Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-01-18
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piles, even if they could all be chased
and as fast as they spring up, is a
Sysiphus work, that Socialism Justly
riddles with ridicule. What differ
ence is there between such posture,
and yours with regard to your party1
You would like your party to remain
unabused, "but favor the abusing"
of the scamps that it produces. Do
you not find the latter to spring up
faster than they can be chased down
and away2 Is not your party orga-
nization similar to the institution of
capitalism in that it is a regular
breeder and attracter of such pim-
plies? Your own words prove the
fact. You have proved that your
national platform is hy-paper af-
fair; you have proved that the bulk
of your national committee men are
traitors; you have gone further and
claimed that in your late national
convention there were only SO So
cialists out of 1873 delegates. More
over your columns fairly TEEN with
the names of your party members
whom you pillory. Does not that
tell the tale that the system of your
party, like the capitalist system, can
be sooner ended than mended? We
breed salmon and game to catch them
and eat them. But can it be worthy
of serious mans endeavor to breed
scamps for the sport of lambasting
them? Or can it be serious mans
posture to find fault with trespassers
on the scamp preserve, ileapprov-
ing of the individual shots at the in
dividual scamps2 | wish to think
that the point need but to be made
in order to be made clear to you.
An organization that can produce
such wrongs and wrongdoers as you
have correctly pointed out must be
inherently defective. How much
superior is not that organization,
which, like the Socialist labor party,
is so constructed that the freak OF
knave elects himself, than that orga-
nization, which like your party. not
only breeds its own quota of freaks
and knaves but attracts those that
we cast off?
Moreover, watch what misleading
language your posture leads to- Not
a charge that your paper brings
against the Wisconsin state platform
of the Social democracy but is true.
Your charges are a series of bulls.
eye hits. The platform is a disgrace
TO Socialism; il is a cross between
freakishness and the political CHI
canery of the get-jobs-quick politi-
clan over the backs of the proletar-
lat. And yet what are the flaming
headlines that ornament your issue
of November I72 600 per cent
gains for Socialism in four years
Debs beats Parker in Milwaukee,
Legislators in Wisconsin" Such a
declaration is at fsticuffs with your
previous and mastery demonstration
that the Wisconsin platform is non
and anti-Socialist. A vote raked to-
gether by such means is everything
but Socialist In the measure that
the voters were deceived into the be-
lief that such platform was Social
ism, the cause of Socialism was
sinned against. The glorification of
vote gathered by such means as a
Socialist vote does not square with
the burning denunciation of the
means as non and anti-Socialist.
Such are the inconsistencies that
flow from misplaced loyalty. Can
such inconsistence aid in clarifying
the public mind?
Join you in the wish for clear
cut revolutionary Socialism, based
on the class struggle, as alone it can
be based upon. Seeing such is the
single purpose of the Socialist labor
party, its unhagging effort is to edu-
cate and organize the working class.
Such work is both constructive and
destructive. With charity for all,
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