Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-04-04
issued: 1909-07-10
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note: :-«*•.' 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…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318884
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text