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


vice and defeated Carpenter it would
have checked the ardor of the Cath
olic fight on us and saved Milwaukee
and other Socialist centers afterward
from this meanist of all the various
kinds of capitalist attack on us.
The Catholic church was used by
the capitalists to beat us in Massa-
chusetts, and with that first taste of
blood, Milwaukee was selected as
the next point of attack in the de-
termined fight to wipe out Socia-
lism in this country. AS / say, it
was simply a matter of tactics,
nothing more. Comrade Berger
doubtless felt that the proletarian
movement in Milwaukee was suf-
ficiently class conscious and safe
to hazard such temporary depar-
tuiC llpll Jul USUAL iuOuC vi uRHl-
ing-under EXTRAORDINARY cir
cumstances, and as suited to this
ONE occasion, when, through a
combination of circumstances, we
had felt unable to put up a judicial
ticket. In this we were doing no
more, and much less, than has been
resorted to as effective proletarian
tactics, time without number, in
the Socialist movement abroad.
And Berger's editorial was a sug-
gestion to his readers only. Our
English paper, the Social-Demo-
cratic Herald did not go into the
matter at all, as the party had made
no decision in the matter. No
good came of the editorial in the
Wahrheit, as it was not made a
party matter nor an actual cam
paign made against Ca p EN- e r.
Evil did come of it, as it gave per
sonal enemies of Comrade Berger,
men like Mailly, Chase and Traut-
mann, their opportunity to un-
worthily score against an opponent.
| might add here, parenthetically,
that the Mailly fight on Berger be-
gan at a national committee meet
ing, where Mailly, aching to be a
boss in fact as we'll as in inclination,
asserted that as national secretary
he was also national h m a n.
Berger turned on him and said:
What You national chairman
you are only a hired servant OF
the party" Anyone who knows
Mailly's temperament will not have
to be told of the feeling he enter.
tanned for Berger from that time
forward.
am consuming a good deal OF
your space, Comrade Walsh, and
will try to answer Comrade Lynch's
other points more briefly. Hi:
charge that the movement in Ger.
many is sterile strikes me as pic.
turesquely absurd and also as a
sort of pollparroting of some De-
Leon fulminations. | wish we
might have more of that sort OF
"sterility" in this country If we
had we would be in Washington
today-or would be in an out-and.
out conflict with capitalism to pre-
vent it from usurping the rights OF
government for which it no longer
had any warrant in the number OF
its votes cast. That story of the
German Vorwaerts advising work.
men to raise their hats to the en-
press is on a par with the out-and.
out lie peddledby DeLeon that Deb:
was robbed of his railroad passes
in a Milwaukee hotel. We will
have to have your proofs first, Com.
rade Lynch.
Now a word about the charge
that we in Milwaukee oppose indus.
trial trade union organization. AL
stuff and nonsensel On the con.
trary-and it may be news to him
out in his neck of the woods and
dependent on A. l.. u, papers for
his information-there has been
fight on for industrialism in the
A. +. of L., for several years. In.
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