@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-04-04"@en, "1909-12-25"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318782/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ P"— ■rnm 009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, December 25, 1909. HlSMrtplHlD prtot m Vbab Sl.ll HILL'S HOMILY ON EXTRAVAGANCE ii 11 - The Increased cost ot living is a matter of some concern for many minds. J. J. Hill particularly sounds a note of warning on this subject ln the Province of November 30th. This ls not his first attempt; several times he bas appeared in print upon this same question, and from this, his latest effort, tt would appear that his economic progress is, like the locomotive progress of a crab—backward or sideways, never forward- He offers some statistics which, running as they do into seven figures, are Imposing enough hut Which, quoted without relation to other factors, are not very convincing to any one with common horse sense. For example, ln bis opinion the census of 1910 will show there are but 30 people employed in agriculture to every 70 employed in tbe cities, and insists that these 70 get their living by "manufacturing the raw products of tbe farm into flnisned forms, performing professional services, or assisting in the task of distributing the products of the factories or farms." He points out further that, "In l'ii-0 there were 96 men raising foodstuffs to every 4 in the cities who needed foodstuffs but did not raise them. This railroad magnate, with his mighty brain, cannot see that an enormous portion of that labor used directly on the farm in 1790 is now used up in producing machinery which in turn transfers tbat labor to the farm; and therefore while a machinist ln Chicago may never have seen a crop of wheat, he may enter into the production of tbat wheat as actually as the farmer who rides the self-binder which was produced ln the factory where he toils. Extravagance, Bays Hill, Is the cause of the high cost of living. Extravagance on the part of everyone, farmer and city wage-earner. Asked how this could be when the average wage was -but |437 per year, be said that extravagance, like luxury, was relative. But everybody spent too much.' This Is a mighty easy way of surmounting a difficulty, but lt is not very convincing. "Thrift and economy," said one Oracle J. J. Hill, "Bhould be practiced." Thrift, old Shylock tells us, is a blessing. So also is abstinence. But there is a point below which abstinence, upon which thrift is consequent, Is starv- atlon, and, according to my muddy think tank, $437 per year borders closely upon that point. However, Mr.. Hill is of a different opinion. He is interested in an academy, and in this Institution three good, substantial meals can be bad for 27 cents. Just think of that; and I have seen with my own eyes, common laborers In the city of Vancouver throw away 25 cents on ONE meal—only 2 cents less than could purchase 3 "good, substantial meals." Heaven help us! Whither are we wending? But no; Hill does not assume that every one can get a meal for 9 cents. Says he: "I understand that lt is possible to get a substantial meal In New York for 18 cents." True! True! Oh, thou wizard, how dld'st tbou discover It! It was possible I I. can swear to lt. Some ten years ago I demonstrated that beyond peradventure. Yes, 13 cents waa the price; 10 cents without coffee, tea or milk. You will notice Hill leaves out the adjective "good," in speaking of this 13-cent meal. Hill ls an honest enquirer after truth, and does not exaggerate. The Father ot Lies himself. would hesitate to call this meal "good." It was NOT "good." Neither to look at, to smell, nor to eat. The flies were as plenteous as promises snd whiskey at British Columbia elections. The soup was the clearest thing In the house; the "red horse" was.tough and strong; the potatoes were one, In a dish by themselves; the cabbage was more conspicuous to the nasal than to the ocular sense; and the coffee more satisfactory to the eye than to the palate; but the pie, yes, the, pie! Ye gods! But how did Jim Hill find It out? It took me fonr days to do It, but I only had three meals, s'welp me! The third day after I found the Joint I "struck" the mate of the Tallahasa, and "making the grade," departed without a pang of regret, from my bench in the Battery and , 13-cent meals forever. I have since eaten cheaper meals, but for something unique and lasting, "though lost to sight to memory dear,' commend me to a New York 13-cent meal! However, Jim does drop across an economic fact, and 'twould Indeed be strange were he not to do so once in a while, even by accident. Here lt is: "The competition among the 70 In the city to perform the services that are required by the 30 on the farms will keep the wages of the 70 low, while the great demand created by tint 70 for the products of the 30 will keep tbe prices of farm products high/ Is that not so?" You will observe he Is not quite sure of himself. You will also observe that Hill Is as reckless ln stating premises as he ie in reaching conclusions. But that does not matter; we expect neither a strict adherence to facts nor close and cogent reasoning from an apologist for the capitalist system. However Illy-stated his proposition is, one thing is obvious, the competition brings down the wages of the 70 propertyless wage-workers. Jim Hill says so himself. Now, suppose we take his other statement quoted above, that "everybody spends too much," and compare it with the statement that "competition will keep the wages low," we are forced to conclude tbat If we spent less, we Bhould be able to work for lower wages and consequently our wages would fall. Either that or the law of competition would become Inoperative. Anyone reading the three columns in the Province in a critical frame of mind will notice that Hill never once mentions the capitalist class. I make no doubt he does this advisedly; he doubtless, notwithstanding hla Inchoate utterances that the' only beneficiaries of a further economy on the part of workers would be the capitalists themselves. Their wages would be lowered, ln consequence of the lessened consumption, and a corresponding cheapening of the farmers' produce would result from the slackening of demand, and to the owners ot the slaves would acrue all the benefits as heretofore. But the most significant statement by far in the entire three columns is that the United States Is on the road to disaster. He states that every nation which has taken the path now being trod by the United States has ended in the scrap-heap- "The fatal path in each instance led along the precipice that Ib called high cost of living." This ls stating a truth, but in a most unintelligent manner. Like all bourgeois writers, thinkers, etc., time and place, condition and circumstance, have no relation to anything Jim Hill Is discussing. So Oreece, Rome and Spain, all fell from the same cause, and the United States must follow. But the high cost of living ls an ambiguous phrase and may mean anything or nothing; It Is moreover merely relative. What would be high cost of living to a Russian peasant would be dirt cheap to a B. C. miner. Regarding tbe fall of Greece, Rome, Spain, etc., the "high cost of living" may-have been a contributory cause. Poverty at one end of the social scale and luxury at the other with their attendant evil influences, may come under Jim Hill's phrase, "high cost of living," but it Is most loose phraseology, too loose for effective reasoning. Moreover, the actual forces making for the overthrow of these ancient civilizations came from without, not from within. Long years of battle, murder and. sudden death had left them at the mercy of more backward nations, not vexed with these evils The flower of their manhood was demanded at tbe outposts of the empire. The weaklings stayed at home and became tbe fathers of the race. Tbe Spartans realised this and ln war time took care that their future citizens should not be fathered by the weaklings of the nation, albeit Lacedaemon boasted of few such. But enough of ancient civilizations, how about America and Europe? "The high cost of living" amounts to this: That no matter how high wages go, provisions seem to rise to a corresponding height; nay, seem to attain a higher altitude. With the result that society becomes less and less able to feed all its members. A member of modern society must be able to dispose of wares of some kind ere he can live. The propertl- less worker has physical and mental force to dispose off. The development of science and invention make the disposal of these wares more and more precarious. They cannot all sell. They cannot all get jobs. Some must starve. But those who have jobb are per plexed by the "high cost of living." So is Jim Hill and many others. What Is this bug-a-boo? What is the cause of it? What its effects? TheS» are questions sufficiently large to warrant serious consideration and I shall take them up next issue. Meanwhile Jim Hill would do well to study a few books on Socialism. He would then either cease babbling or talk sense. J. H. BRITISH ELECTION PR08PECT8. The great revolution la now on, according to tbe Liberal press, and the people are now face to face with the situation, "Shall the Peers or the People rule?" Great party slogan, Is It not; and It appears to be catching, too, Judging by the way Liberal meetings are attended, and the Churchill- Lloyd-George combination ls being received in the country. The Liberal leaders have played their cards well and look like succeeding. The Daily News, Chronicle and other Liberal papers Bet up a howl against the sinfulness of dividing the Progressive forces (?) by labor fighting Liberalism. Had not they everything to gain and nothing to lose, by uniting? And united they are, at least ln deeds and words, and we are told by the aforesaid Liberal papers, how gratifying lt is to note the efforts to avoid a split, seeing that after the Labor executive meeting a number of quiet withdrawals are to be made. . Now Labor M.P.'s are touring the country, proclaiming the age of feudalism to be past, as though they were the champions of the rising capitalist class "some 200 years ago. We hear that staunch revolutionist P. Snowden, saying tt would be Idiotic to put forth candidates In opposition to the party that was fighting the Labor party's battle, and Mr. Henderson talking of the present emergency and the Seed for an elastic constitution. Find enclosed also Labor party manifesto; note, paragraph 4, how they speak of our Industries, our towns, etc. Ye gods! • There is one man at least in the I. L. P. who is Independent. I speak of Victor Grayson, who protested through the Clarion against this "great apostasy,' 'and has also declined to run again as candidate in his constituency, though he may reconsider this decision. The Clarion also makes its protest against the betrayal. There ls one consolation attaching to this. The Liberals are not at all likely, in spite of their promises, to touch the Lords, and if the people can be made to remember Liberal arguments against the landowners, and be taught to apply the same arguments against the manufacturing Interests back of the Liberals, there will be an awakening that will put the so-called progressive forces where they belong, and clear tbe way for the only issue, Shall the workers or the shirkers rule?" Until Socialists keep this clear in mind to the exclusion ot all side Issues, the movement wlll be stagnant. So looking forward for the day of revolution, I am Still in revolt, F. S. F. THE BENEVOLENCE % OF COMPETITION TWO PICTURES In tbe B. C. Mining Exchange for November I happened on the following "information" concerning the "Extravagance of the Masses," (capital letters and heavy type) by Secretary Wilson of the United States Agricultural Department: "The average laborer ls to-day living better than Queen Elizabeth did In her time. You wlll find that they eat meat three times a day, most of them, and what ls more, they want the best cuts. They can afford them." And again, "The farmer is still handicapped by lack of labor. Too many have gone from the farm to the sidewalk;" and deplores that the farmer Is investing ln automobiles Instead of in Eastern securities. Of course, I Immediately felt very sore against the average laborer about these "beBt cuts," as I felt sure some one was appropriating my share, and handing out the "Chicago chicken" and mulligan" to me. In fact, I had Just decided to throw them over, and quit being a workingman any more, wben ran up against the following In a recent edition of the "Scottish Weekly Record": 'Two distinct bodies of unemployed workers have taken possession of two pieces of land belonging to the corporation of Leicester. * * . * The men are clean, industrious-looking ar- tizans, and they are calling mass meetings of unemployed round their camp fires every night. There are over 4,000 men unemployed and about 4,000 empty houses, which causes stagnation in the building trade. The campers have put up a notice: "This land belongs to all of us." Now, can you reconcile these two pictures? I've sweat and swore and wasted much precious gray matter over the problem; but the one refuses absolutely to fit Into the others. Why the workers, who are being fed on the "best cuts" three times a day, should so far forget themselves as to "violate the rights" of private property and seize other people's land with the object of tilling It to produce a llvlng from, I can't for the life of me see at all, at all. They are so fond of work that they even go and steal It. Why, the greed of the average laborer ls simply appalling. He wants the earth, and won't be happy till he gets it. Best cuts three time* a day, top. Somebody must either be badly Informed, or lying badly. Though somewhat of a charitable disposition (which the same is a secret) I rather incline to the latter, as the average worker of my acquaintance certainly don't look like a "three-meat" man. More like a "three-cent" man, judging by proportions, "Willie" Taft being the standard measure. It's no wonder the poor farmer lookB so worried. I always used to think it was the mortgage that was worrying him; now I'm convinced it'B the question of growing sufficient "best cuts" to meet the enormous demand. The flrst thing we know, he will be using these automobiles of his to skin out of the country. And then, what? Though truths, like the latter quotation, will now and then leak out through the press—and then merely as a stop-gap In Borne out-of-the-way corner—It ls simply damnable the "lies; damned lies, and statistics" that are dally peddled by "prominent" personages for the edification of the "salt of the earth." And these same "salts" (Epsom salts, I think) take It all In, and believe all tbey have to do is to quit drinking, get fat, sav up, and they wlll Boon all be mllllonarles. I wonder who will do the work then, when the Local Optlonists and Sunday Observance Society have "changed humanity," and brought about this much-to-be-deslred mlllenlum? We will leave tbis problem for the Salvation Army emigration scheme to solve at 25 dollars per. They'll have an "Inspired" dream, or a fit, or something like tbat, and work it off their chest. In the meantime, you fellows with the "choice cute" had better "divide up," and be good Socialists, or you will get the Rocky Mountain Rangers after you. They are worse than the "bogie man." While you are doing this, there are a select buncb of undesirables going to drill Into the heads of the other muts a tall story about not only seizing the land, but tbe whole means of wealth production, and using It for the tnneflt of all; and thus ending the present anarchy In production. OOUROCK. B. C. PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE. - -A speclsl meeting is called for Monday Dec 27th, st 8 p.m. What ls competition, can there be any such thing as "Benevolent educative competition," has it any ethical value, can lt yield any social benefits to a community where it prevails? Our Capitalistic oponents claim that the present system is one of benevolent educative competition. This I unconditionally refute as being either a deliberate He for the purpose of deluding the unthinking worker, or, as Ignorance on their own part, of the fundamental construction of competition. This I will try to make clear to you, Tek horses are sent running around a ring—the object of the promotors of the race Is to ascertain which is the swiftest horse. They run again the next day, but they do not pass the winning post ln the same order, What have the promoters learned? They have learnt that horse competl tion ls a game of chance with appearances of certainty; and therefore a fine thing to fool with. What have the horses learned? They have learned to run fast. It is a good thing for them to run fast? Ab the seamstress at the sewing machine. Iu this example we have a case of pure compe- tetlon, and the first thing to be noted about It ls, that the horses race Involuntarily without initative. whilst the race itself ls delusive as to Its results, except to the gamblers who are really only playing a game of arithmetic under the name of horses. It used to be customary among men to compete with each other in physical strength. The stronger man killed the weaker man. That kind of competition developed blood-thirstiness. Consequently it was a good thing for the human race when that custom passed out of existence. It is now a custom among human beings, forced upon them by the capitalist system, to compete with each other for enough money to buy the necessaries of life. The man who possesses less of the qualities necessary to succeed in that competition gets the money while the man who possesses less of the ii mlities necs- sary to succeed In that competition either starves to death or at least develops greed, graft, dread, fear, Jealousy, pride, vanity, narrow-mindedness ignorance, pessimism, hopelessness, meanness, stinginess, cowardice, craftiness, stealth and other kindred properties. Thus, blindly we are forced into that curse to humanity—Com- petition. No competition could be endured for an hour among rational creatures, which ls not declared on the assurance that lt Is an effort to destroy competition. The cause of a perpetual c 'tnpetltlon was born ln the commercial mind, and even there it lives the life of a lie, deceitfully, nourished and fondled in public, but never permitted to enter the home circle of those who fondle It. Turn to what field for tbe output of human energy we may, this truth commands attention. Competition can exist only for the conscious, earnest and speediest destruction of Itself that ls obtainable. Competition, as Boon as we look upon lt as a thing, a force, must have a togetherness—synthesis, or direct method of composition, by which we arrive at the conclusion, and this Is Its synthesis—an effort at self-destruction, for instance the conflict between capital and labor as to which shall control the state. The competition between two pugilists for the championship belt or purse of money can only be real as long as they do not know each other's reach or methods of fighting, after that is ls mere declet or brutality. Now the ignorant "working classes" who are bearing the burdens and pay- lug for the culture of their aristocracy, are asked to believe tbe lawyers, legislators, capitalists and the whole annual output of endowed colleges and private tuitions are still sparring in that blindfolded state of Ignorance which preceeds the discovery of the oponents reach and methods of fighting: that we tn America are still permitted to live in this ignorant and preliminary school of competition. We know, however, that that stage has long been passed. We know that they know our reach, our methods, and our resources. If they continue to honor us by putting on the gloves and suffering little defeats in public at our hands, it Is only that the contest may be kept in the present economic ring, where they can afford to lose a little to keep so very much, and where tbarm Ib room only tor one at a time; rather than let the contest go to the larger field ot politics where there may de- . velop room for all at a time, an J room for thought, and also room tor character. Assuming competition to be still the actual arbiter between the classes of labor and capital, what a wild-eyed dream the call for reform or recognition of the trades and labor unions must appear. "Reform, Recognition, who calls for it?" One of the competitors." "From whom does he ask lt?" "The other competitor." "What ls the, truthful answer?" "This competition of ours ls a business arrangement, lt is a universal law. You'ask for more justice, that Is less competition. You ask us to let up on you a little. How can you ask such a thing while you are competing? Can we give you more justice than we can do business with? You ask us to recognize your unions. How can you be so childish? This Is competition. We cannot give you such an advantage. You must compete for It. You are cowards, we know lt. You are afraid of hunger and strikes: therefore, take that on the right eye, to keep the1 left eye company. This is war. All that you ask us for you have lost. You ask for the recognition of your unions. What! art) they so vaporous that we cannot see them, so unsubstantial that you must solicit us to feel them? Are you so childish as not to know that that Is the only real detail In your slavery whltth hns not been settled beyond the chances of competition? Grant you the right to organize and meet us In the strength of united labor! Why, you ask for our death. But are only asking for it, thank heaven, and, therefore, you are as good as dead. Wben you are united, no one will need to recognize a fact so tremendous, you will Increase your numbers, you will sharpen your wits, and conquer by the numerical power of your votes along with your unions." \\ It is a shame for the working men of Canada to be asking, with bared, bowed heads, for the recognition ot tbe unions. Tbe weak people of the world are dependent upon the Intellectual pity of their age for mercy, having no other source of strength. Before what tribunal shall the laborers of Canada bring their wrong? Capitalism orders tbe doors of appeal to ba - closed against them. What other weapons of address or redresB shall they seek? Considering themselves and their opponents as competitors, yet suitors and Judges, how shall they advance? A wide-awake, lighting, class consciousness Is the state of mind necessary to effective union, and non-competition In the class struggle, without which class struggle tbe commercial nations must In future history be populated and manned by races of hopelessly unmanned or emasculated slaves. This ts a manhood evolution, a mental movement from the first dawn of class discontent up to that last moment when tbe process shall materialize In the seizure by wage earners of all the functions necessary to the true public life. Victor Hugo has expressed this thought in a beautiful simile with which I wlll close. "We are in Russia. The Neva is frozen. Heavy carriages roll upon Its surface. They improvise a city. They lay out streets. They build houses. They buy. They sell, They laugh. They dance. They permit themselves anything. They even light fires on this water become granite. There Is winter, there Is ice and they shall last forever. A gleam pale and wan spreads over the sky and one would say that the sun is dead. But no, thou art not dead, Oh Liberty! At an hour when they have most profoundly forgotten thee; at a moment when Ihey least expect thee, thou shall arise, oh, dazzling sight! Thou shalt shoot they (Continued en Page 4) . V-A--U M -r-t--r«M-Mr->Mii,-i|i||l||MM|llllll¥llllPlllliai' I "1 ■1 TWO THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18th, 1909. At Western Qui MMlibed arary Saturday ti* I the ■eeUllat Party of 0»nad», at the Oflloe at tha Western Clarion, Plaek Blook Mw.mant, 1SS »-.ating« Street, Taaoon- tat, a O. aUBSOBZFTIOV:' aXM) Tn Tear, SO oents for Six Months, SI oents for Three Hostile, Strletly Im Advaaoo Bundles of i or more oopiae, for, a irlod of not less thM' threo months, at rate of one cent per copy per issue. Advertising rates on application. If you receive thla paper. It ls paid e? f*^^-V^Art-^**AAiWWvSrtnrt#----*^*-N**rt**-t-» la making remittance by ctrkque. ex- •feango must be added. Address all communications and makl all money orders payable to . OtAMXO*, Taaoonver, n. O. Watch the laffel on your pa- CCA per. If this number Is on it, VUU yoar st-bscriptioa expires the neat issue. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1909 «e~^= ■ Ml I s —. WHO SHALL RULE? vWe don't care. We are the ones ■who are ruled. So what's Hie odds who rules. ''Let the people rule"? That won't go either: We are not "the people. So much have we discovered through considerable experience of rule both 'popular" and unpopular.' We are the "working classes," the "great unwash «d,'' the "mob." The masters are the people and we will not let them rule a minute longer than we can help. Moreover, there is nothing to this question of "Shall the Peers or the People rule?" Shall the Peers or the People pay the taxes, would be much nearer the mark. At this stage of the game there can be no dispute as to who shall rule. There Is no room at the top for any but the capitalist class. There ls a falling out between two sections of this class in Britain as. to who shall pay the Increased taxation for the building of the Dreadnaughts so neces sary for the defence of the Empire and, incidentally, for the financial welfare of the shipyard and coal-pit owners.' Despite their well-known and widely advertised patriotism neither faction is anxious to have this honor thrust upon them. In fact neither is willing to pay even its share if there be any means devisable to avoid lt. Also the Liberal party has to get back into office. Hence the Budget. The Lords, toadied to socially in that land of snobs, {politically are unpopular, so an attack upon them is good campaign tactics. And a rap at the liquor interests is a grandstand play when the Nonconformist conscience is in the grandstand. Let 'em all rule. We don't care. Our first concern is somehow to get nut of being ruled all the time. That's our trouble. / WHO PAY8 THE TAXES? J It's no use "'Qourock," "ye canna tak the breeks off a hlelan'man." Before you can make the, worker pay any taxes, you have got to give him something to pay them with. And on the average he doesn't get it. a You can't even figure It that as he produces all wealth, he must pay the taxes. For, to be exact, he doesn't -produce anything but labor-power these days. He ls just an ambulatory, self-contained, factory for converting bis fodder Into physical energy, which he peddles, when he can, for what It will fetch In the market. True, Labor, labor-power applied to raw materials, creates all values, but It Is not HIS labor-power any more at that stage of the game. He has sold it. He has gojl the job. To the product he has not a vestige of title. It ls his master's machinery, his master's raw material, his master's labor- power, out of which the wealth is coined, therefore it is rightfully his master's wealth. And his masters alone have the wherewithal to pay taxes. However they may squirm and shuffle and dodge taxes, we are safe. We can't pay them. We are a busted community. All that is coming to U3 is the price of our stall and fodder, and as little of that as the law allows. If we get more, the bloated plute has made a bad bargain. He is in danger of being robbed as a consumer of labor- power. (Untermann might look Into this.) Of course we have the proud privilege of seeming to pay a lot of taxes; poll tax, and road tax, revenue taxes. But take them off, and how much cheaper we could work, and, by tbe gods, we would, too, would we not? They are JUBt paying taxes through us. It makes them feel easier In their pocket books to think we are doing It, and we should not mind. SOLVED AGAIN. Through a clipping from an old country paper some one has sent us we learn that the unemployed problem has been solved again, this time by a gentleman by the name of Prank Fox. However, the unemployment agitators need not worry; there la nothing new about this solution. It's the same old gag that the State should devise ways and means of putting the unemployed to work, as if the State did not already have troubles enough finding jobs for poor relations and money for Dreadnaughts. ■ $ Of course there Is the proviso that the unemployed must not be put upon work which would bring them into "unfair competition with free labor." Mr. Fox's chief hold ls the "Labor Farm," "as they have It in Germany; Switzerland and Australia-" Happy countries, where there are no unemployed at large, we presume. He advocates the grading of the unemployed according to their willingness to work, and tells of one in Germany where there are three grades: (1) The bone-idle, (2) the men who are making an effort, (3) the men who are doing well. Class 1 gets the barest subsistence of food; Class 2, better rations; Class 3, excellent food; and— ingenious cruelty—the savory dinners of Class 3 are always paraded before Class 1 so that their stomachs may urge them on the upward path." And when he reaches the dizzy summit of this upward path, what then? Then "the regenerated man would pass out into the current of British industrialism." What for? To hunt, a job, right where the lack of a job drove him to the farm. However^per- haps he is so "regenerated" by the "excellent food" of the third class, that he lfts become a more desirable slave than those on the job, and he may succeed In crowding somebody out to take a holiday on that labor farm and lay in a fresh stock of labor- power. But we are none too sure of that, for it is stipulated that these "rescue" works should not "offer such pleasant conditions as work for private employers." "Pleasant conditions" ls fine. Wonder how they can make conditions more unpleasant than on work for private employers. Fortunately for society, the unemployed problem Is in no danger of sol- uation, being insoluble while capital- Ism endures. Which is also fortunate for the scribes who turn an honest penny fabricating newspaper solutions, and for the Pharisees who dispense "charities" ln a professional way. THAT STILL SMALL VOICE. Kelr Hardie, In the "Labor Leader rehashes the International Socialist Bureau's cheerful taradiddles about the S. P. of C, and International afRlliatlon and the Winnipeg "Voice" gleefully seizes the golden opportunity of taking a vicarious knock at the S. P. of C, by republishing Kier Hardle's lucubrations. One can hardly blame Kier Hardie. It ls perfectly natural that he should be annoyed and there is an element of doubt as to his acquaintance with the facts in the cose, so it may be allowed that he is taking the I. S. B's word for lt. But how about the "Voice"? Editor Puttee knows those statements are absolutely false, so much so that he does not venture to refer to them himself but must have resource to tbe subterfuge of publishing them under Hardie's auspices. Puttee once took exception to our charitably assuming that his peculiar lties were due to the fact that the Lord had made him an ass. We take it all back. We never knew an ass to lie and even an ass is reputed to have the rudiments of courage sufficiently to do his own lying If he did. GOING THE LIMIT. /"' In the I. W W. free speech fight In Spokane, tbe powers that be are going the limit. The "Industrial Worker" has been confiscated on a charge of libel. Some four hundred men are In the jails, some of them being sentenced to six months for attempting to read out the constitution on the soap box. Many women have been arrested and are reported to have been brutally treated. While the" men are subjected to the various forms of refined physical torture common to the American jails. COMPLIMENTARY. Recently Socialism waa the subject under discussion ln the British House of Lords, and the discussion was certainly Illuminative of the crass ignorance of that highly educated body. The only one who said anything worth noting was the Archbishop of York, who consoled himself with the statement that "while Marxian Socialism Is logical, the English people are not." GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES. THAT DRAWING. At the next meeting of the Dominion Executive, a date will be set for the drawing to take place, so If you want a chance at this Library of Original Sources, get busy now. This work would be a valuable addition to any Local's Library. Comrades who have tickets to sell should return the stubs to this office'as soon as possible. Tickets $1.00 each. Chas H. Kerr's latest publication ls the "History of the Great American Fortunes" by Gustavas Myers, and If the first volume Is any criterion, lt is one of the best things they have published. Comrade Myers has evidently devoted a great deal of painstaking care to the verification of his facts, and he is most scrupulous in avoiding any statements which he cannot support by documentary evidence. One of the chief merits of the book is that not only does the author expose the devious aud unscrupulous methods by which these fortunes have* been built up but shows up clearly the economic and social conditions of which these methods are tbe Inevitable and proper consequence. Com Meyers' errors are only of a minor character. On the currency question he Ib open to some crticlsm, and he is sometimes ambiguous in (he matter of taxation, but though he uses rather too frequently such phrases as "the people's land" and "the people's money," his viewpoint is distinctly proletarian and his understanding of economics seems a good deal clearer than ls the case with most of our economists with International reputations. The first volume deals with Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times and with the Great Land Fortunes. The second and third volumes are to deal with the Great Railroad Fortunes and are expected to be ready In January and February. The price is $1.50 a volume and Kerr & Co., are offering the three volumes for $3.50 for advance orders. We have no hesitation in recommending the book. Their address is now 112 Kinzle Street, Chicago. THE SEE-SAW. The theory of organic evolution has been so firmly established, in the light oft empirical science, as practically to compel the assent of every informed and open mind. High dignitaries of the church have been persuaded of its truth; and some of them have made extraordinary attempts to show that the Mosaic account of creation coincides in every main particular with the revelations of modern science. These attempts have not been very convincing. They nevertheless afford interesting evidence of the decay of superstition, and the extent of Its replacement by more rational conception of the universe. The evidence in support of the belief that the various forms of life upon the earth gradually evolved from lower forms, ls very conclusive. Darwin supplied almost every link In the chain of evidence required to establish beyond cavil the fact of man's growth or evolution from a lower stage in the scale of life. Whatever gaps he left have since been filled by later scientists. Man's kinship with the animal world, and his Immediate descent from the higher primates—the anthropoid ape8—are no longer mattera of controversy among scientists. They command universal acceptation. And just as man has descended (or if you like, asended) from the higher anthropoids, so they in their turn may be traced through still lower animal forms, until we arrive at the lowest organism to be found upon the earth,.- the "unicellular protist" (Haeckel). It Is only fair to say, however, that here we meet with an obstacle. The origin of life upon this planet has not yet been satisfactorily explained. This is not to affirm, mark you, that no explanation ls possible. Only that so far as we have gone, our knowledge will not solve us this riddle. A necessary postulate of this theory of man's ceaseless evolution from the simple to the complex, and his eternal advancement towards yet higher things, Ib his continued progress tn the future towards the goal of perfection. But while we may believe in the ultimate perfectibility of mankind, we must not assume too hastily that at any given moment mankind Is happier, nobler, wiser than mankind has ever been before. Human progress appears to consist more In a succession of waves, which flow on, then recede, to gather Impetus tor yet another forward surge of the tide, which again draws back, to repeat the process indefinitely. Or If you prefer It this way: Progress follows an undulating, ascending line (George), the trend of which is ever upward, and which always registers a mean gain, yet the undulations carry us far below, as well as above the point of mean advance. Apparent contradictions to the theory of continuous human progression disappear In the light of this theory. We all know that there is more misery In the world today than there was two hundred years ago. The Iron heel of capitalism grinds the faces of the poor more cruelly than did the heel of any previous despot- Ism. Capitalism breeds poorer specimens of humanity than feudalism did. Chattel slavery saw to It that the unlit did not procreate too abundantly- But capital careB not for the physique of Its slaves. A machine will produce the wealth, granted only a pair of hands to tend the machine. So the capitalist cares not what kind of a body accompanies those hands. No skill nor strength is needed to move a -shuttle back and forth; or to take a lard can from beneath a spout, and put another In Its place. " Neither does the capitalist care how long his slaves live. He does net want them after they are forty, anyway, indeed the position of the average working- man may be contrasted unfavorably with the position of any barbarian of the wild. For the savage, having free access to the bounties of nature, knows that if he be hungry, he will not be hungry long. Experience assures him that night will not fall without bringing some deer or other form of game within reach of his weapons. But the civilized wage-slave may only eat so long as he has .a job. Let him lose that, and he knows not when he may eat again. Sometimes he gets so few chances to eat, after losing his job, that he gives up the ghost in despair. Every jobless workingman knows that every meal he misses renders the possibility of his getting another job more remote. His power to labor, that most perishable of commodities, deteriorates. He becomes unemployable. Two million are In this' position in Great Britain today. Do you realize what that means? A mass of humanity, exceeding ln number a third ot the population of Canada, relies upon charity for sustenance from day to day. There is no place for these people in the scheme of thinga. oociety does not want them, and would prefer that they were dead. It ls possibly true that this unemployed army ls formed of the least efficient among the workers. That is not the point. The point is that it exists; and forms a picture of misery In which there gleams no ray of hope. But let us remember that the darkest hour Is just before the dawn. The wave seems to have receded far this time. Perhaps it is preparing for a mighty surge ahead, that shall, in its onward rush, sweep this misery with Its accursed cause, capitalism, deep into the blackest pit Of, oblivion. Let us solace ourselves with the reflection that surely we have touched the lowest point in our undulating line, and when once the upward roll commences, never again shall humanity sound the depths of wretchedness It has sounded under the evil dominance of capitalism. When competition, with its Inevitable fostering of the beast-like qualities In men shall have pos8ed away forever, mankind may progress to heights as yet undreamed of. The prospect is very fair. We call lt Socialism.—A. Percy Chew, ln The Voice. Socialist Directory Every Local of the Socillist PartT of ' &OCAX POST MOODY ■ should run • card under this head ■• T. ot O.—Business Canada si 11.00 pet month. this head Secretaries please note. DOMi-rio-f j-x-sct-Trv-- comm-tthb, Socialist Party ot Canada. Meets every alternate Monday, D. O. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 838, Vancouver, B. C. bbitish ooiitrmiA nora-pxAx Executive Committee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meeta every alternate Monday. D. O. McKenzie, Secretary. Box 836. Vancouver, B. C. lUMti rmOTt-sTOXAL »«BCT-TIT» Commlttee, Socialist Party ot Canada. Meets every alternate Monday in Labor Hall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postofflce. Secretary will be pleased to answer any communications regarding the movement In the prov- F. Oxtoby, Sec, Box 647 Calgary, Alta. „ tj--t--> — *>., no. st. o >- — "'—Business meetings fl-af Sunday in each month. J V. Hu?l Secretary. Port Moody. B. C. LOCAL MOTX*-, B. O., VO. 30—«*IM H.8ny ,iu.nday 7ri30 P'm IrTMoOregw Secretafv""'1' Pa,°' Mrs' ThornTe" Secretary. .vvmu auBBbUTB. Vo. as. a T or o meets In Miners' Hall ewy sSdaf £? 7:30 p m. . E. Campbelr, B«sy7." V o S» t.'ii' *-,R?s"!.and. Finnish * Branch ?3£5, 1™?iAla2"•• West of Bowden. Business meetings twice • month. Capitalism vs. Social- JLm.co,ntlnu.a ljr oelD* debated by the general public and members of tho Local. . Sky pilots and flunkey poltl- clans cordially Invited to call and par- tlcipate In the sport Secretary. S. W. •MOAL OALOA-ST, ALTA, VO. 4, 8. **. »» i_ HeeVnf" "UKY Sunday at 8 \\n5l& Jhe "i,ab?r Ha"' Barber Block, i-lgnth Ave. E. (near nns*ntn„At r-i..k *> ..-■ —„tn«ar postofflce). Reading Room, Labor Hatl, D. A Box 647, ~ an< _ McLean, „. donald, Organizer, Secretary, Box 647. Club I. A. Mac LOCAL BBLL-STUV, ALTA., VO. 18, S. P of C, meets every first and third Sunday evenings, Bellevue Town HalL C, Stubbs, Secy. LOOAL VANCOUVEK, B. C, VO. 45, Finnish. Meets every second and fourth Thursdays In the month at 161 Hastings St. W. Secretary, Matt Martina. LOOAL VICTORIA, VO. 3, 8. P. OP O. Headquarters and Reading Room, Room 1, Eagle Building, 1319 Government St. Business meeting every Tuesday evening. 8 p.m. Propoganda meetings every Sunday at Grand Theatre. Jas. Mclndoe, Secretary, Room 1, 1319 Government St. LOCAL VAVAXHO, VO. 3, 8. P. of 0., meets every alternate Sunday evening In Foresters Hall. Business meeting at 7:00 o'clock sharp. Propaganda meeting commences at 8:00 o'clock] Jack Place, Rec. Secy., Box 826. LOOAL PSBVXB, 8. P. of O, X0LB8 educational meetings tn the Miners' Union Hall, Victoria Ave., Fernle, every Sunday evening at 7:45. Business meeting flrst Sunday In each month, same place at 2:30 p m. J. Lancaster, Sec. Box 164. LOOAL OXBBVWOOB VO. S, 8. P. OP C., meets every Sunday In Miners' Union Hall at 7:30 p.m. Business meetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month Geo Hra'herton, Organizer: R J Campbell, Secretary, Box 124. LOOAL TBVVOV, B. O, VO. 38, 8. P. OP C, meets every Friday night at 7:30 ln Timmins' Hall, cor. of Seventh and Tronson Sts. Business and propaganda combined. Kdgar Smith, Secretary, Vernon. B. CT LOOAL BETBL8TOZB, B. O, VO. 7, 8. P. of O. Propaganda and business meetings at 8 p. m., the fourth Thurs day of each month "in lodge 'room' over old post offlce. near opera_house. *' Everybody welcome. B. F. Gayman, Secretary; W. W. Lefeaux, Organizer LOOAL PBZVOB BOP8BT, B. O, meets every Sunday at 8 p.m., on the street corners and various halls. J. B. King, Secretary. LOOAL LADYBMITV VO. 10, 8. P. OI C. Business meetings every Saturday 7 p.m. in headquarters on First Ave Parker. Williams. See, Ladysmith, B. C LOCAL COLEMAN, ALTA., VO. S. Meets every Sunday night in the Miners' Hall and Opera House at 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. Socla'lst speakers are Invited to call. H. J. Smith, Secy. LOOAL EDMOVTOV, ALTA., VO. 1, 8, P. of C. Meets every Thursday at 8 p.m.,6i>Firvt s-. Busness nnd propaganda • meetings combined. J. R. Huntbacn, Secy., 161 First St. S.; R. MacQuarrle, Organizer, 623 Second St. LOOAL WnrVZPEO, 8. P. OP O. VBAD- quarters, Kerr's Hall, 120 1-3 Adelaide Street opp.Roblin Hotel. Husinessmeetlngevery Sunday morning 11 a. m. Propaganda meeting Sunday evening 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. W. Cummfngs, Organizer. Secretary, Jas. Thomson, 664 Agnes St. LOOAL TOBOVTO, 8. P. OP 0.—BVO- lish Branch. Business meetings every second and fourth Thursdays In each month, at Finnish Hall, 214 Adelaide St. W. Speakers' Class meets every Tuesday at 134 Hogarth Ave. Will. R. Hubert, Recording Secretary, 42 Beverley St. LOCAL OTTAWA, VO. 8, 8. P. OP O. Business meeting 1st Sunday tn month, and propaganda meetings following Sundays at 8 p.m. in Roberts- Allan Hall, 78 Rideau St. A. J. Mc- Collum, 68 Slater St., Secretary. LOOAL COBALT, VO. S, 8. P. OP 0. Propaganda and business meeting* every Wednesday at 8 p.m. ln Miner*' Hall. Everybody invited to attend. Arthur L. Botley. Seoy., Box 441. LOCAL SBBLXV, OVT., VO. ♦, 8. P. of C, meets every second and fourth Wednesday evenings, at 8 p.m., 61 King St. B.. opposite Market Hotel. H. Martin, Secretary, 61 Weber St. E. LOCAL HOSTSSAI, QVB., VO. 1, 8. P. of O—Meets in Labor Hall. St Dominique street. Sunday* at 3 p. m Headquarters No. 1 St Charles Bor- romee St. Leo jacks . .Secretary, 75 i-f St Catherines W. LOOAL OLACE BAT VO. 1, OP V. 8.— Business and Propaganda meeting •very Thursday at 8 p.m. ln Macdon- ald's hall, Union Street. All are welcome. Alfred Nash, Corresponding Secretary, Glace Bay; Wm. Sutherland, Organizer, New Aberdeen; H. G. Ross, Financial Secretary, office ln D. N. Brodle Printing Co. building, Union Street. Directory of Western Federation of Miners in British Exeoutlve Board Member Wm. Davidson, 8andon DISTRICT A880CIA1 ION NO. «. President ,-•-.., Jno. A. McKinnon, Rossland Vice-President Thee. J. McKay, Greenwood Secretary-Treasurer A. Shilland, Sanden No. Name Meeting Pre». Sec'y. r.O. Add. _ Night - Box 88 81 96 62 113 106 86 Atlln .; Camborne ... Orand Fork*. Greenwood .. Hedley Kaslo Kimberly Ltrdeau Marysvllle Movie Nelson 8. U. 8 Phoenix Rossland ... Sandon Sllverton .... Slocan Texada Trail MAM. Ymir Wed Wed Sat Wed Sat Sat Sat sat Sat Sat Wed Bat Bat Sat ■at Mon ■ |C. Qalrns Wm. Wlnslow James TObln Patrick'O'Connor |w. K. Hadden Charles Birce.....Geo. Heatherton.. C. Bennett T. H. Rotherham. Mike McAndr«ws.. H. T. Rainbow.... !oe Armstrong A. E. Carter. '•red Mellette... B. Lundln- Malcolm McNeill. R. MltcMc R. 811 verthorn.... J. A. McKinnon... L. R. Mclnnls.... Robert Malroy.... Blair Carter O. B. Mcintosh... Wm. Heaketh Chas. Short.. J. Hays .... latnea Roberts. Hiuti 1. in. nn»n W*d IA. Burgesi.. F. Phillip* W. A. Plckard... Ceo.,as-y A. Shilland Fred Llebscher... D. a O'Neal 11... T. T. Rutherford.. F. D. Hardy..... W. B. Molsaac. 12 M 124 42 211 O 12 86 106 2*4 421 K 86 *0 877 606 Discovery Camborne Orand Forks Greenwood Hedley Kaalo . Kimberly Fer-ruaoa Marysvllle Moyie Nelson Pboenls Rossland Bandon Sllverton Slocan City 881 Van And* Trail Tmlr C. PETERS SSfJS Hand-Made Bopts and Shoes to order in all styles. Repairing promptly aud neatly ly done. Stock of staple ready-made Shoes always on hand. I486 Wtitnlaiter Avi. ATE NT! We aolici- the business of Manufacturers* Engineers and others who realize the advisability of having their Patent business transacted byExocrts. Prellmlnaryadvlcefree. Charges moderate. Our Inventor's Adviser sent upon remiest Marion fit Marion, New York Life Btdg, Uoutrcal: n-i Washington, D.C, U.S.A- 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Maaks Designs Copyrights Ac- Anyone lending m skeloh and description rqaj cnicitly ascertain our opinion free^wnetliBr mi tiiTeiittnn ts \"""" UoiiB strictly ■tint freb. Oh Patent* taken IftfOUL ...... iptcial notici, without chars*, In tbe Scientific American. A handsomely lllnstrated weekly. T.nnrest elr- "ultttinn ot any 4clei.tll)o Jourosl. Terms, $.1 a ear -four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. o.sbib,..,!-.,. New York net. MS F SL. Wal'llnatun.D.C Propaganda Meeting ' Sunday Evening, 8 o'clock Gity Hall Vancouver l B. G. i ' ■ VATUrTDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1909 THE WESTERK CLARION. VANCOUVER. BRlflgl 41»*4 «* '*#» • "• ■ lri-HM||B'l - JC, -... IA. __ OF CANADA Tb!" Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive Committees, Locals and General Party Matters—Address All Communications to D. G. McKenzie, Sec, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. PRICE LI8T OF SUPPLIES Supplies wlll be furnished Locals ty Executive Committees at the Sol- lowing prices: Charter (with necessary supplies to start Local) $6.00 Membership Cards, each 01 Cues Stamps, each '..... x .11 Platform and application blank ' per 100 .15 Ditto In Finnish, per 100 60 Ditto in Ukrainian, per 100 60 Ditto in Italian, per 100 50 Constitutions, each ....... 20 Ditto, Finnish, per dosen 50 <♦," THAT DIRECTORY. I ._«_ Dear Comrade,—As a close and Interested reader of our paper, 'The Western Clarion," I have been both amused and Interested at the various ■views expressed by my comrades as to the best means of putting the Clarion on a paying basis. When I look at the "Socialist Directory" contained therein and see the number of Locals who subscribe to have their cards printed weekly, and then compare that with the number of Locals which exist. (I do not know how many Locals there are ln the Dominion, but I should think, as a conservative estimate, that there are at least 100.) In the last issue of the Clarion, December 11th, I find that outside of the Dominion and Provincii.I executive committees, that there Is a grand (?) totaj of 27 Locals who are willing to pay $1.00 per month towards the upkeep of their paper. This Is ajdisgrace to the S. P. of C. Now, taking my estimate of 100 Locals, subtract from that our actual subscribing number of 27, and we have a difference of 73, or, in other words, $73 per month. Some Locals perhaps do not subscribe owing to the fact they have no regular meeting place, but this should not deter them, because at any rate, the name and address of their secretary and organizer should be given, so that if a Clarion came into the hands of any person in their neighborhood who became interested, by turning to the directory they could see the address of those to whom they could apply personally for further information. Then again it ls quite possible that a speaker may be In their district who would be able and willing to address a meeting for them but would be unable to do so (that is, under tbe auspices of the Local), because he may not be able to find the officers of the Local, in fact he may not know that a Local existed there. Regarding other Locals who have not even this frail excuse, I can only surmise that lt must be for want of thought, otherwise if our comrades gave lt serious thought, they would inevitably discover that It would be the best monthly investment from a party point of view that they could make. ! Now then, comrades, what are you going to do about, it? It is up to you. Just think what a difference that $73 per month would make to our little paper! I am pleased to Bee the subs, keep rolling in, but I want to see either an 8-page Clarion or else a biweekly, and It's' up to us. If we only do our share, we can get lt. I should like to see some other comrade express himself in the Clarion on this matter, whether agreeable or adverse. I want every comrade to know the way I view this matter, and I am hopeful of great results. F. BLAKE. GREAT BOOKS " ' '"BY-—> GREAT MEN Origin of Species, Darwin; Age of Reason, Paine; Riddle of the Universe, Haeckel. 25c, by mail —Merrie England- Britain for the British,. Blatchford. 20c. each by mail, Slid lor Citilogie. tjr-: ... . . ' ' The People's Book Store 142 Cordova St. W. MORE PARLOR SOCIALISM. Dauphin, Man. Comrade Editor:— We had Comrade Fulcher organizing and educating this district for about two weeks, the result was not bad considering the weather. He lectured three nights ln the town, once at Lis- towel and_pnce at Valley River, where a local of seven members was formed. The rest of his time was spent in educating us duffers in economics. Sunday, Dec. 5th, four members Including the writer accompanied Com. Fulcher to Llstowel school, a distance of 10 miles. A blizzard had set In the Wednesday before and still continued to blow, snow drifts six feet deep dotted the trail and in some places formed a bank half a mile long. The Writer was teamster and had very little snow wading to do. Com. Flucher being lame also stayed ln the cutter, but the other Comrades had to break the trail through snow above their walstB. By two o'clock we reached the farm nearest the school and learned that a skypllot had reached this farm in the early morning intending to jireach at the school house, but the blizzard had taken the grit out of him so they got no preaching at Llstowel that day. It was our intention of forming a Local in Llstowel and we should have done so had the weather been good, but we got about ten good listeners in spite of the weather. As it was impossible to return home that night we stayed with Comrade Hassard of the Willow Dairy Farm. On Monday we made tracks for Dauphin (they were deep tracks too). The blizzard had not let up, and the trail was in a worse condition than on Sunday. There is not one of us that will forget that drive, before we reached town we had broken a whiffletree and several bits of harness, lamed one horse and I got two fingers frozen slightly. Better luck at Llstowel next time I hope, but we'll get that Local if we have to lame the other horse. Friday Dec 10th. the writer accompanied Co. Fulcher to Valley River, we caught the 16:20 train but remained in Dauphin station till after 19 o'clock, as the engine was frozen up. At the Valley we had a two mile walk foi the school house, but the results of this meeting was ahead of any of the others. Over twenty hard-headed Interested farmers listened intently to Fulcher's lecture and asked many intelligent questions, by midnight a local of seven members had been formed which is likely to be the strongest rural Local in .Manitoba. The meeting shut down about 1 o'clock. After a long walk Ed. and I sat down to a well-earned supper between 2 and 3 a. m. tn the morning, but I guess Ed. would go without his supper every night if he could form a Local by doing so. Comrade Hester Beach, passed away Dec 6th after twenty years work for Socialism. Although only .being a member of the S. P. of C. for a. short time, her work In this district has not been without fruits. Seventeen years ago she lost the whole of her family consisting of 5 children from 1 to 13 years old, they went for a boat ride on the still waters of Lake Dauphin and never returned. Her---widowed husband Is also a member of this Local, and although getting on In years, he Is still ready to do for Socialism that which he did for Capital Ism years ago up the Nile. Comrade Beach also leaves two young daugh ters. Yours for the Revoluton, OEOROE T08EI.AND, Secretary. -*■ Plumbing - JA«S. LEE Phone 6881 413 Prior Street Vancouver, B.C. s*o IN DEFENCE OF MONTREAL. CARD OF APPRECIATION. (Olds District.) To the slaves who voted on November 23rd for Socialism or for capitalism I desire to express my admiration and respect. To any who voted for a political job or to extend the life of one now held, my scorn and contempt. Tp any. who voted for LOVE or HATE of the RESPECTIVE CANDIDATES, my pity and profound sympathy. Your comrade slave in revolt, SAMUEL WHEELER WELCH, Hardscrabble Ranch, Alta.,, December 18th, 1909. Comrades,— I want to say a word on behalf of Montreal Local No. 1, and incidentally of the East. The Westerners have a bad Impression of the movement here, and I wish them to do the same for us as they ask the unconverted to>lo for Socialism; that Ib, give us a show. Before a man can be awakened to his position in the great labor movement, he must be attracted and educated. I believe that we are doing that. Some comrades are unable to understand which process we are working on, and they deem the movement small and our tactics bad. To such I would say that were they in Montreal for a month, they would abandon the cause as hopeless; yet we bave men here who have been ostracised by friends, tabooed hy wives'and famines, batoned by police, black-listed by bosses, excommunicated by the church and literally stoned by Clarion correspondents. And, in spite of this, they work, work, work for the cause, often unable to explain to each other, owing to the difference in language. Their hearts go into the warm handshake, and the word comrade. I know of one comrade here, a nine years' wonder, believe me. If he only had the same forces to meet as are met ln some of the Western towns, the Socialist cause would be an accomplished fact. Comrades, quit your sneering, get your noses down and keep a stiff upper lip. The battle in the East is not lost; our end will be kept up. The flame of revolution is alight in the eyes of a bunch of the bravest, boldest, most intelligent Socialists that ever graced the glorious cause. Our fight is somewhat different to yours. You rarely see your bosses. Those of the capitalists who claim to be Canadians live in Montreal. The suction pipes are laid down in the West, and the mouthpiece is here. The surplus of your labor product is drawn from you and some of lt is consumed here. Consequently we have a great "menial class," as Kautsky calls it; an abundance of lawyers, doctors, coachme'n, servants, upholsterers, clerks, and male ladies-costumiers. This is also the dumping-ground for all nations. We have an overdose of extremely poor and extremely rich, and seventy- four million dollars worth of churches, with their complement of priests, operating against us. One-half the city (the French-speaking) dare not listen to us for fear ot {he priest's wrath. We have as many walking delegates fighting us as you have voters in Nanaimo. Now, boys, sum up. Very rich, very poor, nomads and menials, the priest- ridden and the labor fakirs. Tell me how we can get a Socialist organization to survive such overwhelming ignorance. In spite of this, we have five branches in four languages, a headquarters and leases on two large halls for every Sunday. Boys, don't look at the local coloring and framing; look at the fact and take heart. If we don't come up to your standard, tell us so—don't sling mud- We can stand the vinegar of the capitalists, the slime of the church, the Ignorance of the mass, but your intolerance sort of knocks the sand out of us. We couldn't help it raining when Gribble came, and both Flgg and I promise not to "succeed in getting on the soap box" at Toronto again. We have stitt wll- that we'll sign the pledge against clergymen and fakirs. I want to say, comrades, that Stltt Wilson was O.K. I can't help being a Socialist. My father was one, snd my grandfather was a chartist and for 12 years I've read everything I could lay my hands on concerning Socialism, from the Clarion to Marx's "Capital." I have lent more books ln Montreal than would fill a decent library. I know Socialism when I hear it, and Stltt Wilson delivered the goods. I don't think there's "much ln it" as regards money. I know he got less from us than Orlbble, Simpson, Haywood, Desmond and others that we have had here. Comrades, next time you think of us, ask yourself If It's fair to hurt men who are speaking in the streets of Montreal In mid-December, struggling against fearful odds, all for the sake of Socialism. Think how hard it is to keep faith when so many old stagers are drifting away, to give up hours and.hours every week and dollar after dollar. Some of us, like myself with wife and babies to keep on an uncretaln 12 dollars per week, but we are confident we shall win- Leisure and pleasure shall be free, hardship and hunger shall go. We work and wait for the revolution. A good word will help; abuse only hln ders. So, let's cut lt out! M, WAYMAN. VANCOUVER. On Sunday last the members of the Vancouver local held their usual economic class and there was a large attendance. The subject under discussion was the last chapter of'Value, Price and Profit and it provided much controversy. .Some "of the members maintaining with much show of reason that the last paragraph of the book contradicted much that the author had before advanced. After the economic class, Comrade Steadman gave a paper on Heredity. Steadman is an original thinker but has the/ faculty of expressing himself in an ambiguous manner. This Comrade provides more food for debate than all the other members of the local combined, because they disagree as to his meaning and when he tries to explsin he becomes more ambiguous than ever and mental pandemonium reigns amongst the boys. On Sunday, however, Comrade Dreaver who occupied the chair, induced Steadman to read his paper and express himself much more clearly than usual. Stead- man's argument was to the effect that no such thing as heredity existed. He accepted Haeckeis bio-genetic law but maintained that the different stages passed through in the womb were experienced in different environments and if a female, while carrying young, happened to pass through the same environment as the embryo had experienced before, It would be reflected In the offspring. This was the cause of so-called atavism and other things. Next Sunday the flrst book of Capital will be commenced. Members and friends are requested to be in attendance early. LESTOR. "PEACE ON EARTH GOOD TOWARD MEN." WILL STROME, ALTA. Dear Comrade,—As things in this little burg are, slow from a Socialist point of view, I thought I would wake things up a little, and as our ever- ready comrade, C. M. O'Brien, is always on deck, we had him speak here on the 14th to a good crowd, considering the size of the town, and also never having had a Socialist speaker here before. Charley should have been in bed instead of speaking, as he was badly used up with the grippe. However, he furnished the goods in true red style. Sold a few manifestos. Enclosed find one dollar for a renewal of an old subscriber who got woke out of his sleep on the 14th. Yours for the red, W. H. KYLE. WHO IS TO RULE? Demand Cigars Bearing this Label not Amafl-i "Union-made Cigars. ,, •,, ^ , I ^«mr-i--i-jMMittm^-^mvi--ii-«oinVc-j?fiW«i^ i |..«s»C-»qlsi«sss^aii-^j_ilJ»«jajll.__-_j_t j mZmnlsmwrn* | I J»*»l "••smut -31 ml i|-»l» ' W GUk*K4. hrmkst, CMl.tlet Which Standi for a Living Wage Vancouver Local 367. i Manifesto by the Labor Party. "The great question you are asked to decide," says the Labor party's elec- \\ tion manifesto, "is whether thevPeers or the People are lo rule this country." , After referring to the mutilation or destruction of Important measures by the House of Lords, lt proceeds: "This Irresponsible body, which represents nothing but Its own class Interests, now claims the right to decide what taxes shall be paid, upon whom they shall be levied, and for what purpose they shall be spent. It also claims to dictate the date at which Parliament shall be dissolved. The time has come to put an end to its power to override the will of the Commons. "The country has allowed landowners to pocket millions of pounds every year in the shape of unearned increment, and yet they object to pay a small tax u>on what In justice should belong to the state. They wish at all costs to preserve their power to plunder the people. "The Labor party welcomes this opportunity to prove that the feudal age ls past, and that the people are no longer willing to live on the sufferance of the Lords. The issues you have to decide are simple. Our present system of lend ownership has devastated our countryside, and Imposed heavy burdens upon our Industries, has cramped the development of out- towns, and has crippled capital and im poverlshed Labor. The Ixirds must go!" Having dealt with the Labor party's pledges and how they have been carried out, the manifesto outlines Its program, wnlch includes:—The right to work, the poor law to be broken up and pauperism abolished, old age pensions to be extended and Increased on their present non-contributory basis, and restrictions on the franchise including the sex bar to be swept away. READ COTTON'S WEEKLY 50c per year Two for a dollar SPECIALLY FINE FOR PROPAGANDA WORK. , Six months 26c. Published et Cowansville, l'.eg to stand on. The Clarion Is doing good work. Only last week a fellow of the "better class" with a black cigar in his mouth called the Clarion a dirty sheet, and me an Ignoramus, and I noticed an extra flow cf blood went to his head. This will exhilarate his brain to the exercise of new thoughts, and after awhile we will have a*hlghly cultivated and philosophical "better class." When any one uses God, religion nationalities or scurillous personalities to brow-beat .an opponent, It Is a. pretty good sign that they are out "of | other arguments, and we as economic students do not need to be'alarmed; Fraternally yours, DR. FOOLKILLER. Are you still after that sub? If you are, don't let up; lt Is necessary /or your own good that you catch him. Following did the needful since last report: W- Green, Toronto, Ont,; A. Shilland, Sandon, n. ft; *G. Stewart, Toronto, Ont.; .lohn Johnson. Van- ■ couver, B. ft; P. Waram, Vancouver, B. C; Wm. Maxwell, Cumberland, B. ft; W. Stafford, South Wellington, B. ft! C. J. Wataon, Winnipeg, Man.; J. L. Thornley, Moyie. R. ft; K. Stas- dln, Roblin, Man.; A. Farmilo. Toronto, Ont.; H. Colllngwood, North Battleford, Sask.; W. D. Kyle, Strome, Alta.; ft H. Finley, Cowlchan Station, B. ft; E. Upton, Read Island, B. ft; A. Reid, Victoria, B. ft; J^t). Cameron, Hamilton, Out.; Alex. Gondron, Vancouver, B. ft; Frjank Phillips, Nelson, •B-'ft > • One dollar received from some comrade for a sub., but no name, place or address given. Letter was dated [December 10th, 1909. Was it Comrade Thomas, Quesnel, B. ft? ■^■^■^■^^^ TF rouii THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 190* «$ CAPITALIST SYSTEM. _ 1 The capitalist system was conceived in iniquity.' The capitalist class began theiV System of exploitation With the proceeds of piracy and the divorce of the serf from-the soil. It commenced ' with _the_ sale of the ewe lamb of the worker—the commodity labor-power, ..wijlch jjf was bound to sell when the landilrwajj taken from under him in order to live, for labor-power Is a perishable ccrajmodity. , ,'.'He,t)>at is being robbed misses not that which he is robbed of. I i'iet him not know it and he's not robbed at all." 'Su'shys Shakespeare, and it Is pretty"1 near ifHe mark. - The'Slave was under the impression that »*"w6rked altogether for nothing. He re^hlVed good shelter and cloth- ir&'^d'.'cdnsldered It nothing. "-TUfe wage-slave gets just the same fcndc,calls- It wages. The worker be- HeWHe gets paid for his labor. He (inly out loses his trade .to the others, and so did fn!0* ,1C' vious on lt goes, rolling ahd growing like a snowball- ":- '•■■'■ As capital Increases the amount, of commodities produced Increases. That is reckoning the amount per worker. With *.he aid of better and more powerful machinery, the worker turns out mofe than before.- Wages never rise so rapidly for .any length of time as to cause the increase of total wages to equal the Increase in the product. If they did, capital would Btop growing, and If lt stopped expanding, more men would be thrown out of employment, and down would come wages again. The capitalist, of course, can, If he choose, consume his Income, Sometimes they become philanthropists and give away some of their income to religious institutions, etc. About $50,- 000,000 is spent ln charity in London alone every year. This keeps down the famished hordes of unemployed to some extent, but In spite ot all.charity, as Marx said, "Tbe forest of arms begging for employment becomes ever denser and ever leaner." Some capitalists are sincerely religious. That is to say, they are self- hypnotized. It is almost impossible for any individual to advocate a belief for any length of time without coming under the spell of Its Influence. Some capitalists tell the same lie so often and with such earnestness that they believe lt themselves. They actually believe that their faith ln God is responsible for their profits, and they realize that it smoothes away many difficulties to get the workers to believe this also. Hence they grow more sincere in their devotions and more liberal towards the support of the sky pilots. The worker knows from hitter experience that whatever luck he has experienced has been in a wrong direction generally. He realizes that God does not do anything for him unless he makes God do it, and all the religious institutions in the world, sandwiched as many of them are by organized charity, fail ultimately in convincing him otherwise. The capitalist reinvests what he does not consume usually in the purchase of stocks and bonds. If he cannot find profitable Investment in his own county he invests in enterprises tn more backward countries. The capitalists of England and the States invest their surplUB ln Mexico, Canada, South America, Russia, etc., In commercial, financial, railway, mining and other undertakings. The McBride railway scheme is a case in point. If the worker will ponder a little, he will perceive that. the capitalist class is of absolutely no use to society. It never was. The capitalist never functioned as anything but an exploiter, a parasite. The capitalist class collectively own the means of production since joint stock companies and similar organizations developed. The means of production therefore are not private property but class property. The worker ls bound to have access to the means of production in order to live. The class that owns them can therefore dictate to the worker the terms upon which he shall have access to them, I.e., the terms upon which he is allowed to live. What constitutes ownership? How is It that you, the worker, don't own anything—not even yourself? How is it the capitalist class owns everything and you nothing? The capitalist does not do anything. He does not even know how things are done. He Is no more use to you or to society than the bugs ln the bedstead. The capitalist class owns that upon which you depend for your life, by virtue of the fact that they control tbe machinery of the state. We want the power to declare and make what ls socially necessary to the existence of the working class the property of the working class. How shall we get It? We shall vote ourselves Into possession of the state and vote capitalist property out of existence. The capitalist clasB wlll try all the can to stop us. They might try means of violence. If the) do, they must abide by the result. If we register sufficient numbers at the polls, we shall have organized force enough to enforce our claim behind those numbers. We shall generate it ln the process of our political development. Nothing but the ignorance of our class stands between us and victory. We have many comrades who understand. They must teach those who do not. Every sub. we obtain for our paper (OURS) ls a nail ln the coffin of capitalism. We may be nearer the end than we think. The harvest ls here for the reaping. The tide ts com' lng ln. LESTOR. A- CHRWTHA8 PRESENT, ' ' Hi! Mules—The whole damn family get tbe kink out of your ears and drop that dejected air.' We have kicked and the kick got home alright, even if the halter is on yet, and there won't be any revolution this week, but there is goed tiding of great joy coming our way. You see it's like this—if we are not set to work we are liable to get mad and kick the barn down, we are so impatient you know. , Well, justifying their claim to that "unearned increment," our masters have been busy lately, and, talking wltb one of the "pets of the house hold" through a knot-hole in the fence, I learned that the great God, Labor (who produces all wealth and keeps none, so generous of him), has been Invoked by the burning of Incense and the sacrifice of lambs, and, through the mystic medium of the ballot-box, has ln spite of "our" many sins against him, graciously consented to grant a "blessing" ln the shape of a railroad, and, Oh, joy! we are to have the work of building it, and hay and oats galore, Yum, Yum.. I judge this to be our Christmas present; so shout, Wage Mules! I mean bray (of course). ■ Hapg up your stockings (all four of them), on Christmas Eve, with the implicit faith and trusting confidence of innocent children, for Santa Claus "Capitalism" has a store of good things for us. Real railroads for us to play with, and hay and oats sugarcoated. After the celebration, when a petrified bunch of human respectability comes along, bearing a union card setting forth the fact that they are fit and proper masters to lead you into the wilderness of work, don't get intoxicated with joy, go out with dignity, build the road, take a photograph of it, and hit the ties for town and booze, remembering, we are workers, not fighters. Don't wait for me, I may be late, besides I'm busy now—taking vocal lessons ln rythm and inflection, and the legitimate use of cuss words, in mule language. | CHAS. MACDONALD. ity. (Nothl-ig; abbut n*a«ures off -- "*■-"—rlValue in that statement.) Weil, there NOW IT'S LESTOR. Died Western comrades will regret to hear that Comrade W. Dreaver, formerly of Local Calgary, died at Vancouver, of Tieart failure, about la. m., Thursday, December 28, 1909. •*>•*•**»«•*#«*#* ®®®*m»*®®®®®®*®> l«°^^^iS ^h«H BLOSSOM' "^ r"'"T IN B C CVOF\\^. 1 I ! ,-LM'A Editor Western Clarion:— Sir,—Taking in the Clarion has compelled me to study a theory of value. If we are lo judge by the disagreement of the enquiring, the S. P. of C. have a theory of value which ls exceedingly difficult to comprehend. Marx Is the Pope of Socialism ln Canada, and his theory is the 'Infallible doctrine. It seems Incredible that Untermann should write a book on Marxian economics, and yet be guilty of confusing "Price and Value." If such confusion exists, his book won't have exchange value with any commodity I possess. Hector McDonald is on Untermann's trail, and judging by his article In the Western Clarion of December 11th, he has a thorough grasp of economics. I read with much interest an article by Lestor, "Economics, False and True." There is no doubt, as a celebrated economist well says: "In a state of society in which the industrial system ls entirely founded on purchase and Bale, each individual, for the most part living not on the things ln the production of which he himself bears a part, but on things obtained by a double exchange, a sale followed by a purchase—THE QUESTION OF VALUE IS FUNDAMENTAL. Lestor says Bohm Bawerke never understood Marx. I don't either, because I haven't studied his theory of value. I never took any Interest in the theories of value till the Clarion aroused my Interest a few days sgo. Is Lestor quite certain he understands the Jevon's theory? Lestor says the theory of value which Jevons propounded was really tbe old theory that the value was dete mined by the ratio of supply and demand." Well, tbe temporary or market value Is determined by demand and supply. The temporary or market value of a thing depends on the demand and supply, rising as the demand rises and falling as the supply rises. The demand, however, varies with the value, being generally greater when the thing Ib cheap than when it Is dear, and the value always adjusts Itself in such a manner that the demand is equal to the supply. To get an intelligent Idea of the theory of value, we. have to consider demand and Supply in their relation to value, just as much as the cost of production in its relation to value. Both are necessary to clearness of comprehension. Lestor evidently thinks he has annihilated Jevons by quoting what Ricardo said about utility as a measure of value. A measure of value Ib a different subject altogether. It never ought I to have been Introduced. Lestor creates contusion hy introducing It. Lestor Bays Jevons held the opinion that value depended entirely on util- ls no doubt utility is a necessary condition. "That a thing may have any value ln exchange, It must be of some use, conduce to some purpose, satisfy some desire." If bad whiskey is an article of disutility, good whiskey must be an article of utility. Now, Lestor, suppose good whiskey to be drunk in excess. Is it a utility or a disutility? A drunkard might drink whiskey, knowing it to be absolutely bad, yet he considers it of use to him to satisfy his desire; bo to him lt possesses utility. Bad whiskey, adultedated food, shoddy clothing is no argument against exchange value, depending on utility. The economist Is not concerned with the ignorance of the buyers or the deceit of the sellers; tbe buyer thinks or imagines the article possesses utility. For Instance, the Chicago canned meat, of which some was absolutely rotten. As regards shoddy clothing, the difference is only in degree of utility. * As regards Jevons idea that supply follows demand, it the speculators thought therei was going to be no demand, there would *be no supply. It Is demand that governs the speculator's thoughts and actions, not supply. So I don't consider you have floored Jevons there, Lestor! I must charge Lestor with inconsistency. He Bays a follower of Marx should not predict what the world will be like in the next order of society, and then immediately proceeds to predict lt will be a world without religion. It seems to me so long as there is a mystery pressing for interpretation, so long as human beings have to ask themselves whence and whither, so long will there be scope for religious feelings. In-what way can the marriage system change? Will the whole world become monogamlc? Will only a limited number be allowed to breed so that the balance Is maintained between the food supply and the population? Will lt be polygamy, polyandry or communal marriage? Is that the desirable state of existence where they wtll be all husbands and wives to each other on an affinity baBis? Are we downhearted? No! Yours truly, CLIFFORD BUTLER. THE BENEVOLENCE OF COMPETI TION. (Continued from Page 1) bright and burning rays, thy heat, thy life, on all this mass of ice become hideous and dead. Dou you hear that dull thud, that crackling, deep and beautiful? 'Tis the Neva tearing loose Ybu said it was granite. See, it splits like glass. 'Tis the breaking of the ice, I tell you. 'Tis the water alive, joyous and terrible. Progress recommences. 'Tis humanity again begin ning its march. Tis the river which retakes its course, uproots, mangles, strikes together, crushes and drowns In Its waves not only the empire of up start Czar Nicholas, but all of the relics of ancient and modern despotism That trestle work floating away! It is the throne, Tbat other trestle? It is the scoffold. That old book, half sunk? It ls the old code of capitalist laws and morals in which slaves lived See these all pass by; passing never to return; and for this Immense en gulfing, for this supreme victory of life over death, wbat has been the power necessary? One of thy looks, Oh, Sun! One stroke of thy strong arm, Oh, Labor. F. BLAKE. A. F. Cobb Merchant Tailor OKotoK*. Albert* For every suit sold through this advertisement I will give $2.00 to the circulation of the Western Clarion. Plan: 1. Write me for samples of goods. 2. Mention the price you want lo pay for suit. 3. Compare my sample with the price. 4. If. suitable, send me deposit of $6.00. 5. I will guarantee to deliver suit to fit within six weeks. 6. Clarion will acknowledge receipt of $2.00 from me when suit ls paid for. Suits to measure from $15.00 to $30.00. A PLACE TO EAT THE CAFETERIA MS balls It- Vistiiw The Best of Everything Properly Cooked "° WANTED A school teacher for Gibson's Landing school, male preferred. Duties to commence after Christmas holidays. Apply stating qualifications ana expetience to J»». Fletcher, sec. school board Gibson's Landing, B.C. Teacher Wanted For SqOamish school. Salary $60 per month. Apply to H. JUDD, Sec. Brackendale, B. C. L- ■'-' *'*■ ■-■ " • '•■-■■-- ■ ■'■■ Socialist Pa*ty of Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to, and support of the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producers it should belong. The present economic system ls based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to tbe capitalist class. The capitalist ls therefore master; the worker a slave. Bo long as the capitalist class remains In possession of the reins ot government all tbe powers ot the State will be used to protect and defend their property rights In the means ot wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream ot profits, and to tbe worker an ever Increasing measure of misery and degradation. The Interest of the Working class lies ln the direction of setting Itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of tbe wage system, under which is cloaked tbe robbery of the working-class at the point ef production. To accomplish this necessitates the . transformation of capitalist property ln the means ot wealth production Into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and tbe worker Is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of .the power of government—the capitalist to hold, tbe worker to secure lt by political action. This ls the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organise under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with tbe object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic programme ot the working class, ma follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, ot capitalist property in the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads etc.,) Into tbe collective property of the working class. 2. The democratic organization and management of Industry by the workers. 8. 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