Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-24

al iAN"toiN VI oSlAN PASA "iiN SARSNN
that such a bridge will withstand
the floods of capitalism.
What is a caricature? Something
that has so many peculiarities that
it is ridiculous. Do you imagine,
professor, that a good pier and a
caricature of it will make a solid
bridge? You are absurd in your
opportunism, professor.
The true facts are these, when
the Socialist Trade and Labor Ali
ance was organized you considered
the time ripe. J. Mahlon Barnes
had just delivered speech written
for him by Frank Gessner of Pitts
burg, and typewriter by Miss Rose
Watkins of Dayton, O. This speech,
Trade Unions, their logical mis-
sion is Socialism, together with the
large vote cast for him when he ran
for the presidency of the cigar
makers union, caused you to think
him sincere for the S. +. and l.. A.
Barnes came over a long distance
and waited for the rest to follow
him; very few came, then you
opened up the columns of the People
with the "Lapses Articles" This
caused revulsion of feeling toward
the alliance and Barnes recrossed
the bridge which wasn't burnt and
made a successful retreat back into
his position in the cigarmakers
union. Thomas J. Morgon started
the alliance of Chicago, and formed
district that met in his office, and
even published a small sheet in its
favor called the Socialist Alliance,
but as it grew too slow he soon
dropped it for some new fad.
Henierduyer, Bohn, Bennett and
Hanford were bought off by the
Gompers crowd.
Soft snaps in various capacities in
pure and simple unionism. caused
the abandonment of the S. +. and
l.. A. Only the class conscious So
cialists remained in it. A strike
was won in Pittsburg but the Alliance
died soon afterward. And the loss
of the Onleyville strike left only a
shell of the former S. T. and l.. A.
You grew impatient, you wanted to
see large industrial union. As
strike organization the S. T. and l..
A., was very small, but as an edu-
Gator it was doing fine work. its
growth was small but steady-on
account of its clear cut revolution
airy principle it could grow no faster
than the workers became class con-
scious.
Here is the American Labor I'm
ion, headed by men whom you time
and time again exposed as grafters,
labor fakirs, ignoramuses and
crooks. Owing to their incompe-
tency; they rushed their unions
against the machine guns in the
hands of the capitalist class, de-
feated at Leadville, Creede, Couer
d'Alene, and Cripple Creek they
advocated a republican in Idaho in
place of Democrat Stuenenburg, and
here in Colorado, an Adams in
place of Peabody, men who never
profit by past experiences, but
simply use one capitalist as a means
of furnishing another.
Feeling their unions dying they
grew desperate. They would not
acknowledge defeat.
Taking advantage of the Socialist
sentiment evoked through the litera-
ture and speechs of former and pres
ent S. l.. F., men, they called a
conference in Chicago. But they
required members, they were sure
| to- get the Socialists If they used n
Socialist manifesto, but to work
with a political party. All, the re-
publican and democratic wage
workers wonld remain out SO they
said we will make it THE economic
organization of the working class
without aflliation with any political
party" i"