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"lays aa guests of King Bdward, rather leaders" of the demonstration. Par­ than satUfy the cheap labor profit ticularly entertaining have been the UP IN THE OKANAGAN COUNTRY sharks, were James W. Edmonds, J gymnastic contortions of Shatford* C EC, Mitchell, D. F. Gladden and George minion at Hedley who edits the Gazette THE MOV EM ENT IN OLD BY-TOWN < 1 '•'. Winkler, all true-blue Socialists. in his frantic attempts to save the |Atfl Red-Hanoi. Criminals Lost Respect for the Law They A* they left the court-room on their precious political hide of his lord and way to the lock-up three rousing master. The crocodile tears he shed Through Lack ot Manufacturing and Commercial Importance the , Get Thirty Oayi tor Meditation and Reflection cheers were given by the large crowd over the motherless tots ln Phoenix assembled about the door, and during caused by the expulsion of the Chinese Oominion Capital Does Not Furnish Recruits for tho in Royal Institution at Kamloops. the time of their Imprisonment In Pen­ from that place some years ago, ticton awaiting their departure to brought him to the front in a new Army of tho Revolutionary Proletariat Kamloops, all manner of kindnesses role—but he is a star of the first mag. Penticton. May. "th, 1906. task, who returned with an answer were shown them by the people of the nltude ln any kind of a farce. town. Within a few hours of their The Socialist movement In Ottawa, Editor Clarion. that wa* equivalent to a refusal to let Another production worth noting, full of bourgeois notions and ideaa. The thu Chinese go. conviction sufficient money was raised or old "By-Town," as lt used to be economic pressure has not yet been Owing t« the wide Interest taken In by popular subscription to pay the becauae lt is luminous with the genius called, is not particularly advanced the ease following the expulsion of ten The BCI rotary urn] book-keeper of the of the great mind that guides the des­ sufficient to force them to understand lawyer defending them and their re­ for, no doubt, very good reasons. In the position of the working class. Tbe Cbtnamen from this place on th* 21st Lund ..'ompany. who wt.re -.regent turn fares from Kamloops—In all tinies of the Southern Okanagan Land fact, "By-Town" ls an appropriate .,f March last- which resulted In four made Statement* to tho effect that Company, Is one that appeared In var- two exceptions noted have raised them­ nearly $130. name for the place, for lt is neither a selves above their environment by Socialist! being Incarcerated In the sufficient white man were not obtain­ loua publications pretending to tell the manufacturing nor distributing centre provincial gaol at Kamloops for thirty able to do the work, and that when­ Regarding the prisoners It might be dear people how it all happened. Brief­ wading Into and carefully studying Interesting to note that James W. Ed- in any sense of the word, except that economics from the working-class days, H has been deemed best by some ever possible white men were employ­ ly condensed the whole trouble, ac­ It Is the chief point in the Dominion member* of Penticton I«ocal that a ed. These statement* were no sooner mond* was at one time a British reg­ cording to his story, was set on foot standpoint. ular, belonging to the .Sixteenth Lan­ from which the political loaves and Already the smaller property owners m correct nc count of the affair should lie made than they wen- denied by a half- by a professional agitator, "renowned fishes are distributed to the faithful ln furnished th* <'larlon, as many of the dozen men in different parts of the cer*. He has seen service ln India for vile, ingratiating, quiet and secret of Ottawa are beginning to feel the en­ and Africa, haa medal* for the Chlt- return for services rendered to the croachments of the bigger fellows. report* appearing in local paper* have room who had applied for work within prevarication," who, in the opinion of powers that be in maintaining their bees colored by the exigencies of old a period »f two weeks prior to the date ral and Tlrah campaigns In 1896 and the managing director, has so suffered Some of them are becoming slngle-taa- 1RS7 respectively. Promoted to the grip upon the machinery of govern­ ers, others are howling for municipal party i*.]ttlKelowna. 40 mites up world wide and that will never cease the movement would show a most re­ the civil servants own homes. There of wh'.rn had taken contract* at var­ Okanagan I,oke. During the delay In markable growth ln such places. being no large industrial population, many well meaning persons can only ious limes for the clearing nf wooded until a triumphant proletariat plants be taught by bitter experience that getting the Chinamen on the boat, W. It* victorious banners on the last clta- The principal value of the affair from there has never been any great unem­ lots. Although few who thus contrast­ T. Shatford appeared on the ncene, nnd jdel of king capital. a Socialist stand point Is the Influence ployed problem to vex its inhabitants, municipal and government ownership ed WIT" able In spite of their best ef­ are really nothing but municipal and attempted to dissuade ihe tnen from Naturally the comment has caused it has had in awaking the workingmen as Is so often the case in the great cen­ fort! I • . l.-.ir even the going wage* of lheir puriHts.', but when he found his of the district to a state of greater tres of industrial and commercial ac­ state capitalism, and that under them i tUt per day. It was still costing the considerable comment In the Slmilka- the statuts of the wage-slave has not efforts were unavailing he lost his tem­ meen andOkanagan papers, and some class-consciousness by exposing the tivity. Such enterprises are are carried !..-! Company too much to clear Und per and acted like a spoiled clillg, true character of their supposed friends, on there are in the hands of individual been altered nor the power of the rul­ | according to the views of the manag- amusing versions and explanations ing class to exploit him lessened. While •% When the Chinamen were safely on the capitalists, or small concerns, and tig directors, who were only getting have been published to expose the j little capitalists these may be necessary steps In the board a guard of ten men remained to when the wage-earner loses his job from 1100 to t200 per acre for the land depth of vlllany of the suppoaed "ring! GEORGE E. WINKLER. complete development of capitalism, see that no attempt was made to take with one he stands a fair show of ob­ In question, snd where three or four they are steps that should be left for them off before the boat left in the taining employment with another, I res oat of ten might cost 175 to tlW : the capitalist to take unassisted by the morning. The whole demonstration was without being forced to the necessity in sere to <|ear with white labor, the proletariat. The latter should conserve conducted In a most orderly manner. of seeking new pastures further afield. niacin of *,,<>ftt wss not Urge enough their means and expend their energies and no rowdyism was in evidence from As there is little to necessitate work­ lo suit them, even though 75 per cent for the final overthrow of the rule of start to finish THE CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS ers leaving the city in order to obtain employment, there Is also little to call capitalist property that ls baaed upon «.f their land required no clearing, be-; The local constable was present at workers to the spot with the expecta­ their enslavement and exploitation. I Ing bench and meadow land. Simmer the granary and at the wharf, issuing Toleration of opinion and thc free­ but It Is to be hoped thoir voice will tion of obtaining it. The working peo­ Any attitude that does not make for ed .!..w!) lt meant that three or four sundry warning* and taking the name* dom to express the same were won be heard in the matter even If the ple of Ottawa are, tn consequence, less the overthrow of the wage system is a hundred dollars must be apent on every of those participating In the affair. in Britain after a long, hard struggle. chorus is led by a "demagogue." permeated with the spirit of unrest and compromise with the enemy, and should fourth lot In order to give It a selling Robbed of their Mongolian p*ta the They Were won by the power of the • • * discontent than in such places as Tor­ be frowned down. The propaganda for value of *«y flUi an sere, which would BhatfoTd* were like n couple of old rising middle cluss, and opposed step onto. Montreal, Winnipeg, Phoenix, a class-conscious movement ot the . qua! . redaction of about six to seven by step and Inch by Inch by the then "The greater the truth the greater hens who have lost their broods of the libel" ls a woll known maxim, self- Hossland and Vancouver, where cap­ workers of Ottawa has yet to be made. p<-r cent in the total amount realised chickens, and hurry-up culls were sent ruling class, the landlord*. The land­ italist development is further advanced, As matters now stand, the work will from the sale of the land. It can read­ ed class and the middle or trading explanatory and generally accepted. to all the policemen within reach. The The Hon. A. B. Aylesworth, however, and the economic pressure upon the fall upon the shoulders of the two com­ ily be seen how difficult It would be majesty of the law was to be Invoked class have now for many years been wage-slave is. in consequence, greater, rades already referred to, with perhaps for the poor company to pull even un- one, the modern capitalist class. Like has given us grounds to believe that to teach Ignorant workingmen not to "the greater the truth the greater the In such places the individual capitalist the assistance of two others whom I der such a handicap, especially If the tneddlS with the Juicy profits that llow the landlords of the days gone by, the and small concern have given way to did not meet, as they were temporarily money lords of to-day object strongly scurrility," and we are Indebted to 1 l* (") price put upon the land ahould ! •„,„ *ho coffers of the little capitalist* him for a new application of the old the larger and more powerful stock out of the city, and whom I sincerely be taken Int., consideration. j from exploitation Of Asiatic coolies. 10 tbe expression of opinions contrary company or corporation, and the wage- hope have advanced in their studies be­ t.. their Interests. The advocates of truth. Mr. Aylesworth is an "honor­ Incidentally It might be mentioned J F-rl,t t0 arrive on the scene was V. K. earner finds himself so completely up yond the stage of municipal capitalism. - free thought know only too -ssaU the able" man, so was Brutus. Brutus that ihe Southern nksnngan 1,-ind Mussey. Superintendent of Provincial n tabbed a man and Mr. Aylesworth against the real thing that unrest and C. M. O'BRIEN. Company paid shout ir-oo.wo for the mean* by which the ruling class seeks Police, then followed Constable 81m- I.as emleavoreJ to stab a cause in the discontent find ready and permanent Campbellford, Ont., April 24th, 1906. Kill* estate, containing 30,000 acres, of monds of Vernon, and Constable Rose to bolster upon the waning authority abiding place within him. If he gets of Its ally, the church. The Socialist same honorable manner as Brutus .•hl'h In the neighborhood of 10.000 of Kelowna. Numerous consultation* stabbed Caesar. Caesar fell dead, but too noisy about It. and more especially acre-, ll.-s north of Dog Lake. After were held In the Land Company's of- agitator Is frowned upon by the pow­ If he becomes politically dangerous, he ers that be, and so much trouble and not so the Socialist cause, It will out- I know full well that we cannot meas­ [allowing for waste and mountain range j f*,,,. |iri(* lt became evident that some- l,ve Mr. Aylesworth and the rest ol is quite apt to lose his Job, and be ure the coming revolution by the , land, -.his northern portion of the *BV| thing of mighty portent was pending. annoyance placed ln his path as pos­ compelled to "move on" with uninter­ sible without al..o annoying the mis­ the "honoruble" brood at Ottawa. standard? of the past, nor can we say tali, eontalnlng one-third of Us total ; piRBl!y the blow fell. Warrants were • • • rupted frequency. that It ie coming this way or that way. lares, "III sell at an average price of . issued for the arrest of six men—FOITI sionaries of capitalism, who use sim­ ilar methods in their advocacy of cap­ but there is one lesson that we learn |li« per acre (tht* Includes the Pen-: F WHOM WKIUC SOCIALISTS, on The "Appeal" is "indecent, immo­ But just to the extent that manufac­ 0 italist nostrums. The exclusion from from a study of the revolutions which tlcb.n town«lte). Ten thousand Acres j charge of intimidating ten Chlna- ral, seditious, disloyal ond scurrilous." turing and commercial activity has de­ % tri0 the malls of the "Appeal to Reason" have occurred previous to this time. nt tlOO an acre will bring I1.0tto.ooo, and i me,,. The accused were put In the Mr. Aylesworth says so, and that veloped at Ottawa, and to the extent That lesson is this: That a revolution­ Is ono of the latest proofs that the it has transformed private property In­ the company will still hsve 20.000 acres \ ioca\ |„f k-up. from which they were ought to end it. Thos pesky demago­ ary body must get hold of political foregoing Is true. Toleration of opin­ gues will not have it so and are mak­ to capitalist property, as has always 10 (lisp..** of. j *a*er released on ball, pending trial. power as an Instrument, or else, as ions adverse to the interests of the ing a disturbance. It is altogether been the case at similar stages of de­ When the ten Chinamen arrived snd I The Informations were laid by F. tullng class will utterly disappear Gronlund remarks, they will get in announced that they were to be follow-) Billings, of Vernon, solicitor for the likely that Mr. Aylesworth, or rather velopment elsewhere, the discontent collision with it as an obstacle. The when that cliuw finds Itself face to the power behind that "honorable among the workers has expressed it­ *'l by It more, the white workingmen i Southern Okanagan Land Company, face with an aroused working class, revolutionists in America in 1776 took naturally felt aggrieved to think that | and the case was tried before Magls gentleman," will have to rescind the self in those commodity owners com­ charge of the government—the clash but the stop taken by the postmaster ukase which prevents a large number binations called trade unions. That their small capitalist friend* rcspon- trate* Townley. Parker, Webster and of arms came afterwards; the revolu­ general Is a little ahead of the time, of people from obtaining thut for this discontent has not yet been forced "Ible for the management of the Bouth- Wade. Early in tha course of the trial tionists in France in 1879 captured, which is proved by tho chiding he Is which they have paid. to the point where lt ls at all danger­ i rn Okat,a„-an Land Company's affair* it became evident that thc maglsirates receiving from the "Free Press" and peaceably? the political power—the clash • * • ous may be seen by the fact that the of arms came afterwards; the revolu­ should show so little regard for their j Intended to convict tho accused. An Tribune," but It Is a step that ha* Ottawa parsons and petty politicians, feelings ns tn pass them up like white • Incident occurred before tho first wlt- lurprised no Socialist. We look for Many advocates of municipal own­ tionists ln America in 186U captured with the assistance of a few skates the political power—the clash of arm* chlp* in n |M>kcr game In favor of a j no** had finished bit evidence which worse than that before the end of ership claim that tt would prevent like Draper, Mackenxie King, Patter­ •"inch of Almond-eyed Celcstlnls from ; threw a sudden Mood of light on the capita Ham. strikes, lt was freely stated during came afterwards. History would doubt­ son, etc., have no trouble ln keeping less have had a different story to tell the Flowery Kingdom, when the ques- I situation. This w.is during the cross- tho lute strike in this city that there it under control nnd having a good fat ti"ti was simply one of profit*, and so! examination of Constable Nesbttt. would have been no strike if the city If the revolutionists in these instancea time ln the doing of it. Not only do had undertaken to overthrow the old they proceeded to hold a mooting at when the counsel for tho defence ask­ had boon running the cars. Why this they have no difficulty in keeping this lhe li C. Hotel on tho evening of March ed a number of questions allotting an- should be so has not been made clear. order before first fortifying their posi­ Grandiloquent praise of Canada exceedingly mild form of discontent tion by political power. list. In order that they might air their lw*rs that amused both the prisoners und everything Canadian was the sum If tho city wore to own the street rail­ under control, but whenever there grievance*. ami thc largo crowd In the court-room. and substance of an address given by way It would run the railway for pro­ comes a struggle between two conflict­ It follows then that our work is The charge has been freely made try Thereupon A H. Wade, the presiding Rev. John McNeill to the two hundred fit. Just as do the present owners. ing factions of captlallsta, over aome plain: We must capture the political magistrate, became exceedingly wroth tl"- Shatfords and other* that thc agi­ of "our best mon" and "prominent There may be many municipality own­ privilege or other from the city, they power ot the United States Govern­ and called for order, lie assured those tation against the Chinese was foment- cltiiens" present the other day al the ed street railways on which there has have no trouble ln throwing It ln the ment and use it to clinch the revolu­ ' l by the Socialiat* (whum they have present that thoy wore not at an en­ never been u strike, so are there many interest of the more deserving faction. tion of the working clasa!—F. D. War­ tertainment, that tho business before Canadian Club luncheon. Tis true he been fighting bitterly) for the purpose lightly touched upon the corruption privately owned street railways on The merit of the case ie of course de­ ren, ln Appeal to Reason. • making trouble for the 8. ti. Land them was of a serious character, and seething In political life, but it was which there has never been a strike. termined by the rigid, moral and ethi­ '"pany. This ls untrue. The meet-1 that tho prisoners would discover the vory lightly, as became a gentleman • • * cal code invariably followed tn such Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle," Ing-plac* was arranged for by two fact before they wore through with cases throughout all Christendom. It addressing other gentlemen all busy- In Newcastle, England, the munici­ that paints in vivid colors some of the Liberals, and thc gathering was large­ the ea*e. Is. therefore, unnecessary to be more In ignoring everything of the sort. pality owns the street railway and It Iniquities practiced upon Ita wage- ly advertised by three Conservative* B, H. Webster, one of the other mag­ explicit, as every one Is familiar with Everything i« Of the best and for the is operated by a Tramway Committee slaves by capitalist property as typi­ Out of the 75 to 100 men who attend­ istrates, objected lo tho length of thc this code. eRher from actual exper­ best in Canada and will continue so of the Town Council. In November fied by the great meat-packing estab­ ed tho meeting, not over eight or ten cross-oxumlnatioti of the principal wit­ ience or common report. lo be aa long as the reverend gentle­ last year the mayor decided that the lishments of Chicago, hus been dis­ were Socialists. It I* true thnt a Soc­ nesses on the ground that too much man continues to draw a fat salary expenses were &0 cents per mile In ex­ There may be manual laborers ln covered to be Immoral. This start­ ialist occupied tho chair, though not on time was being consumed, so he evi­ for handing out platitudes pleasing to cess of other places similarly situated. Ottawa who have felt the economic ling discovery was made by the direc­ account of his political views. None dently did not think the case as ser­ his masters. How could the poor This meant that the Tramway Com­ pressure of capitalism sufficient to de­ tors of the Chicago Public Library. recognise more clearly than the Social- ious a one ns did the magistrate pre­ dear man receive a call frof the Lord mittee were spending $90,000 per annum velop within them the revolutionary Immediately upon the discovery the 'Ms the almost utter futility of such siding, or possibly he considered the to a higher salary If he did not please more than It considered necessary. Ac­ spirit, or at any rate bring them Into book was placed upon the "Index •"Hminages in the labor market be­ bringing out of the facta relative to his paymasters? cordingly tbe service was reduced and sympathy with the revolutionary oxpurgatorius." When a Chicago tween different classes ot comfnoditles, tho matter altogether superfiuoua-a more than 600 of the 1.500 employees movement of their class. If so I was comrade, afflicted with a thirst for especially while the police, the courts view point that the prisoners about Mr. McfNelll stated that he believed discharged. Even then it was consid­ not fortunate enough to find them, al­ salacious reading, hied hlmaelf to the •••id the mllltla are at the beck and this time began to think might have in the fullest power being In the ered that there were 48 slaves too though during my rather short aojourn Library for the purpose of tickling call of the capitalists, big and little, Its advantages, so far as the magis­ hands of the people. He aald: "I many, but Instead of discharging these In the city I searched diligently for his mental palate with the racy Im­ we see plainly that nothing but the trates wore concerned. believe In the voice of the common the manager proposed to reduce the such material. I found one who was morality of this particular book, th* moat temporary relief can come to the people, their sanity, their opinion, es­ At the conclusion of taking the evi­ number of working days per fortnight rather inclined towards the movement, anticipated pleasure was denied him. white working men from even the most pecially when unbiased by the gold of dence the magistrates retired for a during the winter from twelve t6 but his sympathy was not noticeable The nearest approach to immoral Weoaaafui of these attempts to keep corruptlonlsts or the flatteries of the short time in which to arrive at a ver­ eleven. Thia meant a reduction of 60 ln very large chunks. He was a mach­ reading that the Library officials "'>i a low class of labor, which Invar­ demagogues. A demagogue literally dict. Just before returning to the cents on the weekly wage already inist, and. therefore, among the better would grant him was such staid and iably cuts wages and lowers the sjtand- moans a loader of the people, but the court-room with thoir decision It was small enough. A atrlke ensued. The paid portion of the manual workers prudish works as Alphonse Daudet'a Md of living for tho white worker. ruling class make the word mean one noticed that F. Hillings, the prosecut­ town council made a bluff at running who, particularly in a place like Ottawa, "Artists' Wives," Bocacclo's "De­ Nothing will permanently better the who from turbulent motives seeks to ing attorney, w*J cnlled in to consult the cars, Just like our very own Mac- have not as yet experienced the un­ cameron," and a few other such stale laborer's, condition until he gets the lead people against their rulers. As with thorn for a few minute*. Whether kensle & Mann, with about the same certainty of employment and depths and puritanical productions, fit only l-ollllcal horse sense to use hla ballot long ns the people have "leaders" that tho vorillct was submitted to him for amount of success. A compromise was of degradation to which an over-stock­ for the austere mental palate of a •or his own class, and thus gain pos­ will lend them to support the church approval or not It l* Of course Impos­ effected and the men went back to ed labor market can drive its victims. Scotch Presbyterian church deacon. session of the powers of government. sible to say, but those who noticed and the capitalist system, they havo The directors of Chicago's Public work. The account does not say what Having worked In the lumber woods Tie Socialists wish to be considered n* •the little by-play certainly had a llfe- ull the loaders they want and wel­ Library are entitled to front rank l(, became of the 500 which a paternal and mining camps most of my life, I ' »lng in the capacity ot oltlaens, with .slse guess coming to them. come, but as soon as a leader seeks to among the wet-nurses of bourgeois municipality turned loose at the begin­ know of tho "Intellectuals" ln the Soc­ members of olher parties, for the pur­ , The verdict, when given, found five had the people against their rulers morality. In ferreting out immoral ning of the winter. Hurrah for muni­ ialist movement principally from read­ pose of devising a remedy (even of the prisoners guilty, the sixth being he Immediately becomes a demagogue literature their discrimination ls cipal ownership! ing of them. I have heard an occas­ 'hough temporary) for what waa rec- discharged for lack of evidence. The with evil motives. It is fashionable unique. It is of that brand that might ional one on the platform. In Ottawa "Knlsed as a common evil—a aocial and penalty was a fine of 1*5 or thirty days and respectable to talk democracy, SPARTACUS. easily mistake a soiled diaper for a the only Socialists I met were "Intel­ industrial menace to the beat Interests in gftol, ond in order to encourage the but It Is not fashionable nor respect­ freshly luundrled pocket-handker­ lectuals," with the exception of the °' the district. prisoners to pay their lines a week was able to denounce an undemocratic act chief. machinist above referred to, and he allowed them In Whtch to raise the when performed by the powers that The Doukhobors of the North-Wost was no doubt as much of an intellect­ A resolution was passed at the meet- money. Only one of the five convicted be, which accounts for the reverend are said to be again marching out of ual as any of them. The others were "»g that a delegate be sent to W. T. paid the fine, the rest deciding, as a speaker omitting to touch upon even their settlements in quest of the Mes­ A comrade at Olalla, B. C, writes: not manual laborers, but were either Mhutford asking him to dismiss the protest, to go to gaol, although money ever so lightly, that act of high-hand­ siah. This sort of a hunt ls not unlaw­ "Enclosed find tl for another year's scientific men or person* holding high •-hlnamen ln his employ, and also ex­ was freely offered from various quar­ ed bureaucracy, tho suppression of tho ful, but as the hunters are clothed with medicine. Cannot get along without clerical positions. With two except­ tending him an Invitation to attend tho ters to pay their linos If they so desired. "Appeal to Reaaon." The opinion of nothing but righteousness, it ls alleg­ it. I find it a great tonic for the pres­ ions I found them, like the machinist. fathering and express his vlows. A the common people was not usked, ed to be spectacular ln the extreme. ent struggle." '••'lunteer was found to undertake this Those who elected to servo thirty BATURDAY May Jjth, 1901 THE WESTERN OLABtbN, VANCOUVER, BBITI8H_C0LU1B^ TWO "tyranny of organised labor," that has seed has not only been planted, but Ism, but which haa for Ita object the been so persistently and eloquently has taken firm root. Just how It has subversion of existing law and order, pointed out by the Los Angeles Time*, been so widely scattered, or why Can­ and ultimately manifests Itself by the must be broken or ero long It will be adian soil should be peculiarly suit­ PLATFORM Il» Western Clarion flaming torch and red flag of anar- utterly Impossible for tho overworked Existlng "law and order" ls able to Its germination need not con­ i chy." employers to earn enough by their g*j**-H-"TV I.slxir Union In Ihe pro-rim.- |„ ,. •ly the rule of captlallst property. cern us now. viled to place a card under thia head. |i u, ,„, men ^^ "thrift, Industry und abstinence" to Published every Saturday In Each Individual locality that has, of CKftRKEW OP THE WORLD UWTC" month. Secretaries vlesae not* latareat* of th* working class clone" | Even the most cursory inspection of it satisfy the unscrupulous demands of Its own Initiative, become as It were a at th* OfBce of the Weatern Clarion, will show lt so replete with virtue and their greedy and conscienceless employ­ Phoenix Miner*' Union, No. 1 hotbed or centre of Socialist activity, riaek Block basement, 165 Hastings loveliness as to inspire the best ef­ ees. VV. 1'. M. Meets every Saturday • Street, "Vaacouvar, B. C. forts of every lover of the good, the ls entitled to much credit. But there evening at 7.30 o'clock in Minrri' hall. V. Ingram, president, \\ \ true and the beautiful, to preserve lt ls something beyond this that is abso­ The exposure of the filthy practices Pickard, aecretarv SUBSCRIPTION: tl-00 PER ANNUM intact in all Its purity. It has, by lutely necessary in order to weld the of the Chicago meat packers In killing virtue of itB fundamental basis—the scattered units together into an effec­ diseased animals and selling tho meat r, Kdward Illnl. A. O. Brydon-Jack Strlctly la Advaace. enslavement and exploitation of labor- tive fighting organisation, and that ls to the guileless consumer, Is of two­ I \ Qeo. K. McCrossan. divided human society into two war­ to send speakers and organisers over y •• Yearly aubacriptloa cards la lota fold value to the resident of British of Uv* or more, 75 cent* ench. ring factions—masters and slaves—be­ the entire field, for the purpose of Columbia. It not only throws valuable •IM), MYOON-JftK A McCROSSAN bringing the Locals to realise that tukititrrgiut, aoi.U'iTOKH, MI. '""ll Advertising rate* oa application. tween whom even under the most fav­ light upon methods followed by un­ yy orable circumstances, there can exist they are a part of the world-wide pro­ principled capitalists of other coun­ I If yon receive thla paper, it Is paid letarian army of emancipation; to give Tel. 82fl. P.O. Hox, 932 nothing better than a truce liable to tries when in pursuit of the toothsome We, the Socialist I'arty ot Caaada. tor. be broken at any moment. Under its strength and added seal to the weak­ profits, but while reading ii he happily ln convention assembled, affirm our 824 Hastings St. . Vancouver. R f: beneficent sway thc earth resounds er ones; to pull together the warriors forgets about the hog cholera pork allegiance to and aupport of the prin­ Address all communication* to with the tramp of armed men. The ln unorganised places and add new ciples and program of the Interna­ and tuberculosis beef obtained from —-i The WESTERN CLARION bayonet of the soldier and the police­ Locals to the list and to gain new re­ tional revolutionary working claas. his local butcher, and upon which he Labor produce* all wealth, and to Boa 836, man's club are In constant use to keep cruits to the cause. Calls are coming hns perhaps just satisfactorily dined. labor it ahould justly belong. To Vancouver. B. C. even a semblance of order in the ranks in to the Executive Committees for In fact there Is nothing more unspeak­ the owners of the moan* of wealth of the slaves driven desperate by the speakers and organisers to be sent to ably vile In the Chicago disclosures production belong* the product of Socialist Binciory labor. The preeent economic aya- brutal exactions of their economic lords various places. These calls are urgent relating to the meat Industry than In tem is baaed upon capitaliat owner­ and masters. Jails, penitentiaries and and must be responded to ln the near those made upon the floor ot the prov­ ship of the meana of wealth produc­ ent*rv.yery I-ocal of the Socinlist work houses are filled to overflowing future. They cannot be Ignored If we incial house during the recent session Watch thla lsj*l oa your pa­ tion: therefore all the producta of Party of Caaada ahould run a eart with the recalcitrant victims of its are to get ourselves In shape to do af­ labor belong to the capitalist claaa. per. Ii this number 1* on lt, In regard to the largest meat concern under thla head, fl.00 per month brutal rule, and the wretched human The capitalist Is master; th* works*- your aubacriptloa expire* tha fective work at the next elections. In Western Canada, a full account of .Secretaries plea** note. 373 flotsam and Jetsam that flows ln an I* slave. aezt Issue. The reader of these lines la requested which waa published ln the Western ever widening end deepening stream So long a* the capitalist* remain to stop right here and ask himself what Clarion of March 17th, but was ao* ItliltHli Columbia Pnnlw-lal Bsca utile from the reckless and unscrupulous in possession of the rein* ot govern­ he has done In response to the call Is­ even mentioned by any other paper In ment all the powera of the atate will Committee, fU-clitllst Parly <>i . .„. operation of Its profit-grinding indus­ sued by the Dominion and Provincial Canada so far aa we know. be used to protect and defend their nda. Meets every allernut.- Tute- trial shambles. Whether in the ranks OF NO CONCERN. Executives for funds to carry out tbe property rights tn ths meana of lay. W. II. Flowers, Secretary. Room of those struggling for pelf and power wealth production and their control wor.»•k .referre d to above This cal"l —wil *•l• It la stated that the railway and I, VIZ Prior Ht.. Vancouver. 11 in the field of commerce and finance, of the product of labor. be found upon another page, along with other transportation companies are It seems rather startling that right or among .those who struggle for ex­ The capitalist ay stem give* to th* Dominion Kxecsitlvv Osmmltu. so­ acknowledgment of the sums re­ prepared to make a stiff fight against upon the heels of his declared inten­ istence ln the loathosome vortex of the capitalist an ever-ewelllne- stream of cialist Party of Canada. Meets ceived to date. Every reader of theae the adoption of the "Lord's Day Act." tion to go after the man with the "muck slave market, men are turned into profits, and to the worker aa ever- every alternate Tuesday, J Q, lines who is at all Interested ln the which haa been jigged up by the as­ Increasing measure of misery and rake," Roosevelt, of presidential fameof, I ravening beasts, lost to all sense of Morgan, Secretary, &M Barnard movement knows full well the neces-1 sociated religious bigots of the Domin­ degradation. Street, Vancouver, H. ('. should be caught in the very act of honor and decency, each man's hand slty of using every means within reach ion, known as the Lord's Day Alliance. The interest of the working class wielding the rake himself, or at least raised against his neighbor and ready for the purpose of spreading the propa­ It ls high time that every devotee of Ilea in the direction of setting Itaelf Lot-ssi VniK-ouv'-r. No, I, K. P. ol 1 .m- causing it to be wielded on his behalf. to drive the knife to his heart. By adu. Business im-ellng* every ganda and furthering the organisation. human progress put up a "stiff fight" free from capitalist exploitation by That such ls the case, however, seems the same token the very pick and the ah-olltlon of th* wage system. To Monday evening at heud>iuaiters, Every one knows that thla work can­ to have done once and tor all with to be the tact If credence ls to be plac­ flower of womankind is driven In accomplish thla necestdtate* the Ingleside Mlovk, 113 Cunil.l. Street, not be done without funds. Tbe these attempts to use the power of the (room 1, second door). Educa­ ed ln newspaper reports. It appears shoals Into that cesspool of perdition transformation ot capitalist proper­ chances are good that many are even state to ram the doctrines of bigotry ty in the meana of wealth produc­ tional meetings every* Bonday at « that a certain Mr. Garfield, in obed­ known as the social . evil, while the p. m„ In Siilliv.m Hull, Cordova ,8 now grumbling becauae theae commit­ and ignorance down the throat of an tion'into collective or working-class ience to Roosevelt's order, has been v~——-aa^aaass.^—^_^_ remorse­ property. street. D. P. Mills, Secretsr* uoi industriously plying the "rake'1 upon] tender flesh of childhood tees do not more energetically push the unwilling people. That which appeals »36. Vancouver, B. C. lessly ground Into the sickening swill The irrepressible conflict of Inter­ work along. To all such and to those to the state to bolster It up openly con­ ———1 -MS—WSl-i 1 the "muck heap" ot the Standard Oil of profit that can^^^ alone^ relieve the est* between the capitalist aad the who are merely thoughtless in refer­ fesses that It possesses no virtue of Its Locatl Toronto, S». V. of O.—Meet* *er> Company, and as a result has brought parched gullet of capital, the "patron worker ia rapidly culminating la a ence to these things, the Western own upon which to rest Its case. If the ond and fourth Tuesday*. 8o< laltst choice specimens in the saint of modern civilisation." struggle for pc*aexston nf tha power Headquarters. 185"* Queen Street forth aome Clarion suggests that now is the ac- Lord ts one-halt as almighty as these illegal" of government—the capitalist to hold! West. F. bale. Secretary. 41 Henry shape of "rebates" and other is religious humbugs claim. He is amply Dear old "existing law and order' cepted time to _ge t ln and do their the worker to secure It by political Street. Jewish Branch m<-. ui. J Coxoa the flag of Socialism, which is the very The flag of truce Is again hoisted ln and enforcing the economic program Secretary. S2« PrlliC-xi Htr.-. I Win. fined moral olfactories of New York's else to do what you ought to do your­ of the working class, aa follow* opposite of anarchy, this peculiar kink the anthracite coal regions for a per­ I.IJ»-K. Man. virtuous upper crust, because of the self, only you need not expect lt to be in the mayor's vision is quite startling. iod of three year*. The minors return 1. Tha transformation aa rapidly unconventional matrimonial arrange­ done if you do. It ls asserted that Vancouver booze, it to work under the terms that prevailed as possible, of capitalist property In ments of our comrades Gorky, waa as There should be at least half-a-doaen the.meana of wealth production (na­ KstaMiMlseil 18*4. too copiously and persistently applied, previous to the strike. If the minors an Arabian perfume compared to the speakers and organisers upon the road tural resources, factories, mills, rail­ will cause the patient to see numerous use the next three years for the pur­ ways, etc..) Into the collective pro­ horrible stench that afflicts the nostrils all the time. The field is ample and things not otherwise visible. It would pose of acquiring an understanding of perty of the working class. Tke VOICE of the cockroach capitalist hog when the harvest la ripe. While lt ts rea­ seem that Croton water is capable of the labor problem and Its solution, they 3. Thorough and democratic or­ Tin- OMs-st Labor his more lusty brother resorts to "un­ sonably certain that speakers can, as P«|wr In Canasta. producing an even more startling ef­ will prepare themselves for a wiser line ganization and management of in­ fair" means to obtain the larger trough a rule pick up enough to cover expenses, fect, ln fact one that is equivalent to of action than atatemptlng to wring dustry by the workers. and a greater quantity of swill to fill the Executive Committees need a suffi­ Always a f.iiries* expon.-nt In enabling a man to look down the back concessions from a labor market in 0. Ill* estaUlshnwot, aa speedily the cause of labor. it. The test of fairness or unfairness, cient sum ln hand to meet such emer­ which all tne forces are against them. ea possible, of production tor us* of course, lies wholly in the success or of his own neck. Perhaps were the gencies as may arise. Therefore If you Instead of production for proSt. do They will be ready to take part in the For one dollar the paper will failure of the hog trough enterprise, mayor to abstain he wouldn't see these want anything done get ln and movement for the abolition ot the wage The Socialist Party, when la office be »ent to any address for on* from the cockroach standpoint. Could awful things any more. something youraelf. The committee1 shall always and everywhere until system and the upbuilding of a com­ year. the cockroach succeed In becoming a response to the calls for speakers and the present system ts abolished, Workingmen of all countries monwealth ln which the laborer shall make the answer to thla quaatloa It* capitalist mastadon the methods used organisers will ot necessity be ot the THE ACCEPTED TIME. be free to feed, clothe and shelter him­ guiding rule of conduct. Will thla win man reoogalsa the f... 1 would of necessity bear the hall-mark that they must support and same calibre as your response to the self without the necessity of support­ legislation advance tha Interesu of &••&> of fairness, if, perchance, the cock­ the working da** aad aid the work­ read their labor papers. call tor funds. Let them have your ing a lot of hungry capitalist leeches roach ls fated to remain a cockroach, To British Columbia belongs the dis­ response. Right now ls the accepted er* tn their da** atruggle againat IKSCKI) KVKRY FRIDAY and their parasitic hangers-on. capitalism? If It will, the Socialist and perhaps a dead one at that, lt ls tinction of being first among the Can­ time. Party la for It; If It will not, th* Tlie Vidce P-ubtt-thing Co. l.i.l plain to be seen that the competition adian provinces to develop a movement Socialiat Party la absolutely oppo* Winnipeg. Man. has been most "unfair." of the working class along the lines of In the current number of Everybody's "Strenuous Teddy's" latest stage per­ ed to lt. formance conslsta ot a message to Now that Roosevelt has used the revolutionary action against the rule Magasine, Upton Sinclair, the author Congress, ln which, according to the In accordance with this principle "muck rake" and brought forth some of captlallst property, entrenched, ln of "The Jungle," makes serious and th* Socialiat Party pledge* Itaelf to sensational papers representing tin rank specimens of "unfairness," for Its economic dominion over labor, be­ specific charges against the head of conduct all th* public affair* placed horn capitalists, he deals herculean which, aa the sensational press gleeful­ hind all tbe powera of the organised the Armour packing Interests in regard In It* hand* In auch a manner a* to blows at the Standard OU Interests and ly puts it, the Standard ls to be grilled, capitalist state. That the state with to filthy practices indulged in in tbe promote thc Interesu of tha work- their Iniquities as practised upon their lag claaa alone. Miners'Magazine what is all the fuss about anyway? Is its powers of legislation, coercion and preparation of food stuffs turned out puny competitors. The terrible conse­ the president or any of his fellow repression, is the aole Instrument from Its establishments. Sinclair adds: Published Weekly hy the quences of this spectacular stage-strut "muck rakers" actuated by any con­ whereby the economic dominion ot "One hundredth part ot what I have are shown ln the fact that the price ot APPLICATION FOR Vittera rewtrattM M »Mr. sideration tor the exploited wage- capital over labor can he maintained charged ought, lt lt la true, to he Standard OH atock tn the New Tork A Vigorous Advocate of Labor'*" Is so patent that time expended in ita enough to send tbe guilty man to the BKRNHIP IN THE SOCIAL­ slaves of either the successful "Stand­ market, Immediately after the publica­ Causa. elaboration is virtually time wasted. gallows." Tbe filthy practices referred ard" gang or .their defeated adversar­ tion of the message, registered an ad­ IST PARTY OF CANADA. Clear-Cut aad Aggroaalve. In every capitalist country of the earth to are but mere Incident* of produc­ ies? As no mention is made of the vance of seven points over the closing Per Year $1.00. Six Months. 00*. the labor movement ia coming to recog­ tion for profit, and they aa logically part the workers may have played ln figure of the previous day. With due hereby apply for membership Addre**: nise thla and 1* shaping It* course to spring from lt aa do malarial germa tbe game, and no tender solicitude has and proper recognition of the strenu­ I, THE UNDKRSIONED. MINERS' MAGAZINE. been expressed in their behalf, the obtain possession of the powers of tbe from a swamp or cesspool. It would ous one's importance ln the great In Local Denver. Colorado. conclusion ia Inevitable that either tbey state for the purpose ot using those be just aa wise to attempt to obviate echeme of things, lt ls Indeed atrange Socialist Party of cut no Ice In the matter at all, or auch powers to strike down the present class the evil effects of the awamp or cess­ that we should be reminded of the Canada. WANTED: by Chicago wholesali control of the organised economic pool by taking the life ot a tadpole or house, special represent*^* (or wronga aa they may have suffered In fabled fly upon the rim of the wheel. consettjence of the brutal struggle is po vor of human society, with Its pro­ a maggot, aa to expect to check the I recognise the class struggle each pro viae* In Canada. Salary duction for profit and wage-slavery, filthy and health-endangering practices between the capitalist class and $20,00 aad expenses paid weekly. ot no concern to these eminently re­ Expense money advanced. Bun* and substituting therefore collective or referred to by sending some Interested A splendid substitute for silk has the working class to be a spectable "muck rakers" ot high de­ struggle for political suprem­ aea* successful; position permanent- capitalist to the gallows. Tbe very gree. social control ot Industry, with pro­ been discovered and turned over to acy, I. a., poeaeaalon of the No Investment required. Pre"io»» duction for use carried on by free men. fact that production for profit is of commercialism. The rise of thla young relna of government, and which experience not essential to eng*e* The truth of tbe matter la that all A breach haa been made tn the prov­ necessity baaed upon the robbery ot Industry haa been so rapid that the necessitates the organisation of Ing. Address of thla racket kicked up againat the incial breastworks of capitalism by labor la quite sufficient to condemn the producers of natural stlk are disturbed. the workera Into a political General Manager, 183 Lake St- "Standard" and auch huge aggrega­ party diatinct from md oppoa­ Chicago. HIMJMU. tbe election,, two and a-half year* present system to the gallows of aboli­ In Italy several chambers of commerce tion* of capital, I* done in behalf of ed to all parties of the capi­ since, of two members to the bouse at tion. So long aa production for profit have memorialised the government on taliat claaa. their defeated antagonists in the brutal Victoria upon a platform setting forth obtains lt will continue equally proli­ the subject. But nothing can atop THE WESTERN CLARION and conscienceless scrimmage over the If admlttsd to membership, openly and without reservation tbe fic ln breeding capitalist maggota and scientific and Industrial evolution, and I hereby agree to maintain or division of the plunder wrung from en­ revolutionary program and Intention* poisonous germa It ls up to enslaved enter Into no relations with brilliant silk will be made more and S yearly sub. card* for $8.75. slaved labor. ot the International working claaa. The labor to erect the gallows, aupply the any other political party, and more out of common cotton—or, better Bundle* of 28 or" more copies it To tbe capitalists, both large and heavy vote polled ln other constitu­ rope and spring the trap. pledge myself to aupport by still, with the fibres of forest trees. voice, vote and all other legiti­ one address, for a pwlod ol thrtj small, the comfort and well-being of encies at the same time ls portentlous Thus the fashion-chasing women of mate means the ticket and tha months or mors at ths rat* ol oa* the workers ls of no concern. The In­ of the absolute certainty that the program of the Socialist Party cent per copy. The building industry of Chicago ls the elave class will have a better op­ terest ot both Ilea ln the direction of breach already made will be widened of Canada only. reported a* seriously handicapped by portunity to Imitate their foolish rul­ merely holding the working class ln at the forthcoming election, 18 months the walkout on the first of May of 1,000 ing-class sisters. But It's a glorious Applicant Patronise our advertisers. submission to their exploitation. or so hence. structural lronworkera. They have civilisation. The cat and dog fights engaged ln by .Address been getting 58 1-4 cent* per hour. capitalists over the division of the While no successful assault has yet Occupation Their chief occupation I* the erection The Russian Government has adopt­ plunder taken from them ls likewise of been made upon the fortifications of ot the structural framework of sky­ ed the policy of moving Ita troops fre­ Age no concern to the working class. The capitalist property In the other prov­ scrapers. Tbelr present demand Is for quently from place to place In order Cltlxen only thing that need concern the work- ince*, or upon the central citadel of 62 1-2 cents per hour, or $5 for a day's to prevent them from becoming •taint­ Admitted to Local 110.. era la to get the whole caboodle, both robbery at Ottawa, signs are multi­ work ot eight houra, Tbe contractors ed" by associations with revolution­ large and small, off their backs. plying dally that conclusively show Chairman. consider their demand exorbitant. Most ists. It seema that evil associations tbat the battalions are forming, and a Rec.-Scc. most vigorous assault will be made In any reasonable person can see that It still corrupt good manners. The Caar THAM ***** UE SAW THINGS. Is positively outrageous. The very Idea la wise in taking atepa to Insure that Own" •., the near future. From far Yukon in t-» CoavmoMT* a* the north to Nova Scotia and New ot working men demanding such prince the conduct of hla "dear troops" shall Brunswick in the east, the message ly wages a* five "buck*" per day is. be above reproach. Mayor MoClellan, of New Tork, cornea that the leaven la working, and ridiculous. The next thing we know speaking at a dinner given at the Wal­ ATENTS the recruits are forming In line and they will aspire to living In brown- A Canadian Pacific train waa held dorf-Astoria Hotel on the night of acquiring the necessary "esprit du atone fronts aud sporting automobiles. up near Kamloops on Tuesday night Jefferson's birthday, declared that he w* solicit Ine lUsslaahtrtra, corps" lo insure the vigor of the on­ Talk about greedy capitalists! Why, and the registered mall sacks were Rnglneera and other* who raiiitc tbeadViabllth. . Otitic nmm saw "a spirit of disorder and lawless­ they are the very personification of ity of having their Patent business transacted slaught when the hour etrlke*. From rilled "Individual Initiative" and dear l>y Kiperts. Preliminary advice free. Charges ness sweeping around the world"*—"a the most remote and out-of-the-way modesty and self-sacrifice ln compari­ old "incentive" are -till alive and ^\f$*!muderst' - -^ " •- »•*-* *-•"-- spirit which masks under the name of son to the avaricious Ironworkers. This I request. -„^^^^^^^^^_ Mifce**»*>. New York places cornea frequent word that the eummVastee.^^ Socialism, Communism and Collective- ' Montreal • snd Washington, D.C, V.SJL WftSKV .May Uth, IM*. THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER. BRITISH OOfcUMBU.

inals were burnt out. there 1« no report not only to have the right, but alao ward tbe work of organizing auch THE EARTHQUAKE of any crime* belli-* eommltti a except Ibe opportunity of harmoniously de­ parts of the Dominion of Canada a* FROM IIIOHO by the inllllla. Thin K"* to w-loping and educating in accordance have not yet been reached. There is 9 ZONE prov.; the Socialist, theory of abolish with hlR needs, the physical and in­ a vast field to be covered which will 9 want uud you will abolish crime. tellectual capacities which nature hus ot necessity entail considerable ex­ 9 AGENTS WANTED The relief committee* have done good glvefJ him. It believe* the right to pense. The necessary funds can, how­ 9 irlsnd Cal.. May l»t, HW6. work in preventing want, but the enjoyment of life necessarily involves ever, be obtained if Locals, indivi­ a "r the Western Clarlun. 9 9 mc tfdltor church Charity tl disgusting to any the duty to Ubor. But In order that dual comrades and friends will take YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING ANO HELP THE CAUSE ...de Having lost my lob •sU-rs*poctlng person. They allowed the matter up by gathering and for­ 9 9 • i'on „;„„,: „„„,. du.ing th-re- this lubor may be as productive und the refugee* to Bleep on the pews In useful, and at the sume time as pleas­ warding such contributions as may 9 BY SELLING 9 • ,i , al dlsturbsi.ee of the the Ill-ventilated churches ami fe.i tbem ant and short a* possible, the associa­ be forthcoming. As soon as Uie re­ 9 9 :<£*£! tStolteo, 1 am free for a few duyu, but when tome of the tion of the power of labor and the quisite funds may be gathered it la 9 9 'very for » wh,le' *ml "" men did not eagerly v,n to work at organization of the process of labor the intention of the committee to 9 waK..-Hl..V« > ' j ,, f(.w 0b**r. starvation wages they were very In­ on a higher technical plane ls Indls- arrange trips, for one or more organ­ 9 "< ! r;" J , interest to the dignant nt such Ingratitude, and were penslbl*' and this presupposes that izers, covering aa large a section of 9 9 .„ 'I1 u • xi'-'l-t Socialist a S*k- very glad to be able to get rid of the territory a* possible. With energetic a,jer the mean* of production shall be 9 9 ' 'consider i" MM •** *' refugee* by sending tbem to camps transformed from private Into collec­ action in the matter of raising funds eh l and '-udicdous application of tha samel 9 THE JUNGLE 9 ...i on Socialism In Amerl a. out 111 the hills. In order to K<-t any­ tive ownership," 9 9 „n April l«th thc earth thing from the churches It was neces­ by the committee a much needed -—.--. j .„i„iii. avert- sary to answer all sorts of questions) work may be carried out that will 9 li.'" :.'• ull moveable objects bear fruit in future election cam­ I such as Have you nny friends?" The Pattern Makers' Association, of 9 Some who started early are now selling ten % .ly l,y 1 paigns. 11' iro.')f 'Thesensation was nu"Wher e did you work?" "Cannot your Milwaukee have taken the initiative In 9 <•• '"" -.verc in a railroad car former employer help you?" and HO on. calling upon the workers of the Uni­ All money received for thla fund, $ copies a day; and it pays from fifty to eighty cents 2 lln 'Ugn.,ur saj » <»""» >'*r h',ur)' **L" To obtain a bowl of soup one had to will be used solely for the purpose ted States to resort to the mass strike ~*w (travi KInri.l In Ilm- for an hour or wo, und stated. The committee, at its meet­ Send to us for circulars and wholesale '" , u„l bounding over rocky a copy, '•' "" iT- living from sl.U-to sl-le. th-ii aiiHwi-i- satisfactorily tha numer­ In case Justice should be denied the ing on Feb. 27, appropriated from 9 I rffsStrSSS MarhrtHtr.et ous questions. Tbe minister* did not imprisoned officers of the Western Ped- the General Fund the sum of $25, 9 prices. The book is now ready for delivery. 9 l!l "", s , llill. wlK-rc 1 wa* located. preach about "an avenging d.-iiy" or iM alIon of Miner*. In a set of ringing to be applied to the Organizing Fund 9 9 "God's will" the next Sunday. No All money received for this fund will ' "'' ,^ lv. Icnc.' "f t»«e effes-ts were resolutions the Association pledged Its 9 vrr5 " f»w brick chimneys and cor- doubt because the Chun b--s were more be acknowledged through the col­ THE JUNGLE PUBLISHING CO.. v 9 """". f,-l-t to the sidewalk. Most biidiy damaged than any other CIHS-I of members to cease work at the call of umns of the Western Clarion. 9 III t1,! , the dwelling, and building-', and another thing, people the Western Federation of Miners, and 9 -'V ,,,, £th e *,re.'street regardl.*. of per­ arc more Inllghtsned l*MSS days a* to In do ull they could to induce all other ORGANIZATION FUND. 9 BOX 2064 NEW YORK. S il owl "" l" Almosllmnltl mmyv tlrst the cause of earthquakes by reason of »,„». •pi-araiu-M- workers to take similar action. Inslgnlflc-nt cr.-a- Ihe Hilenllli •• pragmas Which the church 9 ZttnTn SXa* -~*»_ • •»'"ha' s triad U) binder The ilnit.li peo­ The following sums have been re- 999® ",, a portion of this immense ple tuik no mui h about work, but there Governor Uoodlng, of Idaho, has cal­ celved to date: vlbrfttloi 1 _ *uch a sudden rev- I* not work for BVI ryoaa About ;,HO,nO(i Dom. Exec. Com $25.00 iiould oause led upon the bankers of Idaho to put llumVn affairs. If ever one are homeless, so thai about 10,009 men Toronto Local 5.00 o i •' '" of up m.MO to curry on the prosecution a forcible realisation ar.* employed The Ban Pranclsco Comrade O. Rayner 1-00 , , I hat such .r'brotberhood, it a** at Hoard of Public. Work* was forced to of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. The Comrade R. McLachlan 1.00 . . Kvlryone seemed tone thank- lay oft because of lack of funds l o>o discovery of buried Infernal machines Comrade J. A. Teit 1.00 men win. war* '•leaning tti.; flit'-ls. The and tl.e concocting of bogus confessions Comrade L. T. English 1.00 .^ujrHrter the *ertba*nte officials prevented any merchant from X should not be allowed to lag because of • K. ....' in many pt*"*, P"^" raining th<- price of goods, HO that peo­ To Publishers Total *34\0O "'" '.,,.. warehouse district and th- plo were enabled to pun base at former a lack of the necessary wherewith. 11 » in -Stag bouse distort, where t prices If they had money. One llrm in The banker* should respond generously, y in ii Forward all contributions to of the lives were lost The Ihe grocery bumnefs, which for a num­ lliey, above all other people, are Of Country Weeklies: . mm the death list wl!' be J. O. MORGAN, Sec. I i-.ii.-vea ber of years ba* been on the unfair known to bc devout worshippers at the •jsed hy li*t of organised labor, had it* Block 551 Barnard St. Tbe fir.-* were mos.iy shrine of Justice. i > :ed oil lamps, broken «-us confiscated by the authorities because Vancouver, B.C. We Have two cases (lOO pounds) of Bre­ urn. - Th*. In It endeavored to charge famine price*. and elect' ', wlraejL^^^^^^^""*"• < Ity ^ I At present the papers state that real Whllf. Hi..*.- districts mar* estate and nnt* have been there*** •• hustler, was in town during the early FUND. h • : r injured was very dllTlcult. The. case where 1100 a. month was part of the week, he took occasion to The following amounts received up to els a pound a year ago; will sell at :•. department wan powerless, due to! charged for one room. Of course that th,. H iter mains b>-lng broken and soj Is "business." surmount the soap box of Carrall and date: maj . fire* at once. Hut for the capitalist system of pro­ Cordova Streets one evening for the Previously acknowledged $43 50 25cts a lb. Following is a sam­ \\ • • the extent of the Ure was real-1 fit many live* would have been saved, purpose of giving to his fellow-slaves Local Revelstoke 5 00 mllltla were ordered oul and! as many bulMings which collapsecollapsed I. , Comrade Burroughs 2 50 ple of the Type: 1 8 vlew lhe la* declared. were poorly built M.,st of them were! " " WW vexatious economic D '. these legalised murderers protect occupied by th* working la.-s, aud.no \*nd political problems of the day. He Total .{ill 00 fjonbt In the re-blllldlng of San Fran- i *-„t along nicely for about half an hour, banian life? That wa* not their l.usl- Hartford, Conn., Jan. io.—A certificate They were used to protect "pri­ Cisco everything will be ts* rtflced tojwhan al camc llm aaeJmu and ,n. . st....'. l'i iperty," which Is much more the "god »f proli'" ami the dwellings of incorporation of the Caxaca & Pacific L.TCI under capitalism. uf ths• "noiklng mule*" will nut he gny corruptible guardian of public morals, Railway Company of Hartford, has been Th« ' rime* of the militia would fill dufcr Uiun formerly. Although .. num-jthe chief of Potion. His keen detective WAGELABOR filed witb the secretary of state. The mny ;..IK'-Smc*.. Iinn facuuti th«••e« onl— •y* crimes i l»«r of workers urer* killed, those that instinct at once discovered the "sedi­ AND CAPITAL authorized capital stuck of the company ; i,y the newspapers during Ui!», ,,inajn hive iit.ll their chains of wagC- tious" trend of the speaker's remarks is 140,000000. These figures exceed ,.,, -ti have hean lommitted by Ou , , ,.,,.. Tbey did not lose them hl n and calling his minion, the valiant Chief those of any other company which has ^I^ murdewe^^^^,^,^------. Th|e-| --^^^^^^^^M-*M>ns| Th. e day of social revolution may be BY KARL MARX aaaaaaa,r».i'.-.i J and guarde» . d. ^.hy. t'"'""••..|||tla. | retard..! somewhat by thin disaster, squelched Klamroth before he had suc- filed such a certificate with the secretary . r whom Dscsrna drunk and f.h«t atl( ,jkt a|, oyicr dis^Kt<.rs 8Uc.h aa « eeded in his evident purpose of under­ Single copies, 5 cents; 6 ,ut,y people rw-klessly. I met a young! warh or ,.(>JXU u )lag ^^.^ -j,, Uay mining the foundations of the British copies, 25 cents; 15 copies, 60 ho said that while passing Ul..ngjw.ll.n t,^,..i)r,Jiixlt.AUjn l.,lll1,,.li harj cents; 40 copies, $1.00; 100 Umpire. Balked of his purpose, Klam­ t)n street a -...l.llt-r who was drunk tiiii.-H. Ban sTmnclaco win be p-buiit, cupies and over, 2 cents per WRITE. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ti:.) al him and h.ir.-ly missed h'm because the B*stern capitalists have roth departed a couple of days later copy. Maaj II..'i, whose Mores ha»J iw-en .!••- pi.niy of KUIPIUK capital which they for the land of the free and the home These rates include postage roy*d attempted to recover Borft* >>f ar.* eager to Invest. The reign of King of the brave, it is to be hoped with the to any part ot Canada of the Western Clarion, things, hut w*-re shot and killed John D. and Lis grand dukes »m oon- ririn resolve to henceforth use his tal­ United Kingdom. without warning by th.- mllltla. T»p, unue "possibly loiiger than 1S87-1 tbe ents for the purpose of upholding law mtHlM. It H r.i.orte.1. dynamited a|Uni<, ^ m , ,„,.,, ,,„,, J Box 836. VANCOUVER. B. C. and order and preserving our glorious budding before all or the oca apaats • wouM lni., . "The Western Clarion" ^^^^^* that they were out Two men report that they, ^^ ^ yM N-- ^^ ^^ capitalist civilization. At any rate the • re held up th- night of the fire and a arid* street very Cea of the One rem Vancouver Chief of Police is a terror 1 4 robbed by two mOdler* A week ;IRO Idoncea were burnt. Jefferson JS.puare to evil doers, all right. Munday the papers had terse headlines is »iiirounded by well built hou-«.*.* and ! 11 •tat t '" a *°ldtw had saaavttsd s| manaiuus hot damaged, the rasitlaata THE WESTERN CLARION l i | woman. apparently being In Europe or gone to Some one writing to the Winnipeg in. aoldler han twen tc.rorlslng the the Hot bprlngH" uft.-r the earthquake Voice suggests that the "Labor M. P.'s" reslil nts b] ih.v.ilng through the win- These houses are closed und guard. U il nlRht. (ine shot went throug•s'tHl''h 1'* t!"' ,"il'Uu- whUe just a.rosj the at Ottawa should be asked to bring up P.O. DRAWER 836. f.ur partitlosa lie him b«*en arre»>i--vi. i -ti-.t. . tbe refugees and bomelegi are ln the house the matter of the barring COMMERCIAL So is alloweil in Chinatown now of the Appeal to Reason from the Can­ .-su,... thc mliitta were looting there, r"""" J '" U"; tr'jA'!"1 ?***> iU'a er* dsMtnaS Of obtaining some "*« ' f'v »*• ^",''e " M JKlS adian mails. This would be all right, TELEPHONE 824. •r of the time when th.y .,,,r. |--"^,d together OO the damp graS!*. only there are no "Labor M. P.'s" a : h:, J uf fored such noble (?) duties after the.»" ' '' •» ' « '»-^,-Sart shelter, there. In making this statement Ralph U J lu ,vu Mm L Mi. PrancUco earthquake In IW.| *," " '' , ' ""', !' ^" Smith has not been overlooked by any One of the llrst district, to b* burnt lul",u,• ,"* "'"> «,N^d '« °" •*". AS A PROMOTER means. PRINTING was the notorious "Barnaby Coant- ... . quencc of u Di us to arouse the Ignor- >...ugh the so-called worst i rim- I ant working .ins* to the Injustice of OF PUBLICITY tlieir being forced to put up with such Dr. Ross A. Luxemburg, the brilliant shelter In all kinds ot weather, while Socialist journalist and lecturer of amoBg the wage-earn­ a. r,.ss the sirvrl the best prOdttOtS of Germany, Is confined in prison at War­ thu working daaa were standing un­ saw, Poland, as a dangerous revolution­ ers of British Colum­ Victoria used, and they dare hot make use of them because they were private prop­ ist. In a letter to the Berlin Vor- bia, "The Clarion" is erty. There are thousands of houses waerls he says the prison conditions Advertisers in .Sun Francisco that aie not damag­ are horrible. At times there are as ed. There is enough room to shelter many ns 60 prisoners In the same cell a winner. It has over I'AilJuNlZE THKM - AND everybody, bul the so-called Clirl.-Ut.in-' —men and women together. Of course do noi obey the command, "IJOM* thy such Iniquities practised by the ruling 2300 paid-up readers. TKLLTHKM WHY. neighbor as thyself." class will meet with the general ap­ The extent of the Ure would not have proval of the capitalist world, as the Mail-order houses will bean SS great bad there been woulmorde victims are merely low, dangerous wide streets. The loss of lite avoided characters that ure a menace to clvil- find it a business Colonial Bakery have been lo a great extensubstantiallt y Isiillon. had the buildings been bringer. •iv Johnaos St., Victoria. B.C. built. UNION -MAOC MUD MD CAKCS The comrades in Oakland aided those TO "CLARION" READERS. ONE KIND - THE BEST Ixll-en-d t* any part ot the elt7 Aak comrades who •uffend by the dlsutei THE WESTERN CLARION in San Francis-.0 and who cam*use to dOa fokr Many complaints are reaching this Driver to call. "Pbena 8*° land. The headquarter^^Ts were ""•t * w*•m* office from subscribers who fail to get shelter and supplyin...... —..ilg l in.-alSau s Francisco their papers. In some instances there FLACK BLOCK BASEMENT are several complaints from the same I ou know we sell from 10 to 2» hot be Ion*, beforranke Ls< again lighting for locality. As every subscriber's name cents cheapor than our competitors. wilth>*l Co-Operativbe lu tht e Commonwealth. TELEPHONE 824 We have declared that "uur brothers and the number of paper with which his subscription expires are kept con­ ' I TRY shun not bc murdered I" tinually in type and the mailing list HASHES' FAIR in all ibe excitement wa have not printed therefrom each week, after all forgotten Comrades Moyer, Haywood corrections, alterations and additions -rom JL. cxx.A.3>ra*s* ami I'.-uibonc. Comrades, be ut good arc mnde up to date, the frequency of *r-\ cheer, llle tide Of revolution is i isitlg. 71 Severeaiat Strati, VKMrta, •- C. these complaints Justifies the suspic­ SEWING MACHINE. Yours for the revolution, ion that postal employees are often BOLLER BEARINO. guilty of reprehensible laxity In the A RaroOsBB. HIGH OBAOI. performance of their duties, even if TKl.Kl'lUlNK B77» Five Clarion sub. cards—$3.75, they be guilty of nothing worse. | HENRY BCHNSEN A The publishers of the Western Clar­ iniiing the recent municipal cam­ ion earnestly request any subscriber \ Muilactirer e\ who does not receive hia paper to OHtH ^s paign nt P&rkersburgj West Vir­ promptly notify this office. Missing HAVANA ginia, II. O. Davis, a member of the copies will be supplied at once and ne­ CIGARS Democratic dty committee, tendered cessary steps taken to locate the rea­ BEST IN B.C. CVQ**.' a No I Ctstra tt. his resignation, und In a public letter son for such non-delivery and to avoid • VICTORIA, B.C. declared his espousal o,___^^f socialis^m nnd Its repetition in the future. his reasons therefor in speaking of th.. new dootrini which he had do- PROVINCIAL KXECUTIVE COM ©asS'Sisee elded ••> embracacve , he said: M1TTEK. believes In nn ei-ual chance for HAROLD BURNETT "It _ wffere to develop thc Kecctpta, NEWS AGENT. all men ever-,' num.. lt advocates the best Hint is in them Mount Sicker Comrades, organ­ Interests of ulm l tolling humanity best ^^ ization fund $32 victoria Representative for the as opposed to Us oppressors und ex- Hemst publications, as follows: San It demands the abolition of Revelstoke Local, organisation United Hatters of North America I'I-MII-IMCO I'.xiiiiiliicr. I/»s Angwle* Kx- ^^^plotter^ s of expropriation and op­ fund 5 w•*••••— -.- When you are buying a„ Fl'l«.-™*i>l HAit,»Tx seHIe to Itt Com. Hurroughs, organisation iimlner, Chicago Amrrtcnn, New York ,.pressioVciy nfoi'" o"f "'"" by mini In social that the Qcnulne Cnlon l-ub.-l ls sewed ln It. If lire. It be. fund 2 Amcil.-jui, Boston American; Home politicul mid a********* aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- a retailer has loose labels ln his possession and mui Vena "Weekly, Clilcn*"; Ciasmo- Ravelatok* Local, stamps .... 3 offers to put one In a hut for you, do not patronise llev.-s in th"' . aemocratlsatlon of com- Com. Hiirrough.'. dues 1 liolltan Magazine, New York. i industry ;is the only by buying thto him. Loose labels tn retail stores are counterfeit*. meroe, trade "J , uli.(|1 ,*„„*„,. reliable, honest, The genuine Union Label Is perforated on four foundation jr P^^ of ,a, Total M"! to Also agent for tho following: reliable high grade sew* edges, exactly the same as a postage stamp. Coun­ rucy and llio sn Seuiiie Times, Portland Oregonian, i, thoroughly In ac- terfeits are some times perforated on three edges, equality, wlileh.^^^^^^ ,,f econo­ ing madiine. Nan Kranelsco Chronicle, Los Atigele" AMONG THE WORKERS. Money cord With the philosophmic, y [t believes and some times only on two. John It. Stetson Co., Times. of Philadelphia. Is a non-union concern. nibs, science and be free H»<1 c(lurt- STRONGEST GUARANTEE. Prompt and regular dally delivery DOMINION ORGANIZING FUND. thnt men should f whatever race. JOHN A. MOHTTT, President, Orange, N. J. service to subscribers. 0 National Sewing Machine Co.. without exception, ,1 hey should be MAiOTIN LAWIiOK. Sets-clary, 11 Waverly Pino*, Advertisements-of every description t Tho Dominion Executive Committee family or religion run mission in life SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. J New Xork. taken for'any newspnper. eves in or- j has decided to call for hinds to be permuted to mi their believes In or • FACTORY ATBBLVIWMB. IU. as Civilised being*, n man ought used for the purpose of pushing (or- P. 0. Box 444, Victoria, B. 0 der to attain theae object" *•*•>

rout TT", THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY May 12th, IJQJ

RUSSIAN METHODS AT OTTAWA* "Appeal to Reason absolutely prohib­ OUR $ ited transmission Canadian malls. 9 (Signed) WM. SMITH. 9 Secretary P. M Gen." 9 Cascade Beer sells all I NEWS AND VIEWS This Information, received by several 9 thousand Canadians, has caused a sud­ 9 den awakening from that slumber In which they dreamed thoy lived I" « Queen Beer Over the AS GIVEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION free country. They now know that there Is a ruling class here as else­ * Edited by K. P. PETTIPIECE, to whom all correspondence for tills department should he addressed. 9 where, and that the clnse struggle In­ Ale and Stout Country 9 fir tensities dally. And so this "public servant" be­ comes the self-appointed "press cen­ PHYSICAL CULTURE. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COM­ l-'HOM WAV DOWN EAST. sor," and tells us that he forbids our Specially Recommended. MITTEE. reading the Appeal because In his opin­ Wage-Slaves Have Utile Time to 1K-- Montreal, Quebec, May 3rd, 1906. ion it contains "scurrilous and seditious Western Clarion, Vancouver, B. C. votc to Physical und Mental Vancouver, 13. C, May 8th. 1906. articles." Dear Comrade,—Just a few words to Slowly the knowledge Is being pound­ ; Development. Present Comrades Stebblng, Leah, The Vancouver Breweries, Ltd. 'VT" i McKenzie, Arnason, Pritchard, Kings- let you know how we fared on May ed Into our sluggish brains that gov­ Men and women, with few exceptions, ley and the secretary. 1st In this stronghold of capitalism. ernments are simply committees ap­ Telephone 429 are pretty much what their occupation, The minutes of the previous meeting Many weeks ago Local Montreal of the pointed by the ruling c'ass to attend were read and approved. Socialist Party of Canada, along with lo their legislative interests, and we environment and education has made aro gradually being kicked and cuffed The following correspondence was nine other worktngmen's clubs and un­ them. Physical culture is not only Into the understanding that courts and dealt with: ions, decided to have a May-Day cele­ health-giving, but a developer and colleges, pulpits and police, mllltla and QUICK KKTIkNS Prom Dawson, Y. T., Local. bration and demonstration in fivor of FKOMPT SAI.K8 Moyer, Hayward and Pettibone. We press, are the Instruments by which AM. »1'SIN»88 STtlCTLV CONFIDKNTIAI. purifier of the mind and all that goes From Comrade L. T. English, enclos­ set to work at once and worked and the capitalist class fashions public to make life worth living. ing application for charter for local In planned to make it a success, and we opinion and maintains Its rule over the Well-bred, well-reared horses make Port Arthur, Ont., and enclosing $6.50 now look back on our efforts as more masses. Why should lt be otherwise? w. FURNIVAL Seattle were sent to Van­ tering Canadian Industry, he picked they were started oo the "get-rlch- Shoes always on hand. At the last meeting of lnnisfaii Local couver to break the strike of the tele­ up about 160 subs, for the Western qulck" basis. As the Wonder had no phone girls. (Alberta, No. 3), on April 26th, Com. Clarion on his way down. All of which conscience, and a heart like the Mater­ Tom L. Buckton delivered an address goes to show that the ways of Provi­ ial convicts break for Amusement, he If the Appeal Is to be suppressed, why on Municipal Ownership, and while he dence are past finding out except to never hesitated when lt came to Tak­ not suppress Wilshire's, Everybody's, ing the Widow'a Mite or the Orphan's gave many Illustrations of Its possibil­ those who are sanctified to the cause Success, Collier's and other periodicals Heritage. ities and successful operation he did of breaking the bread of life to the that exposo the methods of the powers not neglect to impress on his hearers hungry heathen wandering in the Jun­ Before the Paragon realised where that be and defend the W. F. of Min­ gle of capitalist civilisation. the fact that it wag only municipal he was at, his name got in the News­ ers by publishing the facts of the case? papers. While he was expecting a Pen­ If the political tools of Canadian cor­ capitalism and did not Immediately ben­ KLEAN KOOLKITCHENS itentiary Sentence every minute, he porations can prohibit the Appeal from efit the workers to any appreciable de­ The subject for the regular mission­ found that the world Insisted on look­ this country, then what becomes of our gree. That, in abort, municipal own­ ary prayer-meeting was "The North ing up to him as a Saint, who could boasted "free speech and free press?" ership is not Socialism, although Soc­ American Indian," and after the pas­ land the money Every Time. If the mine owners, backed by the Kitchen drudgery Is reduced to a minimum when OAS Is used for tor had eulogised upon the oppression Standard OH Company, can hang Hay­ ialists in office would endeavor tn In addition to his other Investments fuel, it takes only HALF THE TIME to prepare meala as compared municipalise public utilities when pos­ of the noble red man, especially the he purchased a Beautiful Wife, who wood and Moyer on purchased evi­ manner ln which his lands were taken with coal and wood rangea, and the kitchen la COOL, and comfortable sible, and would, as far as could be, became the Unconscious Partner In dence, then organised capital, through from him, he called upon a deacon to their Judicial, military and police hire­ to work In. TCLCrwQNC II operate these utilities for use and not his criminal schemes. lead in prayer. That worthy prompt­ When the crash came he had wisely lings, can hang or shoot any or all who and our representative will call, measure your premises and give you for profit. ly responded, and, after the usual pre­ stand ln their way, and If they prefer got from under, and hired a lot of an estimate of cost of installing gas. Our Local Is progressing, and we have liminaries, delivered himself thus: legal liars, who kept his reputation to operate behind a mask of law and hope that a Local will soon be organ' "O, Lord, we pray for the poor In­ spotless as the driven snows. should run out of fake witnesses, they iaed In the riding south of us. dian. We have taken away his land. Moral—If you want to become a suc­ have all the tools at hand by which GEORGE WATSON. Help us, O Lord, to give him the Chris­ cessful thief Invest ln a suit of Lamb's laws can be made to order. Thousands of Canadians are now signing a pro Vancouver Gas Company, Ltd White Creek, April 27th. tian religion, which is much better." Wool.—Socialist Spirit. ••••