market- value: What is it our correspondent has in mind when he speaks of cost of production in this connection? Probably capitalist cost of production, Price of raw material, plus wages paid the laborer, plus added profit chanred the consumer; total, what he terms market- value. Certainly hc cannot mean cost of production in labor time as enunciated by Marx. Marx shows that commodities exchange on the basis of the average quantity of social labor-time necessary for their production. In other words, the quantity of human labor equipped with the most up-to-date process of wealth production, measured by time. The selling price of a commodity is often-limes .■xprrvwd in a piece of money that has sometimes less, sometimes more, social labor time, embodied in it, than there is in the commodity it exchanges for, according to whatever disturbing influences there may be at work in the market, but the regulating force of supply and demand compel these oscillations above and below the mean cost of production in labor time to cancel each other. (See Note 1 at the end of Chapter V. Capital, by Karl Marx). Onr correspondent says labor-power U a commodity. He also says commodities arc sold on the average above the cost of production. Therefore, the buyer of the commodity labor-nower, i. e., the consumer of its use-value, I. e., the capitalist is being robbed if anyone is, because he pays more for the commodity labor power than it costs to produce it. If the foregoing be correct reasoning, the laborer makes a profit out of the sale of his labor power and we are therefore at a loss to account for his propertyless condition. Moreover, with this definition we cannot reconcile his statement that the producers only are robbed nor that wages seek subsistence level. One thing seems to us logically evident. Either our correspondent's definitions or Marx's Theory of Value neejJ* revision. J. T. M. ■ ■»» -■- There is a big agitation going on in the United States for a reduction in railroad fares to 2 cents per mile. This seems to us most unreasonable. If those who are demanding the reduction feel that the railroads are now charg- mg'them too much, why don't they walk? Surely no railroad would attempt to compel them to ride if they did not choose to do ao. CAPITALIST FEROCITY IN thp I PARIS COM MINK -II ovrr iij- Within the pre-vent wrek world the revolut-on-m wy,k will meet to commn.iMr-.tc the t. ' to-mnune of mi. This wu ihe JJ' I^oTSiU i^ '™!*''y «rf*rnj| th? Zd^ U,7Krs,V™'-'«trd '» ^ir*£ '•'( ,he ^fsnco-Pranoij war, the Parisian wo*to_t*cJ_« lathe reins of public power froni «, of Ihe hands of their coward)* m'tri ai I Pjri>*eeded to aitrmpt iht dcic-ic* oil Paris, not only agamst tiic invaikri, but] against mote danger.nn rwrnm - the! exploiting c-pUaliM- ol l nme it-4 tbotl political heiH'hmrn lhe rnitrpnu-J while it ended m terrible <J,uitrr tothcl workers, scared thc ruling earn of ~*| ery country nearly out oi iheir mu, t**| cause they knew that th-.-r own **ork-l ers suffered under that rule, and ibeyl trembled lest they t««. **o>-i,d idt>*.\ suit. For years a protttem eaauufsl of slander was kept up against tht Com-1 munard*. Tbey wcrr reyrtventfi is bt-l ing the scum of the ram. *ho wot ia-| mated by virions desires ol uputt, nj*! bcry and murder. As a mttttt ui 'tciA there were only .ni? fin bosugH that,! not by the Commuiir, !>-.;! !<y • r.i-.-aJ*rl of people driven mad l.v the. traiuotl of prisoners taken l.y the b"urst*:*sI Venaillese llow the >>-».ru» «lw«ls'| tlieir country out i>> the <*ermim id\ would not dcfenjl Pan*, i<>'i-Kci tiws- J selves on the worker* of tbe ntt u'''.<*,| by Bismarck's *s«*f-ts.txc in tt5a*ii**l priscrmrrs ol war, they g.-i » U*, rt»w*s| army to take the . > i • ■•' J| in despatches sent by fc.ng.iso coms-l pendents to their home [ape" TV I following extracts -*r (-»r" -it nadm4, from the columns ol the Lottdae lis***.! the Daiiv Newi, aivi I-uiulatd The shamble* have been e^tiWiiWj at thc end of the be* evard Mi^t-erba. I and it is a lagabnow ipectstk to wl men and women, ol all *««« *-*l r"mll'l tion* of life, defile paw at snterui. wl that fatal direction A ,*'ty "(,lh"J hundred moved scro»« the »«*"*] only a few moment* ago. * ™ I Salory, on Wednesday, , tbooMBdJJJ the captured insurgents revolted » I got rid of their bandcuifs * " The soldier, fired into the rro»d. and three hmndred were nbot * * * In one of thc convoy * ol prisorws a woman wa* driven on by a Kcn!»?e' who goaded her with the point trf W sabre until thc bl<«><l ran * ' *• Gallifet halted the column, je**** eighty-two (prisoner*). ••»•• "•"' ,,!Kr shot there and then ' JZ\ many as one thousand t oraroonuti *mt shot after their capture (J"'" WA * * * ♦ Human life h-S*bc-oese_-| cheap, that a man is thot *** '«"» the* a dog Summary exf*** "M still (long afler the fighting hsd o**V I going on wholesale /•-"••" """ May-June, IH71. . IMm Several hundrr-l insurgents wtoWj refuge in the Madeleine »«ri W*£ sn the churcb • • ' •"^"/C loads of dead bodies oi "-"^r.. 0j been buried in the common diM lasy. * * * * No quarter **•] , to any man woman, or child- Batches of as many a-- t "*' %„,, hundred at a time vmc 'hot. Newt, May-June, 1871. , ■#. The wholesale execution' * discriminately. Prisoner- art ™JL* in batches to places where I *R» ^ are stationed, and deep ire...h^* fore hand. • • •, * At £«£ nlgW the Caserne Napoleon, since W- five hundred persons uu been ^ There arc invariably /™ftw* boys among them. „„ and are soon disposed of bj a )( ^ tumbled into a trench, »££„*•»* killed by thc shots, deal '""■„;, pa."- tion must soon put an enti u» <ho0lir4 Two court-martials ■■ alone Jay*., .ttherateof/n/;''7»^^;;irc>.* Two thousand dead bo<»e» ^^i, \ ed around the Pantheon. - jj. June, 1871. iMtwhyUKwrkingms"*^! ways bawling for more «* ^1 howl because the pr.ee otM(orhirll is a conundrum. " 'l "* * - /f -,)«1«* to wtdiiew Increased prtf-j,-, | bor-power, it logical V ,n"°* r„li« •• increased price for the for sale. It U *«• '■«"llim,f|f **\ that will claim rights l.^ ^ (.ll0*i, j he is not willing to grant to hu' -•'Si *ma***mfa*\9 ' uTtjROAV, UAHCtt It, 1164. , *» S PARTY MATTERS i AND ANNOUNCEMENTS s These rolumna hava been placed at Ihe d,»|v»al of th. Party* Secretaries ,Vocal, ar. requested to take ad* vantas. of them In. at Intervals, -•- „ tine condltlona In their respective Laini«« Communications under this v„,! .hoiild be addi-aaeed to ihe Do- JSnlon or Provincial Secretaries. Lo- ',1 aecretarlee are further requested to iu<.k t" tbete columns for _i.ii.juh*-.- -tntl from th* SB-ecutlve Oommlttef-x Py till. B Parly will minion and Provincial scereutle-t fjj|i*v.d »f * IHfde of the In. it.oxlin burden of cot-re*pc«a*nce. 0 ro SF.CHOTARIBS OP LOCALS 1,1 ht or SUFPLIES. SOCIALISM, REVOLUTION AND INTERNATIONALISM. m wistitt ou_tKrt. UfgogEtt JEKBEBS ^dfexi. heort /mm iii. *' d° not dcduce our 'ken, that which is* and that which is hfs .li. "J .t,S^'at'?n o{ factors, destined to be: the origin of classes, hat «,itum* *u'^°»".the conclusion [their present persistence and their ap- and 2S?_2_ f,8ht; JUSUce' P'ychology, j proaching disappearance, of melnZ V" fr°r US W?rds devoid i As *°<>n as- Panics to the development to thTJll t 5__fg t0 elevate thcm of the faculties of man and to his indus- ;° '.Z.. ank ?' •""*•■!.<- proofs, which trial discoveries, the productivity of la- From a I-ecture Delivered by Gabriel Dcville, in Paris, November 26, 1895. —Translated by Robert Rives La jMont. Socialism, revolution, internationalism —these are the three subjects regarding ...... , **bich 1 beg your permission to say iiv-uta the business of the what—with no pretence of being infal- t,« facilitated and the Do* lible—I believe to be the truth. At thc fisk of telling you nothing new, 1 will simply try to speak truth. Those who reproach the Socialists for constantly repeating the same thing, have, no doubt, the habit of accommodating the truth to suit tlieir taste for variety. On the other liand, to talk of Socialism is to do j what everyone else is doing at this time, .01' but I will speak lo you of it from the ! standpoint of a Socialist, and—unhap- .96 ! pily—that is not as yet equally common. 1 me signal and distinctive mark of The committee being a •tockhold*' modern Socialism is that it springs di- „ ,n the co-opernttre publishing | rectly from the facts. Far from resting smite of Chas. Ken It Co.. can pro- j on the imaginary conceptions of the in- cure literature for the locals at cost.! tcllect, from beini? a more or less utop- J. C. MORGAN, Secy, i ian vision of an ideal society, Socialism is today simply the theoretical expres- gsnii-erahlp card*, ench Application blanks (with plat- form) l«r 100 -.„....,... Central Campaign Fund '-rvioti'lv acknowledged $251 25 is what we do, and all that we do, h not to deny them; it is simply to avoid employing them for a use for which they are not and could not be destined Because, to uphold our theory, we prefer to have recourse to the observation of tacts and their tendencies, we have never proscrilicd the conception or sentiment of justice as motives for adhesion to that very theory, and wc do not hesi- ,atc t0 declare that that which is unfitted to serve as a scientific proof, may be utilized as a motive for action. Moreover, even those who attribute to the "syndicate" of factors a preponderating power over historical progress do not attribute to intelligence a greater influence than we recognize as belonging to it. In fact, the controversy here is not concerning the influence of ideas. The controversy arises when we attempt to determine which ideas are influential. On either side it is simply a matter of choosing from among the products of intelligence. Our opponents insist upon the claims of the factors in combination, instead of recognizing, as wc do, thc predominant influence of the ideas which clothe themselves in the phenomenal form of acts, such as inventions, etc., which lead to the modification of the economic envir- rinment and consequently, as we believe, to the modification of man himself, in his mode of life first, in Ealare e Mortimer tour 2o 65 Ftmii Ijocal donation I ..cal donation sion of the contemporaneous phase of tlie economic evolution of humanity. habits and methods of thought after At this point we arc met with Into ob- ward. jections. I As soon as it is seen that the trans- I.hi o. I *">n ",e onc ''and. because we say that j formation of the economic conditions, of Socialism springs from the facts, we are bor became great enough for an individual to be able to produce more than was indispensable for his maintenance, the division of society into two great classes, the exploiters and the exploited, was affected. And this division had its justification, so long as production was not sufficient to render comfort for all a possibility. But, thanks to machinery and to scientific appliances which facilitate labor, while vastly multiplying the supply of articles of consumption, the exhausting labor of the masses and the monopolization of comfort by a minority can henceforth give place, must henceforth give place, and will give place in a future which no longer seems distant, to the universalization of labor and its inevitable conseauence, the universalization of comfort and of leisure, that is to say, to social conditions under which there will be no classes, because their existence will (as now) serve no useful end as it has done in the past. We will soon see that our present ruling class, far from being useful, is already becoming baneful. Today, if the existence of distinct classes has, apparently, lost all legal sanction, it is just as real a fact as ever. To deny it. one must have—pardon me the expression, but I can find no other defining as accurately this state of mind —the desire to play the fool, or the in- his terest to do so. lt is impossible to deny seriously that a part of the population is, in fact, through the form of the economic relations, through their material self-interest, through their need raw_a»» oo two (larion subs r<xal ... i no I accus<*<' 0,r denying the influence of the !_. iide* *nA ,h<* 1'bera! defenders of the _riaoiJdca ri$t up "• r*volt: ,hcv can calm ti.'ti. McKE.Nkil' I fhcn?.!c,1VM agai" Now could we deny Secretary o j the influence of the Idea, when Social- cvoiioiint conmtions, oi ,7 ., , • __.:.i™ „r a„~~,a Ihe conditions of life, is the fundatnen j of food' Placed' in ISfii^iSES tal transformation, that upon which all \*** upon another portion of the popu- the others are more or less dependent, it will lie recognized that to say that Socialism is simply the expression of the contemnoraneotts phase of economicxon- ism itself is as yet, as I have just point- j ditions is not to narrow, in the slightest jed out, only a theoretical expression, detrree, its field of action but only to ta order to afford comrades tan sccese to standard works TO STUDENTS OF SOCIALISM, j ' • an ***** which we nevertheless believe has a certain influence? We merely assert that a truth, irrevo- *n eddy established by science as a valid | environment implies necessarily a cor . , ..oa, generalization, does not cease to be a Socialism, tht CQWtnMUo hat ****$**_ \ truth when it it applied to human his- """ '"" " This truth is the lation, and that there is an antagonism between those who must struggle to exist by working and those who can bargain out to them the means of labor. By proclaiming the existence of classes and their antagonism, by divulging that • antagonism, which is not their work, on define more accurately its immediate; , ■■ ,. . , „ ,- • ,■ , „„„ „„, "' The affirmation that there is in !the P01'1'"' r^trum, _Socialists_are not TO CLARION READERS. The publishers of the Western Clarion have orders upon the National Sewing Machine Company (see advertisement in another column) for three $65.00 sewing machines which are taken on advertising account. These orders will be disposed of at an extremely reasonable figure. The machines will be shipped direct to purchasers from the company's factory. To any one living in the United States an opportunity is thus afforded to obtain an up to date $65.00 sewing machine at reasonable cost. To a Canadian purchaser, owing to that wise paternal blessing known as the tariff, the duty would be added to the cost. Any one wishing to obtain a machine will be furnished full particulars by addressing the publishers, KINGSLEY & STOW, Box 836, Vancouver. B. C. _P_T Every Local of the Socialiat Party of Caaada ahould run a earl under thia bead, fl.00 per month Secreurlea pleaee note. NOTICE, Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 21, 1907. Notice ia hereby given that, 60 daya a.ter date I Intend to apply to the Hon. Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase Section 25, Township 8, Range 5, Coast District. Bueklcy Valley. JOHN CORNYN. British < olujubU Provlnt-lal RxecJSve Committee. Socialist Party ot Canada. Meets every alternate Tuesday. D. G. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. DunU-loa Executive Coriunlttee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Tuesday. 3. Q. Morgan. SecreUry, 551 Barnard Street, Vancouver, B. C. Uical Vancouver, No. 1, 8. P. of Cms* ada. business meatlngs .very Monday evening at headquarters, Ingleside Block, III Cambie Street, (room 1, second floor). Educational meetings every Sunday at I p. m., 11, Sullivan Hall. Cordova Street, rrrederlc Ferry, secretary. Bex IM, Vancouver, a ft j - ■ id a stock of literature. Thc |ie!!*i-*mg are on hand and will be IkbI , Mtpaid to any address at [sneet quoted. Two-cent stamps accepted for sums not excecd- i»jt 15 cents: I ir-* origin of th. Family, tr. t ■ *)• ' ' *• f ••• *., M. *****•**••* MOMC.ata IJV Soeial Kev.ilutiota (Karl Ksvtsky) [TV iv .rid'. Ittnulutiuna tt_r_- st ntrimarml I TV fM-riallsts. who ihejr are »:••: whit they stand for, iJohn etpargo) 9 I TV Ivoluttnn of Man iBoieehe) \t ■;•■". Horlal.«m (Ch... II. ■fail) 2ft I Ch** Htrurrrlwi in America it M Hlmnn.) ... ., 10 AO BO .AO »0 tory and Socialism. I action of ihe environment: all living be- ; ings are the product of the environment in which they live. To the environment. 111 the last analysis, to the relation*, necessarily created by the multiple contacts, actions and reactions of thc environment and the environed are due all the transformations of all organisms and, in consequence, all the phenomena that emanate from them. Thought is goal. .11. .iiiiMiim.Mit null nine is li. '. ... ,..• .: ...„., „»„ progress an evolution of the economic I creating factitious distrations, they are 1 not resuscitating and do not dream of responding evolution of the various resuscitating any of the social forms |» branches of human knowledge, which ! ******** a"d ™J <™rget.cally «««*«- are all influenced bv this environment,']**_ bJ *? F£nch ^ffi^K just as the apple-tree implies the apple , only adapting themselves tothesUuatton without its beine ncccssarv to speak: of ! a* 9 Presents.itself to them now the integ.a. apple-tree, If SocE, llL_5»"_^-127ftfi?eB1S contained mula," it a purely economic for- workers more and more every day to mma. it is ,ust as V appTtre^ is I comprehend ^.figm^g"^ contained in the seed. Ijet u. be vigilant j «r comb.nat.on m their disW »'**•« to see that this "economic formula" and ! possessors of the means >of labor, and this seed are not thwarted in their nor- I &»" «* »nterests to N defended have mal dewlopment, and we shall have all to the workers less and less the false es the fruits ihat may be desired, even if j l*« ol individual jj__*^J»g_\ j one of thtrse phenomena, and, just like j we refrain from heaping qualifying or j £J™* "^ of strikeS( 0{ coalitions of every kind imposed upon them by the customs and conditions of life in a capi I al'fthc* crthe?s.TrhIs"'rt'slour'ce in "actual j complemen'taVad'jectives'"upon"the apple- J •**««»■ Born of strikes, of coalitions ' facts. To sav that Socialism springs ' tree and Socialism. from tlie facts, is then simply to place 1 ao 1 ...#... -j.*. —*..-, .» *..».. -• ...yj '■■■ 1 Some have thought that they have dis- the Socialist idea on the same plane with | covered an argument against this pre ln Socialism, as in all' all .-ther ideas, sub-ccts, the idea is the reflex in the brain of ilie relations of man with his surroundings, ami the greater or less dominance of the economic environment lalist society, their class activity soon takes on a political character. To this then are due the working-class agitations and of the economic question, in the j^-j}™ jn the recognition of political fart that IWej^W"^™ equality and thc establishment of universal suffrage. In possession of political economic in nature—and they cite, most frequently, the invention of gunpowder and the revocation of the edict of rights, the workingmen are obviously led to make use of these rights in be- ^.rflffS?^ Man,f",0'I0 fetm aptitude of the brain for acquiring, re Uscislism, Utopian and *&. lainmg and combining ideas, constitute em fir. M-rx A En-f-ll. .10 cents intelligence. The latter, in making var- | NantM i,avc had a great influence on ha,f of their Qwn interests inevitably. Itire labor and Cspitil, ,ou" combinations out of the elements | human history They forget that, it Karl Marx ". '. I Tii- '.■M.'j-.n <A the Working C I Chas Vall Oft iSrriali m and Farmers. A. m. Simons . * cent* Other works procured to order. I MIGRANTS FOR CANADA. 11 hundred emigrants sailed for I Canada ia«t week from England *'n •'" itrtday tlie first contingent of the m 1 t*i ti Army emigrants. MW strong, 5 cents provideil by the environment, may ob- I s„ch or such an important event was not viijusly lo*e sight of the reality which j directly in itself an economic phenom- v-rvc-. as its foundation, but our Social- j Cnon, it is chiefly by the consequences ism aims never to depart from the data j (hat it had from the economic point of drawn from unbiased observation of | view that it became important; like all the facts. j human discoveries, all historic events, it We arc accused, on the other hand, I reached a point where it became a mod- 1-ecause we lielieve that the economic jfying element of the economic environ- questkm contains the whole of Socialism, j ment. of denying the existence and influence j To recapitulate, if we insist upon the ..f the intellectual factor, the scntimen- influence of the surroundings, and, par- tal factor, thc psychological factor —in j ticularly, upon the preponderant influ- short, a whole collection of factors. | etice of the economic environment — the Now, as 1 am going to try to show you, our only error, if it is an error, is that *t . snd on Ihursuay 500 others, »« oj wlton* are English, the rest tte wishito put the cart behind the horse, .-.ml t;> accuse us of wishing to suppress 11'"»li and Italian, Circulars prepared hy the irmnigta- liin-i tk-psrtnsM of Canada, advertising r» fr.< ijirm via tlie railway route," and niiin,; attention to the greet ftc-ltj of* bed in t.tnada for employment in rail- ssj knlding, are now being distributed In Sanilinavia, Belgium, l>enmark, and [Mher l-urti|jean countries. This step Su. been taken by the department of the int.nor at Ottawa to induce immi- Ifrttirin ihis year of men suitable for rjil*.-i) .oustruction laborers. - Weekly iint tbo Stale is merely an Instrn* jmoit o| 1 he ruling class is amply born* hm l,y thr above. Tlie huve capitalist I mm..!* embodied in the Grand hunk [he-fit and other big railway schemes "r in full control of lhe l>onimion gov- lerament These iiiteresls tcquiic. ■ l*rre force of cheap lalmrers to carry ''"'• ' "i "idertakings lletKc the iK.wrr "I the M-ttc is requisitioned lo gather "I* - supply Every lyins* subterfuge kiK,\i ii t,, modern business chicanery is tsdoubiedly being used l<> lure the ttwarj into lhe net of Canadian rail [*sj 1 Apimtation. Allurin- talcs of free ""'I- will lie dinned into thc ears of [jBinformeu Kuropeans hy the Canadian [•migration department with thc lame *k of scruple manifestcr- by a gold* wirk swindler in ciiKhing Ins victim 'he tai,.s ,|oalt out for the purpose of in- ■King, ignorant people to conic to Can- J* a* food for Canadian capital will "chiefly lies made out of whole cloth, "'■ matt.r whether such be told by gov* 'rtiiiK-nt agents or private swindlers. Hn.se who come will find themselves [jy .iitamst conditions similar to those |Hv have left behind. Go where they *"'. tin- world's workers cannot escape 2 r"l< "f capital. They niitst surrcn <*r their lives to its brutal ptrofit-mak- y process just the same in Canada as I Mewhcrc. I, s" long as the workers supinely al- **' ihe State to remain in the hands of [ij* exploiting class, so > forced to submit to Pwers for the purpose I!™™.pillar to post wherever I ''""hes of capitalist prof predominant became thc conditions life, determining m all orders of ! >»■; tl'vir^ice^^aral^Twitii toit» considerable taPggJ^ refuse W sec n> » ■ ' ing of them irt subjection to the process, is the function of thc omenon, . h hold I brut-it l*Jf*. and right well it performs '*■ " 1 m '">' do so, Itowever. if the work- . w"<- not chumps. Vastly in tl"' ^)0/«y, they could oust the capital* the cart liecausc we refuse to put it in front or alongside of the horse, proves, at once, thc incontestable desire to find us at fault, and the difficulty of gratifying that desire. Man. as 1 said just now, is the product of thc environment. Hut, to the influence of thc cosmic or natural environment, which affects all beings, there was soon joined in his case the influence of tbe special environment created bv him, an environment resulting from the acquired means of action, from thc material of the tools used, from the conditions of life added b.v hint to those furnished Mm by nature, or else substituted for tbem, the influence, in a word, of the economic environment, an influence whuh has gradually become of 10- m<-(v man's mode <>( life, have finally become less and less rtependettt upon the puielv physical capabilities of the cosmic environment, and more and more dependent optm the means of action acquired bv human exertions, upon the artificial capabilities of Ihe economic environment, upon human thought materialised in various innovations. We find at tbe foundation of every- tliim- effecting man the influence of the natural and economic environments, ■ml if it is quite true that we recognize the ortponderant influence of the economic environment, it is passing strange „, accuse us of not rccogn.nng the lt> -Jon of human intelligence, winch we assert is tl.e creator of tins environment. Onlv wo do not forget that, nt any stage of development whatever, intelligence ,oes nothing by its creations except to elaborate the elements winch1 it ftid "ready made," as it were, in thc environment. . Therefore, Intelligence can. by wo* Im, with the elements furnished by the e^isting environment, produce a change " *' " - This new etiviron- detcr- intelli- grad- ibutc only plien- ■ep1N.fo*V«llS creation of man — this does not justify representing us as attributing an exclusive influence to the economic environment and as holding that ♦»••'- -nviron- ment itself is created and influenced only by facts properly classed as economic. I return then to my first proposition: Socialism must have and has for its foundation tbe economic environment, the economic facts. What are those facts? In order for man, who can live only on condition that he works, to be able to perform any sort of work, he must have at his disposition the instruments and the subject of labor. Now, these tools and this material, in one word, the means of labor, are, more and more becoming the property of the capitalists therefore, the political struggle is becoming more and more a class struggle which cannot end until the political power, in the hands of the workingmen, shall at last place the State at the service of the interests of all the exploited, and thus enable the latter to proceed to the economic reforms which will lead to the disappearance of classes as a direct consequence. Therefore, the Class Struggle is not an invention of the Socialists, but the very substance of the facts and acts of history in the making that are daily taking place under their eyes. THE PROVINCIAL ROUSE ONCE MORE IN SESSION (Continued from Page Onc.) Mr. Williams also took strong objection to the practice of sending men out to the old country in the name of British Columbia, and allowing them to bring out what men they would. Thc government should take steps to prevent employers doing this. The government should also cancel this agreement with ., , , , the Salvation Army, or they should Those who are despoiled of the means adop, thc prjncjp'e that the government of utili'ittg m work their own labor- shoulj controi ,he supply of labor. The power (or physical capacity for work) -act was fhat the ,,rOVeninient had been are, henceforth, compelled, being unable bMncoed and hoodwinked into this busi- to live otherwise, to sell the use of that nMS and had taken „0 p^ to learn power to the capitalists who hold in the other side of the question. In future their possession the things indispensable when he met a man who „,„*,- not get for labor. Through their possession of work he would pr0pose to him to send the tilings indispensable for the func- (an app-jcatjon to the Minister of Fi- tlooing of labor-power, thc capitalists nanctf wh0 was so anxious to see the are. in fact, masters of all who cannot en,pi0yer-» provided with labor, to get utilize their own power themselves, nor n*m a ^^ somewhere in this province, live without utilizing it. From this (Lighter and applause). economic dependence flows the existence of distinct classes, distinct in spite of the civil and political equality of their memliers; and, as the capitalist regime expropriates the Middle Class more and more, it tends to accentuate the division of society into two principal classes: on the one hand, those who control the means of labor: on the other, those for whom the actual use of those means is the sole possibility of life. I will ask you to note that I speak of classes and not of orders or estates, because these last expressions imply a legal demarcation between tlie categories of persons which tbey indicate; while thc word class simn'v denotes, according to Littre. the "grades established among men by the diversity and inequality of their circumstances." This is the reason that some among us refuse to make use of the expression "Fourth Estate" There are no longer any Estates, it is true, but it is not thc less true that there still are classes. As no one among us any longer dares to approve of their existence, to deny it is the only wav to avoid comhating it. And ers " n^recMlideration what Is Wiled| go it Is this denial that: is resorted to taking into Intelligence V,,,| is paraded as the Intel jt I, scarcely necessary E=W«y. they could oust the capital- |«eti»l factor, '' J^l, sneci il replies all * !?>m their control of thc State aud for me to honor with »«,••„..■ „. T.'ts um,.,.,. --. -._. .i-.-..-u,j.c .'mm .h. ,.n,.-i factors mobili/cl against u. th*. ' lowers to free themselves irom j-. ycwininic servitude to capital. But ns thoy a requires sense to do that the other f... tors 1110 ligence. I W»f »««* 1,owcver' 1 .H l* ■ I " * *** » • . I re all merely products of intel- i>>- those adversaries of Socialism whose only weapons are falsehood and hypocrisy. Socialists are not the cause of the existence of classes because they recognize tbeir existence. They limit themselves to establishing that which has At the conclusion of Mr. Williams' speech, as no one else rose to address the House, the Speaker rang his bell three times and declared the debate closed. The address was adopted, the Socialists alone voting "Nay." ,—, o ' Some of our patriotic friends have been making much fuss because the Socialist members at Victoria remained seated when the Lieutenant Governor, togged out in medieval trappings and attended by the usual troup of flunkies, went through the usual pompous fanfar- ronade of opening the Provincial House. As that distinguished official has made no complaint, it is evident that he is quite satisfied so long as they did not sit on him. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone have been confined in jail for over a year, with no more prospect of a trial now than at its beginning. Justice is said to be blind; some have suspicioncd her to be also deaf, and now there is a persistent rumor afloat that she has turned prostitute But even this is no breach of capitalist ethics. l-iOTICK Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 21, 1907. Notice is hereby given that, 60 days after date I intend to apply to the Hon. Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase Section fi. Township 6, Itange 5, Coast District. Buckley Valley. JAMES ARTHUR GARDNER. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 30 day* after date I intend to appiy to u,c lion Chiet Commissioaer of Lands and Murks Iut a special license to cut and cany a«a> 111,1 ber from the following described MUKia in Coast District: 1. Commencing at a post planted on tbe west side of River. Inlet, at the north end 01 -xhooner i'aa*, about a mile and a bait irom I3eaver Cannery; thence west no chains, thence north 80 chaina, thence east SO chains, tbence south 80 chain., to place oi commencement. 2. Commencing at a post planted on the west side of No. 1, running west cu chains, thence north SO chains, thence east »0 cbains, thence south 80 chains, to point ot commence mcAt. W. M. FEENEV. Agent for Frank Vandall and H. IL 1'uhr. Vancouver, B. C, Feb. .th, luo;. NOTICE. Notice i* hereby given that sixty days after date wc Intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for special li cense to cot and carry away timber on tbe following described lands in Rupert District: S. Commencing at the N. E. corner of section SS marked Imperial Timber and Trading Company's Northwest corner, thence 80 ci.aiik> South, thence SO chains East, thence 8U chains North, thence 80 chains West io point of commencement. S. Commencing at a point one-half mile East of the Northeast corner of section iit, marked Southwest corner post, thence Aortn ISO chains, thence East SU chains, thence South ISO chains, thence West 10 chains I* point of commencement. 4. Commencing at tbe same point as No. 3 marked the Southeast corner post, thence North ISO chains, thence West 4-1 cnains, thence South ISO chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement. 5. Commencing at a point about one-half mile West from tbe Northeast corner of section SS, marked Southwest corner post, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains, tbence Soulh 160 chains, tbence West 4u cbains, to point of commencement. 6. Commencing at the nme point as No. 5, marked Southeast corner post, ihence North 160 chains, tbence West 40 chains, thence South ICO chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement T. Commencing at a post near the N. E corner of Section 23, marked the N. W. corner post tbence South 80 chains, thence East 80 chains, thence North »0 chains, thence West 80 chains, to point of commencement. 9. Commencing at a point one-half mile West of the N. W*- corner of section 15, marked Southwest corner post, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains, thence South 160 chains, tbence west 40 chains to point of commencement 10. Commencing at tbe same point as No. 9, marked the S. K. corner post, thence North 160 chains, thence West 40 chains, tbence South 160 chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement. 11. Commencing at the same point as No. 10, marked the N. W. corner post, thence South 100 cbains, thence East 40 chains, tbence North 160 chains, tbence West 40 chain, to point of commencement. 12. Commencing at the aame point a. No. 11, marked thc N. E. corner post, thence South 160 chains, thence West 40 chains, thence North 160 chaina, thence East 40 chain* to point of commencement. 13. Commencing at the Southeast corner of Sertoin 80, marked the N, K. comer post, thence South 160 chains, thence West 40 chains, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement. 14. Commencing at tbe same point a. No. 13, and marked the S. E. corner, thence North 160 chaina, tbence West 40 chains, thence South 160 chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement 15. Commencing a half a mile West of the S. E. corner of Section SO, marked the N. E. corner post, thence South 160 chains, thence Weat 40 chains, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chain, to point of commence- ment. IS. Commencing at the same point a. No. 15, marked the S. fc. corner post, thence North 160 chains, thence Weat 40 chains, thence South 160 chains, thence East 40 chain, to point of commencement. 19. Commencing at the S.E. cor. of sec. 16, marked the N. W. corner post, thence South 80 chains, thence East 80 chain., thence North 80 chains, thence West 80 chains to point of commencement. 20. Commencing at a point one half mile West of the S. W. comer of Section in. marked the N. W. corner post, thence South 160 chains.thence East 40 chains, thence North 160 chains, thence West 40 cbains to poiut of commencement. 21. Commencing al the same point as in No. 20, marked the N. E. corner post, thence South 160 chains, thence West 10 chains, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains to point of commencement. 82. Commencing at the same point as in No. 21, marked the S. W. cornet post, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains, ihence South 160 chains, thence West 40 chains to point of commencement. 23. Commencing at the same point as No. 22, marked the S. E. corner port, thence North 160 chains, thence West 40 chains, thence South 160 chsins, thence East 40 chains o point of commencement. 24. Commencing at a point near the N. E. corner of Section 31, marked the N. E. corner poit, thence South 80 chain., thence We.t 80 chains, thence North 80 chains, thence Eait 80 chain* to point of commencement Local Toronto, 8. P. of C—Meets every Sunday 3 p. m. at Davis Hall, corner Queen and Spadina Avenues. F. Dale, Secretary, 41 Henry Street. Finnish Branch meets Sunday nights, same hall. Jewish Branch, Sunday nights, at 185 1-2 Queen St. West. Local Winnipeg, S. P. of C, meets every Sunday, iu Trades Hail, at 2:30 p. m. J. Coxon, Secretary, 220 Princess St., Winnipeg, Man. Local Nelson, S. P. of C—Meets every j-riday evening at 8 p.m., in Miners' Union Hall, Nelson B. C A. VV. Harrod, Organizer. 25. Commencing at the N. t, corner of Section Kb, marked the S. E. corner po»u tbence West 160 chains, thence North 40 cnauu, thence East 160 chains, thence South 40 cnauu to point of commencement 26. Commencing at a point half a mile East of the S. VV. corner of Section 87, T'p. li>. n_rked the S. fc. corner post thence North ii,o chains, thence West 40 chains, .lienc_- South 100 chains, tuence East 40 cuain* lo point of commencement. 27. Commencing at a post about one mile S. of the S. W. corner of Section 15, T'p. 14, marked tbe N. VV. corner post, tbence S. bO chaina, tb-:nce L. bO chains, thence .N. 80 chains, thence VV. 80 chains, to point of commencement. 28. Commencing at the same point as No. 27, marked the N. E. corner post tbence S. tO ci:ains, tbence W. 80 chains, tbence N. 80 chains, tnencc fc. 60 chains, to pout of commencement 29. Commencing at a point about two miles S. of the S. W. corner of Section 20, narked the N. W. corner post, tbence S. 160 chaii-a, tbence E. 40 chains, thence N. leo ih.ins, thence W. 40 chains, to point of com- menceme—i. 30. Commencing at tl.e same point aa No. 29, marked the N. East corner post, t.ience S. 160 chains, thence W. 40 chains, thence N. 160 cams, thence E. 40 chains, to point of commencement 31. Commencing at a pest near tbe N. VV. corner of Section 13, marked the N. W. corner post, -.fane South 160 chains, tl-ence East 4u chains, thence North ltto chains, tbence West 40 chains, to point of commencement 32. Commencing at the same point as No. 31, iiiar.ed the N. E. corner post thence South 160 chins, thence West 40 cbains, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains, to point of commencement 33. Commencing at tbe same point as No. 32, ntifced the S. VV. corner post, thence North 160 chains, thence East 40 chains, thence South 1B0 chains, thence West 40 chain., to point of commencement 34. Commencing at tbe aame point as No. 33, marked tbe S. E. corner post thence North ISO chains, thence West 40 chains, thence South 1C0 chains, thence East 40 chains, to point of commencement 35. Commencing near the S. W. comer of Section 22, marked the S. W. corner post, thence N. 80 chains, thence E. 80 chains, thence S. 80 chains, thence W. 80 chains, to point of commencement 36. Commencing at the same point a. No. 35, marked the 8. E. corner post thence N. 160 chains, thence W. 40 chains, thence S. 160 chains, thence E. 40 chain, to point of commencement 37. Commencing at a point about one mile S. of the S. W. corner of Section 22. marked the S. E. corner post, tbence VV. 80 chains, thence N. 80 chains, thence K. 80 chains, thence S. 80 chains to point of commencement 38. Commencing at tbe same point aa No. 37, marked the N. W. corner post, ihence S. 160 chains, thence E. 40 chains, thence N. 160 chains, thence W. 40 chains, to point of commencement, 29. Commencing at the same point as No. 38, marked the N. E. corner post, thence S. 160 cliains, thence W. 40 chains, thence N. 160 chains, thence E. 40 chains to point of commencement. 40. Commencing at a point near the S. W. corner of Section 21, marked the S. E. corner post thence N. 80 cliains, thence W. 80 chains, thence S, 80 chains, thence E. 80 chains, to point of commencement 41. Commencing about one mile N. from the N. W. corner of Section 17, marked the S. E. corner post, thence N. 80 chains, thence VV. 80 chains, thence S. 80 chains, thence E. 80 chains, to point of commencement. 49. Commencing at a point about one mile S. of the S. E. corner of Section 20, marked tbe S. E. corner post, thence W. 160 chain., thence N. 40 cbains, thence E. 160 chains, thence S. 40 cliains, to point of commencement 43. Commencing at a point about 2 miles South of the S. E. comer of Section 19, marked the S. W. corner post, thence North 80 chains, thence East 80 chains, thence South 80 chains, thence West 80 chains, to point of con.m neement. 44. Commencing at tbe ume point as No. 43, marked tbe N. W. comer post, thence S. 160 ch.-i-s, thence E. 40 chains, thence N. 160 chain*, thence W. 40 chains, to point of commencement 45. Comme-cing at a point about two and a half miles S. of the S. E. corner of Section 24, marked the N. R, corner post, thence W. 160 rhsins, thenae S. 40 chains, thence E. 160 chains, thence N. 40 chain*, to point of commencement. 46. Commencing at a point near the S. W. corner of Sec ion '.'2. marked the N. W. corner (>"st, thenc* S. so chains, thence E. 80 chains, thence N. 80 chain., thence W. 80 chains, to point of commencement. 47. Commencing al a point nenr the S. W. corner of Section 18, T'p. 13. marked the N. W. corner post, thence South 160 chain*, thence Fast 40 chains, thence North ISO chains, thence West 40 chains, to point ef commencement. 48. Commencing at a point near the N. W. corner of .Section 18, marked the S. E. corner post, thence North 80 chains, thence West SO chains thence South 81) chain*, thence East 80 chains, to point of commencement Dated at Vancouver, B. C, February 13th, 190T. IMPERIAL TIMRER 4 TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED. m ■; i i I se mmjeztzzrsz!' •stssr. •ss^Tssssas' limtWtJillr iruTsarnr.li.n.* sew: ml 11 nig* rout *!&£* tnWltTlM 0LA1I0W, Vi-tfOOPY-at, BKFfMH OOLEMMA. SATURDAY, MARCH 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 i NEWS AND VIEWS I AS GIVEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION | Edit ml by R. V. rT*TTs*pn"«C_S, to wl.oiu all wrraprmtlenoe tor this «t«' part ment should be addrasned. Jp CORRESPONDENCE. MANDATE FROM WORKERS OF CANADA. It's those awful Socialists again! This time the three working-class representatives at Victoria have refused to kow-tow to the greatest labor-skinner and law-breaker in British Columbia, simply because of his fine purple, which only stands for thc perpetuation of class rule and the further robbery of" waee-slaves. In connection with this "incident" at Victoria, the following resolution (No. 48), unanimously concurred in by the Victoria 1906 session of the Dominion Trades Congress, is significant: "Whereas, the powers that be, have seen fit to appoint the coal operator, James Dunsmuir, to the position of Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia; and, whereas, the same James Dunsmuir has always been most unfair in his dealings with the coal miners and other workmen in his employ; and, whereas, no organization of any kind is 1 allowed among the employees of the said James Dunsmuir at Ladysmith and Union mines, Cumberland, Vancouver Island; and, whereas, many good and industrious men and women have been driven from their homes on Van- couper Island, by the actions of the said James Dunsmuir; be it, therefore, resolved, by this Twenty-Second Annual Convention of the Trades -and Labor Congress of Canada in meeting assembled, that we most emphatically express our disapproval of the appointment of James Dunsmuir as Lieutenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia. ,—I, CONFLICT BETWEEN BUYERS AND SELLERS. The "identity of interest" between those Siamese twins—capital and labor —is likely to be further exemplified in Vancouver between now and May 1st. The building trades seem most involved. but there is one thing we must do, and that is to look more carefully after the voters" list, and by some means to bc devised prevent so many workingmen being disfranchised. 1 know this is the case in this Valley and 1 am sure it is the same all over this province. For instance, the voters" list for this Valley contains 2371 names and there were only 102*1 polled. The Socialists must devote a great deal more time to this matter in future. * * * Hope to see Local established at Vernon soon.* * * Trust-busting, sentimental Socialism will not go down with the rank and file of working class people. lt has just about as much weight at election time as the promise of a crown and a harp Editor Clarion: In reading your Note and Comment column ! came across the article written on tlie new Lord's l>ay Act and 1 beg a little space to air mv objections to the said article. A good Socialist at heart. 1 believe such an article as that is doing the cause much harm. Firstly, the new Lord's Day Act was not intended to force men to go to church, and was never meant to be understood as such, but to make it possible for a workingnufn to hc sure of one day's rest or recreation in every seven. In explanation of this, let me mention the case ot miners, motortnen, clerks, etc.. of older towns and cities when'you'die.Workingnien have learned j than ours who, if they willjiot agree to to walk on their hind legs pretty well! - * - - * — now and are beginning to learn to use their gray matter (brains) and will not stand to be humbugged much longer. They are learning fast to understand at what end of the game they are skinned. Oh, let it be soon! But we will have to keep pounding away and nothing but the clear goods. Yours in Revolt." A GRAND FORKS SUGGESTION. Com. Walter E. Haddcn, secretary- Grand Forks Local, No. 12, is, at the instigation of the Smelter City Socialists, in communication with the B. C. Executive Committee in re the publication of a Party pamphlet giving a review and statistical information of the Socialist movement in Canada—a sort of past, present and future record. The Executive appointed Com. Pettipiece to report on same at next meeting, as to cost, size, nature of contents, etc. WAGES NOT WRITTEN IN TERMS OF LAW. REWARDED! J. D. McNiven, foreman of Senator Templeman's "Times" at Victoria, and one of thc defeated Liberal candidates at the last B. C. election, has been named by the Ottawa government to* take over the duties of Fair-Wage Officer of the Department of Labor in succession to the late D. J. O'Donoghue. His territory includes Ontario and west to thc Pacific Coast. GETTING READY FOR MAY DAY AT MONTREAL. Workers Will Hold a United monstration on Labor's International Holiday. De- Com. H. Reich of Montreal reports a thriving Ijocal of the S. P. of C. in that city. Says he: "It is a healthy English-speaking organization. We held an agitation meeting on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 2:30 n. m. Collection $5.00; seven new applications for membership. The comrades are all satisfied with the result and with renewed enthusiasm and courage we will continue meetings every second Sunday, each to be held at some different hall, thus enabling us to cover the entire city. "The Jewish-speaking workingmen are having a speaker, Com. Zametkim, an old war-horse from New York, address them on Socialism. "The thing we need in this city is to bring the various social democratic organizations together, and if that can be accomplished by the S. P. of C. Local, we will have a splendid compact fighting organization. Independent revolutionary local organizations already exist among the Jews, French, Italians, thc Poles and Russians, each working in its own way. "Can not the Dominion Executive Committee do something in this'matter? A May-Dav Celebration. "The Local here has also decided to celebrate the international holiday of Labor—May 1st—with a monster demonstration. A committee of five were elected to make the necessary arrangements. A conference with all the trades and labor organizations, and sympathetic societies in the city, will be held on Friday, March 1st. "Later results will be made known to 'News and Views.'" PARKER WILLIAMS AT MT. SICKER. MT. SICKER, B. C, Feb. 23—Comrade Parker Williams, M. P. P., Newcastle, lectured here to a full house in the Union hall last night, which makes the first gun fired in the campaign of the next election. We hooe to be better prepared than we were for the one last month. The audience was greatly pleased with Parker, as shown by their hearty response to a vote of thanks, moved at the end of the meeting, by Comrade James Hardy, to Parker, for hoofing it up Mt. Sicker to talk to the wage-slaves of this place. Yours for the Revolution, S. C. Horel, Secretary Mt. Sicker Local No. 32. SOCIALISM IN THE OKANAGAN VALLEY. Passing Comment by Com. Johnson.— Lessons for B. C. Socialists. "Not on the voters' list !" Such is the plaint from nearly every constituency in the province. Com. J. F. Johnson of Enderby, B. C, says: "There arc many things we have not done, and many things we should do,' —Labor Gazette. Capitalist Press Giving Socialist tion in Plain Terms. Posi- "The board has since announced that payment for men working in rock trenches is 8s. per day, and in rock tunnels 9s. per day, under the day-labor system, and under thc direct supervision of the board, yet information of a trustworthy character has come to hand that as low as 7s. is being paid, where the necessities of men compel them to accept that wage." o MIGHT BE BAD PRECEDENT. Could not those institutions that have accepted Rockefeller's and other tainted money be indicted for receiving stolen property?—Daily press. QUESTION BOX. Cent-belter, Toronto—Waiting for Hawthornthwaite to secure official election returns. Will then publish information sought. Secretaries of B. C. Locals have been lax in reporting results. . Comrade V. S. Holmstcn, manager of Tyomies (Finnish Party paper), published at Hancock, Mich., died Jan. 15, His loss is greatly felt by the Finnish comrades, as in a large measure thc success of Tyomies is due to his untiring energy and ability. WILL NOW BEG FOR LABOR LEGISLATION. A. G. Perry, member of the B. C. Executive of the Dominion Trades Congress, and Mark Beach, president of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, will go to Victoria during the present session of the House to co-operate with members of the Victoria central labor body in begging for legislation. And this from representatives elected to a man by the votes of workingmen. Mr. Dutton, another member of the Congress B. C. Executive, who worked and voted for the defunct Liberal party last month, is unable to become one of the J deputation owing to a nasty accident befalling him last week while at work. The meteoric career of the third Congress member for B. C.—Mr. Grey—is now a closed incident in the labor movement. The question of "who shall pay the freight" in connection with such deputations will probably be discussed when the time comes. work seven days a week, might just as well put on their coats and get. Now, in the case of the Charlotte- town, P. E. 1. affair, that is mentioned in the article, I think that that is a strong point in favor of the new Act. If it had been in force then the company could not have forced their men to work and you may rest assured that the men did not act on their own initiative. Now, it seems to me the author of thc said article seems to be satisfied with the old regime. What is there in the old conditions, may I ask, to warrant such satisfaction? I would say more. Here we have men in our corporations working elcven»hours per day seven days a week and others afraid to go away for a day's outing and recreation amidst the green splendour of nature for fear the call boy may pay them a visit. When travelling on the prairie you will notice our brothers from the old lands working seven days a week at the plow. But, you will add, this is a free country, and if a man wants to work, let him do so, but you will have to also admit that that has a tendency to make the grabbing farmer turn his hired men out on Sunday to help fill his—the farmer'?*— pockets. Now, this new Lord's Day Act puts an end to all this and enables all workingmen to enjoy a full days's rest or recreation. The workingman is shortsighted if he spends his rest wishing that certain slaves should work for his paltry amusement. Let every man take his Sunday as hc wishes, but let him take care that hc docs not cause some poor unfortunate to work for his rest. SUNDAY OFTEN. Kamloops, March S, 1907. * * * « Note: By the way, "Sunday Often," in future write only on one side of the paper. We wcre obliged to re-write your letter. Next time it is W. P. B All other transgressors take notice. (Editor). The matter contained in above has been pretty fully dealt with in recent issues. Would just say we are not satisfied with cither present or past regime. It is not necessary to inflict a Puritanical Sabbath on a community in order to secure a six-day week for all toilers if that wcre all our spiritual guides had in view. Again, may 1 ask what opportunity have the workers in a crowded city to see "thc green splendour of nature," referred to by our correspondent, if transnortation facilities nre not afforded to carry them there? Of course the Act does not expressly state that the working class must go to church or stay home, but it virtually has that effect. Then again, it has come to our notice that there are certain sects whose relieious conscience inincl them to observe Saturday. Jews, Seventh Advcn- tists, Christadelphians, et**"*- Do these hypocritical mouthers in thc Lord's Day ^Alliance who howl for religious freedom when their sordid material interests arc in jeopardy take these people into consideration? Let us have a rest day, two or three if you please, but let no hypocritical priest or preacher close the avenues of rational enjoyment in order to better peddle his nauseous spiritual wares. J. T. M. U. S. MEMBERSHIP GROWING. The amount received at the United States National Office of the Socialist Party for dues during January, 1907, exceeded by $400 the amount received for the same purpose during January, 19«0. In Canada, too, thc Dominion Executive Committee's semi-monthly reports show a large increase in Party revenue. SAFETY APPLIANCES COST MUCH MONEY. Human Lives Sacrificed to Profit During January.—Plenty More Wage- Slaves Available at Cost of Subsistence. Industrial accidents occurring to 253 individual workpeople in Canada during thc month of January were reported to thc Department of Ijabor. Of these 58 were fatal and 105 resulted in serious injuries. Iii addition, accidents to 8 wrrkmen, of which 5 were fatal, were reported as having taken place prior to t!i<* beginning of the month, information not having been received by thc Department before January;-a907. The number of fatal accidents reported in January, was 28 less than the previous month and 2 less than in January, 1006. DUNSMUIR AND THE SOCIALISTS The Daily Province of March llth contains a leading editorial in which it hectors Comrades Hawthornthwaite and Mcinnes for refusing to rise at the entrance of Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir at the opening of the local legislature. Thc following are a few of the epileptic spasms it throws when referring to thc incident: * * * * But there was more in the refusal, by Messrs. Hawthornthwaite and Mcinnes, to show the usual courtesy to the Lieutenant Governor, than merely bad manners. There was a desire evinced by them deliberately to insult public sentiment, to bid defiance publicly to thc institutions under which we live; there was the unmistakable intention of proclaiming that they would, if they were able to do so, upset thc existing order of society, with all that that means. It was as if they had taken the flag and openly trampled it beneath their feet in the presence of those to whom it is the symbol of order, of security and of patriotism. * * » * When, however, wc find the men who thus conduct themselves on the platform with impunity, seeking to make the legislature the theatre of their disloyal acts and utterances, it certainly is time to call a halt. Of course, no one will give a second thought to the fact that two or more members of thc House of Assembly failed to show proper manners by rising at the entrance of the Lieutenant Governor, but if some curious representative sought and obtained from Messrs. Hawthornthwaite and Mcinnes a full explanation of the meaning of the rudeness of which they were guilty, and it became unmistakable that, as representatives of the people in the parliament of the province, their desire and purpose was, and is, violently if they can, to overset and destroy the present conditions of society, then it will remain for tlie legislature to say whether a committee should be appointed to report on the qualifications these men possess as safe and efficient lawmakers. ** *** + ««** There is not the slightest doubt hut what the presence of these men in thc House, their actions and thc nrinciplcs they stand for constitute a grievous offence to the Province and all the capitalist brood that it and similar rage are apologist for. If it were not so ,we should feel inclined to be suspicious of them. The virulent denunciations they have experienced at thc baud of press- writers in capitalist journals are most eloquent testimonials to their fidelity and watchful care for the interests of their constituents—thc working class. By their actions they are at least free from the taint of hypocrisy. When we know that bourgeois society—to hide the warring clash of its sordid interests—is obliged to put on the cloak of canting dissimulation we arc not at all surprised at the chorus of disapproval that has arisen in this affair. The bourgeoisie are entitled to consider our comrades' action a mark of disrespect. Neither as man, nor capitalist, nor as representative of his class in the office of Lieutenant Governor is James Dunsmuir entitled to anv mark of consideration from the hands of a workingman. We do not forget the needless persecution and tyranny he has practised on our comrades and the defenceless workers out of whose toil and sweat he has lived a fat, useless life. In thc exercise of Czar-like authority in his domain, workingmen's homes have been broken up, spies maintained to dog their steps, laws designed for the protection of life and limb deliberately violated, thc right to think, speak and vote as becomes a man, denied. In short, an aggregate oi suffering and misery that few men would care to have inscrilied on their record. Moreover, as Lieutenant Governor of a bourgeois state, he fittingly represents just such principles, for finally capitalism everywhere spells misery to the workers. Now, as to the trampling on the Flag to which our comrades' action has lieen compared ami to which the Province has referred with wc*'i-«iim- ulated horror. 'l*he working-class gudgeons don't bite so readily at this artful bait as formerly. They are beginning to learn that this flag has never yet floated over free working people. We know that in thc heart of the "Greatest Empire that has been" there are hundreds of thousands denied the right to work, and as a consequence the right to life. We know that an even greater number live in a state of semi-starvation. We know that the patriotic British capitalists arc ru;ht now scouring the earth for cheap labor of any color to displace thc workers whom they expect to reverence their Flag. In the hands of thc British ruling class that Flag has become thc emblem of commercial piracy and slave-labor. We make no Imncs ibont saying that the Red Flag of human liberty alone is our Flag—the Flag the workers of every country can reverence and follow. The Province is right; »e certainly do hooe "to overset the present order of society, but we intend to build something more decent on its ruins. Whether the process shall be violent or not. does not rest with us. If, however, the "Province" is really sincere in wishing to avoid violence, it had better bc a little more careful in the advice it proffers the Legislature when it suggests an inquisitorial committee and the expulsion of the Socialists. 'Phe people who elected these men know what they stand for. In the recent elections the bourgeois press certainly let it be known that our candidates had no manner of use for either ihe capitalist flact or 'lie capitalist brand of patriotism, so it is reasonable to suppose that the workers would either elect those men again or men imbued with similar ideas. What, then, would lie the conse- 'lii.-ticc if the Capitalists still made use of their majority in the House and denied them admission Let history answer. Thc denial of peaceful evolution has always provoked violent revolution and whenever the ruling class of this country are ready to throw the gaj-e of "No representation to the proletariat," wc hope to find the working class ready to pick it up. We would remind the "Prov'ncc" 'That whom thc god- would dettrojr they first make mad." J. T. M. LAST SUNDAY'S MEETING. There was a fair attendance at last Sunday's propaganda meeting in Sullivan Hall. Com. J. G. Morgan delivered an interesting address on thc origin uf property and the social relationship it established between men. He traced the growth and development of the class state and, reasoning from the past experience of the race, sketched thc probable line of future evolution. His address brought forth numerous questions and a most interesting discussion. Next Sunday, March 17th, propaganda meet ing will bc held in the Grand Theatre. Subject: Paris Commune of '71. Speaker. E. T. Kingsley. by btiyfrifj this reliable, honest high grodi eew* ing machine. STRONGEST GUARANTOR, National Sewing Machine Co., SAN rRANCISCO. CAL. ** f-ACTORY AT BCLVItBUU H.L. ' WANTED At Ymir General Hospital a trained nurse, wages f'lO.OO per month. For further information write to VV. B. 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Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
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