The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

mira prize, ............S1 SILK NeckCle
Girls Potato Race.
First prize $3.50. Four-piece china set
Second prize ........... Toilet Set
Third prize ..............5O Cents
Little Girls Race.
First prize .$1.CJ
Second prize .................5 soc
Fat Women's Race.
First prize .............Ba Barrel Flour
Second prize ..........5 lbs. best Tea
Third prize ....2 lbs. Mocha & Java
Mems Running Jump.
First prize ............G German Pire
Second prize Order for Case Beer
Third prize Order for Box Cigars
Mems Standing Jump.
First prize ....... Order for laundry
work to amount of. .........$ $500
Second prize .... Order for laundry
to amount of. .......... $500
Prizes for waltzing and Two Step
will be announced at the dancing paw
lion.
The utter absence of unseemly be-
havior, cross words or profanity
caused constant remark and everyone
especially the ladies were so glad
the unions HAD prohibited the sale of
intoXicants. No other picnic has re
ceived such universal commentator.
The Oratory
Was well worth listening to, though
the glazing mistake of the day was
committed when the speakers were
assigned to the dancing pavilion,
where but few could get close enough
to hear, and to talk Was an effort,
however. the addresses were good
and. not lengthy.
Hon. Fred Whiteside was the chos.
en- orator of the day and Judge Bill
lings took great pleasure in introduc
ing him as the best friend organized
labor had in Flathead county and who
had done the most toward organiza
ton. Mr. Whiteside was followed by
Mr.. John M. Noble, who made a clear
and mastery discussion of labor and
capital from a laborer's standpoint
and exhibited his full understanding
Of the question.
Mr.. Whitesides remarks were, in
part, as follows:
Ladies and Fellow Citizens:
Labor day has properly come to be
one of our greatest holidays. 1t is
a day for sports and recreation, and
while a few timely remarks upon the
cause of labor cannot be out of place
| can assure you that | am not going
to weary you with any long-winded
speech. My remarks shall at Least
have the merit of brevity, for | shall
, not detain you for more than fifteeI
Or twenty minutes.
l apprehend that every person here
; will agree with me when l say tina
the labor question is the most i'm
: portant problem of the age, and b!
the labor problem I do not mean tina
: subject of vague and indefinite pro
portions supposed to include all mat
tiers of interest to the laboring man
The labor problem, as I understand
it, is simply the question of securing
to the laborer his just proportion o
: the wealth which he produces; an,
this includes, not only the man VIII
works for daily wage, but the farm
} err as we'll who is compelled to Civ
a large percentage of the products O
: his labor to the railroad trust, tn
grain trust CT the beef trust. 1t il
cludes the eople in every walk O
life who, through unjust laws, ar
compelled to contribute to the SUI
port of their more fortunate or NOR
astute neighbors.
We hear the subjects of capital an
labor discussed as if they were tw
opposing forces, and so they are to
certain extent, but this condition
an unnatural one, brought about b
the selfishness and greed of mankind
Did you ever stop to consider tina
capital and labor are one and tn
same thing; for what is capital blu
labor stored away. The man VIII
earns four dollars per day and save
one dollar of that amount is STORM
up 25 per cent of his labor as cap
tai. No man ever lived long enoug
to earn million dollars by his ow
labor and the man who has in hi
possession that amount of wealt
gained by traffic with his fellow me
has simply appropriated the surplu
labor produced by some one else, an
such wealth does not represent SUI
plus labor entirely, either, for man
dollars of it may represent shoes {
which the laborer's children hav