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:-«*•.' THU I "0 • annul w. J, Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, July 10, 1909. subscription Price Put V«a» SI.0I LET THE PEOPLE EAT GRASS The Discovery of a New Diet Which Promises to Place the Wage-Mule on the Same High Level as His Longer- eared Brother in Adversity. Old Teufelsdroch, sitting serene alone with the stars, silently observing, or in a talkative frame of mind giving vent to curious night thoughts, was not more calm or contented than I have been these several years. Having quietly imbibed a spirit of fatalism from Marxism, and anticipating the early fall of capitalism (the conquest of the air and the elect riflea- tion of industry notwithstanding), I could survey with unruffled temper, the development of capital, and foresee the time approaching when "centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integuniont. The integument Is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated." Serene I dwelt in the fragrant Nai- shipur of Marxist fatalism remote afar from those safe and sane individuals who view in mankind a force which is aprt from nnd mightier Ihan all other influences, who believe that the world is to him what clay is in the hands of the poteer. Apart from these, Socialist and otherwise, I speculated upon the early overthrow of Ihe present order, the necessary tipspringiiig of the workers in intelligent revolt, and the consequent establishment of the co-operative commonwealth. Hut alas for the rarity of human happiness, I am dragged from my fool's paradise and forced to face the stern facts of everyday life. My mirage fades away, and I am compelled by a chance perusal of the daily press, to remember that theh sweltering desert of class ownership lies ever ahead. Several thousand years ago a Baby- lonian king went out into the field and ate grass with the beasts; Nebuchadnezzar, I believe his name was. Some infidels have had the timerity to pronounce (he story Impossible nnd nonsensical. His grass diet, if I remember my Hible, caused talons to appear in place of lingers, and teeth more fitted to tearing carcasses than eating grass. Remembering this, perchance, a French aristocrat, whose name I don't remember, recommended to the French peasants a diet of grass; with characteristic ingratitude they one day stuffed his lordship's mouth with grass and hanged him. What has all this got to do with Socialism and capitalism. This, dear comrades, our movement must prepare to meet its fate. There is in Omaha, Neb., an institution known as the Creighton University; lt is the leading Catholic educational centre in the West, and within Its learned walls is a band ot some twenty young men who call themselves the Creighton Alfalfa Club. These young men Eat Gran, "' and are putting on flesh. Grass is their sole diet—alfalfa hay, to be more correct. Farmers discovered sometime since that alfalfa was splendid stuff for young animals, containing in Itself most of the elements required to build up a strong frame and clothe tt with flesh. Now scientists discover that the human carcass may also be built up by this highly prolific grass. These students swear that they are stronger and feel better than when they regaled themselves on cates of culinary artists of renowned powers, on beefs and muttons, and pork, fish, game, etc., etc. True, true, thou great magician. Shakespeare, thou wizard, dld'st not thou say three hundred years agone: "Methinks I should like a bottle of hay; good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow." - And now we of this late day and generation are preparing to say so, too. Not only are these young students eating alfalfa, but the housewives ot Omaha are starting to use lt to prepare their meals, and many people are declaring that in a few decades it will be the staple foodstuff, supplanting wheaten flour as a •read maker. THE WOMAN'S PLACE. It is not a difference of sex which is the chief factor in determining the industrial position of woman. Machinery knows neither sex nor age, but chooses that labor embodied ln man, woman or child which Is the cheapest in relation to the degree of its efficiency. The demand for the vote by women Is a direct consequence of the capitalistic mode of production. The capi- The exact process it goes through talist system is full of contradictions, ere it is consumable, I know not, but tt enslaves our class economically and apparently a flour is made from it which is of a rich brown color, and makes mush or cakes. I am unable to say whether it is eaten in the raw state or not, but I have ar. idea from what 1 read, it is; if this be so, per haps we may yet see hobbled oHt in a fifty-acre patch, some wage-mules who are unable to find a master. Think of lt, gentlemen of the legislature and ministers of Christ, a few hundred acres well cultivated will suffice to keep all the wild-eyed hoboes who should happen to drift your way in a year. No more trouble with soup kitchens, no more bread lines. Turn them loose in a nicely fenced field of succulent hay during the summer months, or in winter Into a barn, throwing them in sufficient sweet smelling grass, to keep them alive without developing in them an overplus of energy, which might express itself In rebellious riots Think of it also, gentlemen of the niudstick, does lt not hold out to you promises of a brighter day? Has not the rlee-eatlng Asiatic haunted your mind anil struck fear in your heart, lest he should take your (?) job froin you? But now methinks we can compete with him upon evnner basis. The Asiatic problem is solved! A few decades hence I shall not be sur- Drltlsh subjects embarked upon a ship of the Flowery Kingdom, bound for Japan or some other Eastern country to take the places of the ravenous natives there, who, in their inordinate greed, demand a daily cuisine of rice and fish, scaring capital from the country and demoralizing business. And may not the landlord also look up and rejoice; too long has he been at the mercy of that upslart capitalist; now he may hope for a return to the halyron days of feudalism, when ownership of the land meant ownership over the profits produced by the slave class, ere capitalist machinery stepped in and tapped the wire, diverting tile stream of profits to its owners' coffers. The possibilities of this discovery are beyond computing. I am borne fearfully darkly afar. Clouds of despair gather around me. My occupation, like Othello's, is gone. 'Tis futile to agitate longer. With the discovery of radium, physicists gave unlimited time to the existence of the earth in its present form. Kelvin, prior to his knowledge of radium, had limited the earth's age to socially. And at the same time shows them the urgent necessity of striving for political power. Capitalism exploits the workers on the economic field and works In the political field to increase Its power of exploitation. Political power is in itself neither reactionary nor revolutionary. "In the hands of the capitalists it is a reactionary weapon. In the hands of the work ers It becomes a revolutionary sword.' The vote given to the working women would be the means of making theni class-conscious. The rulers are always class-conscious. When the women get the vote, ALL WOMEN, the whole of the working class will be united without respect to trade, profession or sex. The whole of the exploited against the exploiters. They say we women are reactionary. Well, it is nol the women who send the reactionary members to Parliament now. It is the men. Adult suffrage carries within itself the correction of its own within itself the correction of its own errors. The class war Is felt as much in the world of women as in the world of men. The working woman, like the working man, is denied the right lo develop herself, because she is poor. Hul when she has the power, she will of a certainty, use it to overthrow Ihe power of the propertied class. Let the Socialists once gain the wives nnd mothers of our class, and victory is in sight. The working women will not bring up and educate slaves, with slavery in their blood, but warriors of freedom. Those who live to see It will find th-'. ;he women of our class, will have done more to bring about the Social Revolution than the men. You know the working women suffer under more grevlous burdens than the men of their class, This is explained by the historical position they have occupied since the rise of private property. The enslavement of women dates from the rise of private property in the means of life. The emancipation of woman will come, only when Socialism puts an end to that abuse. We women of the Socialist movement, have work before us, first to educate ourselves as propagandists, and second, to get ln touch with the working women of the country, and and more especially those who work In the home. These, or at least many of them, have a narrower outlook, than those who work outside, their work is monotonous in the extreme, they are the victims of custom. Phey spend their lives in a round of uncomplaining, unpaid drudgery. Superstition has them in its paralysing grip. More than any other section of the community these women need arousing. We must teach them facts of modern society and their true relation, then they will see that their children must be taught Socialism, then Socialism will become the atmosphere of the home and we can have our principles Instilled into the minds of the rising generations. Recognising how ignorant they are of many things, they will resolve that their children shall have a better education. When we can get them to realize how much of the joy and beauty of life has been denied them, they will set their teeth for the class war, and determine their children shall not be robbed as they have been. We women, must take a more active part in the Socialist movement. We are not going to brushed aside as camp followers, we are going to march alongside the men, shoulder to shoulder. Companions and Comrades, marching for the conquest of Ihe world, for the workers. RUTH LESTOR. RUSSIA'S ROYAL HANGMAN The International Socialist Bureau Calls Upon the European Proletariat to Make Manifest Their Loathing for the Murderer of Their Russian Comrades. SOCIALISM IN PERSIA Brussels^ June 17th, 1909. To the Central Committees of the Affiliated Parties:— Dear Comrades,—ln a few days Nicolas II., Czar of Russia, will undertake a journey across Europe and will sojourn in Sweden, England, France and Italy. The conscious working class cannot consider this visit as an ordinary incident of official diplomacy. Capitalist governments will certainly retain their part of greeting the tyrant of working and intellectual Russia, but the nations cannot look upon such an individual as a desirable guest. Above all, It Is the duty of workers to voice what the Immense majority of their fellow citizens have not ceased repeating during these last years. Already a voice of vengeance, that of Citizen Hranting, speaking in the name of the whole Social-Democratic group, has been heard in the Swedish Parliament. Already in England the delegates and the organs of the affiliated parties of our bureau have decided to organize manifestations of protest, and, two days ago, Will Thorne echoed their sentiment in Parliament at Westminster. France and Italy cannot remain silent as he, who incarnates the regime of bleeding reaction and whose reign has been disastrous for Russia and for all modern civilization, passes through their midst. Indeed. Instead ent sanitation, as a result of the-lack —or bad quality of the foods, as a result of over-population. In February; . 1909 there were 181,137 prisoners, when there is not sufficient room fwr half that quantity. There are numerous cases of acute phthisis, of insanity and the prisons, transformed first, into torture-chambers , become finally cemeteries for the prisoners and hot*. beds of contagion for the rest of the . population. Will the civilized world declare It-. self accomplice of all these abominations by letting their responsible author pass without protestation?- Will lt bend the knee before this potentate, who surpasses in cruelty Abdul liamld, who revenges himself for a crushed revolution, by torture and assassinations, and whose object is to extract new millions in order to continue his nefarious work? Does that when the Russian Government undertakes to try extradited prisoners by the regular court, they have them shot point-blank during transport to another prison and that they justify this crime by stating that the prisoner attempted to escape? It seems lo us that the time has come - to react against this regime which threatens the whole of the East. Al> ready in Germany, without much trouble, we can find divisions of police who co-operate in the acts of spying • of freeing the peasants. Nicholas II. and Provocation of the occult organ.- has starved them. Instead of practlc-1zations of st' Petersburg, pliable lng a policy of economy and financial! magistrates who arrange judiciary purification, he has run the country|comedies, with the object of pursuing into debt and has tolerated The awakening of liberty in Persia, says Mr. Jaures in his paper the Hiiiniinite (Paris)' is entirely due to the activity of his own party, the Socialists in Persia, whom he styles "the most recent accessions to the proletarian Internationals." This editor gives an account of an interview which he hail with a Persian Socialist recently arrived In Paris, Dr. Mirza Ab- lullnh, "president of the Central Committee of Socialists in Persia, a theor- several 'al and a fighter of eminent merit." ted him to dissolve the parliament and to attempt the drowning of all efforts after emancipation in a deluge of blood." Socialism, he continues, has, however obtained a moral victory in Persia and the ultimate emancipation of country is assured.—Translation made for The Literary Digest. CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. hundred thousand years. With n knowledge of radium Ihey said Ihey could call lt any old age. And similarly does the discovery or alfalfu as a foodstuff make possible the existence of a slave class for all time. The breakdown of the capitalist system ls postponed indefinitely. Can any comrade more gifted with foresight than I; point out Hope's star in this noon of night, or must the day come when we shall throw ourselves into a hotel dining-room and order "some boiled clover and a side of fried hay, pleaBe." J. H. OKANAGAN CONVENTION. Dear Comrade:— A convention of the Socialists of the Okanagan district will be held in Vernon on July 12th. Our hall will be open at 1 p.m. and the Convention is called for 3:30 p.m. Visiting comrades to the city on that date are cordially invited to be present and get acquainted with tbe Okanagan comrades. The dear, kind C. P. R. will reduce its fare on the 12th to Vernon, so such a chance is not to be overlooked for us to prepare for the next skirmish. Yours in Revolt, GEO. W. PATERSON, Secretary Local No. 38. Dr. Abdullah says that "the soul of the struggle against the Shah ln Tabriz" was the enthusiasm of the So- clHllsls. As for the origin of Persian Socialism, the docter says that It spread from RubsU to Persia. To| quote his words: "The Socialist party in Persia was formed under the influence of our young Intellectuals who In Russia were taking courses in the University of Tiflis, the great socialistic city of the Caucasus. Socialism is also fostered by workingmen In Baku, the vast canter of the petroleum Industry, where the proletarian population is entirely animated by the ideals of modern Socialism. In the struggle against tyranny the Persian Socialist Party was always in the van, and soon obtained immense influence over the public mind, and at this present moment is universally respected." According to Dr. Abdullah, ihe Persian Socialists have been much more successful than the Russian Socialists from whom they learned their lesson. They have not wasted their power and sacrificed their popularity by riot, open rebellion, or inflammatory proclamations. They have been discreet, and have bided their time for a decisive stroke. The worst of it is that as Czarism has practically crushed the power of Socialism In Russia, lt has also "entered upon the scene" in Persia. The hand of the "agents of Csar- ism" "appeared in all the crimes perpetrated by the Sbah. They instiga- "The restrictions of trade placed upon the American capitalist, who eon- trolled Ihe Imperial government, were about as irksome and unbearable as those inflicted on the French capitalist by the French feudal regime. All commerce had lo be can-led on In ships built In England. American capitalists: were not allowed to manufacture anything that could be manufactured in England. Sugar, tobacco, cotton, wool Indigo, ginger, dyeing goods, could be sold to one customer only—England. All imported goods must be brought from England and carried in English ships. Provinces were not allowed to sell woolen goods, bats or Ironware, even to one another—only to England. In Maine, all trees over two feet In diameter had to be saved for the royal navy. (This interfered with the budding American capitalists exploiting American labor and growing rich out of the proceeds of commerce and Industry, which interference with their "natural rights" they, of course, resented, with tho result, that the colonies revolted and threw off the yoke of the British government.i"—page 93 Vital Problenms In Social Evolution, by Arthur Morrow Lewis. There appear to be two ways for a minority party to force reforms. One way is to advocate reforms categorically, and the other ls by advocating revolution. For quii-k results, which way do you prefer? In the army, as In civil administration, a system of organized brigandage, Instead of encouraging intellectual culture In ai. empire which numbers 80 per cent, of illiterate people, he has maintained a stupid censorship and has cruelly persecuted the most devoted friends of public instruction. Instead of re-establishing order by liberty, he has multiplied punishment by hanging. He has constituted himself the titled protector of the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PfiOPLE, Ihe sinister organization of pogroms and political assassinations. He has solemnly accepted the insignia, and In order that no one should doubt of his complicity in this infamy, he has, with the concurrence of the government, officially subsidized ibis association of bandits. Such encouragement was not sufficient for him: he has grained Impunity lo ihe black bands, by pardoning their members who have been convicted of assassinations; he has not ceased exchanging telegrams With their president, Dr. Doubrovlne, a (notorious criminal, who caused Deputy Liollos to be killed, who was accused by the grand ducal government of Finland of having caused Deputy llerzensteln (o be assassinated, who was denounced by his former secretary. I'roussakov, as having Instigated the outrage In whicli Count Witte was to have met his death. This Infamous policy Nicholas II. has completed by making of spying a state Institution Inseparable from his system of government. The Asev affair from this point of view has torn down every covering. It has laid hare a regime as corrupt from a moral point of view ns It Is from an economic point of view and has proved that the St. Petersburg camarilla has instigated political crimes In order to lend Its authors to certain death. Lastly, a recent interpellation In the Douma has demonstrated that the examinations are accompanied by threats of death, which are meant lo draw false depositions from tbe accused. Acting on orders from high places, the prison administration practices systematic flogging and torturing of prisoners, with more than once, death as a result. By the directors' orders, the soldiers shoot men and women prioners through the windows. At the present moment epidemics of typhus and fever are raging ln the majority of the prisons, as a result of insufflcl students and thus furnishing to Nicholas II. some food for his gallows. In Switzerland, high justice has shown what It Is worth from a moral point ot view, at the time of the Vassilieff affair, and in Belgium, at the present moment an attempt is being made to make this little country an accomplice of the crimes of Czarism, Lastly, in France, the secret Russian police extends lis ramifications all over, under the direction of Asev's accomplices, who, several times, have tried to compromise the light of shelter. These facts, known lo all, chsructeiv ise one of the points of the present moment. They tend to prove that Czarism Is seeking to re-establish ancieni hegemony policy and at the same time to renew -the ltberticlde tradition of the Sacred Alliance. But Ihe liberating movement, of working1 men must not be hampered either by the pusillanimity of middle-class democracy, nor by the violence of the despotic aniiicrat. That is why It shall make Its voice to be heard everywhere and It slmll signify to Hie chiefs of the black bunds, that we are not yet ripe for the knout. The Executive Committee of the International Socialist Bureau. Edouaid Anseele, Leon Fuinemont, Emlle Vandervelde, Camilla liuysmans. Secretary. THE ORIGIN OF MONEY CAPITAL. "The history of the Importation ot gold and silver into England during the sixteenth century Is particularly edifying. The Spaniards robbed and butchered the hapless natives of America, burned their villages and started with their loot for Spain, English buccaneers on,the high sens lay in wait for them, cut their throats, scuttled their ships nnd carried their gold and silver as booty Into England. Once ln England, where the land robberies of the nobles created a homeless proletariat, this gold and silver could function as money capita] and incidentally contribute to the rise of a capitalist aristocracy. * * * The discovery of new lands meant colonization. Colonization meant a growing (world market. A growing world market reacted pu»- erfully on human incentive to > -ate and perfect product-increasing machinery. "—A. M. SHrton, p. 24, "From Star Dust to Socialism." I two si*j| Ike I sster^llta WMiibea every Saturday by ths SUnllTliit Party of Canada, at the Offlce •f th* Western Clarion, rlaok Block BsVMrnent, 165 Bastings Street, Vancouver, B C. SUBSCRIPTION: WM) Per Tear, 50 cents for Six Montbi, 25 cents for Three Months. Strictly ln Advance -Bundles of 5 or more copies, for o iwrioil of hot less than three months, at Vbe rate of one cent pur copy per issue. Advertising rates on application. If you receive this paper, lt is paid fn making remittance by cheque, ex- -obango must be udUeJ. Address all '•eomrnunicuttoris and make all money Vfders payable to TKE WESTERN CLARION, Bra 836. Vancouver, B. C THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER. BRITISH. COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, JULY 10TH| At the best, for a favored few, a union job in a closed shop at a union wage. What a paradise! Is that the worthiest there is for Laber to strive for? No- wonder Brother Sam is inspired to rise to this closing peroration : — "It is now the imperative duty of every union man and sympathizer with the cause of labor to redouble his energy, loyalty, and devotion for the great cause of the human uplift. This in memory of the sacrifices and Achievements of those who have gone before us ln the cause of labor and for the millions yet unborn who will profit by every improvement aad advance in conditions made in our time—the touchstone of our achievement being organization, fraternity, solidarity, ami federation." WILL IT BE CIVIL WARf 536 Watch the label on your paper. If this number ls on it, your subscription expires the next issue. eccentricities, they are Masters of Arts, Bachelors of Divinity, Doctors of Philosophy, and authors of numerous sermons and articles most highly commended by sundry other Ms. A.Bb. D. and Ph. Ds., we burrowed in to try and get a line on their brand of dope. So far as we can figure it out, the reason for the proposed existence of "Up The Divide" is the acknowledgement on the part of the authors of its being of the fact that Religious Faith and Scientific Fact cannot longer be made to jibe, to the serious peril of the former. Whence would ensue a "religious interregnum" between the day Is coming, soon, when the working class -will be obliged to settle this* matter, and it should be done In an intelligent manner, so that all parties may recognize the justice of the. decision, whichever way ir goes. Personally, from the standpoint of equity and justice, 1 cannot consider that there can be two ways of deciding this question; especially if we analyze the platform of the-S. P. of Canada. As a basic principle, we assert that "Labor produces all Wealth," and as I look around me on every hand, I see ample evidence of the truth of that SATURDAY, JULY 10TH, 1909. SMILE, DAMN YOU, SMILE. The latest accession to the Sunshine ^rob is our "eminent contemporary" Sam Gompers, for we find in the July '"".American Federalionist" "edited by 'Samuel Gompers" an editorial "by Uanniel Gompers," (this re-iteration wakes us Bkeptical) entitled "Labor's -Blighter Horizon." That labor's horizon is easily bright- *«oed is apparent from the fact that Bam can call our attention to the light •of but three recent victories, and it -takes a star of but little magnitude to -constitute a brilliant victory for the A. F. of L. these days. The number- tees crushing defeats aie discreetly ig- •srored. Also he boasts that, in spite ■of a year and a half of industrial depression, no "substantial" reduction of wages has been made among unloa xsjen. The Iruth of which depends on tbe definition of "substantial.:' All through, the editorial forcibly reminds us of the card that lias found <a prominent place on the desks of the commercial community ever since the *juiic, "Business Is Good." Of course one cannot be much surprised at Sam's optimism. He is about to be sent on a trip to Europe, "no doubt with the usual liberal allow- sauce for "incldenlals," whicli is certainly calculated to lend a rosy tint to his spectacles when he views labor's Horizon. But it will hardly -win Labor anything to pat itself on tbe back and whistle to keep up its '•ftBOr.age especially as it has nothing to ■put itself on the back about. Brother Sam to the contrary notwithstanding, Labor's horizon presents about as dark and gloomy a prospect -as could be imagined. This talk of no sobs t n n tin I reduction ln wages would *e nothing short of deliberate falsehood were it not due to the densest •and most wilful ignorance. To leave aside the mere money wage, Is it not clear as noonday to any who are not Winded by their own prosperity I hat tbe real wage has been falling continually for these many years and with increased -speed recently. The real wage is the living, Ihe things purchasable with the money wage. Ever less and less of the necessities of life can be bought as the prices of commodities go up. And as for the relative wage, never in the world's history was the dispartiy between the worker's sand the masters' portions so great as it is today thanks to the enormous productivity of Labor armed with the modern machine. The money wage Is absolutely no criterion of Labor's position; were The remarks of the ex-presldent of the Diamond Match Co. as quoted in the Miners' .Magazine are a typical expression of the attittWe of the class conscious capitalist and should provide food for thought te those who regard the class struggle as a theoretical doctrine and who would extend the olive branch of human brotherhood to our masters. History, and quite recent history at that, the Paris Commune and the Russian Revolt for example, leaves no room for question that of all conflicts a class conflict is the most ruthless, and also that the grim arbitrement of war is invoked always by none other than the master class, the very upholders of law and order. So whether the Social Revolution shall be ushered in "with iron sandals shod" or not, the choice will lies with our masters, and the chances are strongly in favor of the former contingency. Not by reason of any fighting blood that runs In their veins, for of all i ruling elasses that have ever polluted the earth and harried its denizens, these gentry of the yardstick and counting-house are the most despicable because the least courageous and the most treacherous. Their god Mammon has endowed them the brains of a fox and the bowels of a hare. For generations the training of ;he individual and natural selection of the species have united to breed In them the necessary qualifications for success in their walks of life, an adroit cunning in lying, treachery and deceit and an alert timidily at the very appearance of danger. For any dirty work they are eminently quali fled and ever eager, but when the work to be done is dangerous as well as dirty, they must have resource to hirelings from the lowest strata of the working class, and these they breed in plenty. That Ihey will be willing enough to attempt to drown out the revolutionary fires in blood is a foregone conclusion; whether, when the time comes, they will feel themselves strong enough to do so depends on the strength of our movement at that time. In the face of an Indeterminate, undecided, though even large, host, they will venture much, but when confronted with on aroused proletariat bent upon the overthrow of class rule at any cost, ready lo give blow for blow, they will be glad to save their hides at the loss of their possessions. Hence we have much to fear from our friends who, by hothouse methods, seek to fosier a prolific growth even at the expense of Its stiirdiness. And it is therefore of deadly import to us and ours ever to preach only the proletarian revolutionary doctrine and let who will not hearken to that»pass on his way, that when come the times "that try men's souls" there shall not be wanting a sufficient army with unity of purpose and understanding of aim lo stand the the test. Another danger to us lies in a premature revolt, than which nothing "traditions of the past" und the "faith I assertion. But let us not forget that of the future." A consummation by no means devoutly lo be wished as, according to them, "on religious confidence rests character. On character rests conduct and patriotism. On< these rest social and national stability. Their decay undermines nations." (Why didn't they add—"and is bad for trade?") Were we thus situated, it would probably occur to us to make some sort of a guess at the "faith of the li is not the labor of the present day, decade, generation or even the 19th century that is responsible for what we recognize as wealth. In the category of a nation's wealth is considered, land not In its wild uncultivated state, but it ls an asset valued according to its present state of fertility or productiveness, which we recognize it has assumed through the centuries of effort expended upon it by our forefathers. Again, we consider as wealth, mines, future" and to proclaim that. But our navigable waters, railroads, telegraphs. friends sewn wishful to have a sort of an interim faith mi which "we may believe new." This they propose to build up by identifying "Natural Law" with the "Divine Will." In other words, they propose to reintroduce us to our very hoary old friend Pantheism, modernized and brought up-to-date, mainly by spelling through—"thru." It seems to us that university degrees must surely be earned by acquiring much learning and avoiding all knowledge. Our friends of "Up The Divide" are exercised because, though great progress has been made in the sciences, none has been made in the domains of religion and sociology. While the statemerit that no progress has been made in religion is true enough, and necessarily so, as there is nowhere to progress to, that there has been no progress in sociology will hardly go in the face of the recent great advances in that department. Of course, that progress has been made mostly by people who save not been Masters ggfT Every Local of the Socialist I'any i» LOCAL POBT MOODY, B. C. NO. 41 Canada should run a card under this head $1.0(1 per month. Secretaries please .note. DOMINION EXBCUTTVE COMMITTEE, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Monday. D. G. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 836. Vancouver, B; C. . S. P. of C.—Business meetings first! Sunday In each month. J. V Hull Secretary, Port Moody, B. C. BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL Executive Committee. Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Montiny. D. G. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 836. Vancouver. B. C. ALBEBTA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE Committee. Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Monday in Labor Hall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postoffloo. Secretary will be pleased to answer any communications regarding the movement In the province. A. J. Browning, Sec, Box >i Calgary, Alta, all public and private buildings, highways, factories, mills etc.. the usefulness or productiveness of which is owing more to the labor directly or indirectly of past generations. This labor unit, has passed away, and a few of the present generation have assumed the ownership of all this accumulated wealth. Again, new labor-saving appliances are being found every day, each of which is a result of the application of some previous experiment, discovery or invention, as for instance, while the locomotive of today resembles that invented by Stephenson over a century ago in name only, yet it is possible only through the prior invention. Stephenson applied the previous discovery and invention of Watt's steam engine, which also came into existence through Watt's discovery of the potentiality of steam. As to the inventor of steam and discoverers of iron, copper etc.. we will have to call on your comrade editor to enlighten Now then we would say that the MANITOBA PROVINCIAL EXBCU- tive Committee. Meets first and third Mondays of every month. Jubilee Hall, corner of King and Alexander. The Secretary will be pleased to furnish any Information and answer any correspondence relative to the movement. Secretary, II. * . Jnines, 326 Hnrgravc St Winnipeg, Man. LOCAL REVELSTOKE, B. C, NO. 7, S. °J °" Propaganda and business meetings at 8 p. to., the fourth Thursday of each month ln lodge room over old post offlce, near opera house. Everybody welcome. B. F. Gayinan. Secretary; W. \V. Lefeuux, Organizer I.OCAI. IIKKI.1K, ONT.. NO 4 S P. Ol- I - metis every second aid fourth Wedmsday eveuJlig.BtBp.iir, 55 K,it'ig >-t ,„«i t>p„o»He M«r«ft lluk-l II. Mnrtin, s»cv. 61 Weber Sri sast. LOOAL NELSON, S. P. OP C, MEET* every Krlday evening at 8 p.m., ln S,1?,';!'3 Ha"' .Nelson, B. c. Frank Phillips. Organizer: I. A. Austin. Secy. LOCAL PHOENIX, NO. B, 8. P meets every Sunday at 8:30 Miners' Hall. James Carson. Izer: John Appleby, Secy. OP 0., p.m.. Is Organ- LOCAL CALOABY, ALTA., NO. 4, S. P. of C Meetings every Sunday at 8 p.m. In the Labor Hall, Barber Block, Eighth Ave. E. Incur postofflce). Club nnd Rending Room. McTavlsh Block [817 Second St. E. 1 bposite impuiai Hoel M. Hyatt, Secy.; I Hyatt, Organ* zer. Box 64;, Catwirv Altu ONTARIO PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE Committee. Meets ln Finnish Hull, 214 Adelaide St., Toronto, on 2nd and 4th Wednesday. Organizer,, W. Gribble 134 Hogarth Ave.. Toronto; ' P. C. Toungi Secretary, wo Pape Ave.. Toronto. LOOAL VANCOUVER, NO. 1, S. P. OP Canada. Business meetings every Tuesday evening at headquarters, over Kdgctt's Store, 151 Hastings St. West. F. Perry, Secretary, Box 836. LOCAL VANCOUVER, B C, NO. 45, FINNISH —Meebt every second and fourth Thnrsdny in the mouth at 151 Hastings St. W. Secretary, Matt Manilla LOOAL VICTORIA, NO. 3, S. 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. W. G. McCluskey, Secretary, Box 770. LOOAL BELLEVUE, ALTA., NO. 13, S. P of C, meets every tlust and third Sunday evenings, Bellevue Town Hall C. Stubbs, Secy. LOCAL COLEMAN, ALTA., NO. t. Meets every Sunday night in the Miners' Hall and Opera House at 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. Socialist speakers are Invited to call. H. J. Smith, Secy. LOOAL SSXONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, B. P. of O. Meets every Thursday at 8 P.m., In Trades and Labor Hall, 1'ourth St. Busness and propaganda meetings combined. J. R. Huntbach. Secy., 161 First St. S.; R. MacQuarrie, Organizer. 623 Second St. r LOCAL HILLCREST, ALTA., NO. 15, S. P. of C, meets every Sunday after Union meeting In Union Hall, Hillcrest Mines, Alta.; Alex. Whyte Literature Agt.; Carl Johnson, Secretary. LOCAL NANAIMO, NO. 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'clnck| Jack Place, Rec. Secy., Box 826. LOCAL PERNIE, 8. P. of C, HOLDS educational meetinRs in the Miners' Union Hall. Victoria Ave.. Fernle, every Sunday evening at 7:45. Business meeting first Sunday in each month, same place at 2:30 p m. J. locomotive or any other machine one! L«"c«3ter- Sec Box 164 of Arts, Doctors of Divinity &c„ so may lhlnk ot is Ullt ,he consolidation that it is quite excusable that these have no official knowledge of it. It is generally assumed that the the possession.of college degrees predicates the possession of much wisdom, but a moment's consideration would show how groundless is the assumption; for of the candidate for degrees Is not required a knowledge of or unification of the multiple product of many individuals who existed at different periods of time. Can we then say that Edison is the sole Inventor of the Electric Light system? No! for electric lighting was contingent upon the discovery of how to liarness electricity by Franklin. ,,,.,. Now, If the foregoing be granted as facts as they are, but the learning of , ,, . . ,. ,, „, r i true, then why should Ihe present subjects as they are taught. The cor rectness of his learning is judged by others who have acquired their degrees by a similar process. Hence It stands to reason that college learning must of necessity lag a generation or so behind the latest ascertained facts. For a student that would outstrip his examiners in knowledge would stand a slim chance of getfing his degree. So we cannot say that much worth while is to be txpecled of "tip The Divide." Its editors seem handicapped by too much learning, ever to acquire any degree of knowledge. LOCAL WINNIPEG, 8. P. OP O. KEAD- quarters Klundyke block, curlier of I'aciric ami King Business meeting every Sunday morning 11 a. m. Propaganda meeting Sunday evening 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. W. Cummltlgs, Organizer. Jas. w. Anier, Secretary, 336 Maryland street. LOCAL GREENWOOD NO. 9, 8. P. OP C, meets every Sunday in Miners' Union Hull nt 7:30 p.m. Business meetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. T. Y. McKay, Socretarp Pro I LOCAL OTTAWA NO 8 8 P OP LOCAL TORONTO, B. P. OP O ENO- Ilsh Brunch. Business meetings .. first and third Wednesdays of each month, Finnish Hall, 214 Adelaide St. W. Speakers' class meets alternate Mondays and Tuesdays ut 134 Hogarth Ave. Economic classes meet every Friday niglrt at 314 Wellcsley St. Speokers supplied or shortest notice to Ontario Locals. Corresponding Sec, A. Lyon, 134 Hogarth Ave. V Tern. LOCAL VERNON, B. C, NO. 38, 8. P. OP C, meets every Friday night at 7:30 In Tlmmlns' Hall, cor. of Seventh and Tronson Sts. Business nnd propaganda combined. Geo. W. Paterson, Secretary, Vernon, B. C. money what it seems and is generally taken to be, a fixed quantity, It might I would better suit the enemy's book. t*. but it is not fixed. Were it fixed |And this contingency will be made the or oven moderately stable, we would see prices, not. rising, but constantly ost the decline with every new im- iprovenient in machinery and methods of production. (The less ihe labor Involved In the production of any commodity Ihe less is Its exchange value aad tne less would be its price or ap- proximate exchange value as compared •erltli gold, were it not thut gold Is bring poured Into the market in a greater flood than any other commodity. Consequently it has decreased In .exchange value faster than other com- ■modules, or, in our usual topsy-lurvy parlance "prices have gone up." The money wage, the price of labor pow-er, should also have gone up, and ■»JrCn the "pinnacle of prosperity" was being attained, go up it did', but, so <nany are the job-seekers, that is to more possible by the methods of the "Direct Actlonlsts." who, tiring of Ihe siege, would (ling a forlorn hope against the yet unbreachod walls of Capital's citadel. Hut come as It muy. In peace or war, we may rest assured that the proletarians will acquit themselves as men. They have since time immemorial dared all dangers, fought all battles, conquered all obstacles, and here, too, they shall conquer. They must. The oulconie Is certain and inevitable. Capitalism must perish. It behooves us lo see that we perish not with it. UP THE DIVIDE. "As a so-worker for the great transition which so culled civilization is now ■say, so great Is the overproduction of I passing through," we are favored with labor power that It has acted as a ia copy of the prospectus of a new ven- moflt, effective drag upon tlie upward tendency of prices in this commodity, so that, even at the best of times "it Tuts been easily outdistanced by the cost of living. Hence wuges have been substantially reduced'in actual tact. 1 Kven taking tho most roseate view of Labor's horizon ihat Gompers can show ; us, what does this capitalist system TVhlch he defends hold for the -workers? What ls this heaven of -watch he would reveol us a glimpse? lure in the world of periodicals to be called "tip The Divide," we are requested "to say something about it, and suy it strong." In order, no doubt that we may have some idea as to what we ought to say, we are furnished Comrade Debs' comment, a reading of whicli convinces us, chiefly, of Comrade Debs' klndheartedness. As to the prospectus, after having been duly Impressed with the portraits of the editorial staff and by the fact that, despite their grammatical The capitalist press is just now full of a Hindu plot whose ramifications, if they are to be believed, extend round the world and back again. We, however, may lie excused for being incredulous In face of the recent exposure of the police plot in India, where even a bomb was placed in the house of one of their victims in order to incriminate those againt whom they had no evidence. What is the difference between "British fair play" and "Russian justice," may we ask? And now we hear of a woman who has made forty-live unsuccessful attempts at suicide. Carnegie's attention should be called to this case without fall, as she certainly has earn'i a hero-medal or a free' library or something. RESTITUTION NOT PURCHASE. Dear Comrade Editor: — Owing to having received so much attention at the hands of the Comrades through my last literary attempt, I have felt rather timid about venturing Into the limelight, but after perusing some articles on a much discussed question, I feel Inclined to try again, and blow off a little more steam. The subject I "would refer to, was treated on in a recent article "Freedom by Purchase" and a previous one "The Fallacy of Compensation,'" which, by the way, I did not see, no papers of that week being received here. However I understand that as far us ihe contributors ot the above mentioned articles are concerned, they are not In favor of compensating the present capitalist owners of the means of production and distribution, when ihe time iin-ires for making same into working-class property. Now this question is one which is broached by nearly every new convert to Socialism. "How are you going to get the ownership of what we socially need and use," and lt seems to me a very appropriate question and one that can be discussed, comrade editor, with much profit to all Socialists; for the 1 generation be called upon to remunerate the present holders of the sources of wealth production and distribution. I know there are those In the Socialist Party who favor such a proposal, but it seems to me ihey have overlooked the basic principle to whicli we called attention viz: Labor (past and present) produced all wealth that exists, be It in the form of machinery, factory buildings, or any other kind as well as the productivity of land, and and therefore to them it should belong. If we find it in Ihe possession of other than the laboring class, can such possession be considered valid. It may be according to laws now on the statute books, but those laws can be amended or abolished as society may decide, and the ownership of all such properly restored to its creators and rightful possessors. On the other hand, If said possessors of the machinery of production and distribution claim responsibility for its existence in its present form, would it not be reasonable for the working class, to demand of them restitution of the difference between what they have received as wages and the value of their product. How much of Ihe aforesaid property would the working class be obliged to expropriate ln order to satisfy their claim? All of it according to my wny of figuring, and then what a claim for damages we would have on account of the misery, suffering nnd degradation of the workers, caused by such private ownership, and I wager that the combined capitalistic wealth of today would not begin to.*ettle this debt. I would close this nrllcle, by quoting Comrade Jlallly of "The Call" from an article that appeared in May 8th edition of the Saturday Evening Post, and commend It to the careful consideration of the Comrades of Canada. "I cannot believe that society through organized government owes anything at all to the present possessors of Industry. For Industry is a social product, the result of centuries of social effort. No single individual produced the present industrial system. However necessary the individual has been in the past, to the developement and organization of Industry, we have reached the stage where the Individual has merged in the social mass. The social mass should own and share In common the fruit of their common labor." Therefore Comrade Editor, I oppose the proposal of "Freedon by Purchase." Yours for Liberty and Life, W. E. FRENCH Brockville, Ont. LOCAL LADTSMITB NO. 10, 8. P. OP C. Business meetings every Saturday 7 p.m. In headquarters on First Ave. Parker, Williams, Sec, Ladysmlth, B. c - LOCAL ROSSLAND, No. 35, S. P. OP C, meets ln Miners' Hall every Sunday at 7:30 p. m. A. McLeod, Secy., P. O. Box 674. Rossland Finnish Branch meets in Finlanders' Hall. Sundays at 7:30 p. m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Box 765 Rossland, B. C. ' 1 I BUSINESS MEETING 1st Sunday in month nt 7:30 p.m. at Roberts-Allan Hall, 78 Ridean St. Propaganda meetings following Sundays at 3:15 p.m. Economic class, Monday night, 8 p.m. Historical class, Friday night, 8 p.m.. at 379 Wellington St. diaries Lestor, Organizer. E. S. Oldham, Cor. Secy., 1030 Bron- son Ave. LOOAL COBALT, NO. 9, 8. P. OP a Propaganda and business meetings every Wednesday at 8 p.m. ln Miners' Hall. Everybody Invited to attend. Arthur L. Botley, Secy., Box. 446. LOCAL MONTREAL, QUE., NO, ~* ' ~ Labor Hall, ... 1. J. of C—Sleets in Labor Hall. St. Dominique street, Sundays at 3 p. m. ilt-acquitrtcrs No 1 St. Charles Uorronu-e St otto jalm Secretoay, 52S Chausse Are not reformers those who advocate reforms? Directory of Western Federation of Miners in British Columbia Executive Board Member .... wm. Davidson, Sandon DISTRICT ASSOCIA-|;ON NO. 6. Jno. A. McKinnon, Rossland President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Thos. J. McKay, Greenwood A. Shilland, Sandon No. Name Meeting I'res. Sec'y, P.O. Add. Night Box 194 Camborne .... Weti Wm. Winslow James Tobln 12 Camborne Orand Forks.. Greenwood ... SI Grand Forks Greenwood Sat Geo. Heatherton.. 124 161 Wed C. Bennett T. H. Kotherham. 42 Hedley mi Kaslo Sat Mike Me Andrews.. H. T. Rainbow.... 391 Kaslo Kill Kimberly .... Sat Jch- Armstrong A. E. Carter O Kimberly im Sat 12 Ferguson 227 Marysvllle M. & S. U. Movie Marysvllle Moyie 71 Sat Malcolm McNeill.. J (tin i-H Roberts \V. A. Plckard 36 Sat 106 Nelson Sat R. Sllverthorn,... 294 Phoenix Rossland ..,, J. A. McKinnon... 421 Si Sat K Sandon 95 Sat Robert Mnlroy.... Fred Llebscher... Si, Sllverton «■> Sat Btafr Carter D. B. O'Nealll 90 Slocan City 11.1 Sat O. B. Mcintosh... T. T. Rutherford.. H»» Van Anda F. D. Hardy W. B. Mclsaac... 377 Trail 85 Wed 606 Ymir TYOLAISET CANADASSA Jos tahdotte jotakin tietaa tyovaen puolueesta ja sosial- iamin edistyksesta Canadassa, niin tilatkaa kohta. "Tyokansa" Box 107, Pari Arthur, Out. Se on Canadassa ainoa Suo- men kielinen sanomalehti, jo- ka taistelee sinunkin puolesta. Edistat tyovaen luokkaa tila- amalia Tyokansan. Makiaa alnoostaan, $1.50 vuosikerta "Vlkikuka" Makiaa, $1.25 ATENTS Wc solid., tne Dusiness or Manufacturers, , Engineers and others who realize the advisability of having their Patent business transacted by Kznerts. Preliminary advice free. Charge* moderate. Our Inventor*! Adviser sent upon request. Morion & Marion, New York I,lfe illdg, Voutrcal: ' nd Washington, D.C» V.S.A. C PETERS p,,cllcal Bo0' u. rc.iE.na aBd 8hoe Mak,. Hand-Made Boots and Shoes to order in all styles. Repairing promptly and neatly ly done. Stock of staple ready-made Shoes always on hand. 24S6 Wiitnlniter Avi. NEW SOCIALIST GAME "The Class Struggle" JKVaaVSiXt' Mailed fnr'J'if In Rtniniii: B«0flt* wtintcil. CHARLES H. KERR & 00., 103 Klnzie Street, Chicago, HI. Propaganda Meeting Sunday Evening, 8 o'ClocK R. P. Pettipiece Cameraphone Theatre 58 HASTINGS ST. W. -VANCOUVER, B. C. SATURDAY, JULY WTH, 1909. :T&EWESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, <.n& COLUMBIA. -. ■ r ■ This 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. mWm\ PRICE LIS* OF SUPPLIES. Supplies will be furnished Locals by Executive Committees at the following prices: Charter (with necessary supplies to start Local) $5.00 Membership Cards, each 01 Dues Stamps, each 10 Platform and application blank per 100 25 Ditto in Finnish, per 100 59 Ditto ln Ukrainian, per 100 SO GUELPH, ONT. Dear Comrades: — Enclosed please find regular M. O. for two bundles of Clarion. I along with two other Comrades had the pleasure of meeting the Italian branch of Guelph local, on Sunday weelc, and was pleased to fiHd it forging ahead, even ahead of the English branch. We found all the Italian Comrades attentive to business, which was dispatched with real executive promptness. They meet every Sunday and yet, aad there is the probability of one of the mines in the near future beiag shut down for repairs for 2 or 3 months, throwing a large number of men Idle. In the face of these facts, It was surely a mad move on their part to expect that tne men as a whole would view the prospeet of losing a day's wage every week without having a chance to express their opinion. HE PREDICTS A CIVIL WAB. A reader of The Magazine at Kimberly, Shasta county, Calif., has sent the following, clipped from the editorial page of the Searchlight, published at Redding, Calif., and when the fact is taken into consideration that the journal published at Redding, Calif.. heads the article wittf'the caption, "The Nobody denies the fact thai they need j class Struggle," it becomes evident more rest—they are being driven at that journals outside the realm of labor a most terrific pace— but much as journalism are beginning to recognize they need it they cannot afford to take i the class war that must go on until it, many of them. The determined op- Labor shall plant the flag of victory position to the proposal to give these | on the shattered fortress of Exploita- read papers and hold discussions on Pitta la Italian, per 100 •Oojth.e philosophy of Socialism in their MARITIME ORGANIZING FUND. Dear Comrade.— I have received for the Maritime Organization Fund the following contributions: Previously acknowledged $17.30 Local Toronto, Eng. Branch 10.00 Com. R. Woodhouse, Toronto... 1.00 •Com. Stewart, Toronto 50 Local Sydney Mines, C. B 5.00 Total $33.80 Comrade Wm. Allen of Sydney Mines, has just informed me that Com. ■Gribble's throat is becoming very sore. As Gribble has been speaking sin'ce about the middle of April it Is quite natural that his throat should get out of order. This being the case there surely Is no need for me to say that we need lots of funds In aider to put an assistant into the field with Com. Gribble. There is lots of work for another man „ut we need funds. If every local would assess it members 10 cenls tor this purpose I here need be no lack of money. Local Toronto has already contributed I20.SU. This is Comrade Gribble's home local and his popularity there is a. protjf ot his ability as an organizer. I have work mapped out for the organizer for the next two months and Comrades everywhere are clamouring for him. Let me hear from some of those who have not yet contributed. Those who have responded have "shelled out" handsomely. No Socialist in Canada can afford lo miss this opportunity to help the work In the East. Let me hear from you. Comrades. ROSCOE A. FILLMORE. Secty. of Temporary Organization Committee. Albert, Albert Co. N. B. own language. We succeeded in forming a Central Committee which will meet once a month. Further particulars later. Yours in Revolt LORNE CUNNINGHAM. MUCH PIETY BUT LITTLE WIT. COPS MOVED ON. Dear Canrade: — We hud an excellent meeting this Sunday after being hustled by Ihe cops in the afternoon for using the soap box, which by (he way, ran about the size of 14 in. by 10 in. by il in., this they said was an obstruction; so Comrade Simpson, jusl told (he Cop to mind his own business and go and study the city by-law regarding "Street Preaching" then came / loud cheers from the crowd, then the Sergeant came along, and said that the crowd were causing an obstruction, so the comrade replied, that It was the Cops' who had caused the obstruction by disrupting our meeting and causing the people lo gather around the back of the soap-box. To this the crowd renewed the cheers, after this the Cops' slunk away like little dogs do when they have received a severe whipping, so we continued our meeting to a sucessful finish. We hail another secessful meeting Sunday evening. Comrade Lyons spoke, and held Ihe crewd. So after the meeting I made an appeal for the workers to read up on social literature, and take our great little paper, which is published ln the West and 1 caught my maiden sub., and hoiie to get. more in the near future. I have a three-months sub. In but have not received it yet, am out of work at present so will make It a yearly when I find a master, but will try and hustle from those who are working. Enclosed find $1 for Western Clarion to above address, your ln revolt, A. Farmilo Toronto. Every good Socialist ought to own at least a dozen good propaganda books for circulation among his friends. Keep lending your intelligent acquaintances Socialist literature, and sooner or later they will fall into line. Begin building up such a library NOW. Socialists everywhere, Jnside and outside the party, chould organize economic clubs, firstly to promote the study of Socialism among themselves, and secondly, to get up debates with literary societies upon labor questions. Get a list of the debating clubs In your town, then write the secretaries of each As winter sets in, challenging them to debate certain aspects of the labor question, or offering to supply speakers to same on short notice. / Thursday evening a meeting was called In Nanaimo by the sweet smelling bunch of self-constituted guardians of the morals of the wage slaves of Nanaimo, (whe recently succeeded in stopping the desecration of the "dear Lawd's Day" by the said slaves), to consider ways and means of getting a day off for the workers once a week, to work off the superfluous energy, that the Western Fuel Company and other charitable agencies in tils district had allowed them to retain, l»y kicking a ball around a diamond, swimming, boating or fishing, or in any other useful way their depraved minds inclined to. A cadaverous looking sky-pilot occupied the chair, ostensibly to give an atmosphere of holiness and respectability to the gathering: unfortunately, it failed lo produce the effect desired —another proof of the necessity of strenuous action needed to save the souls of the dirty-faced miners and other exploited victims of the interests whose toadies called Ihe meeting. After some discussion the meeting went on record in favor of a holiday every week, but not until the promoters had keen bluntly informed thai the assembly was not representative of the working class. One Booth, an elderly miner, moved that a committee ' of two from each industry in the locality he appointed to wait upon the employers and find out what they thought of It. Moved In amendment that the same committee that waited on McBride and succeeded in stopping the Sunday games, be appointed to interview the slaves and find out what they thought of it. Such an outrageous proposal could not be tolerated for an instant, and upon this rock Ihe neat little enterprise was wrecked. The venerable Booth, faithful henchman of Ralph Smith and the Western Fuel Company a member of the town council, also a member of the deputation which succeeded in stopping the Sunday recreations', obviously did nol relish interviewing the exasperated victims of his religious zeal, and flatly refused It act, In vain was he reminded that to many of the married men in town I. day's wage every week meant just the difference between making ends meet and failure to accomplish that difficult feat. He was adamant. Face those men he would not, and that was all there was to it. It was a matter of no consequence if the people most concerned in the proposal were not consulted. They don't know what is good for themselves anyhow, for don't they persist in demanding Socialism and slaying away from church? So the deadlock continued, mil 11 the lights gradually faded away, and wllh them the hopes of the altruistic!?) promoters, who had probably hoped that they would be sent to Interview the employers with the chances In favor of their being turned down, and then they could turn round and say. "There, we have done our best." The meeting broke up to the strains of the Marsellaise. The Nanaimo Herald, of course, came out with a garbled account, which omitted all mention of the amendment, deliberately lied by saying, that the movement to secure a weekly day off had been defeated by Socialistic opposition. It was soothing balm to my soul (has a Socialist a soul?) to watch the sidestepping- and wriggling and evident distress exhibited by these "holler than thou" hypocrites and suckers under the merciless exposure of their Utile game by the working- men present. It Is significant of the stratts to which they are forced to recover lost ground when Ihey are driven to such transparent attempts to regain their footing. It is a matter of common knowledge that last year they had a serious unemployed problem in Nanalmo, some 300 or 400 men being let out of the mines, and many of the rest working short time. Many of them have not wiped out the debts then contracted men a voice In the matter throws a great white light on the sincerity{?) of these professions for the welfare of Nanalmo's working class. Yours still kicking, J. H. B. DAWSON, Y. T. Dear Comrade,— As was expected, the soup kitchen has started at last in Dawson for the unemployed; the Government has started giving the food away. The Salvation Army has started one, too. The Government finds the food, the Army the labor. It is a sight to see between two and three hundred breaking their necks for a bowl of soup in this Golden Norm; it is as bad as the panic in Vancouver was. I advise all men that want free soup to come to Dawson. Besides there are hundreds around the creeks packing their happy homes with them looking for a master and failing to find one. I suppose you don't see this in a Vancouver paper, but I tell you it is only too true. I hope the comrades will spread the news. Yours for the red flag, R. JONES. Dawson, Y. T. TIGHTENING THE SCREW. Tuesday morning's performance at the police court was slightly diversified by the presence of several lusty orators who were arraigned for having expressed their various opinions in an audible manner upon the public street to a peaceful gathering of their fellows. As the case for the prosecution proceeded, it became plainly evident that, the witnesses had been selected with'some care; one in particular, who expressed the idea that all and sundry who held not the opinions common to pullers of teeth were "fanatics," being especially valuable. Another caused the whole fabric of ihe modern system of advertising to tremble to its base by naively remarking that large numbers of people being attracted to a particular locality injured the business there situated. The case is not yet settled, owing to the variegated assortment of interpretations offered of the bylaw involved. One thing, however, is clear —the point at issue is not street speaking, nor yet obstruction of the streets, for the Salvation Army perform both these stunts with perfect Impunity. It is perfectly evident lo me that the question for us to consider Is, shall we submit to a censorship by the police of the doctrines we wish lo expound, and if unacceptable to that body, remain silent? I, for one, am wearied and disgusl- ed with the incessant legal quibbling over what is so palpably an elementary constituent of Canadian citizenship. Economic slave though I am. I shall not be robbed of that political liberty which has been bequeathed to nic by my ancestors, who paid with their blood the price of its attain- ment, Will the workers of Winnipeg supinely relinquish the advantages gained by their heroic predecessors? Must It be that they will permit the hand of police authority to throttle the volcers of their wrongs? What a day, thai sees the spirit of liberty humbled In the dust before magisterial corpulence and aldcrmnuic sloth! Rather would I languish In Iholr Jails than buy conditional "liberty" with the forfeiture of my manhood. Workers! Can you not see (lie finger of progress pointing the way for you to follow? If you would but realize that the efforts of the police to stifle your right of free speech Is but another endeavor on the part of capitalism to fortify its position, how quick would you rally .to the fray. The fight is yours, my comrade tollers, and once aroused, what can you not accomplish? What human institution can deny your just demands? Let the consciousness that on your side stands right, just ice and liberty lend strength to your arm and stiffen your spine for the final conflict whicli shall end with the triumph of Labor! —Spes, in "The Voice." • • • In the above scrap things are going swimmingly for the propaganda. Comrades Mathews and Hemming are in jail, having refused to pay their fines. Street meetings arc being held In the city and the suburbs and summonses are the order of he day. A number of appeals have been taken and the magistrate's temper Is getting no better fast. tion. The article ls as follows: "A statement has been made by O. C. Barber, for many'years president of the Diamond Match Company, but who retired some months ago, to the effect that signs point to a great civil war ln this country and that it will be between the grasping rich and the struggling poor. The statement ag given to the press a couple of days ago is as follows: "This country will, within a few years, be engaged In a civil war as fierce and as bloody as the war of '61-'65. Slavery, the slavery of greed, will be the incentive. The strife will be long and bitter and the forces engaged in the conflict will be the grasping rich and the straggling poor. "The corporations are waxing fat in the strugle to amass more wealth, and the laboring classes are struggling for better^ pay arid in some cases for a living. These two classes will be the opposing forces in the bloody conflict. This war will occur within the lifetime of the present generation. "We have the railroads, which In my judgement, are absorbing the profits of the country, arising from, industrial enterprises and the labor of the people. "It is true that many concerns are making money and against those who are making money there are as many who are losing money and cannot make ends meet. There ai:e several million people out of employment, who lose their wages, amointing to hundreds of millions of dolars. "On the other hand there is a despotism of organized labor, equal to that practiced by the railroads. In every case where men are getting more than honest wages, many cannot get a reasonable wage. The whole scheme of life seems to be selfish. Intelligent selfishness is that form that is honest. An unintelligent selfishness is that which merely Implies greed. I repeat what I have said before on this subject, that in this world if a man wants much he must naturally work or else get It by dishonest selfishness." The Diamond Match Company ls one of the most colossal trusts in the world and O. C. Barber, who was the presiding genius that guided the destinies of this corporate glutton, has become a prophet, and predicts that the nation will become involved in a great civil war that will grow out of the greed of the rich, and the poor driven to desperation. If a victim of poverty, with pale and haggard face, had made such' a prediction, he would be branded as an anarchist or ridiculed as a harmless creature in whose mental factory the wheels had become loosened. Hut Barber Is a multimillionaire, and, standing on the summit of financial greatness, he can see the distant horizon darkened with the clouds of a class conflict. But Barber, like every exploiter with an itch for profit, attempts to hold that "the despotism of organized labor" where more than "honest wages" are demanded, is likewise as responsible for this predicted civil war as the insatiable greed of a master class. Barber should have been more explicit and told a trembling world what, in his opinion, constitutes "honest wages." Barber, nor no oilier man who Is permeated with a spirit of jusilce and gll'icd with common sense, can deny the Indisputable fact that labor creates all wealth. Such a statement being true, the "honest wages" can only mean that labor should receive the "wages" which labor creates. Barber, bb well as others, Is begin- ing to realize that the laboring people of the nations of the world are gradually arriving at a clearer conception of the rights of the class whose labor has snatchetl the earth from the wilderness. The great mass of the people can be little longer held in subjugation, for lesperatlon, born of poverty, will breed a revolution that can only end when all humanity shall become the owners of the national resources of the earth and Ihe machinery of production und distribution.—.Miners' Magazine. NO MEETING. As an explanation Is owing (hose who went to the Cameraphone Theatre, Vancouver, last Sunday and were disappointed on finding it closed, It may be stated thai the theatre was closed for alterations on that day, of which we were nol imiifled In time to make the fact public, Don't be a woman—gat your name on the voters list- A PEEP INSIDE. In order to live It Is necessary to sat. In order to eat lt ls necessary to have cash. In order to have cash lt Is necessary to work. This proposition is true only when applied to the disinherited working class. The capitalist class do not find It necessary to work in order to eat. They have plenty of willing and unwilling slaves Being one of the latter and find lng my purse in no way dis-arranglng the graceful lines of my coat by bulging the pocket, I was busy In quest of a master when one evening I was informed in hushed accents, that the Canadian Pacific railway was up a tree. They were hi a sorry plight. They needed help In the worst way imaginable, clerical help, "A gentleman's job; splendid chance—just the thing to salt you my dear fellow—start in at $65.00 a month." ^^^^^~ Now nine years of British Columbia life has given me quite a few impressions, one of which is the notion that ths C. P. R. is not in the railway business for fun. I could not realize that this "epening" really existed, but was promptly assured that not only one but twe such chamces were now re^dy for canture by the right man. "Very well," I replied; "I'll have a sktt at It. Maybe I'll work myself Into a knighthood like Shaughnessy, you know." Next day I prepared myself for the attack and started out full of energy. But strange to say the nearer I got to the C. P. R. offices the lower my heart fell. I passed up Water street among the grocers and produce-men; slaves, slaves, everywhere. I even passed Anstin's Hotel without calling in for a bracer, badly though I was in need of It. "Here I am at last—deliberately about to attempt to chain myself to a pen for life. But then $65 a month." Making a bold brave effort I entered, and instantly thought of those cheerful lines "All ye who enter here, aband on hope" striding to the elevator, I commanded the elevator boy to instantly elevate me to floor No. 2. Mr. Foster's •fflce. Up we went. I got ont and he shut me out from all chance of escape and descended. Seized with a kind of stage fright, my brain whirled—"Why am I here?" An inspiration came to me, "I am here because I must have bread, because to get bread I must sell my labor power —must sell my labor power to a willing purchaser." "But is it necessary to imprison myself for life in this terrible place to get bread?" I confess my courage failed me, I almost wept, and, like the man who puts his hand to the plough and turns back, I turned round and deliberately walked away from the office door. I spied a staircase in the corner and quickly taking advantage of this chance of escape fled. Once outside the building I felt I had been a gross coward. I rated myself soundly for such childish "funk" and after a few moments was again in a mood to seize the great chance that was waiting for me. I again entered the building and again commanded the elevator boy to elevate me. This time I made a dash for the office door. "He who hesitates is lost." So is he who does not In this case. On entering I saw slaves, pale care worn slaves, hard al work. Type writers clicking in all directions. As many girls as men, all so engrossed on their calculations as to be absolutely heedless of the entry of the future knight. 1 positively knew I should not want a job In such a place. Just look around at the young, already old. .lust see the women, now men. Just see the men, now animal machines; all the attributes of theh human race, all the Indivlilualliy of humanity obliterated '.'during business hours." "Is Mr. Foster In?" 1 enquired. "No, sir; he ls at lunch just now." "Thank you," 1 said, and "Thank God," iii *ere and Tfow By "LBBDS" thought fervently. One more glance around. You should just sec for your selves, comrades. It will cost you no money, I came away. Free—no work—no money—no food, but, what Is priceless, "freedom?" No pen was chained to me or I to It. Free—free to starve, but free! And on my way to the "cellar," I passed five Indian squaws, made after the image and likeness of God. so the Christian says; and living truer lo Ills command, say I. Compared with those C. P, R. slaves, they were magnificent. They enjoyed the air and the sun and themselves, to judge from their mirth, Like myself, free—free to make an exislence, but prised to see a bunch of true-born free! Ami finally I learned that lt was a ease of "much ado about nothing." The chance was for "a smart young lad; previous experience desirable; salary, SlTi per month." God help the poor devil v. ho grasps It. Ii is nu opening for someone. An opening to the slave-pen. An opening to servitude for life. Hut we must nut. BO "go tO It." F. M. T. On a fence surrounding a new building not 100 miles from the Arcade, appears this most useful information: "These carpenters are scabs." It Is a safe bet that the man who wrote it votes the same ticket as his owner. Since the Clarion has become Partjr-e property, you have been given each, month an account of receipts aad expenditure in connection with its publication. The deficit for each month shows you the amount of extra effort. that is necessary in order te balance accounts. Last month's delclt was over $40.00, but it can and will be. wiped out If you endeavor to do your part. Will you try? • * « The usual new sub. arrives from Comrade F. Hyatt, Calgary, with an order for regular bundle. He reports Comrade O'Brien as having held good meetings at Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw, and orders a sub hustler's book. • • • \ Local Glace Bay gets ready for the harvest by ordering a bundle of 25 . weekly, per Comrade H. G. Ross. • • • The following communication from Local Berlin is similar to one the Clarion would be pleased to receive from every Local regularly. Make a note of tt. Here it is: "At our regular meeting last night it was decided to put our card in Clarion. Enclosed find $3.00 for same." » • • "Pickenshovel," Victoria, B. C, adds the names of two victims to the Clarion list. • * • Comrade A. Abbott, Sask., sends appreciation of tbe Clarion and, its doctrine, and thanks the friend who has sent him the paper regularly. He says he is in love with the Clarion and is beginning to feel something of its spirit of revolt against slavery, aad will take up his share of the fight as soon as circumstances permit. • • » Four subs, to hand per Comrade John Staples, Prince Rupert. Wherever capitalism rears its head it plants the seeds of revolution. • « • • Comrade John Rivers forwards a new sub. from Sointula, B. C, aad also orders a bundle of 25 a week for another comrade at Rivers Inlet. • • • Cowichan Station may be a small place, but Comrade Norman Proctor hustles together a bunch of four new subscribers and sends them along tor the usual training. • • • Comrade Walter Pt-yde touches up two renewals and one new sub. from. Nanalmo, B. C. • • • Another pair was brought to the underground dope factory this week by Comrade H. Norman. • • • One result of the earnest work of Comrade J. Rolls, New Westminster, arrives at the Clarion office in the shape of three yearlles. • • * Vancouver Finnish Local hearing that a call for funds on behalf of the Clarion Maintenance Fund was to be Issued lo the English speaking Locals, decided that even if they cannot all read Ihe Clarion as well as might be that is no reason why they should not support *lt, so ayong comes $5.00 and Comrade Stelner also has a five spot for the same purpose. An ever-increasing number of readers ate iitWiiiK-H new name to the list each week. Is your name here? A Lyon (bundle), Toronto, Ont.; Johan Jackson, Webster's Corners, B. C; .1. G. Norman, Vancouver, B. C; Clarence Hoar, Portland, Maine; John Cottam, I'ruitland, Ont.; W. D. Tucker, Vernon, B. ('.; S. Moen, Cranbrook, B. C; J. II. Ilurrough, Vancouver, B. C; W. J Wright, St. John, N. It.; C. M. O'Brien, M.L.A., Alameda, Sask.; Horace Colllngwood, North Battleford, Bask,; F. llalgh, Vancouver, H. C; Nick Stevens, l.ndner, B. C; John Mclnnls. M.P.P., Phoenix, B. C; A. Stewart, Lcvllle, Sask.; G. Docrma, North Battleford, Sask. • • 4 Comrade liocrma will find the Informal Ion he asks for in Ihe card of Winnipeg Local, which appears In cadi Issue of the Clarion. • * * * ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. All posl masters are required, as part of their duties, to forward all mall matter (which most certainly Inrludes papers I to any new address on a written request to do so; not otherwise. They must do this or else noiify tho paper of the person's now address on forms provided for the purpose. The exception Is when a subscriber moves to n country where more post age Is required, even tlien the postmaster must forward iuft>cr, the sub. to pay extra postage on re- celpt. If moved to the Hulled Slates and the paper was forwarded to me from the P. O., I would, of coui'Be, have to pay Ihe extra postage required. The-P. M. referred to Is likely some old fogy whose Idea's nre half a, century old, and cannot rend his guide. Is your name on the voters' Hit. FOUR THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, JULY 10TH, 1509. OUR LONDON LETTER Our Socialist comrades down In Essex are having some rough times ol lt these slays, ami the way some of Ihe workmen with capitalist minds oppose our speakers shows that the cause must be taking root somewhere. Last Sunday the village green ut Til ty, Essex, was the scene of (mushier- able excitement when Comrade II. Quelck, one of ihe members of Ihe ex- ocutive committee of the Social Democratic Party, came down from l.oinlon and addressed a Socialist meeting there. It seems Unit the "tflntry" In that part of the country do not take kindly to the idea of having Socialists come Into their quiet retreats and preach discontent to their "serfs" and as they have not ihe bruins or ihe courage to enter ln public discussion, they use other means to drive away the agitator, ln anticipation of last Sunday's meeting, they provided their "loving subjects" with tin trumpets, wooden clappers, bells and honk-honks in order to use them in place of brains. When Comrade Quelch arrived there were only a very few people In the audience, but the crowd soon swelled to several hundred, and then the noise began. Trumpets were blown, bells were rung, clappers were sounded and general pandemonium reigned for a time, but the speaker kept right on, and after a time the slaves became out of wind and the noise subsided. Then interruptions and questions were put to the speaker, all of which he answered good naturedly and finally the crowd became Interested, the noise died down and a good meeting lasting close onto two hours was held. As a resalt of our victory the "gentry" are in an unpleasant frame of mind and n* doubt other methods will be used to keep "undesirables" out of that particular part of the country, and Es- sex premises to become a famous battleground of the social revolution in the near future. This is the second attempt to break up our meetings ln Tilly, and as We have won out with colors allying on both occasions we have no fear of the future. Economic discontent seems to be growing very rapidly ln Ireland, and Socialism seems at last to have taken Arm root In Erin. Besides the one branch of the S. D. P. which flourishes in Belfast, the I. L, P. has a branch in Dublin which is now seeking to unite with the Irish Socialist Society whicli also has a branch in that city. There are a large number of unattached Socialists in the seaport towns of Ireland and efforts are being made to affiliate them with the branches of the different Socialist organizations and no doubt the near future will see a well-developed movement of revolt in the Emerald Isle. In the city of Cork a small strike started about a week ago and it Is now threatening to become general. The coal porters were the first ones to cease working, then the employes of the Cork Steam Packet Company followed suit, then the goods porters of Hie Great Southern Railway Company came out in sympathy, and at present these three sections of workers have tied up Ihlngs so completely ln the city that the employers are driving heir own carts and wagons and doing what they can to keep things moving. Despite the hard times, so few men are coming forward to fill the strikers' places that the workers stand a good chance to win out. The protests against the coming visit of the Czar of Russia to King Edward are becoming daily more and more pronounced, und lt is doubtful if any other monarch has ever been more universally despised than "bloody Nicholas." On Tuesday Sir Edward Grey, in answer to a question put to him, announced to the House of Commons thnt the Government would lake the full responsibility of the Czar's visit to England. At this Will Thome, Labor M. P., arose and said, "May I ask the right honorable gentleman whether he Is aware of the Intense and growing feeling In this country against the Czar's visit to England? It would be a very good job If the Russian people would save him the tiouble of coming here by- sending him to hell by chemical parcels post." Mr. Thome was sharply called to order, but did not resume his seat before he had denounced the Czar as "an inhuman brute," and said that "he hoped he would get his desserts when he got here." The friends of the Czar In Commons were deeply shocked at Mr. Thome's remarks and language. A big national demonstration Is now being arranged for Sunday, July 18th, when a big protest meeting will be held In Trafalgar Square to publicly show the disapproval felt In gai The enormous uniount of poverty existing at 11m pre cm time in England I proudly proclaimed by our most 'eminent Blalciimcn" SI Hit) richest country III the world I was officially shown Dp recently by figures given out by tke local gnvfi-nmciii board. The report showed thtt we have 882,011! register- eil paupers In KuglHiiti, of which London ulone liinilshcH 11111,1100. During Ihe Winter Just passed, the hoard re- Mind 105,000 applications for work, but was only able lo offer casual employment lo 91.000 applicants, ami nearly 80,000 men were given lempor iiry work In I In- London district, Thi'su figures can convey hut a mini Idea of the liemciidous poverty thai exists In then Islands, for Ihey are only ihe (initial record! and do not Include the great army of 'Mown und outs" or thi' heller grade of workmen who suffer and slarve In silence rather than make their poverty known. Even now that the rigors of winter are ove.-, the condition of Die people Is Utile Improved, and on every hand unemployed men can be seen seeking for work. Bnd ns last year was, Ihe condition of the working class Is now Infinitely worse than the previous year and each day increases the vast army of the "disinherited." Surely the Jstorni must break soon! Yours for the revolt, ROBT. E. SCOTT. London, June 19th, 1909. THE CRISIS MRS. GOULD'S WARDROBE. Mrs. Gould deplored Ihe lack of understanding on the part of proletarian women, who are glad lo get one good gown a year. She could not understand how Biddie Phelan in Houston street or Maggie O'Brien back of the yards of Chicago could possibly call her extravagant if they knew her needs nnd that soul-racking mental and physical struggle which she has been compelled to undergo in order to dress on {40,000 a year. Besides furs and jewels ad libitum, the furs only being in the $40,000 count, there are 124 gowns on the list which Mrs. Gould declares is absolutely necessary for a woman in society', who drinks heavily, kicks the poodle, strikes the butler, bites her lady friends and abuses her husband. These 124 goWns are enumerated as follows: Each. 12 Morning Gowns $190 22 Dinner Gowns $500 to 800 18 Reception Gowns 250 to :',50 24 Street Gowns 100 lo 200 G House Gowns 350 0 Negligee Gowns 100 to 175 7 Tailored Suits 90 (o 150 4 Riding Habits 150 20 Yachting Suits 350 to 500 G Wraps 250 to 500 47 to 50 hats to match the various gowns 100 to 20O Referring to furs, Mrs. Gould said: "Furs? It is impossible to place a figure. A black caracul muff boa cost me $225, a black caracul skirt, $700, and a black otter boa $125. I used all of these for automobillng. besides a $300 fur coat, a couple of fur suits, and regulation cloth or serge suits. "These furs get shabby quickly and one can't change them over except the expensive furs, such as sables or ermine. I had garments of every imaginable fur, coatB of chinchilla, sable, caracul, baby lamb, sealskin, squirrel and Norwegian martin, with neckpieces of sable, white fox and black fox, and hats to match them all."— The Lantern. THE IRRELIGION OF THE PROLETARIAT. Mr. Chas Booth, the well-known sociologist, at the close of his vast Inquiry Into the religious stale of London, which his army of assistants by street, and often house by house, stales that "Ihe mass of the people make no profession of faith and take no interest in religious observances. The great section of the population which passes by the name of the working classes, lying socially between ihe lower middle class and Ihe 'poor,' remains, as a whole, outside of all religious bodlps. The churches have come to be regarded as the resorts of the well-to-do, and of those who are willing to accept the charity and the patronage of the people better off than themselves. The average working man of to-day thinks more of his rights or his wrongs than of his duties and his failure to perform them. Humility and the consciousness of sin and ihe attitude of worship, are perhaps nol natural to him."—From "Social and Philosophical Studies" by Paul I.afargue, page 10. •••»»«««•«•»«»•««««**«««««»«•«• In my article en the wJ -u-latiua of Commodities," I poi ited o i that it was necessary for ti. dpltalist to realise his commodities in cash. Before his bills Matured, he mist get back at least, what he had paid lor labor, raw materia'- incidental materials and interest ou borrowed capital, or he would find himself in diffi- cultles. This applies not only to manufacturers, but to all those In ths lony circle of distribution. If this is nol done a stoppage of trade occur Ttt«! bottom reason for such stoppage! It- that a social form of prod- 0 .'on bus grown up In the •eiiltel of I llvldngls, The antagonism between snfjll I nr dUOtlon liNd Individual cnirnl. ls inly one of many of which ittpttaluUVl Is made up. Another Is that l» wneti money ns n olrculai r if commodities and money us tin or uaymei t. At limes the fun in. • of money as a means of payment, beco , ■ i Import- mil, that practice.!!] Ii has u 0^ liiite antagonism to its function ns a ciiv 'la- lor of commodities. 1. e, .ils, chegu s, and so forlh, becoming .nore or li s discredited, the demand for rold , s a means of payment belli j-, so gn ,t as practically i ore- enl its o 'a- lion, a« a means if ei.culatiqn. Early In the aevelopen in u:' cai ital- Ism there were men w' o ui de stood thai its fundamental aula, nuisnis were between classes.. Belle saw thai excess of commodities in depart ment might occasion disa . in another, and Owen retc nisei, thai between the people who wanted work and those who wanted the results of this work there was a groat bar of money which prevented hem coining together for their mutual advantage. The finapjie! matnate- if today, are so obsessed by the money idea, that they can s->» - beyond it. They are at lasi coming to understand that great criti■- are social ln their origin; but they aro \vh incapable cf giving reasons why they ohould come at oi e time more tie •, another. Marxists on both sides of ■ . a antic predicted the panic wliku took place in tbe states recently, t-o r .en ly, that we are not out of it yet. The crash came a little irlier than was anticipated, lut ihi« .vai due to the magnates of finance. Ih y tried to bring pressure to bear upon Roosevelt, and In so doing they pulled the bottom card out of the pack before the time. The crisis should have come in February. We had it in Nov • befere the crops were moved, ai rl this intenslfled it. If we trace the events that led up to the crisis, we perceive that noi long ago there was a dull period in the cotlon, iron, and other trades; a continuous dry rot, extending over a period of years. All of a sudden there was an idea that the world's stoc' cotton goods was depleted. Aln'ost simultaneously came a great demand fur iron, woolen, and other goods, ""he demand for rails to extend the American railway system had altogether overtaken the production. The gree* Steel Trust, which had hrgun bac' r it they Inevitably show themselves aur. A panii oscured lu IsT.T mid we «I«* had jne In 1873, there bnd be*n an enormous boom all through Gei-mmo owing to ihe 2200,000,000 gm out of France. The crisis came first In Vienna. Thence II spread through Germany nnd tho United stall's. Many of our older Coinrades well reuilicr ihe si.ue of tilings In the Wales In 187:1-1 The Americans at thai lime, had worked ip lo « period when a crisis was pi lnih'e and Ihe German crash coming at Ihe same lime, produced n state of things Inill.ir to what happened In Hi. -ly days of the present pnnlc. in iSi'i-2 everyone issrned prosperous; the orkers receiving high wages, the II rlbtltori growing rich, even lbs fanners doing well. Huddenly all this prosperity came to an end, ami liuiul reds wars out of employment. The year 1857 gave a rcimirluiblo ex- flliipl ' of the I'acl, Hull It Is nol Ihe scarcity of gold in relation to ihe wuild market, which brings crises about, In 1857 the world had experl clued the full results of the discover- Job ni gold in California anil Australia. Geld came upon the market lo such an e.xienl a' to produce a marked rise In prices from 1850 onwards. The cause of the crisis then, wns the same as thai of others. There had been an enormous developeinent of the Western Slates of America. Since the Declaration of Independence, not even the most far seeing man had ventured lo predict the attainment of such a high degree of prosperity. Nevertheless the collapse was all ready. It came In August, and commenced wllh a few small failures. By the month of October, business was al a standstill. A little later the crisis reached England. The . Liverpool City Bank closed Its doors, and houses connected with the American trade fell one after another. On November 9th, the Western Bank of Scotland fell, and a panic ensued. Merchants and manufacturers were ruined and thousands of workers thrown out of employment. It Is a special feature of the Capitalist system, that under it the amount of accumulated wealth ls the cause of poverty. Under previous social systems, there might be a dearth of food or other necessaries, but thai was due mainly to climatic, causes. Never before was It the case that the very power of man lo produce wealth brought millions of people to poverty. One would think that when people have lived through two or three crises, thev .vould leain lo understand II m, and that the capitalist -In 1 piepare in some way to uieet them, hut a useless class never learns; it cannot. The effects of the present crisis have been severly felt in Europe. In ihe early days of it a seven per cent, bank rate depressed trade, for a manufacturer doing business with a worl - ing capital of $1,000,00(1 probably has not more than $50,000 of his own. He operates with borrowed money, borrowed by overdraft from the bank, or o.. .t mortgage etc. So with the merchant; he carries on his business by means of bills and drafts. So long as \iOuey can be borrowed at 5 per cent. made n-emendous profits. Iron, "otton. coal, h d all done extremely well, Cotton mi Is fitted with the best machinery just before the panic, paid 50 pe" cent, or more, and carried a fair amount goes well andgood; but at G. 7. 8. 9. ind 10 per cent, the margin of profit dl appears, and as profit is I'.o capitalists object, they all hegi, to reduce i ■'dm-tion and close dov.i. Further n« .ren begin to find it more difficult lo reserve. The United States led the|l ilnance their bills, they try to get boom. A few years befors, she was investing money in other countries— e. g. the lube railways of London were largely built with American capital— but suddenly the export of capital ceased, and America began to be a borrower in the markets of the wor'l In Paris alone, at least 100 million dollars had been borrowed on first class American securities. There was a great deal of very rapid develope- financiers at the top can really pre- ment, extending over a perio'd of|ve"t the industrial glut and difficulty seven years. There was a pli en in]at the bottom. hi, I of all the money they can. Hence the r o.i the Banks. It is not thai peon.^ ,'enr they might not get their mono- r r . but that they want the mr > at nee to make payments. Ii childish to say that an industrial ci is a mere gold panic. It means tl the whole industrial machinery hi-1 uien worked to the utmost, and in. amount of sagacity on the pari of 1902-3 but a still wider develc- meni followed. Just before the crisis, the papers gave glowing accounts of the extraordinary wealth of the countr and were slating that the boom we on a sound basis. From the point ■ view that there was never ln th • world's history, so much wealth proportionately lo the number of people who produced It, America is undoubtedly a very wealthy country, but that wealth is owned and controlled by capitalists. These seize on the natural resources of the country—oil, timber, etc., and set to work with machinery to produce commodities in the largest way. All do the same. They are not. producing for a particular use, understood beforehand, though the trusts, to some extent, limit production, but all of them seek to realise as much surplus value as possible. Everybody was engaged pouring out commodities as fast as they could until the production outgrew the power of consumption, and the markets previously depleted, were filled ''vises show that just as the feudal lem was played out when it came c( to fice with the problems of iiiode'-r commerce, so capitalism Is played out in face of the problems of mo,;-' ■ Industry. Capitalism cannot made benevolent, Trades Unions lire absolutely powerless iii the face of an Industrial Ci-IsIb. The workers are compelled to turn to Socialism. We can hardly hope out of Ihe present crisis to realise the Co-operative Commonwealth, but we can prepaare the minds of the rising generation for the developements which are bound to follow. LESTOR. STREET MEETINGS. the anarchical system ended in a crash. Whether the capitalists forsee lt or not the clash is bound to come between the social form of production and the individual or company form of exchange, as also between the circulation power and the payment power of money. Theae antagonisms might not appear in the early days of a boom Street meeiings ought lo be held for the sole upose of selling Socialist llteratu i. A street meeting at which Socialist, literature Is not sold is a fai'me. Every speech delivered from a soap bi-x night 'o be directed toward arousing Interest In Socialist books Then ann prampieLn and papers. After the conclusion of each well-delivered speech, the audience shonld be Invited to purchase literature from the speaker or from comri'des in the audience. The most effective way lo make Socialists is to get people reading along our lines. If your local ls not pushing the Bale of literature at its propaganda meetings, make lt your business, reader, to do so yourself.W.R.S. PLATFORM Socialist Party ol Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to, and support of tbe principles and programme ef the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to tbe producers lt should belong. Tbe present economic system Is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of produotlon, consequently all the products ot labor belong to ths capitalist class. The capitalist Is therefore master; the worker a slave. Bo long ss the capitalist class remains In possession of tbe reins of government alt tbe powers of tbe State will be used to protect and defend their property rights In tbe means of wealth product Inn aad their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever Increasing measure of misery and degradation. The Interest of tbe working class lies in the direction of setting Iteeli free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system, under whlcb Is cloaked the robbery of the working-class st the point ef production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property In the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and tbe worker ls rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of the power ef government—the capitalist to bold, the worker to secure it by nulHlcal action. This ls tbe class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner ut tbe Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing tbe economic programme of the working class, as follows: . 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property tn the..--wans 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, 3. Tbe establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for use Instead of production for profit. The Socialist Party, when In office, shall always and everywhere until the present system Is abolished, make the answer to this question Its guiding rule of conduct: Will thla legislation advance the Interests of tbe working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against capitalism? If It will the Socialist Party is for It; tf lt will not, the Socialist Party Is absolutely opposed to tt. In accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges Itself to conduct all the public affairs placed In Its bands In such a manner as to promote the interests of tbe working class alone. 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Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
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