Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-10-01
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note: WESTERN J CLAR V -#;::■;-.■■■ The Official Organ of THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA No. 797] Vancouver, B. C, October, 1917 [Month 5c "Democracy" is the magic word these days. &&$ Like their savage prototypes in darkest Africa the witch doctors of modern civilization weave their evil spells in legislative fyalls,| on public platforms, in the pulpit and the' press. They hymn, they chant, in seductive strains of the new democracy. But charm they never so well they cannot seduce the blanched and horror stricken gaze of sorrowing multitudes away from brood drenched Europe, from those ocean graves, from those perishing populations, nor our thoughts from those millions, the flower of the race, lost to the world in the pride of youth or returned to us shattered, maimed and torn, to live living deaths, immolated, horrible sacrifices to the great god capitalism. But the spell must be cast, there is much at stake, so they gyrate around and around their Mumbo Jumbo,yincanting the magic /word. That nightmare of the bourgeois democrat, the working class listens and waits, though with a growing scepticism, to hear where it comes in on this beatific scheme of things: listens and waits and waits in vain for anything specific. And, looking at the prophets (I had nearly said "profits") of this new Jerusalem, is asking itself, with gathering storm of doubt and suspicion, can it be that there is a labor market in this Jerusalem also? Turning the question over in its slow moving collective mind, and looking who the profits (Oh, let it go this time) are( is arriving at the con- DEMOCRACY THE WORKERS PLACE IN IT elusion that it is so: same old market, same, old'subsistence wage, .with the (at intervals) usual bad times and the same old soup kitchens, that is to say, same old Democracy. (Big D please). How fine the word democracy sounds when uttered by a big mouth with one hand stuck in the breast and the other under the coat tails, of a platform shouter. But will it pay the rent,) or buy th…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
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language: English
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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