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THE WESTERN CLARION HI t I Published in the Interests of the Working Class Atone. rni" >" 394. Vancouver. British Columbia. Saturday, October 13, 1906 riabacrisiinD Price ram Tssa 11.00 mmeahtat). HE FAILURE OF THE TRADERS ■! Chapter Proving the UufAness of a Qass to Administer the Resources of ad. Capitalism is Anti-Social and Self-Re- garoing only. How and by Whom in WHI be Destroyed. j.,,. traders are now, and have .,, fur nearly three-*****'**'*' oi at l.lt„rV[ the rulers of the civilized i In le rot They are not, in all places, , absolute rulers, for in many Mine their attempt* at conipl.t. II,,in nance have been successfully feinted l>y opposing clauses. But in Western eobftrrfe*. tbey are the ist iiiilu.ntial class, while m Atncr- licit measure ol power is prac- i!lj unlimited. Here, though an ,,iii>tic interests of individuals and nips within this class oopose one itht-r, creating issues which must i. 11n111 out or (.ompromised, yet (■literal interests common to the •Ic class ol traders dominate ao niy, and are enshrined in all its in minions. li ,* pertinent to inquire how the ndcr*. have administered the world's '! lie student of social prob- Mintiot doubt that insecurity oi ii md is more widespread now an ever before in history. ln i n tin- most prosperous times there in ,t!l i .vilij-cd centres, a vast mass poverty, want, and degradation; jfhile during the frequently recurring depression* of trade, multitudes forced to the verge of starvation *cilth created by the producers i t retained by them; the proces- of trading-class individualism dint! a L-tc.it part of it into other bands Fraud and deception arc stcrcd and prevail in all activities i tierce and unremitting battle is aged; wherein, as a rule, every man tust strive to get thc advantage of is fellow, whetcin the cunning and he strung are victors and the weak- r .r more scrupulous are blotted at and eliminated. A vast horde i retainers hang upon thc victors, in!, fed by their bounty, dissetuin- tc through pulpit, school room and rtss -i i line-class views of life and unduct, while,they ridicule the as- rations for just.ee and universal rclfare which arise in thc hearts ol lie producing classes. ! obviously those persons in charge if a trust should lie capable ei pmv- ng an organic capacity to adminis- ' •■! The great business men of '.he world-the captains of industry in as a matter of fact, the world's irustccs for production and distributive they ever shown a comprehension of the social functions fhich onght rightly to pertain to captains of industry? Have they, |fi.r instance, ever tome together to nrk out a plan for making produc- Ition and distribution continuous, so ai to prevent the terrible stoppages that so frequently occur? They have ever even thought of doing such a bing, And why not? Because they |1 m no instinct for general trusteeship, and no instinct for cohesion. lacing traders, their dominant is .^sja^a^a^iiaBaasBBBaa.........-^-. action. Thc making of profit everywhere their one aim, and in the [prosecution of that aim they are ne- (cc&sarily impelled to struggle with 'tie another and with all mankind I Their minds cannot graap thc Mea "i rcsponsiblUy to the mass, nor the idea nl general welfare lot its own *-ake They instinctively reject every movement that would put a check upon the opportunities for profit. "No profit, no production," is, negatively expressed, their rule of I action. The business of the trader is to I make profit, and hc must school bis I niind to this sole purpose. He must exclude from his business mind all thought of how his operations af- fect others, except in so far as the effect may react on his own Pr,(^,,s: He in tint scorn aa "bad husines." all whether the really Safety Appliance act of 1893 was bitterly fought, and it was not until amendments greatly modifying its terms—in particular the granting of seven years' grace for compliance were added, that the railroads would permit its passage. Equal resistance is shown to the various bills in rhe Mate legislatures providing for the guarding of dangerous machinery, and thc regulation 01 other condi lions of employment. Life is but a bagatelle when it stands in the way of profit. If anything could awaken in the ruling class a sense of guardianship of the people's interests, it would be a sight of -helpless children in the factories. Vet from thc beginning of the regime of the traders, children have been done to death by wholesale for profit, and all efforts to shield them have been resisted, lt ia true that some trading-class sentiment in behalf of fhe children in >oinhent lactones has recently been voiced; but its home is in thc North. Along with a great deal of purely minu-tic and ..sintereste-1 iccltng that has been aroused over this matter, is thc interested feeling of a part of thc trading class of a section where child labor has been restricted by tbe atate, against competitors in a section where there are few or no restrictions. In the South thc exploitation goes merrily on; and all the old arguments regarding the moral peril of children not at work, that did service eighty years ago in England, arc made to do duty again in preventing regulative laws. The sight of old men who have toiled all their lives for the profit of -others, and are in their age left helpless and destitute, might also touch thc trader's sense of guardianship, if it existed. And yet the one obvious relief for these veterans of industry, consonant with their self- respect—old-age pensions—is assailed by the trader with the utmost vehemence. So reasonable, so just, so moderate, a measure would seem scarcely to require arguments in it-> favor. It would modify, though meanly and inadequately, one of the ghastliest defects of the capitalist regime—thc privation and suffering to which the rank and file of the great industrial army is inevitably doomed. But the trader mind will not concern itself. Certain corporations, it is admitted, have recently established old-age pensions. But thc conditions imposed are such that relatively few employees can ever hope to fulfil them, and the motive understood to bc the hope of weakening the bond between the employee and Ins labor union. General old-age pension-* as an act of justice by society to its toilers are not in -j. accord with trading-class ethics, for individual motive andf-'hey do not look beyond the Iron- ^^ of their own interests. Oov- eager to help, with sympathy and means, a human being in distress. And yet their virtues are, even at the best, as an inevitable result of the guidance of trading-class interest and the exercise of the trading-class function, generally individual and non-socisl. Their sense of individual obligation is often strong when they have but a feeble sense of social obligation. Kind and generous as they may be to their kindred and friends, they can yet look upon the great masses of their fellow-beings as strangers and enemies. Even where their actions most closely ap proton a truly social character, as in benefactions for public purposes, they still cling to the individualist code, and evade the real and crying needs of society. They cannot look at society as an organism of interdependent parts, but only as an aggregation of warring units. Rarely do they even so much as apprehend! thc ethic of fellowship. Their pub-1 lie grants are devoted to other tha* the fundamental things; they give to relieve thc distress occasioned by the present system, or to encourage and develop the particular kind of skill and adroitness needed under it, but rarely or never for the correction of the glaring defects of the system itself. They donate to char-] ity ,or they endow or found a library* but never do they give to promote a movement that aims to modify thl fraticidal struggle among men. A movement such as that seeking thr aoblition of child labor (unless for some section competing with their own), or the guarding of machinery,) or the establishment of a minimum1 wage, is to them an interference witn a divine order. "Save who can," il their motto for the unceasing conflict, though they generously oner to train, in their colleges and technological schools, a part of the coming generation of combatants, or to soothe, in their hospitals, the suffer ings of a fraction of those who are struck down in the battle. It may even be said that the net result of many of their benefactions is nothing less than the prostitution of the recipients—in particular of writers, preachers and educators. For the natural tendency among those endowed by their bounty is to accept the warring, exploiting and deceptive code of the traders and to disseminate it as a creed for all mankind. While those who submit to this influence arc but human in doing so, the few who resist being of a peculiarly heroic stamp, and who* thc traders who exert tbe pressure are, for the most part, unaware that they .ate doing anything socially injurious, believing tbey arc but exercising their rights, thc process is class have failed dismally in administering the world's affairs. And so obvious to great numbers of men .is this failure, and so intolerable is the burden which it entails, tbat now an opposing class, ever increasing ih numbers and ever attaining to a clearer consciousness of its mission, threatens the traders' dominance. A class it has been termed; but it is something more than a class. It is a union of all men whom the burden and pressure ol the trading-class regime force to like action in the assertion of their economic claims, and in whom is awakened a common hope of a, reorganization of society and a determination to achieve it. At its centre is the class of wage-earning producers; and it is flanked by other producers; by such social servants as have risen above the retainer mind; by auch of the petty manufacturers and dealers as see in the. continuance of the present regime an approaching ruin of their livelihoods; by men of whatever class in whom the.love of usefulness, or the love of fellowship, or the passion for social justice, is intrinsically stronger than the love of profit or Of individual advantage. It is the Social- Minded Mast arraying itself against the unsocial-minded classes. It* base and centre, as has been said, is the claaa of wage-earning producers; and the movement is impelled by a sense, more or less conscious, of class interests. But this sense of class interest is neither particular nor exclusive. It is one which those who hold sincerely identify with the true interests of all I men. The workers and their allies ask nothing for themselves, to paraphrase the words of Whitman, which they are not' willing to grant to all other men upon equal terms: Other classes, in all times, have identified with varying degrees of sincerity, their own interests with those of mankind; the manufacturers of 80 years ago saw in their brutal exploitation of labor the working out of a law of God for the best interests of the race, and the barons of feudal times were never_disturbed in their conviction that villeinage was a beneficent thing for serf as well as for lord. But thia sense of collective interests, as held by classes other than the producers of modern times, has almost invarialby involved a conviction of the necessity and righteousness of exploiting other classes. Even THE PRINCIPALITY OF DARKNESS 1 - ■ - - —=■ Under the Rule of Jamie the Last How his Courtly Retateo* Bear Themselves Towards the "Men" Behind the Pfc*. The Real Conditions in the Underworld of Wiis^taflk In my previous letters I have treated pretty exhaustively the social and political d irr.naiion in which the average and ini! 'pendent citizen of Ladysmith is hi' 1 by the boosters of the saloons, the -'rafters of the stores and the >civile ip-servers of the mine. There temains the conditions of work undtt . liich the ir.ner ekes out bis moder.iu and always precarious living. On his shoulders lies the burden of the maintenance of the whole town. He is the basis of the whole social fabric of the tife around him. On Ls willingness to work and spend depend the fat and easy livings' of the men who despise him for his ignorance and contemn "Km for thc meanness of his occupation —the occupation on which the whole town has been built up and carried on. It is of the highest importance, therefore, both to the miner himself and to the community dependent upon hrY labor, that the conditions of his work should be as generally satisfactory as possible. How are these conditions for the miners of Extension, who are also perforce citizens of Ladysmith? The conditions at Extension may at once be said to stnke an exact balance between the aims and arguments of the advocates and opponents of trades-unionism. Among Socialists generally, where there is not open hostility, there is grave doubt and suspicion as to the utility of unions r.tid their ultimate effect and influence on the cause of labor. At thc very best a union is only a palliative, and the usual consequence of palliatives is to blind the working- man to his only proper and safe pro cess of social salvation. It takes so little to content the ti.ler, and contentment breeds an indifference which is fatal to all progress. The argument is as historically sound as its corollary, that the absence ot these and the presence of con- 111 is nevertheless most injurious to the people, robbing them on a vast scale of indirect economic help and of direct spiritual help. Tlie right function of these s.K-ial servants is perverted, and society is thereby a sufferer. Thus, even in their more social aims, the traders too often succeed only in a further corruption of the social organism. Whatever their individual virtues or defects may be, the traders as ■ pal 1 i at. ve. -^^^^^^^^^^^^^. . _.__,.-__ .ditions absolutely intolerable, always •be revolting peasants of past V*J*es I precede a general revolution. W.heth- wtie generally guided by no higher J er it bc the Engiish labor **' aim than that of exchanging places with their masters, and of exploiting in turn those who before had exploited them. Not until the rise of the modem proletariat has the fun- diirmtal conviction of any class expressed itself in a moral law equally applicable to all mankind. That law is the law of economic solidarity—a law growing out of the ethic of fellowship and thc ethic of usefulness. It i« the natural product of working-class life under modern working- class conditions; and though; with society organized as it now is, this (Continued on page three.) tiers ui .uv., „„„ crned by the ethic of contract, they recognize no responsibility beyond that nominated in the bond. While the producers, or at least that part of them which has become conscious of a class community of interest and a class mission, look forward to a universal commonwealth, in which classis shall be aoblishcd, the trader, look forward only to an eternal continuance of wrangling classes, a per pctuation through all time of cheap buying and dear selling. The war- less ideal of thc producers is to the Delegates in Sear* m Uk MMri Citj-« Sips Pint to HannMV. En-sMS and So&darity. such considerations as tilings hc makes and sells are needed! whether they get to Mje pie who make them under BI reition work and live in sucn ditions that they in turn can obta.n and enjoy the thing*- $W "T j,. Vd business mind must be stcel-|liaieu con bui against any impression! Iroin such And if. I** M-*. N. Mnvi-r Ion id- onsiderations. •"»»•■ ••>,,— "i„,,»a 0 Nelson or thc late Mayor J0M» any one should expect of them even thc remotest tolerance of such an ideal is to their minds a subject for amused wonder. The domination of the trading class shows its most characteristic triti' in our c"rrupt governmcntalistn. In England, Germany and France government is relatively pure. But in those countries, the trading class, though a great power, has never been able to gain complete dominance, lt has been constantly, though with declining force, resisted by oth ers give weight to such consul .rations, he is, to the extent that he does so, a failure as a business man; hc ha. not made d»J»«Mj might have made, he has not exploit cd his advantages to the full. Do the traders feel any cdUctfve responsibility, as employers o masse,, of seeing that tbe condttions of the employed producers arc gooo -that their labor is carried on in a healthful way, and that they are As a class tney -._. way, ■faithfully housed? .... _ „,:_.- have steadfastly opposed, Ul all t me. situ* the beginning of "^itm, and they still oppose, every movement for safeguarding the hcalt 1 nnd lives of the workers in tneir employments. More men are ktiic" and wounded every year by tne rai>- r"ads that employ tbem than were killed and wounded by General Lee s army in the sanguinary three nays conflict at Getttsburg; the. coa mines approximate fifteen £<"»«"; Wiling, and thirty-five hundred maimings yearly, while the cMU*"y list of the factirie., though uncom- puted, is known to be enormous- Yet every effort to lessen the number of these casualties, .0 long a. w involve* expense, is resisted. mc er classes. But in America the trading clas. haa been for many year, supreme. It was practically .0 during the two decades before the Civil War, and it ha. been truly .0 since then. No antagonistic class has been sufficiently strong to defeat it, or even to force from it important concessions. The main political result i. to be teen in the general practice of the buying and selling of all the power, of government. No tradition of public duty possc.es the trader, aa a da..; they see what can be gained for them.elves by corrupting the public service, and neither tradition nor ideal restrain, them. To point out the failure of the trading clas., economically and socially, is not neces.arily to denounce " 'J■-, *—d»T a. men, there Nelson, B. C, Oct. 6.—The fourth! annual provincial convention of the Socialist Party of Canada convened in thc Miners* Union Hall at 10:30 a. m. today. Delegates are present from Nanaimo. Vancouver, Revelstoke, Boundary Falls, Greenwood, Phoenix, Rnsslattii, Fernie, Michel and this city. Cotntades Mclnnis of Phoenix, was elected temporary chairman, and Moure of Fernie, secretary. A committee on credentials and one on order of business were elected. The work of these committees was speedily gotten through with, their reports received and the convention went into permanent organization, with the same chairman and secretary. A short address of welcome was delivered by Comrade Harrod on behalf of Local Nelson, which was enthus iastically received. The convention at once got down JO '-' '*■"* ••iw-ir! btUcss by receiving the report if thc provincial secretary on f the provincial executive ■'■ behalf commit- showed a balance 72.60 119-30 22.00 tee. This report on hand as follows: General Fund Organizing Hind . Campaign Fund .. ^ •lotal 374-90 The matter of preparing a supplementary report covering the work ol Te Party sfnee the £^ **£ secretary), tion was left to a committee^nhreC T. »» D.mx> aIZ 'a. men. thers' llawtliuinthwatic an individua trader At HJyKJ rtpdrt is la be pres good and bad among t»«Jgt Jj > ,.„„ later 0n. ™j£ZAAkVEA. The matter of ch. The individual trader, are in McKenzie (provincial ••i-vtUirnthwaitc and Kingsley. This is to be presented to thc con- hanges in the plat great uumwv. are faithful to thc last degree in. every engagement, expressed or implied; public-spirited, in accord with their understanding of public needs and willing to spend time and money ■... ..... !,« si'cill to &*Bf52tt".c?.B a general and most interesting discussion in relation to political platforms in general and palliatives in particular. It speak, volumes for the advanced state of the movement in British Columbia to say that the idea of palliatives atached to the Party platform was practically unanimously repudiated. Besides this the repudiation was somewhat emphatic. The afternoon session closed at 4:15, to meet again at 7p.n1. At the moment of writing the work of the convention is so far advanced as to preclude the possibility of anything like a protracted session. This convention is without doubt the most truly representative one that the Party has yet beld. Not only are delegates present from nearly all of the locals throughout the province, but it is exclusively proletarian, both in personnel and spirit. Judging from the expressions of opinion by delegates the various localities from which. they come arc already sufficiently inoculated with the revolutionary spirit to insure to the profit- hungry ruling class that, although they are now enjoying a "golden age of prosperity," the dawn of a ' strenuous life' " is about to break upon their political henchmen and defenders. It is good to be at this convention, to take part in it, to meet the comrade, from the widely scattered industrial centers of thc province. It require, but a novice to realize that at least one result of it will be to bring the comrades of these widely scattered places into clotlcr touch with each other in the solution of that great problem that only the revolutionary proletariat can solve. instrument except to make clearer a few minor points. Alterations in the platform are exclusively changes in verbiage. , The discussion of the proposed alterations in the platform brought on Comrades McKenzie, Hawthornth waite and Cartwright have returned and report a most satisfactory ending of the Convention. We shall putr- lish a full and official report next week. .^^^_^^__ sjgyolts from lhe 14th century on, or the great Revolution in France, or the present universal upheaval in Russia that be taken, the causes that bred the popular passion and disaffection rind led to rebellion have been the same. Unluckily, and this is the weakness of this historical position, the direct results have been either barren of lasting good, or, at the least, bitterly disappointing. The men who followed Wat Tyler and Jack Cade paid bitterly for their au- uacious presumption in rebelling against the insufferable and the Freedom purchased at such a cost of blood in France sunk into the tyranny of a Napoleon: The reason is not far to seek. It lies in the fact tbat the labor rebels had no system of their own to substitute for that which they were up to destroy. Either that, or the movement was in front of its age, and paid thc usual pent'ty of premature births. But time, are different now. Under the J i-.-Utence of our modern educational system the workers are awakening daily to their own interests. When the revolt does come it will be universal and it will be intelligent and educated. Meantime there is no denying the fact that labor gets its best and most salutary schooling from the experience of capital's worst tyranny. No better school for the breeding of Socialists could be conceived than Dunsmuir's Extension irines. Even jf we do differ about the ultimate utilities of trade unions, wc arc all most emphatically agreed as to the J inherent right of free citizen -.in a' free country to form a union if they .0 desire. Here it is that we all differ from the high and mighty Jamie. Why is there no inion at the Extension mines? Because it was so willed by the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieut.-Governor of B. C, the representative in and for law of the King of Great Britain, the vice- regent on this island of the King of Heaven, with papal power, of industrial bear and bull, and excommunication. Whoso uttereth his holy name except with bated breath and whispering humbleness is in deadly peril of his work. Whoso dares to whisper a word against hi. infallible decrees, his name is straightway "Walker." Of course, all these moral lessons were not learnt at once. It took tbe miners over three months to learn they were not to have a union. Let us see what they have since learned. First of all and above all they have learned that the price of peace and comfort is silence discreet as the grave, and the cost of prominence and prosperity sneaking and sucking as brazen as brass The men who betrayed the embryo union, who kept Dunsmuir informed of all that transpired at meetings supposed to be secret, have ever since enjoyed the favor of the bosses, and the pick of the work of thc mine. The men also wbo, during the strike, wen*, scabbing to Cumberland, have also claimed as their reward the smile of the boss and their share of what was good in thc mine. Naturally also, having begun by betraying their fel lows collectively to Dunsmuir, they have continued their opprobtow* course by betraying them individual' ly to Dunsmuir's minions and understrappers at the mine. Now no man cares to work for three dollars when olher men, no better than himself, are mating five. Thus the suckers get adherents and organize a clique. To get into good work men are willing to court the company of these traitors, to fetch and carry for them in the tale-bearing business. The gross result is a thick, murky atmosphere of suspicion covering, a wejl-- grounded system of .wholesale and unspeakable espionage. There is thus established an electric or telepathic connection right from J upiter J antes himself to the "wee-est" and pettiest of his satellites, and from him again to the most grovelling of the toadies. The plain man, who can't bend his spirit pr prostitute his mind, suffers accordingly. There is only a limited number of good places to be distributed, so that the competition for them is as fierce as it is filthy. But the, "also-rans" are compensated in other ways. If by reason of the badness of his working place hi. earnings have suffered his tin god whom he worship, with song and dance, will make him "out." There ss nothing left therefore the silent one. Thus do the traitors and lying sniveller. live on the workings of their honest and independent fellow., More than that the fatter arc totally at the mer< cy of the mine bosses'. For example it a digger in getting out the coal happens upon a roll of dirt, and the boss rcfu:*es to pay him, no other redress is open to him than that of quitting. 1 have k„..-n diggers go months to the mine and never average three dollars a day. The truth is the bosses have taken advantage of the peculiar circumstances already described to systematically reduce wages. Only one thing is certaJn and that is for any offence, alleged or supposed, against the dignity or character of a boss, high or low, the poor digger has to pay. There are only a few of the general conditions under which the Extension miner has to work, ln brief and vulgar summary, either he must suck or be sucked. The shadow of the Dunsmuir image falls athwart the whole community, and life, where it does not develop noxious excres- ences, such as have been described,. is pinched and stunted by reason f its sunless growth. ISLANDER THB MILLS MEETING. The public meeting at the City Hall on Wednesday night was, from every point of new. a succrts. A responsive and intelligent audience that filled the auditorium reacted on the eloquent and animated speaker, raising the meeting to a high sank among the many successes of Local Vancouver. Nominally the theme of Comrade Mills' lecture wa. "Peace in the World of Labor," but not peace at any price, nor on any term, short of the demands of the working class a. defined by International Socialism. The speaker denounced the idea that any class, party or generation was responsible for the strife, anarchy and social war that blasts and distorts society to-day. We inherit the conditions, a terrible legacy from thc past. But our children would curse us if wc, with the possibility in our hands, did not stop it. No solution was in sight in the programs of capitalist parties; there was no logical baiting place between Capitalism and Socialism. The evolution of strife was concurrent with that of society, this was traced from savagery, through Barbarism to present day Civilization. The humor and stage-play of which Mills is a master was adroitly employed in reviewing the advent ol new parties that "no one could get mad at." This caught the audience in the plexus and the response was most emphatic and appreciative. The slavish conditions under which industry is carried on to-day, literally under the shadow of the injunction, and at the point of the bayonet were forcibly presented and the wage class urged to realize their position • n society and enrol themselves in the ranks of the only party even pretending to understand their condition, the party of their class, the; Socialist Party. Comrade R. P. Pettipiece occupied the chair, and on the platform were J. H. Hawthornthwaite, M. P. P., I. Cartwright and several local com'-' rades. 0 PROTEST FROM THE CENT BELT. The International Union of Brewery Workmen in convention assembled at Toronto, Ont., Sept. 20, after passing a scorching resolution of condemnation upon the conspirator. in thc Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone kidnapping outrage, voted $500 as a donation to thc National Campaign Fund of the Socialist Party. ■ 1 t. •' I ■'■ I ■»'—"' 3 I s if I' kyay^ jiBjj jjjfljjjji Ae Ua tan X fm i i ■ " .1 m ff U ■A,_ iWtajrday, Q^be, ... ,. race lhat never conscious!*/ turn. oraWb a. contemptible a» Odell "made back, and when he gets his eye on it odfous, he by the urony of .fata wd rnhtlnhtl every Batuniay tn tta tatarasts of tha working class alone »t tta OOea of tta Wast>r*n. CIsHen. Stretching bis limbs, and when the real knot that is strangling him, the opposition, be it ,His Majesty's or other had better stand aside. Proletarian John Bull i. awaking from his political and social stupor, he is he flavek Bloek bcasmsnt. IM Hwtlnarn Stiaat. Vaav-ouvur. B. C. ^^^^ 80B8MIPTI0N: tl.00 Pil ANNUM Strictly to Arfrvuawa. Ysartjr aubaerlptlo* carda to lota of Bva or mon, 76* carats each. Bundles of 5 or more copies, for a period of not less than three months, at th« rate of one cent per copy per issue. I Aa|vartaatag rates oa appUca**-aora. If yea reoelve thla payer, tt la paid :or. ■xs*^t*s+*tt^s*s***<x**+**>i*s^*'-rs*s**^j+*x^ *rf«-»W*^IV«-**-^ Addrsss all communications to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver, B. C 395 Wat* thla latal ob par. It this anuntar U oa It, aspires the Saturday, October 13, 1906. SOCIAL ANCESTRY. Any person, man or woman, who has /been politJcallj* active in the working class for any considerable period will allow that one of, if not the greatest difficulty to be overcome is to make the worker believe in himself and his class. The slave spirit seems to be ingrained and hereditary, and truth must be told, more so in the English-speaking . than in other leading races of Europe. Habitual and constitutional servility is not a thing to be proud of, and arising from no racial inferiority, it has to be accounted for. How then can we account for the fact that the French, German, Russian and Italian proletariat imbibe the revolutionary spirit more readily than ourselves? We are without doubt the social and lineal (for the most part) de- scendents of the serfs and other serving classes of Britain; but our ancestors were freed before the corresponding classes in Continental Europe; yet today the Continental proletarian has a keener perception of and aspiration to equal citizenship than bis British congenor. To the average worker the fixity of classes and their functions is the same as the fixity of Species to the pre-Dar- wianian zoologist. "I am a workingman," says he. "So were my father and grandfather; give me a steady job- at fair wages enabling me to save 'a bit,' this is all that is coming to me or my class and we are quits with society." The word "citizen" that so fired the mind of the French in '93 and since has little or no meaning for the more stolid and contented Briton; politics, like professions, are a gentleman's trade; his need of a master seems constitutional The "bold peasantry of Briton" is not a political fiction, as many historical records will prove, and the Saxon churl, brass collared and serf though he was, stood unabashed in the presence of his lord, the Thane. Why then the greater subserviency of the Briton? The causes may be many, bnt one main one is pre-eminent. The fact that feudalism ended first in Britain means also that commercialism first commenced there. The irf wag never a chattel, the wage- live i. a commodity. The serf had Igal right and opportunity to labor for himself. The wage slave must hunt for a place to lay his head and be hi. own broker in the sale or rent of his own vital force. The serf was a man in direct communion with his lord, the wage .lave is a thing or a number, who may never set eyes on him who profits by his labor. Relationship between serf and lord were human; between employer and worker, mechanical and metallic. The serf had an abiding home and secure hold on life, the wage slave is a wandering Ishmael with the pillar of possible poverty going ever before him. It js in the longer exposure to thc demoralizing and dehumanizing effects of commercialism that we find the chief reason for the greater servility of thc -Saxon. Cut off from the land .three centuries ago, made a commodity by the modern trade spirit, doped with ignorant or designing priestcraft, befooled with class politicians, no wonder, we find him as he is, in man, respects de generate from hi. ancestors, looking for friend, and patrons in the clr.stei and content witb the rations of a twoafk animal. But he comes of a ets his correct bearings,- the con tinentals will find in him one worthy of their comradeship. WHATCOM COtu*.* ** Our comrades just over the line are going strong. Just to band is a 12 page booklet, with fifteen excellent portraits of candidates, apparently filling the state and county tickets. Under each portrait is a short monograph by thc subject, and signed by him. The idea is unique, enterprising and must prove effective John Cloak, of Bellingham, a comrade well known to us here is figure I in the picture gallery. Flanked by an anvil and sledgehammer, he makes an effective frontisipiece. John is slated for State Senator. Reflection—What is the world Coming to when a single county in a remote state can furnish the Socialist movement and fill the ticket with a batch of able and thoughtful-look ing men? Ask the Sphinx. Watch the unfolding of events and study their logic. Comrades of Whatcom, success. Oh for a man! wails that old maid journal, the "New York Sun." Such wails are often heard and ottencr felt no doubt. Unfortunately for such wailers, these degenerate times are not prolific in great men. The typical product of the age is the business man or trader. Keen, hard, and in his business capacity as human and sympathetic as a steel ingot; with a ratcatching alertness for tripping up, knocking down or cornering every obstruction or opposition to his life mission, viz., profit-making. The system has evolved a definite and well-marked facial type, hard, arrogant, contemptuous and inhuman, samples of which are frequently ex hibited in the manufacturers' month lies of Canada and the United States. Machine-made mediocrities! plenty; great human men! the casting-box for them is out of repair. Four ourselves, wc are content if common men will lay hold of great ideas and promote great measures. In the fullness of time we i might have a community of great men, enough to make the old maid of New York and elsewhere happy. Readers will join with us in congratulating the membership on the harmony and solidarity exhibited at thc Nelson Convention of the British Columbia Socialists. The fact promises well for the active propaganda work and preparation for election which have to be done in the next few months. From our own knowledge of the growth at organized centers, the steady rise in our own circulation and the tone of the now large correspondence that flows through headquarters, we are safe in forecasting some very shocking surprises for the, enemy at the next electoral onslaught. SICK UNTO DEATH. (New York Sun, Sept. 24th.), "The two political parties assemble tomorrow to do something, one at Saratoga, the other at Buffalo. Very much the same necessity confronts each, and that is to make a desperate appeal to public confidence. "The great mass of the people of this state i. sick of both of them; sick of the party in power because of its unexampled corruption, apathy and depravity; and sick of the Democracy because of its ingrained imbecility, instability of purpose and suppression of its decent clement*. "The Republicans are in power; they fill the offices; they enjoy the vast advantage of possession and the potent buttress of the Federal .tate. They have everything, save a good character. "More deplorable still are the Democrats, except that they have no character at all. Mr. Roosevelt ha. sown the whirlwind, and they are not content to let him reap the storm himself, but must needs strive out of the materials he discarded or despised to fashion a worse chaos of their own. Distracted and disarrayed by a national fanatic and vulgar mountebank, themselves the chattel and the prey of the lowest type of brutal and degraded creatures that ever attained to leadership in any party's history, they come together at Buffalo pledged to mischief and consecrated to disaster. "The Republicans have lately cast out their head devil of uncleanness and perversity, but hc has left hi. sty behind him, and tomorrow it will be at Saratoga, tinsterilizcd as ever but fully occupied. Every rogue in the state who has battened on corruption or 1 citizen or who has, according to his lights, achieved eminence in disgracing the Republican party; ev- e-y one of them will be at Saratoga to swear fealty to a new boss. That emphysematous and crapulous entity, that man who has made' the govern- be in spirit at the head of this baleful and sinister assembly, the Republican convention of the empire state. "If only an inscrutable but ever benign Providence would "ite upj in either convention, or in both of them, the figure of a man of parts, a man of integrity and of courage, a man of head and of heart, nyy might the black and cheerless prospect of the morrow be changed to radiant sunshine! "Oh! for a man, full grown, adult Man!" What a terrible belching forth of Gotham's great luminary; enough indeed to create a sun-spot in journalism, and the piteous yearning for a man, just a man, is truly heartrending. The implication that among the millions of the empire state there is not to be found "a full grown, adult man," is enough to make the colossal statue on Bedloe' Island weep tears like ten-inch gun shells, and bend its bronze neck and knee, in supplication or despair. The "Sun," unlike the "World" and the "Journal" is not ranked among the "yellows," and, by comparison indulges temperately in sensations-, it is among the "intellectuals" of New York journalism. Traditions of thc famous Dana family (its founders) still linger about it. editorial room and it is commonly regarded as the head and model of Democratic news papers. A careless reading of this fearsome outpouring would give the impression that our brother of the Sun puts both the old parties with all their contraptions into one category or fire-basket, and would fain set fire to them all as useless or wicked political junk Not by any means, however. A more careful.perusal disclose, the good Sun's lurking love for the "decent element." In this demoralized stew, and, as the Worker remarks, "will be found taking its side as usual when the elections draw nearer." To see the Republicans "having ev erything," gorging themselves at the National Trough till their eyes stand out with fatness, and the Democrats too "instable and imbecile" to butt in successfully is painful indeed. We can imagine in what frenzy and des pair our "Sun" writer would rush to the lexicon and dig out that much neglected word "emphysematous" (inflated, gaseous). The value of all thi. to us is, first, a leading class paper estimates the two political parties—common to nearly all civilized states—at about our own valuation, and testifies, in language expressive and violent, to the utter corruption of present day political life. Next, and most important, it displays, in the conclusion, its own fatuous imbecility in suggesting a remedy. No respectable Providence has ever been known to raise Up, or send its delegate to any such political convention, or interfere in any way with the laws of cause and effect. Blind a. a beetle to the fact that the corrupt condition so vehemently deplored are the legitimate fruit of a system supported, equally, by both parties, our San-god, in his despair invokes the other god. to raise up a ''Real Man" who will change the gloom to radiance. No Republican need apply. Carlyle is commonly regarded as the last and ablest of ' the "Great Man" school, and Browning sung— "Lord send u. no more giant., But elevate the 'race.' " The greatness, or the amelioration that depend, upon a man is obviously of a fleeting and unstable character, and belong, to the past when the intellectual disparity between a really great man and the mat. of men wa. much wider than today. A community handing it. political proxies and trusting it. social fortune, to the wisdom or benevolence of any man is a community of serf., fit only for a despotism. The future i. with ideas and natural law., from which must be evolved principle, for the guidance of society. The political Prometheus, real but impersonal, already present on thi* continent will not be found at Buffalo or Saratoga convention, doing stable work. On his way to fhe Convention of Man hc i. charged with a different mission. Hi., not to haggle in the slave-market for the ownership of the herd, but to free them and raise them to the statu, of men. Not to regulate the mechanism of the rack on which the ma., of mankind are stretched, but to burn it, together with the auction block and all the paraphernalia of the wage-slave market. Not, however, with fire drawn from the New York Sun. been amusing themselves by attending a "Poverty Fair." . To that exposition the poorest people of the city contributed their hanii.voik, and across each article was marked the soul-crushing price for which it could be produced. Here are some of the exhibits: Hoys suit of clothes, three pieces. 17 cents; carved wooden crucihxes( piece work), 2 cents an hour; toy menagerie, M4 animals, 11 cents; 360 cards of hooks and eyes 24 on a card;, (!7,>*8o pieces ill all) 28 cents; lace (piece work), 1-4 cent per hour. It is related that the members of Berlin society were astonished at the revelations made by the exhibition of poverty's wares. They caught a glimpse of the "social pit" we have been hearing so much about. Still, it is doubtful if the impression given ts more than momentary, or if any of them has stopped to think that in the misery of tbe tenements, where those article, .were made, are sown the seeds of anarchy and revolution. Upton Sinclair, if he had a chance, would tell the Berlin society people that they were "walking on the faces" of the wretches beneath them. But it wouldn't do any good. Society does not trouble itself very long about the miseries of the very poor. —Seattle Times. Oct. 6. HANDIWORK OF POVERTY. . High aociety 'in Berlin ha. been going Thomas Hood's "Song of thc Shirt" one better. Initead ul reading that masterful poem about the ''woman who '.at in unwomanly rags, plying her needle and thread," the representatives of the ' highest classes in the German capital have ECONOMICS OR ESOTERICS. Which is Most Vital, at tha Present Time, for Social Regeneration? As the writer of an article published in thc "Western Clarion" on Sept. 22nd entitled 'What Is Vital?" I am handed a lengthy and somewhat incoherent letter in reply, consisting of mild criticism and suggestion signed by R. B. Kerr. Thc editor deeming the letter too long for extensive publication. I can only make such extracts from it, as seem to mc to bear on the subject and are of general interest. In the article referred to my contention was for thc necessity of limiting Socialistic propaganda work to the fundamental conceptions mainly economic, and leaving to evolution or thc logic of events the vast implications involved in Socialism applied or realized. Comrade Kerr takes issue, and quotes Karl Kautsky as enjoining the necessity of "promoting any and every kind of progress." He follows on with, "My informa tion has been gained chiefly from talking to wage-earners, so my idea' arc very practical. I have especially talked to women wage-earners, who are even more practical than men, and differ surprisingly from male wage-earners in their ideas of what things are vital. As nearly all American and Canadian Socialists have confined themselves to preaching to women, it may interest you to hear the experience of one who has spent a good deal of his life learning from women. Such knowledge is very important, beceattse woman suffrage is a thing of the immediate future, and there is not thc ghost of a chance of getting Socialism unless men and women alike cordially support the Socialist Parly." .Our comrade then recites the cases of two women, one married and the mother of several children^ who suffered from thc tyranny and brutality of her husabnd during pregnancy, and was rebuked and told to submit by a doctor to whom she complained. The second case is that of a young woman, daughter of a national committeeman who found the Socialist Party .0 narrow, intolerant and void of understanding of the principle, of freedom that she had to get out in order to breathe, live freely ami be herself, and who ha. since camped mostly with anarchists, with more to the same end, much more in fact than I can find time or space for today. In reply—Socialism has no department or specific teaching on esoteric anthropology. The grossne.s and abuses complained of could not be remedied by act of parliament, and only to a limited extent by public opinion; only a wider knowledge and moral uplift could help here. Thc subject raises the sex question generally and I do not disrate or deny it- vital importance: some phases of it however have been unduly magnified and tome important fact, have yet to be generally recognised before there can be any rational dealing with it. That rigid monogamous bond and our hypocritical purism fail to give a rational and natural expression to the sex instinct I admit, but that Socialists a. such can, with advanttage to society, make thc subject a plank in their platform, I deny. For the pres* ent we must leave to Mose. the things that belong to Moses, I mean, of course, Moses Harman and hi. journal Lucifer. I believe hc i. doing useful and necessary work. .To make my meaning and position clear, I would insist that it is necessary to progress that we observe a certain order in our aim. at amelioration, and ina.much as the first and vital condition of life i. a material base, so it follows that to make thc material or economic basis of life ample and secure is the factor that condition, all further progress. To illustrate by a concrete example: Suppose we find a fellow creature in rhe lowest and most repulsive condition of mind and body: diseased, famished, filthy, vicious and ignorant; what arc wc supposed to do fir.t? Do wc send for thc parson, pedagogue or philosopher? No, if wc do our duty according to our best human instincts we first minister to hi. physical wants, feed and cleanse him. So with society, moral and intellectual culture will not rise very high on empty bcllie. and a precarious hold on life. Let us »eek first thc kingdom of an asttred physical life, and all other realty good things will bc added as fast a. they can be assimilated. My critic concludes with the following paragraph: "Any nnd every kind of progress is thc narrowest platform on which the Socialist forty tad aft«**rd to stand. Whatever will lucrda.e pleasure or diminish pain is vital.' 1 subscribe to the sentiment, especially thc Benthamite portion of it, but 1 deny thc right of any one to call such nebulous universalinin by the name ol socialism, and adher to my first definition ot what is vital to the movement at the present time. STONKHKNGE. A COMFORTING ANSWER. On Monday evening last the Time* reviewed an article by Upten Sinclair, 111 which article that writer gave his personal views on Socialism. The review ended with a query as to what Sinclaini's people, and our people," would do if ever the time should arrive when the Socialistic party became strong enough to take possession of Hie government through thc ballot. A member ol the Socialistic party, residing in this city, has noted the query and written an answer thereto and sent it to the Times. Naturally, in reading the review of Sinclair's article, and coming to an end of tbe consideration thereof with a query like the above, the reader get. thc effect of disquietuue and uncertainty. Sinclair's picture was a bitter one, his declaration titat the people would remedy things by taking control was positive, ihe query that follow, on that statement i* a query of thc unknown future; what will you and your people do, .Mr. Sinclair, when you take command? Yet this answer a. written by a Socialist is the opposite from anything alarming. It is broad and dignified. The Times gives it space with pleasure. It read, as follows: 1 am a Socialist, and I am neither proud of it nor am I humiliated by it, because my affiliation comes not from choice. The existing condition, in this country compel the deep thinker as well as the deep sufferer to become a Socialist, just as the existing comlitHui* in Kuasia compel thc deep thinker and the deep sunrrer to become a Terrorist. Here we are trying to express the grievances and thc indignation of the suffering masses through the moderate medium of suffrage—through the ballot box> there, deprived of that right, they express their grievance, and their indignaton n the more impressive language of terrorism. "Remarkable as it may stem, these two countries, apparently so different in their activities, have gone through the same process of evolution and have reached the same dmax— though from different directions. There, in Russia, thc wealth and the strength of thc nation have been gradually concentrated and absorbed into thc hands of the trust magnate, family and their lackeys through tbe methods of industrial concentration and corrupt legislation. "And so from dffcrent directum*, these two monstrous families have climbed to thc highest peak of the human mountain. Hut now, standing at thc very top of the precipice, they are afraid to look down because there, at the bottom, the heart-rending chaos and confusion of the suffering masses is apalling. sickenng. maddening: They try to turn away from that ghastly inferno, but another and more horrible demon is staring at them- -the human crater of discontent is terribly smoking and threatening with an eruption. "Standing between these two demon.—is it a wonder thai the monsters are fighting like tigers to prolong their existence and n their mad ravings are throwing stone, into the pit of the precipice and pouring oil into the crater, hastening thereby the terrible eruption of the human volcano? "The Socialist, the egotistic philosopher of universal utilitarianism, is using all his efforts to frustrate lhat eruption. With mathematical clear* nessness he presents the fact that the Union Directory When Thrv U». . Mt— « Wbcs TTaey Mart Whet. Tl,r TH*,*. "livery I.alim Union In i ■, ■x-t-rrUiira i.l.,.., ,„,,,. "• V* *,, Phoenia Miner. mtf Union, |£l Meets rvrry c ,*. W. F. M. mnis < vi •■ '-: ,' evening at 7.30 o'clock in M^ tall. V. Ingrto. vrm£**h PSckard. secretary «... A- 0. llrydrsw. J. Edward Bird. Geo. E. McCrosaon •IM, MYMN-MOK & itCWtu. "ABKIOTKluj, ioUCITOBs. He Tal. 85». P.O. nox, 93J. M4 HasUtags 8t. . . Vnnr(mWi yj *************-.a-aaaaaaw - , i,,,,^^ Soaai Directory ■vary UeaJ ol th,. 8o<tata Party of Caaada should thla bead Sscrstartas pi run a «/. •1*00 per mo.-, note. Urtuats Columbia Ito*In. la| Kircasj, Commutes. Socialist i>,irty ,,- JJ nam. Meets every altr-mat* Tne-. ifr .£ ?/ McKen/,c Secretin, Box 8j6, Vancouver, I! c ItoMlMsoa KiecraUve (-ommltu-*. •» ctatist parts or onm,i« *„, every alternate Turn-lay. j. 0 Morgan, (secretary. 1 j 1 aarnaj» Street, Vancouver. « c. IjOCbU Vaaoouvrr. No. 1. s. p, „( r**a> aula. Business meeting* t«M Monday evening at htav^-savitoil> Ingleside Block. Ill Carotin sir**. (room 1, second fioi-rj EJso- Uonal meeting* every Sunday tM§ p. tn.. In Sullivan Hall, <:.*'on tti***, Frederic retry. f-~-r"HjVT. Boa ttt, Vancouver. B. C. Loeral Toraoto, 8. p. of C—Meats aw ond and fourth Tu«-*.].>» social* Ua-adquaiters. iltiH Queta nine West. P. Dale. Beercuo ll Hfatj Street Jewish Branch *ii*-*tj it*q Sunday night, aan .■ hall Local Winnipeg, 8. P. of C., mew every first and third Sunday m tat Voice office building, it 1 Kut-ert ave., at 10:30 a. m I Com, Secretary, mo Prince 11 Street, Winnipeg, Man. A DYING NATION A scream has been -■ < ;■ t*. ttw | high heavens by the capit t \,<ni in connccti hi with th. MUmi-mi: made by Sir J. Crichton lln 1! the Congress of Satnut> 1 held recently at Blackpool Weill dying nation," there it a *ie| feneration of the moral -t -"■'>*'•*•' and to on. Sir Jamc- Browne pointed out- as las Ua'i pointed out in the column I thil aper times without number tat causes that are teauntg 1 tin *'*' ual decline and degenerst I * race. He pointed oul thi ■ n* t* fects of thc factory system, md il* need for more recreation t 1 the irv letariat. He also .bowed w i<l*n tkial were Ihe live*, nl ;(■• classes and how sterile they *ere •*■ era of monarebsm and capitalism has coming. The nation is ' < -• -iT! finished its term of office by thc ir resistible force of conditions. He therefore holds out lhe safety ladder to the powers above in order that they may peaceably descend from that dangerous height while there is time yet, and then with thc masses below, as it behooves human dignity, to participate in the inauguration ol the new system of society that will use thc faculties of men and tbe forces of nature for constructive purposes instead of destructive, for thc preservation of the human race instead of it. annihilation." ■ o ' SULLIVAN HALL. Last Sunday evening Mr, John TOTed for Local Vancouver S. P. in Sullivan Hall. Comrade Walsh, who is a very vigorous and eloquent speaker, took for his theme the subject of "Scientific Socialism." The speaker did not delve very deeply into the economic theories usually associated with this class of lecture, but confined himself rather to the tactical necessity of supple. menting the political Socialist propaganda by some form of trade union activity. Comrade Walsh, who is an adept in the art of win- nign over an audience, made .uch a broad, tolerant plea for hi. hobby that nis example placed the discussion on a high mental plane for the rest of the evening. After the usual volley of questions had been replied to, a long discussion ensued, in which thc position taken by thc lecturer as to thc utility of trade unions was ably criticisdc by Comrades Mc Pagan, l.cah, Pritchard and Pettipiece., Messcrs. Surges and Onffffiths, in short and temperate speeches, defended the position 01 tlie lecturer. Comrade Walsh, in hi. final reply, made thc most of thc strength of hit position, and skillfully covered up hi. own weak points'. While at the close of the meeting there was much difference of opinion in the audience as to thc necessity for "industrial unionism," there was but one opiiv ion a. to the sincerity and ability ol its advocate. ficed to capitalism. The » m' chine of indistrialism i. grindm** lh* life out of the people y >"" ■ ruthlessly. In this connection it * impossible to read the • Itnirat* article of our comrade, A. \ ^1{l^ n the September Social-i>< on "The Massacre of the Innocents, without a feeling dread 1 the '3' ture, unless the workers an ri| : take order with thc capitV: ""mV very speedily. The ma-t.i - •■'' only concerned about tin , ' • ° of strong and efficient wag< -'■''''' that is what Iheir howl is »l>'«' "' Socialist, want to build "p •' *'** and strong and healthy race. *llhJ future fnll of promise. Ilm -l"'r,r! hours of labour for all « r-, »™ .tale maintenance of the 1 lul.lrcn an immediately and urgently —Justice. o -i'1 "The World" of this city, '*l>< J* per that prints thc facts"--ami '' thing., is growing dc.pcrate hunger; hunger for official rank » the good thing, that accoini'.-n* ^' rank. It oscillates, editorially. "Jj twecn rancid abuse of what il u'^.( thc Socialist administration '' * • toria and apology for tin troupe at Ottawa, llyui.-in 81 I when neither fact nor rumot ,, draws on it. own feotid min '" and lie* wvth a hectic vig" plainly betray, it. desperation recent instances will illustrate On Oct. 6lh "Thc World" .nmMW* ed Ihe intention of Socialists tu '• iivi'im ir"« M»l (.it thai m- meeting a severe wtggmg dcmnation of Comrade I'd"!.'""' lure the criming Lib-Lab at the end of the month; a i>»'1 vent ion. (1|l0 In reporting lite last meelimr0'■ -j Vancouver Trades and Laboi 1 " , "Thc World" made the feature d < .Illll o . [Of hi. attitude at thc recent l'<Wrt fabric at ion again, pure and ! ' ' ifl. Just how many of its "j*"'1 , - equally trustworthy World "'•' , must decide for them.elves '>' %■ is a .harp ihorn, and "The yv« |f is entitled to some pity fro"' "' )|C. liCvcrs, but hunger dots imt, " ces.ity, lead to lying. jggrJI t*fr« tfcjagfc^ ■tafcn fj^$&M0*M«ft-&9*»*M^ I PARTY MATTERS | S AND ANNOUNCEMENTS g VANCOUVER LOCAL, HO. 1 m wamas SLaaios, ii*.t. >La±Al^ Theae columns hsve been placed at „„. (|ia|io*al ot the Psrty. Secretaries „f Locals are wsouested lo take ad- Moitiiirc of them In, at Interval., re- . Vancouver Lc-cal, No. i-Rcgular „ ting condition, in tbolr respective M£»«• meetittb; Monday, Oct 8- ditics Communications under thU AHnu*e* « prfvious meeting read head should bs addressed to the Do- »«W approved. Comrade Stebbings in Ininion or lTovlnclal Secretaries. Lo- ,,ne "bit. Warrants were ordered "■I Vcretaries aro further requested to!draw» for the following amounts: look to theae columns ror announce- ';'*.- AKent $5 , in, from the Executive Committee*, |^wm Ha ^ L this means tbs business or the £'"tric Light 22S Party wn »» f.cl.lt»t*d rand the Do- $."»•"« Headquarters j* mtnion .nd Provincial secretaries *l,mUc "<** 1.15 relieved of a little o* tha Increasing burden of corrsBpondenc*. TO STUDENTS OF SOCIALISM. in rasy Son following are on hand and will be sent post paid to any addre.s at prices quoted. Two-cent stamps will be accepted for .urn. not taceed- m j$ cent.: Ihe orlgia of tha Family, (F. Kngels) ... ... >•• M..*..».i..wii.- •SO Tho Social Devolution (Karl Kautsky) W lln. World's Itevolutlona (Ernest int.rmann) .... 60 ih,. s.-(-inlists, who they ara mui what they stand for, (.lohn Bporgo) ~. I .50 The Kvolutlon of Man (Boleche) .60 Modern Hoelallsm (Chaa. H. Vail) 3*j Class Struggles In America order to afford comrade, an access* to standard work, on ilism, the committee has decided )>ues in a stock of literature. The ; Total Report jounicd. /ota* $.2.S5 Comrade Pettipiece was appointed chairman for Cemrade M...s' meeting. Kinantial Report— Collection Sunday evening $ o.to Oonation 115 Literature sales for week...!. 5! 15 1 So received and meeting ad- FKKDKKIC P.-*RRY, Secretary. - .\ M. Simons) 10 The Communist Manifesto,. Karl Marx ..io cents "oeialism, Utopian and Sci miic, Marx At Ennel....io cent. ! woul(. that they meant business. Of two millions of people in this country over 65 year-, of age, it might be roundly said there were about one .million on the verge of, or submerged jtn poverty, and 400,000 to 500,000 of 'those were actually dependent upon Bumbledom (Official Parish Relief), for the bare necessities of life That was a state of things altogether discreditable to a rich and powerful country. I Superannuation merely touched the I fringe of the utiestion. They sought i old age pension, for all who had conformed to the law and helped to I build up the wealth of the country, jlf trade unions exerted their strength lhe believed that old -age Wage, Labor and Capital, Karl Mara f-tntt The Mission ot the Working CU««. <hn* Vail ..„.-»...^-~..-~-.-».. M iliita »n<* Farmers, A. M. Simon. 5 «nts other work, procured to order. Addreaa the literature Agent, Box B3*,, Vunciiuver, B. C. TO SI-XHOTARIE3 OP LOCALS LIST OF SUPPLIES. (\,ii«t Hut tons, per down 9 .36 Meiniiershlp cards, each 01 Application blanks (with plal- li.rnu j*r 100 26 The committee being a .tockhold- ei in the co-operative [ ublishing hr.ttse of Chas. Kerr & Co. can procure literature for the locals at cost. Campaign fund receipt book, are now rmdy and will be furnished to I < iis .it 10 cent. each. pensions govcrn- I.OMINION OROANTZINO PUNIl. The following sums taave been ru- forni an item in the = ment program next year. j British Columbia and Canada are jin the first blush of youth. The land ibclongs to the people The people have the right to provide for their own future in their legislative halls, 111 any way they may decide. Theire is 11.. reason wliy five acres of land belonging to the people should not be allocated for the purposes of piy ing old-age pensions. An act might be passed setting aside public lands ao *•-■ t'j provide a fund for old-age pensions and a committee be appointed In whom the hnd should he vested The committee should have the right to select land from time to time in new localities, having a promising future, with certain limitations. If this is done the nucleus of an "Old- Age Pension Fund'" would be created. Every man and woman should be entitled to .1 pension at the age of 55. increasing at the ages of 00 and 05 years In certain eases of incapacity, even before the age of 55, a pen (ton should be paid. The sooner the nation beebme. a self help comraun ity. a truly co-operative community, wherein the Crown I ..r-.Mint all contributions to DOMINION SECRETARY. ■lved to date: ■ wneretn Ihe Crown will equally bc nee nn hnnd UtSO honored with the lowliest laborer, a;- it Wade. Port Harvey Me'ali good men can find opportunity for ; labor in their own sphere for thc Total IM.M good of all. There would probably not be any nciessity to draw from thc public , fund* after the first twenty years, iis land, totally valueless today, would i increase in value rapidly as railways PROVINCIAL ORGANIZING [open up the country. FUND. *v*° man can "''mate the millions ,., .... . , I of lives saved by King lul ward by 1 ■•! following amount, received up },ls tacJ amI diplomacy in Enrope, Thc peoj le should also take similar measures to provide funds for provincial universities. FRANK RICHARDS. J. P. Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 5th, 1906. to date: Previously acknowledged W. .J. Curry l..tol 1110 80 4.60 .1130 80; CAMPAIGN FUND. On Tuesday "The World" said edt- It has been decided by the Provincial tonally: "Socialism has been rcpu- Ettecutive to build Up a central fund dialed by both the great political t<> he used in generally as.i.tmg in the parties in Great Britain, lt is declining campaign and more eipceially ; ciared to be impracticable, immoral for the purpose of printing and distn- ;aiui impossible" hutmg campaign literature. This raises somewhat our estimate All comrade* wishing to collect'of Uritish socialism. Had the "great for thi. fund should at once apply political parties been inclined to adopt, or even patronise and tolerate to the provincial secretary for a re •"■•ipt book. No effort should be spared in building up this fund. The following amount, received up to date: 1'r.vionaiy acknowledged 114.60 •»■ P 60 Two Clarion suns. 100 it. we sliouui have been sure that it would be of a kind that would do no good, nor perhaps much harm to anybody. That the political aims of the working -.las*, an- condemned as j impracticable, immoral and impossible is the best credenial they could icarry as to their honesty and inlelli- T,,t„| ..$16.00 gencel it is the slaveholders' formtt- ia for anathema, word for word, and a clean "bill of health" for Uritish Forward all contributions to PROVINCIAL SECRETARY. SOCIALIST PARTY FUND CAMPAIGN Previously acknowledged $ "><» ISO (; IV Robelu... Peter Anderson Wm Simonscn ■s'" Is Hansen ... K"»d Hansen .. Nds C. Nclscn . Sarialiun, as (at as it i* true. The Failure of the Traders (Continued from Page One.) Total i.oo 1.00 1.00 1.00 IJJ.50 D. G. McKF.NZIE, Secretary OLD AGE PENSION SCHEME. p.,,.1 dttor Clarion: A1 the Union Congress in Liver- ■'t which there were thirty-two Ulmr members of Parliament, Mr. G. N. Harncs, of thc Amalgamated Society of Engineers, said: "Thc ques- l">ii of olrl-age pensions bad been dis- i-iissed hy the Congress before, and "e hoped the resolution would he .jK-tin adopted with the same iiiianim- "v "f spirit iiml determination as would convince the powers that be law is distinctively a class cxprcs- ....., sion of the worker, against the ex- 1.00' ploitcrs and the idlers, tt is also the ' expression of an altruistic ideal—of an ideal that embraces all the units of the race, under a revolutionized and reorganized society in which classes snail be no more. The economic motive dominates, nnd thc ideal is necessarily condi- ditioned by this motive and its environment. Those rare men, not of thc working class, in whom a passion for social justice prompts to altruistic endeavor, arc unquestionably factors of moment In the social movement; but their power is feeble a" compared with that of the army of workmen guided by class fccl.ng and impelled by class determination founded upon class needs Society will never get to the point of organizing tbs industrial process merely from here and there an exceptionally idealistic or altruistic person argu ing that it ought to be done, *f ht plea, of the idealist will never overcome the determination of those iii possession to retain the methods by wlach rhey gain wealth and hold it at the expense of other men The economic motive is—for the mas. of "•«'** strongest of all motives, and the economic environment determines the method by which that motive shall be expressed in action. Even the idealist himself is limited in the following out of his ideals by his economic necessities, and when these directly oppose the perr sonal realization of his ideals, tbey are usually victorious. Though there are many individuals with whom ideals have great force, even controlling force, as against anything short of starvation, yet with most men the principal effects of ideals is to strengthen tendencies toward actions already unconsciously suggested by economic peril. The idealist may, by his exhortations, awaken the sub-conscious or half-conscious instinct of the demanding class into a full consciousness of its interests and needs. But not by the most fervent and eloquent appeal, can he persuade any considerable part of the dominant and possessing class to forego their authority or renounce their possessions. Only a collective movement of a vast mass of the people, animated by the determination to get better condition, of life as a class, their purpose immensely heightened by the conviction of the righteousness of their demand, will bring society to undertake the task of industrial reorganization. There is now emerging from the trading class a new group, small in numbers but mighty in power. By a stringent process of automatic .election from the personnel of a corporation engaged in the competitive struggle with rival corporations, the most effective men are, as a rule, brought to the front; and thus bas been developed a breed of executives highly gifted with the faculty of organization. Tbe faculty of organization means first, the seeing clearly of what the work is which has to be done; second, the perceiving into •what functions the work mu.t be divided in order to tret it done most effectively; third, tbe knowing how to select the fittest man available for each function; and fourth, the know ing how to fit the motive to the function and the man—the motive which is just such and so much as will bring out thc best there is in thc man and in the function. The individuals who have most of this faculty of organization have come into lifelong control of their respective corporations. Here and there one has completely succeeded in the warfare of competition, and having made his own corporation supreme has practically abolished competition in his own business. This feat achieved, the man cannot and does not cease to be an organizer. The faculty is active and rampant within him, and the man must bud a new field for its activity. Front being the perfect organizer of a corporation, hc becomes the organizer of a union of corporations, from the completed task of eliminating thc waste* of inefficiency, duplication and cross-purposes within one establishment <a task undertaken primarily not for the sake of thc economy itself, but for the sake of the better lighting machine thus created) he instinctively and unconsciously comes to make the economizing of waste a motive in itself; hc perceives thc immense wastes existing in some entire industry, and his mordant mind gives him no peace until he has attacked and solved thc problem of so organizing that industry as to eliminate the wastes. It cannot be pretended that the moral law of economic solidarity has taken any hold upon the mind of the great organizer. Thc labor union is distasteful to him; hc sees in it an arrangement by which the weaker brother shares in the benefit of the greater productiveness of the stronger brother, and this arrangement seems to him to make distinctly against progress in efficiency. The fact that it makes for increase in the general welfare does not appeal to him, since his ideal for others as for himself, is not happiness, but efficiency. Nevertheless, the great organizer is a worker; his true affinity is with those who toil, and not with those who draw dividends; with his innate and passionate bate of waste he must sootier or later perceive that the mere capitalist and tbe mere money trader are themselves a waste and ought to bc eliminated. He may, as in all likelihood he will, achieve no further moral development than that of a great seignorial mind, active and capable, efficient to organize and strong to execute; but the work which he docs and will yet do is of incalculable value to the ultimate assertion of thc producer type of social organization and the producer ideal of conduct and life Hc is organizing and unifying the industrial system to a state wherein it can thc more easily be taken over by society as a whole. Purely ethical attraction, as has before been said, cannot be relied upon to move men in the mass. The economic force dominates the ethical fore. Thc great movements of the past which have seemed, to thc apprehension of the people in them, to bc based upon disinterested conscience, have generally if not invariably, had a basis of economic pressure; and for all thc wisest know, the law must continue to hold. Conscience is an essential factor in giving to the movement fervor, determination and persistence; but this very conscience, far from being an intuitive moral sense or a faculty drawn down from the skies, rs a thing ultimately founded upon economic needs. Its genesis is humble, and its development has come by gradual steps. First, thc necessities of a great mass of men require a certain continuous course of action, or a body of relatively consistent actions:, second, there springs up spontaneously in the minds of the mass f.. ■ ■'-.* .*■ 1 ■ < Itaasia a tttttlBH OOLEMMA,, the conviction tbat tbat course of action is right, and finally this conviction spreads beyond the limits of the original mass and permeate, fhe more sympathetically disposed amortg the outsiders. But to whatever degree this "conviction spreads, persuading or overthrowing the former class convictions of those who accept it, thc base of the movement is, and must remain, the economic need of the demanding class. Thus, since economic ends determine the movements of mankind, and since mankind is necessarily portioned into economic classes, it is manifest that class interest mu-t be the backbone of the social movement. But it does not follow that class interest is to be its animating spirit. In the living body the bony structure is out of sight; thc fair surface is what appears to the eye of others and to the consciousness of the creature itself. So, in the progressive social movement, class intere.it may be regarded as tbe structure. But it is not the sense of class interest which arouses moral enthusiasm. It inevitably associates men in efforts toward common aims; but it does not awaken in them that passionate fervor which makes for a regenerative movement. The true heart and spirit of the movement is the passion for social justice. And this passion is diffused throughout thc great body of a class only when it sincerely and righteously identifies its interests with the interests of all man. In the nature of things, seeing that under private capitalism class interest must dominate men's minds, it is impossible to win the support of any considerable number of the trading class (except those traders who are being pushed to the wall) to the present movement of the producers. The whole mass of the producers joined by such auxiliaries from the other classes as from u'me to time may free themselves from the dominance of their present class feeling, must unite in the economic and political fields and overcome thc opposing forces in order to realize their ideal. In support of this movement the farmers are summoned by their common producer interest and by their awa'. ".ling producer consciousness to league themselves with the proletariat. A morally inevadeable appeal lies also to the conscience and the heart of tbe social servant to follow his normal social instinct, and freeing himself from the pressure imposed by the traders, to merge himself in the same movement. From whatever rhss the individual comes, by ally'tin himself with the producers and by accepting the producer ethirs he becomes a part of that growing and unifying body, the social-minded mass, wh'rh, when it shall become wholly conscious of its mission. mtUt present nn irresistible front to thc unsocial-minded class. From this junction of forces and this trial of strength must come thc co-operative commonwealth. There are arguments that it cannot be, and that it should not be—arguments like those heard in all times against any change in social arrangements. They are all of a kind, in whatever guise they appear; and their underlying base is now, as ever, a justification of the claims of the cunning and the strong. When one reflects upon the great questions of life and destiny, the common origin, the identical fate, the essential brotherhood of man, he can find no sound basis for sustaining these rapacious claims. Placed here, as on a giant raft, moving along the tides of an infinite ocean, sped from an unknown port and ignorant of its final haven, the race has a common heritage and a common destiny. Gradually the huddling creatures on the raft become conscious of their powers; they erect shelters from the rain thc Keat, and the cold, and they fashion clever tools for making articles of use and beauty. By design, say some; by immutable law, say others, this raft is amply provisioned for a multitude of souls and an indefinite voyage; only that in every generation the cunning and the strong take to themselves the-greater share, to the deprivation of others; and their right to do so is ever sustained by a succession of ingenious pleas from the mouths of other men—themselves, for the most part, sharers of the plunder. But slowly among the victims arises a sense of the injustice, the chaos, and the waste of this practice; and more slowly, but still surely, the determination to bc rid of it; to apportion, upon equitable terms, the common burdens, and to distribute, in equitable shares, the common hoard. That determination is the growing and expanding will of the producing classes and its fulfilment will be the co-operative commonwealth. —W. J. Ghent, in Mass and Class. ■ 1 ia raTsTaaaaaaaSai fsiJti. s i 9 9 9 I 9 9 9 i • Some who started early are now selling ten at copies a day; and it pays from fifty to eighty cents 8® a copy. Send to us for circulars and wholesale prices. The book is now ready ior delivery t I m tax 2064 AGENTS WANTED YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING ANO HELP THE C*«i$E BY SELLING THE JUNGLE THE JUNGLE PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK. ®®^^®®9®®9999®9^0CtSi®®t^®®®99999 TO "CLARION" READERS. Many complslnts are reaching this office from subscribers wbo full to get their papers. 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H • ! ;i net. rmmsrmaat m."^-, ^iTMwrw*L """ ^1-*3^ *•> »(■*. ■m i w 'TS | • 9 9 9 9 1 I NEWS AND VIEWS - - - ■ »**^^a^^»*ewSa**«*a<j**Sa^fBsai» AS GIVEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION Bdited by R. P. PBTTTPIKOB, to whom ail txirrospondeiice ror this de paitment sboald be addrassed. ©■***»«**#*»$G*^ A CENT-BELT REVOLUTIONIST ^^^™ ON THE INDUSTRIAL EAST. Cam. Robinson, of Toronto, Takes a Tramp to New York and Boston; Makes a Number of Observations and Draws a Pew Conclusions. TORONTO, Sept.—1 send you some "news and views'' from Boston and New York, two cities 1 visited recently. The "cradle of liberty was supposed to be ih Boston but from observation 1 believe that the real cradle of liberty will not be located very far from Vancouver. After several efforts I failed to locate any comrades in Boston and only on the last day of my visit was I able to find the headquarters, which were closed, on the top storey rear of an office building on Washington street. There is no mention of the Socialist Party in the Boston city directory. At a session of the state legislature in Boston the members were greatly excited over a bill to allow the railroad trust power to buy up the electric roads which are so numerous throughout Massachusetts. The bill was defeated by a small majority but consolidation will continue nevertheless. The Museum of Fine Arts contains for public view a very limited and inferior exhibit of left-overs. Evidently J. P. Morgan and a few others have the best works of art for their own pleasure in their private art galleries in their at present deserted mansions. The same is true of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ork and the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo. In order to keep out any destitute loafers an admission fee is charged in Boston and Buffalo. In Massachusetts Gomper's Union Labor Parties are being organized to go into politics. Seems as though the rank and file have at last forced Samuel to do something to hold his job. In Fall River some of the cotton mills are in operation and after. 6 p. m. the working women and girls all looked alike as they trudged homeward (?) in their sombre garments, carrying the standard "fool' dinner pail. Socialism, of course, would destroy their individuality. It was dark when the boat stopped at Newport. Instead of witnessing some of the orgies of the "best" people the passengers were allowed a view of wage-slavery in action as the slaves, running at top speed, loaded heavy barrels of codfish upon the boat by means of trucks. If their labor power was not so cheap machinery would be utilized. As the boat steamed toward New York wireless messages were transmitted at intervals. The operator stated that they could have half a dozen ships near them and yet communicate with any individual ship they wished without interference from the others. In New York as one walks up the trail in the canyon between the ugly yet wonderful productions of the working class, the skyscrapers, it occurs to a Socialist mind that such monstrosities would be unnecessary under a system where gamblers and their clerk, would be employed at something useful. At the Zoo on Sunday the workers and what goes with them were trying "to enjoy the day given to them." Two caged monkeys evidently were trying their best to give an illustration of how the capitalist class jumps on the working class during the week but they failed to understand. The monkeys, as they rested, no doubt were thinking of the phrase "What fool, these mortals be." Down in the Stock Exchange where gambling is legal there was no excitement. Evidently the trusts have everything controlled and so are destroying the incentive of the bull, and bears to gain an honest (?) living. While passing the millionaires' club none of the members were in sight. Apparently they had not returned from work, it being but 4:30 p.m. The air around Central Park, where the abodes of the capitalists are situated, was fresh and pure, but every house was closed and barred, while the occupants were away to the mountains or at the seaside. At the same time the working class were sweltering in the crowded tenements. Sevtenteen of them died from the heat in one day this summer. Near Schenectady, the coming locomotive rushed by on the five-mile trial tracks. It is run by electit'city. They are soon to be installed on all the New York Central lines in the vicinity of New York city. At Syracuse, electric power has just been transmitted 150 miles from the Niagara Falls. In the small central breathing spot in Buffalo there are no seats. The capitalists' servant, who rule the city evidently do not wish the workers tn get the habit of taking the "rest cure" which their masters wish to monopolize. Most workers have to pay car fare to get to a seat in a fine park which is always near their master.' "winter" palaces. During the convention of the British Medical Association in Toronto a prominent Toronto comrade, at the invitation of the National Sanitarium Association, delivered a lecture entitled "Tuberculosis as it Affects the Working Class." We were disappoint ed that the comrade did not take ad tion Socialism, but confined himself to unionism. He also used the capitalistic phrase "the workiny classes." A Socialist should know that there is only one working class and that alone is the one the "Western Clarion" is "published in the interests of." The leaflet distributed by the association stated that consumption was not hereditary. That its cure was air and rest. In other words, pure _.. thc cause of the "white plague*' is impure air and food and overwork, which is the condition of those in poverty and the only movement, to my mind, that will abolish poverty is thc Socialist movement. Therefore, the most effective way to abolish thc dreadful disease would be to abolish wage slavery and institute the co-operative commonwealth. The striking piano workers in Toronto arc up against it as the loyal Canadian Manufacturers' Association have circulated among thc employers of labor in Toronto a communication calling upon them to remember their obligation and refuse to give any kind of employment to any of the strikers. Some day the workers will own the jobs and thc wealth they create. That will be Socialism. Some news from the dailies: Santiago, Chile, Aug. 20.—The business portion of Santiago suffered less from the earthquake than was at first thought. As at San Francisco, the portion octtiupied by the working class suffered the most—Toronto Mail and Empire. San Francisco, July—During the two months after thc disaster only three suicides were recorded. The previous average was 96 for the same period. A Socialist view:— Suicides Under Capitalism 96 Capitalism (crippled) 3 Capitalism (abolished) 0 Kingston, Ont., Sept. 20.—At Tete du Pont Barracks yesterday the "Riot Act" was read. It has to be publicly read every Organizer Flett. of the A. F. of L„ who is endeavoring to instil new life into the trades unions of this city, was present, and spoke during the evening. The reports of Delegate. Perry, Beach and Pettipiece, who attended the recent Congress at Victoria, were received, each of the delegates giving an account of their actions in the Congress, along with impressions received as a result of the national labor session. Messrs. Beach and Perry had vot d for the formation of an indcpend.-ri labor party, believing it to be in the best interests of labor to Jake such act .111. With this contention Delegate Pettipiece did not agree. Having been instructed by the Council to vote and work for "labor only," he had supported the Socialist Party a. b-'i'-j thc only movement which politic.i'l- reflected the needs and requirement.! of the working-class. The reports were received by the Council with but one solitary dit- sent—-W. J. McKay, a fellow ■♦ypo delegate to thc Council, declaring that the Socialist Party was not a labor party, and therefore Delegate Pettipiece had violated hi. instructions from the Council. However, no motion was offer-id aid the matter dropped. The ji-liamentary committee had no report to submit, but the chairman announced that it would hold a meeting next Tuesday evening and r.ave a tiport for Thursday evening's ntetlii.K* The qnestion of sending a delegate to the new labor party (Congress) provincial convention, to be held in Vancouver on the stoth inst., was mooted, but as no official communication had been received by Secretary Perry the matter was laid over till next meeting. Two new delegates were obligated during the evening. Several matters concerning the welfare of the Council were referred to the various committees, to report Wax;- ANOTHER "JAR OF MIXED PICKLES.' Socialiat Party to Again Witness the Futile Efforts of If en in Thi. Province Who Seek to Reform Cap- itslism.—Obituary Already in Evidence. How much more experience is necessary to teach the workers oi tint province the futility of "independent" parties, which stand for thc same old capitalist ownership of the natural resources tif the country? A party is no better than the thing it represents; thc men—-whether "union" or three months, the reading of it mak- upon at next meeting—which prowling it operative during that period, ises to be an interesting session, and This method makes the active militia always ready to act in a case of emergency, without waiting for the presence of the mayor or sheriff to read the Riot Act.—Toronto Star. Must be expecting the "Slaves to Arouse." Yours for the Revolution, G. H. L. ROBINSON. A VALUABLE ACQUISITION TO B. C. SOCIALIST MOVEMENT. REVELSTOKE'S TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. Organizer Trotter, of the Dominion Trades Congress, has succeeded in bringing into existence a Trades and Labor Council at Revelstoke. F. Mitchell was elected president; D. Jackson, vice-president, and A. PatH sons, secretary of the new organization, The following were present at thc preliminary meeting: Ogar makers, J. Walker; firemen, F. Mitch elK J. Rogers; maintenance of way, H. C. Cameron, D. Farquhar; boiler- makers, J. Sneddon; federal laborers, W. Thompson; tailors, J. Anderson; Blacksmiths, A. Arman, H. Gough; blacksmiths* helpers, E. Serrianni; machinists, C. Calmer, A. Taylor, R. Tallon, D. Jackson; R. W. carmen. W. Bunctt; barbers, A. Parsons. OUTCROPPINGS OF CANADA'S SLAVE-MARKET. The "Risks of Capitalists," aa Exemplified by the Number of Wage- Slaves Sacrificed on tha Altar of Profit—Lives Cheaper Than Safety Appliances. Industrial accidents occuring to 393 workpeople in Canada during the month of August, 1906, were reported to the Department of Labor at Ottawa. Of these in were fatal and 280 resulted in serious injuries. In addition, accidents to 25 workmen, of which 3 were fatal, were reported, which took place prior to the beginning of the month, information with regard to which was not received before August. Thc number of fatal accidents reported in August, 1906, was 11 more than in the preceding month and 33 more than in August, 1905. The non-fatal atpir dents numebred 29 more than in July, 1906, and 66 more than in August, 1906. Out of thc 187 returns received during the month, giving the ages of the victims of industrial accidents, 21 were reported to have been under twenty-one and forty-five, and 8 over forty-fivo 129 were over twenty-one years of age, but their ages were not specified. all delegates should be present. Comrade Siemon, who has arrived from Winnipeg to take up his residence in B. C, has decided on thc "simple life." He has purchased a 60-acre patch of land at Port Moody, is building a house and expects to participate in the product of hi. toil ere this time next year. Coin. Siemon, who has contributed such an interesting and instructive Socialist department in the Winnipeg Voice forj*c the past two years, over the nom de' plume of "Spartacus," will later on provide this department with current comment on "one thing and another." and —- ----a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-iaa-iaa-iaa-i-i^i^— otherwise—are no better than the un clean principles their party stands for. Like beget, like. Capitalist owner ship of the means of life is based upon robbery—thc robbery of the working clasa, by and through the wage system. It means that no man can sell his life-force—labor power—unless the buyer can make a profit out of it. Profit means something for nothing—robbery. The solution of the labor problem—industrial freedom -lies outside the wage-system and capitalism; hence any movement cal-j itilated to benefit thc worker must stand for the overthrow of the present form of ownership of all property functioning as capital. Without such a fundamental ultimate all "independent" political parties tail, for the reason that there's nothing to keep them alive. They do not give expression to the need, and requirements of the working class—a cla»> which consciously or otherwise, mu.t and will strive to own the imxkrn machine, wl.cli enslaves them, as it is operated — collectively. Anything short of thc overthrow of class rule, thc restoration of the means of life to those who do the work, production for use in lieu of profit, and to the worker the full product of his toil, fails to fill the bill; and will die of its own volition. The Socialists of British Columbia are becoming accustomed to pronouncing thc last sad rites of such movements, and another funeral or two will scarcely tjc noticeable. o TERRORISM. By word of month and by letters iro«v various points in the island kingdom of Dunsmuna wc arc made aware that thc base and cowardly system of persecution, long ago inaugurated, has been much intensified of late. With King Jamie as an example and inspiration, mine bosses and managers are carrying on a crusade against Socialism with all the venom and meanness their own distorted natures afford or can copy from wolves. Men arc tired tor the faintest expression of approval of Socialism. ..o man can stand mentally erect; dumb, driven slaves, selling their bodies and throwing in their souls arc what the island market calls for. In thc tyrant spirit ruling now, there exists thc potentiality for any form or degree of ruclty and crime, starvation, tiayn nets, bullets. What a thin partition separates this liicrcc but suppressed antagonism from anarchy and civil war. Contrast thc smooth lies paraded before a viceroy, the smiling press and official lies proclaiming peace and plenty, thc banal patriotic boasts of "Freedom." Contrast them say with actual conditions and the actual relations between slave: and owners in thc island and else where, then adjust your estimate of Canadian Christian.civilization. PLATFORM Socialist Party of Canada Wc, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled affirm our allegiance to and support of the principles and program of the international revolutionary working clasa. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should justly bt long. To the owners of the means of wealth production beio*-Ki the product of labor. The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to tbe capitaliat clas*. The capitalist is master; the worker is slave. T So long as the Capitalist, remain in possession of the reins of government all the power, of thc state will be uaed to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever swell ing stream .of profits, and to the worker an ever-increasing m-d-mre of misery and degredation. The interest of the working class lies in the direction ol setting itaelf free from capitalist explanation by the abolition of the wage system. To accomplish this necessitates thc transfer, ma tion of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker ia rapidly culminating In a struggle for possession of the power of government—the capitalist to hold, the w >rtter to secure it by political actior. Thia ia tha claas struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organise un-Jer the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with, the object of ena* quering the public powers for tha purpose of setting up and enforcing thc economic program of the working class, at follow*: —1. The transformation as rapidly et possible, of capiulijt property in tha means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads, etc.) into thc collective property ot the working clan. a. Thorough and democratic organisation and management of industry by the worker*. 3. The establishment, as speedily aa possible, of production for uie instead of production for profit The Socialiat Party, when in office shall always and every- where until the present system is abolished, make the answer to this question its guiding rule of conduct .Will this legislation advance the intereata of the working claas and aid the workers in their atruggle against capitalism?. If it will, the Socialist Kitty is for it; if it will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely oppo-.nl to it In accordance with this principle tha Socialist Party plediei itaelf to conduct all tha public affair, placed in its hand, in tech a manner ti to promote the interests of the working clsss alone OUR POLITICAL NEIGHBORS. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 8—Socialist activity in this state is a surprise even to veteran Socialists. The demand for speakers continues, but many Socialist, are beginning to see the danger of engaging speakers who do not emphasize the importance and the necessity for thorough organization, and many, very many, that thi. importance and necessity shall find expression in compliance with party discipline. Seattle continues to be the arena of a better fight on Socialist street speakers. An injunction against police interference with street speakers in Seattle was applied for, but the judge wa. too busy to give any aid in support of free speech, and he said so. Local Seattle stole a march on all other political parties and secured all open dates, in local theater.. Thi. may force the Republican-Democrat spell-binders to mount boxes at the street corner.. If so, do you suppose that the little chief of police will run them in? Thousand, of piece, of literature will be distributed, and nine monster campaign meetings will be held in Seattle before election. D. Burgess, .tate secretary-treasurer, will speak in three of these meetings, and Emil Herman, should he bc back by that time, will also fill in. The state office now ha. four speakers regularly engaged, and fills dates frequently with other speakers. The state office sold 1403 due "tamps in [the month of September, and prospect, are good for the duplication of that feat thi. month. D. BURGESS. NOTICE. VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. Reports From Delegates to Dominion Trades Congress Received.—Action re New Labor Party Convention Delegate Deferred Till Nest Meeting. Thc last meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was only fairly attended, owing possibly to the fact that many of the workers were busy catering to the holiday and Westminster fair crowds. Vice-president McGraw occupied the chair, President McVety being still absent in Winnipeg in connection with thc machinists' new wage vantage of the opportunity to men-1schedule on thc C. P. R. A GOOD CASE. The member, of the Socialist Party in this province are prepared to place their case before the jnry-'-the workers—tbe latter to act a. their own judges. And thc Socialist, will willingly , abide by the decision rendered on election day. Vol. I, No. 1 of the Slocan Mning Review, published at Sandon, B. C, by Jno. J. Atherton, is the htest arrival io tne new.paper arena to reach hew. and views." The silvery Slocan district i« represented by Mr. Davidson, who stand, by Cams. Haw- thtornthwaite and Williams in the local house. L. Notice is hereby given that after 60 days we intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Land and Works for a special license to tut and carry away timber from thc foi lowing described lands in Rupert Dis trict: No. 1—Commencing at the S. W. Cor. of Sec. 23, Township 14. thence east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains, thence west 80 chains, thence south 80 chains. No. 2—Commencing at the N. W Cor. of Set. 14, Township 14, thence east 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains, thence north 80 chains. No. 3.—Commencing at the N. I Cor. of Sec. 15, Township 14, thence west" 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains. No. 4.—Commencing at the S. F. Cor. of Sec. 22, Township 14, thence north 160 chains, thence west 40 chains, thence south 160 chains thence cast 40 chains. No. 5.—Commencing at thc N. E Cor. of Sec. 26, Township 14, thence west 80 chains, then-cc south 80 chains, thence cast 80 chains, thence north 80 chains. No. 6—Commencing at the N. W. corner of Sec. 25, Township 14, thence cast 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains, thence north 80 chains. No. 7.—Commencing near thc S W. Cor. Sec. 36, Township 14, thence north 80 chain., thence cnst_ 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains. No. 8—Commencing at post half a mile south of thc S. W. Cor. of Sec. 31. Township 15, thence north 80 chains, thence east 80 chains, thence south 80 chains, thente west 80 chain.. No. 9.—Commencing at a post planted at the S. W. Cor. of No. 8, thence south 80 chains, thence east 80 chain., thence north 80 chains, thence west 80 chains. No. 10—Commencing at a post planted near the N. E. Cor. of Sec. 17, Township 15, thence 160 chains west, thence 40 chains south, thence 160 chains east, thence 40 chains north. No. it—Commencing at a post near the N. E, Cor, of No. 10 thence west 160 chain... thence North 40 chains. thence east 160 chain., thence south 40 chain., ■ ta point of commencement. Dated Sept. 26,, 1906. IMPERIAL TIMBER & TRADi.,iu CO., LTD. 9 9 ® 9 9 ® 0 9 ® 9 9 APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN PARTY OF CANADA. THE SOCIALIST I ty ft I « J * 0 « .:■ {. f* \i t> i) v « I t. t. Ti •U is fi © li fi tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt « tt tt tt « tt tt tt I, THE UNDERSIGNED, hereby apply for member-hip in Local 5 Party of Canada. I recognize the c!a*» struggle between thc capitalist ■ • the working cla*.« to bc a struggle (or political supremacy, possession of thc rt«n» of government, and which Rece*. lalei thc organization of the workera into a political parly distinct from and opposed to all parties nf the capitalist class, If admitted to membership, 1 hereby agree lu maintain or rn ter into no relations with any other political psrty. ami plc-lu-i* myself to support by voice, vote and all other legitimate mean* thc ticket and the program of the Socialist Party of Canada Applicant Addrea* Occupation Age Citizen Admitted to Local , i«*n Chairman R<-.: & tt tt tt tt tt tt tt • tt « tt tt tt tt tt tt e00$o$O0$0iiJO&O0OOO'»*»»0^^-»oa: ::.)» — raoMfT SAI.KS Ut-tCK aatTfKN* ALL HI *UNK*S STSICTI.V tONI'IIIKNTIAI. W. FURNIVAL «L CO. AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS. REAL ESTATE ANO COMMISSION AGENTS. LARGEST MART IN VANCOUVER Cor. Abbott <tt Cordova Sta. Old Con. Build ing. BURNS & CO. HARDWARE aod Second Hand Dealer Cook Stoves and Tools a f Specialty. We hnve n lnrge quantity of gloss fruit jm-s fur sale. Pints, 50c per dozen ; quarts, 60c ; and 'J quarts, 70c. Storcs- St. E. 1.17 and 138 Cordova Hardware, Junk and Furniture. 'PhtM 1179 ViMMWtr, 8.1. c. peters ara Hand-Made Boots and Sliora to order In all style Kc-jaiiina praniplly and neatly done. Htock oralapl*- nmlymade •Shoes alwaya 011 hand. tttt WMtniatttr Ave. Heist ftwun. WAGE-LABOR ■_ AND CAPITAL { BT KARL MAHX. Single copies. 6 cent.; • copies. 25 cents; IR eopl"* r,(i cunts; 40 copies, II.uu, luO copies ami over. 2 etnl. p'r copy. These i-utee lat-t.-lii.lv poatme to any part ot Cnnu-ln United Kingdom. lb* "The Western Clarion" ***** WJ1KN IN VAMOOtlVKH. STOP AT TU DOUGALL HOUSE ABIIOTT OTRKKT .Ira* Class Raw. Excellent It*"* CA*'K OPKtt DAY AND M<JI,T' Prices Modi-rate. •jT—' BAKUS HEATERS A cheap way of heating an isolated room, (or any room for that matter) Is Iiy tho llnkus Heater, which uses gns for fuel. This Hcutor Is gotten up in tho shape of n grnto fire, l»'t ""' gi-s lugs are sflllorl with water. After the water Is heated tho 8*1 is turned Almost off and the hot wstor throws off a comfortaIiIk, evon Jiest at a very low cost. Vancouver Gas Company, Ltd. .„» •« •*•
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