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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
HAS ANOTHER LAUGH

Once more the socialist has the laugh
on his side. just as the "reformers {"
are shaking hands and patting them
selves on the back because Roosevelt
is going to "regulate the trusts and
he is handing a bunch to the railroad
magnates, and we are going to have
cheap rates, and the little butcher, and
baker, and candlestiek maker can take
little summer jaunt with wife and
babies, and the days of "exorbitant
rates - and shameful extortion' are
a thing of the past-right here a new
beast begins to growl. and the "dear
public" stops aghast because cor
ganized labor" is protesting against
rate legislation, and il has the au-
dacity to say that such interference
would bring low wages Aud sweating
toilers complain that is such an event
the earnings of the roals would be ,le
creased, and of course that means that
expenses would have to be decreased
instead of dividends, and the first easy
point TO get at that, is to cut wages.
There is no getting away from the in
evitable logic Of the thing. The pub
lie lcjks blue, the trainmen look ON
inous, and the socialist laughs. He s
been laughing for some time, and he s
going to laugh as he sees his prelie-
tions verified with every turn of the
capitalist wheel, and he'll keep on
laughing until the silly public knows
enough to take its business out of the
hands of the barnacle private owner,
and then he will sit down and smile
contentedly the rest of his natural
life.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03

you are carrying on. John ID. ad-
vocates putting the idle people to
work on public roads.
In the arid states they have al.
ready thrown sop to the working
class the way of government bitches.
So say to you; Mr. Capitalist, force
the socialist idea quickly before the
workers are educated to the point
where they can do their own think
ing, for il you prolong or retard the
process you will lose your Job of
throwing SOD to the workers, for in
few years they will own the Jobs
themselves. II government roads
and bitches are going to be built we
socialists want the government to
construct them, and not let them
out by contract to some private in
dividual, to skin the workers, by
working them long hours and then
calling il overtime" as is being
done in the city affairs of Living.
ston.
Now is your chance Mr.. Capitalist.
Head off Socialism by bringing il
too soon.
NJ. l.. BAKER.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
WILL SOCIALISM COME in THE NEXT
FIVE OR SIX YEARS?

II the capitalists were clever they
would force socialism on the people
in the next couple of years. 1t is
generally believed that the capital
ist class will force a panic before
1908. The wealthiest man in the
United States admits that in case
of a panic there will be somewhere
In the neighborhood of from FIVE to
seven million idle men, in the land
of the free and the home of the
brave.
Now, Mr.. Capitalist, | think il
you were quite shrewd, you would
force socialism on the people while
they are not prepared for it. II
were a capitalist | would argue with
my brother capitalists to force So
cialism with the new crash. You,
Mr.. Capitalist, are educating the
people to the collective idea through
your concentration into a solid
body of oppression You are Civ
ing the laboring people too much
time to study socialism. Force so.
cialism on the producing class, II
you give us four or FIVE years more
study in the socialist college which
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
Back to
the Land
Cause of COnta ON in Contaminated
Cities...FI}s Are Hatched
inE Carcass.

COngested cities, harboring : usands
of homeless poor, who, year @ sr year,
drag out a miserable existencv-fertile
valleys and fruitful plains uninhabited
these are the paradoxes of American
civilization.
New York cries out in distress for
fresh air and elbow room-Montana g
acres and valleys lie with ground un-
titled. Though meal may be grown for
"a penny peck and water may be
had for nothing the poor of the East
cling to the fringes of civilization and
feed upon the crumbs which fall from
the table of wealth.
A man with an axe and spade can
build himself a house and grow enough
in two acres to feed family year,
with pure water, pure air and God s
golden sunshine to cheer him at his
work, still the poor cling to the sitting
city.
Although in small way, benevolent
societies are now endeavoring to grasp
the opportunity this paradox presents
and endeavoring to relieve distress by
establishing colonies. They are try
ing to lead the slum.lwellers from their
squalor to the land of fresh earth and
running water. II is a splendid ex-
ample of practical philanthropy, and
the men and women who are behind
the movement are worth n million
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
HELENA, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY B. 1906
CHILD SUICIDES FROM OVERWORK
May Beals Reproves Wealthy Church
Congregation II Christ Would Have Spent Millions for
Churches.

We print the following letter from
May Beals in regard to her cotton
mill story:
Dear Comrade: Please tell them
in footnote to my story, or an
editorial or something, that the
number of child suicides is increas-
ing all the time. In France in 1901
there were four hundred and seven
six children who committed suicide.
All the cases recorded were among
the poor. / haven't been able to
find the United States statistics on
the subject. / don't think any re-
cord is kept separate from adult
cases, for | wrote to a friend in
Washington who has exceptional
facilities for finding out things.
Notice that it is poor children"
the disinherited-who have no
share in the earth, who take them
selves out of it. Some good peo-
pie say that the rapid increase in
France is due to the spread of free
thought-the decay of religion.
If the function of religion is to
hold children in a life of torment,
that nothing else can force them to
endure, the sooner it decays the bet
ter. Truly religion is worth more
to the masters than either the con-
stable or the hangman if he can
keep the children alive while they
are being despoiled. Even capital
ism cannot grind profits out of a
dead child.
Once, in the richest church-one
of the richest churches | ever was
in-they had raised a great many
thousand dollars to finish paying for
it and the pastor praised them for it
-patted them on the back and made
them feel virtuous-and knew then
that I MUST, but I waited till he
had finished his sermon and then |
went up in front and stood on the
steps of the pulpit and told them
that in that same city there were so
many disinherited that the Y. w. c.
A. had to have a policeman to keep
order among the horde that applied
for relief in the winter. They
couldn't help all who came, only
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03

The press of the country is quick to
seize on and magnify any incident
that can possibly be construed into
a story of violence on the part of
the unions. On the other hand, do
you ever see such heads as these in
the daily papers: Fifty Women
Died of Hunger as Result of Starv-
alton Wages in New York Sweat
Shops" or, "One Hundred Girls
Driven to Suicide This Year Be-
cause of Low Wages in Department
Stores" OF, "A Hundred Children
Murdered by the Cotton Mills of
the South" No, you never see
such heads in the newspapers, but
all the same this sort of violence is
going on all the time-violence
sanctioned by the sacred business
interests" If you kill man, YOU
commit murder; il matters not whe-
ther you do it with club or by the
kid glove method preferred by the
business interests, "-Typographi-
cal Journal.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
VIOLENCE YOU DON'T READ ABOUT
in THE DAILY PAPERS

You often hear people say they
believe in unions and would give
their support to the labor movement
if il were not for the violence"
connected with the trade-union
movement. This idea of violence
they get from the daily press &C.
counts of strikes in large cities,
where mobs of irresponsible rowdies
and thugs congregate during labor
troubles and improve the opportun-
ity to get even with the police. 1t
is conceded by minded men
that not one-tenth of the violence
connected with strikes is attribut-
able to the strikers. Mr.. August
Belmont recently made the state
ment that, in justice TO the labor
unions, he wished to say that of the
score of men arrested for rioting in
connection with the recent Interboro
strike in the city of New York, not
a single one was a member of the
Street Railway Employees union.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
Scored
individuals Branded for SOCiety'S
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
Life Means Comfort.

sees the trust dismiss the extra clerk,
the machine oust the superhuous
mechanic. He sees the strike fail.
the lowered wage. the reduced stan
dard of life, the sickness with no
money to pay doctors and he is
warned, and elects to take the
chances of life by himself as the
safer course.
Nature protests at the thwarting
of her purposes, and the horrors of
prostitution, disease and outcasts
are the result. Capitalism is de-
stroying the home in America, as it
has practically done among the
French. He is a wise man who de
mands secure chance of existence
before he undertakes to be respon-
sible for new lives brought into the
world.
Under a scientific and rational
system of life, under socialism, there
would be no scramble for gold in
order to get the means of living.
Industry would be so systematic
ed that all would be trained and
educated for work, all would have
work and plenty of leisure besides.
all would have the product of
their labor, which would keep
them in comfort, and all young
people could marry from love and
not compulsion, and have homes
and no anxiety for the future. DO
you think you could do anything to
help on the dawn of a better So
ciety1
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03

sure to recover. Under the influ-
ence of this news the markets picked
up again, and Standard Oil unloaded
its shares safely before the Presi-
dents death came about Subse-
quently, with the assistance of Stan
dard Oil manipulations, the fall in
Amalgamated Coppers was such
that, in these shares alone, some
$50 million we're lost-including
IL millions lost by Lswson-and
presumably the whole amount was
pocketed by the Rockefeller group.
They offered to recoup Lawson for
his own losses, naively pointing out
if they hadn't deceived him he
might have given them away and
spoiled their operations
1t is a charming story, and makes
one wonder more than ever who in
spired that brilliant idea of burn
ing up the Russian oil springs. The
next time Mr.. Balfour is arguing,
as he so powerfully did at Newcastle
in favor of protection as the best
means of developing the badly
needed trust system in this country,
some one might hand him a copy
of "Everybody's Magazine. with
the story of the ghouls of finance at
the dying Presidents bedside. -
London Labour Leader.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
LET THE BIG
THIEVES DlSGORGE

] see by the Missoulian that the
Hon. Joseph Dixon, NJ G., for Mon
tana, has served notice on the commit
tee of agitators at Helena that he is a
standpatter on the PRESIDENT 8 railway
rate regulating scheme without any
mutual reservations whatever. tAm
glad he used that word) Also from
the same paper ! read that he had
introduced bill for the purpose of
forcing civil service employees to settle
or be suspended, and finally removed
for failure to do so. Now it would be
an innovation if he, in his capacity of
reservation promoter, would introduce
measure to compel some or all Of
those land thieves to disgorge, by turn.
ing back to the people the millions Of
acres they have stolen, so that the class
he wishes 20 force into honest ways
would have a chance to own a home,
and thereby evade the landlord and also
encourage the grocer and butcher to
lcniency, because or his improved pros.
poets in life. But ! suppose Mr.. Dixon
does not wish to be called Socialist.
IT. p. CRUMLEY.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
SENATOR BAILEY
GRUESOME JOKER

Senator Bailey is proving himself
rather a gruesome joker. In the
dismal debate in the senate, as to
whether to eulogize or not to eulo-
gize Senator Mitchell, referring to
the criminal record of our most
potent, grave, and reverend seniors, "
he delivers himself of the following
homily, cited by the press under the
humorous head of "All Honorable
Mem"
You on that side may sometimes
look upon us on this side (dsmo.
cratic) as demagogues, and know
that we sometimes look upon you on
that side as mere creatures of cor
porate greed, yet we all, in our
sober moments look upon one an
other as upright, honest men.
In the last ten years there have
been ten indictments of senators,
and all of the indictments implying
crimes have been committed for
money. 1t is time the senate is ties
flying to the world that this is nc
place to come to make money dis.
HONESTLY"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03

The Helena Independent has an
editorial in which it hurls anathemas
at bachelors, and complains bitterly
of their increase. All the crimes
of the decalogue are heaped on the
defenseless heads of those who have
refused to take on themselves the
responsibilities of heads of families,
and inane suggestions are made for
melting out punishment to them,
presumably for the purpose of fore
ing them into some sort of a
marriage as the lesser of two evils.
When the capitalist press shall
have learned what every scientific
thinker knows today, that all social
phenomena are the result of econo-
mic determining causes, the public
will not be inflicted with such silly
twaddle In regard to what are serious
results of existing conditions.
Individual personal considerations
no more enter into the question OF
a decrease in marriages than they
do into that of the frightful increase
of the army of the unemployed.
Young men are not marrying be-
cause of the precariousness of get
ing living. Life is too insecure
for a man dependent upons sothers for
employment to attempt to establish
home with its constant and in.
creasing expenses. The young
clerk OF mechanic sees the fate OF
his fellows who have endeavored to
maintain the domestic life. He
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
MURRAY E. KING
ON RUSSIAN AFFAIR

Below we print an extract from a
letter from one of the ablest Amer
ican comrades:
Isn't it good to be alive nowadays
with the unmistakeable portents of
revolution and vast hopes Shaking
the world? / am so absorbed in
the tremendous Russian upheavel
that | can scarcely wait for the
papers from one day to another.
We socialists have at last, through
the desperate valor and might of the
Russian proletariat, thrust our
selves to the very front of the worlds
stage.
Every paper and magazine is at last
forced to mouth over and over
again the dread, hated word, So
cialist" The Technology of our
philosophy is becoming the current
language of the day. Our view is
becoming palpably the viewpoint of
humanity. The fight is on; we will
never recede from our position.
Long live the Russian proletariat
who have thrust us to the front in
the affairs of the world.
MURRAY z. KING.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03

dreamers. May their tribe inereasel-
Butte Evening News.
II would be better to say: These are
the paradoxes of capitalism, in
America, Russia, Japan, Africa, Da-
honey or Patagonia. Wherever two
or more "civilized" persons are gath
cred into social compact will be found
homeless poor, who, year after year,
drag out a miserable existence, and,
within a stones throw, vast parks Of
rich soil dedicated to waste for the
pleasure of exploiters-the masters-of
labor. Under the cooperative com
monwealth the homeless poor, the slum-
dwellers, will be led ''from their
squalOr 10 the land of fresh earth and
running water, or they and others,
whose energies are wasted or misdi-
reeted, will be placed where they will
accomplish the most good for all hu-
manity with the least expenditure Of
labor and in the least time. While the
various organizations of Europe and
America, who are attempting to allevi.
ate the sufferings of the millions of
poor, are deserving of some credit they
are to be blamed for this ignorance of
the economic cause for the conditions
existing. Flies are hatched in car
cass Capitalistic philanthropy, acting
through such agencies, removes only
few of the flies. Socialism-the Co
operative Commonwealth-wil remove
the carcass-the cause.-the breeding
place of flies-theretOre all the flies.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
The GhOulS
of Finance
The Dying President..LawsOn Attracts
Attention of RevOlutiOniStS
Across the Sea.

When Trust magnates fall out hon
est men get-information. But for
the feud between Standard Oil on
the one hand, and Pierpont Nor
gan and Lawson. one-time Copper
King" on the other hand, we should
never have been favoured with the
revelations as to Insurance Corpor-
alton methods. The same feud is
responsible for Lawson's exposure
Of the copper deals which ruined
him and put hundreds of millions
into the Standard Oil Golfers. One
can hardly be surprised at any meth
DDS adopted by the Rockefeller
group, but Lawsons latest story in
"Everybody's Magazine" is one to
which Thackeray's mordant pen
might have done full justice.
When the news of the murderous
attack on President Mckinley was
flashed through the states. the oil
trust magnates foresaw that with his
death would come a heavy fall in
securities. They stood to lose mil
lions in Amalgamated Copper.
Lawson alleges that they thereupon
placed around the bedside of the
dying man influential emissaries of
their own, whose business it was to
issue news that the president was
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-01-03
STRIKE AT THE
BALLOT BOX

The following union of employers and
the reserve army of the unemployed
shows the chance that organized labor
has outside the ballot box:
FOR A STANDING ARMY
OF NoN-UNIoN woRKMEN
Chicago Employers Association Has
Great Scheme.
TO INCLUDE EVERY CITY
So That When They Want to Fill
Places Vacated by Strikers They
Can Give the Command and the
Men viii Go.
Chicago, Dec. 1.-THE Chicago EN-.
ployers' association, at a meeting to.
day, formulated plans for the establish.
ment of a standing army of laborers,
both skilled and unskilled, and repre-.
senting every branch of trade, to be
prepared to go to any city in the
United States to fiji the places of strik
ers when necessary.
The scope of the association will be
extended so as to include every city in
the United States with a population of
$4,000 or more. Employment bureaus
will be maintained in all cities of this
class, where non-union workmen can
register and when the occasion arises
these men will be used to take the
place of strikers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05

The tie was played off yesterday in
perfect weather and under conditions
ideal for golf.
The play resulted as follows:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05

BERREY TO
HOLD CUP
Haleiwa Golf Trophy Is
Won for Last
Time.

The Haleiwa Golf Cup has become
the absolute property OF Q. H. Berrey,
the first player to win 1t three times,
as called for by the terms of the
trophy
\ week ago yesterday the monthly
contests for the cup We're held, three
players tying for first place.
The scores on that occasion were:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05
Standard Bred TrOtter

When an animal meets the following
requirements it can be registered as a
standard bred trotter:
/. The progeny Of registered
standard trotting / orse and a regis
tered standard trotting mare.
2. A stallion sired by a registered
standard trotting horse, provided his
dam and grandam were sired by re-
gistered standard trotting horses, and
he himself has a trotting record of
2:3O and is the sire of three trotters
with records of 2:30, from different
mares.
8. A mare whose sire is a register
ed standard trotting horse, and whose
dam and grandam were sired by regis
tered standard trotting horses. provid-
ed she herself has a trotting record of
2:3O or is the dam of one trotter with
a record of 2:30.
4. a mare sired by a registered
standard trotting horse, provided she
is the dam of two trotters with records
of 2:30
5. mare sired by registered
standard trotting horse. provided her
first second and third dam are each
sired by a registered standard trotting
horse.
When an animal meets the following
requirements it can be registered as a
standard bred PAGER:
1. The progeny Of a registered
standard pacing horse and a register
ed standard pacing mare.
2 A stallion sired by a registered
standard pacing horse, provided his
dam and grandam were sired by re-
gistered standard pacing horses, and
he himself has pacing record of 2:25,
and is the sire of three PAGERS with re-
cords of 2:25, from different mares.
8. A mare whose sire is a registered
standard pacing horse and whose dam
and grandam were sired by register
ed standard pacing horses, provided
she herself has a pacing record of 2:25,
or is the dam of one PAGER with a re-
cord of 2:25.
4. A mare sired by a registered
standard pacing horse, provided she is !
the dam of two PAGERS with records |
of 2:25
5. A mare sired by a registered |
standard pacing horse. provided her
first. second and third dams are each
sired by a registered standard pacing
horse.
6. The progeny of a registered
standard trotting horse out of a regis
cred standard pacing mare, or of a
registered standard pacing horse out of
| registered standard trotting mare.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05
CHILLINGwORTH'S GOAL.
Football as Is Suggested

The following are among the many
| suggestions made for changes in the
| football rules;
No interference.
Ten-yard gain in three downs.
Eight-yard gain in three downs.
Ten-yard gain in four downs.
Increased penalties for roughness.
Disqualification for intentional foul
ing.
Forward passes back of the line.
Limitation Of total time taken out
for injuries
Director George Huff, of the Univer-
sity of Illinois. says that the playing
field should be made softer, and sug-
gests that the surface be covered
either with tan-bark or straw mixed
with sand and rolled hard
Penalty Of twenty-five yards for
roughness
No substitute for disqualified player
until ten minutes has elapsed
Distinction between ''roughness"
and brutality"
Players guilty of brutality to remain
out of the game for the rest of the
season.
Distance penalty for time taken out
for injuries.
Man downed when feet leave the
ground.
No substitute for disqualified player.
No tacklfng below the knees.
Prohibition of hurdling.
More specific definition of holding.
c+op5ipC star of officials for all
games.
Two umpires and a referee.
Seven men in line of scrimmage by
team
Five men in line of scrimmase by