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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
ECHOES OF TELEPHONE STRIKE

War is hell, is true saying and
never more true than in this present
class war that is being waged through
out the world II is hell from which
none can escape aud from which none
ought to escape. Yet we see many
people who cannot understand why
they should be drawn into the struggle
and complain bitterly about the in.
justice on one side or the other be.
cause the "rights" of certain individ.
uals are trampled upon by the con.
tending forces. One way OF another,
sooner or later, every individual has
got to learn his obligations to society
and this is the only way some people
can be made to realize that they have
no rights separate from the rights Of
the rest of society, and that the wei.
fare Of the individual is bound up in
the welfare of the whole.
Much complaint has been made about
the way the public has been made dis.
commoded by the strike of the tel.
ephone girls. Has the public ever con
cerned itself about the way the tel
ephone girls were dismommoded by
wages barely sufficient to feed and
clothe themi Would it ever concern
itself about them so long as the tel.
ephone service was running smoothly,
even though oiled by the blood of the
girlsf Neverl The public concerns it,
self about nobody until forced to
and then what wall goes up. They
tell US Of a child that died because
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
REVOLUTION NOT A PASTIME

for nothing. The capitalist class in
tends to crush the Western Federation
out of existence, and everything that
savors of socialism IN the unions. The
Appeal has been recognized as a tre-
mendous fighter and rouser Of public
sentiment in this case, no matter what
may be thought of its reliability in
promoting the cause of American 80
cialism.
This Is plainly discernible in the
attention given to IL by the attorneys
for the prosecution. Every juror is
sounded as to whether he is a reader
of the Appeal, and Hawley has issued
loud-voiced Trades against it in court.
The mine owners mean to put II out
Of business through the government.
At this time such a movement is q
striking blow at the defense, as there
is no other paper, on account Of its
circulation, equal as a medium of
spreading the working class side in
this damnable outrage.
But by far the greatest import to
the American working class movement
will be the fact that the Aemrican
government will begin policy Of re-
preston against socialist papers.
Well, IL is only the most short
sighted that do not expect this. A
real repressive policy that will give
the lie to the "land Of the free and
the home Of the brave" will put iron
and backbone into the real socialists
in this country, and win divide the
fair weather socialists from the heroes
Of the storm.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
/ am discovered

L am ulScONeIeu.
The shining robe of sanctity that
has heretofore hidden my personal pull
chritude from the gaze of men lies
torn in shreds my iniquities have been
laid bare to the bone, and my soul,
once the inhabitant Of a cobra de capel-
10, now hangs transfxed betwixt the
eternities-a thing aecursed Of man
and Godl
Alack and alas, am exposed and
undonel Life for me has lost its mean
ing and existence stretches out an end
les, eheerless, startless blank. Born
in the slums with class hatred in my
heart, my hand was against every man
and my desire was-to strike and kill.
Until now the sole ambition Of my life
was to save civilization by blowing it
up with dynamite. In my dreams
saw my ambition realized in con-
tinent Of smoking ruins through which
CLEANED ghastly corpses Of plutocrats
and plebs-ft victims Of internal
work. But now these bloody pictures
have been swept away with the dreams
civilization is saved and my evil plot
ting has been handed a solar plexus
blow.
No longer can ! mask my eounte-
nance in a sweet-scented smile and use
the socialist party as an instrument
with which to raise hell. No longer
will my designing yillainy lie buried
beneath the undulating folds of my
snake-like skin-the hide has been re-
moved and the world is viewing with
horror the Czolgozs anarchy Of my
murderous heart. Even this commits.
sion / am alleged to bear direct from
Almighty God will avail me nothing
in this crisis. have been unfrocked
and ex-rayed and shot through with
the shafts of publicity until nothing
now remains but the memory of a bad
smell. In a little Will, the waves of
eternity will wash the last lingering
trace of that smell from the shores of
time, and 1 will be completely dead
and damned and forgotten.
Who made the discovery, and what
produced this wondrous changei The
answer is easy. Out among the vol
canic rocks and sage brush hills of
Montana. in a wide place in the road,
called Missoula, there is published
daily paper whose editor is owue
body, boots and breeches by that par.
ticular branch of capitalism which
operates the industries and dominates
the politics of the state. From the
safe distance Of several hundred miles
this subsidized biped has been report,
ing the Haywood trial, and, incident.
L
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

The trial Of Fred Warren in the fed
sral court as managing editor Of the
Appeal to Reason, on the charge Of
publishing an incendiary and seditious
sheet is liable to be serious PROPOSE
ton for the "deaI old Appeal" at
this stage Of the miners fight.
In the first place the paper has been
obliged to employ the ablest attorneys
in the state Of Kansas to defend 1t,
and the heavy expenses incidental to
q government trial like this are con-
siderable item in itself. OF course,
the Appeal could make this up by its
cheerful elasticity in getting new sub
scribers, for at every misfortune 1t
appeals in such a heartrending manner
to the public as to make a fresh pros
perity boom. But in the face Of
vicious attack by the government on its
suDJect matter WhhteNu B"So INV
paper while action is pending must nee
essarily be censured by the attorneys
In charge of the case. In consequence
matter that is published will have to
be comparatively moderate and unob-
jectionable in tone to the powers that
be. Debs' flaming AROUSE, ye Slaves'
could not go now. And there is no
doubt but what everything in connec-
ton with the Western Federation af-
fair win undergo a strict tuning down.
Indeed this result is already visible. &.
Those who are prosecuting the
miners in Idaho are no doubt the ones
who are after the Appeal. Borah did
not have his interview with Roosevelt
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

the telephone could not be used to call
physician, and of man who had
recently lost a leg, falling and start.
ing hemorrhage and would have bled
to death only a doctor "happened"
along. We regret that such things
must be, but war is hell. When Sher.
mans army marched through Georgia
they did not, because of any sentimen.
tai reasons, hesitate in the crushing
Of few individuals. When two armies
are drawn up in line Of battle, they
do not postpone the conflict because
wheat field lies between them. They
just go right on with the fight and
trample down the grain. The owner
of the field may think that he is a
perfectly disinterested party but be.
fore the battle is over you will find
him taking sides with one or the other
of the eontesting parties; and his ma
terial interests, in so far as he can
see them, will decide which one. II
he thinks by joining one certain side
he can help TO win and get paid for his
wheat, that is the side he will join.
These girls, like all organized work.
ers are fighting for life and they are
not going TO call off the battle because
the public is discommoded, or even the
lives of few individuals sacrificed,
and if the "disinterested public"
don't like it, the best thing 1t can do
is to get interested and line up with
one side or the other and help finish
the war.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

and you would allow me the space;
about this great state Of Wyoming.
The men here are conducting them
selves like gentlemen. All are keep
ing perfectly sober and are attending
to their own affairs, in fact the town
is far more quiet and peacable now
than when the mines were working
full force. The miners have the sym
pathy of the people almost to man
in their struggle against corporation
tyranny.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

to be a good citizen and respect the
American hagl How can you be a
good citizen when you have to live
under conditions such as exist in this
statef The great wonder is that there
is not more anarchy in this country
than there is, when a corporation is
allowed to hold people in subsection
such as this is.
There are lot more matters would
like to write you IL / had the time,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
MisSOuIa's
Mud Geyser
DixOn'S Flunky at Boise Runs Against
the Real Thing and Is Promptly
Knocked out by ShOaf

ally trying 70 heap odium on the so
cialist writers who possessed the tenn
Gritty to brave Gooding's wrath and
attend court His first journalistic ef-
fort was to protray Dr. Titus and Ida
Crouch Hazlett in the act Of eating
secondhand grub at a Chinese restaur-
ant. He then landed on Clarence
Darrow with both feet by roundly crit
ieizing the Chicago lawyers recent
address on Walt Whitman. Those who
have seen both Darrow and his critic
assert that they strike a comparison
similar 10 that which exists between
the matehless grandeur of Niagara and
sudden squirt of tobacco juice from
the mouth of a syphilitic saloon bum.
A roast of Darrow by this intellectual
hireling is about as apropos as Harry
Orchards attempt TO lift himself into
beatitude through the saving grace Of
James Mcfarland, OF Gooding's effort
to win the plaudits of the American
people by fastening the stigma of as
sassination on Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone. II was after he had tried
his hand on Titus, Hazlett and Darrow
that he discovered your humble SER
want.
Now are all my fond dreams shatter-
ed and my life's work completely
wrecked! Since my infancy every as
piration of my soul has trembled to-
ward the hour now about to strike. l
had hoped to seize upon the eulmina-
tion Of the present order of develop
ment as an opportunity to deal capital.
ism a blow that would sent il spin
ming to the realms of chaos, and, now
that events are shaping themselves for
that opportunity, and | am about to
realize it, am unexpectedly exposed
and my plans held up to public scorn.
The editor of the Missoulan, in choice
Anglo-Saxon, says, that | am au IAN
arehist' and Dangerous He fur
ther declares that | am ''ferce. vim.
dictive, tireless, unreleutiug, desperate
and would scruple at nothing to gain a
point"
Well, that settles it, With the
cunning Of a maniac | foresee my
finish, Nothing dissolves conspiraeies
or thwarts the plans Of anarchists to
overthrow society better than the cal
cium light Of publicity. Until my dis
covery by the editor Of the Missoulian
| plotted in the dark. So long as
came and went unobserved my schemes
prospered and bid fair to develop an
explosion. But it is all off now. The
game is up. Society is saved and I
am dead one.
Farewell, long farewell" etc.
! GEORGE II. SHOAF.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
Lock Out
of Miners
Miners of Rock Springs Organized
Fourteen Hundred Join in a Body
Company Discharges Men

For years efforts have been made
to organize the coal miners in the coal
fields Of southern Wyoming which is
controlled by the Union Pacific rail
way and u. s. Senator Rawlins.
Both the Western Federation and
the United Mine Workers have tried
to organize the coal camps but met
with little success.
Organizers for the United Mine
Workers have gone into Rock Springs
to be run out of the camp.
President Tom Gibson of District
80 and others who have tried to or
ganize the camps have been refused
room and board at the hotels, the pro-
prietors of the hotels acting under the
instructions from the company officials
fred them out as soon as it became
known that they were trying to organ
ize the men.
Efforts have been made to reach the
company by placing the product OF the
mines on the unfair list but this failed
ewing to the half f-hearted support Civ
On the boycott by the workers OF
Butte
The revolutionary spirit has taken
hold Of the miners.
During the early part Of May, the
district office Of District 22, u. N. w.
Of A., received some communications
from men employed at Rock Springs,
Wyo., asking them TO send organizers
TO Rock Springs, as the men employed
at that place desired to become organ.
lied and affiliated with the U. M. w.
Of A. On the nineteenth Of May, Pres.
Gibson and Dist. Sec.-Treas. Morgan,
with John p Fahey and Fred Benzer,
arrived in Rock Springs. On the fol
lowing day International Executive
Board Member Purcell arrived.
Upon inquiring in regard to the sen
timent of organizing and finding 1t
unanimous in favor of organization.
they then posted notices, calling for a
mass meeting for Tuesday evening,
Nay 2lst, to be held at the opera
house.
When the meeting was called to or
der about Is minutes before eight
o'clock, the building was pach to
the doors. Not only were all tic seats
filed, hut every foot Of space for
standing room was taken up as well,
and between two and three hundred
people were unable to get into the
building.
Prior to the opening Of the meeting
some Of the Union Pacific officials had
hand bills printed and distributed
among the miners, which stated that
they (the company had been notified
by representatives Of the United Mine
Workers Of America tina, an attempt
would be made to organize the miners
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

OF Rock Springs, Wyo., (Which vas
correctly and also stated that "this
notice is to advise all miners and
others in our employ that we will not
in any way help to support such a
union at this place and that all who
join will be expected to call for their
time.
(signed) Capital Coal & Coke Co.,
By f. p. Gridley, Supt.
Union Pacific Coal Co.,
By A. E. Bradbury, Asst. Gen. Mg.
Geo. l.. Black, Supt.'
Now regardless Of those notices, at
least fifteen hundred (l,500) men en-
ployed by both Of these companies at
tended our mass meetings and not one
dissenting voice was heard from any
of them in regard to organizing The
only friction being when one of the
companys detectives tried to inter
rupt the meeting. After the speakers
had finished all men who wanted to
put down their names to organize a
local here were asked to do so. The
officers of the district remained there
sntil about l2 O'Clock, taking down
the names. Some who wished to have
their names on the list and did not
have the time to wait, stated that they
would come back the following day.
After the meeting had adjourned there
were about four hundred who had
signed the roll to organize.
The following morning as the men
went to their work, the superintend
ents at the differeut mines, met the
men and asked them il they bad sigeed
their names to join the union. Those
who answered that they had, were
told to return to their homes. This
continued for three days until the com
panies had no men TO do their work
and had to shut the mines up all to
gether, and the chances are they will
remain closed for some time, unless
the companies recede from the position
which they have taken in regard tC
organization, as the men employed al
Rock Springs are determined to no Ion
ger submit to the domination Of the
Union Pacific over every act Of theil
lives as they have in the past.
The companies are now threatening
to expell all the miners from theil
homes by giving them three days no
tice to vacate the houses.
At Hanna, an other small coal camp
along the Union Pacific railroad, they
have notified the men in their employ
that If they organize they viii shut of
their water supply and let them g
without water
oh, just God, and they call this I
free American country, and tell yo'
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06
Capitalist
Court
A Packed Jury and Drunken Prose
cutiOn Is the Square Deal That
the Miners Are to Get

1t has not been the purpose in these
reports made for the socialist press to
give all the sensational details, the
possibilities and impossibilities of daily
gossip that came up from day to day
in connection with the trial. The daily
press is filed to supletion with this
sort of stuff-mostly guess work
mostly made by reporters to fll space.
1t is often remarked among the re-
porters here on the spot that this 10
largely a newspaper case. The reports
sent out outside the routine work in
court, are merely to make a showing
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Hawley
acted somewhat strangely to the
amusement of the attorneys for the
defense and the manifest ehagrin Of
Borah.
The fact Of the matter is that the
Gooding gang have all they can do in
keeping Hawley sober enough to
handle this case. He has braeed up
pretty well, so that the ponderous beer
keg that he carries in front of him
has become considerably reduced in
size. But Saturday he had broken
loose, and the beer keg was again
puffed out. He got very angry at a
little faeetious remark of Mr.. Richard
son s, and appealed to the court. But
the judge magnanimously recognized
his condition, and told him to sit down.
He was ready to fight, but when he
saw the defense attorneys took him
good naturedly he became friendly
again. They then played a joke on
him by giving him the wrong law see.
tion to read, which he read very grave.
ly and did not discover his mistake
till they were all laughing at him.
This again filed his breast with in.
dignation. IL Hawley gets drunk at
the wrong time it will be frought with
weighty results to the case in hand.
Pinkertons are oil over town and
an occasional happening is reported
in connection with them. Mrs. Mac
Mahon, wife of Wilshire's man here
and herself a correspondent for sew
eral papers, slapped one of them in
the face the other day that had been
hanging around her house.
A number Of the toughs employed al
deputies in Colorado are here. Mel
drum and Reynolds, two of the most
notorious characters from Telluride are
here. Meldrum hit a union printer
and then drew his gun on him in a
boarding house for expressing sympa
thy with the men accused. Bystand
ers interfered, and the police were put
on Medium trail. Federation men
say he is still in town.
Everywhere Mcfarland goes he ha,
the faithful Seringo bodyguard with
with him. One secs them eating in
restaurants, and everywhere on the
street together.
The Rev. e. 8. Kinks, dean of the
episcopal diocese Of Boise, is adding
the weight Of his clerical robes to the
sorry stage farce Of the sincerity OF
Orchards repentance. People repent
ant for crimes committed do not look
so sleek and fat and self satisfied
They show some sort of compunctior
for their crimes.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-06

boise, juno -
Judge Wood's court opened Friday
morning after an intermission Of three
days to admit Of the new venire Of
81 men being summoned.
Laughable stories were told Of the
trouble the deputies had in bringing
many Of the men. One man was even
said to have been prodded out Of a
hay.stack with n pitchfork. II Is the
busy season for the farmers and they
do not relish being hung up on a jury
all summer. Twelve Of the venire
were excused at their own request for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-12
ALL MUST LABOR.
Chief Eaton Promises to Make Things
Lively for Loafers.

The trimming of the United Order
of Toilnotters has commenced. At
last the police have taken the right
tack, and instead of grabbing in
offensive visitors, who drop in on
their way to the wheat fields, will
hereafter give their undivided atten-
ton to the local riff-raff. It is gem
orally conceded among those who
know something of the present condi-
tions, that local talent alone is re-
sponsible for the many burglaries and
petit thefts- p Hoboes do not rob
houses remote from the railroads, and
lay their hands on the valuables with
out disturbing the household It is
the local sneak thief who gets his
bearings before handling the job Now
that the fact has soaked into the po-
lice department.: there is slight
chance that some of the thieves may
be caught
Chief Eaton announced today that
he will hereafter make life a. burden
for the local nonworkers with no WISH
BILE means of support, and "vag" both
colored and white specimens who
seem to be living easy without effort
The first victim of this order was
James Jordan, colored who was ar
rested on vagrancy charge last
night. Others will follow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-12
MRS. THAW SELLS LAND.
She Needs the: Money to Pay for Her
Sons Defense.

Pittsburg. Pa, July 12.-Pressed to
the last resource for ready money,
Mrs. William -Tnaw, mother of Harry
Kendall Thaw. the slayer of Stanford
White. sacrificed 1000 acres of the
priced and valuable Thaw coal lands
in Westmoreland county today to Sc
cure funds with which to defend
Harry Thaw in his com ming trial.
The coal lands were bought by the
Mt. Pleasant Coal and Coke company
for sum approximating $2,0O0,000.
The deeds We're recorded in Green's
burg this afternoon and no attempt
was made to deny the sale at the Of
fees of the Thaw estate.
Before old William Thaw died, he
created what is known as a coal and
coke trust, setting aside a large sum
of money with which to purchase coal
lands. He knew that they would be
enormously valuable some day if the
family held on to them. So when he
died he made a stipulation in his will
that the coal lands. should not be sold
by the family except in case of abb
solute necessity The family appar-
emily needed the money very badly
when they sacrificed these lands
which will be worth many additional
millions in a few years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-12
TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS
Family Whose Little Girl Developed
Scarlet Fever on Train.

A big scare over a case of scarlet
fever resulted in a lot of trouble for
two women and a little girl, the latter
having q we'll developed case of the
scarlet disease, last night The trio
came in on Santa Fer sTrains No. q
and the railroad company refused to
take them further. The car IN which
they rode was sidetracked at Topeka,
While the railroad company wrangled
with DIR. NJ. R. Mitchell, city physi-
clan. The physician thought the peo-
pie should be cared for by the rail-
road company, but the company re-
fused to take them to it's hospital
After an hour in the car, police of
ficers escorted the women and little
girl to the police station, where they
were kept several hours in the hos
pital room. Police officers objected
to this, some of them fearing that
they might convey the disease to
their children, and the unfortunate
travellers were finally removed to the
city pest house. The Jail hospital is
being fumigated today. ~ t-
Aside from stating that they were
en- route from California to Chicago,
the women refused to make any state
ment, or even give their names. They
consider their treatment an outrage.
and say that they will bring suit
against the railroad company for
dumping them off at Topeka. ---t.
One of the women is the mother,
and the other evidently an aunt of the
little girl who has scarlet fever.