Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1909-10-07
Injunction Bill Capitalist President Jim I Capitalist;
Tom Carter, Capitalist Politician Bishop Carroll Capitalist
Priest Serve Bmcombe To The Common Herd

President Taft has come and gone
in Helena. AS an eastern paper has
spoken of King Edwards perambu.
lations through Europe, he is indeed
the travelling salesman of the CONNER
eial class. To one who sees in this
fat, slick, smooth politician and his re-
tinue of associated politicians only a
committee Of the ruling class to pro-
mote their scheme for profits, the
superficial shallow show, the talk
which says nothing, which indeed is
a diarhoea Of words and constipa-
tion of ideas, is a painful evidence Of
how the people are daily fooled to turn
their institutions over into the hands
of those that fleece them.
Boost for Commerce.
The commercial glamour was on
every feature of the Taft visit in
Helena. Jim Hill, the millionaire rail-
road builder of the northwest, was
here at the same time, made his speech
just before Taft, was on the platform
with him. Now here was the way the
apply came up. Jim Hill represents, is
one Of, the capitalist controllers Of
American destinies. He engineers and
controls the conquest of new territory
for industry, the building of railroads,
the settling Of lands, and is of course
tremendously interested in an enormous
increase of production, that he may
build more railroads to handle, thereby
pushing his dominion over vast new
areas from which he may exact more
millions of tribute in the shape of
profits.
Jim Hill, the Capitalist.
Hill is a philosopher, a hard worker,
man who has studied the possibilities
of the northwest and methods of de-
veloping it as probably no other in
dividual has. He knew what il meant
to him and his railroads TO have agri-
culture develop in this country. No
matter how rich mining deposits may
be he knows their product will not call
for the volume of transportation busi-
ness that agriculture does. He knows
that men settled on the land on the
small farm, instead of being pushed
out TO hobo it across the country, as
the large industry pushes them, will
feed more people, will call for more
production, hence more transportation.
Hill has followed up this line of
investigation in all its ramifications.
He has heretofore been taken up with
his trans-eontinental projects between
St. Paul and Seattle. 1t is his pur-
pose to make Seattle the metropolis Of
western America. He was the promoter
of the Alaska. .Yukon-Pacifie exposition,
which he opened. Now he is turning
his attention 10 the wonderful resources
OF Montana. lie is giving prizes at
the various fairs. He has furnished
prize breeding animals to various see.
tions Of the state. lie is urging in
tcnsive farming in his speeches, more
scientific methods. He is pointing to
the causes and results of the decay OF
agriculture in all history and all over
the world. He is building more rail
roads in Montana, the Billings North.
ern, and stated in his speech at the
grand stand that Montana needed
twice the railroad mileage.
Speech Aimless Platitudes.
Taft is in his seat as the nation s
executive simply to do the bidding of
men like Jim Hill. Taft, however, is
a blundercr so far as a keen perception
of his mission is concerned. At one