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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27

Suppose that twenty billions of capi-
tai now owned by a few hundred cor
porations were broken up and divided
among thousands OF competing organ
izations. Has Mr.. Bryan any concep-
ton OF what that would mean?
IL would cose the most hideous and
prolonged panic this country has ever 4.
known. Millions would be unemploy-
ed during the process OF adjustment
The old corporations would practically
have to stop business until new COR
porations were formed. 1t would in,
volve tremendous legal battles, and
the whole Industrial life OF the COM
munity would be stopped Just as you
stop a clock in trying to put its hand
back.
And what would be gained? We
would be just where We were some
twenty-five or fifty years ago, when /.
no single corporation did more than b
a small portion Of the business In it's t.
particular field. Instead of such or
der as now exists there would be a
chaos OF competing and conflicting in-r
terests. Wages would be depressed.
Strikes would be innumerable and the
competitive process would result In
the same old frequent Industrial
breakdowns which occurred every ten
years or so during the last century.
But Bryan contemplates such a !,
state Of affairs with perfect complac--
ency. He is an incorrigible individ-.
ualist. He is a visionary and theorists
of the first order. He does not see.
that competition is death and that CO.
operation is life. He does not see that
we must do away with the control OF
the few by establishing public owner
ship.
He does not want the public to own,
industry. He wants a few hundred
thousand competing capitalists to own
Industry, each exploiting the people,
the consumer and the wage worker,
just as the trust now exploits them
on a larger scale.
He does not seek to do away with
exploitation. He only wishes to take
away the power of exploitation now
possessed by a few and give that
power to larger circle of the same
kind of men.
OF course Bryan cannot be elected.
OF course Bryan's party would not
permit Bryan to put his ideas into 4.
operation even IL he were elected.
But the perfectly appalling situation,
which confronts us is the fact that
any candidate for the presidency
should hold views so wildly visionary.
and so certain to bring disaster
Daily Socialist.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27

OF the section would astonlsh the
country. For ,he nost pat my 'orIt
Ing has been in small out of the way
places, away from railroad. but coun
~ seats and larger towns should be
cultivated. Court day" in a county
seat would give opportunity to n So
cialist speaker tG address from ! 800
70 1000 peop!a. The farmer OF Isrn-
tIby tTc ready TO No., as they srt;ke.
Conditions ar" rIpe--would that H.,
s'"ialist party might avail itself Il
tSe cpportuni." tlius presented.
Soma socialist papers circulate %
quito an extent here. Experien,, In
III" main demonstrates the truth ~
socialist principles and laws. Bat "n
the farmer problem. are not Okla
Lolna. Texas urd some OF the 5,Ier
states convincing us that we n1iisi
modify some of our theories 70 some
extent?
The facts here demonstrate conclu-
sively that the farmers in this section
are in economic revolt against the
espitalistic system and are ready to
follow IL to the polls In political re-
volt. But they must be shown the
way.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27

and go TO the circus and the count,
fair. YOU accumulate no more and ON.
Joy even less than tn. AVERAGE ci,,
wage slave who gets less than s5oo
per year
The capItaIIst that kaons yo, noo,
IL the same capItalist that kasns IN,
wage slave moor
yhe capitalist that comnaIs Won 10
work your wife and children hsvo,,y,
th. r. strength is the same canIt,Ii.,
that forces wap. slaves IN s.nd ,,o,r
wives and children into the rtIs g.,
order to provide the daily broad
And your economIc intsr.s,s ara
mutual. you produce the wago slaves.
bread. ne produces vour c,otbirg %,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27

awakened to his own interests, the in
terests of the class Of which he is a
member. and cast his ballot for the
only party that stands for human
emancipation-the socialist party.
When socialism supplants capitalism
the negro problem will be forever
solved
Resolution adopted by the socialist
party in national convention at IN
dinaapolis, Ind. July 81. 1901:
Whereas, The negroes OF the Unit
ed States, because OF their long train
ing in slavery and but recent emanci-
patton therefrom, occupy a peculiar
position i'm the working class and in
society at large:
Whereas, The capitalist class seeks
To preserve this peculiar condition, and
to foster and increase color prejudice
and rae" hatred between the white
worker and the black. so as TO make.
their social and economic interests to,
appear to be- separate and antagonis--
tic, In order that the workers Of both,
races may thereby be more easily ana
completely exploited;
Whereas. Both the old political,
parties and educational and religious
institutions alike betray the negro in,
his present helpless struggle against
Acknowledgement and violence in or
der To receive the economic favors OF
the capitalist class: be IL therefore.
Resolved. That we the socialists
OF America, I'm national convention as
scmbled. do hereby assure our negro
fellow worker of our sympathy with
him in his subsection TO lawIcssness
and oppression. aid also assure him of
the fellowship of the workers who
suffer from the lawlessness and cx-
ploitation of capital In every nation or
tribe OF the world; be IL further
Resolved. That we declare to the
negro worker the identity OF his in
terests and struggles with the interests
and struggles OF the workers of all
lands. without regard To race or color
or sectional lines; that the causes
which have made him the victim OF.
social nnd political inequality are the
effects OF the long exploitation OF his
labor power: that all social and race
spring from the ancient,
Continued on Page 2, Coll 81
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PROBLEMS OF THE FARMER.

Mr.. Farmer. what is your idea ot
government anyway?
Do you believe the spirit of gov
| ernment to be for conserving the Ir-
terests OF all the people or only a
few of the people.
Wealth is nothing else than thoss
things that are needed in order tha.
people may be happy. How is II yo.
cannot see that wealth is so distrlbut-
ed that few are happy and the ma
jority are miserable. Do you not see
that to be rich IL to be king over the
poor? DO you think IL fair that the
government should be run in such a
manner that the country's wealth
should gravitate To the few and pow
erty to the many?.
You should be able TO see that your
farms are not the kind OF capital tina.
males you capitalist; and since thu
government is run by the capitalists
you are cssentionally among the many
that must become poorer as the capt.
talist becomes richer.
The present system of government
has divided society into two classes.
the working class and the capitalist
class. the class that produces all and
gets least and the class that produces
nothing and gets most.
There are many reasons why you
are one of the working class with class
interests with the working class, So
cially. economically and politically.
All you produce only averages
twelve hundred dollars per farm and
after your family eats of your product
for year and gets a few clothes. and
you keep up machinery and pay taxes
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27
BELT MINERS UNION REPLIES
TO GOMPERs.

Copy of letter in answer to circular
sent out by President Gompers asking
all Labor to endorse the Democratic
party, contributions. etc.:
Samuel Gompers. President A. f. O.
L.. Washington, ID. c.
Dear Sir and Brother:-Your circu-
lar letter pertaining to the matter ri
Organized Labor in general rn io-sing
the Democratic platform, the party
and its candidates, received and its
contents read before our regular
meeting last night, August is. and in
reply will say that the members OF
this union. No. $40, u. NJ. w. of A.,
have come to a full realization that
there can at this time be but one party
for the workers In general and that is
the workingman's party. which is
commonly called the Socialist party,
whose principles are far removed
from any principles being practiced by
either one of the old political parties
at the present time. IL seems strange
to the majority of workers in the West
that you people in the East are so
slow to wake up to this fact. You
ask us to defeat our enemies and
stand by our friends and elect them.
Well. now Brother Gompers. that is
just what the majority of workingmen
in this part of this grand United States
are going to do this fall. but we are
not going to do IL by wasting a vote on
Bill Bryan or any of his so-called
friends.
Brother Gompers, for further an
swer We will refer you to the state of
affairs down in old Alabama at the
present time. You must admit that
Alabama has never had the shadow
OF anything but Democratic rule, and
just now they are putting more of an
insult ON American liberty than did
the supreme court in the case of the
American Federation of Labor and
the Buck Stove people.
With best wishes for yourself per-
sonally, but woe to the Democratic
and Republican parties.
Yours fraternally.
c. J. CROFT,
Secretary-Treasurer
BY order Of Local Union No. $40,
U. NJ. OF A., Belt, Mont
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27
AND THE NEGRO
PROBLEM.

The socialist party is the only po-
liticai organization that has anything
to offer the colored race. The republi-
can and democratic parties are both
parties of capitalism. and could not
help the negro If they would, and
would not IL they could. There is alb
solutely no choice between these two
parties so far as the rights of labor
are concerned. They both represent
the interests of the capitalist class.
and their sham battles are for the
purpose of dividing the laborers into
various factions lest they unite to se-
cure their freedom.
The experience of the negro since
the civil war has proven that the
colorcd race will never secure equal
opportunities so long as the present
system exists. They were given the
ballot by the republican party. be-
cause that party wished - use them
as tool againts the democrats. The
white laborer was originally endowed
with the franchise for precisely the
same motives. when the mercantile
class wished To wipe out the last
thread OF landed aristocracy they gave
the ballot TO the workers and used
them as "A weapon To accomplish that
end. The laborers have been CON
tinualy deceived and intimidated into
doing the masters bidding ever since.
The negro, perhaps has been the most
deceived of any branch of the work
ing class. He has been taught that he
is the special ward of the republican
party, and he has turned in the midst
OF the barbaric outrages committed by
southern fanatics and asked his sup
posed friends for help. hut his appeals
have fallen on deaf ears. The recent
of the negro in the
south Is but an indication of what cap
italists Will soon try to do with all the
workers regardless of color and re-
gnrdlcss of location. The conditions
of forty OF fifty years ago have chang
cd. The capitalist class OF the north
and the south have now Joined hands
as the owners OF wage slaves. aud
while the democratic party represents
the interests OF the small capitalist
and the republican party the interests
Of the large capitalists. the interests
Of both are opposed To the laborer.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27
CLASS WAR IN KENTUCKY.
BY II. A. Maynard.

bf IL n. Maynard.
l am just closing a weeks trip
through the Black Tobacco belt OF
Kentucky. For four days was cut
loose from the base OF supplies down
through the low country along and
between the Tennessee and Cumber-
land rivers in western Ke6tucky. This
Is the heart OF the might rider Sec
tion In the state. ! have spoken at
Princeton, and visited Mayheld.
Golden Pond. Canton, Boaz and
Cadiz and Gracy. names as famous In
the class war In this state as Cripple
Creek, Victor and Telluride have be-
come in connection with Colorado's
class war.
While I'm Cincinnati some OF the
comrades cndeavored TO dissuade me
from attempting this trip, knowing
that ] had been routed through the
hotbed OF the might rider" section.
! knew OF no reason why I should
not besafe in this territory, and 30
came on TO mi my dates I'm this state
as In others, Results have Justified
this belief. for / have been accorded
uniform courtesy and hospitality.
found much the same conditions
prevailing here as In Colorado during
the years 1908 and 1904. The state
militia Is quortcred at nearly every
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27
STATE TICKET SOCIALIST PARTY
OF MONTANA.
State Convention Nominales ing Candi.
dates for WorkingcIass Voters.

ELECTORS.
j. r. MABIE, OF Fridley.
HIRAM PLATT, OF Como.
HERMAN sCHNICK, OF Lewistown
CONGRESSMAN.
LEWIS }. DUNCAN, Butte.
GOVERNOR.
HARRY HAZELToN, Missoula.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
+. L. BUzzELL, Conrad.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME
COURT.
HI MAURY. Butte.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
A. T. HARVEY. Lewistown.
STATE TREASURER.
JOHN POWERS, Billings.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
c. III. PARR, Butte.
STATE AUDITOR.
PAUL ii. CASTLE, Hamilton.
OF PUBLIC IN
STRUCTTON.
ETA LYONS, Fridley
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Six-Year Term-A. ID. PEUGH,
Livingston.
Four-Year Term-JESSE GIL
CHREST, Billings.
Two-Year Tcrm-JOE BILLINGS,
Flathead County.
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and cal,ings renresentea I'm ,his .oo.
tion. n ia n revolt N, tho naomi.
against trust domination 7, 80,
liar. unioue and interesting nbass a,
the class struggle.
At the outset In order to force in
dependent growers-"hill bullies"-as
they are called locally-into the asso-
citation. night riders-undoubtediy In
the employ of the association, were
used to scrape seed beds. destroy
tobacco crops and use other means.
sometimes, III reports can be credited.
even resorting to hogging to force
those not members into the organiza-
ton. Al present there are scarcely
any whose membership Is desired who
are not members OF the organization.
Night riding, however. still con-
unues. indeed seems on the increase.
There are mysterious disappearances.
Shooting into dwellings. assassina-
''o"s' "es'rue'ion Oh property etc.
Members OF the association claim to
be as Ignorant Of the identity OF the
men who are committing the outrages
and as emphatic In their condemna-
ton of them as the general public.
In sections outside the tobacco
growing districts, the capitalistic press
is attempting by innuendo and asser-
tion to hold the association RESPONSE
BILE for both the crimes against prop
erty and human life.
This Is also the ya,sr,, sar,,r,, .,
the public outside the black tobacco
belt. on the other hand, some of the
clearest headed business men and to-
bacco growers point out that such
crimes as are now being committed
can have but one result IL persisted in.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27

such CONSERVATION to English con-
servatives and liberals. is a new thing
In Great Britain. II did not exist at
all so long as British socialists were
merely doctrInaire. Nobody was
afraid of them until they settled
down to practical work. The Social
democrats OF England at one time
held much the same notions as are
now held by our American impossI-
bilists. 1T will only need a compact
minority" their organ once declared.
ito take advantage OF some opportune
accident. that will assurediy occur, to
overthrow the present system. and
once for all lift the toilers from their
present social degradation" There
was nothing formidable In these
dreamers who were chiidishly waiting
for the "opportune accident which
never came, just as the impossibilists
OF America are waiting for the "col-
lapse of capitalism" when the trusts
shall have expanded SO far that they
can expand no further! And this COL
lapse was said to be due In 1s04-
and Is now said to be due in 1919!
Meanwhile, the English social-dem-
ocracy did not grow. While the So
cial-democrats of other countries were
making themselves felt in parliament
and In the cities. Great Britain lag
ging behind. Early in the SOS. WILL
lam Morris had expressed a hope for
"a socialist party which shall begin to
act in our own time" II was not TIL
Kerr Hardie and his friends started a
genuine working class party. with
practical. definite aims and a program
for the present. that socialism became
force In Great Britain. Then 1t
leaped up with a bound and landed
nineteen socialists in parliament.
We have only to read the earlier
writings of the German cial-demo-
Gratis to see that the German move
ment has gone through somewhat the
same process.
Eeven Liebknecht was at first what
we might call an impossibilist. He
declared that parliament is a swamp
in which socialist energies would be
engulfed!" Yet at later period Lieb-
knecht well said: I'VE are not going
to attain socialism at one bound. The
transition is going on all the time,
and the important thing for us. in
this explanation, is not to paint a pic.
ture OF the future-which In any cssn
would be useless labor-but for the
intermediate period, to formulate AMI
Justify measures that shall be applicu-
bel at once. and that will serve as aids
to the new socialist birth"
And this Is exactly the work which
our Chicago convention has accom-
plished. Its action was in the very
spirit of Liebknecht. We are follow
ing the evolution of all our comrades
across the sea. The fact that all sn-
cialist movements go through this
same process of evolution In the same
direction proves that IL Is the natural
and the right direction.
The socialist party of America has
come of age. IL has left its childish
Utopias and assumed the responsible.
ties of mature life.
And we predict that from this tim.
on IL win become a real factor n. \
America. Its days OF blind cropping
are ended. II now steps forward with
decided plan and a consciousness of
what Il has to do.
Great things are now before u.s.
r. "a. Thomas. State Secretary Wis
consin Socialist party.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-08-27
REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CHICAGO
CONVENTION.

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icai party at all
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izing socialist party Is polltlcai ae-
ton. II the socialists Intended oniy
10 propagate their ideas ana not 10
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tConiinucd on Page 2. Col. o.)
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-08-05

ter systemof transferring the title to
land. The heirs in the Wenatchee
case have but fimsy claim, but
under the present system a faint
shadow constitutes blemish upon
the title greatly impairing the value
of real estate. Wenatchee people
who will be affected have acted in
good faith and those now in possess
ion have paid for their property, but
a shrewd attorney can take the claim
of heirs and harrassk\e present hold
ers into paying again for quit-claim
deed In time lot of property
owners on WILDLY island and in
other portions of the Sound country
will probably be pestered by such
claims, for some of the early trans
fers were very bad and leave open
ings for attack by heirs of pioneers.
Lumbermen operating then cared
nothing for the land ami went only
far enough in getting title to give
them the right to take off the lum-
Der. A crafty attorney can dig in
to the records and find basis for genie
llackmail in the form of settle
-nent to quiet title. The TorIens
system of land transfer offers way
20 l.1otec: the Ian 1older, but it Is
not being adopted at rate that will
bring it into general use this century,
and meanwhile ut of honest PEG 1lc
can be restored ~ :".e sharks WIN
claims that bave no .nrmal right t.
exhlst Everett 1rijuLe
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The Great Dead.

The Great Dead.
(By Archibald Sullivan.
How soon the great dead are forgot!
They lie
Learning far grander things, for
they must know
The silent, gray-eyed mystery OF
rain,
And hear amid the dark the
daisies grow.
They lie, not knowing how the
world forgets,
Not caring for the idle feet that
pass;
For God has much for the great
dead to do,
Within His dusky city meath the
grass.
Smart Set.
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For State Senator.

1 hereby announce myself a
candidate for the nomination for
state senator for the 18th district
(Kittitas and Chelan cOunties),
on the republican ticket, subject
to your choice as expressed at the
primaries to be held ON Septem-
Der 8, 1905.
/ stand pledged to vote for the
party choice for United States
senator. With my experience and
work accomplished In the 9Th, 9th
and 10th sessions Of the legisla-
ture, Of which / hAd the honor to
be . member, representing Kit
tifas county, l can assure the vot-
crs Of CI,elan county that the In
teEcst q the cntire district Win
b inpaxtially anA faithfully Fcp-
reseatea ~ - - 10 fu1l extene
q NJ ahiliGy.
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EDITORIAL CONTENT.

Wenatchee people are q bit indig-
nant at former resident who. - an
employee Of the state. has dug up re-
mote heirs TO make claim to Z por-
ton Of the Wenatchee townsite.
The ineidsnt points The need Of : BET
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PAID ADV ERTISING.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
For County sheriff.
FOR SHERIFF..

FOR SHERIFF.
/ hereby annOuDre myself as
candidate for Sheriff of Chelan
countv, Washington, subject to
the choice Of the Democratic
party, at the primary election to
be held ON Tuesday, September 8.
In seeking this nomination. l
am impelled to do so by friendly
assurance of support from many
quarters.
An investigation Of my record
rs q deputy in the Office Of the
present sheriff is invited by those
unfamiliar with 1t. Many Know
It.
II / ann nominated and elected
I promise . faithful, economical
and efficient administration.
w. 4. SIMMONS.
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For Auditor.

For Auditor.
To the Voters of Chelan County:
I will be a candidate on the
republican ticket for auditor sub
ject to the September primaries.
Yours truly,
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i:'s w,se mas = :. lees the FOL,
ri his Jwn iAss