Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1916-09-01
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note: The Official Organ of the Socialist Party No. 784 VANCOUVER, B,C SEPTEMBER, 1916 Remember the 14th m THIS! IS THE (WORKING 1 CLASS TICKET:- " I Comox .1 :■■ W. |A. Pritchard e §■ Fernie : e |e J. A. McDonald Vancouver . D. Harrington Ymir Al Goodwin - i ^pys^y ■ --^srpEv. ■■ ■ ■rt'-V^'tWsl&ibL--, LOYALTY TO PRINCIPLES By Alex. Translated from the Dutch. "De Internationale," (organ of The Revolutionary Clubs.) THERE is a loyalty peculiar to all social beings, and there is the faithfulness of the dog. And is it not proverbial, that the more chastisement a dog receives the more faithful it becomes? Such dog faithfulness is also characteristic in individuals, and groups of individuals. "We might, without encroaching upon tihe truth, consider this psychological peculiarity of the "into-sub- missiotn-beaten" dog as the striking characteristic ,bf the thinking (or lack of thinking!) of the masses throughout the ages. Did not the masses always bow and cringe ? Were not the masses always obedient, like the whipped dog; like the Javanese,_ who have almost forgotten how to walk upright? Was not submissive- ness always the cardinal virtue of the slave, and meekness the Christian virtue "par excellence?" Yet, there are reasons-for this, say the scholars of the S.A. P. (the Dutch Soeial Democratic Labor Party). We can name them all, so as to make it clear to you how it came about, and why it is. The masses never did think, (say these profound scholastics), and were kept in such a state of mental and physical degradation that they never would come to think. But they also tauglht us that the cruel threshing of the capitalist whip; the impulse for education, arising from the ever-increasing coto- plexity of modern machine production, would make the masses think. They have told us so much, or rather, they mumbled like philosophical fortune-tellers in always the same terms; that the economic inclination of the chattel slaves was so-and-so, and following from this was a condition such-…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
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language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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