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VOL. IV. HELENA, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEB 2.'). L906. NO. 6.

Middle Class In Small Cities

B V J O S K I ' M W A N U O I ' K I N N E W V n k k W O R K E R .

It not infrequently happens that some reformer who in a ireneral and almost ha/v manner accepts Social­ists views, becomes discouraged or perhaps disgusted with the apparent apathy of the working class to take an active part in the general emanci pation from capitalism, and begins to trumpet forth the praises of the middle class as fighters and parade them as the real champions of what he considers Socialism.

A relatively small Socialist vote in a city where a vigorous agitation has been carried on during the campaign usually gives the indivi­dual an opportunity to expatiate on the prowess of the middle class wnen they wake to the danger that threatens. The* apathy, which it cannot be denied, characterizes many outdoor and business meet­ings of Socialists, and the apparent dumbness of organized labor, its seeming inability to grasp the cause of a long series of defeats, afford him also additional material for the same purpose.

This awakening of the middle class is already here. So far as that helpless aggregation of would-be ex­ploiters can be aroused, they may be said to be awake. For the past year the most infernal racket has beeu sounding in their sleepy ears from the popular magazines that form the cheap literature of the av­erage bourgeois home. It has awakened them, sure enough, but what has been the result? In the words of William Morris, "What is the foeman, but the dream strong wakened and weak."

Tom I awson has been emitting his blood curdling war whoops for lo, these many months in the col­umns of "Kverybody's Magazine." The destruction of "the system" was a foregotie conclusion in his mind when the "people" were made acquainted with "the crime of Amal­gamated." And it must be admitted that I.awson has told enough to awaken a class that was presumably asleep. The Tarbells, Steffens, Rus-sels, and the lesser magazine "ex-posers" have all been adding their quota to the clamor and the result has been that the sleeper has been awakened only to demonstrate that he is paralyzed also.

It is perhaps in the smaller cities where this can be best observed. The middle class business men and storekeepers fear and hate the trust knowing that sooner or later, their business will go down before it, but this knowledge in nowise stimulates them to concerted action of any kind against it, nor even to propose or discuss such action. In the com­petitive fight with each other, and their struggles with the local unions they find the immediate and only outlet for their fighting energies.

They are inveterate foes of trade unionism and supporters of the blacklist. Socialists and the mili­tant trade unionists they consider undesirable and conspire in their business men's exchanges and citi­zen's alliances to boycott these un­desirables to the point of forcing them to get out of town. Their feeble bourgeois intellects never seemingly rise to the point of com­prehending that this procedure merely shifts the agitators from place to place, and gives them new fields in which propagate their ideas. The small businessman is a hopeless individualist. He draws a mental ring fence around the little burg in which his property interests are sit­uated and waxes intensely patriotic about the locality. His civic de­votion apparently knows no bounds. His political candidates for city of­fices adopt such mottoes as "Let Squedunk Flourish," or "I'unkins-ville First, Last and Al l the Time," and in general he takes care to let

it be known that every act of his is undertaken with the sole objec t of benefiting the community through the extention of business.

Between all provincial cities of from ten to a hundred thousand inhabitants a constant competitive struggle goes on with the object of inducing outside capitalists to lo­cate industries "in our midst," as the local papers express it. Wordy battles are conducted in the local journals over this matter, and each city vies with the others in calling attention to the desirable locations for manufacture within its limits. Offers of free sites, exemption from taxes and other advantages are made to attract capital. Haseball teams, Fourth of July orators, who read the Declaration of Independ­ence "in an impressive voice" stroll ing showmen posing as "carnival companies," free exhibitions of fire­works, labor and political conven­tions, picnics and excursions from neitfhoring cities are subsidized or otherwire pressed into service with the object of attracting people to the city who have money to spend. Let the local labor union propose to take its picnic out of the city on Labor day and a reproachful howl ROM instantly from the local husi ness interests. Only a few months ago two provincial cities were at daggers drawn with each other over the hanging of a murderer, which was expected to draw a crowd of some thousands of people who were in turn expected to liven up trade 1>\ their presence. The fortunate lo­cality that eventually secured the gruesome spectacle was abused for davs afterwards for its hoggishness and greed by the press of the un­successful citv.

More local population to exploit, more wage slaves to rent the house property and trade at the stores— these are the things which the typi­cal middle class man of the smaller cities has set before him to accom­plish. Lvery thing else is sacond ary to this. The local papers with out exception giva the impression that if only the population were doubled the city would become a paradise. Like the middle class property owner and storekeeper, they hate the trust also.

Hut let the trust decide to esta­blish a plant in their midst and be­hold the consequences. Does the property holder of the middle class and his mouth piece, the local jour­nal, attempt to repel the intruder? Not mm h. They don't even pre­serve a sulky silence. Their im­mediate interest prevails. In ima­gination they see a thousand wage slaves drawn from other localities —wage slaves who will rent prop­erty and become customers. And down they get, metaphorically speak­ing, on their bellies, and grovel like spaniels before the newcomer. There is no question about tainted money no dread of the crushing out of com­petition. That is to far distant to enter into calculation. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. This is one of the "good trusts." If it were not "good" it would not dare to "come into our midst," for above all things we middle class people and local property holders and tax­payers are "moral."

The same consideration is shown for the "customer" The writer out of sheer maliciousness, hat often tormented on of these little wretches by inflicting on him a talk of Social­ism, which was patiently borne with smirking and the rubbing of hands on the part of the victim, who was sustained by the expectation that his torturer might possibly purchase articles to the amount of a dollar or so if properly placated.

Amongst this type, Lawson is widely read. Their tables are gener­

ally well supplied with all this class of magazines which now find their profit in exposing some damnable phase of the capitalist system. Your middle < lass provincial will readily admit that "something must be done," just what, he is not prepared to say. Socialism might do. but he puts forward a timid plea that it might possibly be "too radical." On the whole, though, he is willing to agree with you with an eye to busi ness, either now or in the near fu­ture. The same evening he will go to the local business men's ex­change and plan with his associates to stop the local Socialist street meeting, or get out lists of "Radi cals," labor agitators and other dangerous characters who are to be starved out of the town by de­nying them employment.

There are, of course, exceptions. Hut the class predominantly is of this type, fawning and servile to­wards the strong, secretly vindictive and treacherous towards the weak, but always complaisant towards pos­sible customers. Our provincial cities are filled with them. They constitute what might be termed the rank and file of the middle class, and are essentially "the people" whom Lawson expects to rise in right eous wrath and exterminate the "system."

While the Boston stock jobber may perhaps be excused on the score of ignorance in supposing that this class could ever be spurred in­to anything remotely resembling a fight against capitalism, it is impos­sible to conceive how a Socialist, who at least is supposed to be ac­quainted with their characteristics, could make a similar mistake.

Such men as Post and Parry are not of this type, for they fight more or less in the open. But the ordin­ary middle class lacks their courage and candor. At best he is a fol­lower who will join secretly against trade unionism and Socialism, when he is satisfied that a winning fight ( an be made locally on them, but a quitter when they display strength that he imagines might injure his business, the success of which is his sole being, end, and object, and b\ which all his actions and beliefs are guided. When confronted with the trust he lies down at once. Though his economic ignorance is monu mental, he at least knows enough to keep out of any real open fight against it. That is the one thing he will not do.

No help may be expected from this class as a class. The conipeti tion which still rages amongst them forbids united and open action on their part even in their own class in­terests. Their connection with citi­zen's alliances and business men's associations they keep more or less secret, and the programs they de­termine on there entirely so. They may agree with the Lawsons, Tar bells, and Russels, of course, just as they w ill agree outwardly with any thing else that seems popular for the moment, even Socialism.

A two years study of this type in the smaller cities has given the writer an opportunity to judge what mav be expected from them by So­cialists, and the result can be summ­ed up in one word— nothing.

American Girls Sold

To Chinese Fiends The local immigration bureau to­

day gave publicity to investigations which reveal an atrocious slave-trade which has been going on for months, and of which American girls have been the victims.

That girls of tender years have been sent by procurers in this coun­try to be slaves in Chinese harems hundreds of miles distant from civ­ilization, where it is absolutely im­possible for them to escape, and where their only hope for delivery from their degraded slavery is in death, is vouched for by United States officials in today's revelations

Several of the young women find­ing what fate had in store for them,

took their own lives rather than submit to the outrages practiced up­on them by the scoundrels w h o in veigled them into slavery and the barbarous savages to whom thev were consigned.

It has been found that an under ground railroad, such as was adopted in slavery days to get the negroes beyond the American lines, has been established by these trad ers in human flesh. Their head quarters are in this city but they have agents in numerous western towns, including San Francisco anil Seattle.

In Shanghai they have a receiving agent, a woman who is known to the Amreican government and who turns the betrayed girls over to their pirchasers. These American girls betrayed into the hands of the rich Chinese bring from $500 to Ji.ooo each.

Chinese girls have also been bronchi to this country for immoral purposes. They bring from $250 to S400.

The American girls are immedi­ately taken from the ships when they reach Shanghai to interior towns aad after they leave Shanghai there is no chance for their escape. They are subject to the whims of the mandarins who purchased them, until their death.

The immigration bureau only re­vealed the facts after receiving a complaint of the sale of Louise Miller of Montreal to the agent of a Chinese official. The girl was first taken to this citv and then for­warded to the (>rient.

< Uher evidence indicates that Eva Campeau. Maggie Brouin and Victoria Stamour, all waitresses, were induced to come to Chicago from Montreal to meet the same fate.

The names of ten other young women of Chicago and surround­ing cities who disappeared and have been shipped to Shanghai to be­come slaves have been reported to the immigration inspector. J. W. Burst. Most of these girls were selected because of their beauty.

The government officials s*ite that the people of Chicrgo must rely up­on the state goverments and the police to punish the procurers of these poor girls because there is no federal law against exporting women for immoral purposes. The Ameri­can consul at Shanghai, James L, Rogers, has enlisted the co-opera­tion of the Knglish and Chinese authorities of that city.

Kvidence of sales of many Ameri­can and Canadian girls has been secur

; ed. The authorities are now certain , that at least 1 2 out of the 49 girls w ho j were shipped to China were incar­cerated to force them to comply with the demands of their captors.

One girl, Hilda Anderson, com­mitted suicide when she learned the purpose for which she was being sent to China.

All trace of many of the unfortu­nate women has been lost because they have been taken to points in the interior where white men have never yet penetrated. Two of the intend­ed victims escaped in Shanghai and sought refuge in places frequented by Americans and other foreigners. They were rescued by Knglish sail­ors and taken to officers of the United States navy, to whom they told the awful story of their ex­periences.

They stated that girls often brought more than $1,000 to their betrayers. The price paid fluctu­ates according to their beauty and accomplishments.

Several of the women's societies of Chicago today announced that they will demand that every step possible be taken by the authorities to put a stop to this criminal trade and to rescue the unfortunates al­ready in captivity. The federation authorities will make every effort to apprehend the procuresses who have been engaged in the unholy traffic.

Arthur Morrow Lewis Leads Strenuous Life

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-••volt. President of the United smte of Hawaii and Porto Bico, Mid Emperor «>f

0 islands beyond the Sea-. i> generally sup-the "Strenuous L i f e ." But if he had ifmie 10 tribulations of Arthur Morrow Lewis, of San

nice lie arrived in Canada a week ago, lie would l iking" for Sunia-. in an effort to get aero-- the

(observed.

•nrade Leu-is arrived in Vancouver <»n Wednesday, Oct.

ad spoke tliiit evening from the soap hox on the corner ot ordova ami ( a n a l street*, amid many interruptions, whieh had all the earmarks of being premidiated. and chief among which were those furnished by one of our little I'our-JSQUS, who displayed a photographer'- shingle a short way Up the street.

The C. I'. If. also contributed its quota of noise by running a puff ing engine hack and forth on the crossings at Cordova street and the persistent ringing of the Inevitable hell. The -peaker. however, provided as persistent as the freight train, "which some irreverent wag alluded to a- the Dominion Government on wheels" and before closing -old a number of copies of Sociali.-t literature.

On being persistently interrupted by a particular indi­vidual who was trying to hide his sinister motive- behind the pretense of inebriety, the lecturer finally appealed to ;i duly appointed and appropriately uniformed officer of the "law." who was visihle on the outskirts of the gathering to remove the Quisanse. Hut his reply consisted of gome sneering re­mark- which showed him to be well qualified for h i - job of de­fender of capitalist interests.

On Thursday evening Comrade Lewis spoke in New West­minster after first viewing the Exhibition. Some of the pro­duct- of the IV ('. workers, "which were on exhibition at that place." and returned to Vancouver that night.

On Fridnv evening, Oct. 8th, the secretary of the Local remembering that he had frequently witnessed large crowds attending to the commercial interests of various patent med­icine men, "Magic soap vendors, and lightning calculators." at the corner of Abbott and Cordova Sts.. and noting also that the same locality ha* occasionally served as the battle-ground between the Salvation Army, and the Prince of Darkness, without intervention by any third parties advised the visiting Comrade to try that place, ami the innocent soap box was ac­cordingly carried to the liallowed pavement in front of the Ow l drug store at eight o'clock that evening.

Everything went all right here until the -peaker made some reference to the movement in Oermanv, when one of the "loyal British objects," who frequent our fifteen cent re-tau-rants and other tough place-, asked why he did not confine his remarks to the British Empire.

The lecturer Informed him that Socialism was a- interna­tional and world-wide a- Capitalism itself, and that we were prepared to recognise Renins and scientific advancement wherever it may he found, and that despite the fact that the nilers ot' Germany are doing all they dare to suppress, the science of Sociology and practical advancement, the*iieople of that country are foremost in those sciences. That a German was a man. as well as any Englishman, an American, or any other descendent of the race and that they were even more entitled to the name than most of the inhabitants of other countries from the fact that they already had eighty-one re­presentatives of the useful class of society in the parliament of their country.

At tin- .juncture Patrolman Deptford evidently consider­ing it time to show that he was a faithful servant of the capi­talist class, Interfered with the meeting, informing the -peaker that he would have to desist.

Being asked for a reason, the officer informed him that ho was obstructing the street, hut on being questioned further seemed to he unable to point out the exact location of the ob­struction and walked away.

Comrade Lewis, "who i> an Englishman himself", then informed the bystanders that he always insisted on whatever lights the Working people were .-till supposed to have u n d e » the law. and added that he knew of no other place on this con­tinent where such a thing was likelv to occur, and that if he had to stop speaking there that evening it would he to go to the local gaol.

A voice in the background then remarked, "You can't do it ill Seattle."

" Yes we can." answered the speaker, "thev did try to suppress us there, hut we heat them in the courts."

The speaker then again took up the thread of his discourse on Socialism, hut had not proceeded very far when s i r Dept­ford again appeared at his elbow, accompanied by another of­ficer—whom he Undoubtedly meant to keep between himself and the comrade who carriers the "dynamite" and again in­formed him that he could not speak any more. Comrade Lewis could not see the proposition from the same point of view, however, and informed the over zealous guardian of the "peace of mind of capitalism,'' that he could only stop if placed under arrest, and on getting a further assurance that lie was formally arrested, he stepped down and walked away with the officer,

Arriv ing at the station, he was turned over to the tender care of the somewhat celebrated Mr. 0'Grady, whose "over (lowing sense of virtuousness compelled him to express his regrets that the prisoner had been so foolish as to "break the law." on hearing Of which, some of the comrades, who feared that the "windjammer" BOW laying off the ('. I*. B. dock might be short of an able bodied seaman, decided to resume him at all hazards. On ascertaining that there wa- no practi­cal way of blowing up the gaol without injuring the object of their solicitude, a more peaceful course was adopted and ac­cordingly the secretary of the Vancouver Local, "who i - noted for his meekness," was sent to negotiate for his release, while the "explosive" element under the command of Comrade Sibble. (who had sealed orders) kept an eye on the entrance to Buirard Inlet, so as to prevent any suspicions craft from putting to sea.

On his arrival at the station, the secretary could And no one in charge who was qualified to fix the amount of hail re­quired in such a heinous case as attempting to kill the whole capitalist class, and thereby leav e no one in the count ry but the few workers who, of course, would soon starve t<| death for

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FROM THE UNITED STATES TO CANADA.

T o escape the rigors of want in the in the United States, thousands of people are going to Canada. This is becaust- millions of Americans are on the ragged edge of starvation caused by the enormous over pro­duction of the necessities of life all around them. Under this beautiful system of graft the more there is to eat and wear the less one has to eat and wear. And, in a very short time, the entire nation will find it­self in the throes of a "panic" be­cause there are not enough ware­houses and cellars to accommodate the "surplus" of these good things.

Every so often a "panic" comes and they are always the result of "over-production," so say the cap­italists. The immigrants to Can­ada think they will escape the con­ditions by going to Canada, not knowing the same economic law governs in Canada as in Russia, South Africa and the North Pole as in America.

The tools of production and the machinery of exchange of those products are owned in all nations, m all climes by the fellows who never work, and this worthless class takes 80 percent of the wealth pro­duced by labor. Yet the laboring man insists upon voting the demo­cratic and republican tickets.

White Slavery In America Three hundred and fifty thousand

young girls every year are required to supply the harems of the rich in the United States. These girls are slaves and are unable to escape their masters until their beauty has faded and their physical charms are no longer attractive to the politicians, statesmen, merchant princes and trust promoters of the land. They are then turned adrift to become the playthings of the idle, vicious and depraved criminal. The price paid is the cost of a nights lodging and a meal.—Appeal to Reason.

Municipal ownership, government ownership, are not panaceas for the laboring man's ills. They do not raise wages. He is just as hungry as he is under private ownership. He earns J io a day and receives only $2. The capitalists shift their attention to other fields and rob the laborer just the same.

Socialism is growing everywhere. Socialism is irresistable. Socialism is the next age on the list of pro­gress.

Under Socialism every child will be educated in public schools. He will be taught the arts of useful labor. Superstition will not be on the list of studies. He will be taught the science of honesty and not of graft. He will be told to live a moral life because a moral life is scientifically correct. He will not be told of a heaven we know not of. He will be told that his heaven and his hell are earthly conditions. Socialists know, one suffers for his own wrong actions as well as for the wrongs of others, that he suffers in this life. He knows of no other life.

Party News, Canada TEN DAYS BAUD LABOB

F O R STREET SPEAKING.

Tbt 12 daya M |PftBMnt of Comrade Arthur X . Ltwia <>f San Frnncist'o by the Don. 1-ion Executive, in Vancouver. h a s ended u • peculiar eombi-nation of Tragedy. Comedy, and laughable taree. Judge Wil l i am* of the police eourt found Comrade Lewis guil ty of "obstructing the street", and imposed a tine of live dol­lars and costs. This was on Tuesday ami no attempt was made to collect the fine unti l the fol lowing Monday, when Comrade Lewis ' engagement closed. In the meantime we held our meetings nightly, and on the Sunday afternoon we had what was probably one of the greatest street meetings on record, as is shown by the greatest street meetings on record, as is shown by the So­cialist literature sold, which amounted to the sum of $10.10. Monday evening Comrade Lewis attended the business meeting to discuss with the OOUFMM the possibility of making regular visits t<> Van­couver dar ing the Winter . A f t e r the meeting he packed up ready to leave next morn­ing tin the boat.

A few minute- after mid­night lie vai called out of bed by a policeman, who served him with a document M the effect that if the fine and COOtl ($7. ."ill) were not paid, he would be given 10 days in ja i l with hard labor.

Next morning Comrade Lewis left on the boat unmo­lested, calling at Vic tor ia where he WT9A to work a week, but his health being con-id erably run down, by making three hour speeclie- to big crowd-, accompanied by the harassing attentions of the police, ami it being too cold by this time to speak further on the -treets -o f a r mirth, the Victor ia comrades consented to his going through to Seattle. There he will rest until he has accumulated sufficient physical strength to face the rockpile. if the comrades think it wi l l be best, in the intere-ts of the Party, that he should return and undergo that ordeal.

I accompanied Comrade Lewis to Seattle, and I am pleased to he able to say that his health is improving. He may test the intentions of the court by returning to Van­couver to take the chair at the meeting in the Ci ty H a l l on October 29th. when Mrs. Lewis is advertised to speak.

L T. ENGLISH, Chairman of the Propaganda I 'ommittee Local VancoHi i'r.

Down in Iowa the Methodists abandoned a hospital because the cost of maintainance was too great, The Catholics purchased the plant.

What ails the Methodicts, are they losing their old time vigor?

Under Socialism the people would own and operate the hospitals, though there would be little use for hospitals.

The middle class is rapidly dis­appearing. Some day it will open its eyes to the reality of things, then something will be doing.

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She Defied the

Peabody Soldiers Mrs. Kmma F. Langdon, the

author of "The Cripple Creek Strike," arrived in Hutte last even­ing and will spend a few days with the Butte unions. Mrs. Langdon is an honorary member of the West ern Federation of Miners, and an accomplished woman.

When the Victor Record office was raided by the militia and its editor and printers thrown in the bull pen, Mrs. I.angdon went on with the work of setting type and making up the forms and had the paper out on time next morning, much to the surprise and chagrin of Sheriff Hell.

Her history of the stirring times experienced by the union miners in the strike region, now in book form, was not only written by her, but she set the type and made np the forms as well. The book has the approval of the Western Federation of Miners. — Hutte Kvening News Oct. 18.

Socialist News From National Headquarters

Chicago, III.. Oct. 21, 1900. State election* wi l l be held

November 7th in the fo l lowing state- :

Mainland: In the Palt imore city election held M a y 2nd, 1905, the socialist vote in creased from 14H1 for Comrade Debs, last November to 2051. The indications are that the state vote of last year wi l l be maintained or increased.

Massachusetts: The present campaign in activity, enthus­iasm and number of meetings being held exceed- that of la-t year and the organization is in far better ihape than ever. Municipal election! wi l l follow the state election ami be held early in December.

Nebraska; The campaign lias been confined to fighting the obnoxious pr imary law of Douglas County, in the courts. It has not been without its educational advantages in showing the working class that the socialist party is the only defender of the franchise rights of the propertyless. A t this wri t ing, it is not known i f the socialist candidates wi l l appear on the ballot.

Ohio: Including Comrade I. Cowen, candidate fo r Gover­nor, there are seven speakers in the field under the direction of the State Committee. State Secretary Gardner reports as fol lows:—

" T h e amount of agitation that is going on in this state eclipses anything we have ever undertaken. More meetings ire being held and more liter­

ature is being distributed than ever before in the history of the movement in this state and the reports f rom every ipiarter ire very encouraging. Elec­tion returns are very hard to predict, but everything is in our favor to hold our large vote of last year with I good chance of increasing i t . "

PetMSylrmiia : The interest in the state ticket j s increased by the number of counties that have socialist nominees for county offices. Four state or­ganizers are afield under the direction of state secretary Robert B. Kingler . Reports are to the effect that an in­crease in the vote may be looked for .

Bkoit Island: A state ticket has been nominated and the larger towns have city elec­tions. A n active campaign in progress. B y a recent ref­erendum the Comrades of Rhode Island, as required by law. adopted a state emblem. The design is unique and char­acteristic; the globe upheld by the band of labor. On the globe appears the book of knowledge, the beacon light, the scales of .Justice and ('orna - Copiae symbolizing abundance. The motto being, " T h e world in the hand of the worker with light, Justice and plenty fo r a l l . " The fol lowing are the Socialist candidate*:—

w. A . Carpenter, WToon-socket, fo r Governor; John W . Iliggins, Arl ington, f o r Lieut. Governor; Henry F . Thomas, Providence, for Sec. of State; .John Barton, Pawtnoket. for Attorney General ; Joseph K . Arnold , Providence, fo r (Jen'I.

# Trea surer. Virginia: The socialist nom­

inees f o r state offices are as fo l lows:—

For Governor, George M . Morr is , Richmond; Lieut. Cov­entor, Wi l l i am Goth; Attorney Ceneral, Max Boehm; State Treasurer, Joseph Cooper, al l of Newport News.

The edition of the pamph­let Containing the address of Kufus W . Weeks, had to be in­creased to 350,000. Of this number but 20,000 remain on hand. The larger orders were as fo l lows: Mass. 75,000; N Y . 50,000; N . J . 45,000; Ohio 20,000. The price to state committees is 50 cents per 1000 and cost of shipment in 10,000 lots. The price to locals is $1.50 per thousand, prepaid.

Relating to G. K. Bai rd , the" Kanaai Oify, Mo., local sub­mits the fol lowing:

"Resolved that he be and hereby is expelled from the Kansas City Socialist Club, and that his name be stricken

f rom its records, and that this action be posted to a l l the Clubs throughout the state and to the state and National offices of the par ty . ' '

The preamble to this resolu­tion sets for th that B a i r d had misappropriated the funds of the club, and "been guil ty of misdeeds which stamps him as an unfit associate fo r socialists, and which misdeeds may can-e his incarceration in p r i s o n . " STATEMENT O F MINNE­

SOTA STATE EXECUT­I N G C O M M I T T E E . "Once again it appears

necessary to correct false statement! in relation to " T h e Minnesota S i tua t ion . " Com­rade M c l l u g h say*, " T o my mind the whole tangle centers in the first knot the enforce­ment of Sec. L\ A r t . 2, of the NationaH tanstitution." Aga in , he say-, " T h e Xash — Ilolman party—have raised quite a commotion by ignoring the National Consti tution in per­mitting members to accept, re­tain and hold capitalistic of­fices to which they were elected on other than a Socialist t icket." Three cases have been cited of alleged violation of the constitution. L . D. Hose, elec­ted councilman in Two Har ­bors where N O P A R T Y ever placed a candidate in nomina­tion fo r a local office. Nomina­tions are made in village cau­cus with the understanding that party lines be ignored. Comrade Rose refused to ac­cept the nomination last ticket be named. Most of the comrades were in the woods at that time, and his name was that of L . N . Keeler, elected .lustice of the Peace in the villiage of Biwabik under similar conditions.

The trd case is that of. EL E . Boen of Fergus Fa ls . Af t e r a careful investigation the committee found that Boen used every effort to have a f u l l ticket nominated; but the local was small and not a member would consent to his name being used as a nominee. Almost at the last moment Boen offered to run for Coun­cilman, provided the comrade-would circulate a petition and secure names to get his name on the ballot. This was done and he was elected. The peti­tion. Whether this was inten­tional or an oversight we can­not discover. That this is a violation of the National Con­stitution as adopted, we deny. We admit an infract ion of Comrade McIIugh 's inter­polation, but deny his author­ity to thus anumd or change the Constitution to accomo­date his private views. Wish ­ing to avoid trouble and settle the controversy l awfu l l} , the Sec. prepared and sent out the fo l lowing proposed amend­ment to the constitution last May. " A n y person occu­pying a position, honary or re­munerative, by the g i f t of any other Pol i t ica l party, ( C i v i l service positions excepted) O R W H O A C C E P T S A N O M I N A T I O N O R IS E L E C T E D O N A N Y O T H E R T H A N A S O C I A L ­I S T T I C K E T shall not be elligible to membership in the Public Ownership P a r t y . " This is Sec. L\ A r t . 2 of the National Consti tution with the addition of the words in Capi ta l letters, and which we now discover Comrade Mc­l l u g h has inserted without the inconveuience of a Referen­dum.

F a i l i n g to secure its adop­tion by sufficient locals to be referred to referendum the Committee accepted the consti­tution as adopted, and intend to conform thereto until legal­ly changed by higher authority than the assumption of a few comrades who apparently have a faculty of interpreting the constitution to conform to their private views. It is not the Par ty Officials of Minnesota who IGNORE T H E N A T I O N ­A L C O N S T I T U T I O N A N D REFUSE T O B E G O V E R N -ED THEREBY. Thai honor may batter he claimed by a few National Officials. If Com rade M c l l u g h succeed in mak­ing the tail wag, the dog, jie will gain great notoriety. Tt will be f a r easier to k i l l th? dog outright i f we may judge

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Fridley, Mont. Oct. 14, 1905. L W . Quick, O. S. & T . of

Order of Railway Telegraphers, St. Louis, Missouri.

Dear Sir and Brother: There has been some correspondence be­tween us before on this subject, but as I still feel the same as when you first inserted the notice in the February 1904, "Telegrapher" cut­ting out all discussion of Socialism, and that is that the hardest work­ing portion and the most enthusias­tic members of the Order had re­ceived a direct slap in that notice.

In a former letter you say I must not overlook the fact that the " R a i l ­road Telegrapher/' is the official or­gan of the Order of Railroad Tele­graphers. I understand this very well and for this very reason cannot see why a censorship should be established over what goes in it by its editor, or by what right he does establish such a censorship. Grant­ed that the majority of members are not in favor of Socialism. Is that any reason be should not be heard?

I claim that you have absolutely no right to cut out such discussion, Socialism is neither politics or "re­ligion. It is strictly an enonomic question and as such, is of interest to working people, or at least should be. Socialism and the Socialist party are different tnings, although I personally would like to see dis­cussion of any kind or on any sub­ject allowed in labor unions provided it could be shown that they were of interest to labor. I do not think you wil l deny that Socialism is a subject in which labor should be interested. As to you going by what the majority of the members

want in the journal, do you think you do it when articles on the proper way to run a gum machine are put in the correspondence col­umn, and other flunky articles on how we shall retain the respect of our masters.

Now I have retained the respect of those who were formerly my masters, but I have not retained my ob. Since the Northern Pacific strike I am ranching. I have no doubt but that I still have the respect of the Northern Pacific officials, but when I reported for duty I received the cheering information that I would not be employed in any capacity on this division and that no service letter will be issued, al­though 1 had given them two years satisfactory servise. And this be­cause a lot of telegraphers with capitalistic minds were on a strike knowing nothing of economic con­ditions and consequently nothing of why or what they were striking for. And I say further that it was just as good and just as successful a strike as the O. R. T. will have until they do study and learn something of economics. And where can they be reached so well as in the "Telegrapher?" The man next station from me voted for the strike and wrote me to that effect, fearing I presume that I might be weak kneed. When the test came he stayed out about 24 hours. He is now a scab both in a strike and at the ballot box as he was before, and and being a scab before the strike makes him no worse than his scab-bery at the ballot box did before the strike. Do you think he has retained the respect of his masters? You know he has not, but he has retained his job, and until the work­ing class find out that their interests and the masters interests are ex­actly opposite, such strikes will oc­cur followed by just such results as this one. Is'nt the columns of the "Telegrabher" as good a place as there is to show them? What is it for if not to educate its readers.

You advise me (in a former letter) to support my labor organization. Well , I am going to follow that ad­vice, but I am not going to support Oompers and his gang and a lot of what I consider fakirs much longer. Labor as at present organized is behind the capitalists organization in every way. The A. F. of L . is bound to go under unless there is a change in their policy. There is nothing I would like to see more than a solid organization of labor, put organization as we have a pres­ent which divides instead of com­bining, will not stand.

We were scabbed on during the

Northern Pacific strike by every other branch of organized (or divi ­ded labor.) The conductors and engineers run on telephone and scab telegraphers orders, the brakemen and firemen with them, running on them at the risk of their lives. The machinists put the power in good shape on instructions given to them by scabs, and all others the same. We pretty well organized as far as organization goes at present. Why didn't we win? (live us your remedy if you have one other than Socialism.

Fraternally, JNO. B E A R D .

Div. 54 Cert. 1314-

Socialist News From State Headquarters

Perry Bowen of Dean sends in one dollar to the organizing fund.

Local Livingston orders more Campaign coupon books.

September Bulletins have been sent to all the local secretaries.

We have on hand a large supply of Rufus W. Weeks' leaflet entitled "The Most Interesting Phenomenon of the Twentieth Century," which will be sold at 25 cents per 100 or 11.00 per 500.

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Locals east of Helena and Butte desiring speakers during November should send in their application for speakers as soon as possible, stating number of dates desired.

It is our intention to put another speaker in the field to travel over the routes covered bv Comrade Hazlett and if enough dates are se­cured a speaker will be started to work about November tenth. There is considerable work to be done in the Northern part of the state and plans are now under way to route a speaker into the state to travel west on the Oreat Northern Railroad to Havre, then south to Cascade County. This northern route is a very expensive trip and an entirely new territory for Socialist speakers, therefore we need liberal donations to the special organizing fund in or­der tnat we may be in shape to get the best possible results from this proposed tour.

As soon as receipts at headquarters reach large enough proportions to enable us to carry on the work, a sort of resident agitator will be put in the field whose duty it will be to stay in certain localities long enough to arouse the spirit of resistance in the workers and get them organized into locals. There is urgent need

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Local secretaries will greatly assist us at headquarters by sending in their monthly reports promptly at the end of each month.

Special efforts should be made to have a large vote cast on Referen­dum No. 3.

Co to the meeting of your local and cast your vote on the question of the party owning th : Montana News.

JAS. D. GRAHAM,

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from the tone of letters re­ceived from all parts of the state, for the dog will refuse to he thus wagged.

Tht statement that there are two State Organizations is false. There are not, and will not he unless the National Committal hlow the hreath of life into the tail already ampu­tated to prevent the spread of a eontagious desease. In plain words, Minnesota objects to outside interference designed to place the State Organization under the control of a few am­bitious and self elected leaders who have been party members but a few months.

For the information of Com­rade William L. White, we will say Minnesota proposes to bold its own convention in the winter at which time the terms of the present State Officials terminate; and every one of them will gladly turn oyer to their successors, at the bidding of the membership of the state, both the work of Organization. (Interrupted and delayed by the men who excite the sym­pathy and admiration of a few National Committeemen,) and also the duty of defending the Organization from the combined assaults of these traitors within the state and their allies upon the Nation.".> Committee.

Fraternally, (Signed) J . E . N A S H . State Sec. for the State Exe­cutive Committee."

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the want of MMM one to give them I job. After the Lftgee of about thro*' hours, bowever, the trick was turned, at the eoet of a $2 "will iam." and the Comrade brought back in triumph. On the next morning, Comrade Lewis moved for • remand unci the case was contained until Monday, at which time the MOM what abbreviated court-room was crowded to overflowing.

Officer Deptford was, naturally, the first witness and gave all possible evidence to substantiate his charge which accused the culprit of obstructing the sidewalk, while his evidence •would make it appear that he stood on a box in the center of the street. He was followed by Mr. llartney. the other offieer who figured in tin' case.

Mr. Hartney gave bis evidence as far as he knew in a good straight forward manner, and then the defence bad their in­nings.

Not wishing to appear to take any mean advantage, the defence also confined themselves to two witnesses (though many more had come to give evidence) which comprised the accused and the secretary of the Local, who was present when the meeting was disturbed.

As all evidence went to show that the speaker stood well out into the street, while the charged accused him of obstruct­ing the sidewalk. " His worship" was at a loss to know how he could be found guilty UndtT the act. and enlarged the case to Tuesday, for the purpose of going more fully into the detail* of the by-laws, which, instead of being framed so as to read in the ordinary "two different ways", appears to be capable of three or four different interpretations.

(hi Tuesday the Magistrate found him guilty and ft* sessed the damage enuoed by hii infraction of the law. at $."». This small tine was due to the fact that the law was not so bad l y shattered as to be put entirely out of commission. This f ine still remains unpaid. The street meetings were continued dur j compelling the Chicago, Milwaukee ing the following week, upon the opposite side of Cordova and St. l'aul Railway to proceed at street, and were unmolested by the police or other rowdy elements.

The meeting in SullivanHall on Sunday evening, Oct. 8, was a rouser. The hall was packed, and thai Comrade Lewis delivered the g Is. was evidenced in the collection taken which amounted to over

Between <iiK» and 7<»o people gathered in the City Hall on Sunday evening. Oct. loth, to hear Comrade Lewis on the sub­ject Of ''Socialism and W oman." The subjed Was ably hand­led, and the hig audience manifested it- appreciation by a col­lection of over $3& Between this and the meeting held upon the street during the afternoon, over $40 worth of literature WSJ sold.

Take it all round. Comrade Lewis has probably given bet­ter satisfaction than any speaker thai has visited ui for leane time. The amount of literature sold at the meetings, and the liberal response in the matters of collections, are good indica­tion! of the internal aroneedi as well as the fact that the teed ha- not been -own upon stony ground. That it will hear plen­tiful fruit in the future is certain.

Comrade Lewis is to make a short trip on Vancouver Is­land, beginning with Victoria, and thence to Ladysmith, N'a-naimo. and possibly Cumberland. The Vancouver conjradei are looking forward with anticipation to a visit from Comrade Lena Morrow Lewis, who is expected here next week. It is to he hoped that during her visit here, she will escape the tri­bulations that have fallen to the lot of her husband while so­journing with us. OBSERVER

— Westo n ('lot ion.

Wisconsin Notes National Organizer, Cieorge E.

Itigelow, is to lecture at Pittsville, 1'ardeeville and Wvocena and pos­sibly one or two other places on this trip to South Dakota.

The State ()rgani/er starts upon a 30 days tour of the state at K i e l on (>< tober }I,

The nine Soc ia l -Democra t i c aldermen scored another victory over the railroad company this week. The city charter provides that the railroads must build and maintain viaducts over their tracts where the city orders them to do so. For I nine months the republican and democratic aldermen have been | sparring with the Chicago, M i l ­waukee and St. Paul Railway com­pany with regard to the construction of a viaduct over their tracks on one of the principle streets of the citv. Finally the city magnani mously offered to contribute $63, 000 towards the viaduct. The So rial-Democrats protested against so stingy an offer. So the company raised it by stages to $125,000. Then the officious republican and democratic capitalists in the council got the city attorney and engineer to "render an opinion" as to what would be a "just share" for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Raiiway company to pay towards 1

the construction of the viaduct. They "rendered an opinion" that Hi 12,000 would be their just share.

The Social-Democrats at once protested and Comrade Kd Melms pointed out unless the city council ordered the erection of this viaduct the city could not begin mandamus proceedings to compel the railroad to do so. This frightened the cap italist aldermen and they were fin­ally forced to make the exact terms that the Social-Democratic alder men had insisted upon. They in troduced and passed a resolution

but whining and grumbling. I get letters from young clerks dreaming of absurd marriages- whining to be given in exchange for twelve hours brain work a dav. a sufficient wage to enable one to enjoy the primeval rights of common manhood. Your laboring man cannot pay for his childrens schooling, thev are talk­ing tow of providing his children with free breakfasts. Your farm laborer is whining for a roof to his hovel. One is tired of his whin iti^ r. especially when one reflects that if he did a little less whining, and a little more plain thinking, he would do awav with the need of whining once and for all. Capital does not whine. Capital has made the laws, and is content with them. Has it ever occured to labor tha the whole law making apparatus of every civlil/.ed state is entirely in its own hands?" No comment seems required. — London Justice.

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once to the erection of a viaduct over its tracts on 6th St., under pen alty of having the tracks for which it has no franchise immediately torn up. The chances are the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Peal Railway will build a viaduct. And they will pay for it—not the people of Mil a aukee.

The Socialist aldermen of Mil ­waukee were instrumental in secur­ing the passage of a resolution ap­propriating $60,000 for the purchase of a site for a municipal electric lighting plant. The numev is to be taken from the surplus earnings of the municipal water plant. Some of the republican and democratic al­dermen didn't know what to do with this surplus. The Socialists were able to show them.

CARL D. THOMPSON, State < »rgani/er.

P a , Qfa i d ' s F i g h t e r s .

Gre;V Britain's greats*! soldiers and isilofl rSOafoe great rewards for their services. It is now proposed to ,ri\e au honorarium of |lto,000 to Admiral Sir John FUher, tir>t lord of the admiralty. Lord Wolseley re­ceived SB award of $125,000 after the Ashanti expedition and IBOthST of equal amount at the conclusion of the Egyptian war in IBS'.'. Lord Alcester received a peerage and flJS.OOO for the bombardment of Alexandria, a day's work, which was valuable largely because it disclosed the weakness of the British navy at that time. Lord Roberts received $500,000 besides his fu l l jay as com­mander in chief for his work in the Boer war, and Lord Kitchener re­ceived $250,000 for his services in the same struggle.

W h a t W a t t a r a o n E a c a p a d .

You will observe that I sneak trippingly of the older Xew \ ork. In a desultory way I grew up there and thereabout. In ante bellum days my father was a not inconsid­erable real estate owner in the then upper end, now the heart, of Man­hattan Island. The war of secession came, and, U'ing a southerner, he let his holdings go, otherwise I Blight row be of the original Four Huinlfeut. with an ocean going yacht over in the deep water- Of Vi l le -franche, ami a thousand horsepower Mercedes in the palatial coachhouse of the Qrand Betel as rhnisi in­stead of a wandering scribe aadjSVf humble servant.—Henry Watterson in Lot i i -v i l ' Courier-Journal.

Bad Government. THE PRIME CAUSE of po l i t i ca l c o r r u p t i o n Off bad | O T -

erninent is p re jud ice on the pa r t o f the p r o l c t a r i c t o r l a b o r i n g class and p re jud ice is begotten by or the ch i l d o f ignorance crosses wi th supers! it ion. T h e ent i re w o r l d is kept in sub­miss ion through Ignorance and coward i ce not o n l y t en ipo ra ra -l y but s p i r i t u a l l y a n d i f man is ever to know the m e a n i n g o f the w o r d l iber ty he w i l l have to undergo a w o n d e r f u l Irani in i t i a t ion p s y c h o l o g i c a l l y o r s p i r i t u a l l y . H e must become s p i r i t u a l l y f ree o r have an intel l igent conception o f what l i b e r t y o r freedom i s before he can expect to en joy i t . A pr ie s t r idden people never can be f ree . M . N.

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"just now," says Jerome K. Jer­ome, in London Opinion, "just now we are having an exciting corres­pondence in the Times on the sub­ject of charity. Indignant ladies and gentle men are demanding that the poor shall be at once abolished. The middle-class stock and share holder is growing tired of the poor —of the laboring classes generally. He complains that the working classes are claiming to be his equals; and points out, very logically, that if that be so he ought not to be ex­pected to pay for the education of their children, for the maintenance of themselves when they are old and worn out. Why should he be ex­pected to subscribe to hospitals and fresh air funds? If the work ing classes are his equals, why do they come begging to him? The argument is unanswerable." So we think. Jerome continues: "One thanks this middle-class Dio­genes for his plain speaking. It is time the working classes gave up this everlasting begging. They ought to be ashamed to accept char­ity. Capital does not go a-begging. Capital does not ask the state to maintain it when infirm and lacSB able. Why should labor? The laboring classes remain so la/.y, | stupid, one begins to despise thern They appear to be fit for nothing

S o m e M o d e r n B u l k h e a d s .

It was recently discovered that the bulkhead- in Mess e l Eaglsad'i mod. i n war-hips ;irc usele-< to resist sea aster nieeaiifs My order of the admiral of the channel fleet the •ted walls of al l the spirit rooms were shored up and water was pump­ed in. Long before the compart­ment- in several of the ship* were fu l l the water tight doors and walls began t» p \e and buckled several larhea. Had the reoaM been filled with water, aa thev might have been in the o\ent of collision, and bad there been no ilMrsa the walls would incvitnblv have hurst and the other bulkhead- goas is turn, with disas­trous results.

A R e d w o o d M o n a r c h .

At Brookdale, Bants Ona county, Cel . , a line ipeeifssa of the sequoia, or redwood tree, was blown over la a recent storm. The tree is estimat­ed to be ever M t vears old. Ten feet from the top of the tree and at a dattance of I d feet from the

Eound was found a hole somewhat is than two feet deep. It had

once been the nest of a woodpecker. In this hole had grown a sturdy, three stalked huckleberry hush two feet tall. Its roots, extending six feet into the heart of the tree, had absorbed the sap of the redwood. The huckleberry had flourished and borne fruit .

A B o t t l e G u n .

Vice Admiral Guimares of the Brazilian navy has brought forward a "bottle pun." The gun is made of bronze, but the chamber at the breech which contains the propelling charge a of steel. The projectile, which is loaded at the breech, is an ordinary wine bottle filled with u w -dust steeped in oil . When the gun is discharged the bottle is broken and its contents scattered over the water for a considerable distance. By discharging the gun every five minutes a smoother pathway is made for the advancing vessel.

A T o u g h M u U .

A correspondent who was with Colonel Ymmghusband's mission to Tibet tell* H mule story: "Moles ap­parently do not die from any cause. When the mission first crossed the Jelapla a mule slipped in the dusk end fell into the lake at he bottom of the pass. It was thought to be drowned. Next morning a convoy found it with its nose just above th« ice, the rest of the body litorallv frozen in. Pickaxes weTe brought end the animal was dug out. It is

working ae usual."

T h a Q u i c k W i t o f a N o t e d M a a a a c h u -a e t t a J u r i a t .

Some things said by the late Judge Charles P. Thompson, who touched the national horizon when he beat Hen Butler for congress in Essex county and was twice, 1 think, the Democratic nominee for govern­or of Mas*ii< husotts, has always re­mained in my memory. -.iv* a corre-•pondent of the Boston Herald.

It was my fortune when a stu­dent to ride to BoetOB every day OS the same train with his honor. The

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judge always boarded the rear plat­form ef the rear car, often going around and mounting the steps from the trark side. I made bold one day to ask his honor for an explanation of his invariable and peculiar cus­tom.

"It's a g-good p-plaee in time of b-battle, my hoy!" was the answer.

The judge would often come from his oAce late at night and enter the f rui t store of .Jimmy Patten, oppo­site. One night some of us boys were "tossing copjKTs" for the soda.

"Heads! I win !" exclaimed some one.

"II-heaiN always win!" came from Thompson, quick as light.

D r . W i l l a r d ' a D r y F e a t .

Some year- ago Dr. Horace Mann Willard purchased the mansion house and grounds of the l i o n . Jo-siah Ouincy at Wollaston and after making many improvements estab­lished a tir-t (ia>s private ISBOSI for young ladies. One unusually wet spring the doctor noticed quite an epidemic of coughs and colds and found that many of the young In­dies were taking their morning walks without rubbers and getting wet feet and consequently coughs and eoles.

At a convenient time the doctor gave the pupils a lecture on the folly and danger of wet feet, declaring it entirely uncalled for. "Look at me." he said. "I never have a cold, and I haven't wet my feet for more than twenty j sera."

There was an ominous silence, a giggle, and then a wave of tumultu­ous laughter swept over the school, and the doctor, realizing his mis­take, joined in.—Boston Herald.

W h o s e D o g ?

W. K . Yanderbilt was "autoing" up a Long Island road recently. Ahead of him walked a man und a dog. The dog was nosing around among the hushes and fence posts. Suddenly as Mr . Vanderbilt's auto passed the man the dog started to cross the road. The auto hit him "kerplunk" amidships. A few spas­modic kicks and he gave up the ghost. Mr. Yanderbilt immediately atopped his machine and, getting out, approached the man with his wallet in his band, saying: "I 'm awfullv sorrv, my man. Wi l l $50 fix i t r

"Oh, yes, $50 will do." Then as Mr. Yanderbilt was dis­

appearing in a cloud of dust up the road the man turned and, looking at the dog, said:

"I wonder whose beast it was T'— New York Times.

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"It happened in 1H82," said the witness.

"Are you sure it was that year?" asked the counsel.

"Dead sure," said the witness. " W i l l vou tell the court why you

are so certain about the year?" ask-ied the counsel.

"Wel l , " drawled the witness, "I know because it was the year Men Butler defeated Rob Bishop for gov­ernor."- Boston Herald.

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The official stenographic report of the proceedings of the National Convention, May 1-6 1904, makes a book of 317 pages 6 x 9 Inches, which every Socialist should pos­sess. Besides the full report of speeches and debates, the book contains an appendix full of infor­mation for every student and live Socialist, among which may be mentioned: List of Socialist pa­pers and periodicals in the United States, both In English and for­eign languages; list of all delegates with mail address; report of Com­mittee on State and Municipal Program; National Platform and Constitution; Socialist vote, etc., with complete index so that ready reference can be made to remarks of any speaker or subject. In fine red cloth binding the price Is $1.00 In paper cover, 50c. Carefully packed and postage paid. Order from National Secretary, 269 Dearborn St., Chicago, III.