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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
THEIR GREATEST FLOOD.
Allegheny River Has Reached Highest
Stage on Reeord-The Ohio VIII
Boom This Time.

Pittsburg. PENNSYLVANIA the
night Thursday night the Allegheny
river had reached a stage Of 1851 and
was rising a foot an hour. The sud
den rise was reported by the weather
bureaus to be due to the breaking OF
the ice Eorges al Parker and Free
port
With this rise a large portion OF tho
city is flooded. Several newspapers
have been compelled 20 call upon
their contemporaries TO assist In get
ans out morning editions because
press rooms are flooded and fire en-
giles have been called into service
to pump easements iu an effort TO
sgve property loss.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
VIII Not vl,It Prssldsnt.

New York, - Mossrs. McCrea.
Melen. Hughitt and Newman, the
four railroad presidents for whose
visit To the white house }. Pierpont
Morgan arranged before his depart
ure for Europe. held a conference here
Friday. The whole situation WAS can
vassed with great are and st was fin
ally decided not - so to Washington.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
eurton IN ae 80 80 FrLday.

Abilene. Kan.-A message received
az his home here Friday from Iron
ton. Mo, where he is In JAIL says that
former Senator Joseph II, Burton was
Friday officially notified that he VIII
be- released on March 20. He VIII.
he wired. be IN Abilene on the day fol
lowing. Il was stated Thursday that
Mr. Burton would be held Ia ian an
additional month m view OF the fact
that his fine Of $4,000 had not been
paid.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

Parkersburg. w. Va With a
stage OF 90 feet Friday night the
Ohio river continued TO rise slowly
and NJ least another foot Is expected.
The city was in darkness. street car
traffic was demoraiized and trains
were not running. Thousands OF peo-
pie are homeless and without food.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

Washington. The work Of h in
terstate commerce. commission has
grown 30 heavy that 81 has been de
cided 10 discontinue the hearings,
which have been conducted by mem
beers OF the commission outside OF
Washington Hereafter when u 10
found necessary 20 conduct inyestiga'
lions IN other cities special agents
viii take the testimony
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

A Persian prince who is travelling
in this country says he Is too busy
20 think about matrimony. II he Is
required to do as his lllustrious rela-
tive, the late shah, aid "a take unto
himself so wives. he cannot be
blamed for postponing the thing as
long as possible.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

So. Petersburg The ceiling on
the han in The TauFldc palace where
the lower house OF parliament meets
collapsed at G O'Clock Friday morning
and caused widespread wreckaEe
among the seats below.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
pennsyivania osttlng Into line.

Harrisburg. Pa. The scnuto rail-
soad COMMITTEES Wednesday report
Cd fayorably tho twocent railroad
fare bin which passed the house two
weeks aFo
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
Under okiahoma's Present Laws

Guthrie. Ok. By a provision IN
the report Of the COMMITTEES on SEIZED
ules adopted by the constitutional
convention "Wednesday. the present
laws Of Oklahoma. mot repugnant TO
the constitution shall be m force IL
the new state
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
An 500 Barrel We'll al $500 Feet.

Tulsa. l. z. - Great excitement pre-.
wallis over the report Of an 500 barrel
OH well near Cleveland. Oklahoma az
a depth Of $500 feet The gushor
comes from a we'll twice abandoned
and may reinstats Cleveland as an
oil center.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
oa,, tor a. A n. gneampment.

Toledo ohio j. Corey Win
ans. chief az staff 81 The National
Grand Army OF the Republic FRIDAY
night received notification from the
citizens committee az Saratoga g..
y, fixing the date og the national e
A. O. encampmcnt for the week ~
September D. air. Winans wired &C.
.%ceptnnce.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

A link with the past has lately been
broken. The doWager Countess de Ia
Peyrodse de Bourels. who died IN AK.
sn-PI0vence the other day. was the
Eoddaughter Of Napoleon Bonaparte.
lie was sponsor At her baptism IN st.
Helena, where she was born IN 1916
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
cotton aurna IN Genoa.

Genoa Fire IN the harbor here
Sunday destroyed 1900 bales OF cot
ton and also damaged several yes
sells. The loss % estimated al more
than $1,000 900.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

A s%piritualisue medium say Mars
Is angry because her signals are be
ing ignored by the earth business
must be dun on Mars when she goes
so far out OF her way 10 pick a quarrel
with her n~eighbOrs.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

washington. D. C.-seeretary Taft
accompanied by Senator Kittre1ge
and Representatives Burton and Dear
mond aud three civil engineers Is &c
sail FOR the Panama canal zone March
"a On the cruiser Columbia.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

A tower which viii be 700 feet high
Is being erected Al Coney Island This
should not be permitted. People who
80 70 coney Island ought always 10
remain as near the ground rs posi-
ole.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

Washington. Secretary Metcalf
left here "Wednesday for Charleston,
8. c. whore he viii board the United
States ship Dolphin Thursday for a
cruise OF inspection 10 Cuban and
Porto Rican waters.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21

Washington. State department
officials have d~espaired OF peace ne
gotiations IN Central America in the
near future because Of tho widespread
war operations Ia Honduras and Mica
raFuf
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
Honduran Rebels Recognized.

Managua. Nicaragua. The Near
aguan government Friday Issued a de
cree recognizing the provisional gov
eminent Of Honduras.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-03-21
wsl street furry Affects Germany

Berlin. GermanN-The worst week
the boerse has had IN thirty years, h
the verdict of a Of the financial re-
viewers in summing up last weeks
movements on the stock market The
events IN Wall street made a pro
found impression iu Germany.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

decided that they will have no working
class in agriculture, for no man is to
be allowed to have more land in his
possession than he can operate with
his own hands. This does not prevent
modern methods and large scale oper-
alton because every encouragement
will be given to the cooperative un-
dertakings.
"We do not want the land to sell
it, to get rich on il, or to will il away,
but Ia plow il and to make a living
from the SOIL" said the peasant
teacher. Anigine, social revolutionist
and the most popular leader in the
Douma. II the peasants have their
way in Russia there will be no more
private property in land and the pre-.
dictions of Count Tolstoi will have
been realized.
BY William English waling in Chicago
Socialist.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
Great Montana
Capitalists Want More Workers to
Compete For Jobs and Lower
Company Wages

right at Fairgrieve but ignored him,
put the $4,000 motion, and IL went
through with whoop. Heinze, Strain,
the leading business man Of Great
Falls, and A. p. Moss, the mogul that
owns everything in Billings, were made
the committee TO fix up the deal with
the legislature. The laboring men can
see how much they have to do with the
proposition. II was gossip around the
lobbies of the capital the next day that
Associate Justice Smith apologized to
Fairgrieve for his treatment of him.
The old game! The working men are
headed of at every point where their
activity could have any effect on legis-
lation. They are snubbed, ignored,
and kicked so far as direct influence
on government action is concerned;
and then the smooth manipulators of
government in the interest of the ca
pitalists get around on the side some
where and smooth the working man
down and give him little fattery to
keep him quiet so they can do him
the next time without his kicking too
hard.
1t must indeed be a stupid innocent
who cannot see through this scheme.
The plan is to get more laborers-
heaps of them out into Montana,
ready, anxious, frantic to get the jobs
that Heinze. the Amalgamated, and
others of like ilk own. The larger
the army of the unemployed the more
dependent the workers are. In order
to increase dividends wages must be
lowered. A solid union and scant
workers make the lowering of wages
impossible. The solid union ranks Of
the west are the despair of the capital
lists. If they can just turn the tide
Of hungry immigrants in here then
they can lower wages, the hungry ones
will scab when the rest go on strike,
the militia viii do the bidding Of the
capitalists and shoot the strikers down,
and we shall have a capitalist "pros-
perity" with a vengeance in Montana.
BY all means boom Montana and get
more population, but don't give the
workers a chance to say anything on
the deal, or they'll bust the game.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
PRIVATE PROPERTY NOT SACRED

What is it' (ask the Russian peas.
ants.)
IL the Russian revolution were
"settled up" to day, il would still be
true that the private property system
had received blow from which it
could never recover.
How many Americans realize that
the whole Russian people represented
in the last Douma has decided that
three-fourths of the private property
of Russia is to be expropriatedi The
whole Russian people, working people,
peasants and middle classes have alike
determined that there are to be no
more landlords in Russia. The only
question is as to whether the proprie-
tors are to be paid small price for
the land taken away from them, or
nothing at all.
The large majrity of the peasants Of
Russia don't know what private prop
erty is. 1t is the village and not the
peasant that owns the land. II you
talk to n Russian peasant, he will tell
you that he wants land, but he says
nothing about wanting the legal title
to it or the right TO sell it or give It
TO his heirs.
The Russian peasant does not want
to get rich. He has in his possession
twenty to thirty acres Of Ian, on which
to support his family. He wants twice
that much before he will be able TO
use American machinery, improved live
stock and modern methods, before he
will be able TO make a decent living
He does not want the right to own
more land than this, but he is no fool
He does not propose TO allow any other
peasant TO have that right. He does
not care TO replace the present noble
landlords with their 10000 acres by
n new class Of peasant landlords with
one hundred or thousand acres, who
would he twice as hard on the peasant
wOrkingman.
Many OF the Russian peasants have
already become city working men.
Every peasant knows that the lot Of
the wage laborer in the country Is even
harder than that in the towns.
The Russian people have therefore
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
Small Grafters
On Primary Law Measure Obnoxious
to Politicians and Condemned
in Senate

over again at the regular election
against the successful candidate on
the other party tickets. More election
eering cards, circulars, writeups and
advertising have got to be printed.
In this way the country paper gets q
second deal and is able to graft, or
bleed the candidates once more.
Then again under the primary law,
two sets of ballots have to be printed,
a primary ballot and the ballots for
the regular election, as well as the
legal notices for the election. So this
brings in more revenue to the news
paper.
So il is easy to understand why the
little papers are so anxious that the
direct primary law be not repealed.
Economic causes force the little papers
TO advocate the law. Economic causes
also made the senators vote to repeal
the law. BY good hard experience
the office holders who had passed
through the direct primary elections
were made aware that the direct prim-
ary law cost them more than they had
bargained for, and that they were be-
ing grated on by the little country
papers, therefore their unanimity in
repeating the law.
The results Of the direct primary
are this: The counties that have
adopted the law have to pay the ex-.
penses Of two elections The candi.
dates are under extra expense and the
little country paper reaps the harvest
The economic causes that make the
papers advocate the primary law and
| the economic causes that, determine
the Legislature to repeal the law are
what the socialists call the law Of
Economic Determinism. The socialists
of Montana have just reason to be
proud Of the stand they took on this
law. Eight counties adopted the law
and the socialists were successful in
keeping fifteen counties from adopting
it. The governor while stumping the
state during the last campaign con-
demned the direct urinary law, al
though he signed th. bin making il a
law: and the arguments he used
against the law were word for word
as printed in the Montana News six
months previous. Despite the walls
Of the Forsyth Times the direct prim-
airy law is dead. Requiescat in pace.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

John Easton NAV be a good social
II. uo .v h..a oa ..s o.,
=. -, ,,,
n'' '""s ''' ''''e
sisting soiaiist Work at TINS point
He did not like Emery's appeal, doubt
less because Emery said, "Pleass bear
in mind that Won need the s5O man
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

The senate unanimously voted last
week to repeal the direct primary law
and the house will likely concur in
the same, and the governor will hearth
ly sign the bill. Montana is to be
congratulated if this law is repealed
The law was tried and found want
ing. IL does not stop corruption, does
not prevent corporations controlling
the old parties; it gives the primary
election to the man with the coin.
All efforts to stop eorruptions at
the ballot box is failure, as long as
the present graft system lasts. Every
state that has a direct primary law
has had election frauds, and graft.
The reason of this is economic eondi-
tions put a premium on dishonesty,
corruption and graft, and will continue
to do so as long as rent, interest and
profit exist, and when they no longer
exist purity of the ballot will be es-
tablished.
II is rather amusing to see the small
county papers squirm when the at
tempt to repeal the primary law is
being made. The following is from
the Forsyth Times:
"Improve the direct primary law,
If you will, but repeal it, neverl The
people have the inherent right to hire
their public servants, not the bosses. y
What rot. The reason for the fore
going wall from the Forsyth Times is
that the Times like other little eoun-
try papers has got to depend on graft
and political pulls to make the news
paper business pay.
The primary law gives the little
county papers a chance for extra pick
ings by soaking the candidates.
At the primary election every old
party candidate makes a campaign in
trying TO be the successful candidate
to 90 on the ballot at the regular cleo
tion and these naturally get election
eeriug cards printed, and an advertise
ment printed in the county paper TO
the effect that they are a candidate.
At some primary elections there are
three or four candidates for the same
Office on the same ticket. The more
candidates the more business for the
country paper. After winning at the
primary election the csuecessful eandi-
dates has got to make the fight all
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

The "Greater Montana" "business
mems, greatest combination ever
gathered under one tent" got in its
work last week, exploded lot of slusb
sentiment, and finally showed its hand
by ignoring and insulting the working
class and turning its interests over
into the hands of three of the biggest
capitalist grafters and exploiters in
the state. The papers Of Montana
have been assiduously advocating that
Everybody" get together, hold a
state convention, and boost for a
greater Montana while the legislature
was in session to enact into law the
recommendations of the boosters. The
working class had the temerity to
think that they were included in the
everybody" and delegates were ap.
pointed from numbers of unions, some
Of whom came long distance to be
present at the convention. A long
list of resolutions was presented, and
q show made of putting them before
the convention. F. Augustus Heinze
was much in evidence telling what
"we business men" want. His chief
yearning desire for the state was
POPULATION. He said we wanted
more people TO develop the resources,
and thus the immigration question was
brought up. Heinze said that l,200,-
600 immigrants came to the United
States annually and Montana did not
get any Of them. He wanted the legis-
lature TO appropriate $4,000 to ad-
veritse the state and get this foreign
labor in. And he said, with a grandi.
Eloquent wave Of his fat hand, "If
YOU people owned the resources of
Montana would you begrudge giving
$4,000 to advertise them and get
people in heref" But Of course "you
people" do not own the resources of
Montana. The Amalgamated Copper
company owns them, and Heinze is
part of it. Alex Fairgrieve, president
Of the Montana Federation Of Labor,
arose to speak on the question, of
course on the side of the laboring class
which does not want heavy competi-
tion in hunting jobs. Associate Justice
Smith, who was in the chair, looked
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

The police scandal at Butte is simply
a little of the corruption coming to
the surface that is in the whole sys.
TEN, and in every city. Such scandals
are no surprise to socialists. The whole
system of the supply of the things Of
life rs built upon graft--irst from
the producer, then all the way up,
each from all, and all from each. Be-
sides Its corruption, viIeness, crime,
IL is bringing forth full harvest of
want. desolation. famine TO these very
producers. That is why society will
repudiate the system for one that will
feed, cloth and c'vilize the people.
That will be ooperation-the insuring
to the producer Of his total product
socialism.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
ROOSEVELT PROSPERITY

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ne'e are TWO WILLOWS ana TWO ehii'
dren In connecticut that unparalleled
prosperity" has not reached. But, of
course. Roosevelt did not have the
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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

don Z belong 10 a Christian nation; for
Christianity teaches that "We who
are strong ought TO bear the infrmi-
ties of the weak" But these "infirm-
itios" must mean "spiritual infrmi
ties, not financial or material.
Tn cooperative commonwealth
these widows and orphans would bc
as well cared for as the women and
children who are fortunate enough to
have the husband and father with
them.
If these sad women and children in
the letter lived in Switzerland, which
has in part become cooperative, they
would not need 20 reveal such n state
Of poverty and worry, but would be
as well cared for as anybody. BE.
cause Switzerland is national life
insurance company. Those that can
work, pay taxes 10 support those that
are widows and orphans, or old and
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

may get il, but il he be true mar
tyr he is deaf to il all-he is other
wise fully compensated.
The Socialist is a true martyr. You
cannot tell him anything, flatter him
or bribe him. You absolutely have
nothing he wants. He laughs you to
seorn. He insults you, yet you can
take no offense-you know he is right.
He ask you for assistance and promises
nothing-be gets nothing, why should
you ask for anythingi IL the kind Of
pay he gets is not satisfactory to you
then you better keep your money and
put il TO what you think is saner use,
The people who are putting their
money into socialism know what they
are doing. The money thus spent meas
ures to them their worth in the world.
No person likes to think he exists for
naught. No person Of awakened con-
science and enlightened brains likes to
believe himself a physical, moral and
mental cipher. He wants to feel that
what he has is a helping means, not
an Insignificant, worthless end, that
he makes due use of that means in
furthering the end he believes worthy.
Socialist Voice.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07

sick; and this is not charity, but only
cooperating to help one another.
Finally here are a few statistics TO
ponder:
There is $6,5OO for every family in
America.
One hundred families would be
worth $e5o,ooo.
The present distribution Of wealth
is such that:
One family in the hundred has
$325,000; Of this nine other families
have s27O,o00; 40 families have $685.
900; so families have nothing,
The widows and orphans Of this
letter happened TO be numbered among
the so families that have nothing.
OF course. II Is their fault; they
should have had better taste. They
are not worthy the notice Of the great
head Of such n nation ns this.-F. L.
Buzzell in Kalispell Bee.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-02-07
Public Domain
House Bill No. I in Interest of Lum.
Der Companies Against Farmers
II For Logging Roads

House Bill No. Z, introduced by Re
preventative Boorman of Flathead, is
a very dangerous bill if it becomes one
of the General Laws of Montana. II
was introduced ostensibly for the pur-
pose speeifyinghow the right of EN-
inent domain should be exereied in be.
half of certain public uses, but in
realty to give a large corporate
interest, engaged in the lumber busi-
ness, a right to cut up farm land ad-
jacent to its plant for the purpose of
securing transportation facilities.
It is claimed by the friends of the
measure that the big sawmills of Flat
head county are seriously handicapped
on account of the opposition of Ger.
tain farmers to permitting the com.
panies to haul their products through
their farms. Most of the mills are
located high up in the mountain can
yons or passes. II is claimed on their
part that il is necessary for them to
open up loggingroads for the transpor'
tation of their lumber TO market and
that il cannot be done, owing to "the
lay Of the land" without passing
through certain farm claims between
their plants and market. To force
said farmers to permit hem to build
logging roads, House Bill No. pro.
poses to bestow upon logging roads
the right Of eminent domain.
The bill is a pure corporation meas
ure. II was introduced by a tool Of
the sawmills. II is dangerous for the
reason that, if passed, il becomes a
general law and would apply to any
county in the state. It's purpose is to
remedy a supposed grievance that OBJ
tains in Flathead county, but as a
general statute il will apply TO any
county.
Under its provisions, any petti-fog'
ging little sawmill can start up in
some remote mountain pass and force
every farmer in the valley to put up
his lands for a logging road. OF course
the farmer will only be compensated
for the actual amount of land used by
the log-way. At present the farmer
can refuse to permit any man from
cutting a logging road through his
land unless the logging road corpora