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VOL. IV. HELENA, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1905. NO. 11

Pres. Roosevelt for Bourgeois

Historic Document—Officially Outlines Class Struggle From the

Capitalist Side.

Tho capitalist class, the American aristocracy, the modern bourgeois, has heralded its latest position to the world through that pliant spokesman of its interests, Theodore Roosevelt, the ideal of American manhood. This message wil l go down in history as the beginning of a new phase in the evolu­tion of American capitalism. It is tbi first time that the capitalist class has of f ic ia l ly outlined the class struggle.

Socialist Agitation. The Socialist agitation has forced the

resignation of the class interest and the class demand, and versatile Theo­dore has not been slow to avail himself of the new alignment. The war note is sounded with the brazen trumpeting* that mark the fear of the trembling throne of class exploitation for the per­petuity of their unjust institutions. With armies and navies we fight the mud battle for position in the market place of the world. But the menace of the proletariat has shaken the throne of stocks and bonds. It was the cry of fear in the night that His Excel­lency gave when he informed a com­mittee of railway presidents that un­less t iny did something soon >n regard to rates the American nation faced i greater peril than it had yet known— the Social Democracy.

Increase Army. The cannaille is talking Socialism—

they are striking—they may demand our prerogatives—we must increase the army. Beware of armies, Theodore the H a l l They deserted the French queen; they are in reliellion in na tions of throne and crown; the Czar gibbers in old womanish terror in the palace of the Komanoffs, with their guns pointed at him instead of at his enemy—the people. A stable govern ment is one that is established in the affections of the people, not in the strength of its guns.

A Joke. The aathor of the document takes

himself seriously throughout the laby­rinthine windings of its infinite stu­pidity with the exception of one in­stance. This exception is a real .joke. It reads like this: " W h i l e the de­partment of justice, during the last four years, has accomplished much l»y appeal to the courts in an attempt to secure the enforcement of the anti­trust laws, the effect has more of a moral character than of practical re­su l t " . Yes, Teddy, if absolute viola tion of every trust law that has ever been framed constitutes more of a moral character than of a practical re­sult, the anti trust laws are superlative ly moral.

Class Struggle. Here iH the sentence that accepts and

stands upon the challenge of the class struggle: " T h e power of the courts to issue injunctions in case of labor dis­putes has been abused, but it should not be restricted; it is coexistent with the right to strike". Now, you work­ing class, is Theodore Roosevelt, Presi­dent of the United States, your presi dentf Courts and guns against you when vou strike, and the president on

tho side of the courts and guns. Union men, here is your Waterloo, no matter how well tho battle has been planned in tho lodge room. Again, we are told: " A l l men must work" . For Ood's sake, f ind the jobs for them, Teddy. Three million men are hunting for them with gaunt eye*.

Don't Strike. But again that warning: " T h e

strike more often falls the heavier on the striker than upon the one struck a t " .

" T h e wage worker ami the capital­ist * * * * * should regard each other us partners and not as enemies".

" T h e peril of class spirit must be guarded against".

At last the American bourgeois has admitted that there are classes in this country, but they want to warn the workers against emphasizing, admitting or acknowledging the fact.

Government Ownership. Second only to the recognition of the

class line is the deliberate ami marked tendency to government ownership and control in the recommendation. Does the president represent the great re­publican party in this unprecedented departure, with its strong, brutal, and irresponsible individualism? No, he speaks for his class, the capitalist class, that beholds with terror the menace of Socialism on the near horizon, Gov­ernment, ownership is the refuge of pri vate owners against the insatiable de­mands of the collective l i f e ; govern ment ownership with the government sti l l in the hands of those who have ravished and despoiled the people through their control of the sources of l i fe . The Socialists have warned the working class from the first that this move would be made.

German Policy. Bismarck flew to such a policy when,

in spite of the penitentiary laws, of ex­ile, imprisonment, confiscation, the ris ing Socialist tide fi l led him and the people whom he served with alarm and trepidation. The result is the feudal philanthropy that reigns in Germany today under the name of state social­ism, or socialism of the chair. The socialists cull it state capitalism. Poor laws, insurance, railroads, public 111ill ties, the people have everything but jobs, ami bread, the product of their toil , the opportunity of l ife and its fullness to every man and woman that is born. But the sociulists have not lieen deceived. They line up three million strong with a demand for the overthrow of class rule. Bebel thun­ders from the reiclistag against kings, usurpers, ami despotisms — we ask for the bread of l i fe , ami you f l ing us the stones of shame and servitude. We are born with the birthright of earth ami the fullness thereof, and you give us a mess of pottage—the mess of want, anxiety, suffering and death.

Americans Protest. And so the American government

must trace again through history these weary steps. We must look to the Bryans, the Hearsts, the Koosevelts, the saviors. We must hypnotize the people

H U M A N BRAIN, ELECTRIC B A T T E R Y SOURCE OF V I T A L PHENOMENA

Han Francisco, Dec. 15.—Dr. Albert J . Atkins, of this city, claima to have proved, by an experiment made on a steer in the stock yards at Butcher-town that brain action is an electrical phenomenon. His theory has the sup­port of Captain L D. Wildman, of the United States signal corps, who as siated him in the experiment.

The apparatus used consisted of two platinum electrodes connected with a copper wire running to a very sensitive galvanometer. The electrodes were in­serted into two lobes of the brain of a l iv ing ateer. Af ter the first quiver caused by tho insertion of the platinum points the animal lay quiet, and yet the needle of the galvanometer was deflected four points on the scale and remained so for nearly six minutes.

Then the animal's throat was cut. Immediately the needle deflected nine­teen pointa in the same direction. Then the needle gradually returned to ite normal position.

Ae BO battery waa used Dr. Atkins is

of the opinion that the electrical cur rent indicated on the galvanometer originated in the animal's brain; in other words that it was the brain ac­tion itself.

Dr. Atkins has previously demon­strated that electrical force is de­veloped in the lungs and hearts of ani­mals, and in a paper recently read be­fore the San Francisco County Society of Physicians and Surgeons he argued that the mystery of gravitation could only be solved by attributing it to elec­trical action. " I n f a c t " , he declared, " the life1 principle itself is of electrical o r ig in ' ' .

The theorf of non-vitalism us advo­cated by modern scientists is again substantiated by tho above experi incuts. When we intelligently examine the wonderful phenomena of the world about us our minds are no longer en tertaiued like children's by mysteries and superstitions, but we move for­ward to make a happy world to live in by obedience to its lawa.

to let the masters of l i fe rule them under another name—government own ership. And the silly populace breaka uut in cheers, and Theodore I is the man of the hour. See how hard he goea: " T h e government should assume con­trol of the open range".

" T h e government must have super­vision of rates of transportation".

"Congress should consider the ques­tion of governmental power in respect to domestic insurance".

" N e w York should give Niagara Falls to the government".

Safely Guarded. But, O, Reformer, exult not too great­

ly; we are told that all this should be "subject to review by the courts" ; and further on that: "Under proper su|>er-vision there is no need of public own­ership of the railroads; they can render better service when conducted by pri­vate individuals" .

Manhood First, Bread Next. The most nauseating and bare-faced

fabrication ia where the chief states: " T h i s government stands for manhood first , and for business only as an ad­junct to manhood''. Every business man even smiles, as he recognizes the doctrine of the arch Pharisee.

A l l these ambitions for government are well and good, but in themselves they neither secure life nor terminate injustice, nor help the human race to grapple with the problem of crime, pov­erty, or misery. In themselves they only minister still more to those who live in comparative comfort now. Only iu the hands of a "triumphant proletariat" can this systematization of l i fe mean aught to the mass of l i fe .

The " l i l i e s of the f i e l d " , who " t o i l not neither do they sp in" , wi l l never prepare the meadows of sunshine and pleasure for the toilers and the spin­ners.

Toilers, you are many, make your own government, and make it out of the toilers. —I. C H .

INCREASED COST OF LIVING. There have been late inquiries into

the relative cost of l iving this year and other years in the immediate past.

Carroll D. Wright has furnished a few figures showing that the cost is •ot only materially higher than it was seven , , r eight years ago, but that it is also higher than it was last year.

Hun's Commercial agency has also prepared figures that show the same thing Its gigures show that between the first of May, 1897, and the first of May, 1 tli 14, there has been an increaae of )o per cent in the average cost of the necessities of l i fe .

For 1S97 the Dun index figures were 7 2 , 4 . i and on the first of May, this year, they were 102,208. These index figures cover a wide range, and include prai tnal lv every commodity in common household use.

In view of these figures it is prob­able that the f u l l dinner pail wil l not cut as much figure in the republican campaign oratory as it did a few years ago.

It is becoming rather hard for the workingman to keep the pail fu l l .

He is not getting his fu l l ahare of the bosatcd republican prosperity.

But they have not increased by 40 per cent, or anything like that.

Nor are the conditions for wage earn ers us good throughout the country to­day as they were a year ago. Employ­ment is harder to get, and the tend­ency of wages is downward.

Vet the cost of the stuff that the wage earner has to buy continues to increase. If the country is to be continuously pros) ns men must be gencrallly em­ploye.I and at good wages in proportion to the price of the things that these wages must be used to buy.

It doesn't do a man any good to get wages .1 per cent higher i f it costs him 40 per cent more to live—and in the ••use of the great majority of men al l they make goes for l iving expenses.

S O C I A L I S M Most Positive, Aggressive Force

In the World-Sole Inheritance ot the Disinherited.

Socialism is the most positive, ag gressivc force iu the world today. It is more: it is the next hope of man­kind and perhaps the sole inheritance of the disinherited. Whether it shall turn out to be an ignis fatuus, a false light, like so many a beacon that has shone along the toilsome path of hn inanity, I know not, but sure urn I that

spectacle. men wil l give it u trial. Socialism is to be.

There are thousands of socialists wh.. have never turned a page of Kar l M a n never attended a socialist meeting and who seem to stand outside the social istic propaganda. This fact declare -the potency of socialism as an Idea it is iu the air and men involuntarily in. hike it.

Socialism is the ultimate concliisii.-and definition of democracy. As such it may be staved off a long time, may be temporized with, bribed with con cessions and half-measures but it can not be effectually halted, and in tin-cud it is bound to prevail. We shall not see that day, but our children's children shall surely see it and cele

brute it. The power ot socialism lies, first of

all , in its purpose to redress the in equalities of the social state, which are ever becoming worse, even in a country of alleged equal opportunities like our own. This program carries an irre ristilde appeal, not merely to the sub merged or downtroden clases, but also to many more fortunate who have the ills of society at heart. It is daily clothing itself with practicality and convincing by its perfect alignment and unswerving advance. The old bugaboo conception of socialism has been dis placed in the popular mind. It is no longer viewed as an insurrection of idleness and beggary against industry and wealth; a revolution of the sans culottes against all decency, govern ment, prosperity and order; an anar cbistic rising of the House of Want against the House of Have.

This idea of socialism no longer holds with any great body of people. Social ism has made its greatest gains in *•• 1

many and France, among the most thr i f ty in industrious people in the world. Many of its leaders and man more of its followers are men of sub stance, social position and wealth. It is essentially an intellectual movement the socialiatic leaders, advocates and d o c t r i n a l I C M include some of the ablest men in Europe, and even the bumbles socialists, factory workers and the like.

are men who have learned to think. The advance of the socialistic idea, in in spite of hostile governments, time-hardened prejudices, class bigotries, re­ligious intolerance and all the unname-able forces of brutal ignorance, alarmed cupidity and threatened power,—is I think to be viewed as the most s ignif i . unt triumph of mind in modern eivi l i /ation. A cause so derived, so trained and developed, overcoming Sllcll oil-staclcs, will not take one backward step. Socialism is inevitably coining on.

Over f i f t y years ago the poet Heine, who was one of the keenest social ob­servers of his day, noted the begin nings of this movement and announced its possibilities. But Heine, with al l his prophetic vision, did not venture to forecast such a future for socialism as I quite iinins|rired watcher of events BJM draw without misgiving today. To talk of the coming conquest of s icialism is now to advance a common-place. The only question is, Whenf

\iiotln r thing which powerfully pro motes the cause o, socialism, is the fact that it is not identified or in volved with any religion or religious idea, save in so far as the grand idea of the brotherhood of all may lie deemed religious. Kverv religion in the world is more or less committed to some existing political system and, therefore, in a sense, responsible for the evils which socialism is pledged to cure and the iniquities it seeks to over throw. Socialism alone is free. This is its grandest title.

I n. (Hinted generations of men have accepted a hard portion in this world, have s w . i i i o w . d injustice aud worn out their lives in bitter, h o p e l e s s toil at the bidding of religion, solaced by the dream of a future Paradise to reward their cares. This was very convenient for those who drove them like laden asses, and religion got much credit us well as some profit for keeping the peace. The same thing is going on to day in many parts of the world, but yet it does not work so smoothly as in those times called the ages of faith— the toiling, over burdened men are more and more bent upon getting u bit of heaven for themselves on this earth.

Socialism makes war upon no re ligion, but it does not preach u God of favorites—mark that!—and it an nounces what no religion dare announce in absolute honesty—the brotherhood of man! Every creed in the world, by which I mean every organized church, dissolves before this touchstone.

I repeat: socialism is to be! — M I C H A E L M O N A H A N , in Papyrus

Agriculture and Machines

G r n d Steal of the Modern Pirates— | Farmers Are Robbed J Both Ways.

Th and

o harvest

Frank Mabie. lays are over, the mower

S self-binder are laid by for an­other year, the threshing has been done and the farmer has hauled most of hia grain to market to get money to pay his taxes, interest on his debts, and per­haps get a few needed garmenta and household supplies for the winter. Many of them have long hauls and one might wonder what occupies their thoughts as they jolt along over the frozen roads toward the nearest shear­ing pen. No doubt many of their debts are for farm machinery, some­thing a farmer mnst have nowa days if he is to com|iete successfully with his neighbors, and I want to direct their attention to the way they are exploited because of this necessity. I have be­side me the Cosmopolitan Magazine for Apr i l , 1905, containing an article en­titled " A Trust in Agricultural Imple­ments ' ' , by Al f red Henry Lewis, from which I quote a few paragraphs for the consideration of the farmers these long winter evenings.

Speaking of pirates. Mr. Lewis says: "Perhaps, of all that have swept the commercial ocean in a black-flag trade, there has been none to maintain at the masthead of its rapacity a sharper look out for prizes than those who are now

exploiting the agricultural communi­ties. * » • • In August, 1 " O L \ the harvester trust was resolved upon, und under the nnme of the International Harvester company, incorporated at Trenton. Being thus launched at those old familiar shipyards e f modern piracy, the New Jerscv Trenton vards. the harvester trust, without reserve or setback, has marauded agriculture ever since.

American Farms. " A s exhibiting how opulent is that

field of trust endeavor, a rough review-is worth while. The round production of the American farms, in figures, is each year $4,900,000,000. It is three times the gross earnings of all the rail­roads. It is fourfold the output of all the mines—gold, silver, iron, copper, coal. It is six times the whole capital of all the national banks. To produce that annual crop, the aggregate value of which is *4.1>0(l.iliHi,(i(Mi, the farmer spends yearly <*1(MI,IMIII , IMIII

for tools, implements and machinery, and it was for the conquest of those #1011,11011,0(10, and to turn them to its own profitable favor, that the har-\ ester trust was conceived. It is not too much to say that, now, in the third year of its existence, the harvester trust from these S100.IMMi.IMio pocket* a I early profit of over if40.OOO.iK 10, eighty per cent of which may be counted as merest rapine, attained by methods that would shame a footpad, and lire wholly criminal in the eye of th. law ' \

Hid you help out any on that eighty per cent this year, neighbor?

" \s now framed, the harvester trust controls over nine tenths of the farm implement trade, and by methods of extortion, constriction ami law breaking, so dominates the market situation as

to compel what opposition is struggling against it to do business at a loss".

Is the other tenth doing business ia your townt

Harvester Trust. Mr. Lewis explains in detail how the

harvester trust strangled competition through rebate freight rates. " T o be sure, to rebate freight-rates was con­trary to law; but i f you who read fancy that a trust is hampered by any re­spect for law, then I have written in vain. Law! The harvester trust, like all trusts, cared as little for law as a cow cares for a cobweb! It would walk through it! For what else was it ordained f "

He says: " Y o u should know that, specifically, the harvester trust manu­factures everything in the tool or im­plement or machinery line called for by the labor of a farm. Its output covers plows, hoes, axes, shovels, spades, har­rows, cultivators, wagons, hay rakes, gasoline engines, threshing machines, mowers, reapers, grain drills, ropes, binding twine, harness—in short, any­thing and everything that goes with modern tillage.

I'se any of these on y..iir ranch f The trust binds its agents to handle no | Is of any other manufacturers.

Banks Behind. But here is something interesting:

"The harvester trust has a long battle-lit I banks behind it. Sinee the farmers put their money—when they had any — into these banks, the har­vester trust was able to open a credit system with ruralists who wanted tick. The harvester trust, for its more ex­pensive machineries, offered the far­mer purchaser one or two or three or even four years' time, and would take his notes. These notes, coming due in the autumn, were expressively called on the trade, 'one-fal l ' , ' two-fa l l ' , 'three-f a l l ' and ' four-fall ' notes. They were well named, and many u farmer has fallen by them. The interest de­manded ran from six to ten per cent. Since the harvester trust could borrow

• all the money it wanted from itself at three and four per cent, this exchange was not, from trust standpoints, a dis­couraging one. Practically the trust borrowed farm money for three and four per cent, Hnd loaned it to the farms for from six to ten per cent. This scheme of credit fostered trade; the farmers, being optimists, with a rainbow ever ahead, marking with pris­matic foot a pot of gold, took farm machinery, and gave notes therefor with re.-kless l iberal i ty" .

Osborne Company. Mr Lewis tells how the Osborne

Company, to compete, ' ' w a s drawn into this game of giving time and taking notes, and not having tin great banks to hold it up, wus drawn in beyond its depth. To carry on the war the Os­borne ( ompanv was forced to borrow money. * • • * Through its line of banks, the harvester trust got quiet hands on .ill the Osborne Company paper it could f ind. Then it descended

(Continued on page 4.)

POWERFUL UNITED S T A T E S CANNOT PROTECT B A L L O T OF THE PEOPLE

The New York court of appeals hits handed down its decision in the Hearst ballot case. The argument is oue of those evasive documents where the court claims it has no power under the election law to recanvuss the ballots, or in other words, do anything in the interest of justice and honesty. Such quid.hug with words is an insult to the musses of the people, to whom the sacred opportunity of an honest ballot means freedom. But this government is not based upon the freedom of all , but upon the control of the many by the few. And the Inst and most im­pregnable fortress of this ruling class is the courts. They are prostituted to every sort of an interpretation that will support the control of the masters. That warning was sent out at the time of the adoption of the Constitution by those who saw that the nutional con­vention was completely in the hands of the New Englsnd commercial class, dominated by Alexander Hamilton, the representative of the New York bank

ers. A tremendous hue und cry was raised at the time by Thomas Jeffer­son and his followers.

Not that the Hearst matter, even if carried to a successful issue, would have been of am particular moment to the interests of the working class. But the demand for the protection of the ballot is the only possible outlet for what is culled a "peaceable" solution of the industrial revolution.

Revolutions can only occur when the historical conditions have aris­en, and be successful only when evils exist that bear heavily upon the mass of the people. Such revo­lutions are always successful. What­ever we may have to say against the Social Democracy we can only over­come them by reform, and if we do not meet the just demands of the laborers they will finally become socialists. — [Catholic Kcho of (Jer-many. Quoted by Bebel in hit June speech.]

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r ^ o p | i U A R ° n COUNCIL

ORGANIZATION. Organization marks the develop­

ment of the evolutionary process to higher stages of efficiency. As the phenomenon of life rises in the scale of manifestation it becomes more complex. In the biographical world nature advances from the uni­cellular structure to the multicell­ular. A division of labor imme­diately takes place among the cells, certain cells assuming certain lines of work as the nutritive functions, the reproductive functions, the mo­tor functions. These aggregations of cells devoted to a special func­tion, through increasing specializa­tion to purpose, become different­iated as organs, and the structure carrying on its life processes throngh organs is called an organ­ism. The more complex the organ­ism, the greater co-operation be­tween the parts devoted to special purposes, the higher the product in the scale of development.

Life advances all along the line from the simple to the complex. Only the idiot, the inferior product desires the simple life,. The pro­letariat aspires to the conquest of the complex life, and its infinite possibilities; and it was worthy of Roosevelt, the representative of the capitalist regime, that he should lift into the public light Charles Wagner, with his quieting appeal to the fiercely restless masses that they should be satisfied with a simple ex istence. If the masses would just be thus quiescent in the simple life, leaving the complex life to the cap­italist class, the fears of that class would be materially lessened.

It was Herbert Spencer who ela­borated the famous parallelism be­tween society and an organism. Not to reproduce the details of the comparism it is sufficient to say that as society advances to higher stages, it is marked by a greater division of labor aud greater co-op­eration among its units.

It is the g l o r y and the reason in economic history for the persistence of the capitalist class that they have taught the w o r l d or^ani/atnm. The dominant characteristic o f their fit­ness to survive preceding social forms is efficiency, the adaptation of means to an end. Superior or­ganization means the perfection of co-operation among all the factors requisite to produce a certain result. Through this triumph of achieve­ment the capitalist class has justi­fied itself as the social master. The embryo of its being was the machine and its supreme attainment has been the application of machine methods to the process of production, and the appropriation of the product.

The working class has learned the process of production; it has yet to learn the process of appropiating the product. Such is the objective point of the socialist movement.

The success of the socialist effort must depend ultimately upon its efficiency. It is almost superfluous to say that efficiency will be meas­ured by its degree of organization. The outcome and conclusion of this exposition of the anatomy of organ­ization is this:

The organization is the material

substance of the socialist effort, and its motive force.

This must be first in every consider­ation if the hopes that are based up­on the prevailing of socialism are ever to be realized. A l l other ac­tivities should be but organs in this great organism. In simpler words —the socialist organization does not exist for the sake of the socialist speaker, or paper, or book, or pub­lishing company, or secretary, or brilliant individual, but all these exist for the socialist organization. If all effort is directed through the organization it will concentrate with tremendous force, the force of ag­gregated power, upon the desired point of attainment. If it is expend­ed in the opposite way, that is upon each little functioning separately, the condensed power of application is lost.

A l l this is the greatest argument for a party owned press. It is also an argument that the press and every other form of socialist activity should be assisted through the organization-In this way an invincible machine is erected against all enemies within and without.

For some time there has been a rumor that the great champion of the dear people, ¥. Augustus Heinze had made a deal with the Amalgam­ated; but this has been in a manner denied by the Heinze organs. Now the evidence is complete. We have always said the trade would be made when the price could be agreed up­on. It has been agreed upon and the deal made. A few days ago the friends of the Amalgamated in Butte were advised that there would be a great advance in United Copper, vHeinze's company,) and at the same time it was said "Amalgamat ed" would go to par. On Saturday last, L'nited Coppers sold above 85, having advanced from 15. And thus Heinze is permitted to take his price, not by the sale of his mines, or the production of copper, but by fleecing the lambs by the sale of a worthless stock. How long will the people follow such leaders? Not that this sort of "fleecing" makes any difference to the workers. They are fleeced in the workshop. But it does make a difference whether they are going to follow political bosses of this stripe, or any stripe, or not.

One of the most amusing farces that has been enacted for many days was the recent rate convention that met in Helena. About the only per­sons present who did not come on free transportation were the delegates from Helena, and if the convention had been held elsewhere many of them would have been "on the list."

The only resolution that present ed any remedy at all was voted down. The showing of rates read was a farce, and there were many present who said they always got rates when they asked the railroads for them -just another scheme to fool the people.

Kducation and organization the present need of the party.

" T o rob the people jt 1* necessary to .I.'reive them. To deceive them it in necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage."

—Bastint.

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(Continued f r o m last week)

Boss Burns himself was one of the most corrupt machine-men to be found anywhere. At one time he was state treasurer, and while la off ice was able t o divert upwards of two millions of the state's funds into his private c o t ' fers. There was no d i f f i cu l ty in prov ing the charges of embezzlement against him. He was tried and found guilty, but through various appeals from o n e court to another, the thief of the public treasury was able to remain at large. He had the machine behind him His deputy was made a scapegoat and t h r public was satisfied Boss Burns \v;ts the tool of the Southern Pac i f i r railroad, a n d no man in California his tory ever served it more fa i th fu l ly With his aid, and that of his machine, Mr. Huntington, president of the 8. P.. was able to exclaim: " I have the. legislature of California in one pocket and the supreme court in the other ." This is the man then who led the re­form forces in Golden City, under the banner of the citizen's ticket

The train arrived at last, and from it stepped Spinney and Miss Rose. A s per arrangement I was on hand to meet them. Spinney was somewhat be­wildered, but Kose was all smiles and affection. Af ter supper Kose went to her hotel and Spinney and I went to the office of the St. (ieorge, one of his own blocks. A t first Spinney did not like the proposition of getting in lino with the " R e f o r m machine." For a lifetime he had been the beneficiary and the defender of the tenderloin ele tnent, and to be a traitor at such an hour as this was "against his gra in . ' " H o w am I to benefit by i t t " was quite i i natural question on his part. As far as F w;is eonrcmcd the scheme « : i s . i - \ The machine invented it. There could lie no doubt about it. The word of the machine was as potent as " the divine right of k ings . " " M r . Spinney," said I, " y o u have seven large blocks in Spanishtown, right in t h e most accessible part of the bad lands. Vou are not the owner of any of the " c r i b s " as you were and are in Central City. Your blocks are valued at *100,ooo, and you rent your rooms at *1 per week. If the " c r i b a " arc closed, and the Barbary coast dance halls are abolished, the " g i r l s " wi l l have to locate somewhere, and as there is no business for them elsewhere ex-rept in the foreign quarters, they wi l l naturally f i l l the " b l o c k s . " These poor unfortunates ran always be ex­ploited by the real estate Shylock. Your blocks are the most desirable, and consequently can be rented at a high figure. Instead of getting a dollar a week in room rent from the transients, you can easily get H |>er week per room from the Magdalenes of Golden City. You can put Row in charge, and she can be the censor. Nobody but the best looking can be admitted, and under such conditions your property w i l l be worth half I million and your power w i l l lie greater than y o u ever dreamed o f . ' '

T h e argument w a s invincible. Spinney donated tln.oou t o linss Burn's campaign funds I t w a s a victory for M . Tin- ward b o s s s a i d so—although t h e i n a r l i i n e made the argument.

Spinney gave his instructions to his •gjaal aa4 la his daughter, and after a f e w d a y s w e n t back h o m o . Two or l i i n e d a y s afterwards Rose s e n t f o r me, a n d a f t e r a f e w questions m a d e me • le f t o f the St. C i e o r g e a n d , i n fact, her advisor i n outlining MM political as­s i s t a n c e n e e d e d i i i f i n d i n g "po l i t i ca l c l e r k s " f o r t h e o t h e r " blocks. "

There w e r e : » 0 0 r o o m s in t h e Ht. G e o r g e and a b o u t l . o n o r o o m s i n the

o t h e r six b l o c k s , a n d i n a political p i n c h i J . l K M i v i c t i m s c o u l d ht easily a e

rommodated. Thirty d a y s t i e f o r e e l e c ­

t i o n d a y e v e r y available s p a c e i n the Spinney blocks was filled. The " roomers" were all voters. In fact, a n y b o d y who was given " f r e e room, free whiskey and f r igarettes" in thr Spinney " h o t e l s " was a voter. There was no Australian ballot system, a n d woe unto t h e man who failed to r a - t I n , l.allot for Boss Burns and his Reform ( i t i/.eu's ticket.

Two streets away was the notorious Barbary Coast. The " C o a s t " was sit tutted o n a side h i l l , one of the seven hills upon which Golden City is built. «>n Pacific street were two "ho te l s . " One was caled the Pioneer, and the other Old Forty Nine The most no­torious crook in the Golden West ran them the infamous " B o t t l e K e n o . " Bottlr made his pile in " B a r b a r y . " No m a n in America was more corrupt nor s o low in tho social scale. There w a s n ' t anybody in a n y of Bottle's establishments t h a t wouldn't commit a n v . rime f o r a d o l l a r , or a drink of whiskey. The district where " K e n o " was k i n g w a s a n i d e a l spot for the w a r d h e e l e r t o operate in. Bottle Ken,, niinsclf h a d no taste for politics, b u t his " j o i n t s " were used as the reservoirs of machine corruption. The m o s t notorious character in Keno's ter­r i t o r y was Hank Grady. Hank was a

Kentuckian by birth. He loved good whiskey, fast horses, and fa i r women. He was at one time a lawyer by pro­fession but his crookedness caused the courts to disbar him. He had the rep­utation of being one of the smoothest of liars and the most two-faced of men. Hank Grady used to poast that he could vote "anything with a human t o e o n " , and he came mighty near keeping his word. He was an old time ward boss of the Buckley machine. Kvery criminal in his district consulted him, and invariably he gave them " | K > i n t e r » " on how to steer clear of the law. He generally lived with two or three women of bad repute. Not­withstanding his character, Hank Grady was exceedingly popular. He was a perfect gentleman in his man­ners—-a combination of .lanus and i hestorfield rolled into one.

Rose Spinney was a perfect speci men of womanhood. In a very short time she became the idol of the " b a d lands." Even Grady worshiped at her shrine. One day he wandered into the office of the St. George and inquired if my name was Max. I answered in the afirinative. He threw down a twenty dollar gold piece and asked me to introduce him to the proprietor. "The proprietor is not here, but his 'laughter is, and she is running things", I said. " S o much the better " , said Hank.

I had heard of tlrady but was not much acquainted with him. I saw at MII , - r that he was keen and a criminal it heart. He had played Lothario so long that there was no d i f f i cu l ty in t r a d i n g his m i s s i o n

The "swellest " of the Spinney hotels w a s the Castellano. Rose was in fu l l charge there and a phone to the office brought her to the St. (ieorge. Hank Grady, the ward-boss of Barbary, was introduced to the beautiful Senorita Wosella Spinney, the Jezebel of Spanish-town. Li t t le di<l Grady dream that the dark-eyed queen of the " fo re ign quarters" would some day send him into oblivion behind a prison's bars. " M iss Rose", said Hank, " l e t us join forces. I wi l l vote my gang in your interests and you will vote your gang in my interest' .

Rose was not sure. Grady was too " f r e s h . " she thought. Her father con­tributed $ 1 0 , < M M I to Boss Burns, and Boss Burns should determine.

Next day the situation was unfolded to Bums. His advice was plain—there must be no union of any kind with the Barbary Coast people, the great pub­lic ( f ) demanded their abolition. Fight Grady, not in the open, but by intrigue. Get the " r o o m e f s " at the Pioneer to come to the St. (ieorge. The boys at Forty-Nine will be dealt with later.

For weeks it was a battle royal be­tween the ward heelers of Spanishtown and the ward heelers of Barbary for supremacy. I waited upon every boat, every train and every stage. When­ever a pilgrim landed I told him of the Bt. George, the Castellano, the A l -hambra, the Madri, etc. " W e ' l l give forty days free room rent and a drink of whiskey every morning and all the tobacco you can smoke, just as an ad­vertisement to introduce our line of hotels to the notice of the pub l i c" , said I to each of them. " A f t e r that we wil l give you the finest layout in the world for $ 4 per month. No ques­tions wil be asked M i l d no police wil l in\estigate " . In less than ten days 2 , 0 0 0 voters were domiciled in the Spin'O'v blocks. It was expensive. Spinne got M o O O a week for the use of the houses and the reform campaign committee paid for the whiskey and the rijjnirttcs. Oh, Reform' How many sins are committed in thy name"

" F r e e room rent and free whiskey", was our slogan of battle. It was cer­tainly effective. In our Spanishtown " h o t e l s " we had a s| imen of every color, creed, and race. There is noth­ing in the wide, wide world so cosmo­politan aa an army of " f l o a t e r s " . They are the " l i f e guards" of the capitalist machine. Without them the machine could never rule. Without them thousands of grafters and ward heelers would either starve or work in Home honorable capacity.

For thirty days a fierce battle was waged between the political owls of Spanishtown and those of Barbary. "Bo t t l e K e n o " anil Hank Grady threw tho floodgates of the " b a r r e l " widp open. Our " g a n g " was not idle. It was an even standoff for a couple of weeks. At the supreme hour we played our winning card. That card was the "queen of hearts" Kose Spinney She sent for Grady, and Grady came. He hail a weakness for fair women, and our Amazon (jueen was a modern Yrniis. For such as she, men like 'trady would desert home and country the same as Mark Antony did when he deserted Rome for Cleopatra. If " K e n o " and Boss Buckley had only known but they din' t . The I'iot r was fu l l of foreigners, and the Forty-Nine aa tenanted by the most criminal element of the Celtic race. " K e n o " waa a compound of Teutonic character and evey one of his vagrant band was

his absolute slave. He was the slave master, and all his slaves were made so hy the worst of "snake j u i c e " and the sloppiest of "amber slops". We had Grady and we had a "new one" up our sleeve for ' ' Keno

With the genius of Burns as our boss, and the power of gold as our incentive, we held the "bad lands" ti l l election morn. — M A X .

(To be continued.)

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Alexander t . I rv ine . Box 45, New H a v e n , Conn . , has been elect­ed state secretary pro tern, of C o n ­nect icut . • • •

Resolutions were passed by L o ­cal Allegheney Co . , Pa., requesting the In te rna t iona l Socialist Bureau to make January 22, the Bloody Sun­day of Russia, an in ternat ional h o l i ­day.

• • • The result of the munic ipa l elec­

t i o n i n B r o c k t o n , Mass., was as fo l lows : For mayor, B r a d f o r d , Rep., 3812; C i i f f o r d , Soc-, 3551 ; Coulter , I n d . , 666; Speare, D e m . , 476. The socialists lost one alder­man, leaving them one on a board composed of seven. The socialists gained two counci lmen, making five i n a to ta l of 21.

• • • Certa in suggestions by W i l l i a m

M a i l l y , member of the N a t i o n a l Execut ive Commit tee , re lat ing to a more extended program f o r the gather ing of funds fo r the Russian comrades, i n v o l v i n g lecture tours f o r Comrades Debs, H a n f o r d , Lewis Simons and T i tu s , and that pub l ic meetings be held by every L o c a l o n Sunday. January 21, 1906, i n c o m ­memora t ion of the Bloody Sunday i n St. Petersburg, January 22, 1905, has been submit ted to the N a t i o n a l Execut ive Commit tee .

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Comrades of A m e r i c a : — O u r Rus sian comrades are engaged i n one of the greatest revolut ions i n the historv of mank ind . I t would be a gross neglect of duty on our par t i f we should no t remember our R u t sian comrades du r ing the c o m i n g Chris tmas holidays. We, the un­dersigned members of the Social is t Party, Na t iona l Commtt tee f r o m the state of Missour i , hereby recom­mend and appeal to al l the socialist locals and ward clubs, th roughout the coun t ry to immediate ly make a dona t ion f o r the Russian revo lu t ion f u n d and f o r w a r d the money to our Na t iona l Secretary J, M a h l o n Barnes who w i l l send the amounts thus col­lected to the representative of the Russian Socialist Party, Comrade Ingerman of New Y o r k .

N o Loca l should f a i l to do its dutv and donate as much as possible f o r this noble purpose.

Submit ted by. G- A . H O E H N ,

K. T . B E H R E N S , Members Na t iona l Commit tee

f r o m Missour i . Adop ted by the Na t iona l Execu­

t ive Commit tee , December 8, 1903. • • •

The Social-Democrats h a v e scored a notable v ic to ry in the Wis consin legislature. The amendment in t roduced bp a Social-Democrat ic assemblyman, l i m i t i n g the hours of labor on the new capital bu i l d ing to eight hours ' has passed the assembly.

The capi ta l is t press confessed " tha t this amendment as offered by the Social Democrats is admit ted > n all sides to have been a careful ly d rawn measure." The committee to which this eight hour measure was referred, in its m a j o r i t y report , c la imed that the amendment could not be considered under the special session cal l of the legislature, and that i t was " i n e x p e d i e n t . " Never­theless the assembly rejected this m a j o r i t y report and passed the eight-hour amendment by a vote of 64 to 24. N o w i t is safe to say, that out of these 64 " f r i e n d s of l abo r , " bar r ing the f o u r Social-Democrats , not one wou ld have dreamed of in t ro -duciug an eight-hour amendment, or any b i l l d i rec t ly benef i t t ing the work ing class. But once in t roduc­ed, they dared not vote against the amendment f o r fear of losing the workingmen 's votes. A n d r ight hen-is a most s ignif icant pointer, show ing what socialists may do i n our legislative bodies. Here is an in stance of the way in which thev might fo rce favorable labor legisla t i o n f r o m the most u n w i l l i n g capi­tal is t pol i t ic ians .

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Comrade Coehn shoves up a lot of job work f r o m L i v i n g s t o n . These orders keep the News force hum-mini; .

Lewis town L o c a l is p lanning a ball next month to raise money, so that the comrades w i l l have i t o n hand to put where i t w i l l do the most good. Th i s Loca l sends i n { 4 f o r dues, state organiz ing f u n d , and literature.

• • • Secretaries of Locals , or others,

should not neglect to send i n ac­counts of their meetings, or other events of interest to socialists, to the News. I t is the p rov ince of the pa­per to represent the socialist a c t i v i t y i n the state, and i t cannot do so w i t h out the data.

• • • Comrade Graham returned to

Helena last week o n account of the rush of work in connect ion w i t h the special edi t ion . He has gone to Butte this week to look af ter the interests of the News, and at tend to other party matters that demand his at tention. There are many urgent calls f o r his presence i n various parts of the state, and the work of the state should be in snch cond i t ion that the secretary cou ld v i s i t the Locals.

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Lewistown is the first Montana L o ­cal that sends to the support of our struggling comrades i n Russia, i n the present cr is is . But Montana has not been ind i f f e ren t to the T i ­tanic efforts of the Russian oppressed. About a year ago the F inn L o c a l of Butte con t r ibu ted upwards of % i©o to the Russian f u n d . L o c a l N o . 1 of Butte con t r ibu ted $20, and Ana­conda cont r ibu ted a large sum. There is no cause that more merits the support o f the revo lu t ionary movement in Amer ica .

• • • Comrade Cragg of Fergus county

sends i n the f o l l o w i n g encouraging words:

" I just met Comrade E . W . M o o d y of Ful le r town. Fergus county and he says that they are ready to organize down there—al l ranchers. We cannot over look i t . I received a letter f r o m J. M . Rector o f M o n ­arch. H e says that they are ready to get in an organiza t ion at Kibbey — a l l ranchers. Let the good work go on. I f we can arrange to get that Loca l in a t Fu l le r ton i t w i l l help us out l ike every th ing next elect ion. I am get t ing all the subs I can. T h e boys w i l l p robablv rustle a l i t t le more f r o m now o n . "

• • • The state w o r k has increased so

much in volume, inc lud ing the extra work entailed th rough the party ownership of the paper, that i t has become absolutely impossible f o r one person to at tend to i t a l l . There is the greatest demand f o r some one to at tend to the c ler ica l work , type­w r i t i n g , book-keeping, etc., and do­ing the outside work i n connect ion wi th advetr is ing, bi l ls , and s imi la r matters. I n this way the t ime of the state secretary could be given to to the work of organizat ion so i m ­portant at this t ime , v i s i t ing locals, a r ranging lecture courses, and routes f o r speakers, and giv ing suff ic ient t ime to the very necessary corres­pondence. A n d the edi tor w o u l d have t ime to devote to the proper work of a socialist paper, and that study and analysis o f developing condi t ions that is so essential to the i l l u m i n a t i o n of the path of the work­ing class.

The In te rna t iona l Associat ion of Machinis ts sends out an appeal on behalf o f the machinists of the (• rand T r u n k Rai lway system, who are now on s t r ike . A t Port H u r o n and S t ra t fo rd they have been out ever since A p r i l X, at Montrea l , T o r o n t o , St. Thomas, and London , ever since May 8. The i r t roub le w i t h the company arose th rough asking f o r a considerat ion o f grievances. T h e reply was a lock-out at Port H u r o n and S t ra t fo rd . The company re­fused to confer w i t h the commit tee and the strike i» s t i l l o » .

The Coal Dealers ' association passed resolutions i n f avor of keep­ing Chief K i e l y at the head of the police department. Of course, this act ion was taken i n recogni t ion of the services rendered by Kie ly dur­ing the coal teamsters' s tr ike. W i l l the Jefferson Club teamsters remem­ber the bruta l work of the St. Lou is police department?

i * • Louisv i l l e , K y . , Dec. 9 . — O n pe­

t i t i o n of the Western Ken tucky Coal Co. , operat ing in U n i o n and Web­ster counties, Judge Evans, i n the federal cour t yesterday a f te rnoon , granted a temporary order against 19 leaders of the uni ted miners now on strike and restraining them f r o m i n ­ter fer ing in any way wi th the oper­ators of the mines. When w i l l the workingmen elect thei r own socialist judges?

§ # * The employers of printers in

Chicago and New York have issued an u l t ima tum to the demands of the typographica l un ion , which de­clares f o r the open shop, and against the eight-hour day. A l l printers are envited to work i n the open shops. The employers say that they are prepared to instal l competent non­un ion printers i n a l l their shops, largely recrui ted f r o m graduates of schools f o r machine operators. Magazine publishers have com­pleted their magazines f o r two or three months ahead in an t i c ipa t ion of the printers s t r ike planned to be­gin January 1.

• # * The long drawn-out legal battle

between the Canada Foundry com­pany, of T o r o n t o , and the Molders ' U n i o n has ended at last in f avo r of the strikers. A f t e r being over two years in the courts and being de­feated at every point , the company has served notice that i t drops the act ion, and, as a result, w i l l have to pay the costs. The case cou ld have been settled months ago, as the com­pany offered to pay a large sum to the strikers i f they were a l lowed to drop the case, but the men refused to take less than their f u l l costs, as they fe l t they had a l l a long been in the r ight , and they have been jus t i ­fied by the results. — Labor .

Parliamentary Drill T o a woman who has had no ex­

perience i n the customs of a publ ic meeting the order of business seems a strange maze tha t she can never be fami l i a r w i t h . She feels that whatever she does she is sure to do wrong, and has an undefined idea that men, wi th thei r innate super­lative wisdom, alone can master the di f f icul t ies of publ ic meetings. These dif f icul t ies , however, are l ike most others in l i f e ; they appear to be greater at a distance than when actually approached.

Rules regarding meetings are es­tablished only f o r the purpose of fac i l i t a t ing the business, and g iv ing each par t ic ipant a f a i r show to have her wishes carr ied out. Rules exist to help out the w i l l o f the members of the meeting. T h e members do not go to a meeting f o r the purpose of learning rules. A n d indeed I have sometimes thought that the i n f o r m a l meeting accomplished the best results.

I n the i n f o r m a l meeting no at­tempt is made to f o l l o w any set rules When i t is evident that the most are present that are expected some one suggests that they proceed to busi­ness. The secretary then reads her report , or states the business on hand, and the various matters are discussed as i n an ord inary con­versation, each one g iv ing her views and the line of ac t ion being decided upon according to the consensus of op in ion . T h e o r d i n a r v standards of politeness and considerat ion f o r others are observed, and that is a l l .

i hese I n f o r m a l meetings, how­ever, fill the purpose only when there is not much l i a b i l i t y of there being any great d i f ference of op in ion . Should this occur there is no f o r m to protect the weaker and more d i f f i ­dent members f r o m the domina t ion of the more f o r w a r d . I n other words, i n a pure democracy, where no one wishes to encroach upon an­other the i n f o r m a l meeting serves every purpose. But when di f fer ­ences of pol icy are liable to arise the f o r m a l meeting is necessary i n order to protect a l l part icipants, and preserve democracy.

Speakers and organizers w i l l be active i n Montana dur ing January.

CLUB LECTURES. The f o l l o w i n g are the remain ing

December dates f o r the Sunday eve­ning lecturers at the Workers ' c lub:

December 24, Alex Fairgrieves, President State Federation of Labor , and J. H . Calderhead.

December g l , H o n . E. D . Weed. The first Sunday evening i n Jan­

uary, Mrs . Hazle t t w i l l speak on " W o m a n and Economics" using the t i t l e of Char lot te Perkins Oi lman ' s book.

Dr . L . E. Holmes w i l l occupy one Sunday evening in January. H i s subject w i l l be "Some of the Energies of M a t t e r . "

The meetings are t h r o w n open f o r discussion after the address.

The public is inv i t ed .

H o w many socialist papers are being d is t r ibuted in your ward each week?

THANKS HIS FRIENDS Comrade Rees Davis desires to

thank the many fr iends who, by their sympathy and kindness, and testi­monies of regard, in his recent be­reavement and sorrow, through the loss of his beloved wife , have been of the greatest assistence and con­solation to h i m - He wishes to con­vey his apprecia t ion of the i r k i n d offices, and the c o m f o r t o f f r i e n d ­ship i n the hour of need. Sorrow and the rending of the ties of eftec-t i o n await us a l l ; and in that sad hour the considerate expressions of regret and esteem f r o m comrades and associates is a source of grate­f u l memory beyond the power of words.

The e ight-hour law is not being v io la ted by the cities that have a socialist a lderman.

A letter f r o m Comrade Wesleder secretary of the Socialist Woman's C lub at Great Falls , says: " O u r club met last Wednesday, and we had a f u l l house, and the meeting was interesting and enter ta ining al­so. I was to get 'Rober ts ' Rules of Order , ' but cannot buy it here, so i f you w i l l k ind ly get i t f o r us and mai l it so we can get i t by next meeting, we w i l l pay f o r i t . We meet next t ime at M r s . . J. M . Pat­terson's.

We have ordered l i terature f r o m the Ke r r Publ ishing Co. v I th ink our c lub wi l l be a great success i n the near f u t u r e . "

I . C. H .

Dry Goods & Furnishing Goods, Shoes and Fancy Groceries. Prices Right

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Lowest Prices for Art Works Chinese and Japanese Silk, Can­ton Crockery and Japanese Ware, Cloisonnle Vases and Satsume Ware, Ivory and Carved Ebony Tables, Ladles' Shawls, Fancy SMk handkerchiefs. Table Covers, Etc.

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For Thoroughbred White P l y mouth Rock Cockerels apply or write to H. Piatt & Sons, Como, Montana.

M O N T A N A NEWS, H K 1 . K N A . M O N T A N A

Christmas Is Coming! And we all know that there is no Christmas gift so acceptable as the one that has been made by our friends' own hands. We can give you ideas in useful and ornamental articles for both ladies and gentle­men. Laundry and Shoe Bags, Sofa Pillows and Pillow Cords, Fancy Pillow Rufflings. A full line of Stamped, Plain and Drawn Work, Linen Lunch Clothes and Centerpieces, Brown Stamped Linens, Embroidery Silks, Point Lace and Battenburg Braids and Patterns, Hardanger Cloth and Ada Canvas.

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Mail orders solicited and carefully and promptly filled.

Circulation Department

SOCIALIST The News will cut a figure in the

municipal elections.

• • • Comrade Hansen of East Helena

tends in for another bunch of cards.

• • • Garneil comes in again on circu­

lation. We'll soon have a nice bunch there.

• • • Start the spring campatgn by in­

creasing the circulation of the News in your ward.

• • • Comrade Wilson of Hamilton

sends in for five of the subscription cards on the special offer of the bunch for $2.50.

• • • Comrade Palsgrove sends in an­

other list from Great Falls. He says he has'nt commenced to rustle yet.

• • • Locals in the cities should pre­

pare for the spring municipal elec­tions by getting subscribers for the News.

• • • Comrade McMil lan of Maiden

writes: "We will have some more subs to be sent in Monday. I will send you $25 for the paper in ten days. Our Local is improving all the time. I think, Comrade Gra­ham, if you could make a trip through Fergus County yourself it would help the cause, and I think it would financially as well. Besides I think you could get a good many subs for the paper. Every one is ready for another speaker. I think if another speaker would come through this county the platforms of the old twin parties would break down on ac­count of lack of supporters the hon­est workers. The hoaest workers are getting a kind of fever and ague. The fever effects them while listen­ing to doctrines of socialism ex­pounded. And the ague takes them when the thought that they were always good republicans or demo crats enters the vacant thinking room in the garret."

e e • Six subscriptions sent in this week

by Comrade McDonald of Fergus county. The following letter ac­companied them:

Local Lewistown held a meeting Saturday evening the 9th, at Com­rade Art Harvey's bachelor apart­ments, and initiated two new mem

bers, one proposed by Comrade Schnick, and one by Comrade Har vey. Comrade Harvey handed in his subscription to the News with one other, and Comrades Schnick and Cragg also followed suite. It was agreed that the Local should en­deavor to send in something to the News each week, either subscrip­tions or other help.

It was moved by Comrade Mc­Donald, and carried unanimously that at the next meeting the Local should take up a collection to be forwarded to our Russian comrades who are making such a noble and heroic fight for the enfranchisement of themselves and their fellow man. And it was also decided that if every comrade would do a little work every week there would be no question about the success of the News.

• • •

A Colorado comrade writes as follows: " C a n soon send you a club of five or more names.

I was arguing with a clever old gentleman the other day. In the argument I took pains to convey the idea that Teddy did not suit me. He is a man with a murder­ous disposition. He likes to kil l things—a relic of a barbarous age. He finally asked me if there was anything about Teddy of which I approved. I answered, 'Yes, he is loyal to his class, and we ought to be loyal to ours."

The Thanksgiving Proclamation of Local Spokane was first-class. I wish the whole United States could have been billed with that. If I knew their secretary I would write them, and encourage them to have their proclamation writer com­mence in time next year so that a poster of it could be gotten out, and posted up generally over the nation.

We should come out strong on the socialist's ability to stop war, as they did this year in the Morocco trouble.

I pinned the proclamation to a poster in the Amity postofnce, call­ing for recruits to the army and navy to murder people. I found it on the floor in a couDle of days. I presume some ofour followers of the Prince of Peace did not like the looks of it.

Fraternally,

C. S. Stimsom.

(Amity is the seat of the Colora­

do Salvation Army Colony. — Ed)

IDA CROUCH HAZLETT And Other Speakers..

Five Nights-Five Nights

STARTING TUESDAY EVENING DEC. 26

0

Admission Free-Music

Beveridge Bldg., South Main Street Next to Edson Theater

Workers of the World Unite on the Ticket of Your Clecss.

AGRICULTURE AND MACHINES

(Continued from page I.)

A BANK BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS

A bank book showing a deposit in favor of the per­son to whom given makes an excellent and practical Christmas gift, especially for the little ones. Each succeeding Christmas you can add to the account, and the child could be the same in the meantime. Many of our customers make such gifts. Parents for their children; guardians for their wards; uncles and aunts for the youngsters whom it is a pleasure to remember in a substantial way at Christmas time. Morevover, it encourages the child in the right di­rection.

Such accounts can be started in any moderate amount from one dollar up, on which interest is paid at 4 per cent per annum. ^ We are this year sending out all books intended for

Christmas giving in a special holiday envelope tied with a red ribbon.

THE UNION BANK & TRUST CO. HELENA, MONTANA.

upon the Osborne Company, ilemandin^ instant payment. • • • • j t w a s

the old story of wolf and sheep, anil the Osbornes were gobbled up".

Now wouldn't it IK- a terrible thing if the AmerieHii people should desccml on the harvester trust and gobble i t up

Invades World. Hut listen: " T h e harvester trust,—

hatched to bleed the farmer for forty million dollars of profit every year— with its railroads and its steamboats and its ropewalks in Manila, has in­vaded Kurope, Asia. Afriea, Australia and South America with its producfs. There it is selling them at a whole­some per cent below what is de-mantled of the American agriculturalist with his one-fall, two-fall, three-fall and four-fall notes at six to ten per cent". And yet Mr. Lewis tells us that, " From this alien trade alone, the harvester trust cleans up a rotund year­ly treasure of twenty D M million dol­lar*".

Mr. Karjner, how do you like itt You have tried the (irangc. you have tried the Farmers' Alliance, you have tried Populism—and still the game goes on. You are less than forty per |-cut of the vote now and steadily shrink­ing. Hadn't you better .join hands with that boy of yours that has been

forced to the city and work together against the common enemy? I'crhaps if you investigate a little you will find that the interests of the farmer and the

city worker are somehow bound up to­gether. Any relief that comes to either must eome through a political party and neither can succeed alone. Do you know what the Socialist party stands fort Better find out. Then think a few thinks and let us know what you think.

In the < >ctober and November numbers of Tom Watson's Maga­zine, T. A . Hickey, an active so­cialist worker in Montana for many years, has an article on the " M o n ­tana Copper War." The article simply shows the whole state of Montana, mines, railroads banks, legislatures, and courts as the foot ball for the avaricious and licentious greed of Meinze and Rockefeller. It is time that the working class, get a little intelligence and back­bone in them, and stop such dis­gusting horse play.

OCAL LIVINGSTON, of t Socialist Party

t he

Mrflnemy Monday Niifht at Socialist Hall. No. B. St. H o W A N n NKTHKIN. Sec.

Lake Como Local of Socialist Party has obtained a Charter from the State Committee and is now ready to receive applications for membership from any farmer or wage worker in Ravalli county. For further information writh to the address Lake Como Local, Como, Montana.

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