Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-06-25
Ben Hanford
and Republicans
GO AND EAT GRASS" is ADVICE
Socialist Candidate for Vice President Scores
Hypocrisy and Vulgarity of Wall
Streets Recent Convention.

mated the Taft-Injunction Bill Taft.
And not one word on the floor OF
the republican convention. and not
one word in the republican platform
about the five millions of men out OF
work.
And why should there be? II the
republican party had anything to do
for the unemployed it would have
been done long before the convention.
The republican party has been in con-
troll of all branches of the federal gov
ernment for years. The republican
party controls the United States su-
preme court-that makes the blacklist
lawful and the boycott unlawful. The
republican party controls the United
States senate by a majority of 20 out
of 81 members. The republican party
controls the United States house OF
representatives by a majority of 56
out OF 391 members. The republican
party controls all the executive, legis-
lative and judicial branches OF tho
| federal government. For years the
republican party has had power, and
IL must not be allowed TO shirk re-
sponsibility. 1t should be held no
less responsible for the decisions of a
republican supreme court than for
the acts of a republican president anS
the laws of a republican congress.
And this republican party, without
a single decent attribute except a
name stolen from the graves of its
dead-this republican party had the
power before congress adjourned to
provide productive and remunaratiye
employment for every idle mah in the
United States. But 1t did not one
thing for the relief of the man out
of work. And when congress ad--
journd its members came to Chicago
and in convention assembled told the
millions of hungry people i'm the
country that owns $4,000, 900 600
worth of property to. go AND EAT
GRASS :"
l ask every jobless man in the,
United States to note the difference
between the republican party and the
Socialist party in the way they look at
the problem of the unemployed. The
national platform of the Socialist
party contains the following plank
II. The immediate government re-
lief for the unemployed workers by
building schools, by reforesting Of
cut-over and waste lands by recla-
maion of arid tracts. and the building
of canals, and by extending all other
useful public works. All persons en-
ployed on such works shall be en-
ployed directly by the government
under an eight-hour work day and at
the prevailing union wages. The gov
states and municipalities without in
terest for the purpose of carrying or
public works. 1t shall contribute to-
the funds of labor organizations fo~
the purpose of assisting their unem--
ployed members, and shall take sucI,
other measures within its power asa
will lessen the widespread misery OF
the workers caused by the misrule OF
the capitalist class"
Every unemployed man. every hun
cry man, who is threatened with re-
duced wages. every man who is H.,
danger of losing his job, can see,
clearly how the carrying out OF thae
proposition of the Socialist party
would help him-and help him in
stantly The republican party had
the power to do all these things for.
the unemployed II has done nothing
for their benefit Instead its officials
have not even allowed the unem-
ployed to march in the streets and
hold meetings to petition the govern
ment uhe republican party) for a re-
dress OF grievances. The unemployed
were dubbed by the police under re-
publican Mayor Bussc in Chicago anG
under democratic Mayor Mcclellan m
New York.
Speaking OF the democratic party.
Senator Lodge declared that It's
watchwords had become the "epi-
taphs OF policies which are dead and
damned"
or the republican party II can be
truly said that all its good is dead
and all that remains Is damned-noA
excepting injunction Bill.
Go and Eat Grass !'
So says the republican party to tina
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