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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
WHISTLES
SWEET TUNE TO VOTERS

thing against the Wall Street gang,
but that corrupt politics have flour
ished under the sway of the big stick.
Whenever congress got too friendly to
the interests of the working people,
the supreme court, that immovable
oligarchy of nine stone judges, was
there with the oracle: "Uneonstitu-
tional }"
All that could have been in the
smallest measure benefit to the
great mass Of wage workers was against
the spirit of the Constitution. The
people will but the supreme court In
terprets. And the capitalistic interpre-
tation of a fundamental law made in
time of handicraft and agricultural
production is more powerful than the
will of a people living in the age Of
social production.
The unrest caused by this contrast
has not escaped the attention of the
vote-catching executive.
The increasing socialist sentiment,
expressed in the increasing socialist
vote, alarms the Square Dealer He
sees plainly how the American work
ingman, with hand and brain becomes
aware of the fact that they are treated
all as non-possessors" by the legis-
lative bodies of nation, state and
municipality and by the courts. This
is dangerous for the life of the capital
ist state and the President calls up
two "spirits" to defend it: "the far
sighted patriot" and the "true Ameri-
ean.n
This game is easily understood.
The President has nothing to offer to
millions of workers as patriotism in a
country where 80 per cent don't pos
sess square inch of soil, and he under
stands by "true American" the sup
porter Of Rooseveltian municipalities
The workers will from year to year
see clearer how they are cheated by
the capitalist parties and their gen.
erals.
They must come to see the only way
along which they can reach the indus
trial freedom for their class. Inde-
pendent political action is the only
means by which they can obtain their
end.
The hatred of the President against
socialism shows how important an is
sue it has become. He fears that the
vote Of the workers will go to the
party which platform contains more
than eapitalistic reform promises.
And he whistles, as the fowler does
when he wants TO catch the birds.
But he has to come this time with
something more substantial than a
sweet tune.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

ed upon to protect all constitutional
rights.
with money reserves well above
legal requirements, interest is now
being manifested in speculative bond
issues, which interest will later drift to
stocks. New municipal bonds are de-
manding premiums, thus affording an
opportunity to dispose of any corporate
issues that may come on the market.
with money continuing easy, ana
brokers' offices generally free Of
stocks. there is only one conclusion to
be arrived at and that is that the next
important movement in the stock mar
ket will be upward, and we are, there
fore, inclined TO think this an ad-
visable time to buy good and standard
issues Of proven value on any small
recession from present prices.
'We shah be glad to advise you on
any subject pertaining to stocks and
bonds in which you may be interested.
Every truly yours,
GRIPPE & CO."
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
LEGISLATURES PROPOSE
BUT COURTS DISPOSE

The Montana News had the privilege
to pick up the following correspondence
from the realm Of "high finance. ="
We recommend TO our readers the care
full reading of il, especially the para
graph telling the good republicans and
democrats all about the POLITICAL
SITUATION. We print this partie-
ular paragraph in bold face. Are the
courts strangling the republic of the
"Fathers"i IL you want to shout
" Hands off f" vote the Socialist party
ticket. The letter follows:
"office of Trippc & Co, Bankers,
35 Wall Street, New York.
april %, 1908.
"Dear Sir:-Believing that the stock
market is slowly but surely laying a
foundation for gradual improvement,
we desire to call your attention to some
OF the factors which are now receiving
the attention of investors.
Foremost among the features to be
considered is that the market is now
commencing to foreshadow the general
and gradual improvement in commerce
and manufactures, just as it discounted
n year ago the depression through which
we are now passing. Wall Street
realized that the recession in trade was
rapidly approaching long before the
commercial world could be convinced
Of IL. In like manner, il now sees
signs Of Improvement though the bust.
ness of the country does not yet reflect
Il.
"rhe political situation. while apt 70
cause an occasional stir In the stock
market during the next 90 days is de.
cidediy more satisfactory than IL wa
q short time ago. The public is com
mencing TO realize that while legisla.
tmes may propose, the courts will dis
pose, and that the supreme court OF
the United States can sofeiy be count
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

Before the first Tuesday in Novem-
ber, the republican party and its acting
clown, Roosevelt, have to show the
people what great things there are in
store for them if they only will sup
port their administration, and a rain
of promises is poured out over the
"sovereigns" of the United States,
the men with the votes
The presidential message of April
27 starts with pointing to the recently
passed Employers Liability Act. But
the President, well aware that this
law "comes short Of what ought to
have been done", feeds the voting
proletarian on "hope''
Capitalistic policy is everywhee the
same. This "hope scheme" is played
for years and years on the working
people all over the earth, just before
election. Hope for more labor legisla.
tion, for an employers liability law
providing for recompensing all en-
ployees who suffer injury while en-
gagged in public service. Why not
pass such law before election And
the workers outside public service are
left to the mercy of their capitalistic
state legislatures. After touching the
hearts by promising child.labor laws for
the District of Columbia, the Presi-
dent hands some sweet things to the
middle class voters and small trans
porters. Financial aid for preparatory
work for the waterways commission; !;
revising of the tariff by the congress
"to be elected next fal"; examining
books of the railways. Always good
to the small merchant oppressed by
the trusts. Vote for us and our Bill,
%, grocer from the corner; peanut
peddler from some "eabin in the rear";
shoe eobbler fighting against the gi-
gantic shoe factory-we are your
friends.
Organized labor, lashed by the in
junction-whip, protested. The protest
was feeble and made in humble Ian
guage. But the courageous bear
hunter nevertheless got afraid of the
combined A. +. of L.. Internationals
and Farmers Equity society. Sooth-
ing syrup is applied. There "should
be enacted" some legislation.
Is organized labor going to wait till
congress is going to limit the power Of
injunction Will il remember how
many times the President has promised
the nation to remedy the danger of the
eorrupting influences of the great cor.
porations How fearless the language
he has used against the monopoly mon.
ster And will il remember at the
same time that the Roosevelt admins.
tration never has accomplished any
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
FIRST OF May! MTERNAT AT|ONAL LABOR DAY
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
MAY DAY is OBSERVED

This is the day of d-solidarity.
Wherever the socialist proletariat is
organized there it demonstrates with
parades, mass meetings and open air
gatherings, the oneness of the Glass
Of Revolt. There it shows the op-
pressor its growing strength and its
determination to conquer the mastery
Of Earth, Industry, Science and Art
When the sun rises over America, he
has seen the comrades of the Dream
land of Art, of fair Japan, celebrating
the coming of the New Day. He shines
over the misery, the untold sorrows
and near hopeless faces of the ST.
berian prisoner, over the struggling
peasants and industrial proletaires of
Russia. Over the compact regiments
of the ocial-democraey of Germany,
Denmark and Holland. Over the noisy
French comrades and our Belgium
brethren, waving their countless red
banners in the air and singing the
songs of International Socialism. Over
the heads of all the European and
Indian comrades, leaving the English
TO the last, looking at the new life
that touched the Anglo-Saxon nature,
he arrives at America.
There are some of us, who know
what the First Of May means. But
the American worker has accepted the
day, handed down by the capitalist
government, as his "Labor Day."
On the First of May work ceases in
the industries, not because the cap
italist wills IL so, but because the
worker has taken this day as HIS
holiday.
The more the workers become con-
scious of the immense force hidden in
their organizations, the more they will
refuse to accept any "present" from
the masters.
The solidarity can be measured by
the way the First of May is cele'
brated. That the American proletariat
is content with the capitalist Labor
Day, and ignores the International
May Day, shows the necessity Of more
agitation and education as a part Of
the Socialist International. The party
should remember the resolution passed
by the Amsterdam congress in 1904:
Whereas, the demonstrations of the
workers on the First Of May has for
an object the common upholding ON a
fixed day, and in all the countries
where there is modern working
class movement Of the cause of the
proletariat, especially the protection Of
the workers by the eight-hour day law;
the class solidarity and the universal
holiday and Of demonstrating the unity
Of the working class movement in all
countries;
az, hereas, the unity Of the demon
stration only exists in some countries
and in others, not the First of May,
but the first Sunday in the month is
celebrated;
"The Amsterdam congress re-affirms
the resolutions adopted at the Inter
national Socialist congress, held in
Paris in 1889. in Brussels in 1891, in
Zurich in 1898, and in Paris in 1900,
and invites all the Socialist parties and
trade unions of all countries TO or.
ganize energetically the working class
demonstrations of the First of May, in
order to demand the institution of the
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
THE PARIS STRIKE.

Paris this year will witness a re-
markable demonstration on May Day if
the lockout of masons. which has just
taken place, continues until that date.
The Paris masons who have just been
locked out number some $4,000, and il
the men in the allied trades are thrown
out as well, the army of locked-out
workmen in Paris will count 100000
at least. The dispute between employ
ers and employed turns on the eternal
questions of wages, hours of labor, and
unionism. The masters offer raise in
wages Grade presumably being brisk)
a working day of ten hours, fifty-two
holidays in the year (but not neces.
sarily Sunday, and employment Ia
unionists and non. unionists alike. The
men refuse to accept these terms. They
demand better wages than the employ
ers offer, working day Of nine hours
the Sunday rest-day, and refuse ia
work with non-unionists. "We will, -
they say, "have no blacklegs in our
midst; and at a number of enthusi-
astic meetings they have declared their
determination to fight TO the bitter
end.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
JOHN BULL ALARMED
AT SOCIALISM'S GAINS

them that the House Of Lords was
now "most necessary in order to com
bat socialism"
We shall see the same thing in this
country as soon as American socialism
becomes formidable political power.
The trust magnates and the middle
class will then become the best of
friends And the old party "Rad'
icals" will drop all antitrust agita.
tion like hot potato.-vanguard.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
KILLING THE BOYS.

The following communication comes
from the office of the International
Association of Machinists, at st. Paul:
st. Paul, Mimi, March "a.
Mr.. James ID. Graham:
your letter of March 10. / can, of
course, understand that the man who
holds the power of discharge and the
power to lay men off, gleefully bangles
that power in the faces of the poor
devils who, through their political ig-
norance, are compelled to depend upon
him. 1t is quite natural under the
present industrial conditions when our
brothers see man after man driven
mereilessly in the ranks of the unem.
ployed that they would be somewhat
timid about even attempting to secure
their rights. ! agree with you on your
opposition to apprentice boys becoming
journeymen through the round house
route. In the first place the work in
the round house is too heavy for an
apprentice boy, the conditions in most
round houses being such that he is
very likely to get a larger experience
with rheumatism and round shoulders
than he is at the machinist s trade.
Most boys that | have seen that come
through four or five years of round
house experience, beginning at about
sixteen years of age, are prematurely
aged men. II should not be permitted,
but Of course the company knows ii is
a special God-given privilege for a boy
TO get job in roun house and
eventually be allowed to make liv.
ing, and unfortunately some of our own
people, the working people | mean,
consider a man or a boy lazy il he
would not sacrifice health and life in
order to serve corporation greed. The
working class have got to forget all
that they know now before they can
commence to learn all that they ought
TO know.
] am sorry myself that ! dil not
meet you while in Helena, and you may
rest assured that next time i come there
] will not be so pushed for time as |
was last trip, and shall make IL a
point to call on the manager of the
Montana News. ] hope your progress
continues in the state and in place of
20 per cent Of the vote that IL will be
SO per cent next November.
! note what you say in regards to
the Bell Telephone companytrying to
employ spies to work inside the union.
They did not get the brother they were
after, but you may rest assured they
will get some other one. l think some
times we make mistakes in matters Of
this kind. A good strong brother like
this that has the cause at heart suf-
ficieutly to turn down s2400, should
| believe, have quietly reported the
matter to the proper officials Of the
union, and believe they should have
put him on the job and gotten informa.
tion that would aid us and do us u
world of good. 1 believe in beating the
devil at his own game, We have done
things like this in the past, and there
have been eases where in court our
men on the inside have saved brothers
peuitentiary terms where cases were
put up against them. Organized labor
is fighting despisable enemy who will
stoop to anything TO win, absolutely
unscrupulous, and delight in the fact
that they can buy anything they want;
even mems principles. When they
take such great delight in buying any
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

A ship in the frozen sea Of the
Arctic region Thousands of miles
away from their homes, the explorers
were caught in the ice and delivered
TO the mercy of the ocean current,
which drove them towards the North
Pole, the great unknown.
One day they planted a big pole on
the ice and hoisted an immense red
flag. In the superhero weather they
formed a circle around one tall intelli-
gent-looking man, their leader, and he
spoke TO them abouts the great future
that is promised to all mankind; about
the comrades in Norway, and their
struggle for national and industrial
freedom. They did not work that day,
not more than feeding their dogs an
extra holiday bite and sweeping the
deck.
All day long the red flag floated on
the feeble wind, blowing through the
icy regions, pointing south to all the
comrades in all the world. This is the
way Comrade Fridtjof Nansen, the
great Arctic explorer, celebrated May
Day, and kept the international holi
day even in the Farthest Month.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

"oh, the army Of the wretched, how
they swarm the city street,
We have seen them in the midnight.
where the Gotbs and Yandals
meet;
We had shuddered In the darkness at
the dull thud Of their feet
But their cause goes marching on. F"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

The Socialist party membership in
California is jumping upward in bounds.
The dues stamp record shows about
2,400 members In March.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30
PAINTERS MAY SONG.

I'VE paint house and gate and door
And we paint till we are dead
In all colors do we paint
But today we do paint Red
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

A California socialist writes to toe
Social Democratic Herald about the re.
suits Of the recent Milwaukee elections:
"It is really too bad that you Nil
waukee socialists persist in actually
trying to do things instead of gather
ing about the festive headquarters
stove in scientific orgies Of philoso.
phizing and expectoration. Neverthe-
less, you seem to be forging ahead in
fine style. Labor.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-30

"The congress therefore urges upon
all proletarian organizations as duty
to strive to secure the complete stop
page of work on May the First,
wherever that can be done without
injury to the working class interests.
From the dawn of history the First
of May has been holiday for the
common people.
In the forests, where the Germanie
tribes lived, the May Day was regarded
as the celebration of the coming spring.
The youth and maiden went out early
in the morning to pick the flowers and
boughs from the budding trees; they
hitched the oxen, whose horns were
crowned with flowers, to a rough
wagon. One maiden was chosen as the
May Qgeen and represented the Freya,
the Goddess of Fertility, who con
quered sleipnir, the prince of ice and
frost.
In the middle ages the custom still
survived, and even now on the con
tinent of Europe and the British Isles,
the May Dance is not uncommon way
Of rejoicing. The May tree, felled
early in the morning, set up on the
village common and adorned with
spring flowers, can still be seen.
That the modern proletariat should
take the beginning of the flower month
as its great festival day is in harmony
with its mission. The last and only
fought class struggle, will,
through the victory of the oppressed
class, unite humanity into ONE broth
erhood Of Masters-the Masters over
Nature.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-24
Charcoal Kills
Bal Breath
Whether From Decay In the Stomach
or Teeth, and will Stop
Stomach Gases.
Willow Charcoal Best for Use.

Charcoal ha3 been used for alb
ecrblng foul odrs and neutrallzing
ncxious gases for centuries.
Dupont, the powder manufactures,
learned that willow shoots two to
three years OF age made. the best
charcoal 1t is most porous.
Fetid breath, whether from sto-
mach or teeth. pryosis Tor gastric
pain darrhoea end constipation
simply cannot exist under the ac-
tion of charcoal.
Charcoal oXidizes all gases, or In
other words, chenges foul smelling
doors into oxygen, thereby doing
away with all fouluess and render
ing even such gases beneficial to the
system by giving 1t more oxygen.
The lungs purify the blood with OK
7gen from the air. Dying patients
have oxygen administered to their
system artificPlly and live for days
under this treatment
Stuarts Charcoa Lozenges are
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Eating one every once in awhile
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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-24

Mrs, Meade and her daughter-in-law
the little girls mother, are used to
hard work and lack of food They
do not mind that, but 1t seems to
them that the end has now come as
they sit in the little room, which
Mrs. Meade gets free for cleaning the
halls of a tenement house, caress-
ing two little red ribbons, and trying
to think of some way in which they
can raise the fortune, $50, that they
need to keep the body of little Marian
out of the potter's field,
Marian was killed by "a trolley car
"Wednesday when she was going to
fetch milk for her starving baby
brother, carrying in her hand the
last five cent piece that the family
possessel--a fiveIcent piece Marion
herself had earned.
The little rcd ribbons are the only
memcntoes of her left in the home.
The charitable societies have surn-
ished enough food for the family to
live on, but it Is not food they need
now All the mother and the grand
mother think Of is some way in which
they can provide for the burial of
the little crushed body that lies in
the morgue.
But after the 60 years struggle
Mrs. Mesde fears that she is corner.
ed at last
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-24
HIDDEN DANGERS
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
That No Marion Citizen Can
Afford to Ignore.

DANGER SIGNAL NO. comes
from the kidney secretions. They
viii warn you when the kidneys
are sick. Well kidneys excrete a
clear, amber fluid Sick kidneys
send cut thin, pale and foamy
CIR thick, red, ill-smelling urine
full of sediment and irregular OF
passage
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
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and heavy, or sharp and acute
tell you Of sick kidneys and warn
you of the approach of dropsy
dis,betes and Brights disease. Doari's
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Before used Doan's Kidney pills
! was troubled for a long time by
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ection and contained a sediment
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