Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-07-19
Farmer Should
Learn to Vote

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be no novels as now to clean. They
all would be made as good as labor
could make them, and the laborer
would live in them, and not those
that never do any useful work. For
under a Socialistic form of govern
ment, there would be no drones or
bloodsuckers to provide for as now,
but all would q be useful under a
Socialist form of science. For
Socialism in its true meaning is
science.
Now take the residence of w. X.
Vanderbilt, and that of Geo. Gould,
both of New York that cost in the
neighborhood of million dollars
Did they, with labor performed by
themselves, accumulate the money to
build their houses with, or did they
by their labor build any part of
then2 They couldn't saw a board
straight if it were squared. Then,
says one, their money had the house
built. Yes, but where did they get
the money? BY robbing labor of
what Justly belonged to labor2 By
underpaying for what they were
getting done by labor2 Now an
other instrument that saves labor
and filth, is pneumatic power for
painting. 1t is a substitute for the
brush in the hands of the painter.
| haven't space to give a full ac-
count of the devise. But under a
proper system, all would be benefit
ed by such improvements. There
is one more improvement | want to
mention, and that is the sculpturing
machine. 1t does the work so a
person cannot tell the new work from
the old, only by the whiteness of the
marble of which the machine has
made. But those great inventions
are not worked for the public good
under the present system of greed.
Under a Socialist form, it would
benefit the whole people, and not a
few. All things would be made for
use and not for profit under Social
ism. Says one, don't want any of
your divide up" system; what are
you doing under the present cut
throat system but dividing up2
Worse than dividing up; its a four
fifths up system you are under bro
ther farmer. You are worse off under
the present system by 4 than you
would be under the divide up system
as you call it.
Now lay your prejudice aside for
just little while, and look at the
thing square, and give your present
situation some thought, and see if
you have laid anything up for a
rainy day. Honor bright neighbor,
have you broke even for the last ten
years? If we have gone ahead, why
do the records show different? The
records show for the last 10 years
that the farmers have run behind fin
ancially. Look arond in the neigh
borhood in which you live and see
if any of your neighbors have built
any quarter milliondollar residen-
ces2 Haven't majority lived in
the same old shackes for the last ten
years2 Been buying landr All,
we'll who did you buy from1 Rail
road company Where did they
get so much land to sell? From the
government Yes. What did they
pay the government for itf OH
they built a railroad for itp Then
the people have a railroad to do bus
mess with, but don't have any divi-
dend interest. Just an interest
on land that was given to corpor-
alton. Now have any of you had
any government land given to you abb
solutely free of cost1 If not why
not? Now | am not kicking at a
railroad company but the voting
mules that support such a system.
Oh! you cannot change it by the
vote2 It's got to come by bloody
revolution, says one; well think il
those that seek a bloody revolution