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VOL. IV. H E L E N A , M O N T A N A , W E D N E S D A Y , . J A N U A R Y 10, 1901 NO. 17

Proclamation From America

Remember "Bloody Sunday"—Work' ers of the World Resent the

Slaughter of Their Class.

Primary Election Laws

Chicago, 111., Dec. 30. 1905. Comrades:—On the 22nd day of

January, IQOS , a suffering mass of Russian workingmen united in sol­emn procession in the streets of St-Petersburg to petition their govern­ment for relief.

It was the supreme appeal of the Russian proletariat to Russian auto­cracy, and their last peaceful ap­peal. Their agonized cry for help was answered by the thunder of cannon. Thousands of trusting, defenseless workingmen were ruth­lessly slaughtered by the brutal arid treacherous government of the tzar.

The "Hloody Sunday" thus in­augurated by the autocracy marks the most ominous turning point in the history of the great Russian people.

From its baptism of blood the weak and submissive Russian work-ingman emerged a defiant giant.

He declared open and relentless war on the unholy powers which for centuries had been weighing like a nightmare on the unhappy nations of Russia, and almost all other classes of the population joined the valiant proletariat in the revolt.

Today the mighty empire of R jssia, from the Baltic to the Pa­cific Ocean, and from the White Sea to the black Sea, is in the throes of an irresistable revolution. The workingmen. the class conscious, socialist workingmen of Russia, are the main force and mo»ers, the head and the front of the revolution.

During the year succeeding the memorable Sunday of January 22, the Russian proletariat has matured more fully than it could through de­cades of normal development; the Russian workingmen today by their heroism, tact and devotion, set a shining example not only to all other classes of the fatherland, but to the entire civilized world.

Comrades: The struggle of the Russian socialists and workingmen is our struggle: by abolishing auto­cracy in their own country, our brethern in Russia are dealing a death blow to the strongest support of international reaction; in fight­ing their own cause, thev are evolv­ing powerful methods of working class warfare against all forms of tyranny; their success is a new and splendid demonstration of the irre­sistable power of the dormant giant — Labor, and their victory will be a victory for socialism all over the world.

The moral and material support of our struggling Russian comrades it, therefore, the imperative duty of all socialists, regardless of race or na­tionality.

Recognizing these facts, the In­ternational Socialist Bureau has set apart the 22nd day of January, 1906, the first anniversary of the "Bloody Sundav," for the commemoration of the fateful event, and for the ex­pression of sympathy and solidarity of the socialists of the world for their valiant Russian brethern.

The National Executive Commit­tee of the United States in ful l sym­pathy and accord with the above resolutions or the International Bureau, hereby calls upon all local organizations and members of the party, to join the socialists of the world in an effort to make this great international demostration as effec­tive and telling as lies within our power; let every local of the Social­ist Party throughout the IMiited States arrange for a meeting or

demonstration to be held during the week commencing the 21st of Jan­uary, 1906, for the purpose of ex­pressing our abhorrence of the criminal regime of Russian auto­cracy, our sympathy for the legions of its victims, and our solidarity with our fighting Russian comrades; and let us collect funds for the sup­port of the Russian revolution, the most gigantic struggle for human rights of modern times.

Comrades, all over the country, respond promptly and genorously to this call of duty.

Fraternally submitted, Robert Band.ow, V. L Berger, B. Berlyn, Wm. Mail ly , S. M. Reynolds, H . L Slobod n. John M . Work, National Executive Committee,

Socialist Party. Morris Hil lquit ,

Secretary to the International So­cialist Bureau.

J. Mahlon Barnes, National Secretary.

NOTE—Spec ia l meetings of the local should be called, where nec­essary, to make arrangements. If impossible to arrange a pnblic meet­ing, then the members alone should gather for this auspicious purpose and to emphasize their comradeship in a world's movement that moves. The above Proclamation should be read at all meetings. A l l contribu­tions should be sent to the national secretary.

" C o a l Oi l Johnny" burned and squandered three million dollars in seven months. He is now dying in poverty in Pennsylvania. Three millions of product that toilers had sweated to make, wasted in a flash by one fool. Hasten the day when no one man can have such control over the product of the labor of others.

How many special organizing stamps has your local disposed of?

Bright Contemporary

"The New Time" is a bright little socialist sheet, published monthly at Snokane. While coming out at somewhat lengthv intervals, it is,

nevertheless, infinitely more valua­ble to the comrades in that section of the country than to have no ve­hicle of expression. Moreover, our comrades of the New Time are some­what of the refined and esthetic tendency - of ideals, although ue it, materialistic ideals. They seem large of heart —not afraid to extend the hand of fellowship to newcomers that are swelling the voice of pro­testers. That is the reason there is a cheerful message of welcome and encouragement for the News in it this month. It is 25 cents a year, and has good reading in it. The News is not afraid to advocate the subscribing for contemporaries. It believes that the more papers there are taken in a state the better organ­ization we have, and the sooner will come that new time that will be here some day, under which those that walk this planet shall live, that we shall never see because we came too soon, but into whose "fa i r unfold-ment" the coming race shall move.

"There within the world new-builded shall our earthly deeds abide;

Tho' our names be all forgotten and the tale of how we died."

The primary election law passed by the last legislature having been adopted by a popular vote at a spe­cial election in and for Ravalli county on Nov. 29, 1905, it becomes necessary for the members of the Socialist party to familiarize them­selves with its requirements. In view of the small number of dues-paying members in the couuty, and the large floating vote, we are likely to poll at the next general election, and possibly at the prim­aries, we shoutd be prepared to pre­sent candidates for nomination to office that according to party rules and usage, wil l be legally entitled thereto; and eligible to be placed on our general ticket. Anyone calling himself a socialist and with a pur­pose to defeat the object for which we socialists are striving, might se­cure on a petition, enough names of men that would vote for him at a primary election, to predominate over the numbers of the dues-pay­ing members and thereby secure against the will of the party the right to a place on the general ticket at a general election. There is no way to prevent such a vote being cast at the primaries, and possibly no way of preventing such a person from having a place on the general ticket if he secures a majority vote at the primary election.

The law however guards some­what any disposition to secure by fraud such a position, by granting political parties the right to establish rules regulating eligibility to both membership and nomination.

The use of the referendum can be called upon by the locals to determ­ine how many and what names shall appear upon a petition to the county officials to place on the primary-socialist ticket. The county com mittee can exercise its authority in

seeing that no other names shall appear to the detriment of the cause, than have been submitted to such referendum.

Under these restrictions therefore the action taken by a county com­mittee to preserve the integrity of the ballot for socialism may be­come of great importance. In view then of general contingencies, Lake Como Local of Ravalli county passed a resolution to the effect that the organizer of the local would be the proper person to act in the ca­pacity of county committeeman, and when any local was eutitled to two or more members on the com-mitte, an election by the local would assign to his assistance the requi­site number. Lake Como Local urged upon the other locals the de­sirability of unanimity of action in this matter.

H I R A M PL A T T .

SEATTLE SOCIALISTS

The socialists of Seattle meet at the Temple, Fourth and Pine, every Sunday evening at 8 p. m. The list of speakers for January is as fol­low -

Jan. 7 and 8 —J. W. Slavton, na tional organizer, Sunday, "The So­cial Revolution." Monday, "The Triumph of Socialism."

Jan. 14—T. C. Wiswell, "Cap i ­talist Society Necessarily Parasitic."

Jan. 21—Judge Richard Winsor. ' The Social Unrest."

Jan. 28—Mrs Irene Smith, "So­cialism vs. Capitalism." I The pres­ent system.)

The comrades open the doors at p. m. for the examination of litera­ture. They have monthly cards printed with the program of speak­ers for the month.

Ma^y Be a. Is In the Slums

Benig | ed Conditions in Tennessee— I Human Beings Skulk

B Like Rats. 1

Students Attention!

The Neighborhood house is try­ing to establish a nipht school for the disinherited, ana the presi­dent of the board, ' a dear little Quaker woman who loves me in spite of my heresies) asked me to visit some of the young people and see if I could induce them to attend.

East End Interiors. Take " The People of the Abyss"

by Jack London, and look at the pictures of East End interiors. Then try to imagine rooms beside which these are palatial and if you succeed you will have an idea of some Maryville interiors. There is not such overcrowding, of course, as in London. There is no one shelter­less, so far as I know, nor any one room sheltering more than one fam­ily. But "the crowded conch of in­cest in the warrens of the poor" is not unknown and the ro.ims are in­describably ugly. Some of the houses are not papered or painted nor plastered, nor even ceiled. The walls are of rough boards, pieced and patched, black and smoky and filthy.

Old Clothes. I had asked one of the residents

of the neighborhood house if would be best to wear old clothes when I went. She is a Quaker also, a bacnelor girl, highly educated, demure and unassuming as a little gray dove. She said she really hadn't thought about that, she thinks it is the spirit that counts. I had seen enough of the cotton mill people to know that clothes count j w h e t h e r h c w a s d a f t o r d n j

Colleges to be Honeycombed Socialist Propaganda From

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she could get them to go. I had begun telling her about people who rose from nothing to greatness, And­rew Johnson, Corky, etc., when a queer looking little man came out and began talking to me. He had short, scraggy red whiskers and bleary blue eyes, I thought he was paralytic or daft, there are so many defectives in this country. He perched on the edge of a big goods box and called my attention to the sweet potatoes in it which were forty-five cents a bushel. When he learned what I was there for he let off a string of wild, disjointed, meaningless sentences:

Pater (Joes Crazy. " M y boys can't go. I won't go

to the poor house. It's the worst place there is. I'm an ijit and I know I'm an ijit. I wont pay a cent, not a damned cent. I'm goin' to move to Knoxville, the Salvation Army 'II keep me up. Not a damned cent." etc. etc.

I saw that he had me mixed up in his addled mind with the district visitors who had preceded me and I really did not blame him. I have heard that thep tell the women they ought to keep their houses clean

which no doubt they would do if they had such houses as their visitors and money enough to hire the daughters of the disinherited to do the cleaning).

I retreated and he volleyed and thundered as long as I was in hear­ing distance. I do not know

New York, Nov. 24.—To college graduates and students who are so­cialists:

Comrades-— The Intercollegiate Socialist society, formed for the purpose of promoting an interest in socialism among college men and women of the country, is now ready for work. We believe that the im­portance of what we propose to do should be recognized by every in­telligent socialist. That the time is ripe for such a movement and the public ready for it has been proven by the flood of newspaper and mag izine 'comment and discussion which the bare announcement of our or­ganization has provoked. We hope to keep the ball rolling; needless to say we cannot do it alone. We must have help from many hundreds of persons, each according to his means and opportunity. Our pres­ent desire is to secure the name of at least one student in sympathy with our work in every college and high school, technical and normal school in the country, so that we can distribute our literature and ar­range for talks by other speakers. This is the first and most essential thing, to find an entering point for our wedge. We therefore appeal to students now in colleges to send us their name, and to those acquainted

with any students in colleges to send them copies of this call. To make it necessary for us to make this ap­plication more than once, let us hear from you, and let us hear now. We hope to have a study chapter organized in every institution in the country before the present year is past.

J A C K L O N D O N , President.

U P T O N S I N C L A I R . First Vice President.

J . G. P H E L P S , Second Vice President.

M . R. H O L B R O O K , Secretary.

When we remember that the Rus. sian revolution was brought to a crisis only through years of potent propaganda issued largely from the university centers, and that a scien­tific economic system can come into being only as the interested parties can understand that system, and as ability to administer it is developed, we can recognize something of the value of the above movement to the socialist cause in this country. When our educational institutions are honey-combed with bright voung people who are studying and push ing the socialist thought, capitalism may well beware, for its supports will have been withdrawn.

too. There is no cotton mill here but it is the same class—the ones who have been stationary since the days of George III. They judge people and the cause thev represent by their clothes. They have no other standard you know. Some people judge others by their educa­tion, or their genius, or their refine­ment, but they would not recognize any of these things if thev met them in the road.

Curlylocks Examined. The first family I visited was one

I had met before. The mother called the baby, who was playing out doors, and had her show off for me. She is a bright child with beautiful curly hair and none of the hopeless, stupid look that she will have when she is as old as her sisteis.

"A 'ho built the ark?" her mother asked.

" N o a h , " said Curly I ocks. "How many souls were saved in

the ark?" "Eigh t . " "What was the world destroyed

with?" "Water." "What will it be destroyed with

next time?" " F i r e . " etc. etc. Is any comment needed? The

first six years of a child's life make it. A l l that is added later is veneer.

The boy and girl 1 wanted to see were not at home but I saw the boy afterward and he promised to go to the night school. I believe it was because I told him he is older than lots of them and can help. People make so much fun of him because he is tall and lank and painfully awkward, and they laughed when I said he has aspirations but I know he has. I have seen them in his eyes.

Inspire Ideal-. At the next house I stood on the

porch and talked to the mother of three boys and she said she thought

Tempted to Talk Socialism. 1 had resolved before starting out

not to talk Socialism because the board might not like it. but at the next place I was tempted and I fell, The daughter came from the woolen

mill for her dinner while I was talk­ing, a sweet little girl with trustful gray eyes and dark, neatly ar­ranged hair. I told them of my early aspirations. I wanted to be a doctor, but teaching school was the most lucrative employment I could find and one day I sat down and counted the cost. If I taught school ten years and never spent a penny for clothes, food or postage stamps. I would have just enough to graduate at a medical school. A girl with the constitution of an elephant ami the digestion of an ostrich could do by working night ami dajf and vacations and living on hard tack and scrap iron. I could not and I really think it is better to change the economic foundations of society so we wont need physicians.

Yours for the revolution,

MAN | | M.S. Marysville, Tenn.

While M people in all history lias been despoiled and roldtcd as our own by the corporations and trusts wo are too cowardly, conservative an.I ignorant to protect our own intercut*. We arc waiting for Home strong deliverer like KooMcvelt or Hearst to net tho people free, tint we look in vain. It is supremoit folly to expect relief from the outraged ami imposition* that mi be­s e t them. They imiMt free themselves. Do uway with the lumrgcois anil cap­italistic representative. As long as wo look to the class that furnishes us our Hoosevelts, < 'levelamls, Hearsts, fortel-yous, Hurt..ns, etc, government «vifl never lie in the interests of pro.luciug classes. The government as now a.I ministered is the most it iijicmlomi wrong of all time. Hell itself cannot produce a more Atrocious system than the present, In which human affairs are controlled in different parti of the world

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shall always and everywhere make the answer to the following question its guiding rule:

Will this legislation advance the material interests of the working class? If it does, the socialist party is for it. If it does not, the social­ist party is absolutelv against it.

Have the labor party representa­tives always acted thus? Let the past history of Montana politics ans­wer the question.

LABOR PARTIES. An attempt is being made by in­

dividuals in behalf of certain cor­porations to organize labor parties in various industrial centers of the state. The men intrusted to this work are men prominent in unions, with little knowledge of economic questions. The usual method is to approach the radical and militant union men, and show up the glories of electing laboringmen to office; (without a fixed policy to pursue after befog elected).

Thev approach the socialist with, "I believe in socialism as much as anv of v o n , and am as good a so­cialist as anv of you; but the so­cialist party makes no gains, it is too ratlical, people are against it. Let us follow the lines of least re­sistance; just get all the union men to vote the one ticket and we will i get everything we want."

This sounds well, but let us in­vestigate it closely. Kvery labor party organized in Montana, with the one exception of the labor party of Deer Lodge county, has fused to elect to office the hirelings of either Clark or Heinze.

The promoters, leaders, heelers of the so called labor parties of the past have all been corporation pets. If they were not they soon got out of the labor parties; and all the good that has been accomplished by such parties has been to put a few bun­co-steerers of labor in fat offices, while the rank and file trudged on as before.

There has been no law passed by the laborites in office that has light­ened the burden or stopped the ex­ploitation of labor one iota.

All of the laborites in office have worked for the interest of one or the other of the great exploiters of labor in Montana, Clark or Heinze.

l iiion men, beware of those pro­moters of labor parties, find out where the incentive for this political organizing comes from.

The supreme anxiety of the cap italist ciass is: First, to keep the la­borers out of politics; failing in that their next resort is to split the labor vote. For if ever the laboring class­es unite at the poles in their strug­gle, victory is inevitable.

In the strike and boycott the cap­italist has every advantage; at the ballot box labor has every advan­tage.

Therefore, every device known to intrigue is resorted to to get a part of the labor vote into the republican party another part into the demo­cratic party, another into the fusion party; and if they can get still other little groups split off, so much the better. It is the ownership of the means of production and distribu tion that gives the capitalist class their power. The socialist party aims straight at the root of the evil by demanding the collective owner­ship of the things.

It has a half century of history and experience, nearly 10,000,000 voters in the world, leadership of unquestioned integrity and ability, and a scientific program of proced ure.

The socialist party, when in office,

The campaign of 1906 is now in full progress in Montana. Murray King is coming west and speaking in towns along the <'treat Northern. Comrade Petersen begins work to­night in Helena. Comrade Graham goes over to Butte this week. Mrs. Hazlett goes out to Hasin and Clan cy next week. Comrades Graham and Hazlett were out at the meeting of the local in Last Helena Friday night. A series of meetings has been arranged for the Sixth ward in Helena. It is of the utmost im­portance that the organization fund be strengthened. In this way the party is killing some half dozen birds with one stone. When speak­ers are out increasing revenues im­mediately begin to flow to the state organization. The speakers will be taking subscriptions and working in every way for the News, and thus we have half a dozen sources of rev­enue instead of one. We had hoped to get Comrade Slavton of Pennsyl­vania into Montana. He is now-touring the western country under the direction of the national of­fice. Comrade Graham made ap­plication for two months' work for him here. He is the ablest worker that has ever came from the east to the west. That is, he is a worker, and adapts himself to the situation, which few of the eastern men can do. We did not want any expensive and pyrotechnic star routing, but wantetl him to work under the di­rection of the state committee in the localities where he was most needetl. Hut for some reason the national office routed him back through Washington and California, and Montana gets no benefit from his tour. We w ished to take Goebel in the same way, but were again de­prived of the assistance of a nation­al organizer. The state secretary is endeavoring to raise money to pay May Heals' way to the state in February. She not only will make a fine worker and speaker, but she will make a firstclass resident agita tor for the mining camps, or any locality for that matter, to stay and work until the work is done. We want, from now on, to direct the work especially to the municipal campaign. It would be well for the locals to read ami consider carefully the last circular letter of the state secretary, and see that the special organizing stamps are disposed of. The more intelligent work we do,

comrades, the more definite and solid the results will be.

OLD PARTY MACHINES AND HOW THEY = OPERATE =

B Y O N E W H O H E L P E D T O O P E R A T E

(Continued from last week)

A New Party. K v o r y new M T M M l l i n h i s t o r y wan

:t class struggle. K v e r y atop i n the advancement of society was a protest

elaborate system of accounting to fill (lie bill. Kvery thing was cash, but a •• bookkeeper " was just the "dope" to keep track of all the "dead ones," the new ones, ami the obi ones on the po l i t i c a l ledger. It was easier to earn

against e x i s t i n g conditions. Theoretic • 1 " " " l r , • , 1 • month keeping an

If the members of the party throughout the state could see the requests that the recent mails bring for applications for charters, litera ture and speakers they would real ize the need of enforcing the state organization, so as to enable it to respond to all these calls. All the Socialist Party needs to make it an eflective, militant power is an or­ganization that will move en masse to cover the necessities of the ad­herents, new converts, and sym­pathizers. The state is so respon­sive to the efforts of whatever or­ganization we have that by build­ing up a strong machine it would be easy for us to carry certain counties and absolutely terrify the tools of capitalist graft here in Montana; not a machine such as is used by the cap italists, both corrupt and corrupt­ing: but a machine that is an effec­tive instrument accurate, certain, striking with deadly effect, in the hands of the working class the vul­nerable points in the armor of our capitalist enemies.

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government gave way to monarchy , and 11 a rchy in turn gave way to denioc racy. I>iscontent lias a lways been tin lever of progress. There was a t in i . when Jehovah was the center of hu man government, then a k i n g by di v ine r ight ruled in his stead, and then the people under var ious guises as sinned power. At present the pen] ; are sa id to rule through the i r represi ta t ives . There may he some instances where the whole people hai l a v o i c e in the i r governmenta l a f f a i r s , such as was wit nosed under the c lan sys tem of the ancient I'elts, or perhaps i n the ( i r ec i an Confederate states, but there never yet , to any large extent , exis ted any f o r m of government where the masses o f the people had the r i g h t to make the laws w h i c h govern them The Htirns machine was a govern ine i i ! b y representat ion. Represen ta t ives at U ' s t . are but a system of a m u l t i p l i c i t y of k ings . I f the k i n g s are good ami wise, the i r rule is easy to to lera te but it' the kind's are corrupt and venal , there is a p robab i l i t y of a protest f rom the | « o p l e , or f r o m some of t hem at least.

The Bu rns machine was running; th ings about as cor rupt ly as it was pes sible f o r that machine to operate. Sum of the people protested. A t th i s f i l m there was a wave of po l i t i c a l r e f o r m coming over the na t ion . Out on the po l i t i ca l ocean a new white sa i l was f l y i n g the pennon of l i be r t y . F o r a t ime the ship was f ree f rom cant , cor tup t ion and machine tact ics . T h e hon est men of the nation f l o c k e d to meet

it It was ; w star in the p o l i t i c a l f i rmamen t that appealed to men as the beacon l ight of a new era of socia l and po l i t i c a l equal i ty . Its p r i n c i p l e -M M based upon human r ights , a n d its adherents were men of p r i n c i p l e and character. T h i s new sa i l on the crest of the wave was the people 's pa r ty I'or « b r i e f period th is c l a iman t to the ' ' S h i p of S t a t e " steered c lear of every other ship.

M i l l i o n s of A m e r i c a n voters wel coined the newcomer into the harbor It was no sooner anchored than an army of soreheads and schemers rushed on hoard. The honest sa i lors who brought it into port were imposed upon, hampiotcd and dined un t i l they became so in tox ica ted wi th promises that they |« - rn i i t t c i l their po l i t i c a l a l l ies to mount the ((iiarterdeck and run tho ship. T h e i r po l i t i c a l al l ies Were the defeated democrats . It W H S wa r to the k n i f e . It was H u m s against fus ion . It was a ba t t le roya l . Never l iefore was there such an oppor tuni ty f o r the ward healer 1 o reap a bounl i f i l l l i s r \ est

T h i s t ime the city campaign was not based upon a " m o r a l w a v e " against vice . The fo l lowers of the new par ty brought other issues in to the f i e l d . The workers wanted an eight hour day, the t a \ p : i \ c r s were c l a m o r i n g f o r condi­t ions that would lower the taxes, and the people i i i general were a s k i n g fo r lower rates. In consequence thereof a new po l i t i c a l issue was invented. T h i s tie the slogan of r e f o r m was " P u b l i c ownersh ip of public u t i l i t i e s . " A t f i r s t it was but a l i t t l e c loud, no b igger than a man ' s hand, but in a few weeks it developed into huge thunder clouds that overspread the po l i t i c a l s k y .

Tbf l Spinney blocks were do ing a t h r i v i n g business in the bad lands. N o ipus t i on a f f e c t i n g that loca l i ty was at issue. P u b l i c sentiment was in f avo r of publ ic ownership. The owners of property in the bud lands were a lways the v i c t i m s of such corporat ions as con t ro l led the water and l ight of the c i t y . The f u s i o n people c la imed that publ ic ownersh ip of these u t i l i t i e s would g ive eve rybody a sipiare deal . There was tie d i f f i c u l t y in c o n v i n c i n g Hpinney that his water and l igh t rates would be cut i n two. The result was Hpinney went over to f u s i o n — a f u l l f l edged member of the people 's pa r ty . Hun­dreds of others d id the same. M o n e y began to f l o w into the treasury of the fus ion i s t s l i k e water . T h e most ex pert w a r d heelers were wheeled into l ine .

In m y past adventures i n the po l i t i ca l a rena I had either the luck , or the good .judgment, of being on the w i n n i n g side I was never under any obl iga t ions to B O S H Burns . Wha tever f avo r s I per­f o r m e d f o r h im I was we l l paid fo r K v e r y cent he ever gave me through Coste l lo was f o r value received. N e i t h e r was I under any ob l iga t ions to Hpinney. Hose ami I had been po l i t i ca l associates, and the younger sister and I had 11 certain " s e n t i m e n t a l al t ini tv e x i s t i n g between us, but as f a r a s poor d e v i l l ike me was concerned, the whole argument was founded on , , ,, nomic condi t ions i t was a question of dol lars , and how to get them w i t h the least enslavement. To make a long story short I went back to Hpinney and, wi thout any ceremony, was in s t a l l ed as " b o o k k e e p e r " fo r the Hpan i sh town blocks. It d i d n ' t require any

eagle eve on Hpan i sh town than to p i l e p lanks in a l u m b e r y a r d a t $1.50 per day. 1 t r ie t l the la t ter , a n d I k n o w whereof 1 speak. It was a m b i t i o n — ami yet they say " a m b i t i o n should be made of s terner s t u f f . " B u t a las! i t was the s t rugg le f o r ex is tence—the great age o f compe t i t i on , where the

• s u r v i v a l o f the f i t t e s t " drove the weakest to the w a l l .

I ' luler such cond i t ions as I w r i t e of , 11 is not a ques t ion of honest occupa­t ion but w h o l l y a quest ion of success. The men who fought f o r pub l i c owner­ship were the same men w h o in f o r m e r l i y s helped to bu i ld the B u c k l e y and

the Burns machines . T h e y were jus t LI 1 orrupt, but they were fo rced to l ight fo r " a new i d e a . " It was but another step in the e v o l u t i o n o f so­c ie ty . The f ac t that such corrupt men fought side by side w i t h honest men f o r the common weal is but a proof that all men are the creatures o f the i r sur­roundings, and subject in every respect to the great law of economic de termin­ism. The f u s i o n par ty was but a com­promise be tween B u c k l e y democracy and populist r ad i ca l i sm . The demo­crat! held a conven t ion where every­th ing was f i x e d be fo rehand . The pop­ulists held a conven t ion where every-t h i n g was f i x e d beforehand . Kach con v, u t ion appo in t ed a conference commit ­t ee , s lated be fo re ei ther conven t ion

met. The J pie were foo led aga in . "Ok, L i b e r t y , how many c r imes are commit ted la t h y name! 1 '

Both conven t ions wrote d i f f e r e n t p la t forms. It was merely for e f f e c t . I ' latl 'orms are seldom, i f ev or, kept . The whole t h i n g was a fa rce-comedy, but it was a great play. The c o n f e r erne commit tees agreed upon the • s p o i l s " of o f f i c e , and once aga in the world was to be redeemed. T h i s t ime it was the real t h i n g — v o x popul i vox dei. It was " r e f o r m , a m i it cou ld only come th rough the f u s i o n par ty .

It w i l l lie a d m i t t e d , however , that the people 's pa r t y d i d accompl i sh some­th ing— it f o r ced even B u r n s to put publ ic ownersh ip i n a mi ld f o r m in to his p l a t f o r m . T h e question wi th B u r n s

'an to w in I f he f a i l . .1. his power was gone. T h e corpora t ions ami the t rusts would look f o r a new Moses.

F o r t h i r t y days (Solden <'ity was f l o w i n g wi th m i l k and honey. E v e r y a v a i l a b l e b lock was tenanted w i t h f u ­s ionis ts . The banner of pub l i c owner sh ip was f l o a t i n g f r o m every Hpinney b lock . The g i r l s aga in were con t ro l l ed by Beat, and th rough them the " l o r d s of the t e n d e r l o i n " had to toe the mark .

Abou t this t ime a new Ibd i l ah came upon the scone. Hhe was y o u n g , h i g h l y educated, and dec ided ly the most at­t r a c t i v e woman that ever graced the profess ion of w i r e p u l l i n g . She was the counterpar t o f Joseph ine Beauhar nais . Her name was i ' r a n k i e K a i n e y . She was HU years of age and the miner of vast proper ty in tc r s t s i n the " f o r ­e ign quarters. " She and Hose Hpinney were deadly enemies. N o b o d y in B a l d e n < ity understood p o l i t i c s better t han K r a n k i e . Hhe had e v e r y w a r d heeler in the bad lands on her s t r i n g . It was as easy f o r her to con t ro l a hundred votes as i t as f o r an honest man to cont ro l h is own. I ' r ank ie and I were raised together, went to school together, p l ayed at " w a r " together and en ter ta ined the same economic ideas She was a s t rong woman suf­f r a g i s t , ami i n c l i n e d to Utopian con (•options. In sp i te of the f a c t that she was a ve r i t ab le power in the regions of the " s u b m e r g e d t e n t h , " her char­ac ter and her i n t e g r i t y were above S U B p i c i o n . Hhe was a f n s i o n i s t not f o r g r a f t but f o r p r inc ip le . Hhe p layed at po l i t i e s l i ke a man . Hhe cou ld per­suade any o f her employes or her

r o o m e r s " to get i n l i ne . B u t po l i ­t i c * makes queer bed fe l l ows . A t ruce was made between K r a n k i e ami Hose It was a p o w e r f u l c o m b i n a t i o n tha t ne i ther Bo t t l e K e n o , H a n k O r a d y , B i l l K e l l y , nor Cos te l lo cou ld cope agains t .

T h e people on N o b H i l l — t h o G o l d e n (/'ity four h u n d r e d — d i d not want pub­l i c ownership . M o s t of them were members of the trusts , and m i l l i o n a i r e s . It was a s t range t h i n g to see the

g i l d e d d o w a g e r s " of the H i l l come d o w n into the bad lands a n d tako the " f a i r i e s " o f the b locks i n the i r a rms and beg of them to induce the i r " m a c e r o s " to vote against f u s i o n men. It was hea r t r end ing to see those good old mothers in Israel pet the " g i r l s " on the back and t e l l them that the i r s ins were f o r g i v e n p r o v i d e d t h e i r " m a c k s " v o t e d to sus ta in a sys tem of e x p l o i t a t i o n by wh ich they (the good old mothers) could ro l l in bl lo-ness and l u x u r y .

Home ot the ' ' e a r l s ' ' themselves l o ld me tha t shameless as the i r l i f e made them they cou ld not help but b lush w i t h shame at the hypocr i sy of the " v i r t u o u s dowagers of N o b H i l l . The re is n o t h i n g in the wor ld that

HUNTERS HOT SPRINGS

in the heart of the Crazy Mountains at Spring-

dale, Mont., bring beneficial results in cases of

rheumatism, dyspepsia, neuralgia, lumbago and

stomach and kidney ailments. Delightful sur­

roundings. Swimming pool, 40 x 60 feet.

Write J. K. McCormick, Proprietor, for com­

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w i l l expose the t rue charac te r of men and women so much as a po l i t i ca l ba t t l e—espec ia l ly when problems )s-ar-i n g upon the p roduc t ion a m i d i s t r ibu t ion of wea l th are concerned. N o mat­ter how degraded the people of the bad lands may be, they recognize the fac t that they are the v i c t i m s of ecu nomic condi t ions , and a l l of them are anxious fo r a change. O n l y they haven ' t the courage to s t and up and demand the change. These jieople are used to " t a i n t e d m o n e y " and they w o n ' t do a n y t h i n g even fo r themselves unless they are pa id f o r i t .

Ten days before elect ion day about t h i r t y w a r d heelers held a counci l o f w a r in the par lors of The Kxehange .

— M a x . (To be cont inued. )

LIVINGSTON LOCAL Saturday night, December, 30,

Livingston local held a social in their hall, known all over town as the socialist hall. It was one of the very worst nights in the year, wind and gravel blowing as only Livingston can make blow—yet the hall was full. There were sand­wiches, coffee, oysters, and other good things that make glad the heart of man, and woman too.

An excellent program was given consisting of vocal and instrnmen-tal music, all socialist songs, recita­tions, and other entertaining feat­ures. A goodly sum was netted to grease the wheels of revolution. O n January 25, it is proposed to hold a basket social and card party for strengthing the Montana News, and making a fund to bring May Beals into the state.

Christmas Girts We are showing a thousand and one useful articles suit­able for Christmas Gifts, at prices ranging from 25c to $25 The U. & L label the earmark of excellence—adds value to the presents.

Gans & Klein Co. R. A . Fraaer, Mgr.

HELENA, MONT.

When the comrades are prepar­ing their entertainments, if they will send us in their programs, we shall be glad to print them. Notice ought to be sent into the News a week or so ahead. Then if the local will have it printed as an advertisement, as we did for Helena local, and will order several hundred copies, they will have excellent advertising for the entertainment, and will increase the circulation of the News.

A constant and steady demand for speakers and assistance to ripen unorganized districts for organiza' tion is being made on state organiza-tion, which is unable to meet all de­mands owing to lack of finance in the organizing fund. Locals can help the state organization, by dis­posing of the special organization stamps.

Dry Goods & Furnishing Qoods, Shoes and Fancy Oroceries. Prices Right

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LOCAL LIVINGSTON, of the Socialist Party

Meets every Monthly Nislit at Socialist Hall, No. II. St. HOWARD 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.

M O N T A N A N K W S , I I K L K N A . M O N T A N A

THE: C A L L A vo i re came out of the diurnal n l n h t

Out o( defeat o f t r u t h and r l f h t W l n i r a t l l l undaunted In the f r a y

I t l o n g * f o r the d a w n of a better d a y ; C a l U to a r m * the helplea* alarea

Of t y r a n t * b o l d , of th ieve* and knave* . " H o w l o n g , " i t aaka' " n t n m wea l th a n d creed

I Dic ta te to u* the i r mon*troa* creed? S h a l l r i r t u r e . honor , f r eedom'* cau*e

Be t r a m p l e d on by baaeat law*. C o m p i l e d by foe* of honeat t o i l

T h e horde* of l l l t ro t t en *po l l ?"

" M a i l we aa w o r k e r * c a l m l y y i e l d , G ive up the s t r i f e w i t h i n our field

A n d w o r a h i p . a* the men of o l d . T h e imaae o f the i r mol ten i ro ld?"

T h u s pledge oaraelve*. we must e n t h r a l l

Oar l i ve s , oar , hopes, our e a r t h l y a l l .

Rise , f r l e n d a of t h i | , our social cause? A d v a n c e our e m b l e m , never pause,

U n t i l w i t h i n the w o r l d ' s great span We find tha t b ro therhood of man

O f w h i c h i n darkest days of o ld

T h e ancient sage* o f t f o r e to ld .

F o r t h i * . oar goa l , let worke r* s t r ive . Mo e a r t h l y m i g h t can ever depr ive

O f hope and f o r t h to fearle** s tand. T r u e p a t r i o t * of our nat ive land.

T h e t rus ted guard ians of our youth Defender* of the r i g h t , the t r n t h .

I W r l t t e n f o r the " M o n t a n a N e w s " by John O r a m Moen . Helena. M o n t . . Dec. 29.14051

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Chicago 111., Dec. 29, 1905. T o the Nat iona l Execut ive C o m ­

mittee, Socialist Party, Dear Comrades: — I herewith sub­

m i t a report of the considera t ion g i v e n and of the act ion taken by your commit tee on the subjects sub­m i t t e d under date of December 18, namely, the proposi t ion to assist i n the maintainance of a correspond­ence in the interest of the Social is t Party i n Washington dur ing the ses sions of congress and the actions and recommendat ion of the In te r na t iona l Socia l i s t 'Bureau re la t ing to the observance of January 22, 1906, and the issuance of a proc lamat ion connected w i th the same and the gather ing of funds f o r our Russian comrades.

Correspondence between C o m rade W. J. Ghent and the n a t i o r a l o f f i ce :

260 W. 54th St., Nov. 30 1905. Dear Comrade Harnes :—Could

the nat ional off ice as part of its pro­paganda work be induced to help i n keeping a correspondent i n Wash­i n g t o n d u r i n g the coming sessions o f congress? I t is a very i m p o r t ­ant matter accord ing to my l ights , and I am so l i c i t ing the party papers and some ind iv idua ls to pledge a weekly sum to secure the service. T h i r t y dol lars a week would be re­q u i r e d . What po r t ion of this , i f any, migh t reasonably be expected f r o m the na t ional office, and how long would i t take to get ac t ion on the suggestion?

I am suggesting Wen twor th as the man best fitted to do the w o r k .

Ve ry sincerely, W . J. G H K N T .

the successs of the pro jec t , I am favorab le to i t , but i t shoud be con­sidered as f o r maintenance rather than service.

Fraternal ly yours , J. M A H L O N B A R N E S ,

N a t i o n a l Secretary.

160 W. 54th St., Dec. 14, 1905. Dear Comrade Harnes-—I have

now heard f r o m m o i t o f those to whom I applied relat ive to the mat­ter of main ta in ing a correspondent at Washington. The si tuat ion f r a m e d up about as fo l l ows :

I f the nat ional office cou ld f u r ­nish about $10 a week, the th ing appears to be accomplished. T h e benefit to the na t ional off ice per se w o u l d appear to be about n i l , a t y o u poin t out. T h e c o n t r i b u t i o n wou ld have to be made w i t h regard to propaganda as a whole, and w i t h no thought of other than a belated use of the matter i n the bu l l e t i n .

T h e Appeal w o u l d pay $10 a. week f o r a special report . The other re­ports mimeographed w o u l d be sent to the nat ional off ice, and to such papers as paid $2.50 a week f o r i t .

I am hoping that whatever commit tee decides the matter may look upon it as of sufficient impor tance to warrant paying this subsidy of $10 per week, as wi thou t this the th ing appears to be impossible.

Very sincerely yours, W . J. G H E N T .

Women's Clubs S T A T E NEWS

Dec. 5 th , 1905. W . J Ghent , 360 W. 54th St. New

Y o r k . Dear Comrade: — I have your

f a v o r of November 30, reference to the impor tance of hav ing a man at the nat ional capi ta l , dur ing the ses­sions of congress. I had the i m ­pression that Comrade W e n t h w o r t h was again to appear at that post by reason of arrangements w i t h the Appeal .

Comrade Wenthworth ' s work of last year was of the highest type, and I could wish to see arrange­ments perfected f o r the cont inuance o f such service.

A n y course taken by the na t iona l of f ice w o u l d have to be determined by the ac t ion of the na t iona l exe­cu t ive commit tee o r nat ional c o m ­mit tee . Y o u migh t consult C o m ­rades S lobod in or H i l l q u i t , mem­bers of these committees respectiv­ely .

I t h i n k I should point ou t that unless the correspondent was at­tached d i r ec t ly to the na t iona l o f ­fice, wh ich would be whol ly respon­sible f o r the service, that the bene­f i t to the nat ional office w o u l d be next to n i l , the service was suppl ied to an number o f par ty papers. T h e na t iona l office could no t send out i n i ts bu l l e t in , material f o r pub­l i ca t ion a week later, which w o u l d be f o u n d i n issues of the par ty press of even date w i th the bu l le t in .

Hy the above explanat ion I do not wish to be unders tood as op­posed to a c o n t r i b u t i o n by the na­t iona l off ice. I f i t is necessary f o r

M a y Heals is coming i n January. Montana is get t ing in l ine f o r the 1906 campaign.

S ix ty shops surrendered at once i n New V o r k to the 8-hour demands of the Typograph ica l un ion .

I t is stated that the anthraci te coal operators have sent a wr i t t en cer t i f ica te that they are w i l l i n g to meet the officers of the un ion i n con­ference.

« « « Six hundred and f i f t y canal labor­

ers brought to C o l o n f r o m M a r t i n ­ique, French West Indies , were landed at the fo rmer po r t against thei r w i l l . One hundred and fifty men were seriously beaten by the police. The laborors objected to the unsanitary cond i t i ons on the Isthmus.

• • • A g r i c u l t u r a l laborers, who in the

U n i t e d States have never been able to successfully organize, have i n Spain a un ion w i t h 3,317 members.

G ive the A r l i n g t o n H o t e l a t r i a l N o r t h Ma in St.

Club Lectures Sunday night Mrs . I d a Crouch

Hazle t t addressed the Worker ' s C l u b on the subject of " W o m a n and E c o n o m i c s . " A large audience was present in the pleasant parlors . M r s Haz le t t explained woman's social pos i t ion as a matter of evo lu t i on de­pendent upon changing economic condi t ions . She showed how the i n s t i t u t i o n of marriage has changed as society has merged in to the t r i ­bal state, then in to the pa t r i a rcha l , thence in to the present, o r capi ta l ­ism, and this i n s t i t u t ion w i l l change its f o r m as the society of the fu tu r e changes. A synopsis of the lecture w i l l be given next week. A num ber of questions were asked by the audience chief ly re la t ing to evolu t i o n through economic necessity.

T h e January dates are as fo l l ows Jan. 24; D r L . E. H o l m e s — " S o m e Energies of M a t t e r ; " Jan. 21 , Professor T e n n e y — " P r a c t i c a l E d ­u c a t i o n ; " Jan- 28. Alex Fairgr ieve, J. H - C a l d e r h e a d — " W o r k i n g m e n ' s Co-opera t ion .

M r s . Sam Stewart has ref i t ted and refurnished the A r l i n g t o n H o t e l . Popular prices. Stree cars pass the door .

Swell the organizing f u n d by get­t ing up entertainments, and donate the proceeds to the state organiza t ion to rush on the work of i nvad ing the unorganized places.

The f o l l o w i n g paper was read by

Mrs . M c D e r m o t t at the meeting of

the Great Falls Improvement Club .

Socialism. As I understand social ism i t

means mutual ownership o f a l l means of p roduc t ion and d i s t r i bu ­t i o n ; f o r instance, lands o r real estate, mines, water works, water power, forests and their products , mil ls f o r the manufacture of a l l pro­ducts, o i l wells, water r ights , r a i l ­roads, express companies, i n fac t everything that is above or under the earth that can be used f o r man's comfor t , pleasure or needs, to be owned by the people, to be worked by the people as long as there is any cal l fo r the goods, by the people. As long as there is anyone in need of a house, or a piano, or a chair, the carpenters w i l l work, the manu­facturers of hardware, the plumb­ers, the masons, the decorators w i l l work t i l l the house is done ready to be inhabi ted. So wi th every other th ing we w i l l have use fo r . Now none of these workers w i l l have to work a minute longer than is nec­essary by using the most improved machinery. Everyone shall con­t r ibute to the general work as long as there is a board to be cut, a pipe to be put i n , a man to feed, or clothe, a woman who needs a pair of shoes, or a c h i l d who needs any­th ing . A l l are necessary and part of the work . There w i l l be none idle as long as there is work to do, and as soon as i t drops off al l w i l l be ent i t led to an equal share of leisure. Instead of the foreman elect ing his workers, the workers w i l l elect the foreman, the superintendent, the president. Every one electctl to an office holds i t as long as he proves himself eff icient .

Socialism w i l l give to ch i ld ren equal oppor tuni t ies f o r knowledge. Give them t r a in ing in every branch of l i fe and thus enable them to choose a l i f e work that is congen­ial and f o r w h i c h they are by na­ture fitted. I f educat ion is cont in­ued t i l l they are prof ic ient i n some­th ing in the i r leisure they may st i l l pursue knowledge as long as they have a desire to do so.

There w i l l be no danger of people ever becoming satisfied to q u i t im­proving themselves. The t rend of human nature is upward. I use the masculine gender in w r i t i n g but I am speaking of woman also f o r she w i l l take her place beside man in deciding all questions o f l i f e . She w i l l have an equal vote ane w i l l not be dependent upon man f o r sup port . Heing a worker she is entit led to her compensat ion.

Every c h i l d w i l l be born wi th a right to live and be educated irre­spective of being bereft of one or both parents. I t is the duty o f the commonweal th to provide food, clothes, shelter, proper amusements wi th d i rectors and education. Each successive generat ion hands these advantages on to the next as they step up to the age of workers. The sick w i l l have proper medical at­tendance. Inva l ids or cripples w i l l be exempt f r o m work . The workers w i l l have what they pro­duce, af ter the care f o r the ch i ldren and sick, and aged, are deducted. No one can say how these things w i l l be arranged. Tha t w i l l be de­cided as t ime goes o » . New ques­t ions of impor tance w i l l arise, but p ro f i t off another man's labor w i l l be done away w i t h when socialism comes in to being. There w i l l be no r i ch as we have now; there w i l l be no poor. Each and everyone wi l l l ive and let l ive , greatly i n contrast w i t h present condi t ions .

T h e elections w i l l be decided by the people d i r e c t l y ; no congress to make laws and supreme cour t to unmake them, no senate to make laws and pervert them f o r the bene f i t of a special class o f men, for there w i l l be no special class.

I t is a c o n d i t i o n great ly to be wished f o r . A science that cannot be summed up i n one smal l paper l ike this. Le t us a l l study i t ; get the books that t reat on this science and work f o r i t .

The State Secretary is in receipt o f a most complete and accurate re­port f r o m the Cascade County Com­mittee. The commit tee is composed of the f o l l o w i n g : Frank M . Buck, Great Falls; M . J. M o r r i s , Be l t ; J. M . Rector, M o n a r c h ; Fred S. Har t , Neihart .

The report consists of a map of Case ade County showing the school districts, and locations of school houses. The commit tee has mai led personal letters to the clerks of the di r t r ic t s , asking f o r the names of socialists i n the dis t r ic ts . A list actutnpanied the map con ta in ing a vast fund of i n f o r m a t i o n i n regard to who w i l l secure houses, at tend to fires and so f o r t h . Comrade Rector has been the temporary sec­retary that has done most o f the compi l ing of the report f r o m in fo r" tnation sent i n by other comrades.

The county is now i n fine shape f o r the first propagandist, C o m ­rade Petersen w i l l make the route fiirst,

t • • Curtis A. Perry, the state organ­

izer for Maine, writes fo r copies of the Montana State Cons t i tu t ion , samples of l i terature and plans used in our campaigns. The Maine comrades w i l l short ly hold a state convent ion and they want a l l the ideas they can get in order to prof i t by them in their own organiza t ion .

• • • l oinrade A l l e n of T r o u t Creek

writes: I am a socialist l i v i n g down here i n a valley, half way between Missoula and Spokane. I have been tak ing subscript ions f o r socialist papers, but the great trouble is to get other socialists to give any money to scatter l i terature. What we need is a local , and I have been referred to you f o r inst ruct ions. I don ' t know any th ing about such things, and would be obl iged to have you help me.

• • • Here is a letter i n a l i t t l e d i f fe r ­

ent strain. We have to meet a l l kinds of condi t ions and be ready for them.

Dear Comrade :—The members of the Boulder local have al l gone away and lef t Boulder. I am the only member of the loca l now i n Houlder, and most of the people of Moulder are l i t t l e grafters after county offices, and the hardest people to talk to on socialism i n the state of of Montana . I w i l l t r y and hold on to the charter and see if I can get some members as I would not l ike so see i t dead.

Fra ternal ly , H . D I X O N ,

i | « W o r d comes to put a speaker, i f

possible, in to H a r d y , g iv ing them as much t ime as can be spared, ( 'omrade George Woods, n new convert , w i l l help us open up this t e r r i to ry .

• • • Comrade Rector wants 1,000 cop­

ies of Her ron ' s pamphlet, " F r o m Revolu t ion to R e v o l u t i o n . " The state secretary has several hundred of these i n the copy of the " C o m -r a d , " bearing the or ig ina l pr in t . We are cons ider ing the adv i s ib i l i t y of repr in t ing this valuable monograph, which is now out of pr int .

• •, • One of the best statements of the

entire socialist p ropos i t ion is to be f o u n d i n a l i t t l e pamphlet of Chas. H i Va i l ' s ent i t led "Socia l i sm and the Negro P rob lem." The pamph­let has been out of pr in t f o r some time. We have Iput the matter i n tvpe and expect to run i t through several issues of the News, af ter which we shall reproduce i t as a leaflet.

• t • Comrade Harrows of Garne i l or­

ders " T h e Struggle f o r Exis tence." They are s tudying i n that neck of

the woods.

• • • ( 'omrade Paul Castle semis us en­

couraging words i n regard to the News, and says they need a speaker at Cen t ra l Park.

« « * Every Sunday the comrades of

Liv ings ton local gather up a l l the

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socialist l i terature and papers to be f o u n d , and take them to the i r ha l l , and f r o m there send them a l l over the county . There is no loca l i n the state that takes better care of i ts county than L iv ings ton . I t is a good example to f o l l o w .

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Comrade Petersen is at the U p ­per Otter schoolhouse i n Cascade county , January 18, antl at K i b -bey, January, 19. Secretary Rec­tor of the Cascade county central commit tee , writes that both points w i l l be organized, and w i l l give dances. That ' s the stuff. D o n ' t al low al l the benefits and pleasures of c iv i l i za t ion to go to capi ta l i sm. Socialists should d ive r t t h e i r pjeasures and their gains to the ad­vantage of their movement . The movement should be the incent ive to a l l the act ivi t ies o f the i r l i f e . Th i s is the way i t has been i n Ger­many f o r years, and is the charac­

t e r i s t i c of New Y o r k and M i l w a u -! kee, the two best movements i n

America I w i t h the except ion of the Montana movement of course - t h a t goes wi thou t saying. } I t looks as though Comrade Petersen w o u l d be surfeited w i th pleasures, but we guess he can stand i t f o r the good of the cause.

• I •

Local Chico gave a dance New Year's n ight , and cleared $2(>. They send word that the money w i l l be sent i n to the state secretary as soon as the comrades have consul ted as to how i t is to be appl ied .

e • e

A letter f r o m J. S. Lee, at T r o u t Creek, asks f o r al l necessary papers and supplies f o r o rgan iza t ion . H e says: I have ta lked w i t h several so­cialists here about o rganiz ing a local and most of them are i n f a v o r of i t , yet some t h i n k i t w i l l hur t t h e i r j o b . T h i s course seems strange to me f o r I have always been a free man so

far as my labor is concerned.

• • • Comrade C o m e r f o r d sends i n

some excellent ideas o n organiza­t i o n :

The only way to handle Mad i son connty is to have a man take the county and spend f r o m two to three months r igh t i n i t , m a k i n g his own arrangements, selling books, t ak ing up col lect ions, antl so f o r t h . He should be w i l l i n g to rough i t , and organize locals where possible. Hut the best part of his work wou ld be to get one or two socialists i n each precinct in the county to at tend our convent ion next f a l l .

We have a b ig sentiment i n this county but i t is hard to get i t cen­tered. I f something l ike this could lie done i t w o u l d be a b ig th ing f o r us. The worker cou ld send the names he cou ld get that would promise to at tend a conven t ion to

me, f o r I in tend to have a county t icke t i n this county if I have to r u n f o r a l l the offices myself . Now comrade, i f you can get a suitable man to do this I w i l l stand part of the expense and I know the com­rades of our local w i l l not be behind. I do not t h ink i t w i l l cost the state any t h i n ^ .

This is the true sp i r i t of propa­ganda and organiza t ion . Whenever such a sp i r i t of de te rmina t ion gets into the hearts of our comrades at any point , the movement is going to go there, and go wi th a rush.

S T A T E H E A D Q U A R T E R S

Loca l Helena donates $12.40 to the organiz ing f u n d .

Comrade Leuhinan of Helena sold $1.50 of campaign coupons i n two hours.

Loca l Chestnut orders a book of campaign coupons.

C. C. M c H u g h has been elected nat ional commit teeman f o r the year 1906.

Mur ray F. K i n g w i l l lecture at Glasgow January 9 and 10, Havre , 12 and 13, and w i l l t ravel towards Flatheatl county where he w i l l ril l a number of dates and do organiz ing work .

N . L . Petersen's dates are as f o b lows: Helena. January 10, 6 th ward. Helena Junuary 11 and 12; East Helena, January 13; Red Bluff schoolhouse, Cascade county , January 14; Neihar t January 15. belt Park schoolhouse, January 16; Mason schoolhouse, January 17; Upper Ot ter schoolhouse January 18; K i b b e y , Jonuary 19.

Ida Crouch-Hazle t t ' s dates are, Basin, (unorganized) January 13 and 14; Clancy January 17 and 18; S ix th ward Helena January 2 1 , 22,

A comrade has donated $5 of Appeal to Reason subscr ipt ions ( 2 0 ) cards, to the special organiz ing f u n d .

Any comrade who wants to sub­scribe to the Appeal should send sub to the state off ice so we can dispose of those cards and realize the money f o r organiz ing purposes.

J AS. D. G R A H A M ,

State Secretary.

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• • • M a n y a sample brings us back a

subscr ip t ion . Choose your list f o r sampl ing judic ious ly .

• • • M i s s o u l a sends in for a bunch of

ten cards at the special rate, and two subs besides. T h i s loca l is do ­i n g exceedingly well i n extending the c i r cu la t ion of the News.

• • • W e have broken into Deer L o d g e

where they bu i ld hovels fo r work-ingmen and palaces for c r imina l s . C o m r a d e Nie l son has broken the si lence, and we' l l have a loca l there yet.

• • • C o m r a d e M c i n t o s h of K e n d a l l

•ends in an order f o r more stamps.

H e says the boya are scattered through the h i l l s and i n consequence they cannot ho ld as successful meet­ings as they would l ike . H e sends i n good cheer fo r the News.

• • •

Comrade Palsgrove o f Great Fal l s sends i n another list of three. H e states that these is some com­plaint about subscribers not get­t ing their paper. In a l l such cases the social ists at the point i n ques­t ion should keep us i n f o r m e d . T h e socialists have got to keep an eye on the postal service. T h e names in this instance are on our l is t , and the papers are sent every week. If we find there is s t i l l compla in t we wi l l appeal to the postal authori t ies . In such cases we put the subsc r ip t i on ahead so that the snbscr ibers w i l l not lose anyth ing by the occurence.

L O C A L HELENA L o c a l He lena held its first meet­

ing i n one of the lodge rooms of the W o r k e r ' s C l u b , Wednesday evening. T h e place is roomy and attractive, and the rent pract ica l ly no th ing , and it makes a desirable meeting place. D r Wi l l e t read a most ex­cellent paper on the history of so­c i a l i s m , showing reference to a large number of authorities. The paper was fo l lowed by discussion on the e th ica l and anti-ethical aspects of soc ia l i sm. Mis s Ger t rude Baur re­ci ted the poem, " T h e Compe t i t i ve S y s t e m , " wh ich appeared recently in the News.

M r s . M o y e r read one of M a y Bea l s ' stories with excellent effect. C o m r a d e G r a h a m was cal led away at the time he was to appear on the program, so his address is reserved t i l l next week. T w o new members were received into the loca l , and C o m r a d e Hazle t t transferred f r o m Denver . It was voted to give an­other card party in the near future , and a committee on arrangements appointed composed of Comrades Baur , Wi l le t , Iva Sartain, and G e r trude Bauer.

T h e local is now out of debt. It paid the expense left bv the series of meetings amounting to about $12.

In place of the program announc ed fo r tonight. Comrade Petersen of Butte wi l l speak on " E c o n o m i c Sc ience" in the parlors of the W o r k ­er's C l u b .

O n January 17 the fo l lowing pro­gram wi l l be given:

A d d r e s s — " C l a s s R u l e , " Joseph Baur .

D i scuss ion . " U n i o n i s m and S o c i a l i s m . " Jas.

D . G r a h a m . Discuss ion .

S e l e c t i o n — R u t h Baur .

R e a d i n g — M r s . M o y e r .

T h e business session w i l l precede

the program.

O'CONNELL AND LESE MAJESTY Bigoted Attack on Industrial Workers of the World—Refuses to

Consider Grievances of Machinists.

T h a t even such a prosaic th ing as a bar of soap m - y have its roman­tic travels, is shown by the fo l low­ing i l lus t ra t ion :

A soap factorv i n C i n c i n n a t i re­cently sh ipped ten car loads of soap to a wholesale house in New Y o r k . One hundred boxes of this soap were sold to a jobbing house in Pit tsburg. T h e Pi t tsburg house sold a por t ion of it to a jobber in C la rk sbu rg , West V i r g i n i a . These people in turn shipped some of it back to a retail dealer in Wheel ing , through which town it had already passed to reach Pit tsburg, and more of it to a retail dealer i n a small town three miles f r o m a ra i l road near Fa i rmont , West V i r g i n i a . A n d when the retailer got i t , i n each case he sold the soap for five cents a cake, , which is the price at which it retails in C inc inna t i , the point where it is manufactured. L ' l t imat e y, some of the soap t rave l led 1,-400 miles and was loaded in freight houses and in wagons about eight times before it reached the con­sumer.

T h i s is an i l lus t ra t ion of the im­becile system of do ing business f o r profits instead of for use. Socia l i s t s are advocat ing that the ac t iv i t ies of p rov id ing for life shall be ca r r i ed on in a systematic way —that business shall be conducted for use iustead of fo r profits for a few ind iv idua l s .

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James O ' C o n n e l l , president of the

M a c h i n i s t s u n i o n has la te ly sent

out a c i r cu l a r to a l l the lodges of

the I. A . of M . threatening to expel

f r o m the o rgan iza t ion any lodge or

i n d i v i d u a l member who jo ins any

un ion not aff i l ia ted wi th the A . F .

of L . T h i s act is an attack o n the I. W .

W . as that o rgan i za t i on has been mak ing great in roads i n the I. A . of M .

It seems there is cons iderab le dis-sa t is fac t ion a m o n g the machinis ts throughout the conn t ry i n the way O ' C o n n e l l and the execut ive board of the machinis ts have been hand­l ing the grievances.

C l a i m s are made by members of the Mach in i s t s un ion , that when a gr ievance arises and the men vote to s t r ike that O ' C o n n e l l and his exe­cut ive board tu rn the gr ievance d o w n or ent i re ly ignore it. T h i s resulted lately i n the machinis ts emp loyed in the N e w Y o r k Cen t r a l R a i l w a y shops at A l b a n y , leaving the I. A . of M . and j o i n i n g the I. W . W . P h i l a d e l p h i a has about 28,000 machinis ts of w h i c h 700 are organized and there has been prac­t i ca l ly no o rgan iz ing work done in that c i ty by the G r a n d L o d g e of Mach in i s t s . T h i s state of affa i rs has been very disastrous f o r the machinis ts .

P h i l d e l p h i a is the recru i t ihg g round of the strike breakers. Thousands of scab machin is t s have been sent out f r o m the unorganized of Ph i l ade lph ia to fill the places of the men on the late U n i o n Pac i fic Ra i lway s t r ike and the present ones on the Santa Fe and G r a n d T r u n k Ra i lways .

H a d O ' C o n n e l l done his d u t y -seen to it that Ph i l ade lph i a and v i c in i t y had been organized thor­oughly, the ra i lway strikes that the machinists are now i n v o l v e d in would have been settled long ago.

T h e I. W. W . has gone in to P h i l ­

adelphia, P i t t sburg , Schenectady and organized the machinis ts O ' ­Conne l l neglected. N o w O ' C o n n e l l is c ry ing , desrupt iouis ts! and threat­ening the people whom he is sup­posed to serve with a dose of Les Majes ty . K n o w i n g the nature of the machinis ts we believe that O ' ­C o n n e l l w i l l either have to expel the whole o r g a n i z a t i o n o r leave it himself wi th a few of his henchmen.

The rank and f i le have suffered long and pa id dear f o r their exper­ience especia l ly wi th such strikes on as the Santa Fe and G r a n d T r u n k railways.

N o assistance is received f r o m the A . F . of L . and the locomot ive engineers scabb ing on the men by re­pair ing the engines while the mach­inists are o n str ike. T a k i n g it a l l and a l l it is l i t t le wonder that there is talk among the machinis ts to have a na t iona l referendum on with­drawing f r o m the A . F . of L . and aff i l ia t ing wi th the I. W . W .

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