Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-12-03

anu calamity hOwler, because ne
crlucls's tn" things that now are and
ttls th" ruth about them. Phillips
BROOKS sHid that such q man is a tru,,
optlmlst That this is indeed true /
tNidrhc"d by the fact that i'm order to
work Tor something advanced one
must haN" faith In humanity and I'm
the lutur". The consprvative-thp
fellow who hangs back and acts as a
d"hu weight upon sOclety-is the gem
uinc p"ssimist, H. Is the man who
lacks ialth in the human race and In
It's destiny, ~" IL the man who has no
contld' ne" in the ultimate triumph OF
| right over wrong.
| People used t0 De- indcp.ndrnt of
each other. Tools were simpIr. A
person could exist without aid from
Others hat, the development OF ma
chlnrry from the simple hand tool
USED 10y one person Ia the great collrc-
tlons ~ labor saving machines, and
the consequent development from
small individual industry to great ag-
| gregutuns of industry. has made
human beings dependent upon one an
oth,t Tor the very elements of life.
W. nav" changed from separate
ness Ia socialness.
But. our laws are still based On the
theory that We are still living under
IN" condition Of s"paratrness They
are adapted To that condition. They
| therefore do not fit our condition of
socialnoss at all. The result is px-
cruciuting agony-just as rNcruciatinE
misrrF would result from compelling a
person To- wear shoes several sizes too
small for him.
W" n"ed To change our laws to suit
the condition of socialness into which
we h1vr developed.
| Since We have become mutually in
terdcpcnd' MT. mutually intertwined.
we therefore need To change the laws
I'm such "A manner that the industries
on which We are mutually. dependcnt
VIII W" mutually owned by all of us
|
Some people think that Socialism
will result i'm the degcncracy of the
| human race because of the removal
| of The struggle for existence They
say that that struggle is necessary i'm
order to produce strong men and that
strong men of the past have been pro-
| duCcd by il.
P,opl" will have 10 struggle for
what they achieve in the Socialist COM
monwcalth. but To be sure Socialism
will destroy the desperate struggle 70,
a mere animal existence
| IN recent dicussion on this point,
the fact was brought out that Lester
F. Ward, in his Applied Sociology" 4"
has given the results of a careful in
| vrsiigation of the subject He foun,
thUi in proportion 10 their relative
numbers, over fifty times as many
talented persons have sprung from
| those who did not have To struggle for
"A bare existence as from those who
did. As examples of talented per-
sons mhO did not have to struggle for
an existence, he names Tasso. Petrarch
| BacacCiO, CcrNantcs, Dante, Chaucer
/ IIPuRl EiEhfH
Milton, Hobbies, Galileo. Harvey. Adam
Smith, Darwin, Newton, Dcscartcs
| Byron. Shelley Macauley, Comtc, Her
bert Spencer, Gibbon. Disrauli. Robert
| Browning. John Ruskin, Victor Hugo.
and many others
a few persons have risen from dire
| poverty 10 eminenCe. But these were
merely the exceptions who escaped the
| blighting influence Of their environ.
/ mcnt The struggle for a material cN-
istcnce withers the higher facultici
and is a blasting foe of intellectual de-
velopmcnt.
Release from the struggle will
therefore not cause degeneracy. il will
| enable the human race to soar int,
heights of higher development which
NOW seem utopian.
In a capitalist sheet the other day
| | saw AN editorial which said that
there are n lot of fellows loafing
around on the preteXt that they are
| unable to find "A job, and il wondered
| why they did not go out and take up
some of the now land.
| Thus do the lying capitalist news
papers add insult to injury when "A
workingman is down and out and can
not find "a job wherewith TO feed him
self and his wife and babies.
| Go out on the new land indeed!
taNF f.aFf l...l
that there is good land To be- had for
nothing. please tell us how penniless
| man can transport himself and family
| a thousand or two of miles. build "A
| house and barn, dig well. buy a
team, wagon, plow, a harrow, a
sccder, cultivator. a harvester, etc,
and live until he grows and markets
crop,
Even suppusing that insurmountable
| difficulty to be overcome, he would
| find himself constantly robbed by the
same horde of gruftcrs who rob him
whenever he has a job now and who
rob him Of his job itself whenever they
feel like It, The farmers ON the So
called new lands have discovered that
try as they may. IL is impossible to cs-
cape being robbed by the capitalists as
| long as the capitalist system exists
Witness the enormous Socialist vote
In Oklahoma and other agricultural
| states.
But the land is not free.
With few exceptions, IL has To- he
| paid for, from fifty cents To several
dollars an acre. Then the water
rights cost from twenty to sixty dol
lars per acre In addition, And with
out irrigation, most of IL will raise
nothing hut sage brush and jack rab-
bits.
II Is nothing short of crime To
fling such a proposition i'm the face of
an unemployed man,
Besides. why should workingmCn go
to the ends of the earth Ia get a living
and leave the enemy I'm possession OF
the good things they have earned and
been robbed Of? Is IL not more manly
to stay and fight for their rights?
No, thanks. we will stay right here
and fight FOR our lost herteEc, Rob-
berry doesn't suit MS any better one
place than another. We propose TO
keep right on agitatng until the rob
bers are dispossessed and the workers
come into their own.
Division of Wealth.