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•eases, b u ' be c a n f i l l y o u h a v e g i v e n

an i m p e t u s t o M i , s o c i a l i s t p r o p a g a n d a

a n d h a v e i n c r e a s e d t h e s o c i a l i s t v o t e

bv t h r e e . K e e p u p y s u r g o o d w o r k ,

y o u a r e d e c i d i n g t h e v o t e s o f u n i o n

men n e x t N o v e m b e r .

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i i a II < ' z a r s .

TRYING TO SHIFT T!!E BLAME T h e H i l l i n g s I n n j u i r e r l o ecnHv w e n t

a f t e r t h e r e p u b l i c a n s , b l a m i n g t h e m

b e i n g t h e c h i e f s u p p o r t e r s o f g o v e r n

m e n t b y i n j u n c t i o n s a n d o n e m a n r u l e

a n d d e c l a r e d t h e d e m o c r a t s s p o t l e s s i u

t h i s b r a n d o f v i c i o u s l e g i s l a t i o n b y

c o r p o r a t i o n j u d g e s .

V e t . i n t h e c i t y o f H i l l i n g s a d e m o

c r a t i c j u d g e , a p p o i n t e d b y a d e m o c r a t

ie g o v e r n o r , g a v e t h e first i n j u n c t i o n

a g a i n s t l a b o r t h a t w a s e v e r g i v e n b y

a d i s t r i c t j u d g e i n M o n t a n a .

T h e c a s e w a s M a v o r I n n d s a y . W h i t e

s h u t a n a r c h i s t o f H e l e n a , a g a i n s t t h e

M o n t a n a F e d e r a t i o n o f L a b o r , t h e

u n i o n s o f H i l l i n g s , H e a r C r e e k a m !

a m i b e d L o d g e .

L i n d s a y f o u g h t t h e b a t t l e s o f t h e

s c a b p h o n e c o m p a n y a n d a g a i n s t u n i o n

l a b o r i n H e l e n a . T h e u n i o n s t l n o u g h

ou t the s t a t e r e t a l i a t e d a n d t h e b o t t o m

w e n t ou t o f L i n d s a y ' s b u s i n e s s , t h e

s a m e w a y u s t h e b o t t o m w e n t ou t o f

t h e r e p u b l i c a n f o o l d i n n e r p a i l .

M e n h a u l s o f H i l l i n g s w e n t o n t h e

w i ' u s , s t a n d a n d s w o r e t ha t t h e

u n i o n s h a d not i n t i m i d a t e d t l i e m oa-

t h r e a t e n e d t h i M i i i f t h e y e x p a n d f o r

s a l e L i n d s a y ' s g o o d s , b u t t h a t t i n

w o r k i n g m e n , b e i n g p a t r i o t i c , w o u l d

not b u y w h i t e s h i r t a n a r c h i s t w a r e s .

Y e t . i n t h e f a c e o f t h i s . J u d g e F o x ,

d e m o c r a t , i s s u e d a p e r p e t u a l i n j u

t i o n a g a i n s t o r g a n i z e d l a b o r i u M m t

t a n a .

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to e n f o r c e g o v e r n m e n t b y i n j u n c t i o n s

as a n y r e p u b l i c a n j l l d g i e v e r w a s a n d

t h e w o r k i n g people n r e p a s t l e a r n i n g

t h a t t i n 1 c o r p o r a t i o n s o w n b o t h r e p u b

l i c a n a n d d e m o c r a t j u d g e s a l i k e .

Switzeiland.

L a w s a g a i n s t s t r i k e s i r e t h e o r d e r

j o f t h e d a y i l l S w i t z i H a n d . T h e c a n

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l i m i t t h i s r i g h t o f t h e w m k e r so a s t o

p r a c t i c a l l y r o b it o f a l l i t s m o s t e s s e n

t i a l t p i a l i r i c s . a m i n o w / . u r i d i i s f o l ­

l o w i n g t h i s e x a m p l e . T r u e , t h e Z u r i c h

ac t l o o k s h a r m l e s s e n o u g h at first

s i g h t . A l l t h a t i t p r o p o s e s t o p u n i s h

' a r e t h r e a t s a n d a c t s o f v i d e n e o a g a i n s t

s t r i k e b r e a k e r s , b u t t h e n , a s it is l e f t

t o t h e d i s v r e t i o . i l o f t h e p i l i c c r a u ,

a n d i u m a n y c a s e * p r e j u d i c e d j u d g e s ,

o r a t l e a s t m e n w h o s e t i a i n i n g p r c -

I v e n t s t h e m f r o m u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e

' W o r k e r ' s p o i n t o f v i e w . In . b l i n e t h e s e

i t e r m s , i t w i l l p r o b a b l v b e c o m e a l l

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I o f c l a s s i n j u s t i c e .

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fr iendly relations between the two great branches of the working claw the editor of " U p - T o - D a t e " deplored as much as he does the antagonism be-ween the farmer and the business man and it was the opposition to this move­ment, led by Mr . Everett, that caused

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the split in the American Society of I have hard times in the midst of plenty Equity, at the National convention in Indianapolis.

The writer speaks about " E q u i t y u a l l the business relations of l i f e . "

In all the business relations of l i fe and yet in this long article there is not one word about that vast army of men and women who work in mine and mill and shop and factory whose lives are vital ly effected by every penny's raise in the price of the product of the farm. And yet M r . Everett is seeking to build up an organization of farmers to put an arbit: ,y price on their pro­duct and lev-, e tho middle man st i l l to make his profit. We believe the or­ganization is built on sand. And we hope the farmers soon wi l l see that it is only through the co-operation of a l l the working class that we can hope for any permanent benefit and that we must rise or f a l l together.

THE WORLD a REVOLUTION The world is storm-swept by panic;

it is storm-swept by hunger; is is sjtorra swept by revolution. M y paper this morning bears the titles: " R e v o Intion in Por tuga l" ; "Social is ts beat en by Chicago P o l i c e " ; " H a y t i a n Re volution B l o c k e d " ; Goldfield Miners Defend Red F l a g . "

Yes, the world is i a revolt against the established order. How splendid ly that message of hope flames across the planet! Heretofore the unknown millions have suffered and died in quiescent misery. Now they raise the red banner of defiance whose crimson drum beat throbs around the world, and march on to the conquest of a new and better l ife.

The world is in revolt, and the senile tyrants of the world are shivering in their chambers of conspiracy. The cry of terror a i i ' l helpne»*de*8 thrills along the electric nerve*. The cossacks Appear; they ride the old world, and they are conjured into being in the new. Bullet, bayonet, scourge and dungeons, councils of pride and hate •gainst the insolent and insistent work­ers. But the workera hold the trump card. It is the universal and indis­pensable necessity of their labor. Law givers thunder from court and legisla­tive throne. Cheerfully tho workers go to their cells. There is bread there. But they have shaken this order with the thunders of their coming tread. Bread, bread and the makers of bread —these alone shall build a l i fe vibrant •cosmos from a tyrant's chaos of panic, hunger and revolution.

The march of those that demand tn-cad, the banner of hope, the revolu­tion* in every clime—ah, that sounds good to those that have watched wear­ily for the dawn to break over the hilltops.

Brother, for (iod's sake, move on. The dav breaks even for les miserable*

The Helena Independent in an edi­torial on socialism and the unions, says that while the British Labor congress declared for socialism, the largest and strongest unions are coming out against this action.

The Independent has the wrong dope again. The largest and strongest unions sent their delegates to the con­ference instructed by a referendum vote of the union to vote for social­ism.

The Amalgamated Society of Engin­eers—British Machinists Union—the oldest and strongest labor organization in the world, sent its delegates to thai conference instructed to vote for so­cialism and those instructions were endorsed by over seventy-five per cent of the membership on a referendum vote.

The Brit ish machinists can not be classed as illiterates by the enemies of socialism. British capitalists de­mand that all boys who desire to be­come apprentices to the machinist's trad.-, shall pass an examination. Be­cause of the educational qualifica­tions required to pass this examination the machinists in the British Isles are recruited from the most intelligent members of the working class.

The Independent also says "The socialists are trying to capture the unions there as well as here." The Independent is wrong again, it is just the reverse; it is the unions that are trying to cajrture socialism. The time is coming and coming soon when no re-«I>ectable union man wil l be found en­dorsing the republican or democratic party, with their boodle, booze and in­junction methods and further more the time is very near when the unions wi l l vote assessments from their treasuries to pay the campaign expenses of the socialist party, just the same way as corporations and trusts vote campaign assesments for the benefit of the demo­cratic and repubilcan campaign funds.

For i t is at tho expense of the unsel fish, industrious people that you cry prosperity.

" T h e man with a money spirit hoards up millions—more than he can use—for no other satisfaction than to •ee his brother in want. Even if you pay labor all it produces you would not have accomplished a l l ; for with all consideration, lovo and harmony driven from the land, the condition, the very atmosphere the American employer cre­ates is enough to prohibit everything above the spirit of a mule.

" M y blood is boiling in every vein when I see the way you use your press to brand those helpless brothers of mine that you gather up on the saloon floors in the early mornings, and put them on the chain-gang, and brand tin m good-for-nothing criminals, lazy, will not work. I beg of you to go out and get experience. Put on laboring men's appearance; go out to the grading camp and after that go to Los Angeles, and see i f you, as a common laborer, can procure a job without buying it through the slave market trust. I have passed through the large slave markets of California. I have traveled on slave passes, and have traveled on my own money. I have been in nearly every large city of the United States; and all over this broad land of ours I have not met with a man that I be lieved would no* work under a decent condition.

" W h e n I first came to this country I worked hard, but I found l i fe so cold and cheerless. I could not see how it required all this experience to see that it was not wages that one wants, but trust and love.

" T h e mining class asks no questions so long as the industrious man is will ing to go into nature's storehouse of raw materials and work. But when you seek to put a lock on the door of that store house I believe yon have un­dertaken more than you can handle and it wi l l soon take all of your surplus capital to oare for the lunatics anil criminals, for they are not al l going to commit suicide.

" R a l p h Waldo Emerson has said man has a right to be employed, to be trusted, to be loved. The power of love as the basis of the state has never been tried

" I do not require the service of a priest or any other Holy Ghost mislead er at the disposal of my body. A s s seal that I have told the truth as I have received iit, I hereby lay down my body."

Was the man crazy, or was he simply-one that couldn't fit into a erszy sys temt

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IESOLITIIN ON UNITY QUESTION

Adopted by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party at Its Session of Jan. 6, 1008.

Butte, Mont., Jan. 12, 1908. las. 1». Graham, (State Secretary:

Dear Comrade—Tho enclosed resolu­tions were read at meeting of Uveal Butte and the action approved. It is odered that ho same be forwarded to

ou for publication in the Montnn-i News, mi.I our party select a like com nvittce, of seven for the purpose of

to (in.I a basis f o r a United

In " I ' p T o I t a t e F a r m i n g " of Feb. 1st appears an editorial on "Farmers and Business M e n " the main purport of which seem to be to alloy a grow­ing suspicion on the part of the farm­ers that the "businc*s m a n " who alaiKls betwci'ti the man who raises tin produce and the- man who consumes the produce is not an absolute necessity in the eecnomy of production. In fact the article reads as i f it might have been writ t in by one of those "business men" (of whom every western town has examples) who have risen from a peanut stand to a department store in twenty years on the profits made off the farmer. The writer deplores any "antagonism between farm organiza­tions and business men ." He says: "Merchants, particularly local mer­chants, and the farmers in the country adjacent to them, ought to be the very of f r iends ."

Any merchant will agree to that. The first thing to do when you want, to fleece a man is to get his friendship. The next best thing i * to prevent friendship or create antagonism be­tween men you want to floece.

Now, the merchants <U not consume a very large percentage of the product of the farm. Of course Hiey get the choicest, but the great bulk of it is consumed by the industial workers in the towns and cities. These industrial workers H I S O produce gooda that the farmer uses, which goods the local mer­chant also handles—at a profit. Thus the business man stands between the two . lasses of producers and consumers snd gots his profits both ways. Last year a movement was inaugurated t> establish in towns and cities " E q u i t y Exchanges" for the purposo of ex­changing the product of the farm di­re.-t to ihe consumer and cut out the profit of the "business man . " These

Last week we commented on an ar­ticle in "To-Morrow Magaz ine" in which the writer spoke of the social ist a* egotists who wear creased pants and ape the customs of capitalism Mace then we have received a letter from a woman comrade in a new rura' community who is secretary of the l c cal where a number of members recent-ly dropped out and weakened the local. We quote the following extracts for the perusal of Mr. Kercombc:

" N o w , what are we to dot We are doing all we can to keep it going. 1 think our storm is over and we are on the road to recovery but I tell you comrade, it was a mighty effort. You see Comrade loves .10 miles away, Comrade 15 miles and only a bi­cycle to come on. Comrade about l.'i miles so you can see what an effort we a l l have had. Comrade rode all night last meeting and didn't get here t i l l four o'clock in the morning of the meeting day. We sti l l have our a tings her.-. Well if you come down here, come here and we wil l give you the best we have but 'tis mighty poor. • • • I trust you wil l give us a little encouragement for I have just about worn myself out trying to keep up this affair. I am not the one to lie down but I am not strong and T am sick nearly every meeting day. I won't complain i f only we can live to see a better order some day. You see with the comrades so far I have them to dinner and at night most of the time. I don't care for that i f we could have something decent for thorn to eat or a good house. We only have two rooms.' '

Mr. Kercombe says that " w i t h mil­lions of theoretical socialists, there has no* yet arisen one with the seal, the courage and the self-denial" etc. Bah! Bel out of your office Screombe and learn something about the real people of the world who do not court the lime light.

Comrades, your attention is called to the letter from Local Fridley in an­other column. Let March 17th be the date for an united effort to equip our own newspapsr plant.

P R E A M B L E . We the members of Local I'nion No

11(14 Carpenters and Joiners, of Sparks Nevada, recognizing the power of ca pital as it is today, and its attitude toward our brother union men of Gold field, and realizing that the same cours will be taken sooner or later against al bodies of organized labor in th state, and whereas the fa.-t that many organized bodies have ass. mbled and passed resolutions denouncing the acts of certain high officials fur Uie part taken in the attempt to down labor or ganizations, and whereas copies of ! lies, resold! ion* ha ve t.,., sen t.

the leading newspapers for publication that the expression of the laboring men may be known to all citizens,

And whereas, the Associated Press have not only refused to print these resolutions, but have misrepresente the action taken at said meetings, thu giving the public to hettcvs that th unions nut only tolerate hut sanutio the bringing in of troops to further the interest of capital.

Recognizing these facts and the use fulness of hope for a better condition or any recognition through the Asso ciated Press,

Now, Therefore be it Resolved, tha for the purpose of placing the wants and demands of the laboring peopl before the public, and as a means o: labor unions communicating with each other, upon topics of vital interest tha may arise from time to time, and es peciaJly in the event of election to public office of proper persons to repre sent the interests of the common peo pie,

It is therefore further resolved to establish to own and to operate weekly organized union newspaper.

The only interest and policy of thi paper wi l l be the untiring battle fo the interest and uplif t ing of Union Labor.

Financing. The financing and promoting of thi

paper wi l l be lef t to committees ap pointed for that purpose, there to be declared ways and means for the belt

interest of all concerned. IUD H A R R I S ,

W E S M A Y F I K L D , Committee.

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Whereas, The International Soc ialist •ongress, held in Amsterdam in 1904, idopted under the title of " U n i t y of he P a r t y " the following resolutions:

" T h e Congress declares: " I n order to give to the working

lass a l l its force in its struggle against capitalism, it is indispensible that in each country there should be but one socialist party against the capitalist parties, just as there is but one proletariat

"Therefore, all comrades and all faeitions and organizations which claim to be socialist have tho imperative luty to do all in their power to bring about Socialist Unity on the basis if the principles established by the In­ternational Congresses and in tho in­terest of the International proletariar, to whom they are responsible for the disastrous consequences of the contin uation of their divisions.

" T o help reach this aim the l i t e r -national Hureau and all parties of Na­tionalities, where Unity exists, place thomselves ait their disposal and offer their good services."

Whereas, Af t e r this call was is­sued the various warring factions in the socialist movement of France—the Socialist Party of France, the French Socialist Party, the Revolutionary So­cialist L a b o r Party, and four Indepen­dent Socialist Federations of different parts of France—after some prelimitt-ary work of a Unity Confernce, met in a joint Unity Convention in Paris an I established the present Socialist Party (French Section of the Workers ' Inter­national); and, likewise, tho warring factions in tho Social Democratic movement in Russia—the " m a j o r i t y " ' and " m i n o r i t y " factions of the Rus­sian Social Democratic I/abor Party, Lettish Social Dmocratic Labor Party and the General Jewish Labor Union of Russia, Poland and Lithuania (The Hund) met in a joint Unity Convention in 1906 in Stockholm and organized the United Russian Sooial Democratic Labor Party, and

Whereas, The experience of the so oialists of the above two countries, aa-well as that of other countries, where a united and developed party of social­ism exists, demonstrates—first, the pos­sibili ty for all socialists, recognizing the principles and decisions of the In­ternational Socialist Congress, to pre­sent with immense increased effect a united solid front against tho common enemy, the capitalist, and to address a united, harmonious appeal to the work­ing class which is so much more re­sponsive when confusion, distrust and demoralization, created by internal strife and diversion in thn socialist camp, are eliminated; and, second—it demonstrates the possibility of such co-operation based upon the recogni tion of the right of minority divisions of a United Party, to advocate their particular views) through ,their own publications and their own minority delegates to National conventions and International congresses; and

Whereas, The necessity for a United socialist movement in America is ever more keenly felt, and the demands for it are ever more persistently and in sistently voiced by the most active workers, the rank and file of both par­ties; and

Whereas, The decisions of the re cent Internal lotial Socialist ('ongress held at Stuttgart—both upon the mat ter of immigration, which recognizes the soundness of the Marxian motto for the working class, "Proletarians of all Countries U n i t e ! " and, even upon the vital question of unionism, which, whilo the congress has not yet taken tho advanced industrial position, does take a position that clearly re jeots the principle that the economic organization is a "transitory a f fa i r , " accordingly, a position that holds that tho economic organization is something more than simply a recruiting ground for votes and funds, but is essential to the revolutionary act of the prole tariat—are, in so far as they affect the issues of tho American movement, of a character to present a more accept­able common working basis for tha two partis, and in view also of greater necessity for unhindered constructive socialist work and greater opportunity for it furnished by the spreading of the present industrial crisis in Amer­ica; therefore, be It

Resolved, That, we, the Nstionnl Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party, in semi annual session as­sembled, dosiring to free the Socialist Labor Party in the eyes of the work ing class of America and of the Inter­national proletariat, of its seeming share of responsibility for the divided,

Anton Mleknsh John Gollmeyr

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demoralized and retarded state of the movement in this country, hereby take the Initiative toward remedying such conditions, by electing a committee of seven members and invi t ing the Na­tional Headquarters of tho Socialist Party to elect a committee of like number to a National Socialist Uni ty Conference, to meet not later than the third week of the month of March of this year, in order to consider whether Uni ty of the two parties of socialism i n America is possible, and on what special basis; and be i t further

Resolved, That i f such conference takes place and succeeds in agreeing M eonditions for unit ing the two par­ties, such decisions of tho conference be immediately submitted to a general voto of the membership of both parties for approval, and the date for tho clos­ing of such vote be such, that, in the event of the vote being in favor of the por|H>»«d basis of unity, steps be imme-diatoly taken that one joint National convention, instead of two separate ones, be hold to adopt—on behalf of the United Party and in conformity with the Uni ty basis accepted by th" general voto—a platform, constitution und resolutions, and nominate candi­dates, etc.; and finally

Resolved, That copies of those reso­lution* be sent to the National Head-qnarters of the Socialist 1'a.rty of Am­erica, the International Socialist Bu-roua at Brussels, and tho leading so ctallst and laibor publications in the United States and other countries.

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uonn|osoj « passsd saost M M uninamously supporting the enforce-ment of the Asiatic Registration Act in its entirety.

In accordance with the resolution of tho Stuttgart congress on colonial policy, a socialist committee was formed to protest against the action of the Natal government in trying to drive the Zulus into rebellion, in order to rob tbem of their lands and force them into wage slavery. A meeting was held for this purpose on Sunday, December 22. Two thousand copies of th Stuttgart resolution weTe circulat­es! among the audience, another reso­lution being printed on tho back as follows:

"In view of the fact that the great­er part of South Africa's population is black, and that these people are es­sentially workers, we , tho white work­ers, who have had better opportunities of learning the meaning of capitalistic exploitation, pledge ourselves to sup­port the black Tace* against the en­croachment upon them by the execu­tives of capitalism, such as the colon­ial government, in attempting to Jo-erce them into rebellion, with the view of having an excuse for dispossessing them of their lands, and making of them more submissive wage slaves of tho capitalist, who, like leeches, batten upon the blood of all workers, irres­pective of color."

MONTANA NEWS, MCLEHA, MONTANA.

MA C A N ' T V O T E .

M : i ' « a urn. I unto of college, and the reads 'nio»t everything:

She can talk in French and German, •he can paint and she can ting—

Beautifulf She's like a picture! When •he talks she make* you think

Of the aweeteat kind of music, and she doesn't smoke or drink;

Oh, I can't begin to tell you all the poems she can quote:

Bhe knows more than half the lawyers do—but ma can't vote.

When my pa is writing letters, ma must always linger near

To assist him in the sel l ing and to make the meaning clear,

If he needs advice her judgment, he admits, is always best;

Every day she gives him pointers, mostly at his own request;

She keeps track of the legislation, and is taxed on bonds and stocks—

But she never gets a look-in at the •acred ballot box.

Ma is wiser than our coachman, for he's not a graduate,

And I doubt if he could tell you who is governing the state;

He has never studied grammar, and I '11 bet he doesn't know

Whethor Caesar lived a thousand or two thousand years ago.

He could never tell us how to keep the ship of state afloat,

For he doesn't know there's such I thing—but ma can't vote.

Once when Mr. Jones was calling they got up a short debate

That was on the tariff question; he supposed he had it straight,

But before they'd finished talking he threw up his hands and said

That he'd not read much about it, nor remembered what he'd read

He is too badly rushed to study how to better human lives,

Still he looms up like a giant when election times arrives.

Mrs. Gookins does our washing, for she has to help along,

Taking care of six children, though her husband's big and strong;

When he gets a job he only holds it till he draws his pay,

Then he spends his eash for whisky or else gambles it away;

I suppose his brain's no bigger than the brain of any goat,

And he'd trade his ballot for a drink —but ma can't vote.

—Exchange.

Interaatioiial Russia.

Unemployment is said to be terribly prevalent in St. Petersburg at pres. ent. In the last two weeks no less than 2,000 wood workers have been

ut out of employment. The various trade unions are collecting funds to support their unemployed members.

IDAHO NOTES.

Emmett, Idaho, Jan. 30 January is a month of awakening

to activity in socialist matter* in Idaho. May it continue with redoubled numbers.

Locals Elmira, Fairview and Middle-ton have reinstated. New charters have been granted to comrades at Bon ners Ferry, Kooskia and Riggins Membership cards given to two mem bers-at-large.

Secretary of Local Bellgrove writes that he is quite certain that they will carry their provim-t next Xovember.

8everal letters of inquiry from dif feTcnt points show a general interest that will soon begin to count.

Let us hear from all that wishes to help ruch the good work in Idaho from now until success is written upon our banner and justice can be expected by the wage slave.

Write me items of interest that 1 «an give out to encourage others.

Fraternally THOS. J . OOONROD.

What is the matter with Boise. No thing doing there and a city election Approaching. Wake up!

Tho socialists of Mountain Home should get together and apply for a charter. Invite a bunch of socialists thero if they will only get together and work; (^rganize Comrades! Or ganize!

Have your local make a request to the state secretary for a lecture date. Comrade Coonrod will be glad to hear from you.

Clear the oganizatlon of all debts should be the slogan of all locals.

Let us have a few socialists in th next Idaho legislature, so as to flgh the mine owners when it comes to a propriating money to pay off the de flciene.y warrants issued in prosecutl of the officials of the Western Kedern tion. While Mover, Haywood and Pet tlbono have been acquitted, the Social ist Party has still work to do.

Write your state secretary for lec ture dates. Work commences his lec ture tour in Idaho March 1st.

Have your local take action toward clearing off the indebtedness of you state organization and he in shape to carry on the campaign that the country expects of yon.

Three new locals organized in Jan nary. Let us o r g a n i z e three more in February.

Having succeeded by the most unscru­pulous jerrymandering in procuring the lectionof a subservient Duma, tho Rus­

sian government is now about to uti­lize it for the purpose of carrying out further autocratic designs. Tho min­istry of marine, it is stated, is about o submit to the Duma for official en-lursoment a naval programme for the construction of a coast defense navy, at a total cost of 28,000,000 pounds, ho sum to be spread over a period of

four years. But this is merely the thin end of

the wedge. The ministry, it is stated further, has also another programme under consideration — a programme comprising the creation of Ave fight-ng fleets—two for the Baltic, two for

the Pacific, and one for the Black Sea —a scheme which will involve a col-issal expenditure reaching from 300 o 400 millions pounds.

Thus, after inflicting upon the Rus sian people the horrors of war and the night-mare of famine, the government of the Tsar has in hand a scheme which will rob many of their last rouble and plungo the whole people still deeper nto tho abyss.

Francs. The chambers meet again this week

It is said that among the subjects for liacussion are to be the bill providing for the shortening of the service in the reserve, the abolition of courts mar tial. and tho purchase by the state of the Western Railway. All these mea sures are urgent, and as they have been discussed over and over again for a long time, it is quite time that efforts should be made to carry them into effect. Parliamentary discussions are all very well, and speeches make very good reading, but ther« comes a time when discussion may well be dropped and action take place. I f an opposi tion is unscrupulous in dragging on a debate it is quite time to stop speeches and come to voting. A parliament not merely a debating society, and has to take action sometimes.

England. The tin box girls on strike st

Messrs. Barclay A Fry's have, through the instrumentality of the National Federation of Women Workers secur ed a settlement with their empoloyers, by which they will receive higher wages that will compare favorably with those paid at other similar fac toriei.

Many of the Milwaukee trade unions this winter have voted to devote one vening every month to an open meet ng to be addressed by a socialist

speaker. This is a plan which has been ollowed for years by some Milwaukee nions, and tho bard times are making p the rest. Judging from the splend

d results of this plan in the past upon those unions which have already adopt

1 it, we predict that soon there will bo few if any working men left in Mil­waukee who are not thorough social-•ts.

Tho Hippodrome, the largest hall in Milwaukee, was too small for the So ial-Democrati.: mask carnival last Sat-rday. Although the hall was over-rnwde.l, t i i . ' bi'st p n s i i b b - .>rder pre­

vailed. As usual many of the groups had a political significance and con­tained good hints at the capitalist sys-em. "The Fallen Angels of Capital

iam" received the second prize. A discussion on socialism took place

at the Twillight Club in Fond du Lac last week. The opponents of Socialism wore well answered by our Fon du Lae comrades—not a very difficult task, as can be seen from the following speci men of the anti-socialist arguments which wre supposed to "do up" Inter­national Socialism. " T h i n k , " said a lawyer, "of the Anglo-Saxon race, with all its abilities for great production being compelled to divide with the Fi j i Islanders!" The Fond du Lac com rades want more such debates.

Australia. The arbitration court decided against

the Newcastle (N. 8. W.) colliery hands who have returned to work.

M. Paul Beaulieu, who is a well known writer on politics and econ omiics, has an article in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" on France and Mo roeco. Ho shows in this that the con quest of Morrocco would need an army of at least 100,000 men, that it woul be more difficult than that of Algeria which took 17 years, and that the steal ing of Tunis in 1880-81 affords no analogy at all, as the circumstances are quite different. He also points out that even if Morocco was conquered Franco would not bo allowed to retain it unless sbe was prepared to go to war with Germany; and he also demon startes that it would be a source of weakness and not of strength to France. Now, M. Beaulieu is a man of moderate opinions, by no means pro testing on moral grounds but simply on economic grounds, but it is very remarkable how his opinion coincides with that of M. Jaures.

For many weeks people have been talking about Jeanne Weber who was accused of srangling a child. She wa kept in prison though, in the opinion o fexperts, the child had died from typhoid fever. At first public opinion was very much against her, because she had been tried and acquitted on a similar charge, but at last she has been released as there was no evidence against her. It is pointed out tba she has no chiim for compensation but some charitable people have found her a home.

Affairs are still more embroiled i Morocco, for Fez, the capitnl, has pro claime.i tho Sultan's half-brother, looks as if the present Sultan had littl support except in the ports which arc cowed by the foreign men-of-war. I Abdul ol-Asiz. has to rely on Frenc protect inn—and It is said that French soldiers aro going to his assistance a Rabat -(that will make him more un popular than ever. The longer tim goes mi the more difficult the ponitio of France becomes, and the more sh will be weakeuing her position in Eu rope, where she may at any time re quire all her strongth to resist an enmy far more dangerous than the Moorish Sultan.

It

National News \ < Women's Clubs I

Th Goldfield Gossip, printed in the interest of the mine operators contains the following temperate observation:

'A cheaper and more s a t i s f a c t o r y

method of dealing with this labor trouble in Goldfield last spring would have been to have taken half a dozen of the socialist leaders in the Miners Union and hanged them all to tele­graph poles. Speaking dispassionate-y and without animas, it seems clear

to us after many months of reflection, that you couldn't make :i mistake in hanging a socialist. He is always bet­ter dead."

If a labor editor wrote sentiments ike the foregoing in reference to mine

operators he would have been jailed long ago. The charge is made in Chi­cago that Flower, the editor of the Goldfield Gossip, is a grafter who form­erly worked the people with the so-called medical cure-all termed "Vibra­tions." All crooks hate socialists.

Chief of Police Shippy, of Chicago, is endeavoring to become a sort of American Trepoff. The brutal manner in which he piled upon a few hungry men last week, who were parading to attract attention to their deplorable condition, stamps Shippy as a pretty low-grade barbarian. Worst of all, Shippy is a law-breaker. The consti­tution of Illinois guarantees public as­semblage and free speech, and the su­preme court has decided that parades are lawful and that the police officials have no right whatever to decide what parades shall or shall not be held. But that made no difference to the capi­talistic brute Shippy. He's above the law because he has the backing of the Manufacturer's Association, .lust the same tho socialists may proceed against Shippy in tho courts. They have given warning to his bondsmen.

All communications for this depart-nient should be addressed to Jessie M. slyer, Editor.

" Xo, it is beneath my dignity co vote, * * *I am the queen of my home • • • 'women are superior to men, and I , for my part, do not wish to sacrifice my position by dabbling in political inire," so said a lady of my acquain­tance, whs is a type of many, many women.

What put these ideas into her vain little headf Desiring men-folks, who just wanted her for a plaything. I happen to know her husband, dirty Si oundrcl. There is nothing too low for him if it only nets him a profi*. Ves, they've an attractive home, and I guess no wants of theirs go unsatisfied. They are fairly glutted with eatables, clothes, and bric-a-brie, and the maid of the house keeps the two little girls clean and sweet-smelling. And they nil have delightful manners, on state occasions anyway. The husband (while he winks the other eye) coddles his wife into believing that her self-efface­ment is what constitutes queenliness and that soft hands and heavenly eyes that disdain to touch or look upon the sordid outer world, are signs of super iority.

Wake up, deluded creature! To be a queen is to be a woman so sympa­thetic, so human, and so wise, she will have a mother-interest in every home in the land—her own fireside will b>-but a part of that great fireside that now can scarce secure fuel to keep itself warm.

"Superiority!" I know not the ar­ticle you speak of. Possibly at your lord's request it is padded away among other worthless baubles—an heir loom of your family! These are times when such superfluous articles are obstruc­tions to society All artificiality, all superficial culture—cast it aside. It is a burden to us now. We need you! .lust you, if we can find that precious quality in your person.

'Sacrifice your position!" Why, you have no position worth the name un­less you are doing your part to help destroy the system that is crushing to the very earth your brothers, your sisters, and your children in their struggle against wage slavery. At least do this much—if you are on their backs, for God's sake climb off. I f you are too cultured ,too refined to fight, stand out of the way! Don't tell me you are a "queen", a "super ior'being until you have earned that distinction.

Rouse up, O Womanhood! Cast off indifferencvand blind credulity! Quit feeding your brains with flattery, pre-digested food, and mythical dogmas They require no effort on your part They do not put your mind and heart in training for the great world-wide struggle.

I f most of the women of our land were searching out vital facts, digging at the roots of our social problem in stead of devoting their time to church catechism and shadow embroidery, could hope that soon every home might be wholesome and every woman a real queen.

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Tack I , o n . I o n landed in San Francis­co last week after being missing for several months on the broad Pacific. London left San Francisco last May on the little boat, the Snark, for a trip around the world. It had been many days since he had reported his

hereabouts. It was feare-d that tho boat had met with an accident. Lon­don will return to his boat, which was disabled and is now being repaired, in a few weeks, and continue his tour and grind out socialist literature.

Contrary to general reports, the New York Volkfrzcitung intimates editor* ially that August Bebel, leader of the German Socialists, will pay a visit to America to study conditions, but will probably speak in only 10 or 12 places. Following his former announced visit Rebel was swamped with invitations to mako speeches and got scared.

At the convention of the I'nited Mine Workers of l'ennsylvuuiu a r< solution was adopted calling on all workers to sever their connections with tl apitnlist parties, and also protesi ing against sending federal troops to Ooldfleld to aid the mine owners.

Minnesota Socialists are the first in the field with a full list of president in electors. Beecher Moore, of Mimic: polis, for governor, heads the stat ticket. The party membership in l*f state increased 150 per cent during the past two years.

The state of Idaho is mourning the loss of nearly $200,000 on account of the conspiracy of a Mine Owners' As sociation.—Miners' Magazine.

A short tifine ago the P a c i f i c t'o.isl Co. raised the price of coal, claiming there were prospects of a short ifja. Now they have shut down the Law son mine, near Seattle, claiming then is an oveqiroduction. Hut the price has not been lowered. Meanwhile thousands of families in Seattle a r t Buffering from want of coal, and hun dreds of laborers are sleeping, o f nights, in the Seattle jails, because they cannot find work. If there i s

overproduction of coal, why isn' it supplied to the people at lower pricest If there i s a shortage, why close down tho mines while thousands

f laborers are seeking a job?

''Machine Politics", ten cents each, twelve for $1.00, fine material for ths campaign.

A friend of mine traveling in ('Inn i observed that in the big cities along tho coast, are thousands of American men engaged in various kinds of traf fie, who are single and who regard mar riago as wholly impracticable and do not respect its laws. My friend aske various ones "Why don't you gH marriedt" One fellow answered " Bu siness is too uncertain.' Another sail " A woman must have a horse and > riago. I can't afford it ." Still an other answered "There's nothing in it, it's bondage for life. I f I wan a woman I can hire one cheap." Thes aro only a few of the warped conclu sions that our industrial system ha given rise to. It has made men cow ards. »

H.tter sny, with Robt. Blatchfor " I would work my fingers off, crass my brnius, break my heart, tramp th whole face of the globe and die like a man before I would repeat that cow> ward's lesson that I could not afford to marry the woman I loved."

• • • A bright young lady who entered the

university this year, said to me " I am not satisfied with the training I am getting. I had hoped to prepare myself to e a r n a living, but the pros­pects look discouraging. I have almost

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concluded t o enter a business college next year.' Have you talked the mat­ter over wi th your rlassmatesf "Yes . —but they looked at me in vague won­der, and some o f them told me they wers just here because they didn' t know what slat they would be doing. O n e t j i r l brightened up and said " W e will have the distinction of having f in-ished college, wo w i l l have acquired lots of pretty, naive ways and a di­ploma—that's something. " That '» the the way my class consoles mo . "

" K e a l l y , " 1 said, " M a r y , what are you learn ing!" 'Oh, don't ask me! I suppose, with the rest of them, I go into ecstacy about the poets; abhor ma­thematics: pony in French; polish my finger nails pink; frouze my hair; and ' r o o t " for our side on field-days, then help plan, for tho heroes, dainty menus and balls. A continued round o f f r i ­volity that unfits me for any serious w o r k . "

" M o s t certainly the faculty does not approve—". "The faculty I don't think they dare interfere. They don 1 want to run any chance of losing their positions.''

What a London Daily Bays. The London Daily News is inclined

to give the socialists a fair deal in the great fight that is now in progress in Britain, for it makes the following cor­rect observation:

"Socialism has all the vitality of a new religion. It has no secret party fund. It lives by the subscriptions and the levies of tho members paid in pence. Its work is done by ardent volunteers, who go out 'without purse or scrip' to preach and teach, giving their services from disinterested zeal, and when it fights a contested election it wins with a fourth of the outlay on which the Conservative loses."

People's Theaters in Russia. It is noticeable that nations which

are backward in one respect may be advanced in another, and that even ths most backward of all can occasionally give points to nstions in the van of so-called civilization. Take Russia, fer example, whieh as a system of Peo» pie's Theaters unequalled in any other country. Cheap theaters for the peo­ple are to be found all over Russia, not ouly in the towns but in small villages. In the Government of Sa­mara, for instance, there is a village theater in which operas are produced and a chorus of thir ty trained peas­ants; and the charge of admission is ono farthing.

This system of cheap theaters grown up within tho last twenty years or so. The majority of them springing from tho co operative societies and the local aavaniag bodies. The Temperance Boards, established in 1894 to provide counter attractions to the public-houss have also bulit people's theaters. The theaters are often built on land given by tho municipality, and they are sometimes subsidized, but often self-supporting. Many of them are sur­rounded by parks, and have an open stage for use in the great heat of ths Russian summer. —Labor Leader.

China. Chinese revolutionists in Tokyo, Ja­

pan, are publishing two socialist pa­pers, the "Nimpao" and ths " H a n Vo*. "

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h a s 1 n a b u r d e n o n t h e p a p e r . T h e

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• t e a d y f u n d s f o r t h e c o i n i n g c a m p a i g n .

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A M . J K N ' N I N C S ,

M l I ' t a h A v e . H u t t e , Meat.

FRASER IS BOOSTING for Home Patronage and the Union Label.

That the Clothes .'ou wear Have the Label. D A P D A C P D JC. rn The Home of the K . A . r K A o C I f OC L U . , Union Lahel

Union l^aundry Co., Inc. THE RIGHT KIND OF WORK

and THE RIGHT KIND OP PRICES

116-120 Broadway T E L E P H O N I C H E L E N A M O B T A I U L

Capital Cevfe PAUL PETERSON, Prop.

Located on Main and Grand 5t. The Leading Cafe in Helena. Merchants Lunch 35c, From

1130 ta 2 p. m. QUICK SERVICE and EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE PHONE 426

H E L E N A M O N T A N A

Cadi and see our .stock of

Apples Just what you want

ORANGES IN A l l . SI/ .KS

A r R I G H T PRICES

NEW YORK DRY GOODS STORE H E L E N A M O N T A N A

Wa.tch For our ijreat Midwinter Clearance Sale

Special Prices IX A L L D E P A R T M E N T S

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A N Y T H I N G T H I S W I N T E R , 0 O M R A D E ?

D O T O U W A N T S O M E T H I N G T O I N S T R U C T O R B N T B B T A X V

Y O U D U R I N O T H E L O N G W I N T E R E V E N I N G S ?

T R T S O M E O F T H E F O L L O W I N G S O A K E D I N B T A G O O D F I R E A L L S T A N D A R D A N D N E A T L Y B O U N D I N C L O T H

G o d and My Neighbor 11.00 Evolution of Man . . M Revolution and Counter R e v o ­

l u t i o n or Germany In 1848 .50 Biographical Memoirs of Karl

Marx SO

Capitalist aad Laborer and Modern Socialism $ .50

The Soc ia l i s t s . Who They are and What They Stand for 6 0

The Bight to Ba Lazy 60 R e b e l at Large 60

Skinned Hams per lb. 15c Picnic Hams per lb- 12c

Dr. GEO. H TAYLOR, DENTIST

Cor. (iraml <V Jackson St. 0p«> I • ' i '"»"'• Kschassc

Helena. Montana

FAMILY THEATRE

13-17 S a w t h M a i n M ThrerShowsdaily Open year around

OCAL LIVINGSTON, of i Socialist Party

the

KLEIN & BOURNE Phone 90

HELENA, - MONT.

Ferrets for Sale Three first class Ferrets for

sale. Call or write J W. Reely, Commission Warehouse

7.14 West Cadar St. Hissoula, Hontana

Meats m i l »<o .«<1 xmA faarta H N 4 I ) M H ; I is T r a d * * A Labor BaJ 1. a * » . Oaara R a w .

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L O C A L KJCNDALX. Secia+WH Party

M . . t» aaarf Saaaai " '« K I R A O L S O N . 8acr.

LOCAL GREAT FALLS, of the Socialist Party.

HaaH etaff Saaaay at Cslaaj B a i l at t p. • r i . O B E N l K W R a V L K D K R . ftac'y.

Ml 1Mb Mtraat No

LOCAL HELENA, of the SoetaJ-itt Party

MaetH rvary W a d a r a 4 a « avaaiat at i l North Pas% A m t W I i t J O B N B O N . a m t a r y

Join the Party

GOT EM ON THE RUN Wholesale merchants and manufacturers selling direct to consumers and there­

by saving to the purchaser the profits of the middleman and the vtmderful expense af advertiaing can give i , , their custorrers

A H I G H G R A D E C L A S S O F G O O D S A T L O W E R P R I C E S

than others charge lor inferior goods. Satisfaction la guaranteed with every purchase. The pure faad law has forced hundreds of dealers In trash out af business. The Meldrum geods have nat been affected by it, as their goods are exactly as represented

^^30 Per cent Cheaper* Than Any Other Deader

Prove the truth af this. We sell anything and everything from a sewing machine needle to a threshing machine, and our goods are all of tha same high grade as our groceries and all bear the same guarantee. Money cheerfully refunded on any goods no* satisf&tory

Will iam L. C r a g g Lcwlstown, Montana

RIPRESCNTINO GEO. MELDRUM dc CO. <»' ^™