Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-10-19
Old Party Cam.
paigning Tactics

ne ruling class OF this country
have an army in the field these
days engaged in the task of keep
ing the working class in subjec-
ton. They did not enlist for SI3
per month. Such men as Bourke
Cochran, Bryan, Senators Mason
and Dolliver, Towne, Patterson,
Joe Toole and F. Aug. Heinze,
are in this army, and they are do
ing their very best to persuade
the workers TO vote for some more
OF the present system, whereby
the lives and bodies of women and
little children as well as of men,
can be coined into gold, into profit
for the master class.
A father who would be so cruel
and heartless as to approve or en-
dorse with his ballot the child
slavery in the cotton mills of the
south, where children FIVE or six
years old work for 9 cents a day.
is monster.
But il cannot be believed that
any man. whether father or child
less, worthy of citizenship, could
be so inhuman as to vote know
ingly and deliberately TO continue
the outrage when an opportunity
is given TO vote against or con-
denim such barbarity. 1t is worse
than barbarism, yes, worse than
savagery. The savages do not
stunt their children with over
work. they permit them to ma
ture as we Our colts.
When a workingman once gets
his eyes open, and does a little
thinking with his own brains. he
can see through the palaver of
capitalism's mercenary spellbin-
ders. When he once sees and un-
derstands the class struggle he is
beyond the influence of their
magic wand and refuses to be
hypnotized: he can see that their
wand is club and he can dissect
it he can see the wand that was
used by the feudal baron who kept
a hundred thousand serfs in sub
lection: the same stuffed club. it
was only not so highly polished as
that used by the slave owner to
keep his thousand slaves working
and praying while he worked them
and preyed on them. During the
past few days we had some of
those enchanters with brass bands
and fireworks, imploring and be-
seeching us as workingmen to not
get together and vote for our
selves and Debs, but for heaven s
sake get into two groups and vote
against each other. one portion 10
vote for Rockefeller and Parker,
the other for Rockefeller and
Roosevelt.
Fairbanks talked nearly an hour
here without saying anything.
Dolliver told us we had such fine
mountain scenery" and we
looked so intelligent" and all
such blarney. He told us some
old gags and the boys could see
that he was not serious enough to
be in earnest. Senator Mason re-
cited his little piece about pro
lection for home industries. "
Some of us heard that same
speech "a years ago in Pennsyl-
vania from high tariff democrats
like Samuel ]. Randall, pig Iron"
Kelly, Alex Mcclure and others.
He also told us the story about
"the Irishman."
Tom Patterson spoke here and
said some things and seemed to
have a deuce of a time holding
himself from saying some of the
things published in his paper. He
told us about the strike in Colo
RADIO without telling the cause OF
the strike. He did not tell us that
the democratic senate was as SER
vile as the republican house OF
representatives to the Mine Own
ers' association, nor did he tell us
that the Cripple Creek mob put
several democrats in the places OF
those who were forced with guns
and ropes to resign. He made a
bad break in telling his scheme
to break the strike in thirty days,