Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-09-21
Bishop, Potter
On the Classes

We have before copy Chicago Interior
widely circulated of church papers, which writer discussing the
Domestic Service Problem what has brought about the
present
of the upper classes chiefly blame? The lower classes
have followed this leading far possible Here admission
the division classes
calls upper and lower And this in Christian jounal
Much of what follows highly amusing the Socialist who
expected sympathe keeny with the afflicted ladies'
who understand why their help" will
even though they willing pay good wagesfa than
factory etc" trouble
largely due the that hired girl" belongs
than the lady of the house who makes the lines painfully
apparent her She NAV be very kind and but never
that she does belong the station life which the
servant occupies dignity of
democratic spirit but class consciousness of which
this but prominently every life
Again to those who given repeating the assertion that
monplace republican campaign
speeches. the following Bishop Potter: Il have
stood by the open excavation Of the underground railway New
York looking the digging They have told that
So day for fair days when the work could Living
the of Drawn They labor. gone
through the corridors of the fashionable hotels midnight
and looked ON the diners and ners with iyeed walters oe
quous serving vans of all kinds These employers
the interests of the classes mutual Can going optimism
conure relation between the two Can bridge span the
chasm between them When through factories
abeboded dexterous working nine hours day
day and life through fasonng the couth
material of wood and metal and marble house material ask
myself Will the aborer have of these polished and luxurious
appliances the home of his family will they only the we'll
odo the mansions of the rhe employer cass Are the
of the aborer capitalist mutual? Is any
tuality where makes and the other enjoys?"
dua that in this country 1--WE recognize class
divisions President Roosevelt and Secretary Coreyou have both
made point this their addresses though the
same oeath hy admit the existence Oh classes by reference 10 e
and poor And Socialists have been severely criticised because they
have insisted upon frank recognition of the class struggle
intensity class hatred but to end to it, But observation
las been that nowhere does the class feeling manifest itself in such
form the persons who depecate
reference class struggle would that the motive for this
hypocrca attitude other than the fear that the workers
where lies and
their rights injustice which they
fear the Socialists hope They do not create the class struggle
but they do seek awaken the class consciousness of the workers
that they together and demand that the special privileges
which have produced these artificial distinctions among shall
cease to be-
clearly demonstrate
struggle than the attitude of the packers in the Chicago
strike! Men are asked land appears that large numbers are so
hungry and naked that they wng) them
selves under the yoke of these money lords for the pianc of
week wage upon which live American citizen
should support family Many spends than
this day uxure while the aborr expected to meet all his
household with the The daily papers tel
that Nelson Morris has left extended tour OF Europe and
of the Armours obnobbng with princes and entertaining
royalty the magnificent yachts built The money
which these monare of rghtfuy belongs to
employees who demanding slight increase
What these two classes have in common?
To the Socialists therefore the growing tension between en-
employed between capitalist and aboer emphasizes
the saying of Karl Marx that the history of all society thus
history of class strife and that it will continue to grow
sin place of the old capitalist society," with its
classes and class antagosms shall have association which
condition for the free development
of a When bv means the of the ballot box
as Marx saws he working will have become the ruling class
swept the old conditions of production then WILL
along with these conditions Have swept away the conditions Tor
and of classes generally and VIII
thereby have abolished its supremacy a class.
Under Socialism will be slaves The COM
petive class struggle will give way 10 M @ nno oec Of
toll That only solution of the social problem daily
becoming clearer thinking men, The present strikes and okous
President Donney convincing thousands OF people hat
our lies in the cooperative commonwealth And
they will the Socialist ticket-Vanguard