MONTANA SOQAUNI PARTY ACIVITk. Lecal Hele.s ha assued a challenge to Bishop Carrot of Helena to meet George D. Brewer In debate. Bishop Carrolt I an anti-Soclallst, and of late In his sermons he has been attacking sociallsm and Womar's Suffrage. George D. Brewer is one of the 'ecturers attached to the National Lyceum Lecture Bureau and is In Helena this week As Bishop Carrol's criticism of So c:alism Is so unjust, the Socialists of Helena, decided that the best way to reply to him was to challenge him to debate The increase of Soctalist sentiment is developing rapidly in Montana. As one travels over the state, a continual revelation is given him on the growth of Socialism. A good organizer in Montana could easily organize fifty new ,ocals in the ntt ninety days. Organization is what is required at present. In (lallatin county there is room for four more locals. Three Forks espe clally is ripe for organizctlon, and a local of at Pea-t 25 charter membtrs could be secur.-d. At Whitehall one is surprised at the number of Socialists he meets, but no local is in existence there. Whitehall is at the extreme southern portion of Jeff rson county and if the adjacent territory to Whitehall was given attention, there is no reason whate ver why the Socialists should not carry Jefferson county at the next election, especially' the legfisatlve ticket. Over In old Madison coun',,, where Socialism used to be a back number, the growth of Soclalst thought is mar veoua. If the' comrades of Local Norris would spur themselves into their old time activity the Soclalst vt.te in Madison county at the next election would show at least, en in crease of 500 per cent over the vote that has been pol.ed for the past seven years n Madison county. Organization, and more organization should be the subject for discussion at each local meeting. Keep up the agitation for more and efficient or ganiszing. LECTIRE DATFA. 0G orge D Bre.wer the third speaker on the National Lyceum Lecture course will ircture in Helena, Dec2t; Missoula Dec29; Livingston Dec30; and Red Lodge Dec 31 May Wood-8imons the fourth speak er on the Lyeum course will speak Iewlitowa, . S; GOlet Pail. Jan 3; Helena Jan 4; MLssouia Jan 5; Livingston Jan. 6; Red Lodge Jan. 7. ARE THE PAIlMQU DEITING CAPITAISDM. By Clyde J. Wright. "Nine-tenths of the Socialists of Texas are farmers," so says Nat L. Hardy. One-half of the Sociaadstat of Kansas are farmers, says the State secretary. Let me add that two thirds of the Socialists of Nebraska are farmers. This speaks volumes. Have our papers neglected the farmers? Yes. Just as they have ae glected the question of organization Leading Socialista have been heard to say that outside the cities there is no Socialist movement. There 1a Socialism and then there is the power of Socialism, the power of Socladlsm Is organization. Exam Ine the sta.e secretaries' organization maps, if you will, and note the small and numerous country centers that are now being organised, and perhaps for the first time realise that the country districts are generating the heat of Socialist organization which is likely to yet burn up capitalism In the cities; while the cities are deliberating upon some technical point of science. Are you still asking. "Can a farm er be a Socialist?" You should ob serve that the relative proportion of organised farmers in the middle west as compared to the whole movement Indicates that the farmers need no asking. These organised precincts answer The renters' rebehlion in Texas seems to say that there are no more political hayseeds in the country than there are political thin-heads in the town If It is a question of the class struggle, then the tenant is having fully as many "ups" In the country as the wage earner is having "downs' In the cities. It may be true that there is more lgitter in the cities to attract atten tion, and as·o that the class struggle is more clearly defined, but this does not tell us that the wage workers are. nc'.e',arily quick'er or 4,w. . r to understand. But we do know that they are more helpness, more deepen dent, and therefore have less political independence. Capitalism knows the value and power it has to feed the town man's mind with cheap and un fit vaudeville, detective stories and other sensual literature. Whatever may be the intellectual advantages, they are offset by the very poverty which they breed-they teach the wrong lessons. The workers have been tricked. tricked. Once the fiction of the an tagonisms between town and country producers is exploded and these two ends togc'her turn upon the capitallsts "middle", an Irreslstible force will have been added to the revolution. THE RIGHTS OF HALFP A NATION. By Joseph E Cohen, Suppose that some one were to aug gest that half the voters of this nation should be disfranchised. Might not such an act bring about a civil war as terrible as that of 1861. Yet as wild as such an idea is, it is no wilder than the idea that the wo men of our country., er of any other coun'ry, are to remaln permanenty disfranchised. For women are one-half of this and every other nation. And as true as It is that no land can endure part slave and part free, it is true that woman must be given the title to every po litical and social right possessed by man. So long as woman's seat was at the fireside. such a question could not arise.. So long as the clrc;e of her needs and wants centered in her own home, such a problem could not pre sent itself. So long as woman was only a silent partner in her husband's concerns, yoman remained on the edge of the current of political and social struggies. But all this changed when the throbbi, g of the gigantic machine be. came the dynamo of progress; it all changed when the bleak, sinister factory wall cast its lengthening shadow over the family hearth. When woman became a factor in industry. then she became a factor in poiltical and social matters. W'hen certain trades came to be set apart as "woman's trades," then wo man became a part of trade and a part of Industry. When there sprang up "st, towns" where men are relatively as few as as are women In the lumber and min ing camps and the "he towns" then woman became an Important item in all industrial political and social q jestions. When the point was reached that millons of women in America must regard wage-labor. Instead of the care of the home and the rearing of a household, as their means of sub sistence, then woman became one-half of the social problem. When the sex-cancer of olden times became the established Institution of our own day; when woman's very soul was reduced to terms of barter and price, then the position of woman and child, even more than that of man, became the aching heart of the social problem. An when woman became bonded to wage-labor for life, then there was born In her the knowledge that her lot, In a larger sense than ever she had dreamt of, is riveted to that of man's Then her vision broadened and her j mother love became part of that fra ternity and solidarity which is the basis of workingclass conselousness And as time advanced, woman, especial.y woman in industry, realised that governments are the agencles whereby the bread and butter of life are portioned out, and that those who control the government divide the portions. Then came the movement for wo man suffrage, the right of woman to self-expression, the right to have voice and vote in regulating the affairs that concern her, the fight to help build the civilisation of equality and comradeship that is to be. Nor can the importance of securing suffrage for woman be overestimated. All struggles of any consequence, Ind(tstrial and social, expresses itself In poltical quantitles. No class ever rose except by political power. No class can ever free Itself and tree so. cle'y by becoming the government. And the fight for woman's suffrage Is as much man's work as it Is we man's work. For man cannot be free himself until woman thares that freedom with him. lo free half the nation who are politically inferiors is to elevate the whole nation to a high place such 8a It has never occupied. .Let us make the rights of woman, a the rlghts of half a nation, the con r, cTrn ollf th,e \wh l, nation! Old Party is Halted Continued from tist page.) would sug~rt." Berger said, "that ln stead of lawyers you would get a brickl.kir to write the lea and have it lookied ver by a newgpaper man. Then you, would ave a law that would be plain. a law which everybody would underst;and." Repr..+ ntative Kendall (Rep. of Iowa) ait anced his be.ef that the democrat did not deserve credit for the passag of the soldiers' preslon bill. To this Berger replkd. "The d,,mocratl IalUated the bill. Give the devil his due. 81 t remem ber that this House has pased a halt down eght hour bids "The g. ntleman from Wisconsin w.&a looking at the republican side when he spok, of giving the devil his due," interjec:, dI ltepres,,ntative Anderson, of Ohi',. to the amusem nt of his democ .,tc colleagues "I '. l ooking first at ofr aide and ten at th, other." come bi'k the Bo lalist c'nzressman ,ike a siot. Both .idl s of the Houl' saw the point, utl members and spectators roared . ith good naturet laughter. FIIGHT FOu)R OLD AGE ENSION=. Berg r introduced his ol age pen sion bill as an srn ndmoit to the Sherwood bill. which proviles for an Increase in pensions to veftans of the Civil Wa\r. His amendment was ruied out as not germane on a I(nt of or der raised by Representat e Bartlett. (dem.) of Georgia. Te soclalist Congressmat however. secured to floor and made a vlgrous speech in behalf of the *terans of Industry. He said in part 'There are more worker killed and injured .very year than ee in the entire C(vil War. Oniy I Saturday we read of a terrible mine limaster in Tenness, e. St. i things happen every day. "In addition, we should a.o consider the number of women who are sub Ject to disease contracted becauts of their ,occupations, and who b aunem total or partial invalids by tie hundred of thousands every year. T'he work of the soldier of industry 4 Infinite.y more necessary hnd must perfornt ed every day or our fIvilisation cease." Shopmen Mqinh Great Resis nce. (Continued from page one. from train No. 1 to tak out the wrecker. Tucson. Aris.-Engine rtn trough the wall in Gila round house Helper engine on passenger train it Beaion burst a flue when starting and had to be cut out. The engineers are sick of their Jobs. 15 scabs were blDiped west last night to Los Angeles There are 24 dead engines In the round house here and three on the pits. It is re ported that the chief train despatcher is laying off on account of nervous break down brougt about from con dition along the road. COAL MINERB ACT SANTA CLAUS FOR STRIKERS CHILDREN. Again we have a demonstration of the true spirit by the Iacal Unions of District No. 22 unite dMlne Work. ers of America at Cheyenne Wyo., who have circulated posters and hand bills announcing that they will be Banta Claus to the chilren of the striking shopmen of Cheyenne, Christ mas Eve Sunday Dec. 24th 1I11 at Eagles IHal at 7 30 o'clock. Bring the children and we will load them with" good things, candy, fruit, and nuts and a present for each of them. In behalf of the Coal Miners of Wyoming.--Thomas Gibson. Presi dent. A. (1. Morgal, Vice-President; James Morgan, fecretary-Treasurer. SUPPORT FOR THE SNTRNIS The following letter was received at the headquarters of the strikers on the Harriman lines: "East Ely, Nev. Dec. 18th. 1l11. "On Dec. Oth. a grand ball was given at the Auditorium In East EZ, under the auspices of the Allied Trades Un. Ions of White Pine County. The general arrangements committee was composed of 27 union men selected from every union In the District. Jaw Bergs of the Machinists Loaml was chairman; with W. O Mason, of the Painters Local as Secretary and M. O Marquise, of the Mill and Smeltermen as Treasurer. "It was thoroughly advertised that the net proceeds of the Benelft Bad would go to to support of our union brothers of the Federated Ihoplren on the Harriman System, who are now on strike and fighting, honorably against oppression; who are fighting not only for themselves hut tor all their race; and whose defeat or via tory is our defeat or viotory. "The efforts of that committee was quite liberally rewared Iby the work. In;" men of thy, di trit, and mighty ttlSe sipeet eme from the buselasm men eo*ept the few who donat4 all the IagredJeats that made pup forty galleos or fine claret punch, which was erved tree and made mild enough for ladesi to drink without danger of Intoxletion. and of which evry one drank their full share. The total receipts amounted to $743.70 The total expense was ........ 49.50 Leaving a mae balance of .... 8$74.0 One enthuselastic member of the committee gladly offered to donate an additional eighty cents to make up even doaami. "Whea some of the business men. those so caled "Friends of Labor" heard of the large amount being sent to the strikers they exhibited that un mistakeable act of great astonishment and many of them no doubt, very much deplore the fact that so much money is being sent out of the dis trict, but all such men who feel that way are far too selfish o be consld ered at all by the working class. The boastful business men derive their In. come and luxurious living from the working lase. and the time has come when the business men shall cease to combine against the working class or the business man will be thoroughly and severely ignored by the working clm. Then the business man will have totgo to work and be a real pro ducer or look for support from those "higher up" In the plundering, graft Ing, greed crased crporatlons. 'The efforts of the Musicians Local far exceeded that of any three other locasd, and that they did do so nobly in a united effort to offer moral and financial suplport to our union broth ers who are at "the front" and fight ing our fight and bearing the brunt of the physical suffering as well as that silent, mental suffering that the working class has endured. Oh so long that our patience has ready "ceased to be a virtue " "In beha.i of the working class of the Ely district and in token of sym pathy and Brotherly Love, I herewith enclose a bank draft for $875. to yuo as Secretary of the Federated Shop men of the Harriman LAnes We sincerely hope that it may be the men In their struggle against oppres sion. We hope that it may be the means of giving good cheer and real comfort t) some strlking. figlhti~g brother who might feel sonaewhat d spondent of victoy, or who might not be as fortunate as other brothers In psselion of food, clothing and shelter for himself or his beloved wife and Innoceitt. heapness babes. We hope that our efforts an financial success will encourage, not only other districts to do as we have and Bt do all in their power to send forth their best and kindest thoughts hop ing that the rame may be heard and felt, by our union brothers upon the sweet, wireless, sound wales tf sym pathy and brotherly love, for such acts of charity and kindness are not transmitted to the suffering, worklng class through the "kept sheets" of the corporation owned press. We must have faith in our cause for it is RIGHT AND JUST. We must have hope in ultimate sodarity of the working class. For great and grand is"Faith, Hope and Charity, but the Greatest of these Is Charity. "May those who would enslave us become mere slaves." Hurrah! For the Shopmens' Feder ations! Hurrah! For greater affiliation! Hurrah!! For labors emancipation!! We must keep pressing on!!! Yours for Justice to the Working clawm.-E. G. Marquis., Treasurer Benefit Dance. Ely, Nevada. The shopmen on the Rock Is.and Railroad have assessed themselves one days pay a month for the benefit of the strikers. 60per cent of the money thus raised goes to the strikers on the Harriman lines and 40 peri cent to the strikers on the Illln,is Central Railroad. The round house machinists on the Great Nothr% n raitway at Clancy. Montana are giving a ball at the Al hambra Hot Springs on New Tear's eve. The proceeds to go to the benefit of the strikers, Let other places do likewise. C. t. McMurray an exrallros6 man and now a travelang agent for the Continental Casualty Insurance Com pany. ie doing all he can to secure seabs for the Southern Pacifcl Railway while canvassing for business for the insurance company he represents The strike committee desires all holders of poidlces in the Continental Casualty Company to write the head office of the Continental Casualty Company, protes.ang aga.nst the con duct cf this agent of the company. Railroad unions can also assist by having the secretary of theunlon write a letter to the insuraece company. The Insurance oompany sells its poll oles to raitroad wage slaves, and with. out the wage slave the company would go out .,f huslnesa. Monltana News Prospectus. The Montana New will be iomosd hereafter by the ONION PRIuM cad PTBUL W IO COMPANY. from ts otffle at Helena. Meotaua. The sld company it Incorporated tandw the laws of the State of, Montana. Authortmed Capital Stook.1L0.000 sbares $60 each Otnset et Cerpertlsae. To print and publish at the City of Helena. Montana, a weekly news paper to be devoted to the Interest of the worklng clas of the Mtate of Montana and the Northwestera States, and for the porpuse of transact. Ing, carrying on and conduetlng a printing and publishing business In all its branches Need e tocald Paper. The worklng class movement must have a powerful ocal pres be fore it can hope to influence the government or the state as a party. Such a press can be a power in the Northwest a the expression of a working class remarkably algressive and devoted to freedom and Just ice. Without a paper of protest against the horrors of a system of pro fit and plunder it would have been Imposrble to expose the Donohue Militia bill passed by the late legislature! There Is tendency to reaction nla the state at present. Fracheless are being given away lavishly to the explolters of the working oass-etreet care, electric lines, electric lighting, and gas- with no provisions to allow the publio to own these necessities In the future; whereas, ten and twenty years ago such franchisee contained specifications for th. transfer of such property to the commonwealth. SBlows at Ibor. The last legislature in Montana appropriated 810.000 for the purpose of bringing In labor to compete with the laborers already here. Montana employers are even advertising In Europe for men to work In the state, while we we are already overloaded with Idle men Idttle Revotutoumary Reang. Theur are only 9,0400 smbslbers. to Socialist papers In Montana. We tmust have at least 60,000 persons reading Socialist papers before the spirit of protest can be aroused or the workers make their Impress upon the state and municipal governments. There are 80,000 voters in Montana, and a population of about 175, 000. Cold figures teal the tale of work to be done Prposes The News will fight the battles of the worklngclass through all pres eant evils and obstacles of explolta-tion. It will point out the emancipation from exploitation in the abolition of the private ownership of the Industrial machinery. It will direct the workers to co-operate production. It will expose the outrages of capitalism which we encounter at our door. It will eater the arena and struggle with strong and seltf.lteraqted opponente to contrunt better law, nstitutions, and opportuntles. It will at all times Inform the populae of malicilous laws paused and enforced by our law makingla bodes. It will also be a center from which the Initiative and Referendum will clreuste. Plues of Operates The News will henceforth he 1 Solaliet party paper, but not a party-owneod paper. It will be handled exclusively by the Union Print lag and Publishing Company. This company will own Its own machin ery. equipmeat, liotype meters, ad preses, and pleasantly ad oem modiouosy sNatoed at 10 Park Avenue. Helena, Montana. It makes a specialty of unlon Job work, bills constitutloa, by-laws, terhead, a whatever ergansed labor may require ia the way of prntlang. We sup port you; yeu support us. abor withdraws its support from Its emm. iee and eo-operates with ts friends. It will issue special editions dealing with the local teues In any town or community at the minimum seet, so that any such point may have all the advantages of a local paper, and satter It by the thousands. Avesadw The News wild carry a spelal line of high class advertlsng. covering a widespread territory. It has applications from and companies. book firms, library amoclations and other enterprises of a general haracter to advertise on a large seale, and will give special attention to this valuable feature ia the future. 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