Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-09-13

Why So Quiet?

Although the News has kept a
score of large ear trumpets pointed
in the direction of the federal build
ing, no sound has come that would
indicate a prosecution of the alleged
embezzlers whom, it is rumored,
Tom Carter is protecting by pulling
around them his mantle of Wash
ington pull. There can be no doubt
about the report that a special
agent came out from Washington
about year ago, and found some
things wrong, or not exactly accord
ing to Hoyle, and that at least two
of Tom Carter's friends disappeared
from their jobs. Now it is true that
some of Tom Carter's friends die,
but no one ever heard of any volun-
tarily giving up nice fat salaries
without pressure of some sort from
some where.
Under Socialism, of course, Tom
Carter, as a statesman, would be
out of job, he would have to make
footprints" in a pillow field or some
other honest field. He could not
protect any wrong doer by any pull
at Washington.
There are about IS men employed
in the construction of the Main
street pavement ia Helena. On the
sidewalk and between curbs are to
be seen, in the neighborhood of 100
able bodied men watching the IS
men at work. The IS men labor 8
hours each day. Were the 100
idle put in to help, the IS would
have to work only one-6fth of s
hours. This is so in every depart
ment of labor. If every man were
put to work, the working hours
could be reduced and the output of
wealth increased enormously. I'm
der the competitive system every
man cannot be put to work because
that would at once abolish the COM
petitive system. Competition means
an idle force trying TO displace a
working force and willing to do the
work for less pay. Under Socialism
no competition is contemplated.
Every person is given the machin-
cry with which to produce as much
or as little as he wishes to produce,
but he keeps all he produces. He
will not keep only one fourth and
pay three fourths over, to some one
who calls himself a capitalist. "
He keeps all he produces, and when
he exchanges what he produces for
something another produces, he
pays a toll, which equals the actual
cost of exchanging these products.
Under our present method of do
ing, or rather of not doing things,
but men, when they carry their
products to a place to exchange them
for the others products, the pro-
ducers find the most beautiful as
sortment of financiers, noted men, -
a man with a pull in Washington,
and men with pull-in your pocket,
bankers, merchants, lawyers, saloons
Clore streets, preachers, priests and
deacons, railroads, all of whom
reach into the producers wagon and
pull out a portion, and when the
producer meets the other producers,
they have to trade sight unseen,
otherwise there would be a mighty
poor chance for a quick trade.
The truth is, these middle mer
take about IS per cent for which
the producer gets nothing. Social
ism absolutely cuts out this IS pei
cent graft These taking" people
will then do something of benefit to
all the people or they will starve.
The Washington Pull.
Washington now is the center oi
pulls" Notwithstanding Mon,
tana is a part of the great American
nation and is entitled to recognition
from the entire AGGREGATION of states