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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20
State militia Notified to Prepare For
Trouble.

Omaha, Dee. s.-A special to the Bee
from Vermillion, s. d., says: Members
of the state militia have been notified
to be ready to join their companies
within two hours after orders to do so
are received. A threatened strike at
the Homestake mine at Lead is respon-
sible for the orders. The miners will
hold a meeting tomorrow.
Nothing could more glaringly show
that governments are organized simply
to support the pilfering of the ruling
class from the producers. At the mere
suggestion of the slaves quitting
their producing for the stealers armed
companies are ordered TO be in readi-
ness TO force them TO submission.
Great system. The working class
ought to keep on voting for it.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

The Bellamy Storer incident has
shown once more that Roosevelt is one
of the most INSCRIPTIONS liars that the
competitive system has produced. There
is not a newspaper correspondent in
Washington who does not know, and
privately say, that Roosevelt is the
most tricky and deceitful proposition
that ever occupied the White House.
But they all write letters telling Of his
"high moral purposes. Chicago So
cialist.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20
Grafters at Work in Cascade County.

Grafters at Work in Cascade County.
Some time about Sept. !, the Team.
sters' Union, consisting Of between IF.
teen and twenty men, went out on
strike for a twenty-five cent per day
raise, which they got after being out
few days. The ice trust Immediately
raised its price 10 cents per hundred,
and the coal trust raised its price %
cents per ton.
About Nov. 90 the b. & NJ. smelter
raised all men that were getting $3.50
per day to $500, about 200 in all. The
coal trust, or mine owners Immediately
raised the price Of coal 80 cents per
ton. SO every person that buys coal
in Great Falls pays rs cents more than
last year, and every one in the country
pays 80 cents more. But that is what
the most of them voted for.
II. p. NEVILLS.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

TO assist in the reelection of Governor
Gooding. The latter again secured the
seat, but with a materially reduced ma
jority.
In this ease, the agitation over the
famous Meyer Haywood case was evil
IDENTIFY the thing that was to be offset.
As this agitation had been and still is
entirely carried on by the socialists,
the Taft mission may be reasonably
regarded as a direct attack on social
ism. Yet the socialist vote in Idaho
has increased thirty per cent, despite,
Mr. Roosevelt s efforts.
All of which seems to denote that in,
the drift towards the new order of So
ciety the influence of the individual is
slowly waning. 1t may be. too, that
in the ease of Mr.. Roosevelt the feeling
is growing that the "strenuosity" of
that gentleman is more manifest in
words than in deeds. At any rate, the
result of his intervention in New York
and Idaho is not altogether calculated
to reassure the supporters of the ex-
isting order that the magic of Roose-
veltian platitudes is quite sufficient to
calm the rising waves of the sea of
social Observation-Disclosures
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20
Function of the IntellectualS in the
Revolution

the proletarian movement would be to
be sufficient unto itself, to dispense
with leaders, bosses, intellectuals who
have strayed among proletarians and
are not yet properly free from their
class prejudiees.
To this statement Hyndman made
this answer, by which want to stand:
What would have become Of socialism
in the 10th century but for Fourier,
Saint-simon, Marx, Proudhon, Lassalle,
Robert Owen, and other intellectuals
who joined hands with the working
classi
Those were the ones who formulated
in the most startling manner the as
pirations of the working class. They
were the ones who struggled with per-
haps the most strenuous energy to pre-.
vent the wheels of the proletarian
movement from sticking in the swampy
rut of trade unionism, and il is their
work which We must carry on, with all
our strength, waging a pitiless war
against that deadly foe of the working
man, the working mans conservatism,
which is the ever threatening danger
for the future of the social revolution.
Emile Vandervelde.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20
ROoseveltian Popularity Tested In Re.
cent Election

That Mr.. Roosevelt is one of the
most popular men that has ever oc-
cupied the presidential chair may be
indisputable, but that this popularity
can be effectively used to allay social
discomfort is certainly doubtful if we
are to judge by two attempts to use
1t in the recent election.
At the last moment the president
despatched Mr.. Root, his secretary of
state, to New York, to use the weight
of his name against the candidacy Of
Mr.. Hearst for governorship. While
the latter was defeated, and while the
republican journals claimed, perhaps
correctly, that his defeat was partially
due to the presidents s action, still it
is no secret that great uneasiness pre-
walls in capitalist circles over the fact
the result was by no means as decisive
as expected. IL would seem that the
president s influence was over-estimat.
ed even when employed against such
a notorious demagogue as Mr.. Hearst
was declared to be. Such a result is
by no means reassuring for the future.
The other attempt was in Idaho. Mr..
Taft, secretary of war, was dispatched
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

The Romans had vestals to tend the
sacred fire. In socialism, that lot may
befall the intellectual" TO supply
finder for the sacred fire of revolution.
When intellectuals are not merely
men with an ambition, common climb
ers, they are attracted to socialism for
disinterested reasons, not by the ad.
vantages they would personally derive
from a social remodelling.
They have not the excuse which men
born in the working class can invoke
for listening to the advice of the men
higher up.
Their move was dictated by theoret-
ival consideration which lift them
above the materialistic plane of indi-
vidual things and events.
I don't want TO exaggerate the i'm
portance of their part. Without the
working class, those "intellectuals' ~
would be nothing. But given a work
ing class, the intellectuals become the
leaven which will make the mass rise.
One afternoon last summer we We're
discussing that very question in Hynd-
mans peaceful home at Queens Gate.
Some one said then that the ideal for
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

From all over come reports Of un-
counted socialist votes II is bound TO
be so in localities whore our vote is
small. Comrade Schwartz of Atlanta.
Ca, says that in the fifth ward of that
city our party is given only one vote,
whereas he knows Of three comrades
who voted a straight ticket. Comradc
wilkins of New Hampshire writes that
he will force an investigation Of the
fact that whilst only one vote was re-
corded in one of the wards of Concord
the comrades have produced fourteen
men willing to make affidavit to having
voted our ticket there.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

DIR. VIM. f. Barton, a clergyman of
Oak Park, was told by a Chicago man
ufacturer, member of his church, that
of the workmen in his employ a year
ago six were socialists and today so
are socialists. The boss is unable TO
account for this sudden independent
spirit among his workmen.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

In completion of the brief sketch of
the history of our party in Holland we
add the following figures on the votes
east for our candidates. "In the first
elections in 1897 the socialists cast
$4,000 votes, electing three; in 1901
they east $4,000 and elected eight; in
1905 they east $4,000 votes, winning
out in seven districts. ''-"El Social
ista, Madrid, Spain.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

Naples, Dec. l4-Local socialists and
republicans organized a procession here
to-day to proceed to the French con-
mlate and present an address congra-
tulating the French on the stand taken
in the church matter. When the pro-
ject became known the police stepped
in and forbade the procession.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

big operating lines in the country.
After delivering his speech he present
ed bill at tho request Of President
Diaz asking that the session of con-
gress which is about to close be pro-
longed that the whole situation might
be carefully considered by the deputies
and senator's.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

Besides the official daily "Vor-
waerts," and the official review "Neue
Zeit," the German Socialist party pub
lisbed on July 1st, 1905, So dailies, 2
bi.weeklies, 8 weeklies, l bi-monthly,
4 monthlies, 2 satirical papers, 2 illus.
trated family papers. The socialistic
trades-union press Of Germany Is SO
strong, mostly weeklies OF bi.weeklies
-"wahrheit, Milwaukee, Wis.
A Finnish speaker from Chicago
is holding series Of meetings in
Cleveland.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

II turns out that in many counties
and cities of Colorado the old political
bosses made trades, in which the con-
trolled vote was thrown from one to
the other in order to defeat the social
lists, who threw scare into them.
This was especially true in Durango,
Telluride and other places.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

With such a tremendous stake TO be
played for as the surplus value produced
by a world of wage slaves it is certain
that every advantage viii be sought for
and played to the utmost,
A. NJ. SIMONS.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-12-20

@. II Howard, secretary Of Local
Claremont, N. H., has been expelled
for supporting so-called Independent
Political Party.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
ROOSEVELT MAY
AVERT A STRIKE
Coal Mine Operators Look to
President as Means to
Arbitrate.

Indianapolis March 23.-President
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers
of America said today he had set no
time as yet to call the anthracite COM
mittee together, but a meeting might
be held tomorrow. The members are
here. The meeting will consider Presi-
dent Baer's letter. accepting Mr.. Mitch,
will fix a time and place for this con-
ference to endeavor to adjust the an
thracite wage controversy.
Indianapolis, March 23.-The joint
scale committees of the joint confer
ences of the coal operators and miners
of the central competitive and south
| western districts went into executive
sessions today in final effort to break
deadlock that has existed since the
conferences on the wage scale began.
! Before the joint scale committee Of
the central competitive district wen
iuto executive. session today, the leaders
| Of the operators and miners on the com
mittec said there was no change since
yesterday. Neither side expressed an,
| confidence In an agreement being
reached in committee and it was pre-
dicteG that meeting of the joint con
ference would be called some time dur
ing the day to take up the wage fgh
in OPEN convention. ~. .r....
It was reported, before the joint seal
| committee of the southwestern distric
went into executive session, that tn
operators of that district had decided t
make proposition to the miners reI
resentatives that the entire wage ques
ton for the district be left to an arb
tration board to be named by Presiden
Roosevelt. At the January joint col
ference of that district which was he'll
here the operators proposed a board c
arbitration to be composed of one judg
of the supreme court of Missouri, Kal
sas, Texas and Arkansas, and the fec
eral district judge Of the Indian terri
tory. This proposition was declined b
the miners.
The joint scale committee Of the Gel
trail competitive district has taken
recess until q CLOCK. F. L. Robbi1
/ Of the operators said there was r
change in the situation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
CALLS ON HOCH
FOR 2.CEN1 LAW
William Allen White Assails the
Governor of Kansas for His ,
"Inaction."
journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service
Topeka, Kan, March 23.-William
Allen White, in his Emporia Gazette,
is demanding of Governor Hoch that he
call a special session of the legislature
for the enactment Of a 2-cent-a- mile
railway law. He criticizes Governor
Hoch FOR his inaetion, not only so far
as the railroads are concerned, but in
almost everything pertaining to his
office.
Governor Hoch is a great man for
ta1g,' Mr.. White says, "but if he ac-
tually wanted to do Something he could
assemble the legislature in special SEES
sion before the next republican conven-
ton and get a law making 1t crime
to offer delegate to a convention Il
pass, and reduce the railroad fare in
Kansas to 2 cents. But he won't.
"Hoch is the bravest man in Kansas
on the stump; but when you get him
in room and talk to him, man to
man, he can be handled. The railroad
attorneys know this, and when Hoch
GETS a good impulse they send a smart
lawyer to tell him. that he cannot fol
low it without getting the party, or the
state, or himself in trouble. And when
they have the keen edge worn off his
tEThe people of Kansas have ne
smart lawyers to appear before ths
governor for them, so the policial rail
roads go right ahead sewing Kansas. VI
in sack, while the governor is think
ing high and noble thoughts. Thu
terrible conviction is forced upon the
| people that E. w. Hoch is q grea
thinker in his logic, in
domitable in his conclusions, a Samp
son with syllogisms, but afflicted will
raresis, blind staggers, bots and loco
motor ataxia when he goes to put hi
| conclusions into action''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
PRESIDENT HAS PUT
LABOR ON DEFENSIVE.
TIM IMMUNITY BATH
GIVEN TO TRUSTS
Standard Oil and the Coal Com,
bine Probably Safe from "a.
Prosecution.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, March pa Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune says:
There will be no appeal by the gov
eminent from the decision OF Judge
Humphrey in the cases against the beet
packers 1t generally is believed such
a course would be of no avail.
This is the net result of a series OF
conferences held by the president and
Attorney General Moody, the president
and Commissioner Garfield and the pres
ident and Senator Knox, former attor-
ney general.
a development of far greater conse-
uuence. however, was the confirmation
of the view that if Judge Humphrey s
decision is good law there can be no sue
cessful prosecution of the Standard Oil
and the anthracite coal trusts. Com
missioner Garfield told the attorney gen
eral he nad observed the same methods
in his investigation of these trusts as in
the beef trust cases.
No Cells for Trust Men.
It is possible prosecutions may be in
| itiated, but the tendency of courts is to
| RELY upon a precedent already estab-
| lished, whether that be good or bad law.
| No one believes, consequently, there is
the slightest hope of putting IN
stripes any of the army OF officials who
have bene guilty filfully of violating
the law, and whose punishment IS
sought by the president because of his
| desire to deter the continued observance
| of criminal PRACTICES.
| But while the officials of the trust
thus far investigated probably will
| escape punishment, it is not intended
by the government to provide loopholes
for the officials of other combinations
The methods of investigation followed
by the bureau of corporations will DC
changed Hereafter men will be sub
penaed and required to testify and pro
| duce books, documents and papers I'M
der oath.
Witnesses themselves will enjoy i'm
munity, but no others.
| No Immunity Bath:
In this way it will be possible fo7
the department. of justice to punish per
sons, who if the methods heretofore pur
sued were followed in the investigation
of their, corporations, would secure thu
4 benefit Of what Attorney Genera
Z. Moody. described AS an 1mmunlt.
BATH H.
The interstate commerce commission
which has instituted an inquiry into tn
relations of the railroads and the Stand
ard Oil trust and the coal companies
,, will be careful to observe the same pre-
cedure as that which the bureau of col
porations will follow hereafter. Will
, officials Of the Standard Oil would seer
to be immune from punishment i
r Judge Humphreys decision should b
> sustained, those of the railroads and tn
: bituminous coal combines, outside Q
men actually testifying, can be reached
} The truth about the matter is, the az
| ministration fears a charge will b
. made against it of initiating a proceed
Q ing, which it knew would have no>gra
q of authority there is no foundation fC
4 such charge and the president he
s been in dead earnest in the entire bee
:, trust prosecution.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
EXPLOSION KILLS
SCORE OF MINERS
Disaster in West Virginia Means
Anguish for Victims
3 a:9 Families. B.

Grafton, W. Va, March 29.--Twenty-
one miners are believed to have lost
their lives in mine explosion at Cen
fury, W. Va. Eleven bodies had been
recovered at noon today and ten men
are still missing. Those not yet &C
counted for are believed to be dead In
the mine.
The dead are known to be mostly for
eigners, as very few Americans were
employed in the mine: The bodies re-
many cases burned from head to foot
making the work Of Identification hard
From the force of the explosion as evi,
denced by the ruin wrought in the shaft
there is little hope that the missing
ten escaped with their lives.
The explosion is supposed to have
been caused by an accumulation of nat
ural gas.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
DEATH TOLL ON
ATLANTIC HEAVY
Coast of New England and Mari
time Provinces Strewn
with Wrecks.

Boston, March 23.-Eighty,fve lives
were lost and ffty-four ships were
wrecked along the coast of New Eng
land and the maritime provinces dur
ing the past winter. While the sea-
son up to the present month was com
paratively mild on shore, at sea it was
one of extreme severity, particularly
in waters off the provinces.
Of the vessels wrecked, thirty-seven
were sailing craft. Nine steamships
and eight barges complete the list.
| Ships flying the British flag led those
of other nations, with loss Of twenty
seven craft against fifteen, Of Ameri-
can register. There is also a sprink-
ling of Norwegian, German and Swedish
vessels.
The worst disaster was the founder
Sable island, on March II, when it is
estimated that at least eighteen, and
possibly twenty-six, lost their lives
The correct figures probably will never
| be known, as several men enrolled as
members Of the crew are said to have
deserted before the ship sailed.
The season of storm and shipWreck
commenced in November, when the
, Norwegian steamer Turbin struck the
rocks or Clarks harbor, Nova Scotia
and in sight Of persons on shore struch
and held for a brief moment on the
lodges, then surged forward on the
/ crest Of a wave and disappeared will
her crew of fourteen men.
In less than fortnight after thu
Turbin tragedy. the British steame
Nuremberg struck the rocks in heavy
storm off Amherst harbor, Magdalel
islands, and twelve out of a crew O.
seventeen persisted. From that time OF
scarcely week passed without it
story of wreck. 80
Reports that have come in since tn
blizzard early in the present week caus
fear that the list of casualties may b
greatly increased. There has been n
} day without it's story of disaster. Man,
vessels are overdue and the actual fat
Of some Of them may not be learne,
for several weeks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
LAWSON ANSWERS
MINERS REIORT
Butte Men Wire Bostonian and
Call Forth a Characteristic
Rejoinder.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Boston, March 23.-The miners
union Of Butte, Mont, did not take
kindly to T. w. Lawson's Geographic
warning. He attempted to enlighten
them as to the general crookedness Of
everything in sight, including their
banks and employers. They replied in
effect that they needed no advice from
a sstock jobber" like himself and
otherwise stirred up the Lawson IS pic
turesque vocabulary to the point of the
following characteristic retort:
s'Ycu are in error about my attempt
ing to depreciate Butte property by
attacks on Butte banks. My efforts are
directed entirely to the exposure OF the
crookedest lot Of crooks who ever
robbed the blind and helpless and by
bribery and other methods secured the
indirect aid of others in their thuggery.
II would respectfully ask your union
to frame my statement and your cour-
teous reply, and if your members do
not within twelve months from its re-
ceipt gaze upon them thru that picked
mist which scalds while it clarifies,
will come to Butte and present myself
to your esteemed union for football
or punching bag. Am mailing you a
check for cost of your courteous tele.
gram.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
OIL TRUST BOAT IS
LOOTED BY PIRATES

Hongkong, March ga launch
owned by the Standard Oil company
was seized and looted by pirates near
Canton yesterday. The pirates secured
a number of Winchester rifles and
thousand rounds of ammunition.
The United States gunboat Calao is
proceeding to the scene of the piracy.
The Callao is attached to the Asiatic
squadron feet and is commanded by
Lieutenant Robert w. Henderson. She
is of steel, having a displacement of
200 tons, and carries six guns. She has
a speed of ten knots an hour.
Canton, in the vicinity of which the
launch was attacked, near the mouth
of the West river in the province of
Kwangtung, is the great seaport of
southern China.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-23
PLEDGES A FAIR
| TRIAL TO MINERS
Idaho's Governor Invites Union
Men to Hear Orchards
Confession.

Boise, Idaho, March 23.-As a result
of thousands of letters and resolutions
sent Governor Gooding Of this state,
asking for fair and impartial trial of
the accused officers of the Western
Federation of Miners, Haywood, Petit
bone and Meyer, Governor Gooding to-
day issued the following proclamation
to the labor unions of the United
States:
"There has been considerable said in
connection with the arrest of the Of
fcers Of the Western Federation of
Labor and the confession made by
Harry Orchard, who has declared in a
sworn confession that he, in response
to arrangements with the accused Of
fcers Of the Western Federation of
Miners. did murder the late Governor
steunenberg of this state. The dis.
| cussion has involved certain allega
tions regarding the manner of the ar.
rest and subsequent proceedings.
| 81 desire to say to the labor unions
of the country that if, by some ar
rangement, the various unions will ar
range to send q delegation to this city
[ will be pleased to allow that delega
ton to meet Harry Orchard personally
and to hear him go over the story tolt
the states attorney and the detectives
| They can remain with him in my cham
Der and hear him tell all over agai1
what he has already told u.s. I will
also present to them Steve Adams, VIII,
also made a confession.
"Further than this, I want to assur,
every person, whether he be union
or nonunion man, that the state O.
Idaho will give the accused men fai
chance to defend themselves and as fai
a trial as was ever held will be givel
these men. Men, you need have no fea
of mistrial. Upon conviction, if tn
unions believe that an unfair or base,
trial was given them, you can remem
Der that I still have the power as tn
governor Of this state to- hear you
grievance and prevent miscarriage O
Justice.
"The state Of Idaho has fair nam
to preserve and as governor / will d
all in my power to do it,