The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-29
PLEA FOR soRRIETY.
A KalispelI Correspondent Makes an
ENraIIenf TananarapPa

- NaIISpeli correspondent wakes an
Excellent Temperance Argument.
From the Colorado Chronicle:
Mr.. Editor: If the representatives
of the cause of labor think they are
making hit with the general public
by engaging in barroom discussions,
which invariably terminate in harsh
words and often bitter feelings and
broken heads, they are very badly
mistaken.
l claim the greatest curse and the
bitterest foe to organized labor is
drink, and not until that obstacle is
removed and sober men sent as dele
gates to our conventions, the prog
ress of labor unions will be retarded
| have passed through two of the
greatest strikes ever known. to this
continent and l know that drunken
ness is responsible for nine-tenths
of the bitterness toward organized
labor.
VIII workingman ever get any
sense? Will he ever learn that he
saloon man who pats him on the
back, and says you are right" only
does so because he is fattening his
purse and calls the workingman a
fool and kicks him out of his saloon
as soon as he is broke? Much of the
difficulty yes, nearly all of our trou-
bles can be avoided if men will keep
out of saloons.
But how can we expect brother
workmen to keep sober when our
representatives set them a bad exam
pie at our yearly conventions? These
conditions are certainly deplorable,
but I suppose they will contine to
exist until the leaders awaken to the
true gravity of the situation and
steps are taken to send sober men
to represent the different unions.
l wish to say that good, sober, in
| local union and there is no excuse
for sending that class of representa-.
tives except that they have a pull
| 1t is this same class of individuals
who fall an easy prey to politicians
and l have more than once seen our
| IoCGtlS ulol upIGu NY JuoU Suth MSu
1t was not my intention to deliver
a temperance lecture, but the dis
graceful actions of our own people
in Denver cannot but bring disgrace
| to us, and we should take steps
toward complete suppression Of
such coarseness in our delegates.
Honest endeavor, straightforward
methods, will win out, and it is The
only plan that will ever bring about
peace and goodfellowship between
employer and employee.
In the great struggle for rights anG
justice to our brothers and sisters ii
union, many good men have espousec
their cause only to be chagrined anC
disgraced during the very first labor
difficulty and we have lost very many
friends through the indiscretion O.
our members.
If the workingmen would let drinl
alone absolutely, be a father ant
husband in his family, and not {
beast, show the community in which
he lives that he really needs raise
in wages for his home and comforts
of life, and not for paying the Ii
censes of various saloonkeepers, he
would have the support of every gooC
citizen.
I find that the saloonkeepers will
be the first to indorse such man al
sensible.
Kalispell has a problem to solve
just now, of which l will write you
later Federal union, No. IT'S, w. L
u, has very large membership ant
increasing very rapidly. The move
ment has extended to the mills ant
camps in the county, and by the frs
of March we will have membership
of $500.
Kalispell union will handle the la
Dor proposition on up-to-date bust
ness methods. Nothing that SAVIOR
of radicalism will be tolerated-onl.
such honorable means used as will
stamp the union as a buiness house
Fraternally yours,
G. e. DEMOREST,
Business Agent.