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Socialist News
From Headquarters.

The following donations have been
received since last report: To pay
off old debt, local Livingston S.. oo; ;
total to date s23. so.
Comrade James Ettien of Stevens
vile sends in s.. so to the state spec
ial organizing fund. Comrade Et-
tien says that his local made out a
list of names of the Socialists who
are not members of the party and he
went and interviewed them, secured
donations to the amount of 81. so,
and promises to join the local.
Comrades, this is work that counts
in making a good strong local. If
locals would follow this example and
appoint a committee to carry it
through, we would witness a won
derful, healthy growth in our locals.
During the month of December no
new locals were organized, but a
large amount of literature was sent
out from headquarters into unorga-
nized districts preparatory to orga-
nizing. Reports from Butte, Stew
ensville, Red Lodge, Lewistown and
Livingston shows that considerable
work is being done at these points
to strengthen the organization.
Butte has one comrade making a
house to house canvass distributing
literature and securing subscriptions
for Socialist papers.
Reports from other parts of the
state indicate that the Socialists OF
Montana are going to commence the
year by renewed activity.
Locals should circulate a large
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04

ton of any commodity consists
simply in taking some portion of
the earth and changing it into a
form desired by man, and then TAX
ing it TO some place where il can be
used at a time when it is wanted.
No matter how these different pro-
cesses may be disguised or inter
mingled, they are all present and
are all necessary in any form of
production, and no article is pro-
duced until it has gone through all
these processes and has the proper
form at the proper time and in the
proper place to be used.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04
Human Labor
Is COnfSCated

PETER f. BURRowEs, IN THE WORKER
Capitalism is a system by which
the products of human labor are
coniscated and appropriated by an
armed class. By the word system
mean a methodical order of opera
tons, self-arranged, self-controlled
and self-supplied, just as we speak
of the human system not as a chart
of the human body but as an econ
omy of action, an arrangement, a
control and supply of active self
by active self. There are other in
stitutions in society of systematic
or semi-systematic kind such as the
legislatures, the armies and the
churches, but because this capital
istic system deals with thing fund.
amental and necessary to them all
and controls it, that Is, labor, this
system encloses them all in its grind,
so that they and everything else in
civilization are not only included in
capitalism, but as matter of fact
every one of them, and every man,
woman and child in every one OF
them, cannot do anything which
does not contribute to and nourish
the capitalistic system. All are
subordinate to its purposes, all save
the mind and will of the man whom
it arouses into resentment and re.
sistance. He alone is free who is
demanding the overthrow of the sys.
TEN itself. Others it may hurt, and
others besides labor il may provoke
into protest, but the half measures
they take and the failures they in
vite only nourish and cherish tn,
system; all things go to the help o
capitalism save only the class-con
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04

amount of literature this month, as
that will help the work of the orga-
nizer when he starts the tour of the
state.
The result of the ballot on national
committeeman elects Comrade Nc
Hugh of Anaconda.
The following amendments to the
state constitution have been proposed
by local Helena:
Art. S Sec. I. To read: Three
persons may apply for charter,
etc, in place of five.
Art, 5 Sec. 7. Each local shall
hold regular meeting at least once
in each calendar month.
Art. 6 Sec. Q. Be dropped as it
is already covered by the national
constitution.
Art Sec. 10 Be also abolished.
Art 8 Sec. II. No member shall
be eligible as a candidate for any
state office who has not been a mem
Der of the party in good standing for
two years previous to his nomina-
tion, and no member shall be eligi-
BILE for nomination of county or mi
nor Offices who has not been a mem
Der in the party in good standing for
one year previous to his nomination.
This shall not apply to districts
where the party has not been orga-
nized one or two years previous to
the date of nomination but in all
cases candidates must be active
members of the local.
/ Art. 8 Sec. I. Railroad fare and
hotel expenses of delegates to state
nominating and special conventions
shall be paid from the treasury and
such expenses shall be raised by a
per capita assessment on the entire
membership.
Art. 9 Sec. I. Each local shall at
all times have the power of impera-
tive mandate over its officials.
Art. Sec. 1. Changed to read
three or more" locals in place of
one or more" locals as is the case
now.
With consent of Helena local these
proposed amendments will not be
submitted to a referendum vote of
the members for few weeks, thereby
allowing other locals time to propose
any further amendments so that all
amendments can be voted on at
once.
JAS. d. GRAHAM,
State Secretary.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04
Law Ma ! ers
Are In -ession

The capitalist legislature has con-
yened in Helena and has been at
work one or two hours for a few
days but doing nothing of import
ance except the listening to the
reading of the governors message.
Following are the important
points in the governors message:
He renews the recommendations
for favorable consideration which
he made to the Eighth Legislative
assembly, embracing one Judge for
Lewis and Clarke county, removal
of the judiciary from politics, en-
larging the powers of the state board
of equalization, charging the coun-
ties with the cost of transporting
prisoners, state supervision of frat
ernal insurance organizations, the
election of United States senators
by popular vote, the initiative and
referendum, the direct primary law,
the election of important officers
now appointive, the creation of a
railroad commission, a fellow serv-
ant law.
He recommends a change in the
law providing for a coal mine in
spector, favoring examination by a
board.
He boosts the state fair.
He urges that water system for
the capitol grounds be provided,
and that the state building be in
sured.
He requests that the Meagher
monument be given a site on the
capitol grounds.
He recommends a more system
attic and economical distribution OF
public documents.
He warns the legislature against
extravagant appropriations for the
state institutions.
He calls attention to the report of
the state mine inspector, and urges
the introduction of better sanitary
methods in the mines of Butte.
He declares that the expenses of
the state government are each year
increasing and that there is no way
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04

to meet them except by additional
taxation. He urges caution and
prudence in making appropriations.
He points out the danger of plung-
ing the state in debt beyond its con-
stitutional limit, and suggests that
the revenue of the last two years be
taken as basis in making approp-
riations.
He promises to cooperate with
the legislative body.
In fact, when he read his message
he was somewhat nervous to start
with, but soon resumed composure
and waded through his half-baked
wishy-washy Socialist document to
a half-awake audience of republican
capitalists who were elected upon a
pledge to enact Socialistic measures.
After the reading of the message
several notices were presented in
the house that bills would be intro
duced at the proper time on the init
iative and referendum, the employ
er's liability act and other Socialist
measures.
After finishing all this hard work,
which took over an hour, and at
tending to other incidental details
in the body they adjourned to meet
the next day at p. M; ia fact it
looks as if they had the unions beat
on a short day.
Nothing of importance will trans
pire until after the election of
United States senator, which will be
several days. Judging from the
talk around the corridors of the leg
islative building. Tom Carter will
be elected, but there appears to be
disposition on the part of few to
form a distinct organization with
the avowed purpose of making him
come through with the long green
before he shall get their votes. In
fact it is said that they think they
should receive little of the expos
ition swag. However, his election
is practically assured.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04

self-arranging, self-controlling, self
supplying system
For capitalism to stop in any one
of the three angles of its automatic
life grind of the world, would be for
capitalism as a system to fall out of
repairs, then out of action and then
into the dishonored past. Upon
such miracle of stupidity, volun-
tary blindness and slavery does cap
italism rest, as to the matter of be-
ing able to base the supply of its
own activities on the consent of its
own victims, that a man from Mars
would have thought the age of mir
acles was still here. Not so, my
Marsian friend, the laborers are
miraculously stupid, more stupid
than to you, or to anything else
within the rational universe, is con-
ceivable. The workers not only
supply their own bodies as the first
fuel of the capital fire, but they sup
ply out of their own brains the opin-
ions, and from their own fingers the
votes, which keep them free" that
is, rightless, laborers and which
keep for their masters, we'll opened,
the free markets of the world To
set itself alphabetically free, labor
must set the capitalistic system free
of responsibility and obligation
towards labor. Ii must teach its own
offspring, the victims which it is
sucking for the capitalistic sham
bles next year, that freedom of con-
tract is a sacred thing meaning free
dom from contract on the part of
capitalism and the state towards la
Dor when contract means any oblig-
alton to protect labor-life or con-
tract the volume of profits arising
out of its own defenceless freedom.
Labor must teach its own offspring
that for labor to be free it must be
utterly defenceless, but for capital
ism to be free il must not be inter
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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04

their labor force chopped up into a
few use values for themselves and a
large proportion of exchange COM
modify values for the system, the
system can go on supplying itself
from the outset with the means of
subsidizing courts, parliaments,
armies, churches, schools, printing
presses and all the other cogs which
must keep moving to make the
years revolution of almighty capt.
alism.
So long as labor, the source and
spring of all commodity value, con-
sents to let itself remain shorn of
the things necessary to its own func-
ton; so long as it consents to adj
vance three-fourths of its own
created values for the mere permis-
sion to approach these appliances
from day to day; so long as it con-
sents to have no right to come for
work or bread even on these terms,
but to do without both until capital.
ism finds it convenient to take this
extraordinary advantage of labor;
SO long as labor thus consents to
supply out of its own life the whole
essential capital of capitalism, max
ing an advance ot the greater part
of itself every day, and so arming
its natural enemy to degrade, starye
and disorganize itself, by the assist
ance of and at the sole cost of itself;
so long shall the laboring class re-
main where it is, the basis of capi.
talism, and capitalism will that long
remain a system capable of supply
ing its own activities.
This wonderful system of capital
ism which seems to rest with SC
much security on the still more
wonderful consent, if not admira'
ton, of its primary victim and nat
ural enemy, the implementless la
boring class, rests on that very same
class for the other two essentials OF
its continuance in the world as {
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-04
66e Farmer
And Socialism

Reprinted by permission from a
copyrighted pamphlet entitled So
cialism and Farmers, by A. M.
Simons, copies of which may be had
at S cents each from Charles II.
Kerr & Co., publishers, SO Fifth
avenue, Chicago.
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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Dearth of Teachers.

Orvis Ring. Superintendent Of Public
Instruction, attended the meeting of
the faculty of the State University at
their request. The State Normal
School came in for large share Of the
discussion and various suggestions were
offered for its improvement. The de-
crease in the attendance of the depart
ment was explained. and several plau-
sible reasons were mentioned. 1t was
shown that girls who had spent the
greater portion of there lives in pros
porous community, had no desire to
teach country school where the salary
paid was extremely low. and the pupils
were few in number. The dearth of
teachers in the State at the present time
could be explained in no other way.
Mr.. Ring stated that the Board of Edu-
cation was compelled to giant temper.
airy certificates to persons who were not
qualified to teach, and that these certi-
ficates were given because no one else
could be secured to teach some of the
small country schools of the State.
Student Record.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
The South Africa Gold Fields.

The gold output Of the Rand in South
Africa is gradually increasing from
month to month. the output for the
month of March being officially stated
to have been 3S5, $50 ounces. This is at
the rate of over 800. 600. 900 per annum
"a greater output than has ever been
reached on that field. With the more
extensive opening of the deep levels
this output will continue to increase,
and will, without doubt, unless some-
thing at present unforeseen occurs. pass
the hundred million dollar mark. The
output Of over 81, 700, 900 per month for
a mining section not over 40 miles in
length. and great portion of that un-
productive aud undeveloped, is an in.
teresting thing to contemplate from al
most any point.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Diphtheria in TOnOpah.

Tonopah Sur. May "a: At least
three deaths from diphtheria have o..
Cured in Tonopah during the past
three or four days. One of the victims
was an adult. 1t is stated that no
quarantine has been placed on the
houses occupied by the patients, but
Health Officer Smith stated last night
that no persons but himself and Father
Butler had been permitted to attend
the funerals. 1t is claimed that there
are five more cases in the city. 1t is
also reported to the Sun that the physi-
clans in attendance have failed to obey
the law, and have not reported the
existence of diphtheria te the prop T
authorities.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Blasting Powder in Oregon.

The law recently passed by the
Oregon Legislature in regard to dyna-
mite and other nitro powders, fuse. etc..
is calculated to lessen the danger to
miners who may be unfamiliar with
the physical signs which indicate to the
experienced and observing the unfitness
of these materials and mining use.
Much powder used in mines is old and
has been subjected to a wide range OF
temperature which often units it for the
best results in mining. beside making
dangerous to handle. The law requires
that all powder. fuse, etc used in blast
ing operations. either shipped in Oregon
or made in that State. shall have the
date of manufacture stamped on the
box and wrappers containing these ar
ticles.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
POLICY AND PRACTICE.
Taft Talks on Canal, Upholds Plan
Pursued i'm Purchase of Supplies.

The questions of the day were dis
cussed at the Commercial Club banquet
in Cincinnati. Ohio. Friday night OF
last week. Secretary Of War Tai,
made the principal speech on POLICY
and Practice" saying:
"If the Panama Canal were inside
the territory of the United States, of
course all material used on the canal
could pay duty or be bought in the
Unitei States, but as the construction
Of the canal is q number of days jour-
ney from the tariff wall of the United
States. it presents exactly the same case
as is presented in the case Of the Phil
lippine Islands. Now, il Congress
wants to pay more than France was
willing to pay. then they are at liberty
to do so, but in the absence Of rule we
feel we must carry out the rule that ap-
plies.
THAT law requires that, prices and
quality being the same, we must buy
American goods. In the absence of a
rule we feel bound by our trust to build
as cheaply as possible. We submitted
the question to Congress on this line,
asking Congress to lay do wn a rule. If
there is no rule we must build as bust.
ness man would build. Now, there is
no question of protection or free trade :
it is merely rule, our duty under the
law as it stands. II the rule or law is
changed we must change"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Decision ffecting Life Insurance.

According to an opinion handed
down last week by the Supreme Court
of Missouri. fraternsl and assessment
life insurance companies have not the
right to revoke policies upon which
three or more annual payments have
been made. In the case upon which
the decision was rendered policy was
taken out In May. 1896. After meeting
three payments. the payment due IN
June, 1899, was not met and the in.
sured died in January. 1900. The com.
pany refused to honor the claim. but
the lower court held that there was a
net value to the policy sufficient to
carry it beyond the date of death, aud
rendered Judgment in favor of the bene'
ficiary.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Stops Work on Hazen Cutoff.

Jerome Higman Of Hazen, Churchill
County. last week was granted an in
junction from Judge Curler in the Dis
trict Court at Reno, restraining the
Southern Pacific Company from build.
ing railroad through his land at
Hazen. Higman was one of the first
persons to take mp homestead at
Hazen which he clung to. refusing to
surrender it when it was proposed to
locate townsite at the place. Later.
when the Southern Pacific offered him
$40 an acre for a right-o way acros,
his place he refused to accept it. claim
ing that his property was worth more.
He demanded $50 an acre. Without
further parley, he says. the company
placed large force Of men at work aud
tried to build across his property against
his wishes. The action of the Court
compelled the company to stop work.
aud the matter will be fought out in
the courts. 1t is said the company will
give bond for any damages that may
be awarded Higman, aud resume work
on the cutoff.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
METHODS OF THE STEEL TRUST.
We Can Buy at Reduced Price by
CHASING Canal Zone as Foreign"

A Washington dispatch Of May 81
says: Col. @. X. Edwards, in charge of
the Washington Office of the Panama
Canal Commission. recently addressed
an inquiry to Secretary Drake Of the
Panama Railroad Company as to the
price paid for steel rails. The informa-
ton shows that the railroad could get
rails at less than $2S a ton only after
the Steel Trust had been assured that
the rails were going outside the United
States
Drake says that the uniform price for
steel rails in the United States for the
last 12 months has been $28 ton, while
in foreign markets it was only $24.
When rails are sold in the United States
fos export, the prices have varied, being
arranged by direct negotiation between
the purchaser and the manufacturer,
without any official record being made
of the transaction.
Colon Rated as Foreign" Territory.
Drake convinced the manufacturers
that Colon was foreign territory and
that the rails were going there and
nowhere else. and was granted q price
of $22.75 ton for first quality and
$21.75 ton for second-class 70-pound
rails.
The Panama Railroad bought 1900
tons of rails last January at $25 for
first.class and $24 for second class, and
more recently purchased 2b00 tons for
the Canal Commission and $500 tons for
the railroad at $26.45. All these con
tracts were made in competition with
foreign manufact urers, whose last price
was $25 f. o. b. at New York and for
$27.75 C. i. +. at Colon, exclusive of
wharf and port charges.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Diving of Famine

is. in its torments, like dying of con-
sumption. The progress OF consumption.
from the beginning to the very end. is q
long torture, both to victim and friends
"When had consumption in its fret
STAGE" writes VIM. Myers. of Cearfoss.
Md, latter trying different medicines
and good doctor. in vain, at last took
DR.. Kings New Discovery. which quickly
and perfectly cured me-" Prompt re-
lief and sure cure for coughs, colds, sore
throat, bronchitis, etc. Positively pre-
vents pneumonia. Guaranteed at
Schneider's drug store. price SOC and 81 90
q bottle. Trial bottle free.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
"DRY" IRRIGATION FOR NEVADA.
Experiment Station Will Test the
New System Of Growing Crops.

NCW OJstCm VI UiVWthk OAVPos
1t is probable that the State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station Of the
Nevada University at Reno will take
mp the question of ''dry" irrigation, By
means of which crops Of wheat, barley,
alfalfa and similar crops may be grown
upon lands that are practically desert.
The success Of "dry" irrigation in Utah
and other Western States that are
largely arid has greatly interested the
people of this State and much 10 being
said and written ON the subject.
DRY" irrigation is used in vicinities
where there is light Fall and Winter
precipitation, but where there 10 insult.
ficient moisture to store water for or
dinary irrigation. The method adopted
is most simple. In the Fall the land 10
plowed and narrowed over and the
snow and rain that fall in the Fall and
Winter soak into the ground which re-
tains the moisture after the crops are
planted the following Spring. While
the yield Is not as large as where ordi-
nary irrigation is employed, the crops
are generally Of superior quality, wheat
especially being extremely hard and Of
fine quality.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03
Western Sheep Again Quarantine,

Western Sheep Again Quarantined.
Another quarantine aga INST Western
sheep has been declared by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The States af.
fected by the quarantine are Nevada,
California. Oregon, Washington. North
Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming.
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,
Colorado and Idaho. Under its terms
sheep cannot be moved from these States
except after being declared free from
scab by Government Inspectors without
the owners aud shippers incurring a
heavy penalty provided by the Federal
Statutes. The order is made effective
on June l, 1905.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-06-03

RenO's Former Mayor Uses His Fists
Ex-Mayor George f. Turrittin aud
County Commissioner I. K. Hymers be-
came engaged in an alteration in a
Reno saloon last week, during the
progress of which Turrittin struck
Hymers singing blow in the
face, lcerating his nose aud caus-
ing the blood to flow quite freely.
Hymers says the ex.Mayor aud himself
were discussing municipal affairs aud
Turrittin accused him of accepting a
rebate on certain sewer Iipe contracts.
which he denounced as lie aud Turrit.
tin struck him. Another version OF
the affair is that the former Mayor en-.
deavored to have Hymers use his in
fiuence to have Leeper reappointed
Chief Of Police This he refused to do.
whereupon Turrittin attacked him.
Hymers is nearly so years Of age and
suffered a severe nervous shock as the
result of the encounter.