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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

disproved the statements and statistics
contained in my reply to the editorial
of the 10th. Surely If these things are
the product of diseased imagination"
it must be a very simple matter to dis
prove them; yet we find that only in one
instance were my figures dealt with
Il refer to the average family income)
at all, and then the Tribune" fell help.
lessly into error. If my communication
had been read intelligently it would have
been discovered that I took these figures
from the 18th Annual Labor report,
which concerns itself only with the wage
earning classes yet the Tribune"
bundles the families of all classes to-
gether, misconstruing my meaning. l
should have mentioned wage earning
class. but considering the nature of the
report did not deem it necessary.
Quoted Against Himself.
The Tribune denies my statement
that in its attack upon socialists on the
10th he charges us with deliberate mis-
representations of facts; I produce its
very words: Then he (Gorky) proceed
ed to get in touch with a lot of socialists
and anarchists in this country who gave
him a great deal of Information that
isn't true, and loaded him with facts
that exist mostly in their own diseased
Imagination The socialists whom Cor
ky met in this country, and who accord.
ing to the Tribune" gave him this false
information are men-taking Gaylord
Wiltshire and I. Phelps Stokes for ex-
amples-who are conversant with the
working class conditions very intimately,
and they must If the "Tribune's" charge
be true. be guilty of deliberate misrepre-
sentation of facts. The justice of my
criticism of the "Tribune's" charge l will
leave the reader to judge. Seeing, how.
ever. that the evils of which the social.
lists complain stalks about in the light
of day, Gorky possessing pair of eyes,
did not need to obtain his information
second hand, and / do not believe he
did much of it.
"The Tribune criticises my statement
that condition cannot be painted black
enough, but IL we actually saw the hell
holes of our great cities as depicted in
Hunters Poverty and Riis' How the
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
A Red Hot
Controversy
Great Falls Editor SlanderS Socialists
Jesse D. Selby Swats Him
Hard With Facts

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pages of his paper attacking Gorky's
private life and the personalities of So
enlist "loud voiced street speakers" t,
whose "fearfully and wonderfully made
statistics and juggled figures deceive
few"
Selby Back at Him.
July % Comrade Selby as q member OF
Ioca, Great Falls replied To this abuse,
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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

Everywhere capitalism and its up
holders work under the mask of Law
and Order" and respectability, and the
alliance of Billings is no exception. In
the midst of their onslaught on organ
lied labor they have been sending their
yelps about liberty and freedom broad
cast throughout the country. In their
attempt to break the back bone OF the
working class, they demanded that union
men Join hands with them in violating
the state eight-hour law, failing in this
they shipped in those were law breakers
like themselves TO thus show their con-
tempt for the laws of the land.
Extravagant Claims.
At first they attempted TO lay the
blame for all labor troubles on the union,
but being forestalled in that, they ad'
mitted that they were fighting for the
open shop in the interest of 'liberty,"
and now they say everything Is settled
with union conditions entirely destroyed,
the closed shop-closed to union men
the ten hour day and starvation wages.
A Surprise in Store.
Although this is the ideal alliance they
have not secured IL yet, as the men are
standing firm and are lining up for the
battle of ballots this coming November
and when the votes are counted the citi.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Significant Facts.

Billings is not an open town. The
term "open town" is utterly meaningless
as the Citizens Alliance would apply it.
They claim they want no distinction be-
tween union and non-union help, and
then go to work aud make conditions
radically opposed to the conditions Of
unionism. An open shop would mean
no discrimination in regard to the men
employed, but a discrimination has al
ready been made when the conditions de-
bar the union man from accepting a job
and still living up to the principles of
the organization.
A Manly Boast.
"Mr. Kilbey, manager of the company
building the sugar factory, is making
the manly boast that he is working his
men ten hours per day because il is in
violation of the principles of organized
labor. The Citizens Alliance men are
even going TO the anarchistic extremity
of declaring the eight hour law uncon.
stitutionaI rather than make conditions
conformable TO the principles of organ.
lied labor.
Resort to Boycott.
while they claim to condemn the
boycott they have themselves resorted to
the boycott in order TO drive a news
paper out of business whose only sin
was a declaration in favor of organized
labor. Here is an excerpt from this
constitution and bylaws No person
shall be entitled to membership in the
Alliance who is a member of a labor
organization which either issues a boy
colt or endorses a boycott, or is him
self engaged in any boycott, or who shall
encourage, aid or assist in any boycott
or similar movement
To Scatter Labor Vote.
"In the near future some of the same
men will 60 upon the stump and fairly
howl out their sincere regard for the
laboring men. Labor unions will be adj
vised as they have been advised in the
past to keep out of politics. Scatter
the labor vote Is their motto. and the
field is ours Ye gods, and so the labor
ing man must refrain from the strike
and the boycott, and under no circum-
stances enter the sanctity of the polit.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Statement of Unions.


The Citizens Alliance in its notice to
the public, published in the Gazette of
Sunday, July 2l, would lead the people
of Billings and vicinity to believe that
the trouble between that organization
and organized labor was settled. They
have taken it for granted that because
they have succeeded in importing about
80 non union jacknife carpenters into
our city, that we are ready to lay down
and go TO work on the open shop policy.
On the contrary we never were in bet
ter condition to withstand the onslaught
of the Citizens Alliance and their hire
lings than we. are today. We wish to
say to the public that we are trying, by
honest endeavors, to build up the work
mans condition, morally, socially and
financially, and make it possible for him
to provide the necessaries of life for him
self and dependent ones. That we will
succeed, is beyond question of a doubt.
we uiu not Ro INTO tnis ilghJ ioi oui
rights to lose. and are prepared to stay
until the so-called Alliance agrees to our
moderate demands. We have today so
per cent of the total labor population in
our ranks; what is more, they are all
working When the non-union working
men realize that the Alliance is using
them to down the wage earners, they
will not permit themselves to be used
as tools to cut their own throats. At
this date the on-union men are leaving
town, because the wages offered by the
so-called principal contractors, are not
what they advertise. They can not af-
ford to put in the best of the year in
town where il costs almost all they
earn to live. This trouble will be settled
when the Yellowstone Trades and Labor
Assembly get their just demands, and
not before"
In the other circular the following sig
nificant facts are set forth:
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

justice, Hs in the accursed iron belly Of a
Phalaris Bull!'
"To work sore and yet gain moth
ing, kobert Hunter tells rs is the lot
of millions Of workers IN America today;
the so called land of the free and inde-
pendent Emerson says, in effect our
whole system of trade is built on selfish
ness AMI that honesty is impossible in
society.
This is what two af the great minds
Of the nineteenth century thought of ca
pitelism the system which according to
the Tribune contains the essentials to
human development for all time. Were
their minds diseasedf They must have
been il the Tribune theory is right
All earnest students of present day So
cial condition agree that the above utter
anees are more applicable to present day
than to the time in which they were
written.
Probably Nearsighted.
by the way why did the Tribune
pass over the sweeping statements of
Hunter quoted in silencef Were they
not worthy of noticei Or did il deem
them unanswerablei think the latter
is the case for none of the facts related
by Hunter have ever been disputed.
think the eagle eyes of socialists are
often times too penetrating for the capi-
talist class; were it not for this and the
strenuous efforts of the socialist press,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

their ends even death and destruction
failing to appeal to them. A number of
smallpox cases ahd developed and
an epidemic was threatened, but
they refused TO even allow the
people - to be warned, so that
means could be taken to prevent the
spread of the disease. They feared they
might lose few dollars from homeseek.
ers and scare some Of their cheap labor
out of twon. II was known by but few
until "The News" printed $50 miles
away, told the facts about the danger
TO human life in Billings, and was called
a dangerous anarchistic sheet" by the
alliance owned Gazette" Yes, "The
News" it is dangerous because IL tells
the truth. for truth and justice means
destruction of the citizens alliance.
intimidation.
There were some business men. to
whose honor it can be said, that refused
TO join the alliance. These men were
blufred and harrassed in very manner
possible, some even to the point of being
forced out of their places of business,
and others are being boycotted, pressure
being brought to bear on their custom.
ers TO withdraw their patronage. but in
in spite of all this they are standing
firm.
Trying to Prejudice Farmers
The farmers within a radius of $50
miles have received frantic appeals to
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Carlyle on Capitalism.


TO picture them.
Carlyle on Capitalism.
"The Tribune refers to Carlyle's ac-
count of conditions previous to the
French revolution. the period of decay
of feddalism in France; is the Tribune
acquainted with the great philosophers
indictment of capitalism. In Past and
Present he says, our life is not a mutual
helpfulness; but rather cloaked under
due law-of.war, named fair competi-
ton. end so forth, il is mutual hostil-
ity'. Furthermore he says, Liberty,
am told is a divine thing. Liberty when
it become the Liberty to die by starva-
ton is not so divine again, And yet
l venture TO believe that in no time since
the beginning of society, was the lot
ofsthose same dumb millions of toilers
so entirely unbearable as IL is even in
the days now passing over us. II is not
to die, or even to die of hunger, that
makes a man wretched; many men have
died; all men must die,-the last exit of
MS all is in ire-chariot of pain. But
it is to live miserable we know not why;
to work sore and yet gain nothing; to
be heart-worn, weary, yet isolated, un.
related, girt in with universal laissez-
faire; it is to die slowly all our life long,
imprisoned in a deep dead infinite in
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

Lies Nailed
Billings Fighting Unions Issue CirCu.
lars to Offset Vicious Literature
of Citizens Alliance

The Billings Citizens Alliance is
driven TO the desperate recourse of issu-
ing falsified statements. Last Sunday
in a statement through its organ, "The
Gazette, the Alliance intimated that the
trouble was settled In reply the Trades
and Labor Assembly has issued two cir
culars, one of which We give in full be-
low
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Shows Up
Alliance
T. E. Latimer Furnishes Some Inside
Facts of Organizations Opera.
tiOns in Billings

zens' alliance will wonder what hit them,
for the political triumph of the working
class through the socialist party is the
one topic of conversation in Billings.
However, there is another phase TO
this fight, as part of the citizens alli-
ance are using the rest as a catspaw to
pull their chestnuts out of the fire.
Another Blow.
The franchise of the Billings Water
company expires April 5th 1907, and
the sentiment is strong for a gravity
system owned by the city.
This would cut out the graft of those
respectable and law abiding citizens
who are at present selling the people
water at so much "per"
High-handed Methods.
They are forcing into their organiza-
tion every man that is under any obli-
CATION TO them through borrowed moeey,
mortgage, or otherwise, and incidentally
while trying to break the back of organ
lied labor, they hope TO deaden the town,
force some to leave, close the mouths Of
others and secure new franchise which
will permit them 10 hold up the people
of Billings for another term of years.
Smallpox and Boycott.
The citizens alliance Is everywhere
alike, they will stop at nothing TO gain
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Continued on page g.

industries.
II is stated that the provision for the
naturalization of railways was but a
single step in the great plan of indus
trial naturalization toward which the
country is fast approaching.
The movement for Manchurian nation
alization has received careful attention
and it is now proposed that a company
shall be formed by the government and
private capitalists jointly for the pur-
pose of operating the railroads, forests
and mines in Manchuria.
II successful along lines Japan is now
working IL is stated that the individuals
and corporations Of America that are
STRIVING for the trade of the Orient will
discover that they are not competing for
this trade against individuals and corpo-
rations of Japanese, but that they are
in commercial conflict with the Japan
ese nation itself.-Press Dispatch.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
JAPAN ADOPTS STATE SOCIALISM

Press dispatches bring news from
japan of such startling importance that
we cannot refrain from giving them be-
low. The government ownership of all
the industries of japan will constitute
the biggest innovation the world has
seen for centuries and while II will not
be socialism, il will be step toward ii; /;
it will be the abolition of the private
capitalist class and require only fur
ther change. a change to a perfect dem.
ocratic government to make of Japan a
full.hedged socialist republic. How the
world do novel
Washington, July ls.-According to
advices received by the bureau of man
ufactures, the japanese government has
undertaken one of the greatest exper.
iments in the worlds history which in.
dicates a clear purpose to protect, super.
wise. develop and nationalize all japanese
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

other Half lives think we would realize
that whatever mey be our power over
the English language IL would inadequate
to picture them.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

ally themselves with "liberty loving, or
ganization, against the union men, but
the farmers are rapidly learning that
they have nothing in common with those
highbinders of American society. The
man who tolls on the farm is just as
dependent today as the wage workers,
and when the sugar factory starts and
the farmer learns that he can't raise 20
or 80 tons per acre, and they dock him
on the tests, and that he is fortunate if
he comes out even, he will then learn
that they are his friends for revenue
only.
Driving Unions to Politics.
The unions are holding their own and
are putting up a winning fight, but they
are learning the lesson tanght by the
citizens alliance every where-the neces-
sity of going into politics for success.
With the public officials upholding the
violation of the eight-hour law and other
laws, always ready to support the capi-
talist class. the working men see that
the first thing to be done is to secure
control Of the political power of the
country through a working class party.
Huge Land Thefts.
The criminal acts Of those self APP
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
Huge Land Thefts.

Continued on cage 81
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Continued on page 3D.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02

Trying to Prejudice Farmers
The farmers within a radius of $50
miles have received frantic appeals to
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-02
High h-handed Methods.

The citizens alliance is everywhere
alike, they will stop at nothing TO gain
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-11-07

resentlng the spiral hole by which 1t
made its way to the surface OF the
ground. What could possibly be more
easy to comprehend?
Professor E. II. Barbour, however,
has declared-and his decision is ac-
cepted professionally until somebody
offers better-that the corkscrews are
of vegetable origin. They are, he as
serts, the fossil remains of ancient
water weeds of gigantic size, which
grew millions of years ago on the bot
tom of vast sheet of water that COW
cred all of Nebraska. These must have
been the biggest aquatic plants that
ever existed. and when the huge lake
that overflowed the region in question
dried up the remains of many of the
plants were left behind buried In the
accumulated detritus at the bottom.
In the course of time-ages after the
bottom Of the ancient lake had been
converted into solid rock-rivers plow-
ed their way through the land, cutting
this way and that and exposing to the
view of the modern traveller on the
faces Of the cliffs the fossil casts of the
prehistoric water weeds just as they
stood when they grew hundreds Of
thousands and probably millions OF
years ago. Their tissues were replaced
as they decayed by silica from the wa
ter, particle by particle, and thus, as If
by magical means, their likenesses
have been preserved for the wonder
and admiration of the present surviv-
ors on the earth.
Such is the theory now petty well
accepted by scientists in regard to the
origin of the fossil corkscrews." Pos
slbly 1t Is not correct, but if otherwise
there is room for the exercise of any
bodys imagination in the consideration
of this veritable romance Of the an
cient history of the world.-New York
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-11-07
A LUCKY REPORTER.
Ne Happened to BE on the Spot on
Important Occasions.

1t requires eternal vigilance for re-
porter to bag his game, leaving not a
single chance. for escape. 1t might be
further said however. that the element
of luck does creep In now and then,
either to a newspaper mans advantage
or to his ruin. When Reginald Foster
was one of the craft, lie became famous
as the luCliiest of reporters. He was
alert, energetic and capable Of writing
an excellent story when he landed it,
but seemed to have mascot perennial
and eternal. Wherever he went he
stumbled upon beat" He happened
to be reporting st. Patrick's day pa
rade and went into the Windsor hotel
to telephone his office when the fateful
fire started in that hostelry, resulting
in the horrible deaths of a great num-
Der of persons. Foster abandoned the
parade, and helped rescue the imprisOn-
ed patrons of The burning hotel, and
that night wrote n graphic account Of
the fire from start to finish. He was
the most available reporter in New
York when the great Hoboken lire
started, and, hiring steamer in the
name of his newspaper, he saved many
lives before the fremen could render
aid When President Mckinley was
assassinated at Buffalo the first news
came to all the papers in New York in
the shape of very brief bulletin. A
group of newspaper men Simultaneous
ly asked of each other, "Where Is Fos-
ter?" Somebody explained that he was
then on his vacation at Narragansett
Pier, but. even while he was speaking.
q telegram to the city editor was re-
ceived and torn open. 1t read thus: 81
was right beside the president when he
was shot, having come to Buffalo ex-
position TO close my vacation. VIII
send full descriptive story tonight" 1t
was Foster.-R Crawford in Sue
cess Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-11-07
FOSSIL CORKSCREWS
QUEER FREAKS OF NATURE THAT
ABOUND IN NEBRASKA.

Gigantic spirals of Mineral FASH
ioned So systematically as to De
Easily Mistaken Mt First Glance
For Works of Art.
Nobody knows with certainty what
the so called devils corkscrews" real
ly are They are found by tens of thou
sands in Nebraska, most particularly
in Sioux county, and some of them are
as much as forty feet in height without
counting the gigantic roots" presently
to be described. Quartz Is the sub
lance of which they are made, but
how they came to be imDedded, num-
bers of them together, in the sandstone
cliffs of that region Is more than any
body can tell, unless, perhaps, one the
ory, to be mentioned later, is to be ac-
cepted as correct.
You are travelling, let us say, on
horseback through that part of the
country, and, as often happens, you
see, standing out from the face OF a
sandstone cliff, gigantic spiral. If, as
biologists have proved, the sandstone
rock be Clipped away a corkscrew
shaped thing of quartz is exposed to
view, fashioned so automatically as
to be easily mistaken at first glance
for a work of art The white spiral
may be free, as sculptor would say,
or, In other cases, may be twined about
sort of axis, as vine would run
around a vertical pole.
Somebody awhile ago gave to these
spirals the name devils corkscrews'
| for want of better and as expressive
of the mystery of their origin. Scien-
| fists discussed them in vain, and many
| theories were formed in regard to them.
There We're authorities who declared
| they were fossil burrows eXcavated In
| tertiary times by gophers of huge
| and extinct species. And, to confirm
this notion the bones of some burrow-
ing animal were actually found imbed-
ded in the substance of one of the
SCREWS" This seemed to settle the
matter for awhile, until the controversy
was started again by the discovery Of
the osseous remains, under like condi-
tions, of small deer. Nobody could
assert that deer was ever a burrow-
ing animal, and so that notion had to
| be abandoned
Other theorists declared that the "fos-
sill twisters," as some folks called them,
represented the prehistoric borings OF
| gigantic werms that lived in the very
long ago. Yet others suggested that
they were petrltied vines, though 1t was
difficult to explain how or why the
poles" on which the alleged vines
seemed in many eases to have been
trained had been so admirably pre-
served. or, for that matter, originally
erected.
In the midst of so many contradictory
theories the problem seemed likely to
defy solution indefinitely. The one that
held out longest and gained most ad-
herents was that of the extinct gophers.
1t accounted for the ''root"-a shape
less appcndage often nearly as big as
the "twister'' itself and attached to the
lower end of the latter-which obvious
ly, as it seemed. had been the nest OF
the rodent animal. the "corkscrew' rep
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-11-07
Personal Beauty.

If either man or woman would realize
the full power of personal beauty 1t
must be by cherishing noble thoughts
and hopes and purposes, by having
something to do and something to live
for that is worthy of humanity and
which by eXpendlng the capacities OF
the soul gives expansion and symmetry
to the body which contains it.-Upham.