Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-20
TALK
ON SOCIALISM
COUSIN OF THE ADMIRAL PAINTS
ROSY PICTURES OF FU-
TURE OF LABOR.
DEALS WITH INDUSTRIAL
CAUSES AND EFFECTS
Right Of the Toiler to Share in the
Profits of Labor-Conditions
Better Than Former Ones.

<ANSiOSA W. DC"SyS opCSAO "oSAAS "a SAo
Of labor. delivered ar interest
ing address before a large audience at the
Auditorium last night on The Future of
Labor"
Mr.. Dewey was introduced by Martin
Elliott of the Butte Socialist club. Mr..
Elliott said that the socialists would enter
politics this fall and give the laboring men
an opportunity to vote for Debs, who had
been nominated for the presidency as the
candidate OF the social democracy of
America.
Mr.. Dewey briefly sketched the conditions
of the workers in the United States in the
past and present. He referred to the SUI
ferings OF the coal miners Of pennsylya MA
factory life of New England and the farm
life of the middle west, and touched upon
the conditions of the men who toll under
ground and the men who go down to the
sea in ships.
Mr.. Dewey invited attention to the won
derful progress made in recent years in
mechanics, science, literature and art,
dwelling particularly upon the changes in
methods brought about by the Introduction
ment Of light, heat and power. AS an illus
tration of the wonderful strides made by
science. he said that the death of Queen
Victoria would be announced in San Fran
cisco at least five hours before that ''good
but %benighted old sovereign should ac-
circuit around the world"
Mr.. Dewey said mat the men who created
wealth were entitled to enjoy it. He con-
CCuCu Iu0 Chilli lHdL lne LOlieTS were OeIter
of now than in former years, but said
that unless the ability to enjoy had kept
pace with the opportunity and desire for
possible by the civilization Of our time.
then the workers We're not 50 well off as
they formerly We're. When men were en-
are sometimes said to be satisfied. But
! nope the time will never come" said he,
when the Industrial people will submit
test"
The world was probably becoming bet
ter. said the speaker, but it is not because
the people are becoming more orthodox in
their religious beliefs or more submissive
to their masters: 1t was because the peo-
| upon those who toll, and because of the
liberality' of thought along religious lines
and the tendency of the times toward =
universal brotherhood of man acknowledge
ing in one creed a fatherhood of God.
Mr.. Dewey believed from a careful study
of the industrial problem that it was pos
better for the toiler, and that, too, without
any particular disturbance to society or the
state. Why should most of the people re-
main in want while surrounded by plenty?
The carpenter of Nazareth who said 'muz-
zle not the OK that treadeth on the corn, ?
would have these who toll IL to produce e.
their labor.
How to bring this about was one of the
lieved that one was the government
ownership of all the tools of production
and distribution, the theory of national CO.
operation being the doctrine of the social
lists. Mr.. Dewey commended the efforts Of
the labor organizations to better conditions,
but he believed that the trades union was
dealing with an erect instead of a cause,
and that it make a stand for measures Of
relief which would drive the disease from
the system instead of the application Of
lotions.
my quarrel" said the speaker, sis not
with the capitalist VINO invests his money
in the hope of a large reward, but with
the competitive system which destroys the
man who invests his money as surely as
it does the man who performs the work.
And when we convince the people that this
is so, then our battle for human rights will
he said. arrays man against his fellow man
in the battle of life, and destroys all the
good in human nature. It promotes selfish.
ness, which prompts the employment OF
cheap labor and causes the factory girls
to turn to the beer halls as Mattresses, OF
something worse in the very centers Of
Christian civilization.
Labor, he said. should be socialized anG
rewarded according to its value to society
The man who labored in the ditch was a!
much entitled to recognition as the mai
who pleads in a court of mis-called JUS
tice.'' The speaker believed in the gov
eminent ownership of the railroads, tele
graph, mines, and all public utilities. Mil
lions, he said. would be blessed under tn
new system and no one would be injured
Mr.. Dewey closed by quoting the word!
of Lincoln, who said the American natiol
was safe only so long as its interests wer
protected by the common people. TIL
the competitive system would be supplant
ed by one in which the controlling spiri
|, shall be brotherly love and happiness TO
) all people.