Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1909-01-07
President Gives Parting
Slap at Grafters
Socialism and Agitators ScoredLabor Subject of Great
Concern---Messages on Congressional Grafters
, Stir House and Senate and
Evoke Retaliation

men who are championing popular
rights have most To fear from the
dcmagOgucs who i'm tn" name OF pop
ular rights would do wrong To and
opprcss honest business men. honest
m,n of wealth" AS all wealthy men
men grow wealthy by robbing the
working man of what hc has pro-
ducrd il is to laugh Ia hear Theodore
defend the robbcr. However, that is
what h" Is there for.
NJ Class Struggle.
The preacher of class hatred, the
man who. whether from ignorance or
willingness To sacrifice his country to
his ambitions, prrsuadrs wcll-mcaning
but wrong headed men To try to
destroy the implements upon which
our prosperity mainly rests" But
the term class s-consciousncss" has
penetrated Trddys soul at last, and he
speaks OF the business community in
a spirit of unhealthy class-Conscious-
ness" lie may b.comc scientific IL
h" pursurs his Investigations hut
the tyranny Of Socialism breeds terror
I'm his heart. lie says. the people
as a whole would probably go back
To reign of unrestricted individual
ism rather than submit To Il control by
the stat" So drastic and so foolish
conceived in spirit of such unrrason-
able and narrow hostilityto wealth. d"
His mind has never grasp"d any mean
ing of Socialism beyond that of mere
government ownership, and h" sees in
that tn" abolition al private business
which is his god.
We no NOR" believe In that en-
piricism which clamors for "A dvHdcn-
ing Socialism which would destroy all
individual initiative Let Teddy
stand in tn" bread line while and
he would find how much individual
initiative" there is i'm IN" country.
Handwriting of Labor.
Teddy has don" for American pluto
carey what NO president has ever
done b"for"-hc has realized that la
bor Is an issu" with the American pco-
pl. And h, fears this ominious
growing labor that is lifting it's head.
doubtless more than hc will the growl-
ing lions in tn" African jungle. Here
is the way h" sounds the warming:
N blind and ignorant resistance To
every effort for the reform Of abuses
and for IN" reimbursement of society
tu modern industrial conditions rep
rrSrnts not true conservatism but an
inCitpmpnt L. the widest radiCtlism.' 20
IIr says that Ia believes that all con-
tributurs to tn" processes Of produc-
tiun should own "a far greater share
than AT present uf Ilv wealth they
produce. and Ia L." enabled To- invest IL
in thu tools and Instruments by which
All work is carried on. Such IN ig-
uurant hodge -podgr uf the plainrst
economic facts in the cNcCutiy" of
the American nation is u disgusting
commentary on our national intclli-
gUnc". There Is not n monarch Of
Europe that would display such gross
ighurauC" at economic laws. lf the
wuTllingman is To- got MORE of his
wealth the pr, sidcnt hrutally admits
that hc is L. robbed legally of most of
H. How is hr Ia get enough To own
thr hig productive machines and COM
pete with IN" capitalist and still re-
main a worker? But the rruditr
president has an answer. The worker
II tu have "a larger share In the
OWNERSHIP oT railway, min and
luctury' Th" president has heard
the demands of tn" workers for com
plrtc ownership uf the machinery ri
production and hr wants 10 throw out
Il nice little sop with the capitalists
still i'm control of the feast. The
muddl-- -pmtrd bahblrr even dreams Of
n way 10y which IL will b" easy for "thr
man ui small means tu invest his
money in stocks" lu other words.
hr has discovered AN invention 10y
which the little fish viii swallow the
big unus.
Workers Pensions nI Last.
Th, president is coming along thu