For the past t'VQ year’s indus
trial and business conditions have
been far from satisfactory
throughout the civilized world.
Not only has there been no work
for thousands of unfortunate
wage slaves, but conditions have
continually grown worse, until
h'fois now little better than un
bearable for a vast number of
working people.
As bad !.;•• it has been during
these two years the premise for
the sow ceding rrmpebs js infinite
ly worse. The awful calamity
that is 1 «\v falling upon the mil
lions of exploited slaves of Eu
rope and that it is to drench its
soil with rivers of their blood, to
feed fat the vulgar ambitions of
heartless war lords sue! eoncience
less comm' reial brigands, is ev
en now' making its withering
curse felt round the world. Even
here, some thou;- nds of miles
from the scene of conflict indus
trial and commercial life is more
completely paralysed than ever,
in consequence of this' outourst
of r-n'ing class frenzy. Prices of
flour, sug; r and other necessities
have already registered a shar.
n.dvanca, which may safely be
taken res an indication of what
must inevitably follow. Hun
ched-' of w raking men in Van cor.
ver have btmn without work for
many months' and the r numbei
is increasing more rapidly than
ever as a result of this warlike
outbreak.
Ihe machinery of industry
has become so powerful. compli
cated, intricate and costly that
any serious interception of its or
derly and continuous operation
in any given country, will go far
towards throwing the mechanism
of industry and trade throughout
the world out of joint- No more
serious dislocation cf industry
and commerce than that occasion
ed by the reent warfare waged
between the petty Balkan states
was felt throughout the world,
and its evil effects have not yet
passed away. The tremendous
shock resulting from the with
drawal of millions of men from
peaceful pursuits and converting
them to the purposes of rapine,
pillage devastation and slaugh
ter, is sufficient to paralyse the
entire social and industrial fabric
and, spread misery across
the earth like unto a blast from
the fires of hell,
The power of modern industry
has Icing since become so great
that it cannot be fully utilized
without paralysing capitalist so
ciety with a gorge of wealth that
cannot be assimilated; The ins
truments of death and destruc
rion have become so tremendous
ly powerful ponderous and costly
that they cannot be used without
paralysing the world’s industry
and trade and swiftly bankrupt
ini*1, not only the nations resort
ing to their use, but the entire,
capitalist “shebang” itself.
Let the good work go on: let
patriotism coma to full flower in
the breast of every workingman,
to the end that he joyously of-,
ers himself as a sacrificial lamb
upon*his country’s altar, even
though his portion of that coun
try’s wealth never went beyond
corned beef and cabbage, over
al's and and cheap smoke.
Patriotism is never a drug in
the market. The demand is al
ways greater than the' supply.
Pay is always sure. If the patriot
dies upon the battlefield; or if
perchance, he returns with vari
ous parts of his anatomy shot a
way and valiantly supports him
self by sitting upon the street
corner begging "ei.rdes in a tin
cup, ; >•] u on his demise taketh
np his abode in the “Potters’
rid-:', ’.because Iks estate could
| no' stand the expense of a more
a: ■>-.! icratic neighborhood, he is
still entitled to be classed as a
hero. And that would surely be
better than to blunder through
life a simple d d fool West
ern Clarion.
i H. Rmgdahl and Charles Dilt
mer of,Clerry are in the • >fcy f(:
a few days. Mr. Ringdahl, who
is .the Socialist candidate for sen
ator, in addition to looking after
business matters, is also getting
alline on the political situation.
He states that the vote split
ters and oilier old party hench
men will nt do much business
on the creeks this year, the hoys
being pretty wise to their;
?.me.
Tommy New: m and Jack Kip;
two of Cleary’s , . <s>fc active Soci
alists. left over the trail Fridaj
morning for Sov rd. They wil
be missed from the ranks here
hut wherever they are thei
lights wih never be h d(ien unde
a bushel. ;
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