Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-10-18
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Iduc Lewis Is SECRETARY OF lne new
local, and Comrade Lars Anderson
organizer. The last mentioned
comrade is bubbling over with zeal
for the new society, and expects to
take the Simons course of study in
Chicago soon.
The stage was late coming into
Lewiston Saturday night. and as it
was a cold evening it was supposed
to be too disagreeable for a street
meeting. But the meeting had been
advertised, and a crowd was wait
ing, so more work was done, more
literature sold, and more collection
taken. They're the right sort at
Lewistown. After the street meet
ing a meeting of the local was held
at the cottage of Comrades Art and
Ed Harvey. Sunday afternoon an
other talkfeast was held in the same
place.
Monday morning Comrade Cragg's
spanking bays took us to Moore.
Comrade A. ]. Mcdonald was here
also and assisted in the meeting.
Moore is one of those melancholy
propositions-an infnitesimal rail-
road town of some dozen or so
houses that is having a BOOM"
Two banks are being built, and the
silly people imagine that means
prosperity" for them. The speak
er made an inquiry to the crowd as
to why the banks were built, and
went on to show that they would
soon own the whole surrounding
country, as the farmers were con-
tinually pushed down by the buy
ers of their produce, that were often
the banks themselves, till they could
not pay out, and were forced to
borrow of the banks, that slapped on
mortgage, and soon owned the en-
tire business. Senator Meyers of
the Carbon county banks boasts
that he owns FIVE hundred out of the
twelve hundred farms in Carbon
county. No wonder Mrs. Movers
goes to Europe while the farmers
wives slop pigs and feed calves to
send her there.
This talk of course did not suit
the merchants and bankers of Moore
and the little two-by-four editor that
the bank of Lewistown had sent out
to stultify the minds of the people,
and keep them contented with the
beautiful system, felt called upon to
make 4 timorous protest to the
speaker after she descended from
the chair. He objected to her ar
raignment of the capitalist school
with its limited opportunities for the
children of the poor, and made the
amazing statement that it was the
republican party that gave free
schools to the country. AS the in
stitution of the American public
school commenced decades before
the grand old party was ever heard
of, and its agitation was promul-
gated by the first union demands in
1920, such imbecile drivel repre-
sents the sort of pap that is sapped
down the throats of the babes of
capitalism to keep them quiet while
the big man robs them.
| But the diminutive editor was
Jared. His paper the next week
was mostly about Socialists and
what he thought was Socialism. If
ever an Unfortunate editor had 'em"
the Moore aspirant to that diStinc-
ton was the luckless victim. As to
shrieks-Deer Lodge isn'tin it. In
the first place he tried to hide behind
the petticoats of a woman as the
reason why he wouldn't debate
when challenged. Then follows the
most absurd misrepresentation of
the speakers statements. He uses
the word logic as though it might
justify his spasms, while he con-
tradicts its application with prime
val ignorance in every sentence.
But the capitalists don't hire uni
versity men for such cheap John