Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-07-05

needs required to unburden the
human race from unnecessary toll
and place within reach of all; all
the necessaries of life required in
support of the physical structure and
all the pleasures that can be grasped
mentally, to the betterment of the
human race, is the healthy purpose
guiding the spirit of unrest now in
ferment in the channels of newer
civilization. If we no not apply a
corrective remedy through an edict
sustained by the governing powers,
and enforced with rigid justice in the
interest of the helpless submerged,
then we as nation are headed for
the same graveyard now occupied
by those ancient cities that once
ruled, with the hope of encompassing
the whole world under their survey.
Civilization implies enlightment.
A thorough knowledge of the cause
of existing evils as brought about by
modern methods of living or OBJ
tanning living. Those who succeed
fnancially,in the present. rarely
pose as educators to benefit the
acknowledged failures, nor stop to
demonstrate that all alike could
reach the same standard of aftluence
under any system they could devise.
Therefore we have enervating luxu-
ries in abundance for the rich; entire
lack of the necessaries for the poor.
Both ends of the candle lighting
human progress, burning up the
derelicts storm tossed in the whirl-
pools of feverish and fiendish COM
petition. Too much and too little.
Look at the result. In the last
ditch you will find upper and lower
humanity writhing in strenuous
misery an unshapeless mass carl
catured by bloated bodies or
attenuated wastes unfit to produce
even their like or with broken down
bodies hunger worn, until drawn
faces, sunken eyes, hollow chests,
protruding shoulders, spindle legs
proclaim mans inhumanity to man,
with hair, teeth, eyesight, smell, and
taste disappearing or become de-
fective, mental vigor gone through
dissipation or the other extreme
insanity and the last rites accorded
this motely crew, blesses them with
a surcease from their misery.
The two ends of the human race,
the overfed and underfed are already
doomed. They will evolve back
ward or cease existence. We will
not all go down to oblivion together.
Some will come to a holier sense of
our destiny and duty by creating
new world and a new civilization
through the genius of master minds
developing in the crux through which
all peoples are now passing.
Open wide the door for general
knowledge. General knowledge will
prove that in the interest of gain,
private gain, the human race is
being squeezed, squeezed into abb
normal lines or entirely off the lines
where it becomes possible to live
without sacrifice of all the nobler
virtues; without immolation on an
alter erected for the annihilation of
the human race in the service to the
god of greed.
Once conscious, class-conscious
of fthis reverting tendency and potent
with the power of full knowledge Of
something better to be obtained,
man, mind, and matter will reajust
conditions so that the struggle for
existence will be taken out of the
haphazard get rich quick" or un-
employed position of the present and
place it where it belongs in the
collective possession of all who tread
mother earth.
Let the sturdy toiler take to heart
the end he is being driven to and
protest with indomitable vehemence
against further sacrifice; let him seek
this knowledue nf the needq reutiired