The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-02

civilized but unregenerated. remains
the same; the cruelty is but refined );
the greed is but further reaching.
So the problem is not new one in
our time or in our age. The self de-
tense of labor against the cruel
power created in the accumulation
of it's own product, is as old as organ
lied greed and as deep as the heart
of God
Only the American mind has been
slow to learn the world wide trul4
that social misery comes more from
inequality of privileges regarding
property than from inequality of po-
litical rights.
At last we are being forced to rec
ognize the fact that with our long
boosted security of political equality,
the same misery that weaMes life
under the despotisms of Europe is
being fastened upon us.
The long blindness originated in
the teachings and training of past
generations. Our fathers, having
braved the perils of unknown seas
and lived through the privations of a
bowling wilderness, ;nat they might
believe in and utter aloud, without
fear or restraint, certain religious
maxims, came in time to believe that
there was a political gospel, some
what akin to their theological creed,
in which national salvation could be
assured by simply uttering from time
to time certain glittering generali-
ties or political distractions.
So we became to be race of po-
litical phrase eaters. Epigrams that
have passed down to us canned and
labeled, we bolt down without inspec-
ton or test.
To maxims and proverbs-such, for
instance, as Government of the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the peo-
pie" All men are created equal,
ad infinitum-we look for our sole
political and social sustenance.
To this fools paradise we have
been greatly helped by the happy
circumstance attending the early
conquest of our continent. The deep,
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offered free homes to the Industrious,
saved us for time from the fierce
competition that crowds the hungry
masses down and gives to organized
greed it's great advantage.
Failing to comprehend from what
we gained our prosperity, we attrib-
uted all the good we enjoyed to our
free institutions" as we proudly
called them, and blindly proceeded
to cut from under our good fortune,
the very foundation of our advantage.
We donated whole territories of
until the surplus land is practically
exhausted, and now, with the same
conditions that have so long afflicted
Europe, we begin to wonder that our
free institutions have lost their
charm.
They talk of prosperity, but even
that is made by trust" and it's
production may be curtailed at will.
The ballot fails to bring just re-
Enumeration for toll.
While hundreds hoard, millions
work and want.
Starvation presses its skinny face
against the pane where plenty waste
fully feasts.
All, yes; giants of greed snatch
from poverty, without pity, without
remorse, It's very rags, even as sol
diers of PLATE snatched in derision
the raiments of the crucified Christ.
And we say the reason these things
are, is that organized wealth buys
from our law makers their manhood.
Let us not be too sure that is the
reason.
First, let us be sure that wealth
has not bought our own manhood,
without paying the price.
First, let us know, if we as a peo-
pie, do not worship wealth instead
of a God of justice.
First, let us see if we do not bow
down before wealth in a serviIity
that in itself is slavery, and invites
the yoke that gals and enthralls
First, let labor say the cross on
which it is now nailed it has not
helped to raise.
Labor is sovereign, not in theory
alone, but in very truth, and all the
ills it bears is borne through toler-
ance.
Could labor feel its wrongs and
know its rights and act in wisdom
and force, it could weave rope of
ballots that would bind its giant ty-
rant hand and foot.