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PalO tou r. Issued Every Evening, Except Sunday, by THE BULLETIN PUBLISHING CO. Entered as Second-Class Matter, December 18, 1917, at the Postoflice at Butte, Montana Under Act of March 3, 187Q. PHONES: Business Office, 52; Editorial Rooms, 292 BUSINESS OFFICE AND EDITORIAL ROOMS, 101 SOUTH IDAHO STREET SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Month ...................... 75 Six Months ..................... 8.75 Three Months ..................$2.00 By the Year ...................$7.00 The Daily Bulletin is on sale every day at the following places in Butte. Jacques Drug Co., Harrison and Cobban Depot Drug Store, 823 East Front St. George A. Ames, Jr., 316 1-2 N. Main St. P. O. News Stand, West Park St. International News Stand, S. Arizona St. Palace of Sweets, Mercury and Main Sts. Ilarine' Grocery, 1023 Talbot Ave. Everybody's News Stand, 215 S. Montana Helena Confectionery, 735 East Park St. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1919. Has e * I , nlt let yiorselves suplp1(oSe fIr a mloimetiI that the 1m Made Good eniiess in fIle Illnliins (11' :n, T hi ,,, is l,, ,il .,- ,, ,e cnirely It , , economic 0on Ths (ul ses mIl ecn.(om(iic IIIlives" somle hllilg very mIuch deeper ul'er lii I'li(es il ;ull lonu lhait. Theliy see that their St glo d 01'elid Iheni ag instiI iniitirig e liO r it'gg'l'essiilli, mii d i li 1 tl hereo is inl oiree of foresight ori' tol' tilltence in anlly lIo iern ' nhinel I,) slop w iar. Ali Iherefore lhie sny. ."'T'here ullist he c(,'a se hey I are glln' lig ii perceive m l llO e (' ln ialilns hlive sti ld singly ri iln lillti jeallo. s grotlis agiilisl eachi olit er, o'stl er'li O' lrO.jldie ', ill'c easingll t II llll l of warlI tilher tho u coi l certfing l in el l res to prevent il; : +f ll Ilult i1' there is right in theo wiir'ld. it' t ihere' is jlsli'ce iii tie wor''ld, Illere is li reasi onl whiy lnliillns shouli li he tlitviiet l ill Ile siiltl irt if' .iislic· e. TIO ey tl( lihereforl'e siaVingl' it' yCol lreaIlly belieove InIt Ihere is riglihl, it' f Ill really I elieve I i I Warl's mitl it Ihe shipped, slut) Ilinkl ing a, i lil the rival inlel esls (If' un Iliions. sill Ilhillk a oii g elli l 11w1 ( Ill u i lllor chliIl nl' Iltii 41 ' the wo rttld. * * S * There (nl he n' li mercy li'l('V where there is IIo h1.144, I'4' Xvily shouilllt Vi spare il n therlll l' it' y.Vull y irselt' exp el l Ie isi? \ y sli iilil \ i ' i Iilil'lll i ' VI ill (11Ia g.l li pilly? \V liy sho hild pul lie jusI i1', ilulonl every hand. oul tile 0lll ilYoul? ....Iiresideiil \\'ilsoll's aldlless at \ ole 'lr I lulitai Opel rn'ii Hl uise, alirch i.. 191'. IN THE WHINER'S CLASS. rThe \l ' hiner in n lii .,1i n el ditorial lg'I 'l'iihe' I(11 Illelin an11di ils shiT, salel s t ll il all ni ewst e liI lllI ien feel deet ply the wriings 'iiffered by a y of their colleagues IIl l thai l ill ihe lill lili qu111 'ie ld a is a "'I leg t in liie" 111o Xli', Xheir ' hea tl's \\viill go ui l ll i1. 1. Sm ith, in h1 is holu ii to' l iial, uri' wI l'l ds I t lhal lle'eXl. iW e wish to lY lik \\lwh lever ods 4there 1 tile ! we are lI( l ill the "'l ili inle iti.,class is relrese tlled l)s y hIIe W hineriXl'. If wel ever sink l h I ei l0 \ level f' tnil iill de.eni a cyii .' lila l m ral de prlaviy hal is the permanent a.il.inlg plaie it the \VWhineri s edit 'iall sill t : it we e 'el' be,(,Imllie sol dleblnse l ls I) eVel'll re('cl.o - inize these leech-like beings who cell oill the 1ool sewage that c lnstilutes the mental tIool ,1 the W hineirs elilturil sanl': it', ito make a living we ever have IIi p .nler in 1ie lehallched Insles of a senilo enovi' llit nlisl: it' we ever follow the exiamlile ill' the Whinro and sladler eOverylhing ITiht is slightl and decent, gild laid everything that is lw\\ nlti vile: if' we ever eulogize dhily. ils does the W hiner, pimips ani(I nlil'telers, b il Ilicy fiie port tf' the machine that is keel inglle ilellle ill' this slale in slavery, we lhllpe Ihail miu' friends will wasl n+ wodis, hilt simply lai e its n1 I l nd shoul is. \\'e lmny he ili the W hiner's lia. s mile day, ilil it will he after we are dlead, when our l ods lies moilll ering, it Io'od I'fi w\ nil'O1 s. iofeelilig the huiImlllanl sellset ill lilth sm ille Iillilinel' lhal A FABLE. Three dips worked l he ih I nig t'g till il got too warm I'm ( them. (iOn I eol I ll of the high ( oI li\t lo.ving, Ih('(e c ps d11111ma I ed more money. The <lips refusel It consider il. They said I tllhe denltilii s Illllllll(e 1() (,oil'i,(,)il)ll (II 'or so. mi lliiing like thaill. They wo u ildn't (ve i i iagree l a' ii (.onillo'O li i ierence. W hen thi e I ih' s left l lots iin . that lit, le Dii gutch lhin of the iiii l oi l o of lhi ' twenesit wih lienii Ie ulli l ow" s u l the wh 1 iitue could better their iI ol nl tiio l b a tex edili l against the hick i.his was ,ii d iiit he war whenVllli the str.ni iui l' t h "Stii t Span-i I ,tho (It iztlirs o (C IcIIig1i1eIg t ll itl lliii~ l i l V eI eiii-iii licdlii.' ilitil tled tlanner'. were loud in the land aoh everybody ui\ his htthee eii ll , siirl t1hi gang went "ti .lrouigh l tkil ( stale in a way thatli V ol l,.e th i1e ( lh o ii ly tti lil A nie ii'i iz e I t( i tii , ttiltl iil t Ilii ,was ot h interesetli \V li profii table.t YI ou know \h'lllil I imiit a1 by "went through." They liadh a clean-iilt everywhere. The, jnob of th ie l ulsicianl vias i srii le I t it. tl'ri ti liiis |ld i1use thie citizens to congregateil i ethick t ,iir( \ lvdsc.l tip au o li iiit i. would taketip a geneiral co llecion il llt Ie. the i \knowledge (i consent of lthe assembled tloI lacei. i Thei inhaililt s woutl il I stiatnd enhi llhe Uns thullie se1ll vof ".iiy tii otirce. eTis ofi The"ii l'while. Te e idips yanked Amergtic a lenles from iil their oiii t, in1 various pockets. whenever a taxpayer felt the he.ling hand in hli lipu e ld startedC ( iss ii.i t out it. lthe dips -lt tlli ,'ietse ihin of being it t iert. iO n agent trl ying to 1( t e i t a pal ioilic (otli cert. Having emptiedo all the iockrts, the daiilh-le(litchers would signa 'hie lhte hroniO for le Sa ilsiitpangled ltat ner ." it inake tare the hicks didn't hiave llyii thliing' cnce.aled in Ih eir hats. Now, whileo this was going on. the National Se1'iir ity league was worlcking th retetl s a resilof l a larger scale. The Ieitaie was a patriote ioad nai falili to proetl corpi. intitili the pa tread ioti buine toes of ertaisking the senl ut uli. The league o-. vided the martial music, the profiteers liid the rest. Every mian or woman who told Big Iiz to keep his Blun.l out of the blindman's cup was called a traitor, or ti menace to our light ing e'ficiency, or a red agitator by the National 'security league. The program of the league was to use the war sitia Hion to have everybody locked tip in jail who opp1se(I the reign of King Lool and Queer, Larceiiy. Hundreds of innocent men and women were arrested as a result of the league's activities. The league had "a fall," however, when it underltok to tread on the toes of certain "statesmen at \iashinli:toli, D. U. Union Stock Holders in the { Butte Daily Bulletin UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA-Locals: Sand Coulee, Stocket, Roundup, Lehigh, Klein, Washoe, Red Lodge, Smith (Bear Creek). FEDERAL LABOR UNION-Livingston. MACHINISTS' UNION-Great Falls, Butte, Livingston. MACHINISTS' UNION-Great Falls, Butte, Livingston, Seattle.. CEREAL WORKERS-Great Falls. 1I TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION-Butte. BLACKSMITHS' UNION-Butte. Miles City, Seattle. ELECTRICIANS' UNION-Livingston, Deer Lodge, Butte, Anaconda, Seattle. BAKERS' UNION-Great Falls. SHOE WORKERS-Great Falls. PLASTERERS' UNION-Great Falls. RAILWAY CAR REPAIRERS-Livingston, Miles City. MUSICIANS' UNION-Butte. BREWERY WORKERS' UNION-Butte. HOD CARRIERS' UNION-Butte and Bozeman. STREET CAR MEN'S UNION-Butte, Portland. d BARBERS' UNION-Butte, 1 a METAL MINE WORKERS' UNION OF AMERICA. PRINTING PRESSMEN'S UNION-Butte. - MAILERS' UNION--Butte. STEREOTYPERS AND ELECTROTYPERS' UNION-Butte. o BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS-Butte. PIPEFITTERS' UNION-Butte. 1 BROTHERHOOD BOILERMAKERS AND HELPERS-Butte and Livingston. STEAM AND OPERATING ENGINEERS-Great Falls. BUTCHERS' UNION-Great Falls. BAKERS' UNION-Butte. INTERNATIONAL MOLDER'S UNION, LOCAL NO. 276-Butte. LAUNDRY WORKERS' UNION, NO. 25-Butte. PLUMBERS' UNION -Butte, Seattle. BROTHERHOOD RAILWAY CARMEN OF AMERICA, LOCAL NO. t 224-Miles City. TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL-Miles City. HIOD CARRIERS' UNION-Helena. BROTIHERHOODI RAILWAY CARMEN OF AMERICA, COPPER LODGE NO. 430-Butte. BUTTE FOUNDRY WORKERS' UNION-Butte. PAINTERS UNION--Butte. TAILORS' I'IPOTECTIVE ASSOCIATION-Butte, Portland. BOILERMAKERS, SHIP BUILDERS AND HELPERS OF AMERICA --Tacoma, Seattle, Livingston. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BLACKSMITHS AND HELP ERS, LOCAL NO. 211-Seattle, Wash. WORKERS', SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' COUNCIL-Painters' Hall, Seattle, Wash. BUILDING LABORERS' UNION-Seattle. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS AND PILEDRIVERS' LOCAL NO. 86-Seattle. AND THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS IN BUTTE AND MONTANA I1 was I slu(' lwIy I I the blurlair \\who brke into Ihe alderm11an's (',ise rvi d 1 vIs it'llI ed ()I'i his oodsi . (( nigr1 ess l ilil i ('hedi an in ,slig'nliafi agiin 1le I '0ine l inf I ()I l who I ihey ere\\ alnd vlil '( Ihley c ,l I 'e Itrli. 11 WI ls shown by thIis i.nvestigatioi Ilih e N1aliu4nil S u'ir'ily letigile was the idea (4' a ceor'lmrationll liiawyer ill U1nl1(i.l.l, ItI S l'((l(sCe Was, l~ 1tlma ke Ai / 'ine 'i n c('l'llOora liilnlS se('tl've ill ruh1iilg t,'e i(li'le. The leat,'1g e was a. br'ass ham d i(llaying Ieatilic mui sic t. lo co er the oliperati)n.s ,' b i" iI' \")u d' I(' like t. e red, while a1d' blue, Ih110 ' I he like ithe d. il Ithe sIvtory, A1.l Iile the 1 l110i h t 'feooeding y\.l." 'l'ihen Ile 'l liihave thlie s ' 'cker ei'eld o.'ff 11 LeaIvelnw'(.'li 1r ine( li e' like 111!. \W ell, w' slee by thle ail(sl' a . f I' \V ays 14 1 Iha l eag il:e1 is still 41i deck i(and 'egiIl iiig 14) lie'i'le Iiloig t1 eo ..1 lines, li i "he i4 Ili il 1t4'e u ' O I 11d 'hlrii) s in k flit' .\l el'ie, Iilliiir lllge. EVERYTHING IS READY. l' ".justice." a Iusk .niiit littee ihysterictl over somnething' that ill does noli t exis atlnti that they nt i tn'I I arrest if it dil. a, dailyl to press srl the n, at the miutllh over anything lte tthe cities, wht ile le lake f\\ron i's l e ttiesile i hisre t .e it en walth, a governmens. Yes. is the most t pine itnssilnentlii. thlle .tulitn o the imperial ttisis Ie thesae eever securedlii l t. s hou ke~os l'el mor' e wheel fi lie in jailets i telling Ise s itth. a proposed general strike i.tl . eil 't.es p It llo lahtl r Ii erale titne t 'ilatlitle p ti t is l v i.hl ilk we ' I hll unt bIIi rages. pa lanned by the stools who 1rey on Mlhe rears of' i Si the way iul itel wholesale masstreei l.t f the is iiis lhe te t' i es i . Tei re i e i lty possibilitiee. s for thh e l comning Fo urth: it na.y he a sal' celebrallin ior those whio like spied l to.he heel of t lhe master, s tl.l their neck,: it hlaly he sane fur ,hose demented ijust iave ll the pol iticians: (jlee it is he Ntli beal So all in lge' tions ite . P. I.. itr .sne t fI' ianyone who penetrates ts l l oe he r veil ful hypocrisy thnit overhangs lse i clions rai words oh nt e \' imperialislic mtasters and y, ie loots in high places, and who el tiles is Indayks g lout evenly divtul- lid bItee wet vcelebrte ian' watched, heliteit spies and those who are spied upon. bo1 youe denounce t the high st t living, do it in the prighvacy af yournt halthe ti t,'il uaft lte skingt it ort a dile tuplt o e, or soi a ent). I league or the A. P. i.." or 'm oIt' l.' the thousand and one other y officiattl and sesti-olicial bodies i l'lesi'e your hole tiol is yot l ieset Iii' .l,, you as nI le sa'tily of organized goveil t' h eliet e i. ey Yes, it looks good i'or Ilte l'ourh.l- the day we celebrate ohei it'nal i tu lu lence. i lIi The jury reco,'ended ri lenriecy. so the judge knocked off live hinsred bucks: the inew ress e for tesail lling's the right namte oit eilthae Council of Preense iso the r ajeslyfore old islitulios. enhancesa ie's ranespc for the majesty of inaslittitionts. SWITH THE EDITORS THE CAPITALIST PEA('E. (II. N. BRAILSFORD in London Le: It would be a sort of treason to Cz suspect the four dictators of civiliza- fo Lion of a riotous sense of humor. To me, fresh from Vienna, this Austrian chapter of the peace reads none the less like a joke-a joke in execrable lis taste. "Austria," five years ago, was sit a great empire, with its 50,000,000 cih inhabitants, and the ancient Haps- wi burg at its head. "Austia" to day is if nothing but Vienna, with the fringe go of its Alpine garden round it-a big ce city of 2,000,000, with its "prov- ip inces" that total 4,000,000 at most. in I have a vivid picture in my mind fa of that starving city, with its vast is demonstrations of the unemployed ti, and its pitiable processions of war it cripples, its crowds that will cut up th a fallen horse for meat, its nearly Ps naked children who cry for a crust cc of bread, and its solid legion of so- ju cialist voters rabid in their indig- tll nant pacifism. Its hero, Fritz Ad- ic ler, who, with his own hand, shot the T1 old emperor's premier, Sturch. Its th foreign minister is Otto Baiuer, who nu led the political strike last Decem-I ber against the oppressions of the li Brest treaty. That is "Austia" to-i c day. Oturn to the treaty, and findi d that on this ruin are to be visited p the crimes of the Hapesburg dynasty! , whom it expelled. Long clauses de- d prive it of its navy-after it has lost! i its entire coastline. It may not keep ir an army--but it disbanded its army k long months ago. It is to have no I share in the control of the Danube. c( It faces the tariffs of the Czechs and d South Slavs without the right either v to reciprocity or retaliation. It is r, apDarently to pay an indemnity-V r, though to my knowledge the allied s, representatives on the spot were ask- a ing that it should receive a loan. I Versailles is working without con- g tact with reality; reality will tear its t, parchmtents to shreds. s The Touchs:tone of "Justice. h Mr. Wilson long ago .gave us the test by which we should try his treaty. Is it "just to those to whom I we do not wish to he just?" Why any one in the west should wish to be unjust to Austrian Germnlas is for me a mystery. They treated our prisonors with chivalrous hlmnanity, and all our own countrymen on the spot wished them well. The desire apparently exists, however. It has not been resisted. For me there are three rough tests: (1) We profess to stand for the rights of populations "to choose their allegiance." That is, I think, the Wilsonian phase. Last autumn thei Austrian reichsrat unaninously voted for union with Germany. An election followed. Every party, and. I think, every candidate, adopted this policy, and the socialist who were its keenest advocates swept the polls t in Vienna, and came back the strong- I est party. I know, of course, that there are financial interests who - think otherwise; they dare not come into the open. This clearly expressed desire is vetoed in the treaty, and.s what is worse, it is vetoed for all time, unless the league of nations, which means every single allied pow er on its council, gives its consent. France, in other words, can always forbid the people of Austria to choose t their allegience. (2) We have set up the Czecho Slovak state. So far as it is Czech, and so far as it is Slovak, that is well. But in it we have included 3,5100.000 Germans, who will demand to live under German or Austriani' rule. That might be impossible if they were a scattered minority. In point of fact they live in compact and solid racial districts on the outer fringes of Bohemnia and Moravia. It would have been as easy to grant their wish as it is to restore Lorraine to France and Posen to Poland. Ver- 1 sailles has placed themn under Czecho Slovak rule. (3) A smualler hut even more ini - nuitous case occurs in the Tyrol. Italy claims the Trentino. Quite right; it is Italian. She also claims, for avowedly strategical reasons, this purely German South Twrol, with its quarter of a million inhabitants. The claim is allowed, and Mr. Wilson, for all his repudiation of the secret treaties, concedes it without a strug gle. The D)isconent of Millions. These are not small injustices. To C Poland Germany loses at least 2,500, 000 German-speaking, German-feel ing citizens-.probably more. Under the Czechs are plaiced another 3.500, i000. Add the further districts sacri ficed in Transylvania to Rumania and in the Tyrol to Italy-the total is a 1Ipopulnation of at least 7,000.000. Will its bitter discontent be compatible C with racial peace? But, the reader objects, the treaty says that minorities are to be fairly C treated and protected by the league. 1' What at this imoment, in the hour of victory, with all its resources in con script arluies, esmbattled navies andi Shunigetr bllockades, is the authority of the league? It pronlises iprotection I to Jews in Poland. The Poles massa e1 cre them danily; one loses count of tihe pogroms. It orders the Poles to II desist from their war upon the II' Ukrainians. The Poles march gaily forward, using for the purpose the Hailer legions, which have just ar rived froint France. That little war cannot be stopped,. althlough the re I sult is'to disorganize thle anti-blol II' s ks'il cailpaign, asd tlhe red arsnies Isanicli dowslt to rescue Hugary, while Eugene V. Debs' Daily Message From NEW Y0ORK1 CALL. S'Unless there is a power in your movement, industrially and political ly, the last knell of democratic lib erty in the unions is struck." The cry, "no politics in the union," "dragging the union into politics," or "making the union the tail of some political kite." is born of ignorance or dishonesty, or a combination of both. It is echoed by every ward heeling politician in the country. The ptlain purpose is to deceive and mis lead the workers. If is not the welfare of the union that these capitalist henchmen are so much concerned about, but the fear that the working class, as a class, organized into a party of their Poles and ULkranians defy Paris by fighting each other. Much the same thing happened a few months ago when Poles and Czechs were fighting in Silesia. The four dictators are powerless. An "Anti-Red" League. When the league is finally estab lished in that calm sanatorium for superannuated Downing street offi cials on the banks of Lake Geneva, will Poles and Czechl pay more heed if a secretary in Switzerland sug gests to them that they should con ceal, if they cannot moderate, their pogroms, and make a show of treat ing Germans justly? The league will fail for a simple reason. The league is an anti-German and anti-revolu tionary alliance, and that is all that it is. It may allow allies to do as they please. It can no more control Poles than we before the war could control czardom. The ideal of a justly governed world implies a world that means to live at peace-econom ie peace. as well as political peace. These treaties reject that ideal. While they stand we are partisans, who dare not cross the least of our allies. These treaties would be unintel ligibe without their economic and colonial clauses. It is, after all no direct interest of ours to aggrandize Poles and Czechs at the expense of racial justice, and as a people we dislike the sight of murdered Jews. We get nothing directly by injustice in the Saar valley. Few Englishmen know where these places are. Our part in Mesopotamia and the German colonies. Our part even more is the denial to our government trade re vivals of any vestige of commercial reciprocity, any right or vacility to renew their foreign commerce. For some years, certainly until they are allowed to enter the league, they will find themselves impotent to ne gotiate tariffs, to recover markets, 8 to secure raw materials, or even to set up branches of their trading houses abriad. Meanwhile we share with America the monopoly of the e world's trade. That is our gain. The imore obvious hits of loot in the shape of the Saar coal fields and west Prus sia, which go to France and Poland, are trivial in comparison. But wN could not oppose France, or Poland or Italy with any decency and yet retain our own gains. The task of revising these treaties is bigger than most of us yet perceive. To revise e fabric and system of capitalist im perialism. KOIA'IHAK'S "VICTORIES." For weeks the people of the allied t world were fed on stories of the swift t success of the armies of Kolchak. On March 13 he captured Ufa from the retreating bolsheviki. On May 15, he took Samara in heavy-faced type on 3 the front page of our daily papers. Other military victories followed in rapid succession. At almost the samel time, Petrograd was reported to be on fire and in a state of explo dion, starvation and evacuation. Then suddenly the bubble broke. It wa. 1 Sirst publicly pricked in a dispatch published by the New York Globe from its special correspondent at Pe trograd telling that the city was in tact, and prepared for its defense to the last man and woman; that the people were hungry, but persisted in tracing' their hunger to the allied blockade rather than to the rule of the soviets, and that Kolchak and his allied arms were retreating rapid ly on all fronts. Immediately follow ing this news, Winston Churchill. 3ritish war minister, speaking in the :ouse, admitted that "the check to Admiral Kolchak's advance was now more pronounced, and that no at tempt should be made to encourage extravagant hopes in that quarter." Samara, it appears, fell only in the headlines of the papers. Ufa was re taken by the bolsheviki on June 9 'he correspondent of the Globe stat 3d that the peasants in the region evacuated by Kolchak, although 'previously dissatisfied with the so viet rule, are now flocking to enlist :n the red army." At the same time, representatives of the remnants of soviet rule in Siberia warned the al .ies that "the population of Siberia" would not acknowledge any guaran tees made in their name by the gov erunment of Kolchak, and that they would rise against the interference with their internal struggle of "all f'oreign detachments of troops on the territory of Siberia." That this ib mliore than a paper manifestation is evidenced by Associated Press re ports of bolshevist strikes and disor I ders on the trans-Siberian railway, and by Kolchak's own admission that 1 the country is riddled with bolshev ism. A captain in the intelligence di vision of the American expeditionary force serving in Siberia states in an amazing article in Hearst's maga zine for June that "95 per cent of the people in Siberia are bolshevik," while "the trans-Siberian railway is virtually in the hands of the bolshe riki." Kolchak's one support is his i:rmy, according to the report of a recent arrival from Siberia, writing , in the New York Times, every soldier ais "'as much a bolshevik as the soldier he was fighting against." No wonder the admiral's progress is swiftly and e steadily toward the Pacific---or that the big four with their hopeless ca p acity for betting on the wrong horse in Russia have chosen this hour to I uphold him.--The Nation. s * * * S--t.TINK IN INTEREST--AVE own, will go into politics, for well they know that when that day dawns their occupations will be gone. And this is why they employ their time in setting the union against the political party of the working cliss. the only union labor party there ever was or ever will be, and warning the members against the evil de signs of the socialists. The important thing to impress upon the mind of the trade-unionist is that it is his duty to cultivate the habit of doing his own thinking. The moment he realizes this he is beyond the power of the scheming politician, the emissirfy of the ex ploiter, in or out of the labor move ment. G OOD NIGHT &IAa COLUMN 'mREI MUCKER " VI .. . . . If you want .to. know anything, ask the Mucker. If you don't know any thing, ask the Mucker. If you know anything you know the Mucker don't know, tell i: to the public through the Mucs er's column. Dear Mucker: e I notice that everybody goes to you with their hard luck stories and e a real sympathizer is so hard to find that I am going to ring in on it my e self. I see the blacklisted miner.s are welcome to come to you with r their tale of woe, and the miners' a wives tell you of their troubles about being Looteyed by high prices, and the school teachers relate how they have teach the young idea to shoot by practicing on an A. C. M. target andi how they have to make over y their hats and darn their stockings. to make the two ends meet, but I have not noticed anyone from the o farm unloading their troubles on you so I am going to open up a new field e for your sympathy. e I know there are many people in , the city who think the farmer has e no troubles. They believe that when .: person can get hold of a piece of land with a cow and a pig and some h'ickens that henceforth all is .mooth Ii railing and they have a t !roanl of how, some day, when they i1 re indiscreet enough to be caught "n eading a Bulletin on a street car ;e or attending a socialist lecture and It heir name goes down on the com i- pany blacklist they will trade oft !he house and lot and invest their savings in a little ranch and live in peace and happiness ever after. Tell them to go slow, Mucker, tell o. to go slow and consider well before ft they move. Tell them to stop and i~ sonside,' why it is that there is al, Le ways some fellow ready to trade his e little ranch for towni property. WVhen In you gelt away froni bells and whistles s. and tinte-clocks and gunmlllen and i stool-pigeons and labor fakirs and is he company blacklist you run utip .d igainst ihail and frost and drought - and bugs and skunlks and coyotes: n and the little country merchant who i has got his city cousin backed oft Siht Ihi nap when it coimes to llthe dis oe (ovcred art of profiteering. e As an illustration, just let me re c- ite someO of our troubles for this one to summer. My wife had a lot of nice to early chickens that we were banking on for some carly fries. You see my d wife looks after the chickens, milks f the cows, tends the garden, minds d e kids and does the cooking and washing and mending in between times. She could not stand it only Sshe is strong and healthy. I'll bet to four-year-old steer she can lick the stuffing out of Cooney's wife with one hand while she is hoeing corn Swith the other. VWell, one night in April, a Mr. ie Skunk comes along and takes 24 of e. cur early fries for one meal. He 9 wasn't satisfied with that but came Lt- back again the next night and left )n his hide tacked to our granary door. t in the latter part of May conies a o- spell of fine weather. My wife, st thinking the freezing weather was e, past, set out about 50 fine tomato of plants that she had been raising in i1- the,house. That very night it froze a" ice as thick as a plate glass and al n- though the plants were covered up V- it froze every one of them. Also ey froze down the corn and potatoes. ce Now the snow is about gone in the ill mountains, the streams are getting he low and the alfalfa and grain is burn ing for lack of water on irrigated Sland andl the dry farmers are surely e out of luck. And the summer is only Shalf over. There is hail to reckon with yet and itf in the end the farmer Lt does save somnething from the pests: Sand the elements he runs up against a mnarket controlled by the wolves Sof the commercial world who take Swhat there is left. And then they t ay a farmer is a fool to join the Nonpartisan league and try to get erepresentation in the law-mnaking bodies of the land. Wis ell, so long, Mucker, it's milking time and I omust quit. 'These cows ag call you as regular as the whistle qt ie the IIigh Ore. iei MOSSBA.CK; I I Morsels From A I Sage's Scrap Book 0--- --i·i 1Where Is the "Valley of Death?" In the island of Java. It is simply the crater of an extinct volcano, half a mile in circumference. filled with carbonic acid gas, which continually emanates from fissures in the bot tom of the valley. The gas being in visible, and entirely irrespirable, every living thing that descends be low the margin of the valley is in stantly suffocated; and. as the same fate awaits anyone that may go to the rescue, the ground is covered with the bones of numerous animals. ..ld even men, that have approached the precincts. A desert valley in southern California bears the same name. What city is built upon piles driv en into the ground? Amsterdam, Holland. It is inter sorted by numerous canals and cross cd by nearly 100 bridges. The city re sembles Venice in the intermixture of land and water, though it is con siderably larger. The canals divide the city. which is about 10 miles in circumference, into 90 islands.