Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-09-12
Across
the j.! ..R!!!s,;n.,.,r,tder s,;.,.,, I'd!
Immense Crowd Listens Eagerly to
Socialist Speaker-Rain Does
Not Abate Interest

bht salchg NaiNc WAtn Which tne rum
class drains of any dangerous rising
unrest that wells up in the think-tanks
Of the workers. 1t espouses any and
everything as occasion seems to require
to quiet any popular dissatisfaction
and make the working class think il
is fighting their battles.
Sir Wilfred Laurier is nominally
King Edwards proxy in Canada. In
reality Mr.. Shaugnessey, president OF
the Canadian Pacific railroad, pulls
the strings of the entire government
from has Office.
Hayes, of the Grand Trunk railway
leads the Liberal hosts. The working
people think they are fighting each
other, but fares and rates never came
down. They work together for their
profits, and to control and exploit the
workers, while publicly they make the
poor fools think that they are really
contending over real issues.
The sentiment for industrial union
ism is remarkably strong in the Boun
dary district. The /. w. w. is strong
ly organized at Phoenix. So far as
could learn from the conversation OF
a number of the workers the crude fan
atheism that has been so noticeable in
the s. l.. p, has developed here "a
some extend in regard to the non-es
sentiability of the ballot. Only those
very poorly Informed in regard to his
torical development can ever seriously
espouse 50 reactionary a position
While every possible skill and aeumer
in economic organization is of the ut
most importance-is essential, if W,
are ever to establish industrial control
through superior efficiency, the polit
zeal weapons which the working elias,
has won from the contests of history
and which their less favored fellows
across the seas are putting forth every
effort to attain, must be tested to the
utmost with intelligence and determi
nation.
Until we do this we know not what
possibilities lurk within the ballot in
the hands of the working class.
Wednesday evening 1 spoke in the
opera house at Phoenix. This is the
great copper camp that feeds the Grand
Forks smelters, and has a thousand
men at work.
The opera house building is owned
by the union and cost $4,000. 1t has
besides the beautiful auditorium, ball
room, banquet hall, lodge rooms, largt
library, and other rooms for the accom-
mediation of the working class and its
work.
The socialist party is well organized
here with Comrade Mcleod as secre
tary. The comrades are planning tn,
speedy capture Of the city administra
ton, and n plan of action which, il
carried out successfully, will land the
Dominion government in the hands OF
socialists in few years.
This is the way to plan. II We so
eialists simply sit around and look
wise and suck our thumbs and look fol-
some mystical and impersonal "evolu
tion" to do the rest we III not be max
ing much headway in supplanting ca
pitalist governments.
From Phoenix took stage to Green
wood, another large copper camp about
four miles distant. spoke here and
at Mother Lode, and then back to Spo
kane for a weeks work. As the Steve
Adams trial will probably be on then
1t looks as though the contemplated
trip into the Kalispell country would
have to be abandoned until after the
Federation cases are disposed Of. Fol
the socialist press must strain every
nerve to give the greatest possible pub
licity to these outrageous attacks on
the part Of the government, in the in
terest Of the mine owners, against or
ganized labor. Individual crimes, the
socialist movement has not the slight
est interest in upholding or defending
But when even Mr.. Hawley asserted
in his opening statement before tho
jury at Boise that the chief crime OF
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