The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-01
When Confronted BY Hotel Lawyers
and Politicians.
LABOR PRESIDENT is ROUGH
On Present Company at the Banquet
rendered State Delegates at Mis-
souIa-Boyce and Mcdonald De-
clare the Dead Line Between Cap
itaI and Labor UnapproachabIe.

the members of the local unions at
Elks hall last night was a decided
success. Notably SO when viewed
from a labor mans point Of view, as
there were many addresses upon or
ganiZed labor by some of the bright
est orators and labor workers in the
west.
The hall was tastefully decorated
for the occasion. and the 200 or more
guests were seated around tables
that covered nearly the entire floor
After all had done justice to the
good things included in the most ex-
cellent spread, D. E. Bandmann, the
veteran actor and at present a most
successful horticulturist. as toast
master, introduced the several
speakers in a most happy manner.
Congressman Joseph M. Dixon was
called upon for the first toast. that OF
"The President of the United States
and in few well chosen words paid
a most deserving compliment to the
chief executive of the greatest nation
on earth, the Honorable Theodore
Roosevelt
Mr.. Dixon prefaced his remarks
with fitting eulogy to the laboring
men and then delyed into an eulogy
of the president which was sincere
and which met with hearty recep-
ton from those assembled. He stated
that on SUCH occasions as this it was
always customary and he felt 1T meet
that the first toast should be to the
first man of this, the greatest nation
of all nations. This was one of the
occasions when, in his estimation, we
should put aside all party prejudices
and drink to the head of the nation
with a hearty good will. He then
paid pretty compliment to President
Roosevelt, stating that he believed
that Roosevelt was as honest-as he
saw the light-as it was possible for
a man to be; that his heart was alb
solutely clear
Ed Boyce, past president OF the
American Federation of Miners, who
had arrived in the city on an even
ing train and had been escorted to
the banquet by Dan Mcdonald. was
then called upon for toast and gave
his reason for refusing to respond to
the toast to the President of the
United States the action that official
had taken with relation to the Arizo-
ma labor trouble.
His address in its entirety was a
great divergence from the sentiments
expressed by other speakers during
the earlier part of the evening in that
he scored capital numerically and
stated that between capital and Ia
Dor there can never be harmony.
believe there can never be peace and
prosperity in this or any other nation
while one man is robbed or deprived
of the wealth which he creates.
During the progress of his remarks
Mr.. Boyce expressed such sentiments
as these:
Between capital and labor there
can never he any neutral ground
There can never be any compromise
They cannot be on friendly terms.
"Never, so long as laboring man
is robbed or deprived of the wealth
which he creates with his own labor
will there be any common ground be
tween labor and capital.
''This country is going blood crazy
They are even educating the boys
from 10 years up, to become murder
ers. The wealthy have their schools
where they dress the boys in uni
forms and drill them in the use O.
the sword and musket.
81 watched closely the sayings o
President Roosevelt during his re
cent trip from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and return and the major poT
ton of his addresses were in lauda
tion of murderers, who had taken thu
blood of their fellow men,"
At every pause during his address
Boyce was greeted with enthusiastic
applause by the socialist elemen
present.
At the close Of Boyce's remarks
Toastmaster Bandmann called upol
Dan Mcdonald to respond to tn
president of the ADerion Labo
union took that occasion to delive
himself of the most vituperous al
tack upon the business men and pre-
fessional men of all classes that
Missoula audience has ever listene
to.
He stated in one breath that the
proposed to organize the farmers an
laboring men of the United State
until they were strong enough to col
troll the legislative, judicial and exec
utive branches of the government
and that when any Judge dared t
rule against any law passed favor;
BILE to laboring men or to labo
unions they would impeach hin
They would organize until they wer
so powerful they would bury ever