THE MONTANA NEWS, HELENA. MONTANA

THE MONTANA NEWS. Socialist National and State Ticket not one of individuals, but rather of systems, will they be able to do anything in their own behalf. No individual is responsible for the THE YOUNG MAN For President— wrongs that are borne by the working class, and no individual can ISSl'K.I) WEF.KI.Y. Eugene V. Debs of Indiana. right them. Who Likes lo Wear CLOTHES For Vice President— The question of Joe Toole's moral character amounts to nothing That FIT PERFECTLY in this great class It would make no difference if he were J. M. WALSH t&UZg* Hen Hanford of New York Struggle, a -aint. The only fact to be considered is that he represents the Should know more about HUB OFFICE 22 I'AKK AVE. P. O. BOX 908 For Presidential Electors— •yetem that robs the producer of all but a mere handful of the product QUALITY Clothes. They are made W. N. Holden, of Silver Bow. of his toil ; a robbery from which springs all the misery of the work• so different from others; made by a Catered at ihe INwt Office for tranamlaaton J. F. Mabie, of Park. ing class. higher type of tailors, with more through the mail at necond cla«» ratea. Joseph Hoar, of Silver Bow. A rOM for Debs and a vote for Toole is no vote at all. It is styles, betrer fitting, bettei work• •imply knocking one vote down with another. In their political po• manship, and shape retaining abso• SUBSCRIPTION. »!.<» PER YEAR. For Oovernor— sitions. Debs and Toole stand, not side bv side, but face to face. lutely. If they weren't better, Much MalcombO. OWIalley, Silver Bow. AdTertiRinn Kat^« made known upon applica• better than other makes, we should tion at thi* office. For I ieutenant Governor— A. L. U. EXECUTIVE MEMBER'S POLITICAL ACTION. have no excuse for mentioning the John W. Frinke, of Deer Lodge. To Whom It May Concern: To those who do not know Mr. fact. The picture opposite shows For Congressman— John M. Kay. the fusion candidate tor superintendent of public in- one of our new winter models. Any subscriber not receiv• J H. Walsh, of Fergus. ItrttCtioSa, and his entire loyalty to organized labor, I wish to state ing the News regularly should that Mr. John M. Ks) was a member and in good standing of Red OVERCOATS notify this office at once. It For Chief Justice of Supreme Court— Lodge Labor I'nion, No. 70. of the American Labor I'nion, up to the lor the young man, sizes 12 to 20, only takes a one cent postal C. II. Parr, of Silver Bow. card. Our mailing list is prac• time the union dissolved and surrendered its charter. showing everything that is new in tically perfect, and manv errors For Clerk of Supreme Court— REES DAVIS. styles as well as fabrics, from are carlessly made at certain John Peters, of Carbon. Member of the Kxeeutive Board of the American Labor I'nion. postoftices, and our readers Helena, Oct. 20. —Independent. $4.50 up to $20 can assist us greatly in prompt• For Secretary of State— ly notifying this office of the Henry Lynch, of Fergus. Section of Preamble to Constitution of the American Labor SUITS same. I'nion: "Believing that the time has come for undivided working For State Treasurer— ehaSS politics] action, we hereby declare in favor of International So• Right Smart Suits for young man, Erik Olson, of Cascade. cialism, and adopt the platform, of the Socialist party of America in from 14 to 20 years, made of the For State Auditor— its entirety as the political platform of the American Labor I'nion, very latest Scotch and Knglish W. C Phelps, of Lewis ft Clarke. and we earnestly appeal to the members of the American Labor woolens, in single or double I'nion, and the working class in general, to be governed by these breasted sacks, from For Attorney General— provision's, to-wit :" E. O. Jackson, of Silver Bow. $10 to $18.00 1 Followed by immediate demands of the Socialist party plat• For State Superintendent of Public form of 1901.) 15he HUB Instruction— The Montana New - reproduces the two foregoing articles, which L. WEIGEL. Prat. Mrs. R. Anna derman, of Silver are -elf-explanatory, and serve as a sample in illustrating the ungrate• CORNER MAIM AND 6TH Bow. ful actions and inconsistency of the laboring man. Probably there i- not in the state of Montana a greater union man than Mr. Rees ALLIANCE AND UNION MEN ON SAME TICKET. Davis, if the flexibility of his lungs and larynx act as a barometer bv U Another glaring inconsistency in the maimer in which union < TRA0ES[| rilg7jc0UNCIL^ which to gauge. Hut in these days men are judged by their acts men are prone "to right the enemy along union lines" is shown in Eugene V. Debs Ben Hanford and not by their mouths. It is becoming all the more so as the So• the ridiculous proposition of placing upon their labor-democratic cialist movement advances, and today a goodly portion of the wage fusion ticket Mr. 11. N. Canoll. member of tbe Helena Citizens' Al• earners are beginning to realize that the real enemy is entrenched ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT IN THE MAILING LIST. liance, with that of J. K. Smith and F. Sanden, who are supposed within the union and not without. An effort lias been made for over two years to keep improving to be loyal unionists. It is stated that Mr. Canoll within the last Mr. Davis, we note that you are a member of the executive board Tbe Montana News, and with this issue we have added one m->re few months resigned his affiliation with the Alliance, apropos of his of the American Labor I'nion, which has repeatedly declared for slight improvement, which will be noticed by our subscribers when candidacy on the labor-democratic ticket. He is now busily engaged the principles of Socialism, and now on election day we lad you they glance at the small yellow label containing the name of the per• in writing illogical and nonsensical union labor sop—something he acting in the role of a Judas Iscariot to your Union and y our class, by son to whom the paper is sent. While this small affair may appear knows absolutely nothing about. The alpha and omega of his slush •Milting into office men who stand for political principles that era to manv to be ol minor importance, permit us to say that it is one is as to what he—Mr. C anoll—will do for the laboring men in Mon• diametrically opposed to the declarations of your union and your of no small cost, anil tells to each and every reader fifty-two times tana, and in part of Kurope, in case the workingman is wide awake class. Last spring we found you merged deep into the political mire, in the year when his subscription will expire. The great increase in enough to elect him to the state house. It is of little concern to The peddling through the streets, in the interest of democrat Richard The Montana News circulation forces the management to adopt the-e News as to whether Canoll belongs to the Citizens' Alliance; what we Purcell handbills regarding the strike at Lewistow n, that were abso• improved labor saving devices, ami especially BO when you take into are most interested in. is to the absurdity of tbe "pure anil lutely misleading, and for the purpose of using your union connection pointing consideration the fact that The News is not MMt to any address unless simple" union man Alliance members and to into office a man who stands for principles opposite to that anathematizing Citizens' the same is paid for in advance. Therefore, the figures and month hoist of your union. You pride yourself on your orthodoxy in unionism, declaring boycotts against them, as a means of forcing their demands, printed upon the label tells the story to the subscriber each week M Mr. Davis. And from that standpoint let us treat it with some little and when election time rolls around act cheek by jowl with Citi• to when his subscription expires, and saxes to the office an enormous zens' Alliance members on tin- same ticket, and elect them into politi• amount of correspondence and postage were not this improved system snalyahv Voa remember, Mr. Davis, that when you joined the cal power to use the forces of government against them the balance adopted. Comrades, hereafter your name will appear upon the label \merican Labor Union, the preliminary prerequisite was that you of the year, (ireat 1- consistency. Will the wage earner ever awake? on your paper witli the figures ami month showing when the same hold ap your right hand and swear before your God that you "would expires. Permit a short explanation now. that no tni>understanding rapport union men in preference to all others." Now, Mr. Davis, take may arise in the future: The figures will appear for instance in this the state democratic ticket and compare it with the Socialist, and < >n October 2$. at the Auditorium in Helena, the republicans held manner: Suppose you have paid until April i of next year; opposite then tell us, from a union standpoint, which ticket you ought to another brass band and red fire rally, with Joe Dixon as the star the name will be lAprO$, meaning the 1st of April. 190$. So the a —1st. You may do the same with the Lewis and Clarke county actor. As usual, all were asked to rise and listen to the melodious label will be. John Doe lApfOgi This will give you an opportunitv ticket. Bttt you say you have a right to vote for whom you like, airs of "My Country, "Tis of Thee." One fellow arose because the to always know juM when your subscription will expire and gives from a union standpoint. Have you? Have you a right to "scab" other fellow did. It was noticed that some who were on their feet you an opportunity to Tt •ubacribc, thereby not missing any number- ; HI a job, from a union standpoint? It is safe to assume, that in case had no more country nor a home than a California jackrabbit. Joe otherwise the paper will be -topped at expiration of paid time. of a strike, and some poor unfortunate, in order to battle against is fairly clever in following the republican campaign book in dishing starvation to self and family, was forced to work on an "unfair" job, out stereotyped matter, notwithstanding that he occasionally gets you would be loud in your denunciations of the "scab," while you. as out of line in the matter of republican medicine. He admitted that A WORD TO THE JOE TOOLE SOCIALISTS. a member of the executive board of the American Labor Union, are never since i860 were the two parties so much alike, and now it was only a matter of personality between Roosevelt and Parker. He cut For rank, unadulterated inconsistency we award the blue ribbon performing an extravaganza stunt in scabbery, by voting for, and away a little when he said that be favored some of the Socialist prin• to the Joe Toole Socialist. By that name we mean the man who assisting men into office whose political principles are against the ciples that were good, but would come around later. He approved intend- to rote lor Debs for president ami Toole for governor. Debs interests of your union and your class, and create the conditions of Roosevelt's course in not lending national troops into Colorado and Took I Save the mark! We are afraid that it 'Ciene should Mi which make the "scab." W ho is the "scab" de facto, Mr. Davis? for (he protcctiem of the lives of its citizens against an anarchistic that combination in print he would never forgive us. I!ut you will vote for Joe T«»ole, and as a compromise, Eugene V. governor and explained the matter by saying that the president was There are two sorts of Toole Socialists. One sort i- the poli Deb-. No, Mr. Davis, Eugene V. Debs, under these conditions, does justified in intervention only on two occasions: W hen tbe mails are tician. office holder, ami office seeker, the majority of whom have- not want your vote, nor that of your ilk, as he has repeatedly stated interfered with and when the governor of a state calls for assistance. captured nominations on the hybrid ticket. We are not here con• i" you. You are a negative quantity, Mr. Davis. You have been He instanced the 1K04 strike and tbe burning of cars by strikers in cerned with them, except to say that some of them are fakirs, some given extra -pace in our editorial columns, not because your name Chicago. Mr. DiJHM is a little off there, as tl.e writer of this article are political degenerates, and all of them are so much debris in the i- Mr. Davis, but because yon -ubscribe as a member of the executive was in Chicago as a from Montana for the A. R. U., path of the working class. The other sort are those recent converts board of an organi/atioii. that ha- declared for fixed political prin• committeeman and it is a yet undetermined as to whether the railroads to Socialism who ignorantly yet honestly believe that the proper ciple-, and because of your inconsistency and unmanly premise, ami question thing to do at the present time is to re-elect Toole. It is to these further, with a purpose, that others of your ilk who share like views, burned a few measly cars in order to secure national troops or our remarks are directed. may read, ponder, make amends, and stand erect as men. whether tbe cars were burned by tbe strikers. Mr. Dixon is in error as to Roosevelt's motive. Roosevelt refused to send national troops To begin with, let us say that the man who votes for Debs and Olhefwife, then, in the interest of consistency; in the interest into C olorado to protect citizens from the onslaughts of the capitalist Toole, or in any way divides his vote between the Socialist ticket of unionism, and in the interest of the working class, you should hirelings for the same reason that Cleveland sent troops into Chicago and any other ticket, has not yet grasped the idea of the modern resign as a member of the executive board of the American Labor against the strikers and in the interests of the capitalist class. And proletarian movement—in other words, he is not a Socialist. Nor is Union, Mr. Davis. why BOt? Both are representatives of the capitalist class and there• he a good old partyite. He is a straddler. a compromiser, a political derelict. fore partisan to their class. Mr. Dixon was seen at the Union depot ITALIAN MONARCHIAL AND VATICAN POWERS FUSE. by a representative of The News and asked why the republicans But what we wish to particularly point out is his stupid incon• evaded Socialist debates, and in reply said: "I am not unfavorable sistency. A vote for Debs means a vote for the overthrow of the In a special cable dispatch from Rome to the Chicago Inter to Socialists; it is my advice to republican speakers not to dynamite capitali-1 A-u rn ; a vote tor Toole means a vote tor the perpetuation Ocean, dated Oct. 15, the Italian government and the Vatican are against the Socialists." of the capitalist system. There is direct antagonism between the reported as having effected a compact for the purpose of defeating two positions. It is far more consistent to vote for Roosevelt and tlie Socialists at the general election in November. It seems that Toole. There is a common bond of interest between these two which the Socialists have united with all the extremist and revolutionary The Montana News, which is edited by a measurably recent con• far outweighs any political difference, and that is, that they both parties, among them the republican ami anarchist, with the intention vert to Socialism, to whom it is easier to yell loudly for ultimate So• stand for the continuance of the existing social order. The repub• of -ecuring the majority in the parliament and to thus be able to cial Democracy than to exercise and waste brain tissue in practically lican party and the democratic party represent respectively the right overthrow the existing cabinet. With the election of a Socialist meeting the conditions as they are and so reckoning with them as to and left wings of the capitalist class. For all the difference it will ministry the monarchial government would be dealt a death blow, make the march to the co-operative commonwealth possible, has a make in his condition, the worker may as well mix his vote indis• and the Vatican interference in political affairs would fare but little conniption over the Wisconsin Social Democratic platform, calling criminately between the two. But between them and the Socialist better. So in the face of the threatened danger to them both, the it "sentimental opportunism rot." When Comrade Walsh has been party there is no possible compromise. It is war to the knife, and government and the church, heretofore hostile, have come together a student of international Socialism for a few more years and has a the knife to the hilt. Debs stands for certain well-established prin• for common protection. riper understanding of it, we may be inclined to give weight to his ciples; Toole stands for principles which are precisely the opposite Such a course on the part of the Vatican will hasten its down• opinion.—Social Democrat Herald. On the one side, Debs represents the rallying working class, armed fall in spiritual as well as temporal affairs. The Italian working Never mind about "brain tissue." "students of internation So• for battle ; on the other side, Toole represents the phalanxed capitalist class, and the working class in every land, is beginning to realize that cialism" and other puerile slush. Leave this to the old party poli• class entrenched behind their guns. their material interests lead them away from the church, not to it; ticians. Socialists don't care much about punctured intellect, whether It is probable that-in Colorado not a single vote will be divided ami thus the spiritual dictatorship of that institution is waning. And it happens in Milwaukee or elsewhere. The