Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-09-06

My motto: There can arise no
honest difference of opinion except
from ignorance. Forward.
To the members of the Socialist
party-you whom / have called COM
rades: have seen your characters
undermined by immoral institutions
of capitalism. and these same in
stitutions catered to by so-called,
Socialist propagandists who still
further degraded you that, because
these institutions were fostered by
capitalism, it was useless for you to
resist their influence while the cap
italist system was in force. / have
seen your reason vitiated by false
propaganda. / have seen you hyp-
Noticed by automatic catastrophe
reasoning which holds that because
capitalism is self obstructive Social
ism is inevitable without the con-
scious action of the working class;
by that in the air, "hurrah."
Socialists that think we can organ
ize industry without an industrial
organization. | have seen you
bound and gagged and delivered in
to the hands of your enemies, the
labor fakirs and bourgeois middle
class, by private ownership of the
party press, by five minute rules in
conventions, by being denied refer
endum, trials, and appeals, by false
counts and revisions in votes, by un-
yealding imperative party machin-
cry. Ihave seen this confusion worse
confounded by old-age-pension-un-
neutrality-suspicious., buy
Observation-Disclosures garbage can
and middle class single tax-inheri-
tance-tax- -just-taxation platfor m S &.
Now l intend to protest with all
the power there is in me, and / don't
propose to be bound by rules made
by "intellectuals," constitution vio-
lators, and labor fakirs while doing
so either.
When, after reading the resolu-
ton of the Amsterdam Congress
calling on the Socialists of the sew
eral nations where divided into diff
ferent political parties, to unite in
one class conscious organization,
| thought of doing what | could to
unite the Socialists of the United
States, this is the first proposition
that has presented itself to me for
solution: What is it that divides
the Socialists of the United States
After an impartial investigation
covering several months, two main
facts stood out plainly, viz, the
trade union movement and the own
ership of the party press, i. e., the
Socialists were divided on the trade
union question and the question of
ownership of the party papers. The
facts that one party owned its own
press and the other had a privately
owned press (or rather that press had
it) seemed to cause this very press
to promote and keep up the division.
Here was a condition calling for
careful analysis and scientific reason
ing which would tax all the means al
my command for investigation. !
give in this article the results of my
investigation.
Keeping in mind the motto that
appears at the head of this article.
proceeded, so let us proceed.
The sense of right and justice is
ever present in the race, manifested
in an ever ascending scale parallel
ing the evolution of industrial ef-
hciency and compel anon the read
justment of social and political forms
to the new economic conditions.
In our endeavor to supplant worn
out forms, we must make our appeal
largely to these sentiments. We
must appeal to material interest:
and moral sentiments. When we
have proven our case according to
both and shown the necessity fol
organization, we are at the end oi
our rope as propapandists