Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-04-05
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/ have been reading the re-
marks Of the editor of the Mon
tana Daily Record upon So
cialism and | am wondering why
a man of such magnificent
breadth of view should be vast
ing his time upon sheet with
such limited circulation and in
huence. He certainly should COM
mand the attention of the great
world papers and, were he to call
the attention of such men as
manage the London Times, the
New York Sun and others to his
work, he would unquestionably
receive a call to proceed thence.
| Men of his stripe are scarce;
there should be an effort made to
enlarge the output so that civil
ization may not slip cog and
retrograde. However, men as
great as he sometimes err in their
judgment of events and move
ments of thought, and were he to
focus his mentality upon the prin-
ciples of Socialism, after wiping
the cob webs from his lens, he
surely would see his error and be-
come a Socialist and advocate
the Socialist scheme for the
education of the girls and boys
who will, some day, be the women
and men of our land. And here
II seems tn me proper to state
in very few words what the So
cialists propose, some day, to DO
with our public schools and,
through the schools, with the
future generations of humanity
who will swing into the process
sion in rhythmic order.
! Fundamentally-The Socialists
not alone believe, but they know,
that environment largely moulds
the child into the man he be-
comes. That the child is subject
to the same laws OF growth as is
a rose and that he will respond
in like manner to a broad. COM
prehensive mental and moral
treatment. Now, Mr.. Editor,
knowing this, it is the purpose of
the Socialist movement to sur
round each individual child with
the sweetness of life and to re-
move from his neighborhood the
poisons of life, and among the
poisons of our heartless, money
getting life is Poverty, the mother
of all ills known to the human
animal; for from poverty springs
ignorance. ignorance of the laws
of health. Fifth, poor cooking,
bad air, low morals, are the eggs
laid by the vermin-ridden fowl
of poverty. and from these come
forth crime in all its hideous
aspects.
The neglected wild rose. which
hugs the banks of a friendly
water course, is the offspring of
the same mother from which
sprang the American Beauty.
One is left to the bitter blasts of
winter and puts forth four weak
, ling petals bearing the hectic
. flush of disease and neglect. The
other, given the rich foods and
gentle nursery of affluence pre-
sents to the gaze of man a proud
mien and beautiful face. As with
the rose so it is with the child.
!, The Socialists propose, some day,
no matter if only II persons
voted such views at the last
) school election, to take possession
of the child in his infancy, to put
. good wholesome food in his
stomach. tn bathc that child. Ia
wrap that child in comfortable
c,oihing. to ascertain his natural
bent of construction by the
closest study of trained minds
and, whc e idcs II minh,a'd
come. to place him in touch with
the opportunity to utilize the
= knowledge he has acquired. And,
during these years of training, he
shall not be the plaything OF vice,
. he shall breathe the pure atmos-
phere of the country and taught
the precepts of truth from the
grand and beautiful example of
nature, which is, so far as any
one knows, the only voice that
{ speaks from beyond. With this
voice, speaking lowly, the So
cialist movement will, some day,
, inculcate on the minds of our
beautiful youth the gentle teach
ing of Christ; namely: That
thou shalt love they neighbor as
thySen Socialism will never