Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-10-11

tue pSduluul tnluSS VIC ndu just
seen in the agricultural and horti-
cultural buildings.
One regiment, or one thousand
of these legal murderers. costs the
toilers and tillers of America, one
million of dollars, and the military
department, maintained solely for
the protection of the money aristo-
cracy from the wrath of a down
trodden people, costs the laborers
of America hundreds of millions of
dollars annually. 1t then occurred
to us that the machinery and the
wagons we saw in the farm imple-
ment department were all manu-
factured by the implement trust
which robs the toilers of millions
of their wealth annually. We con-
tinued our sight seeing to the city
by taking one of Jim Hill's trains,
for ride of two miles, on which
we paid IS cents or I21s cents per
mile, twelve times as much
as is charged upon the Socialist
railroads of New Zealand. This
aroused our curiosity somewhat re-
garding railroad charges for the
hauling of the displays to and from
the fair and we found that, for
this the toiler was compelled to
pay fat chunk of money in ad-
dition to his fare for himself and
family. While stroling with the
crowds upon the streets we saw
other drains upon the wealth pro-
duced by the toilers. At every step
a saloon gaped its jaws, pouring
vile intoxicants into the unwary and
sending them on to drop more
wealth into the laps of courtesans,
who swarmed everywhere in antici-
patton of gain, and, incidentally
impregnating them with the vilest
diseases. In brief, the toilers and
tillers of Montana were exploited
from stem to gudgeonr." While
devoting months to the cultivation
of fruits, vegetables, grains and live
stock, working several hours longer
than the sun, the "noiseless thief"
was ever busy taking from the sur
plus to which they we're entitled.
This process of extraction contin-
ued to and through the fair and up
on the last day, the entire collec-
ton of edibles had to be given away
because of the heavy cost of return
ing them to the farms. 1t looked to
us that the laborer and his pride was
mere excuse for gambling, horse
races, the display of femininity and
the annual picking of pockets.
: Under the cooperative common
: wealth, all would be different, the
knowledge gained by exchange of
, views of toilers with toilers would
p go toward the general good and up
building of all society. There will
: be no silks and satins, as distin-
I guished from calicoes and ginghams
: as they choose as the opportunity to
|, get either will be wide open at any
j period during the life of any man or
4 woman. Automobiles will not be
d the sole property of parasites, they
r shall then be the instruments OF
a greater general progress of all hui
manity and of pleasure at command.
Boiled down to thick paste, we
found that every feature of the fair
r of material merit and value to the
S producers of wealth was the product
g of labor. Labor did it all. What
c part of it all does labor reap1 An
v swer, about 20 per cent. What part
6 of it all do capitalists and their
:. satellites reapl Answer, about Sc
: per cent. You ask, why is this
d SOP" and we reply. because the pro-
II ducers insist upon the slavery of the
e masses to the capitalist class, and
= vote the capitalist into power.
). When the producers of wealth vote
s to keep what they produce, then
e they will keep 100 per cent.