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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-12
The New Slavery.

Under the feudal system the
serf worked three days for the
baron, in return for permission
to work the other three days for
himself on the baron's land.
Under capitalism the working
man works FIVE DAYS for the boss
in return for permission to work
one day for himself with the tools
of production and distribution
owned by the master class. Under
chattel slavery the negro, once
he had master. need worry no
more ds to having sufficiente food.
clothing or shelter. The master,
who had invested ST. 200 to 81 800
i'll him, would see TO that. 1t
made no difference to the slave
if the master had no work for
him. That meant a holiday with
plenty to eat. To-day when the
master cannot make a profit by
giving permission to work. il
means holiday-and starvation.
When the slave was feeble and
old he was given easy tasks. To-
day the workman with few gray
hairs or who has reached thirty
FIVE years is no longer wanted.
Then the master sought the slave.
Now the workingman seeks a
master-and worries for fear he
will lose him. Socialists say na
man is free until he owns his Job
until he can rise in the morn
ing needing to take no more
thought about opportunity to
work and earn a living than lie
does about drawing his breath.
Socialism would make this sure
by having the government own
and operate all the means of pro-
duction and distribution.-New-
ark Clarion Call.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-12
Two Radical
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versities and upheld openly by a
denomination, and criminally ap-
proved by the silence which
grants consents of the mipisters
of religion of many other de-
nominations"
a few years ago when men in
the ranks of labor dared to raise
their voices in protest against
the methods applied by modern
capitalism they were ridicule1
and denounced as dangerous agi-
tators and enemies of society. But
time has wrought changes. To-
day the labor agitator need hard
ly open his mouth; he can sit
back and listen to the fierce at
tacks upon capitalism that come
from its own ranks and the So
called respectable middle class.
Take. almost any popular maga-
zine and you find some leading
article devoted to exposing fnan-
cial kings and their political
grafters criticisms galore come
from lecture platform and pulpit,
and even some of the daily news
papers and decent politicians are
hurling hotshot at the big rob-
bers and their system. Radical
ism is cropping out everywhere
and good is bound to come from
the new spirit that is manifesting
itself. The labor agitator who
stood alone couple OF years ago
can afford to be optimistic. The
world do move
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-12
SOCIALISM is PROGRESSING

1t would be idle to deny that
Socialism is making progress in
this country. Not only avowed
Socialists, but people who would
repudiate such designation,
advocate measures and policies
which are essentially Socialistic in
their nature. The public mind is
in confusion because of the crop
of refurbished doctrines, which,
while protesting to be new, are
really old Socialistic ideas in a
new form. People who twenty
years ago would have secuted the
idea of furthering Socialism are
to-dav outspoken in favor Of
schemes which are thus labeled.
This situation is founded upon
ignorance. People - most Of
them-do not know what Social
ism is. They do not recognize il.
This is the dangerof the situation.
Socialism has changed its spots.
Where it was once blatant. ag-
gressive and radical it is now
soft-spoken, sophistical and al
truistic.
Its leaders are no longer hairy,
beery persons who were sus-
pected of harboring grudge
against existing society largely
because of its fondness for bath
tubs. They are, on the contrary,
men prominent in politics, in the
learned professions, in the
churches. Socialism is talked BY
men like Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Darrow
and DIR. Hills, and people of GER
tain mentality regard it as a new
dispensation instead of a politi-
cal, social and economic heresy
as old as organized society. A
majority of these people do not
even realize that Mr.. Bryan and
his co-laborers are talking So
cialism. Most of them probably
have vague idea that Socialism
has something to do with bombs
and red flags and fighting the po-
lice. They do not associate il
with the philanthropic, benevol.
ent utterances of gentlemen like
those named. They do not under.
stand that proposition for
municipal ownership of street
railways, for instance, is the
logical forerunner of government
ownership OF all property con,
dition which inevitably involves
conhscation and reconfscation d
all individual belongings. So
cialism, that is to say, no longer
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undertakes to enlighten people
as TO the ultimate result of its
theories. On the contrary, it
hides its purposes and seeks to
make people Socialists without
their knowing it. Men who
would instantly balk at the doc
trine of conhscation are soothed
and deluded with soft talk about
government supervision of GER
tain private enterprises and So
cialism undertakes to educate
them gradually up TO the point
where they may safely be intro
duced To the eliminating purpose
of the propaganda, which is the
abolition of private property and
the domination of the state in all
things. Socialism, in short, has
discovered that its tenets are not
TO he swallowed raw; they must
be Swcetened and diluted and
doctorcd until the popular palate
has become accustomed to them,
after which it is hoped to admin
lister them in the original bolus
without any disguise. In other
words, the Socialistic campaign
is now a formidable one because
II is inspired by shrewdness and
knowledge of human nature. So
cialiSm, therefore. is no con-
temptible antagonist. 1t is not
TO be despised as it was in the
days when it had its habitats in
grimy beer halls and its spokes-
men in orators who were chiefly
notable for their aversion to clean
collars and hair cuts. 1t is dan
gerouS because it has become
specifically respectable end be-
cause its leading advocates are
shrewd enough to refrain from
avowing its ultimate purpose be-
fore their proselytes are ready for
it. 1t is dangerous because it is
being preached by men who are
able and intelligent to the great
element in our citizenship which
is always ready to take up with
any new political theory. The
fight against Socialism must be
conducted upon educational
lines. People will have TO be
shown what it really means. 1t
will make small Roadway when
the american people understand
that the ultimate object of the
insidious propaganda is the abo-
lition of the individual factor in
society and the reduction of man
kind 10 one dead level. Indi-
Vidualism is Americanism, and
this continent presents no field
for the propagation of a plant
which f1ourishes best in the i'm
poverished soil of the European
monarchies.-Forsyth Times
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v, but to exist with man.

ly, but TO exist with man.
1t may hence be said that these
two fundamental instincts of life
bread and love-fulfl the func-
tion of social equilibrium in life.
This is true of animals; it is par
ticularly true of man.
From whatever side the matter
is considered, the fact stands out
boldly that, while at the close of
the eighteenth century it was be-
lieved that the species were made
for the observation-disclosures, per-
haps, the unexpected conclusion
may have been derived that mil
lions of men could and should live
and toll and suffer for the benefit
of the few-at the close of the
nineteenth century the positive
sciences demonstrated that it is
the individual that lives for the
species, the latter being the only
eternal reality of life.
This fact controls the whole
trend of modern scientific
thought, and imparts to it its
sociologic or Socialistic bent, in
direct opposition to the ex-
aggerated individualism that was
left over as legacy by previous
century.
Biology. however, demonstrates
that one must guard against fall
ing into the opposite extreme
which some Utopian schools fail
into, of taking cognizance of So
ciety only, and completely losing
sight of the individual. 1t is a
law of biology that the existence
of the composite body is the re-
suit of the life of all its individ-
uals, just the same as the exist
ence of an individual is the result
of the life of all its component
parts.
Scientic Socialism. which
marks the close of the nineteenth
century. and is the dawn of the
twentieth century, is in complete
accord with the modern trend of
thought down to the fundamental
point of the dominant role of col
lective solidarity, and against the
dogmatic eXaggerations of indi-
viduals, which, although at the
close of the eighteenth century
was the moving of a powerful and
fertile awakening of the masses,
has through competition de-
veloped into the libertinism OF
anarchy preaching the functions
of the individual with total disre-
gard of the solidarity of society
and of mankind.-From Social
ism and Science" by Enrico
Ferrio.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-12
INDIVIDUALISM.
Fallacy of the Idea-Man Lives
for the Species and Not
for Himself.


The individual exists. but only
in so far as he is social organ
ism. Robinson Crusoe-the gen
uine expression of individualism
can only be legendary figure
or a pathological illustration.
The species, i. e., the social
compound, is the great, living and
eternal reality of life. Socialism
has proved this; all the positive
sciences. from astronomy to
sociology, confirm this fact.
Thus il happens that, while at
the close of the eighteenth CEN
tury Rosseau said that the in
dividual alone existed, and that
society was an artificial product
of contract" and that, while
Just the same as Aristotle in
speaking of slavery-he attribut-
ed a permanent character to the
transitory manifestations of the
historic epoch in which he hap
pened to live. and during which
the old feudal regime was crumb-
ling to pieces, and, accordingly,
declared that the source OF all
evils was society" because the
individual was born good and the
equal of all others-at the close
of the nineteenth century, on the
contrary, all the positive sciences
agree in saying that society, the
social organism, is a natural and
invincible fact in life, a fact that
is attested in the animal and vege-
table kingdom, fact that asserts
itself from the lowest colonies of
animal life (zoophytes) up to the
society of the mammals (herbi-
vores) and of man.
All that is best in many he owes
to his social life. Hence every
phase of evolution is typified by
pathological conditions and by
final decline and social putrefac-
ton, all of which, however, are
essentially transitory, and are
the fated harbingers of new
social cycle and of social renova-
tion.
If the individual could live, as
such, he would live obedient To
only one of the necessities and
fundamental instincts; he would
live obedient only to the neces-
sity and instinct of sustenance,
j. G., to the selfish preservation OF
his own organism, with the aid OF
that primitive function that al
ready Aristotle pointed out by
the name of "ctesis'-the con-
quest of food.
But every individual must live
in society just because he is com.
PEELED thereto by the second oi
the two necessities or fundamental
instincts of existence, to-wit: the
reproduction of his kind for the
preservation OF his species. 1t is
of that very life OF relation ant
reproduction (social and sexual)
that is born the moral or socia
sense of man; through it the in
dividual learns not to exist mere
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-12
RETURNS FROM LIVINGSTON

For mayor. ]. ID. Graham, IIo.
For city treasurer. II. Meth
kens, 1872.
For police magistrate, Clarence
Bishop, lei.
For alderman, First ward, r.
b. Nesbit, 83.
For alderman, Second ward,
w. II. Smith, 10.
For alderman, Third ward, {.
{. Simpson, 50.
Total aldermanic Socialistic
vote, I6I; total vote cast for all
parties, o52.
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Continued on page FOUR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
FRIsco's FIGHT MONOPOLY.

One result of the monopoly which the
fighting clubs of San Francisco now
enjoy is that after a time the purses
and percentages given to the fighters
who appear in California rings will be
materially decreased. The fighters will
find the good old times gone and that
the fierce rivalry between the various
clubs, which gave the boxers big per
centages of the gate receipts, will be a
thing Of the past.
While the clubs were fighting to Sc
cure the big fistic plums the bruisers
were in a position to name their own
terms 1t was no uncommon thing for
the fighters to battle for 20 per cent of
the gross receipts. When it is taken
into consideration that the club must
foot all the bills, advertise, put on the
preliminaries, pay the help. rent, light,
license, ETC., this percentage is a big
one. Under the conditions the clubs
could not very well make much profit.
Invariably the earnings from these
wiz go through many channels before
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everything is Strengthened out. Some
of these clubs have from two to six
partners, and all expect a liberal share.
Then the referee has to be cared for,
and his bit is not much less than 500
for each important mill in which he
acts.
Competition in boxing, as well as in
any other business, is all right. 1t
serves to stimulate trade and gives the
public a chance to get a fair return
for its money. But sometimes vigorous
competition has baneful influence on
boxing. It helps to make the Fsgiliss
or pugilists arrogant and paves the
way for exorbitant demands. It is oniy
just that a fighter should get well paid
for his services, but the club. which
takes all of the chances and must sus-
tain its reputation for honesty with the
public, suffers in the end.
When the game hourished in New
York state the profits of the clubs wsEa
enormous. Two or three big encoun-
tiers placed one of these clubs on a. solid
financial footing. 1t was nothing I'M
common for one of these institutions
to make from $4,000 to $50, 600 on one
battle alone. And these contests were
not wide apart either. They were held
with considerable frequency and inva-
riably drew a packed house. Most OF
these clubs were controlled by .poiiti-
clans. who made a pa9nspolE Of the
business
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ture OF circumstances who never was
more than an acceptable leading wo-
man, that she never had any right to
be a star and all that sort of thing
Perhaps it is all true, but the fact is
that IN several classes Of plays the pub
lie has accepted her as a star and in
doing it has paid her from $4,000 to
$4,000 a week. Her Shakespearean re-
vivals have shown that the public is
willing to pay its money to hear the
Bard of Avon properly interpreted. In
'sThe winters Tale" she has scored a
wonderful success. and James Young
as Florizel is a close second in popu-
larity to his fair star.
This same Young is an actor of more
than ordinary ability. He was a
Shakespearean star when he was eight
cen years of age, and, what is more to
the point, he "made good" He made
the mistake Of permitting himself to be
lured by the late Augustin DAILY from
path which he had trodden during his
entire stage career. DAILY promised to
give him Shylock in 1.-The Merchant OF
Venice but because of a difference
brought about by another person he did
not live up to his agreement. Young
then Joined Sir Henry Irving and after
ward made a tour in Mrs. James
Young's play. Lord Byron He aban-
doned this in order to accept an enc
gagement with Mrs. Fiske and left her
after two seasons to join Viola Aliens
company.
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to procure. They form combination,
however, that would wreck the diges-
tive apparatus of a mummy. If the
hustling, busting clerk would take a
sandwich and a bowl of soup he would
feel the benefits of such a course in a
very few days. He would derive ten
times as much nourishment from his
food and consequently would be ena-
bled to perform more work than in the
past and of a higher caliber-
After every side of the problem is
given careful consideration there re-
mains no doubt that the successful men
and women of today. commercially,
professionally, socially. are those who
are vigorous and enduring. Striking
evidences of this may be seen on every
side. The Strenuous life placed The
odore Roosevelt in the White House
and secured to Admiral Dewey the vic
tory of Manila Bay. virility is one of
the great qualities in universal demand,
for the battle of life will reach the high
water mark of prosperity. Many a
man has reared himself above his fell
animal enthusiasm. the output of a
led human machine.
1t is not, as many suppose, a difficult
or an expensive process to build up a
healthy, hardy body. Perseverance is
the key. the watchword, of the whole
operation, and I will now give a few
directions which may be followed with
advantage by any man. young or old
Every person can spare a half hour
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Good, wholesome luncheons can easily
be prepared at home and inclosed in so
small package that no inconvenience
will result The chief fault of this ar
rangement, in the minds of many en-
ployees, is the dislike to have their
companions know that they are eating
homemade lunches. How much better
it would be in this case if pride gave
way to common sensel Think of the
benefit to health that would follow
Think of giving the fear of ridicule
precedence over the vital question of
physical well beingl
In regard to the kind of food the av-
erage clerk eats much might be said.
The quick lunch patron finds that pie
and coffee are about the easiest things
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JEFFERSON DE ANGELS

the music. have succeeded in making
the old Sardou play as spick and span
and clean as a bit of linen from Cath
crime Upscher's own washtub.
It is a peculiar blend. this musical
play, which. after a prolonged success
al the Lyric in London, met with the
warmest of welcomes at Days. 1t is
set down as a romantic light opera, but
there are moments where the story has
been followed so closely and where the.
lyrics have been so admirably compos-
ed that it is carried a full lift higher
than that. At times it takes hold of
ones sympathies so strongly that it is
like real drama, and in a notable trio
or two there is a suggestion of very
near grand opera. And in its stronger
phases it is aided very considerably by
several people who, besides being able
to sing, are capable of bringing a de-
gree of sincerity into their acting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
Hiatorx Of .rhs Maaked aaII.v

Inquiries have been made relative to
the history of 1.-The Masked Ball."
Maude Adams next production at the
Empire theater, New York. Many
writer's apparently credit the author
ship of the play to Clyde Fitch. The
facts are as follows:
The play was written by Alexandra
Bison and Albert Care. If Clyde
Fitch had anything to do with an
adaptation or translation the Frohman
books do not disclose the payment OF
royalties to him, and this scarcely looks
like Mr.. Fitch. The first performance
was given at Palmer's theater (now
Wallack's), oct. 3, 1892 In the cast
were John Drew, Maude Adams. Harry
Harwood, Harold Russell, c. Leslie AL
len, Frank E. Lamb. Virginia Buchan-
an, Annie Adams and Lillian Florence
The following month the company
moved to the Standard theater (now-
the Manhattan), where the piece ems
joyed a run of more than 100 perform.
ances.
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HOW TO
GET STRONG
1T HOME
BY PHILIP M. sEIxAs.
HOME

WI KHERE is there a man who
does not desire to be
muscularly developed and
enduring Throughout
the entire length and breadth of the
land there are few if any right minded
persons that have not the ambition to
be in the prime of bodily condition, and
aside from the chase for wealth. the
chase for health appears to be the all
engrossing topic of the hour.
Possessors of considerable wealth
who are not inclined toward excessive
dissipation find but little difficulty in
their life of comparative leisure in at
tanning and maintaining a physical
state far above the average. but with
the everyday business man, continually
on the rack through the nerve strain
ing stress of routine, it is a different
story. He becomes "au run down and
is frequently compelled to break away
from his avocation and seek recupera-
ton in some sanitarium where he is
fed on mush and milk and put to bed at
z o'clock in the evening.
Physicians find that nine out of every
ten cases of nervous prostration come
from the same source-from a we'll
spring of physical evils which are a
constant menace to all classes and all
es-insufhcient exercise. The man
who takes plenty of exercise will be
rudy OF Cneek, SOUND OF body and
strong of mind No need of nerve ton
les and brain stimulators; no need of
overgrown doctors bills. All these
things would be placed on a shelf and
marked Obsolete" if men could be
taught the virtues of consistent. regu-
lar, graduated systems of physical ac-
tivity.
Another pernicious effect of the lack
OF proper exercise is the falling away
in appetite which inevitably follows
The absence of appetite tends to pro-
duce irregularity in eating. and griev-
Gus is the result of protracted practice
in this habit. A disregard of system as
to the amount of food consumed and
to the hours when it is taken viii in
time have such disastrous effects that
a man may never fully recover what he
has lost.
Holders of clerical positions are par
ticularly prone to lose sight of method
in their manner of eating. They hurry
along on half run and plunge into
some quick lunch resort. painting for
breath AS soon as their wind returns
they call out for a cup of coffee and a
piece of pie, gulping them down like an
automaton with a loose spring.
True it is that insufficient time al
lowed by employers for eating often
renders extreme haste necessary, but a
solution of the problem is near at hand
for the runners who wish to read.
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each day for the purpose of self devel-
opment, and I would suggest that this
time be divided into two periods and
that the subject devote fifteen minutes
in the morning and fifteen at night to
the work. No apparatus whatever is
required, and all operations may be
conducted in the bedroom. Attendance
at a gymnasium is thus rendered I'M
necessary, obviating the payment of
dues, house accounts, etc, which
amount to a considerable sum in
year.
First I will give an exercise which
has proved very valuable in strength
ening the muscles of the back and legs
and in promoting the general circula-
ton.
After removing as much of the cloth
ing as is convenient stand erect and
raise the hands high over the head.
Hold the arms straight, stiffening the
wrists and elbow joints, and bend for
ward from the waist doubling up like
a jackknife. until the finger tips touch
the floor. It is very important that the
knees should be held absolutely rigid.
The slightest relaxing of the strain on
these joints will greatly lessen the eff
cacy of the movement. Repeat the ex-
ercise from five to as many times as
possible without overexertiOn.
Then lie fiat on the back on the floor;
straighten the legs and hold them rigid.
Clasp the hands behind the head, in
terlocking the fingers firmly and force
the elbows back until they are on
line with the shoulders; then rise,
bending at the waist, to a sitting pos
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action and comedy to liven the somber
plot-a woman who ruins her hus
bands political career for the sake of
keeping his love.
Margaret Anglin developed the emo
tional force in the final scene which
brought her fame in Mrs. Danes De-
fense,'' but the play was by no means a
fair test of her powers. Mr.. -Kellerd
made the most of his opportunities as
the congressman. Others concerned in
it's presentation were Walter Hitch
cock, Charles w. Burrill. Maurice Viii