Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-04-04
issued: 1910-05-07
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note: hi s. is v78t VsnoMiver, British Cskmbia, Saturday, May 7, 1910. saiijj«i^wm»s g|j| /HAT IS THE MATTER ? How is it that, With all Your'Bumper Crops, You farmers are yet Poverty Ridden } It is spring and our mild Canadian winter has vanished for a month or two. Spring.when a lovlier iris changes on the burnished dove, and a young man's fancy is supposed to lightly turn to love stunts. Spring, when all birds and lower beasts seem to enjoy life up to the notch; when the rooster with red and fiery eye stalks about the yard and lords it over his many wives—disgusting old polygamis't* Spring.when the ducks, all snowy white, march out in Indian file and dabble In the new- formed ponds; when the old turkey cock airs his beauty before his admiring mates. Spring, and the sun is warm; cattle, sheep and hogs sprawl and bask ln the warm corners ln luxuri- oqr-idleness. Yes, it Is spring, and what does it mean to you, proud master of the brute creation? Ease and Idleness, sunning yourself in old Sol's delightful rays? Alas, no. It means work, work, work, heaps of work, tons of work, bags anil bushels ot work. From now on until the snow files again you must toll in the fields, under the midsummer heats, [; in tbe chill October winds. Work, for the. first of November comes all too soon, the glorious first of November when the collector goeth forth and will' take no denial. Ah, those collectors! Why do you look so uneasy when they call upon you? "I am so-and-so, of the International Harvester Co. I have called round to collect that debt you have owed since last year." Come, pay *fp, pay up, they cry—and why can't yen pay? After all this prosperity, after all the grain you have raised last we hear so much of. Come, you inde- year; after all those beautiful harvests pendent farmer of the golden west, do yot| still fear the coming of collectors? What? After all the wealth you raised you can't pay a miserable $190 for a binder? What has become of all your golden grain which you garnered…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318836
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text