The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-08
ORATOR DEBS
IS COMING
Will BE in kaIispel Sunday Week.
July 10.
MAY SPEAK AT FAIR GROUNDS
The Directors Having rendered the
Free Use of the Grounds for the
occasion-Part of the Audience
May Occupy the Grand Stand if
= the weather is Fair.

The committee of the labor unions
upon whom devolves the preparation
for the entertainment and accommo-
dation of Eugene V. Debs, upon his
promised" visit and Grafton at Kalis-
pell next week, Sunday, July l3, have
concluded that the best arrangement
they can make to prepare for the &C
commodation of the great crowd ex-
pected to attend his lecture, is to &C
cept the offer of the use of the grand
stand at the fair grounds and hold
an open air meeting on that coming
Sunday afternoon. A temporary plat
form, facing the grand stand, will
be erected for the famous speaker
and loved orator of labor. Besides
the accommodations furnished in the
grand stand to 1000 people, there
will be set up rows of benches under
the stand, facing the speaker, to &C.
commodate as large a crowd as
may gather All the unions in Flat
head county will be out en- masse the
city band will be engaged for the
grand occasion, and it is now esti-
mated by the committee that 1000
visitors from surrounding towns and
the country will make for Kalispell
on the day stated. Every town and
post Office in the county has been
sent posters, announcing the coming
of the Light of Labor" and Mr.
Debs is sure crowd getter. He will
arrive in Kalispell Saturday night
and not leave until Monday night,
and as he is a most sociable, whole
souled fellow, he will probably be-
come well acquainted with the good
people and guests of Kalispell on
this occasion.
At Spokane, last Saturday night,
Mr.. Debs lectured on Trades Union
ism and It's Mission to a splendid
audience, although he had missed his
date there, which was Friday night.
Upon this occasion, the evening of
the Fourth of July, Mr.. Debs said in
part:
1--WE are here this evening under
the auspices of the trades council of
Spokane, and as we meet at a time
when the national holiday is being
celebrated, it is fitting that we recall
the historic period that is now being
comm emorated especially the day
upon which the immortal declaration
was given to the world"
The speaker outlined the historic
period when the original 10 colonies
achieved their independence, and OF
the great organic change which was
then effected in the new world. TAX.
ing up chattel slavery, he said:
1--WE remember the names of all the
agitators; we revere their memories
we look upon them as splendid
models of craftsmanship, of patriot
| ism worthy of the widest possible
emulation. There is still an agita
ton going forward; it has much
wider scope. 1t embraces the human
race.
"The labor question broadly stated
is question of humanity. 1t has
been said that no question is ever
settled until it is settled right. The
labor question will not be settled un
til it is settled right, and until it is
settled in accordance with the princi
pies of eternal justice.
This is an age of organization.
appeals especially to the working
classes, which have been oppressed
and exploited and degraded through
| all the centuries of the past. Som,
of them are now beginning to under
stand their rights. In the great cen
tiers the victims of injustice are be
ginning to protest.
There are those who would s.
lence, if they could, discomfort. ALLOW
me to say to you that discomfort, in
telligently directed, is in truth tn
torch bearer of progress"
The speaker presented the claims
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