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well. She pretenjed that she had been wrong and that she meant to acknow ledge the newcomer as her son; then she begged that she be permitted to make only one condition. The Sultan. glad to do something to make up for his angry outburst against her. as- sented with smile and asked her in- diligently what she would like to pro- pose.
 'I should like to have a proof of the skill of both of the young men," said she. Another person might select rid ing, sword play or spear throwing. But those are things that many can do. I would ask them to do something that requires cunning of the eye and hand and brain. I should like each one to make a fine garment. so that we may see who will produce the better of the two"
 The Sutan laughed heartily. Why. you have surely thought of something wonderfully clever" cried he. 50 you wish my son to compete with an Insane tailor in cutting and sewing No, no, my dear! That is absurdt'
 The sultana, however, reminded him that he had promised. The Sultan be- ing a man or his word. finally agreed but he swore that no matter how beau tiful a dress the insane tailor might make. he. would never agree to recog- nIze him as his son.
 Then he went to Labakan and apoio- glzed to him for the foolish whim of his mother begging him to humor her and to do the best he could, since she had set her heart on seeing what he could do with the needle. Labakan nearly laughed with delight. He could not have chosen a better test himself, and he thought, Well, the Sultana shall certainly have reason to be proud of me"
 Two rooms were prepared. one for the Prince, one for the tailor. Silk. cloth, scissors, needles and thread were provided, and two days were given to thefn to finish their work.
 The Sultan was highly amused, was curious to see what sort of a garment his son would succeed in making, while the Sultana was devoured with anxiety as to her stratagem.
 At the end of the allotted time the court assembled and servants wors sent to the two rooms. Labakan en- tered the hall first. Triumpnantly he
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Involuntarily the guards released Omar, but the Sultan. aflame with am ger. commanded them to bind the mad man. T judge here" said he majes- tically. and here we judge not ac- cording to women's dreams, but &C., cording to sure signs. This point ing to Labakan, Ifs my son. for he brought to we the dagger from my friend Elf Bey."
 He stole 1t from me-" said Omar. My trusting confidence has been abused by him"
 The Sultan was too angry to listen to these words. Accustomed to auto cratic action and blind obedience, he ordered that Omar be dragged out. Then he withdrew into private apart mepts with Labakan, furious at the vagary of his wife. which had spoiled the festivities.
 The Sultana in the meantime remain ed certain that cheat had gained the heart of the old Sultan. She did not permit outward appearances to shake her confidence in the truth of her dreams As soon as her grief permit ted her to consider calmly she began to plan how to convince the Sultan of his error. Her investigations showed her that this would be by no means easy. Not only had Labakan obtain ed the dagger. he had also drawn from the OtIldT almost the whole story of his life with the Bassa. Therefore. he was able to play his part skillfully, especially as he had always acted the Prince. even while he was only a tailor's appren- tice.
 She called her wisest slaves and held council with them. They proposed and dismissed plan after plan. till Melech- saiah, an old, wise Arabian woman, said: 'SThis man who delivered the dagger says that the other is a tailor named Labakan. What more likely. if he is a cheat. than that he has used his own name and occupation? If that were so. know way to dis cover and expose him" She bent her mouth close to the Sultana's ear and whispered something that evidently pleased her mistress. for the latter clapr sd her hands and arose at once to go to the Sultan.
 The Sultana was a shrewd woman who knew the Sultan's weaker side
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HARNlI HAD Ills LAST WORD
 SOUNDED BETOH A CEDAR TKEE OPENED. A YELLED WOMAN WITH HCHTINQ WfAyTE GARffENTcS APFEARED
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-02-13

that the railways, the shipping, the
mines, the factories, and all such
things as are necessary for the produc.
tion Of the necessaries and comforts of
life should be public property, just as
the public roads, public parks and
public libraries are, public property TO.
day, 80 that all these things should be
used by the whole people to produce
the goods that the whole of the people
require
This is no utopian dream, but the
natural outcome of the development
of society. The greatest undertakings
are those owned by joint stock com.
panies, whereby the whole business
is managed and carried on by paid
officers, who might just as well be
paid by the community to carry on the
enterprise in the interest Of the ges-
eral body Of the people as to be paid
by few wealthy men to carry it on
for their profit.
To-day goods are not producd to sat
isfy human needs; they are simply
produced to provide for the class which
owns the msans Of production. 1t 10
only for the saks ofproft that the own.
ing class own these means of produc.
tion, az a consequence we have shoddy
and adulterated goods produced.
Under socialism goods would be pro-
dueed for human need, not for profit,
therefore there would be no shoddy
or adulberaoed gDods- To-day the
workers get less than II per cent Of
the wealth they produce under, social.
ism they would get the full value Of
what they produced.
Ii. p. NEVILLIS.
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The Strike
Still On
of Rocky Mountain Bell Tele.
phone Company Declared But
Not Forthcoming

A conference between the officials of
the Montana Federation of Labor AMI
the Bell Telephone company was held
in Butte last Saturday for the purpose
Of settling the telephone strike, but
no agreement was reached.
The Telephone company conceded ev.
erything, except the closed shop for
the operators, and the union would not
stand for the open shop in Butte or
elsewhere.
The agents of the scab phone com
any are busy circulating the report
that the strike is settled. They are
doing this for the purpose of getting
people to apply for work, then refuse
to hire anyone who applies.
There are few seabs linemen work
ing in Butte, but the only work thao
are doing is to remove phones. Over
one thousand phones have been taken
out Of business houses in Butte during
the past forty days. The celler in the
basement of the telephone bunling is
full of returned phones and still being
added to at the rate of a wagon load
a day.
There are only three hundred and
fifty phones belonging to the Bell COM
pany in commission in Butte, whereas
there were twenty six hundred when
the boycott commenced, and this in the
face of government by injunction.
The unions of Butte are working the
silent boycott TO the finish.
There is considerable talk that the
scab phone company will 60 into re-
ceivers hands, the company declared a
dividend, but the stockholders have
never received it yet. From reliable
sources comes hints of graft in high
places among the officials of the com
pany. It seems that the company's
money is spent on protracted drunks
and charged up to maintenance of com
pany property. Then to make good
the deficit, the officials raise the price
toll rates.
What a deal the citizens alliance
have given the people of Helena by
supporting the scab phone company.
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pire' was held-a congress represent
ing the advance guards of the Turks,
Armenians, Arabs and Jews. The,
congress agreed to abandon their sec
tional policies, to work together for.
the political liberty of the whole en-
pire, and a permanent executive was'
formed and common plan Of action
was decided upon The chief demands.
of the congress are the abdication of
Abdul IIanlid, the present Sultan, and
the establishment Of a new Constitu-
tion, The following are the measutesl
the congress recommends:
!. Armed resistance to authority.
2. Unarmed resistance, by means of
the political and economic strike.
3. Refusal 10 pay taxation.
4. Propaganda in the army (the
soldiers will be urged not to march
against the people nor against the re
volutionaries)
8. General insurrection.
o. Other methods of action render,
ed necessary by circumstances.
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The National Committee is now vot-
ing on Motion No. 6, which provides
for the permanent employment Of one
woman speaker and organizer; Motion
No. z, TO defer further action on the
Nebraska situation until the National
convention; vote will close Feb. IS.
The National Committee is now vot-
ing on Motion No. s, providing for uni
form subscription lists TO be used by
all divisions Of the party to raise funds.
for the presidential campaign; Motion
No. 9, to appoint the National Execu-
tive committee, a committee on confer
ence with the s. l.. p. in accord with
the proposition for unity recently SUBJ
mitted by that organization; Motion
No. 10, that the National Committee
elect seven of its own members for
said conference committee; Motion No.
IL, that individuals and sections of the
S. l.. p. be invited TO join the Social,
ist Party, making application to the
respective locals of the latter; Motion
No. ~, to instruct any conference COM
mittee to reject all propositions involv-
ing any questions of policy and tactics
the settlement of the same to be left
to the United Party; vote will close
Feb. 25.
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FRANCHISE GRADERS DEFEATED

The people of Livingston at special
election have again shown that the
work of the socialists at that point
was effective.
The Madison River Power comapny
recently applied to the Livingston city
council for a forty-years' electric fran
chise and sent five lawyers to the city
council to work for the passage of the
ordinance.
The only alderman TO fight against
the franchise grab was Charles Simp-
son, socialist, and rafting good fight
he made single handed against the old
party aldermen who always favor fran
chise grabbers. The franchise had to
be submitted to a vote Of the people
at q speeial election.
The result Of the poll showed that
only sixty people were in favor OF
granting the franchise and all the bal
anee Of voters by their ballot showed
that they endorsed the action OF Sinp-
son, the socialist alderman, and op.
posed to the action Of the old party
counclmen.
Alderman Simpson, during his entire
term Of office, has always stood by the
interest Of the workers. His term Of
Office expires next April and 1t Is safe
TO say that he will be reelected by
the biggest majority ever given an al
derman in Livingston.
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Turkey and Revolution.

Revolution amongst subject peoples
is infectious, Stimulated by the sue
cess of the reformers Of Persia, the
leaders Of the various races subject
to the rule of the Grand Turk have
decided to unite their forces and work
together for the casting of Of the Sui
tanic yoke. In the closing days of
last month a congress of "the parties
Of Opposition Of the Ottoman En-.
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Great Falls
Labor Unions
Selby UphOlds Rights of Working Men
to Organize and Thus Benefit
Their Condition

Opportunity knocks once at the
door Of every man, it is said, and ev-
cry community. Opportunity knocked
at the door of Great Falls last year
when the business men of the city
were ordered to take out their tele-
phones because of labor trouble. How
did you answer that knockf Did you
stand up like men and assert your
rightsf No, you meekly bowed your
heads like servile slaves and said Yes,
me lord, and the telephones came out.
"You have only yourselves to blame
for it all. You have only yourselves
to blame that a 100000 telephone
building is stopped in the building, and
an up-to-date exchange is not work
ing In Great Falls. 1t is you that are
to blame with your meekly bowed
head, and your humble yes, me lord ,
to any and all demands made upon you
by the laboring men Of the city.
"And yet, the laboring men, the
unions talk of the privileged class. ;
What is the privileged class in this
community Is it the business men
and merchants-the men who have had
the brains and ability to build up the
large industries and enterprisesf No,
you know it is not. You are the men
who bend your backs and take orders,
with your suppliant 'Yes, me lord. ,
1t was the privileged class that stop
ped the construction of the telephone
building and has been doing every.
thing possible to hold Great Falls back
for decade. Why, those people ought
to be protected from themselves. They
are hurting themselves, as well as the
city,"
The above quotation is taken from
. press report Of q speech delivered
by @. c. Bowers at business men g
club in Great Falls last week. II is
clearly direct insult to organized
labor. No intelligent union man can
regard at in any other light Any
one who has studied the middle class
will regard these utterances Of Mr..
Bower as typical of the narrow minded
bigotry Of that class. The entire abb
sence of any great ideal is its chief
characteristic, enwrapped in a robe of
sordid egotism, it fails to see anything
noble in the movement Of the workers
through their organizations to main
tain for themselves, their wives and
babies a somewhat decent standard Of
living. 1t utterly fails to see how
necessary labor organizations are to
the very existence Of the working man,
that they are his only defense, without
them his condition would be deplorable.
By thus securing himself somewhat
against the ravages of competition,
he maintains in a degree his indepen-
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tie, had fled papers with the proper
city authorities of Seattle as candidate
on the socialist ticket as an alderman
of the 18th ward Of the city, paid his
fees of ten dollars and was about TO
go before the people as such candidate
at the approaching primary election.
The regular party organization applied
for an injunction on the ground that
said DR.. Steiner was not a regular par
ty member, because he was one Of
those former members Of the party.
who suffered expulsion by the revoca-
tion of the charter from Local Seattle.
Although he presented to the court q
membership book stamped up to date
and in every other respect was quail
fed to be candidate and waged a
bitter contest against granting Of in
junction. Judge Morris of the super
ior court declared after the case had
been fully presented in all its phases
by the introduction of the National
constitution as well as state constitu-
tion and the party records, that said
DIR. Steiner is not member of the
regular party organization and there
fore not entitled TO have his name ap-
pear as candidate Of the socialist
party. In granting the injunction asked
for, the Judge pointed out that in a
case of this kind the only remedy 10
to make new application for member
ship, the same as others have done,
who were expelled from the party when
the charter had been revoked.
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Letter Of State Secretary Richard
Krueger Of Washington.
Tacoma, Wash. Jan. 81

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 81, 1905.
Dear Comrade:-I desire to submit
the following court decision and facts
leading up to the same, and in as much
as the same is of vital Importance to
the socialist party organization and
sets up a precedent for the future,
viii ask you kindly to publish the same
in the Weekly Bulletin.
One DR.. Steiner, a resident of Seat
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dence which is the basis Of manhood.
Labor unions have an incalculable val
ne to the American workers. The very
resistance they engender prevents the
workers from sinking into a state of
servility accepting every act of des
potism without a protest. But all this
the business man fails to see, the whole
problem Of his life is the profits of
his business, and when the labor union
interferes in any way with this, he at
once sets up yell about the "tyran.
ny of the unions"
There was an example Of this last
summer in Graf Falls when the unions
of that city requested the business
men to take out their phones owing to
the trouble with the Bell Telephone
company. Some of them complied
with the request. Mr.. Bower refers
to this instance and accuses the bust.
ness men Of servility. He told them
that they should have asserted their
rights in this case and not obeyed the
mandate of the union with bended
knees. From this gentleman 8 stand.
point it was of no consequence that
the union cause was a righteous one.
The struggle of the telephone girls
and the linemen against a grasping
corporation to obtain a decnt standard
Of comfort should have been Of no
concern to the business men. 1t was
extremely servile of him TO incoRven-
fence himself in the least on their be
half. But after all Mr.. Bowers idea
of the rights of the business men in
this case may be incorrect. The Bell
company did not give good service.
Great Falls business men have ad.
mitted thiA 1t would have better
served their purpose to have encour-
aged an independent company TO ex-
tend its lines to the city, and thus
check the Belle policy Of monopoliz-
alton. That its charges are exorbi-
tant, all agree, and to extend its terri.
tory to the exclusion of other eompan.
les is only to give it greater powers of
exploitation. If Mr.. Bower and the
others of his class would consider their
condition carefully they would discov-
er that they do not preserve their in
terest by supporting the telephone
trust or any other trust, but rather
by supporting the cause of the workers.
We continually hear the howl Of the
small business man against the tyran-
ny of the corporations. They realize
that chances Of the man with small
capital to successfully compete against
them is rapidly decreasing. Yet they
make no organized efforts to resist
them, if they organize at all, it is in
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-02-13

No special comment is necessary on
the first two paragraphs. Throughout
four fifths of the states, socialist unity
has already been reached by the virtu-
al disappearance of the Socialist La
Dor Party. 1t is perfectly true, how
ever, that there are still a few hun
dred tireless, energetic workers who
cling 20 the s. l.. p, and that their ef-
forts are now largely wasted in fight
ing the Socialist Party instead of
fighting capitalism. SO that if union
could be brought about without com
mitting the Socialist Party to unwise
tactics, it would be a substantial gain,
well worth some trouble.
In the third paragraph, the resolu.
tions call attention to an important
fact. It is indeed true that the great
question before the working class to-
day is the relation Of industrial organ
ization to political action. But direct
ly after stating this fact, the resolu-
tions plunge into a tangle Of Utopian
speculations that are perfectly futile,
and founder there in a fashion which
would make us think that the COM
raies who prepared them had never
heard Of Marks law of economic de-
terminism.
II seems very simply thing out in
California, thousands of miles from
the storms centers Of the economic
fight between capitalists and laborers,
to argue theoretically that industrial
unions are necessary to help run things
when the Socialist Party, years hence,
is in control Of the government. But
to offer such an argument seriously
shows weak grasp of the motives
that really make people do things.
Here in Chicago most of the men,
bers of the Socialist Party are mem
bers of ery-day, commonplace trade
unions, affiliated with the American
Federation Of Labor. This is not be-
cause Chicago Socialists are less revo-
lutionary than the socialists in Red
lands, California. The Chicago Social
ist, most of them joined these trade
unions long ago, and for the very good
and very prosaic reason that they
wanted better wages and depended on
the unions to help get them, or per-
haps found that they could not get jobs
without carrying union cards. They
remain in side these unions today for
the most part because there are no in
dustrial unions here in the trades in
which they work. If they were to
withdraw from the existing unions to
join the budding organization of the
Industrial Workers of the Wolrd, they
would stand a very good chance of
losing their jobs. Moreover they
would seem to their shopmates to be
acting Ike scabs, and they are more
sensitive 70 the opinion of their shop
mates whom they have seen than to
the opinion Of their comrades of Red
lands, California, whom they have not
seen.
And there is another reason why
they should stay inside the existing
unions. II they were TO withdraw,
would enrage the other members of
the union both against the Socialist
Party and against the idea of indus
trial unionism.
There is a far stronger argument
for the adoption of the Industrial
Union principle than that offered by
Local Redlands. The oldtime craft
unions were the logical form Of or
ganization when industry was for the
most part carried on by small capital
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-02-13
Uniting of Socialist Party of America
and Socialist Labor Party Is
PerSistently Urged
Resolutions of California Local For
Consolidation Good After Be.
ing Properly Amended

ible as an officer or candidate of the
Socialist Party.
And be it further Resolved, that
if this referendum be carried and a
convention called for the purpose of
completing this consolidation, the de.
legation shall consists of wage workers
holding no official position in either
party.
II. M. Mccoy,
Chairman Committee.
M. SHELLY,
Secretary.
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The Purpose OF Socialism.

Socialism is theory of a system of
human society based on the common
ownership of the means of production
and the carrying on of the work Of
production by all for the benefit of
all. In other words, socialism means
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-02-13

National Organizer John NJ. Work
reports splendid meetings at Bingham
Canyon and Park City, Utah, and Ev-
anston, Wyo. VIM. Thurston Brown has
agreed TO GIL number Of engagements
in Utah under the direction Of the
state committee.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-02-13

The International Paper Co. has pur
chased tract Of $50 square miles of
New Brunswick forest, in the Domin
ion Of Canada The land contains
$4,000 acres Of heavily.woodcd spruce
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CONTINUED on Pago ~
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Continued on Page 81
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-10-01
FOR STARTING
CALIFORNIA FOREST FIRES

tnird IrCss LeNsed Wirc.i
Portland. Or, Oct Louis r.
Webb. a hunter and trapper. who is
Interested in Southern oregon mines.
accused of having set fire to several
thousand acres of government tim
Der in Northern California, is in the
county 'ail in Portland, where he has
engaged attorneys TO fight extradi-
tion to San Francisco. He was
brought here last night from Klam-
9th county by Deputy United States
Narhsal Nicholson.
Webb was taken before a United
s ates commissioner, and the amount
80 hail placed at $4,000. Unable TO
give bond Webb is now in the Multi
"omah county Jail, awaiting the or
'er OF removal TO California for trial.
webb claims that his arrest Is the
"e Hlt Of snite work at the hands of
rome of his enemies. He asserts that
hp did not start forest fires
II Is alleged by the California gov
eminent agents that during Angus
Webb deliberately and maliciously
-et fire TO timber lands I'm Northern
California. and that a result OF
his action the timber on practically
-four entire townships was bIrned
ruined.