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ISTATUS OF LEAGUE PROGRAM TO DATE. I Workingmens' Compensation Bill - - - Killed A Herd Law. - - - - - - Killed Erection of Terminal Elevator - - - - Passed Flour Mill - - Spoiled by Amendment Changing Date of Primary - - - - - Killed Torrens Land Title System. - - - - Killed Hail Insurance - - - - - - Passed A Mine License Law. - - - - - Doubtful State Inspection of Dockage and Grading' '- - Doubtful, Calling for a Constitutional Convention. - - ..Killed Retention of the Rail Roads by the Government. - Killed Exemption of Farm Improvements From Taxation. - Doubtful Substitute for Compensation and Herd Law Passed Worse Than Useless. WITH .,4G#-BOT AND WORM r CAPSULES lnre' You don't need to have a college education to know that parasites like Bots and Worms do your horses a lot of harm. These parasites must get their nourishment from somewhere, and the only place they can get it is FROM THE HORSE. "GETS 'EM" BOT AND WORM CAPSULES have been on the market for three years. Thousands of farmers are now using them, and the reason why they use them is because they do the work. Everyone who uses this excellent Remedy says that they do all we claim for them. .. nW.Wu This lnstrumoet ~les It Er ELL toGive "GEIS ' I" Bet l - Worn Rel t Yer Ato r O After much experimenting, I have final ly perfected this simple little instru ment that makes it easy to give your horses medicine. "Gets 'Em" is put up in capsules like the one pictured here at the side of the instrument. This instrument eos is makes it as easy as "falling off a log" to TED waY 13e NSTRUmENT 1I USED give your horses and cattle medicine when they need it. With every $5.00 order for "GETS 'EM" Bot and Worm Capsules, I will give you one of these handy little instruments, ab solutely FREE. Full direc tions on how to use the in. * - I strument come with every order. LAU.UN HARRIS. PR. Don't Take Any Chances! NOm a e a T -,R co. Order Right Away .t .. `RD '.. S.D. With DBot and Worm in ,mr hones m"o bores an't do their beat work. Thte asw . Rased Sad me enes e Wo sites are liable to ndermine our horse' ea. Capese to1 to tret 12 to 18 berss.. sad ale. lde yea baadt seth e with .00 aad set oue. .weaer r . I m to get m am beek I a et ai d. to treat 1 to IS bora. and drive out Dote and Worm. Yout monet back If tou now. LAURRNU HARRIS. Pre. STOWN ..................................... . .. Dpt. A. Aerdeen, S.D.D. e S A S............................ . a,. ...... ......... THE FIGHT FOR A FREE PRESS IN MONTANA NOW RAGING WITH FEARFUL BITTERNESS -- --- A fight is being waged against the free expression of opinion on matters of public importance by the most powerful and reactionary forces on the American Continent. In Montana the Standard Oil Company, manifesting itself through the A. 0. M. has declared war on the labor organizations, the labor press, the Nonpartisan League and its organs of publicity and all other men and women who are liberal minded and progressive. Its legislative body now seated at Helena has been busy passing laws and memorials directed toward this end and as the fight grows bitter so the number of victims in crease. There is no distinction made whether the progressive be a university professor or a ditch digger, as Levine and others know. The Fight on the Press. d The determination to strangle f any newspaper or journal which t will not bow to king copper has t expressed itself in the most vic- i ious attack upon the Butte Daily t Bulletin. The Montana Nonpar- s tisan survived the efforts of the s gang to put it out of existence because of its tremendous circu- i lation and its great backing, but F the Butte Bulletin which is the e official organ of the Metal Trades v Council of Butte and is owned by t many unions and private stock- ¬ holders had no such backing, and r it was felt by the active agents of r reaction, John A. McIntosh, sec- I retary of the Employers' Associa- 1 tion and Will A. Campbell, secre- v tary of the Loyalty League, that t it should yield first, and if put out of business, would be a severe a blow to the forces of progress. I The attack was skillfully engi- t neered, and as usual the war was e made the excuse under cover of 8 which the Bulletin was ordered to suspend, because of the paper shortage. We need not argue about this, the facts are, that dur ing election, countless reams of d this valuable product were wasted e and the provisions of the War In- E dustries Board openly violated by the wholesale free distribution of campaign matter in the form of newspapers, but since this was done in the interests of copper, the state council of defense, so far as we know, uttered no protest. I Every effort was made to "get" the Bulletin, because the copper t crowd understands that it is at tremendous power for good in the t hands of the labor movement, and I since it is the business of these la- 1 bor haters to destroy the labor s movement, they naturally loath- e ed the idea that labor should own c and control a press of their own. F Bulletin Staff Arrested. We need not go through the whole history of the case, but shall confine ourselves to what has happened in the last few t months. The attack on the Bul letin became so strong that the editor voiced the opinion of the labor movement, by stating in an editorial, that the Montana State Council of Defense was not a law making body and need not there fore be obeyed, the inference be ing that it could suggest to the citizens what should be done, but that the imperative, "it is order ed" is the perogative only of the icourts and the legislature. The case against the Bulletin is the more flagrant when it is remem bered that the Council of Defense during the whole of its existence never once attempted to curtail the profligate profiteering, the mob violence and the shameful activi ties of the political apaches, which disgraced this state during the war period, but did endeavor to curtail the activities of public demonstration by the forbidding of parades and the refusal to al low public meetings, without per mit. For the editorial in question W. F. Dunn, editor, Bruce Smith, business manager and Leo Daly, advertising manager were arrest ed and taken to the Lewis and Clark county jail. Every trick was tried to evade habeas corpus proceedings, and no chance left that the defendants might go be fore a Butte jury. The Trial. By some mental gymnastics a charge of sedition was filed against the defendants and thel. case brought to trial before Judge Lee M. Word at Helena. W. F. Dunn was first tried and from the beginning, the court over-ruled most of the objections put up by. the defendant's council, B. K. Wheeler and Attorney Baldwin. The jury, we understand, voted five for acquital and seven for a. verdict of guilty and finally com promised on a fine of $5,000. We do not wish to pose as legal authority neither are we eriticia ing the eourt, but we fail to un derstand upon what basis a ver Bulletin Editors Brought to Trial. diet of sedition could be reached from the evidence submitted. If the people of this state are to be tried upon such charges and the intent, not taken into considera tion, then the way is open for all t sorts of private revenges to be satisfied. It is claimed, of course, that the , intent of the editorial was to ham- N per the United States in the pros ecution of the war, and this, as f we understand it, constitutes sedi- I tion, but if every public body, t guilty of malfeasance and the di- t reetion of its powers in assisting c privileged interest to extend their hold on the producers, is to be al- a lowed to shelter behind this thing we are in the midst of chronic au tocracy. } A case in point would read something like this: A public body appointed to do a certain task, violates the terms of its creation by openly favoring as great corporation to the detri- F ment of the rest of the people. The -I body in question threatens that t whoever criticizes it or refuses to obey its mandates becomes imme-i diately guilty of assisting the enemy in defeating the United States, troops, when as a matter of fact, the critic is actually serv ing the United States, by attack ing one of its worst enemies. In like manner a criticism may come ( from an enemy agent with the ob- I ject of encouraging the enemy people, to believe that discontent and disorder prevails in the coun try of which he speaks. Thus in the first case the intent is to assist the government, on the second to hamper it. Not by any stretch of imagination can the second be said of the Bulletin, its patriotic effort all through the war is evi dence enough for any reasonable person. The Real Reason. The real reason for the insti gation of this attack however, is shown with startling clarity by E the editor of the Helena Indepen dent who is also a member of the State Council of Defense and the secretary of the Montana Loyalty League. He says: 1 "Dunn is a truble maker in Montana. He starts some thing in Butte, demands ex orbitant pay for miners, sets the scale of wages for the en tire state on a way. When the miners get a raise of ope dollar other trades expect it whether the employers and the industries can afford to pay it or not. His disturb ances in Butte are not con fined to Silver Bow county they result in this man setting the pace for all other troubles in Montana. If he gains a dol lar for miners in Butte, the workers in that city demand a proportionate increase and every local union in the state, regardless of earnings, de mands a proportionate in crease. Some of the smaller towns, such as Helena cannot pay the Butte scale, and as a result Dunn's trouble making program has a statewide ef feet. "I consider Dunn the most dangerous man in Montana because of his radicalism. I consider that it is my duty as a member of the State Counnil of defense to help prosecute him when he breaks the law." by which it appears, Mr. Camp bell still believes that an order of the State Council of Defense is a law, a thing which any student of Democracy knows to be untrue. Mr. Campbell evidently thinks a union man striving to overtake the cost of living should be prese cuted as a dangerous individual, but is remarkably reticent over the plunderers who fatten by forcing up the cost of food. It is seen then, that the matter in dispute is really the old, old I battle between master and work: A Subtle Attsak - The Loyalty League and the Employers' Association who hop ed to gain complete control by destroying the independent press, have arranged the thing with a good deal of skill. They know that the Butte Bulletin must ex ist by virtue of the workers sup port. They know they have used every means possible, to keep ad vertisers from using advertising space the paper offers, and the court proceedings were started, it is said, with the end in view of de stroying the Bulletin's finances,. so that it would be compelled to cease publication. The legal proceedings, the cost of defense, the possible fine and the fervently hoped imprisonment of the managers of the Bulletin, they expect to accomplish this re sult. Or was this all, coincident with the trial of Dunn, there was introduced into the senate a bill for the establishing of a state board of charity, which forbade the solicitation of funds without the consent of this board. The object being of course to pounce upon those who are today canvas sing the unions and individual citizens to finance the Dunn trial. The bill did not pass, but if it had, the Bulletin would have in desperate straits. Free Press Cannot Be Killed The hopes of the reactionary copper crowd are in vain. The sentence of Dunn brought with it a spontaneous uprising of indig nant men and women, who pledge themselves to his support. The Bulletin will continue and extend its circulation for although many of its champions disagree in toto, with its policy, they are not pre pared to allow the suppression of one of our few independent pa pers. SECURITY LEAGUE JUST PLAIN FAKERS ( By J. E. Nesbit) It appears from disclosures in the workings of the "Security League" that the cloak was not cut large enough in the preamble to cover the various shady games the Security League performed. It would seem they were working piecework at so much per. The curtain pulled aside let the light in on the dark recesses of the inside works. It was like turn ing the flash light on hell, many fa miliar faces were in evidence. Some we could recognize, they had their silk fans with them, not being used to the hot rays of the Sun. However, enough of the "Old Gang" were there to satisfy us as to the caliber of the assembly. They were primed, and cocked ready for decisive action at the behest of patriotic war profiteers, who furnish the grease for their ma chine. However, their aim was bad, the chief gunner had a bum squint, the shots went wild tearing up the turf from under the feet of the com mon people. It stirred up a hornet's nest-Give 'em time, the hornets like the people will soon forget, and re turn to the nest. It was one of the many "League, and Councils of De fense" that sprung up like mush rooms from the spawn of special privilege and masqueraded in the name of patriotism "to help win the war." Their chief aim and purpose was to win a few dollars-to intimi date, and lead congressmen from the straight path of duty-to protect certain interests from the public gaze while they milked the war bud get. To defend their own financial pursuits, and schemes regardless of our coun try's defense. The nefarious prac tices discovered likens them unto the wily fox-Reach and Grab while the public is on the brink of hysteria, tangled up with threatened perils of the Air, Land and Sea-Help your self boys. "Nobody looking, but the Owl, and he sets blinking in the Sun. Like some folks we know, they can not navigate in the light. J. E. NESBIT. THE LEAGUE AND THE LAND QUESTION. The Leagte position is that land used by the owners should remain in their hands so long as they render service to the community by keeping the land in use. But as soon as a land monopoly appears, that is, a few men are enabled to hold it useless and exclude others from its use, it must be turned back to all the people, who can and will make it productive and contributary to the health and com fort of society. IIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIulllll C*AT A STEAK] ! * 'SELBY'S WAY' I * At the - SEW MODEL CAFE I SCe. lirst Ave S an Thrd GR.AT IALLS.