Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-11-29

The worker has been helpless through
all the ages to remedy his condition
except through periods of agitation
and unrest. The ideal of the worker
is to rise to a state in society where
he can own and control the entire
product of his labor. In a cooper
ative system of industry, work can
be made a pleasure instead of a dis
grace. When work is a pleasure
man will strive to do his best. To-
day profits cut out art in labor and
make toll a burden. The cooper
ative state is coming, and it is the
agitation and unrest of today that
will force it just as agitation and
discomfort forced every social ad-
vancement of the past.
Uneasy lies the head that wears
a CROWN" might be said of the
Rabbi as he stepped into the arena,
to speak his piece" for capitalism
and proclaim the glad tidings" of
contentment to the sons of toll.
The eloquent Rabbi did not produce
single argument in opposition to
the discontented economical con-
ditions now prevailing even in this
free land of capitalism and luxuri-
Gus "divines." He probably as
sumed that no workingman is fam
iliar with the theories of metaphy-
sizes, and he hid himself behind its
soothing balm of Gilead. Man
will never be perfect" said the
Rabbi. Is not evolution the natu-
raj law of unrest in the universe,
and under its influence is not man
himself evoluting" and aspiring to
such perfection as he is capable of
appropiating2 Why prevent man
from striving to gain perfection
Contentment would make a stag
nant cesspool out of a poor man,
wouldn't itp Let us believe that
the man at the other end of
the social scale is as honest in his
intentions as we are," said the
Rabbi. The man at the other end
of the scale is the capitalist. When
the Rabbi can prove that any man
can be honest in a dishonest system
we will grant the honesty of tue man
at the other end of the scale.
1t is easy to comprehend why the
ambitious divine" converts him
self into an apologist for the man
at the other end of the scale. I"
Economic conditions forces him,
just as they force the worker to
aspire to the possession of all he
produces, and as they force the
parasite to employ metaphysicians
to dope" the toilers with false con-
ceptions of life's real mission. The
church itself is an economic condi-
ton, and would never have been in
existence if the ruling classes did
not need its assistance in preaching
contentment to the unrestful masses.
Every ruling class invented its own
god, and no god in real history has
ever been better OF worse than the
ambitions of that class.
The uneducated should be the
least presumptive that they are
right" said the Rabbi. Poor old
toiler, he has no business to claim
he is right. 1t is really shame
for the uneducated (probably the
non collegiate) to assume they are
right. Have they a right TO think
at all, Mr.. Rabbi In your divine
and metaphysical opinion they
should be contented. God put them
on earth to be contented. and we
suppose He made a devil to fill
their minds with social unrest.
Here are ten million people in
poverty, four million public paupers,
two million unemployed, one mil
lion seven hundred children working
in mine, mill, and factory. and two
million women Shaving in textile
"hells" in these United States.
Can they praise God and be con-
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