Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-08-29

bitterness against individuals no mat
ter what their position in life. The
mere fact of possession of gold is no
criterion Of the character of its pos
SCISSOR. Thousands of honest men and
women are rich and affuent. 1t is not
logical to hate the wealthy. There is
scarcely soft snap in life that any
one of US would refuse under present
conditions, and we must realize that
we would be very apt to do the very
same as those who are lucky enough to
be placed in those enviable positions,
But, there is better order Of things
ahead. To-day, on one side of us we
have the millionaires, on the other, the
tramp. The great bulk of humanity
are tossed on the turbulent sea be-
tween these two products that they
themselves have made. Once in a
while one is tossed into the millionaire
class where he is content TO hoard
what he cannot use; again and more
frequently one is tossed into the hobo
class an out-east TO all grades of So
ciety. And in the turbulent sea dwell
every imaginable grade of human life.
In the meantime the good old earth
under the guidance of the workers pro
duees bounteously Of the good things
of life, and seems to say, "Want not.
As we SOW so shall ye reap"
On Labor Day you will find many
friends of the employing class. A few
are sincerely solicitous for your well
fare but the vast majority are patting
you on the back and saying to you,
"Well done my good and faithful SER
want" and the only compensation they
ask is to see you line up right on cleo
tion day. They will foist on you that
that old ambiguous phrase the identity
of interests between capital and labor.
There is a community of interests
beween capital and labor. II is that
interest commanded by the respect of
one elias for the rights of another-no
more. In the time or peace nations
have a community of interests on the
high seas and on the land. A Japan
ese ship may meet one of our own and
through international precendent AMI
the courtesy of diplomacy they salute
n .f .a4 . To- \
etiquette. But let some little interna-
tional complication arise and the same
ships stand ready to blow each other
out of the water, because ii is under
stood, in the nature of things, that
each nation has a boundary set beyond
which il offends the dignity of the
other to step. Two boys may be reared
together; they may have been chums
at school and fought each Others
battles; they enter the throes Of bust
ness life and adopt the same profes-
sion or the same line Of business One
of them begins to reap the bulk Of the
business harvest in his community; the
other soon finds there is no community
of interests in the sharp competition
of the business world. They are busi-
ness rivals. And so il is with labor.
You may meet on an equitable footing
all your fellows in the commonplaces
of life, but when you are thrown into
competition in the business world, the
only community Of interests that is
recognized in the final analysis is that
interest commanded by respect for the
rights Of others.
All successful business men have a
secret wish to monopolize trade in
their particular industry. II this were
not so they could not have ambition
to increase their business. They would
simply endeavor to reach that point
where they could obtain a fair living
or an independent competence anJ
then leave the field TO their rivals.
did not coin the phrase. And, il mer-
chants in business are rivals, are work
ing men and women less sof No,
brothers, the employer and the EN-.
ployee are rivals, each seeking to get
all he can as his share, and the big.
ger the share Of the one, logically the
smaller the share Of the other.
We are living under system that
has been, IL not adopted, at least
sanctioned by the majority. As long
as we vote for IL why not respect itI
The working class have the power to
vote for what they get and they are
certainly getting what they voted for
Is IL not folly TO vote'for thing on
election day and buck against r the
rest of the year7 WHY not 90 like