Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-07-18

Thursday afternoon the man who is
being tried for his life was put on the
stand. Haywood's manner was quiet
and self-sustained. He gave his an
swers in a cool matter-offact way
that gave little opportunity for Bo-
rah g bulldozing. The local papers
fairly bristle with accounts OF Hay
woods nervousness, his laundering and
incriminatiing answers, and how he
has sustained Orchard q allegations in
every particular except the admission
of the crimes.
Such tales are absolutely fantastical.
Haywood has acquitted himself with
the greatest credit, and his plain
straightforward story has had a Wis
ible effect on all that were privileged
to hear him.
In this drama Of greed versus human
life Haywood seems someway to re-
present superlatively the typical pro.
letarian element.
Marian students may remember a
passage in the Eighteenth Brumaire
where Marx decides the difference be.
when bourgeois revolutions and prole'
tartan revolutions. He speaks Of the
brilliancy, confidence anr rapid con
summation Of bourgeois revolutions,
and Of how slow and halting are prole'
tartan movement. The later lack con.
hdence, move forward with a rush,
are thrown back, but keep gathering
again and again.
The typical proletarian lacks conf
dence when brought into direct con
tact with bourgeois conventionalities
He does not ct in to the artificial con
ditions with which capitalism has
hedged itself around for its own pro
lection and perpetuation. The work
ing man may be courageous, aggres
sive, even brilliant in dealing with the
affairs of his own class, but when he
touches capitalism he touches a differ
ent civilization from that which he
and his fellows are moving forward
to realize in the worlds history.
Haywood is the socialist of the three
accused men. From his reading and
study he understands something Of the
historic function of the working class
He has nothing in common whatevel
with the capitalist class and its ideals
His whole makeup and inclination IL
to knock the stuffing out of the sys
tenn that oppresses him. So aggres
sive is he by nature that when as
saulted by the soldiers at the unior
depot in Denver, when he went Il
shake hands with Meyer after his i'm
prisonment, he fought the whole com
pany, and only ceased his own self
protection when overwhelmed by mum
bers, and brutal beating.
Ae he gave his testimony every SO
cialist felt that there was the man wh'
was speaking the instructive aspira
tion aud determination Of the working
class. Even though bound, beaten
imprisoned and hanged, even thougl
he had committed every crime that th
mine owners have brought TO his doc
still he Is ours, fighting the fight o
his class against the shameful and un
righteous slavery of al who do tn
work.
Haywood is 3s years old. He re
lated the circumstances OF his earl
life, his marriage, how his wife's in
valid condition began after the brit
of the youngest child. As these sa
memories were brought up one afte
the other, the patient wife begins sot
bing, but is soothed by the mother an
qpiets herself.
Haywood joined the Western Fed
Grafton with the union in Silver City
Idaho, where he was a charter men
Der. He was appointed TO write 'n
resolution of his union on the Coeu
d'Alenes trouble, and wrote 1t in th
mine on the bottom Of a candle boz
Borah showed much curiosity in II
gard TO this resolution, and asked fc
n copy of IL, and IL IL could be foun
in the files of the Miners Magazine
II will be remembered that ma
by the name Of Stewart from SilvC
City testified that during the reig
Of terror in the Coeur d'Alenes Ha,
wood had said that Steunenberg ougf
TO be exterminated. Haywood said tbs
this fellow was the only scab in III
camp, and that his own language ha
been that Steunenberg ought TO be II