Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-04
B DAY CELEBRATION

of inventive genius which has enabled us
to harness the unseen power and bring
e into useful service, by the opera
ton of this improved and extensive
labor-saving machinery, it was hoped
and expected that a brighter future
awaited the wealth producers of the
country: but on the contrary they have
proven detrimental to the working peo-
pie. for the reason that they nave placed
labor at a discount by increasing the
power of monopoly. Having increased
this power, it is being used as an instru-
ment to enslave. Cypress and degrade
labor. These inventions have added no.
thing to the warehouses of luxury of the
working people, nor has it diminished
the burden of the toiler by an hour The
man who operates the machine Is re-
quired to work as many hours as his for
mer brother. Every labor-saving ma
chine should lessen the burden of labor
and d to the sum of JOY and comfor
of the toiler. OF what use are those in
! yentions if they do not tend to tighten
the burden of the industrial people and
shorten their hour of toll: of what bene-
fit are they to society if they are to be
monopolized by private individuals and
operated for personal advantage and pri-
vate benefit? I fear that they will prove
seriously detrimental to society II not
wrested from private monopoly. III
1.-The rapid growth of trusts on the eve
of the 18th century is alarming, yet they
are strictly adhering to the lines of our
economic. competitive system, and in ac-
cord with the development and progress
Of the age. the legitimate Offspring of
concentrated wealth. These agencies
should not be destroyed, neither should
they be used in degrading society, but
utilized in the interest of all for the bene-
fit of all; make it a universal trust SO
that society will share alike in it's bene-
fits.
"Of late years we have seen inoffensive
citizens shot down on the public highway.
who had committed no offense against
the law: no just reason was ever given
for this brutal act and though the perpe-
traitors of this foul deed were acquitted
before a plant court, mankind will ever
consider it an u~ncalled-for butchery. in
spired by capital greed. We have seen
innocent men and blameless boys arrest
ed and imprisoned because they were
suspected of syunpathizing with those
unjustly imprisoned. This is an imfa-
nous outrage and invites the condemna-
ton of the world. The perpetrator OF such
crimes has earned for himself the hottest
cell in hell. / question as to whether the
manager Of the great lake Of fire and
birthstone would be willing to degrade
his standing in social and criminal cir
cles by associating with such a cowardly
degenerate cur. "A permit system has
been introduced and enforced in our sis
ter state. 1t is the most infamous impo-
sitiOn ever inflicted upon the rights and
liberties Of a free people or that ever
touched the pages Of American history.
or was ever woven in the loom Of imposi-
ton into the work Of crime by the thread
Of greed.
In this & Of momentous question Of
labor is a living issue. The solving of
this problem has attracted the brightest
minds Of the world. "A number of the
fundamental principles advocated by or
gained b is meeting with the ap-
prevail and endorsement of the intelli-
gent, thinking public mind. They are
discussing questions of interest to society
that originated in the ranks of labor:
you have succeeded in getting the ear Of
the public mind and interesting a great
mass of the people in the cause of labor.
The people are evidently awakening 10
the condition OF things, and are becom-
ing sufficiently interested to hear the
truth and sufficiently concerned to real
! lze the situation. Is not the rapid
growth of trusts responsible for the in
terest and concern on the part of the
people? Through a profound system OF
cunning jugglery they have chlorOformeG
the Industrial people with the promises
OF prosperity, while the rich have plum.
dered the country. They have succeeded
in keeping the people in submission by
party prejudices and have sent untold
thousands through unbearable lives anG
to shameful graves.
while the cause of labor in Montana
car on this day most heartily rejoice al
it's achievements in the past, l feel thai
| cannot close my remarks on this occa-
sion without in unquestionable language
cOndemning the attitude Of this states
chief executive during the recent Coeul
d'Alene roubles when he permitted men
to be taken from this state without war
rant or proof Of crime. Governors OF
other states nave added laurels to theil
crown of glory by firmly insisting thai
those within their borders must be pro-
tected, but the liberty loving citizens OF
Montana must bow their heads in shame
and admit that when the golden OppOr-
tunity came Montana's governor not
only failed to insist that when citizens
were taken from within her borders i,
must be done by legal process, but braz-
emily gay aid n counsel to their being
kidnapped and carried from the state to
the Wardner bull pen His feeble at
temps at excuse and lame explanations
were quickly silenced and the honest in
dignation of the toilers most eloquently
express their deep resentment at the gov
ernor's willful disregard of the peoples
constitutional rights" ~
The address of Mr.. Boyce was full OF
interest to the workingmen. He touched
upon the progress made by organized
labor during the closing years of this
century and the interest that was mani
tested by all industrial classes in uniting
for their common good. Labor. he said
a advanced from a state of slavery
Until now it was recognized in all OF
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