The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-11-13

seem to think that the selection made
of men to be their Wears was a most
happy or proper one. While some
of the members of the committee may
have in the past been actual working
men and some may be even now, there
are others whose achievements as
manipulators of muscular jaws con
stitute their highest claims on recog-
milton as toilers.
How the gentleman, who as the edi-
tor of a socialist publication inveighed
against the possession of property
and declared that capitalists and pro-
perty holders would, through the sue
cess of the peculiar doctrine he advo-
Gated, soon md themselves so many
fathoms below the bottomless pit that
they would have to climb for cen
turtles to touch the bottom of hell and
be compelled to use a long distance
telephone to pay their respects to his
satanic majesty, will manage to speak
and act as a genuine workingman
when he is in the presence of the pres
ident is a matter of speculation by
the real toilers. He may proudly ex-
hibit the %callouses on the tips of his
fingers as the result of overtime on
the typewriter in preparing articles
setting forth the villainy OF the presi-
dents ~preachment of honest labor and
respect for the laws, and put them
in as evidence in support of his claims
to afiliation with a body of men who
earn their bread by the sweat OF their
brows and give honest recompense for
the moiety received from those by |
whom they are employed.
OF the men with corns on their jaws
Dan Mcdonald is easily the chief.
By exercising the nerve and gall that
have ever made him famous he will
undoubtedly overshadow all the others
and cause them to appear a. pigmies
ranged alongside the Missouri giant
ess. He will be prominently the
greatest and hardest working laboring |
man that ever crossed the threshold
of the White house. Even Sam Parks
never worked as hard as Mr.. Mcdonald
and Sam never made it pay better,
eiIner. Almost anyone fitted by nature
can be a laboring man, but to only
few is it given to be so phenomenally
| successful a worker as Dan has shown
himself to be. He. has solved the prob
lem of keeping his hands like those
of the beauty of the drawing DON
and never have them soiled by the
marks of toll and still be The accepted
leader and representative of those who
daily grovel in the dirt and dust for
the accursed %plutocrat. 1t was jaw
and nerve that pulled Mr.. Mcdonald
to the altitudinous heights he now oc-
cupies and it is jaw and nerve that
keep him there.
Mr.. Mcdonald is eminently a labor
ing man. He has proved that on count
less occasions. 1t is necessary to
bark back ony a very short time to
furnish ample testimony Of this.
What an excellent example he fur
nished when he sat by the side of Ed.
Boyce when that distinguished labor
ing man declined to toast the presi-
the sentiments of mat worthy blather-
skite. Did he not on the same occa>
sion prove himself to De a toiler when
he insulted honored guests by telling
them they We're "shysters,"" trucking
politicians" and applying other equal
ly offensive epithets to them. He
gave further proof of his standing as
a laboring man by denouncing proper
ty holders as thieves and robbers ano
villifying the men who by the employ
ment of their brains and intelligence