The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14

lions, discuss political and economic
subjects at all meetings in an intelligent
manner and prepare to nominate la
Dor ticket without any compromise or
equivocation; nominate men from the
ranks for every office and vote for
them regardless of opposition or criti-
cism.
Let the rallying cry be Labor, the
producer of all wealth. is entitled to all
he creates, the overthrow of the whole
profit making system, the extinction
of monopolies, equality for all and the
land for the people,
Under such a banner organized labor
Will make glorious fight for the
emancipation of the wage slaves, and
in the end will come out victorious,
though it may for a time suffer defeat,
but truth crushed to earth will rise
again."
If there is a labor union within the
confines of this republic that cannot
discuss these five cardinal principles at
every meeting without offending some
hidebound member who is republican
because his father was one, or some
democrat because his great grandfath-
er voted for Jefferson. / would advise
it to disband, it's day of usefulness is
past, it is only brake on the wheels
of progress and a detriment to the
whole labor movement. l hope to see
the Workingmen of Butte come to-
gether and set an example for laboring
men in other localities to follow by
organizing into a political organization
independent of all capitalist parties,
and on election day vote as they march
on their anniversary. A bold, agrees
sive programme along these lines will
make the laboring people a power and
will command the respect of all, but
in its present unorganized state, ignor-
ant of its strength, 1t is made the prey
office n
the land.
A vote cast by laboring man for
either old political party is vote to
bind the shackles of corporate oppres-
sion more securely upon himself and
children, between them there is no diff
ference, both are equally responsible
for the corporation legislation of the
past SO years, neither one has legis-
lated in the interest of labor, but they
invariably combined against any meas
ure that would benefit labor. We are
told, however. that the democrat party
has been reconstructed and should not
be classed in the same category as
Mark Hanna's party; that it declared
against government by injunction; in
Idaho the reconstruction means i'm
prisonment and government by the
bayonet.
To secure the labor vote next cleo
tion would suggest to the democrat
apostles to nominate the acrobat gov
ernor of Montana, or the Standard Oil
governor of Idaho for president. Their
official actions should entitle them to
the support of all workingmen in pref
erence to Mark Hanna. CO
Since the dawn of civilization the
struggle between the common people
and despotism has continued with una
bated fury until the sordid banner of
the latter, through the corrupting in
fiuence of money, waves over every
land under the sun, causing hunger
and suffering to millions of Gods de-
serving children.
In its onward march of persecution 1t
has found an ally in conservatism, the
uncompromising foe of evolution which
has chained man to idols of antiquar-
ian days, when science and progress
lay dormant as an Egyptian mummy
compared with the mechanical and sci
entific developments of to-day.
However, I take the hopeful, even an
exultant view of the future, through
the increasing intelligence of the peo-
pie that will ultimately lead to their
emancipation. I can see through the
dim mists that surround our social sys-