Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-10-03

Club Meets
Law and Order" Gentry Advocate
Appointment of Vigilance Com.
mittee-COwardly Tactics

jOurned the phone was dead at the
Gandon Hotel and all the other hotels
in town as well.
+. G. Day is another fne.haired
member of the elite that has spasms
over the "tyranny" of the laboring
class, and shouts philippics against
them and in behalf of his tender
friends, the "business men," Day is
council for the corporate interests of
Helena, and they are owned by the
Standard Oil. Day spends little or
no money in Helena, orders his cloth
ing made in Chicago and even sends
his laundry to Chicago to be done up.
So great was his zeal against the work
ing men that he was going to move
from the Montana Club to the Gran
don to board IL the Grandon would re-
fuse to take out its phones, it was not
boarders that the Grandon wanted
then but cooks and walters, some one
to do the work.
This meeting Of the Helena citizens
alliance, Of which the Commercial
Club" was only a disguise simply
marks the lineup of the class inter
ests Of the city. These business men
make a great howl that the general
interests of the city are being affected
by the action of the workers, when it
is only their personal economic inter
ests as individuals. They speak of
the welfare of the community, when
they mean simply the welfare Of their
own class. The prosperity of the bust
ness men is nothing to the workers.
They don't give one continental rap
whether the business men prosper by
extorting ridiculous prices out of the
working elass for their goods The
more business men there are in town
the more parasites the working class
have to feed. This business bunch
don't care anything for the prosperity
of the town in general, they howl
only when they see their own profits
are threatened. If they cared any.
thing for the prosperity and happiness
OF the town as whole why don't they
make every effort to see that the
working class have better eonditionsi
The situation simply shows the log.
ical lineup Of a class fight. The bus.
mess class will do any diabolical thing
to save their profits. They even talk.
ed of lynching in this meeting They
would do what the capitalist class has
done everywhere if they thought as
labor bettered its conditions il would
interfere with them. Fair time is
when they hope TO make the most ex.
orbitant profits. They bring out all
their old shop.worn goods, and palm
them off on the country buyers. That
is what they get up the fair for. II
is mere commercial enterprise.
But this talk of what they will do
to labor is child's play. The capital.
ist class are as helpless as babies be.
fore determined working class that
knows what il wants and is going af-
ter it proper. We are the majority.
Labor is better organized in Montana
and more militant than the unions of
Colorado or Idaho ever were. The
working men of Montana will not
stand idly by and see their brothers
in Helena roughly handled by a citi.
zens' alliance law and order vigilance
committee, a bull-pen erected in Last
Chance gulch.
IL Colorado Russia methods are in
stituted here il is the business men
that will bring them, and it will be
the business men that will suffer most.