Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-10-11
81 <;ia1ist Idea
IL State Fair

was SuNNSSS III many "aJS. ihS
weather was all that could have been
! desired. The crowds came from
everywhere. The apples were the
reddest, and greenest, and the yell
lowest. The peachest were the
pinkest. The cabbages had the
swelled head. almost equally, in this
respect, to the ordinary members of
the Montana Club, and the general
issimo of the Workers Club. The
potatos were large enough to fill a
family of stomachs, and with eyes
numerous enough to see a great
future for the industry. The bar
ley sported whiskers that would do
Justice to a Russian Mujik. The
other grain and grass display certi-
fed to the progress of agriculture
in Montana. The honey was manu-
factured by real bees of the union
variety, and unadulterated by the
money-bee. The butter came from
real big-eyed cows, and was churned
in transit by the old fashioned house
wife. The corn was large cared
and promised much pork fried mush
and hot cakes. The pumpkins
raised visions of mothers pies in
our youthful days at home. The
buckwheat aroused in our breasts
a hope that, in the glorious days of
the coming cooperative common
wealth, humanity will enjoy the real
pure buckwheat cakes with real
maple syrup. We saw so many of
the products of labor, that we wond-
cred why laborers had so few of such
good things to eat. In the stables
and pens were splendid fat beeves,
hogs, sheep, goats ahd poultry, and
again we wondered at the millions
of empty larders that are broadcast
among those simple people who
labor from ten to eighteen hours out
of the twenty -four. We inquired OF
the exhibitors what an acre of land,
well titled, would bring forth OF
these beautiful things, and the re-
ply was, enough to feed a good
sized family of strong, healthy
people," and we wondered some
more. The fact is wonder leaked
out of every pore, as we observed
the evidences everywhere of the
handiwork of the toilers harnesseC
to the powers of mother earth, tn,
suns rays and friendly showers
We pondered long as We wandered
through the great array of labo
saving machinery, intended t
tighten the burden of the laborini
men and women, and we asked our
selves why the net result of tn
farmers efforts were bare floors
cheap furniture, broken down
painless spring wagons, chea
hand-me-down clothes, out of dat
hats. limited education, patent in
side country papers, a persisten
attachment to the rotten old capital
list parties with their lying platforms
self seeking and thieving politics
heelers; lack of all the comforts c
, modern growth, developement an
science. But when we stepped owe
to the grand stand, we found
partial solution of the problem
There we found mob of daintil
attired women, the wives an
A daughters of men who toll not, no
A do they spin. We found hundred
9 around the gambling den bettin
$ away the wealth produced by tn
working men and women. We sa'
y the smooth silk hats and rustlin
silk petticoats and $40 millinery
4 We saw the automobiles and spank
q ing turnouts. We saw Unite
States Senator Thomas II. Carte
y surrounded by ward heelers of tn
e republican department of the car
g italist party, and Governor ]. X
Toole, surrounded by ward heeler
: of the democratic department of tn
capitalist party, strutting on parad
before the admirinp thronp of pars