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Subscribe for The NEWS VOL III. MONTANA NEWS. SELENA, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1906 i O •i I r Pay Your LoceJ DUES NO. 35. William Rockefeller Wipes a Town off tl e Map! A story of absorbing interest, in which the annihilation o f a com- munity to serve the selfish ends of William Rockefeller, one of the lead- ing directors in the Amalgamated Copper company, is told in Collier's Weekly. The story, which deals with much that has never before been touched upon in the newspapers, is told in graphic and attractive style. It is in part as follows: Hutte Even- ing News. To b u y a wilderness and make a community of it is within the op- portunity of any moneyed man. To buy a c o m m u n i t y a n d make a wilderness of it may well b e b e y o n d the powers of the greatest of million- aires. William G. Rockefeller,vice- president of the Standard Oil com- pany, is making the experiment on the little hamlet of B r a n d o n i n the heart of the Adirondacks. By meth- ods that are always within the law— or what his attorneys interpret as the law — he is patiently striving to dis- lodge the remnants of the populace that still hold root inside the circle of his great game preserve. A l l t h e land about them is his; he has bought it and paid f o r i t thousands upon thousands of acres, more than two whole townships, comprising lakes, rivers, forest and mountains. BRANDON MUST GO Only Brandon stands in his way; household belongings and their large families, wandered forth to fell new acreage of woodland. Behind them remained a few of the older dwellers, too inert, perhaps, perhaps too ob- stinate, or possibly too long-rooted in habit, to be moved. These conservatives sat and watched Rockfeller buy land all around them until they were com- pletly inclosed. Most of it he bought from one l'at Ducey, who owned twenty-five thousand acres of timber land around and including Brandon when Rockfeller came to the mountains for the purpose of buy- ing an estate there. AS BY A BARBER Ducey was a practical lumberman of the sort that is fast stripping the forest regions of the United States stark naked. He left no tree that could possibly be regarded as a log. There are whole sections about Brandon where the face of nature has been shaved as by a skillful bar- ber. Ducey's lumber mill practically created the town out of what had been the merest hamlet. W h e n the last tree had fallen Ducey moved, and most of the population moved after him. He left the mill and the land only because he couldn't con- veniently take them with him. The only commercial enterprises that sur- vived him were the sportsman's hotel and the country store. THE BUYING OF BAY POND To Ducey came Rockefeller's agents. Would he sell his land? He would at a price. Would he name the price? He would a n d d i d . A c - cording to rumor it was J 100,000. As an amendment the agent suggested half that amount, and the sale was eventually concluded on these terms. Rockefeller built himself a superb country place on Bay Bond, one of the fairest little bodies of water in the Adirondacks, some four miles from Brandon. Other purchases followed until he owned all the land for miles around the town, including both banks of St. Regis river and its tributary streams. OUESTS WILL ao But Ducey couldn't sell the town of Brandon entire, because he didn't own it all. For instance, Harrison G. Baker owned the little summer hotel. Being in the center of a rich fishing and hunting country it was a paying enterprise. But to have a lot of summer and fall fishermen ami gunners tramping over his property was nopart of Rockefeller's program. He undertook to buy the hotel. Baker named a pretty stiff price. Rockefeller's agent laughed at him. "Your hotel isn't worth anything now," said he. " Y o u won't have any guests after this." "Oh, I think they'll stand by me," said Baker, faling to see the point. Then they'll have to go a long way for their fun," retorted the agent. "They can't cross our prop erty to get to the St. Regis river, and they couldn't fish in our stream if they could get there. We'll prose- cute if they shoot in our woods. What are they going to do? In vain the hotel keeper protested that the river had been stocked at state expense, and that, as a stream used for years for floating lumber, it was public water. "You'll have to prove it in every court, right up to the court of ap- peals" said the agent. "We'll fight you to a finish on that point. HE HAD NO MONEY Baker had no money to undertake an expensive legal campaign. He sold his hotel for $5,000, went away and died shortly after. I n B r a n d o n one hears that he was hounded to death by Rockefeller,' but such is the local feeleng in the matter that had Baker fallen overboard in mid- Atlantic or been butted to death by a pet goat, some way woultl be found to lay the responsibility at Rockefeller's door. Then came a move which startled the inhabitants the "letting in the jungle." Dike a destructive horde of ants came the money-king's meal, and soon the little cluster of human remnants looked out upon the place where their neighbors had once lived to see only the swift-growing brush drawing its mask of warm and kindly green across swept ground and raw excavations. The making of a wild- erness was in progress. OLIVER LAMORA Thus far the pursuance of the Rockefeller ambition was along legi- timate lines. Now, however, it en- countered the first serious obstacle in the person of Oliver I.amora. La- mora is a French-American; old, ig- norant, poor, obstinate, and fearless. A veteran of the civil war, he has pension enough for a plain subsist- ence, which he ekes out with trout from the streams, partridge and deer from the forest, and berries from the mountainside. When Rockefeller forbade hunting and fishing around Brandon, old I-amora was bitter and outspoken against the edict. What did he care that Rockefeller had bought the land; he had always hunted and fished there, and no in- terloping millionaire could stop him! Such was his attitude. HE LED A FIGHT Bv general consent he became the mouthpeice and leader of the Old Guard" who still stuck to Brandon. Little by little he saw the numbers of his companions dwindle. Fauche who kept the little grocery store, found his trade so waning that he sold out. Lamora's two cousins got jobs elsewhere and were glad to leave. The family across the street departed and Rockefeller left the house stand- ing for the purpose of putting in it Kugene Flanders, one of his "watchers," as the game keepers and forest guards are called. To La- mora's mind, Flanders was set there to spy upon him, but Lamora's veiws must be taken with a liberal allow- ance for bias. Probably had the old man been less defiant in his attitude from the first, the offer which was finally made would have come sooner And right here it is well to note that I.amora is no yellow journal "hero" defending his home against the dep- edations of a heartless millionaire. He was willing to sell out if he could get his price. And he thought that Rockefeller with his vast wealth ought to pay roundly. So he asked $1, 500. Now Lamora's house is un- usually large for Brandon, and is better built than the average, but I verv much doubt whether as a real estate proposition it is worth $1,500. Whether it was worth that to Rocke- feller to tear down was for the maker of wilderness to determine. The agent asked for two weeks in which to refer the matter. I.amora gave him three. That is the last he heard from the agent. But some weeks later one of the watchers, meeting him, told him that he'd better get out while he could sell his place for something o r " t h e y ' d law him out," as Lamora quotes the warning. To the ill-paid woodsman of the Adi- rondacks, who have had or heard of experience with suits brought by ab- sentee landlords, involving expen- sive defense, the law is not protec- tion, therefore Brandon must go. Not in any spirit of vindictiveness has Mr. Rockefeller reached this de- termination, but because he wants the land upon which the population now lives for the deer and foxes, the partridges and the quail of his do- main. To that end he has brought every measure in his vast power for several years, from damage suits for trespass in which sterile victory brought him six cents, to making the government of the United States, through the postoffice department his instrument of persecution. Hut the town is still on the map. FOURTEEN FAMILIES Five years ago Brandon boasted twelve hundred inhabitants. It had its church, its prosperous hotel, its flourishing school, and its busy mill. [\ 'day it can muster but fourteen families a n d a s m a n y more deserted houses. All the rest is scrub-grown space. The hotel is burned down, the mill is ra/.ed, the church stands empty, the two or three hundred dwellings have vanished. Lnemies of Rockefeller name him bitterly as the agent of devastation. NOT FOR THAT MONEY "He don get it for no fifteen hundr' dollar now, Ole Rockyfellow don," said Lamora to me, in his quaintlv accented Fnglish. "He pay me five thousan' dollar now if he want it." Legitimate methods failing to oust Lamora, Rockefeller now resorted to measures not so clearly defensible. In March, 1902, he caused the old man's arrest for fishing in a branch of the St. Regis river, which the mil lionaire claims to own. His lawyer, who is also his partner in several land enterprises, withdrew the CMC after two adjournments made at his own request, and brought civil action in a distant part of the country for $55 damages with costs, charging violation of the Private Bark law. The withdrawn case had alreadv cost Lamora some money, and now he was hard up to it to appear in the distant court, but his neighbors, 111— off as they were, contributed toward his expense, and the firm of Willard iV Leslie Saunders, of Dickinson Centre, volunteered to undertake his defense. SOME COURT PROCEDURE Afterward "Rockerism" was t lie prinsiple issue in a very lively, though unsucessful, political campaign which they conducted. ThedefciiM- was that, as the waters on Koike feller's property had been stocked bv the state at public expense, he could not establish private park rights and could claim only actual damages. Lamora won. On carrying the case to the court Rockefeller was mni suited. lie went to the Appellate division of the supreme court, which ordered a new trial. The ground was traversed again exactly as lie fore; the jury finding no cause of action, the county court nonsuiting Rockefeller, and the appellate di\ is ion, invoked a second time, again ordering a new trial. This was held last December, and the judge, on the ground that he was compelled to do so by the two opinions already handed down from the appellate di vision, directed the jury to find in favor of the plaintiff f o r a s u m not to exceed £35 for each of the three offenses. T h e j u r y brought in a verdict for 18 cents damages—six cents for each tresspass—and costs. From this sentence Lamore i s n o w appealing. M e a n t i m e a temporary iniunction had been obtained, cutt- ing off Lamora's fishing, which he had been steadily prosecuting. On a motion to make the injunction permanent, both sides agreed to await a final decision in the Private Park case. This is not all. T h e S t a n d a r d O i l magnate had also brought suit against Lamora under the common law for $75 for tresspass. He got six cents. This was followed by another suit, this time for exempl- ary damages, which was soon with- drawn. Rockefeller has been mak- ing legal action pretty expensive in time, money, and worry for the ob- stinate fisherman. The campaign against Brandon now began to broaden. Signs warn- ing off trespassers were put up on all sides of the roads leading out from the town. Many of these are high mads, but the Rockefeller attorneys assume that they are private pro- perty. "Let the other fellows prove that they are highways," say the lawyers. 1 »M trails were closed, and barred against the passage of the Brandon- ites. Residents of the little settle- ment, w h o h a d obtained employ- ment in a lumber company con- trolled by William Rockefeller, were d M harged at the behest of the Bay Pond estate watchers. The word went forth that no Brandon man could get a job in that country. Children going out from the hamlet to pick berries on the mountainsides were dri.en home by the watchers and threatened with harm if they repeated the offense. Indeniably the berries belonged to Rockefeller, but in view of the fact that they were never marketed, and that ninety-nine per cent of them were left to wither on the bushes, the inhibition is re garded by those most concerned as harsh, though legal enough. But the Rockefeller emploves have not always kept within the law, and herein, presumably, they have gone beyond their instructions. A Brandon man named Barcumb, while fishing iu the St. Regis, had his pole shot in two by a watcher who is a crack marksman. At the same time he was struck bv a rock, from the hand of the watcher's companion. Both assailants were arrested, but before the case came up for trial, Barcumb 1 without any procurement on the part of the Rockefeller influ- ences, it is but fair to say 1 had gone to the poorhouse. Other charges of violence are made against the game- keepers, but most of them lack sub- stantiation. Naturally, methods such as these made W illiam Rockefeller unpopular but what followed was a sorer exas- peration to the thinning population of Brandon. ROCKEFELLER TAKES BRANDON'S POST- OFFICE AWAY Since 1XX7 the little place has had a potto(Ac* of its own. It was in the middle of the village, convenient for all, ami the nearest available point, moreover, for several lumber camps in the vicinity. L a t e i n A p - ril of last year William Rockefeller wrote a letter to Henrv C. Pavne, then postmaster general about the postoffice at Brandon. Persons w ho declare that they have seen this document quote from it this passage: "Heretofore yon have granted us many favors. We have still one more to ask of you, that vou remove the postoffice from Brandon to Bay Pond." Mr. Pavne is dead; suffice to say of him that he was a man peculiarly amenable to such influnces as Mr. Instead of. referring the matter to the fourth assistant postmaster gen- eral. Mr. Bristow 'anoftical reputed to be disobliging in delicate matters of this sort) as is customary in the affairs of fourth class postoftices, Mr Payne himself sent an inspector to investigate. Before the inspector's report came in, Mr. Payne, by what urgency it is impossible to state, took matters into his own hands and ordered the Brandon postoffice closed. The effects were removed to Bay Pond, a settlement exclusive- ly made up of the Rockefeller men- age, four miles distant in the heart of the estate. The personal request Of a private citi/en had sufficed to move a postoffice from a point where ii was needed to a point where it wasn't. Bay Pond already had a postoffice of its own. To the Brandon people this seemed an injustice. Some of them even went so far as to sav the government had been influnced b y M r . Rocke- feller's position and riches. They got up a petition for the return of their postoffice. Seventy-four peo- ple signed it; a number, bv the way, considerably in excess of the Bay Pond population. The petition went to Washington and was pigeon- holed. Brandon came to under- stand that it could tramp to Bay Pond for its mail, or it could go with- out. It tramped. A n d it tramped over roads lined with signs anounc- ing that this was William Rocke- feller's private park, and warning tresspassers awav under penalty of the law. That is, the United States was maintaining a postoffice to w hich Mr. Rockefeller might, if his claims were made good, deny access to any person distasteful to him. That he did not deny such access perhaps speaks well for his wisdom. On the whole, the Rockefeller em- ployes were not disobliging to the Brandon people in the matter of mail. The postmaster at Bay Pond even went beyond the requirements resident owners, he set about his ends through process of law by which he did not live to benefit. They f o u n d h i m d e a d on the road- way which he had made private, thereby compelling a neighboring lumberman to make a circuit so long that his timber became practically unmarketable; shot from a m b u s h b y a murderer who left MO clew. Will- iam Rockefeller left his place the day after the murder and left in haste it is said. Since then, so Brandon people tell me, several bullets have been shot into the Rockefeller budd- ings during the owner's absence. F.ven if this be true, and it is denied, it might well be accidental in a reg- ion where there is much hunting with rifles w hich carry several miles. Peo- ple there are in that neighorhood who would be glad to have Rocke- feller believe himself in danger of Dexter's fate. But the Standard Oil millionaire, unless he should employ methods as ruthless as Dexter's (which he has not yet done 1 , is not likely to arouse the quality of vin- dictiveness which speeds the assas- sin's bullet. Anyway, his own peo- ple, who seem devoted to his inter- ests, are a constant safeguard. When I visited B r a n d o n I f o u n d among the natives of the locality no more radical a feeling in this matter than a half-decisive determined to disregard the Rockefeller placards and the Rockefeller law. There is considerable unpermitted hunting in progress on the " P r i v a t e P a r k . " I have no doubt that the surrounding Brandonites get fresh fish occasion- ally without going beyond the two mile limit. < >n my way down the track from Bay Pond to B r a n d o n I met a hunter with a ride over his shoulder ami asked him if he had seen anything. "Nary hide ner hoof," said he. "Are you one of the watches?" I inquired. "No, sir!" he replied with em- phasis. "I belong here." "Are vou allowed to hunt on the of his office, often sending mail down t o B r a n d o n b y o n e o r another Rockefeller preserve?" of the railroad hands. But the rape j "Well," he said slowly, "I've of their postotfice rankled in the; been down a couple o' miles— beyond minds of the Brandon folk. One I his line. At the same time, if a buck dav last fall Oliver Lamora sent his should come jumpin' over vonder son to Bay Pond after a newspaper which he expected. The son re turned empty handed. Thereupon the old man shouldered his rifle and 'Private Park' sign and try to bite me on the ear, I wouldn't guarantee but what he might get hurt." Thai I take it. is the feeling which set out himself. At the postoffice j will continue to exist in Brandon as he found William Rockefeller and . long as the town withstands the Flanders, the watcher. Lamora de- clares with glee that Rockefeller im- mediatly stepped behind his employe and maintained that strategi intoiop through the proceedings. Not that there was any danger, savs the old man, for he only brought the wea- pon to protect himself against Mr. Rockefsller's wild deer. I.amora demanded his paper. The post- master instituted a search, f o u n d it in a corner where it had been mis- laid, and delivered it with an apol- ogy. Farly last winter inquiries were set afoot in Washington by Collier's as to the reason for the r e m o v a l o f the Brandon postotfice. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bris- tow knew nothing of the case. He instituted a search and found the petition with the 74 names. An in- spector was dispatched to Brandon. He reposted and e.u l\ in the vear, on recommendation o f M r . Conrad, who had taken Bristow's place, the office was re-established. Just at present Brandon seems to be a little ahead in the game w ith Rockefeller. William Rockefeller does not seem to be an object of personal hatred: as for instance, his neighbor, (Irlando P. Dexter, who met so tragic and mysterious an end in 100;. Dexter was a millionaire ow ner w ho had not only prosecuted relentlessly, but prosecuted with all the powers of the law, those who attempted to maintain what they considered their rights against him. O p e 11 I y Rockefeller could bring to bear, announcing his intent to ruin certain maker, of wilderness. Socialist News From State Headquarters. Butte local has expelled Alderman Silas W ainscott for violation of So- cialist principles. Mother Jones w ill enter the state June 1st at Billings, and will make 21 dates i n M o n t a n a ; a l l locals de- siring a lecture from Mother Jones will write the state secretary at once as dates are rapidly being filled. D. Burgess of Washington will fill a few dates in Montana during June. We want to make a few dates for J. H. Walsh in Cascade count v. and desire to hear from Socialists on the Neihart branch concerning same. Dates should be made for Storkett. Sand Coulee, Belt and Neihart. As soon as finances will permit, Ben F. Wilson will start a tour of the state; he ought to start in June. Let us hear from the locals concern- ing his tour. About the last of July Ida Crouch I la/lett will enter the state bv the Great Northern route from the east. There is prospects of a few new locals being organized in the near future, and quite a number of locals have thrown off their lethargy, and are preparing for a good summer campaign. I et us hops that the lo- cals will keep active, as there is lots of work to be done. A political and economic critil is I Continued on page 2 1
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M O N T A N A N E W S . SELENA, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1906
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Pay Your LoceJ DUES
NO. 35.
William Rockefeller Wipes a Town off tl e Map! A s t o r y o f a b s o r b i n g i n t e r e s t , i n
w h i c h the a n n i h i l a t i o n o f a c o m
m u n i t y t o s e r v e the s e l f i s h e n d s o f
W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r , o n e o f the l e a d
i n g d i r e c t o r s i n t h e A m a l g a m a t e d
C o p p e r c o m p a n y , is t o l d i n C o l l i e r ' s
W e e k l y . T h e s t o r y , w h i c h d e a l s
w i t h m u c h tha t has n e v e r b e f o r e b e e n
t o u c h e d u p o n i n the n e w s p a p e r s , i s
t o l d i n g r a p h i c a n d a t t r a c t i v e s t y l e .
I t i s i n pa r t as f o l l o w s : H u t t e E v e n
i n g N e w s .
T o b u y a w i l d e r n e s s a n d m a k e a
c o m m u n i t y o f i t i s w i t h i n t h e o p
p o r t u n i t y o f a n y m o n e y e d m a n .
T o b u y a c o m m u n i t y a n d m a k e a
w i l d e r n e s s o f i t m a y w e l l b e b e y o n d
t h e p o w e r s o f the g r e a t e s t o f m i l l i o n
a i r e s . W i l l i a m G. R o c k e f e l l e r , v i c e -
p r e s i d e n t o f the S t a n d a r d O i l c o m
p a n y , is m a k i n g the e x p e r i m e n t o n
t h e l i t t l e h a m l e t o f B r a n d o n i n t h e
h e a r t of the A d i r o n d a c k s . B y m e t h
o d s t h a t a re a l w a y s w i t h i n the l a w —
o r w h a t h i s a t t o r n e y s i n t e r p r e t as t h e
l a w — he is p a t i e n t l y s t r i v i n g t o d i s
l o d g e the r e m n a n t s o f t h e p o p u l a c e
t h a t s t i l l h o l d r o o t i n s i d e t h e c i r c l e o f
h i s g r e a t g a m e p r e s e r v e . A l l t h e
l a n d a b o u t t h e m is h i s ; h e has b o u g h t
i t a n d p a i d f o r i t t h o u s a n d s u p o n
t h o u s a n d s o f a c r e s , m o r e t h a n t w o
w h o l e t o w n s h i p s , c o m p r i s i n g l a k e s ,
r i v e r s , f o r e s t a n d m o u n t a i n s .
BRANDON MUST GO O n l y B r a n d o n s t a n d s i n h i s w a y ;
h o u s e h o l d b e l o n g i n g s a n d t h e i r l a r g e
f a m i l i e s , w a n d e r e d f o r t h t o f e l l n e w
a c r e a g e o f w o o d l a n d . B e h i n d t h e m
r e m a i n e d a f e w o f t h e o l d e r d w e l l e r s ,
t o o i n e r t , p e r h a p s , p e r h a p s t o o o b
s t i n a t e , o r p o s s i b l y t o o l o n g - r o o t e d
i n h a b i t , t o b e m o v e d .
T h e s e c o n s e r v a t i v e s sa t a n d
w a t c h e d R o c k f e l l e r b u y l a n d a l l
a r o u n d t h e m u n t i l t h e y w e r e c o m -
p l e t l y i n c l o s e d . M o s t o f i t he
b o u g h t f r o m o n e l ' a t D u c e y , w h o
o w n e d t w e n t y - f i v e t h o u s a n d a c r e s
o f t i m b e r l a n d a r o u n d a n d i n c l u d i n g
B r a n d o n w h e n R o c k f e l l e r c a m e t o
t h e m o u n t a i n s f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f b u y
i n g a n es ta te t h e r e .
AS BY A BARBER
D u c e y was a p r a c t i c a l l u m b e r m a n
o f the s o r t t h a t is f a s t s t r i p p i n g the
f o r e s t r e g i o n s o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s
s t a r k n a k e d . H e l e f t n o t ree t h a t
c o u l d p o s s i b l y be r e g a r d e d as a l o g .
T h e r e a r e w h o l e s e c t i o n s a b o u t
B r a n d o n w h e r e t h e f a c e o f n a t u r e
h a s b e e n s h a v e d as b y a s k i l l f u l b a r
b e r .
D u c e y ' s l u m b e r m i l l p r a c t i c a l l y
c r e a t e d the t o w n o u t o f w h a t h a d
b e e n the m e r e s t h a m l e t . W h e n t h e
l a s t t ree h a d f a l l e n D u c e y m o v e d ,
a n d m o s t o f t h e p o p u l a t i o n m o v e d
a f t e r h i m . H e l e f t t h e m i l l a n d t h e
l a n d o n l y b e c a u s e he c o u l d n ' t c o n
v e n i e n t l y t a k e t h e m w i t h h i m . The
o n l y c o m m e r c i a l e n t e r p r i s e s t h a t s u r
v i v e d h i m w e r e the s p o r t s m a n ' s h o t e l
a n d t h e c o u n t r y s t o r e .
T H E BUYING OF BAY POND
T o D u c e y c a m e R o c k e f e l l e r ' s
a g e n t s . W o u l d he s e l l h i s l a n d ? H e
w o u l d at a p r i c e . W o u l d he n a m e
t h e p r i c e ? H e w o u l d a n d d i d . A c
c o r d i n g to r u m o r i t w a s J 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 .
A s a n a m e n d m e n t t h e a g e n t s u g g e s t e d
h a l f t ha t a m o u n t , a n d the s a l e w a s
e v e n t u a l l y c o n c l u d e d o n these t e r m s .
R o c k e f e l l e r b u i l t h i m s e l f a s u p e r b
c o u n t r y p l a c e o n B a y B o n d , o n e o f
t h e f a i r e s t l i t t l e b o d i e s o f w a t e r i n
t h e A d i r o n d a c k s , s o m e f o u r m i l e s
f r o m B r a n d o n . O t h e r p u r c h a s e s
f o l l o w e d u n t i l he o w n e d a l l the l a n d
f o r m i l e s a r o u n d t h e t o w n , i n c l u d i n g
b o t h b a n k s o f S t . R e g i s r i v e r a n d i ts
t r i b u t a r y s t r e a m s .
OUESTS WILL ao
B u t D u c e y c o u l d n ' t s e l l t he t o w n
o f B r a n d o n e n t i r e , b e c a u s e he d i d n ' t
o w n i t a l l . F o r i n s t a n c e , H a r r i s o n
G . B a k e r o w n e d t h e l i t t l e s u m m e r
h o t e l . B e i n g i n t h e c e n t e r o f a r i c h
fishing a n d h u n t i n g c o u n t r y i t w a s a
p a y i n g e n t e r p r i s e . B u t t o h a v e a
l o t o f s u m m e r a n d f a l l f i s h e r m e n a m i
g u n n e r s t r a m p i n g o v e r h i s p r o p e r t y
w a s n o p a r t o f R o c k e f e l l e r ' s p r o g r a m .
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R o c k e f e l l e r ' s a g e n t l a u g h e d at h i m .
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n o w , " s a i d he . " Y o u w o n ' t h a v e
a n y g u e s t s a f t e r t h i s . "
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s a i d B a k e r , f a l i n g t o see the p o i n t .
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w a y f o r t h e i r f u n , " r e t o r t e d the
agen t . " T h e y c a n ' t c r o s s o u r p r o p
e r t y t o get t o t h e S t . R e g i s r i v e r ,
a n d t h e y c o u l d n ' t fish i n o u r s t r e a m
i f t hey c o u l d get t h e r e . W e ' l l p r o s e
cu t e i f t h e y s h o o t i n o u r w o o d s .
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tha t t h e r i v e r h a d b e e n s t o c k e d at
s ta te e x p e n s e , a n d tha t , as a s t r e a m
u s e d f o r y e a r s f o r floating l u m b e r , i t
was p u b l i c w a t e r .
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c o u r t , r i g h t u p t o t h e c o u r t o f a p
p e a l s " s a i d t h e a g e n t . " W e ' l l fight
y o u to a finish o n t h a t p o i n t .
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a n e x p e n s i v e l e g a l c a m p a i g n . H e
s o l d h i s h o t e l f o r $ 5 , 0 0 0 , wen t a w a y
a n d d i e d s h o r t l y a f t e r . I n B r a n d o n
o n e h e a r s t h a t he w a s h o u n d e d to
d e a t h b y R o c k e f e l l e r , ' b u t s u c h i s
the l o c a l f e e l e n g i n t h e m a t t e r t h a t
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R o c k e f e l l e r ' s d o o r .
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the i n h a b i t a n t s t h e " l e t t i n g i n the
j u n g l e . " D i k e a d e s t r u c t i v e h o r d e o f
an t s c a m e t h e m o n e y - k i n g ' s m e a l ,
a n d s o o n t h e l i t t l e c l u s t e r o f h u m a n
r e m n a n t s l o o k e d o u t u p o n the p l a c e
w h e r e t h e i r n e i g h b o r s h a d o n c e l i v e d
t o see o n l y t h e s w i f t - g r o w i n g b r u s h
d r a w i n g i t s m a s k o f w a r m a n d k i n d l y
g r e e n a c r o s s s w e p t g r o u n d a n d r a w
e x c a v a t i o n s . T h e m a k i n g o f a w i l d
e r n e s s was i n p r o g r e s s .
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R o c k e f e l l e r a m b i t i o n w a s a l o n g l e g i
t i m a t e l i n e s . N o w , h o w e v e r , i t e n
c o u n t e r e d t h e first s e r i o u s o b s t a c l e i n
the p e r s o n o f O l i v e r I . a m o r a . L a -
m o r a is a F r e n c h - A m e r i c a n ; o l d , i g
n o r a n t , p o o r , o b s t i n a t e , a n d f e a r l e s s .
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p e n s i o n e n o u g h f o r a p l a i n s u b s i s t
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f r o m t h e s t r e a m s , p a r t r i d g e a n d d e e r
f r o m t h e f o r e s t , a n d b e r r i e s f r o m the
m o u n t a i n s i d e . W h e n R o c k e f e l l e r
f o r b a d e h u n t i n g a n d fishing a r o u n d
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o u t s p o k e n a g a i n s t the e d i c t . W h a t
d i d h e c a r e t h a t R o c k e f e l l e r h a d
b o u g h t t h e l a n d ; he h a d a l w a y s
h u n t e d a n d fished t h e r e , a n d n o i n
t e r l o p i n g m i l l i o n a i r e c o u l d s t o p h i m !
S u c h w a s h i s a t t i t u d e .
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B v g e n e r a l c o n s e n t he b e c a m e t h e
m o u t h p e i c e a n d l e a d e r o f the Old
G u a r d " w h o s t i l l s t u c k to B r a n d o n .
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of h i s c o m p a n i o n s d w i n d l e . F a u c h e
w h o k e p t t h e l i t t l e g r o c e r y s t o r e ,
f o u n d h i s t r a d e so w a n i n g tha t he s o l d
ou t . L a m o r a ' s t w o c o u s i n s g o t j o b s
e l s e w h e r e a n d w e r e g l a d to l e a v e .
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a n d R o c k e f e l l e r l e f t t h e h o u s e s t a n d
i n g f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f p u t t i n g i n i t
K u g e n e F l a n d e r s , o n e o f h i s
" w a t c h e r s , " as t h e g a m e k e e p e r s a n d
f o r e s t g u a r d s a r e c a l l e d . T o L a
m o r a ' s m i n d , F l a n d e r s w a s set t h e r e
to s p y u p o n h i m , b u t L a m o r a ' s v e i w s
m u s t be t a k e n w i t h a l i b e r a l a l l o w
a n c e f o r b i a s . P r o b a b l y h a d t h e o l d
m a n b e e n less d e f i a n t i n h i s a t t i t u d e
f r o m t h e first, t h e o f f e r w h i c h w a s
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d e f e n d i n g h i s h o m e a g a i n s t the d e p -
e d a t i o n s o f a h e a r t l e s s m i l l i o n a i r e .
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get h i s p r i c e . A n d he t h o u g h t t ha t
R o c k e f e l l e r w i t h h i s vas t w e a l t h
o u g h t to p a y r o u n d l y . S o he a s k e d
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u s u a l l y l a r g e f o r B r a n d o n , a n d i s
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v e r v m u c h d o u b t w h e t h e r as a r e a l
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f e l l e r t o t e a r d o w n was f o r the m a k e r
o f w i l d e r n e s s t o d e t e r m i n e . T h e
agen t a s k e d f o r t w o w e e k s i n w h i c h
t o r e f e r t h e m a t t e r . I . a m o r a g a v e
h i m t h r e e . T h a t is the las t he h e a r d
f r o m the agen t . B u t s o m e w e e k s
l a t e r o n e o f the w a t c h e r s , m e e t i n g
h i m , t o l d h i m t h a t h e ' d b e t t e r get
o u t w h i l e h e c o u l d s e l l h i s p l a c e f o r
s o m e t h i n g o r " t h e y ' d l a w h i m o u t , "
as L a m o r a q u o t e s t h e w a r n i n g . T o
the i l l - p a i d w o o d s m a n o f t h e A d i
r o n d a c k s , w h o h a v e h a d o r h e a r d o f
e x p e r i e n c e w i t h s u i t s b r o u g h t b y a b
sen tee l a n d l o r d s , i n v o l v i n g e x p e n
s i v e d e f e n s e , t h e l a w is n o t p r o t e c
t i o n , t h e r e f o r e B r a n d o n m u s t g o .
N o t i n a n y s p i r i t o f v i n d i c t i v e n e s s
has M r . R o c k e f e l l e r r e a c h e d t h i s de
t e r m i n a t i o n , b u t b e c a u s e he w a n t s
the l a n d u p o n w h i c h the p o p u l a t i o n
n o w l i v e s f o r the d e e r a n d f o x e s , the
p a r t r i d g e s a n d t h e q u a i l o f h i s d o
m a i n . T o tha t e n d he has b r o u g h t
e v e r y m e a s u r e i n h i s vas t p o w e r f o r
s e v e r a l y e a r s , f r o m d a m a g e s u i t s f o r
t r e s p a s s i n w h i c h s t e r i l e v i c t o r y
b r o u g h t h i m s i x c e n t s , t o m a k i n g the
g o v e r n m e n t o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s ,
t h r o u g h t h e p o s t o f f i c e d e p a r t m e n t
h i s i n s t r u m e n t o f p e r s e c u t i o n . Hut
the t o w n i s s t i l l o n the m a p .
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t w e l v e h u n d r e d i n h a b i t a n t s . It h a d
i ts c h u r c h , i ts p r o s p e r o u s h o t e l , i t s
flourishing s c h o o l , a n d i ts b u s y m i l l .
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f a m i l i e s a n d as m a n y m o r e d e s e r t e d
h o u s e s . A l l t h e res t i s s c r u b - g r o w n
s p a c e . T h e h o t e l i s b u r n e d d o w n ,
the m i l l i s ra / .ed , t h e c h u r c h s t a n d s
e m p t y , t h e t w o o r t h r e e h u n d r e d
d w e l l i n g s h a v e v a n i s h e d . L n e m i e s
o f R o c k e f e l l e r n a m e h i m b i t t e r l y as
the a g e n t o f d e v a s t a t i o n .
NOT FOR THAT MONEY " H e d o n get i t f o r n o fifteen h u n d r '
d o l l a r n o w , O l e R o c k y f e l l o w d o n , "
s a i d L a m o r a t o m e , i n h i s q u a i n t l v
a c c e n t e d F n g l i s h . " H e p a y m e five
t h o u s a n ' d o l l a r n o w i f he w a n t i t . "
L e g i t i m a t e m e t h o d s f a i l i n g to ous t
L a m o r a , R o c k e f e l l e r n o w r e s o r t e d
to m e a s u r e s n o t s o c l e a r l y d e f e n s i b l e .
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m a n ' s a r r e s t f o r fishing i n a b r a n c h
o f t h e S t . R e g i s r i v e r , w h i c h the m i l
l i o n a i r e c l a i m s t o o w n . H i s l a w y e r ,
w h o is a l s o h i s p a r t n e r i n s e v e r a l
l a n d e n t e r p r i s e s , w i t h d r e w t h e C M C
a f t e r t w o a d j o u r n m e n t s m a d e at h i s
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A f t e r w a r d " R o c k e r i s m " was t l ie
p r i n s i p l e i s s u e i n a v e r y l i v e l y , t h o u g h
u n s u c e s s f u l , p o l i t i c a l c a m p a i g n
w h i c h t h e y c o n d u c t e d . T h e d e f c i i M -
w a s t ha t , as t h e w a t e r s o n K o i k e
f e l l e r ' s p r o p e r t y h a d b e e n s t o c k e d bv
the s ta te at p u b l i c e x p e n s e , he c o u l d
n o t e s t a b l i s h p r i v a t e p a r k r i g h t s a n d
c o u l d c l a i m o n l y a c t u a l d a m a g e s .
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to t h e c o u r t R o c k e f e l l e r w a s m n i
s u i t e d . l i e w e n t to the A p p e l l a t e
d i v i s i o n o f the s u p r e m e c o u r t , w h i c h
o r d e r e d a n e w t r i a l . T h e g r o u n d
w a s t r a v e r s e d a g a i n e x a c t l y as l ie
f o r e ; t h e j u r y f i n d i n g n o c a u s e o f
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i o n , i n v o k e d a s e c o n d t i m e , a g a i n
o r d e r i n g a n e w t r i a l . T h i s w a s h e l d
l a s t D e c e m b e r , a n d the j u d g e , o n
t h e g r o u n d t h a t he w a s c o m p e l l e d
to d o so b y t h e t w o o p i n i o n s a l r e a d y
h a n d e d d o w n f r o m the a p p e l l a t e d i
v i s i o n , d i r e c t e d t h e j u r y t o find i n
f a v o r o f t h e p l a i n t i f f f o r a s u m n o t
t o e x c e e d £35 f o r e a c h o f t h e t h r e e
o f f e n s e s . T h e j u r y b r o u g h t i n a
v e r d i c t f o r 18 c e n t s d a m a g e s — s i x
c e n t s f o r e a c h t r e s s p a s s — a n d c o s t s .
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a p p e a l i n g . M e a n t i m e a t e m p o r a r y
i n i u n c t i o n h a d b e e n o b t a i n e d , c u t t
i n g off L a m o r a ' s fishing, w h i c h he
h a d b e e n s t e a d i l y p r o s e c u t i n g . O n
a m o t i o n t o m a k e t h e i n j u n c t i o n
p e r m a n e n t , b o t h s i d e s a g r e e d to
a w a i t a final d e c i s i o n i n the P r i v a t e
P a r k c a s e .
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m a g n a t e h a d a l s o b r o u g h t s u i t
a g a i n s t L a m o r a u n d e r the c o m m o n
l a w f o r $ 7 5 f o r t r e s spass . H e g o t
s i x c e n t s . T h i s w a s f o l l o w e d b y
a n o t h e r s u i t , t h i s t i m e f o r e x e m p l
a r y d a m a g e s , w h i c h was s o o n w i t h
d r a w n . R o c k e f e l l e r has b e e n m a k
i n g l e g a l a c t i o n p r e t t y e x p e n s i v e i n
t i m e , m o n e y , a n d w o r r y f o r t h e o b
s t i n a t e f i s h e r m a n .
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now b e g a n to b r o a d e n . S i g n s w a r n
i n g off t r e s p a s s e r s w e r e put u p o n a l l
s ides o f t h e r o a d s l e a d i n g o u t f r o m
the t o w n . M a n y o f these a r e h i g h
m a d s , b u t t h e R o c k e f e l l e r a t t o r n e y s
a s s u m e t h a t t h e y a r e p r i v a t e p r o
pe r ty . " L e t the o t h e r f e l l o w s
p r o v e t h a t t h e y a re h i g h w a y s , " s a y
the l a w y e r s .
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a g a i n s t t h e p a s s a g e o f the B r a n d o n -
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men t , w h o h a d o b t a i n e d e m p l o y
m e n t i n a l u m b e r c o m p a n y c o n
t r o l l e d b y W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r , w e r e
d M h a r g e d at the behes t o f the B a y
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wen t f o r t h t h a t n o B r a n d o n m a n
c o u l d ge t a j o b i n tha t c o u n t r y .
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to p i c k b e r r i e s o n t h e m o u n t a i n s i d e s
were d r i . e n h o m e b y the w a t c h e r s
a n d t h r e a t e n e d w i t h h a r m i f t h e y
r e p e a t e d the o f f e n s e . I n d e n i a b l y
the b e r r i e s b e l o n g e d to R o c k e f e l l e r ,
b u t i n v i e w o f t h e f a c t that t h e y w e r e
n e v e r m a r k e t e d , a n d tha t n i n e t y - n i n e
p e r c e n t o f t h e m w e r e l e f t t o w i t h e r
o n t h e b u s h e s , the i n h i b i t i o n i s re
g a r d e d b y t h o s e m o s t c o n c e r n e d as
h a r s h , t h o u g h l e g a l e n o u g h .
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h a v e n o t a l w a y s k e p t w i t h i n the l a w ,
a n d h e r e i n , p r e s u m a b l y , t h e y h a v e
g o n e b e y o n d t h e i r i n s t r u c t i o n s . A
B r a n d o n m a n n a m e d B a r c u m b , w h i l e
f i s h i n g i u the S t . R e g i s , h a d h i s p o l e
s h o t i n t w o b y a w a t c h e r w h o is a
c r a c k m a r k s m a n . A t the s a m e t i m e
he w a s s t r u c k b v a r o c k , f r o m the
h a n d o f the w a t c h e r ' s c o m p a n i o n .
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b e f o r e t h e c a s e c a m e u p f o r t r i a l ,
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o n t h e pa r t o f the R o c k e f e l l e r i n f l u
e n c e s , i t is b u t f a i r t o say 1 h a d g o n e
to t h e p o o r h o u s e . O t h e r c h a r g e s o f
v i o l e n c e a re m a d e a g a i n s t t h e g a m e
k e e p e r s , b u t m o s t o f t h e m l a c k s u b
s t a n t i a t i o n .
N a t u r a l l y , m e t h o d s s u c h as these
m a d e W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r u n p o p u l a r
bu t w h a t f o l l o w e d was a s o r e r e x a s
p e r a t i o n to the t h i n n i n g population o f B r a n d o n .
R O C K E F E L L E R TAKES BRANDON'S POST-OFFICE AWAY
S i n c e 1XX7 the l i t t l e p l a c e has h a d
a potto (Ac* of i t s o w n . I t w a s i n t h e m i d d l e o f the v i l l a g e , c o n v e n i e n t
f o r a l l , a m i the nea re s t a v a i l a b l e
p o i n t , m o r e o v e r , f o r s e v e r a l l u m b e r
c a m p s i n t h e v i c i n i t y . L a t e i n A p
r i l o f l a s t y e a r W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r
w r o t e a l e t t e r to H e n r v C . P a v n e ,
t h e n p o s t m a s t e r g e n e r a l a b o u t the
p o s t o f f i c e at B r a n d o n . P e r s o n s w ho
d e c l a r e t ha t t h e y have seen t h i s
d o c u m e n t q u o t e f r o m it t h i s pa s sage :
" H e r e t o f o r e yon h a v e g r a n t e d us
m a n y f a v o r s . W e h a v e s t i l l o n e
m o r e to a sk o f y o u , that v o u r e m o v e
t h e p o s t o f f i c e f r o m B r a n d o n to B a y
P o n d . "
M r . P a v n e is d e a d ; s u f f i c e t o say
o f h i m tha t he was a m a n p e c u l i a r l y
a m e n a b l e t o s u c h i n f l u n c e s as M r .
I n s t e a d of. r e f e r r i n g the m a t t e r to
the f o u r t h a s s i s t a n t p o s t m a s t e r g e n
e r a l . M r . B r i s t o w ' a n o f t i c a l r e p u t e d
to b e d i s o b l i g i n g i n d e l i c a t e m a t t e r s
o f t h i s s o r t ) a s i s c u s t o m a r y i n the
a f f a i r s o f f o u r t h c l a s s p o s t o f t i c e s , M r
P a y n e h i m s e l f sen t an i n s p e c t o r t o
i n v e s t i g a t e . B e f o r e the i n s p e c t o r ' s
r e p o r t c a m e i n , M r . P a y n e , b y w h a t
u r g e n c y i t i s i m p o s s i b l e to s ta te ,
t o o k m a t t e r s i n t o h i s o w n h a n d s a n d
o r d e r e d t h e B r a n d o n p o s t o f f i c e
c l o s e d . T h e e f f e c t s w e r e r e m o v e d
to B a y P o n d , a s e t t l e m e n t e x c l u s i v e
l y m a d e up o f t h e R o c k e f e l l e r m e n
age, f o u r m i l e s d i s t a n t i n t h e h e a r t
o f the es ta te . T h e p e r s o n a l r e q u e s t
Of a p r i v a t e c i t i / e n h a d s u f f i c e d t o
m o v e a p o s t o f f i c e f r o m a p o i n t w h e r e
i i w a s n e e d e d to a p o i n t w h e r e
it w a s n ' t . B a y P o n d a l r e a d y h a d a
p o s t o f f i c e o f i t s o w n .
T o the B r a n d o n p e o p l e t h i s s e e m e d
a n i n j u s t i c e . S o m e o f t h e m e v e n
w e n t s o f a r as to s a v the g o v e r n m e n t
h a d b e e n i n f l u n c e d b y M r . R o c k e
f e l l e r ' s p o s i t i o n a n d r i c h e s . T h e y
g o t u p a p e t i t i o n f o r t h e r e t u r n o f
t h e i r p o s t o f f i c e . S e v e n t y - f o u r peo
p l e s i g n e d i t ; a n u m b e r , b v t h e w a y ,
c o n s i d e r a b l y i n e x c e s s o f t h e B a y
P o n d p o p u l a t i o n . T h e p e t i t i o n
w e n t t o W a s h i n g t o n a n d was p i g e o n
h o l e d . B r a n d o n c a m e to u n d e r
s t a n d tha t i t c o u l d t r a m p t o B a y
P o n d f o r i ts m a i l , o r it c o u l d g o w i t h
o u t . It t r a m p e d . A n d it t r a m p e d
o v e r r o a d s l i n e d w i t h s i g n s a n o u n c -
i n g tha t t h i s w a s W i l l i a m R o c k e
f e l l e r ' s p r i v a t e p a r k , a n d w a r n i n g
t r e s spas se r s a w a v u n d e r p e n a l t y o f
the l a w . T h a t i s , t he U n i t e d S ta tes
was m a i n t a i n i n g a p o s t o f f i c e t o w h i c h
M r . R o c k e f e l l e r m i g h t , i f h i s c l a i m s
w e r e m a d e g o o d , d e n y a c c e s s t o a n y
p e r s o n d i s t a s t e f u l t o h i m . T h a t he
d i d n o t d e n y s u c h a c c e s s p e r h a p s
s p e a k s w e l l f o r h i s w i s d o m .
O n the w h o l e , t h e R o c k e f e l l e r e m
p l o y e s were n o t d i s o b l i g i n g t o t h e
B r a n d o n p e o p l e i n t h e m a t t e r o f
m a i l . T h e p o s t m a s t e r a t B a y P o n d
e v e n went b e y o n d the r e q u i r e m e n t s
r e s i d e n t o w n e r s , he set a b o u t h i s
e n d s t h r o u g h p r o c e s s o f l a w b y
w h i c h he d i d n o t l i v e to b e n e f i t .
T h e y f o u n d h i m d e a d o n the r o a d
way w h i c h he h a d m a d e p r i v a t e ,
t h e r e b y c o m p e l l i n g a n e i g h b o r i n g
l u m b e r m a n to m a k e a c i r c u i t s o l o n g
t ha t h i s t i m b e r b e c a m e p r a c t i c a l l y
u n m a r k e t a b l e ; sho t f r o m a m b u s h b y
a m u r d e r e r w h o l e f t MO c l e w . W i l l
i a m R o c k e f e l l e r l e f t h i s p l a c e the
d a y a f t e r the m u r d e r a n d l e f t i n has t e
it is s a i d . S i n c e t h e n , so B r a n d o n
p e o p l e t e l l me , s e v e r a l b u l l e t s h a v e
b e e n s h o t i n t o the R o c k e f e l l e r b u d d
i n g s d u r i n g the o w n e r ' s a b s e n c e .
F . v e n i f t h i s be t rue , a n d it i s d e n i e d ,
i t m i g h t w e l l be a c c i d e n t a l i n a r eg
i o n w h e r e t h e r e is m u c h h u n t i n g w i t h
r i f l e s w h i c h c a r r y s e v e r a l m i l e s . P e o
p l e t h e r e a r e i n tha t n e i g h o r h o o d
w h o w o u l d be g l a d to h a v e R o c k e
f e l l e r b e l i e v e h i m s e l f i n d a n g e r o f
D e x t e r ' s f a t e . B u t the S t a n d a r d O i l
m i l l i o n a i r e , u n l e s s he s h o u l d e m p l o y
m e t h o d s as r u t h l e s s as D e x t e r ' s
( w h i c h he has n o t ye t d o n e 1 , i s n o t
l i k e l y to a r o u s e the q u a l i t y o f v i n
d i c t i v e n e s s w h i c h speeds t h e assas
s i n ' s b u l l e t . A n y w a y , h i s o w n p e o
p l e , w h o s eem d e v o t e d to h i s i n t e r
es ts , a r e a c o n s t a n t s a f e g u a r d .
W h e n I v i s i t e d B r a n d o n I f o u n d
a m o n g the n a t i v e s o f the l o c a l i t y n o
m o r e r a d i c a l a f e e l i n g i n t h i s m a t t e r
t h a n a h a l f - d e c i s i v e d e t e r m i n e d t o
d i s r e g a r d the R o c k e f e l l e r p l a c a r d s
a n d t h e R o c k e f e l l e r l a w . T h e r e i s
c o n s i d e r a b l e u n p e r m i t t e d h u n t i n g i n
p r o g r e s s o n the " P r i v a t e P a r k . " I
h a v e n o d o u b t t h a t t h e s u r r o u n d i n g
B r a n d o n i t e s get f r e s h fish o c c a s i o n
a l l y w i t h o u t g o i n g b e y o n d t h e t w o
m i l e l i m i t . < >n m y w a y d o w n the
t r a c k f r o m B a y P o n d to B r a n d o n I
m e t a h u n t e r w i t h a r i d e o v e r h i s
s h o u l d e r a m i a s k e d h i m if he h a d
s e e n a n y t h i n g . " N a r y h i d e n e r
h o o f , " s a i d he.
" A r e y o u o n e o f t h e w a t c h e s ? " I
i n q u i r e d .
" N o , s i r ! " he r e p l i e d w i t h e m
p h a s i s . " I b e l o n g h e r e . "
" A r e v o u a l l o w e d to h u n t o n the o f h i s o f f i c e , o f t e n s e n d i n g m a i l
d o w n to B r a n d o n b y o n e o r a n o t h e r R o c k e f e l l e r p r e s e r v e ? "
o f t h e r a i l r o a d h a n d s . B u t t h e r a p e j " W e l l , " he s a i d s l o w l y , " I ' v e
o f t h e i r p o s t o t f i c e r a n k l e d i n t h e ; b e e n d o w n a c o u p l e o ' m i l e s — b e y o n d
m i n d s of t h e B r a n d o n f o l k . O n e I h i s l i n e . A t the s a m e t i m e , i f a b u c k
d a v last f a l l O l i v e r L a m o r a sen t h i s s h o u l d c o m e j u m p i n ' o v e r v o n d e r
s o n t o B a y P o n d a f t e r a n e w s p a p e r
w h i c h he e x p e c t e d . T h e s o n re
t u r n e d e m p t y h a n d e d . T h e r e u p o n
t h e o l d m a n s h o u l d e r e d h i s r i f l e a n d
' P r i v a t e P a r k ' s i g n a n d t r y t o b i t e
m e o n t h e ear , I w o u l d n ' t g u a r a n t e e
b u t w h a t he m i g h t get h u r t . "
Thai I t a k e i t . is the f e e l i n g w h i c h
set ou t h i m s e l f . A t the p o s t o f f i c e j w i l l c o n t i n u e t o e x i s t i n B r a n d o n as
he f o u n d W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r a n d . l o n g as the t o w n w i t h s t a n d s t h e
F l a n d e r s , t h e w a t c h e r . L a m o r a de
c l a r e s w i t h g l e e t ha t R o c k e f e l l e r i m -
m e d i a t l y s t e p p e d b e h i n d h i s e m p l o y e
a n d m a i n t a i n e d t h a t s t r a t e g i intoiop
t h r o u g h t h e p r o c e e d i n g s . N o t tha t
t h e r e was a n y d a n g e r , s a v s the o l d
m a n , f o r h e o n l y b r o u g h t t h e wea
p o n to p r o t e c t h i m s e l f a g a i n s t M r .
R o c k e f s l l e r ' s w i l d d e e r . I . a m o r a
d e m a n d e d h i s p a p e r . T h e post
m a s t e r i n s t i t u t e d a s e a r c h , f o u n d it
i n a c o r n e r w h e r e i t h a d b e e n m i s
l a i d , a n d d e l i v e r e d i t w i t h a n a p o l
o g y .
F a r l y l a s t w i n t e r i n q u i r i e s w e r e
set a f o o t i n W a s h i n g t o n b y C o l l i e r ' s
as t o the r e a s o n f o r t h e r e m o v a l o f
t h e B r a n d o n p o s t o t f i c e . F o u r t h
A s s i s t a n t P o s t m a s t e r G e n e r a l B r i s
t o w k n e w n o t h i n g o f the c a s e . H e
i n s t i t u t e d a s e a r c h a n d f o u n d the
p e t i t i o n w i t h the 74 n a m e s . A n i n
s p e c t o r w a s d i s p a t c h e d to B r a n d o n .
H e r e p o s t e d a n d e.u l \ in the vear ,
o n r e c o m m e n d a t i o n o f M r . C o n r a d ,
w h o h a d t a k e n B r i s t o w ' s p l a c e , the
o f f i c e was r e - e s t a b l i s h e d . J u s t at
p r e sen t B r a n d o n seems to b e a l i t t l e
a h e a d i n t h e g a m e w i t h R o c k e f e l l e r .
W i l l i a m R o c k e f e l l e r d o e s n o t s eem
to b e an o b j e c t o f p e r s o n a l h a t r e d :
as f o r i n s t a n c e , h i s n e i g h b o r , ( I r l a n d o
P . D e x t e r , w h o met so t r a g i c a n d
m y s t e r i o u s a n e n d in 1 0 0 ; . D e x t e r
w a s a m i l l i o n a i r e ow n e r w h o h a d no t
o n l y p r o s e c u t e d r e l e n t l e s s l y , but
p r o s e c u t e d w i t h a l l the p o w e r s o f
t h e l a w , t h o s e w h o a t t e m p t e d to
m a i n t a i n w h a t t h e y c o n s i d e r e d t h e i r
r i g h t s a g a i n s t h i m . O p e 11 I y
R o c k e f e l l e r c o u l d b r i n g to b e a r , a n n o u n c i n g h i s i n t e n t t o r u i n c e r t a i n
m a k e r , o f w i l d e r n e s s .
Socialist News From State Headquarters.
B u t t e l o c a l has e x p e l l e d A l d e r m a n
S i l a s W a i n s c o t t f o r v i o l a t i o n o f S o
c i a l i s t p r i n c i p l e s .
M o t h e r J o n e s w i l l e n t e r t h e s ta te
J u n e 1st at B i l l i n g s , a n d w i l l m a k e
21 da tes i n M o n t a n a ; a l l l o c a l s de
s i r i n g a l e c t u r e f r o m M o t h e r J o n e s
w i l l w r i t e the s ta te s e c r e t a r y a t o n c e
as da tes a re r a p i d l y b e i n g filled.
D . B u r g e s s o f W a s h i n g t o n w i l l fill
a few da t e s i n M o n t a n a d u r i n g J u n e .
W e w a n t to m a k e a few d a t e s f o r
J . H . W a l s h i n C a s c a d e c o u n t v. a n d
d e s i r e t o h e a r f r o m S o c i a l i s t s o n the
N e i h a r t b r a n c h c o n c e r n i n g s a m e .
D a t e s s h o u l d be m a d e f o r S t o r k e t t .
S a n d C o u l e e , B e l t a n d N e i h a r t .
A s s o o n as finances w i l l p e r m i t ,
B e n F . W i l s o n w i l l s t a r t a t o u r of
t h e s t a t e ; he o u g h t t o s t a r t i n J u n e .
L e t us h e a r f r o m the l o c a l s c o n c e r n
i n g h i s t o u r .
A b o u t the las t o f J u l y I d a C r o u c h
I l a / l e t t w i l l en t e r the s t a t e b v the
G r e a t N o r t h e r n r o u t e f r o m t h e east.
T h e r e is p r o s p e c t s o f a f e w n e w
l o c a l s b e i n g o r g a n i z e d i n t h e n e a r
f u t u r e , a n d q u i t e a n u m b e r o f l o c a l s
h a v e t h r o w n o f f t h e i r l e t h a r g y , a n d
a r e p r e p a r i n g f o r a g o o d s u m m e r
c a m p a i g n . I et us hops t ha t the l o
c a l s w i l l k e e p a c t i v e , as t h e r e is lo t s
o f w o r k to be d o n e .
A p o l i t i c a l a n d e c o n o m i c critil is
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Subs are needed at this office. Have vou sold anv of late?
The l'.utte local is reported not dead, but uist taking a sleep.
How do vou expect a newspaper to live unless you send in a few subscriptions?
The Socialist, published at Toledo Ohio by Titus and Mailly is sure coming to the front. It is a better paper every week.
The Independent with its 7 0 0 daih circulation is "having 'em" up the street, because it is getting punched in the short ribs. There is something to organi/ed labor vet, eh?
The Helena local now has 24 dues paying members in good standing. That is about the largest and best the organization has ever been in the history of the city. It is equal or ahead of Hutte now.
It looks as if Mr. Merger would have to go. No use talking no man gets larger than the party. While Merger has been howling about De-Leon he has been trying to be one himself it appears. Hut nit!
The Social-1 >emocrat Herald of Wisconsin says that the Montana News and The Referendum take the cake for noddle-headed net 1." That's pretty stiff argument, and we can't at present, find anything in Marx to refute it.
Al l the large newspapers in the state are run at a loss monthly. This explains to you what the newspaper business is then. How do you expect a Socialist paper under such competition to keep on running unless yon put your shoulder to the wheel and send in some names of new subrcriber>?
The trouble atnomg the comrades of Washington in prefering charges against Comrade Titus, now of Toledo, Ohio, takes on another ap-parence after reading the statement of the case by Comrade Titus. It was bad work for Socialists from start to finish. It appears that some of the enthusiastic ones are lead away with their zeal to do something in the Socialist cause whether right or wrong.
On page 5 of the last issue of Wilshire's Magazine is a large ad-vertisment of Post's "Scab l'ostum,' and on the next page is the typographical union label. This is an example of your cheap literature. The price of subscription to the worker is so low, 1 0 cents per year, that a loss is entailed on every journal put out, and the deficit must be made up by sounding the praises of some scab, adulterated product of food M u f f .
Looks as if McOinnis of Itutte would institute a few Socialistic measures. C o to it M c , Socialism is as good from the hands of one party as another, just so you give us the pure QttilL We will accept all improvements in conditions that
you can offer, and last but not least we will take the whole chunk when the time arrives. V'our reform palatives will do no harm to the oncoming of Socialism, for when the masses become educated they will demand, and take for labor the full product of labors' toil.
THAT WORKINGMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CLUB.
The capitalist papers of this city-have had quite a little to say in a "boosting way" of the new organization of the "Workingmen's Educational C lub . "
It comes of bail grace to see these citizens' alliance sheets boosting a workingman's organization, and the suspicion is at once aroused as to whether the head of such a concern is not composed principally of what is known as "labor fakirs." A causal glance at the report containing the names of the incorporators coupled with the free boost of the above designated paper tells the old, old story of "Hirds of feather fiock together."
The report from the Amalgamated Record says: —
The incorporators are the board of trustees—H. A. Canoll, Fred ?anden, Frank Fuller, William Croseclose and E. P. Crady.
Frank Andrews is president of the club and C. J. Mackey secretary.
The head of this new booze joint — Messrs Canoll and Sanden—were both known as labor fakirs in the last legislature, and both pose as Socialists but neither belong to the organization or pay any dues.
Mr. Canoll is a mining man, one that mines the miner, but never does any mining with the pick or shovel; a fine representative to be at the head of a "Workman's Educational C lub . "
Mr. Sanden is "manager" of a local clothing house, and an espous-er of opportunism that he has got badly mixed up with Socialism. He is one that works the workers, that work under him, and a typical "representative" to be at the head of a "Workingman's Educational Club"—a booze joint that incorporates in order to avoid license, or in other words to scab on the legitimate saloon business of the city.
There is no need for this new organization in Helena whatever. It must be composed of fakirs, so far as the workingman's interests are concerned, for he needs no more education along the booze route.
There is an educational organization in this city for working men and also the working women: it is not on the order of the booze joint where workingmen's wives and families are barred from participation. It is an organization affiliated with the workers of Lewis and Clark county; with the worker of Montana: with the workers of the United States: and with the international worker's movement of the world. There are 24 dues paying members in that organization today, of whom a few are women. 'Their money is not spent for booze, but for literature. This "Workingman's Educational C lub" meets every Wednesday night at 22 Park avenue, and with this organization in the field; organized as it is, there is no need for any more clubs of the above mentioned nature, much less a booze joint where the poor worker can still be educated by some of the "workers," who work the worker, to spend the last nickle he has for booze, upon the opportunist plea that "some one will sell it to hirn anyhow."
The thing for the worker to do,— that is the one who really works, we don't mean one of these fakirs—is to cut such opportune prospositions off of the pockets. Why should these over zealous opportunists, if they are sincere in their devotion to educating the worker, stand aloof from the only real workers'organization in the world today? Why do they not align with the only movement of the working class that is organized in every state in the union and in nearly every civilized country of the world today? Why do these "dear workers" in the interest of the "working man," not the working women ami children of these men—desire to institute another booze joint? Have they any other
argument than that the workers will spend their money in saloons, and uist as well spend it in their own? Is this kind of argument logical, scientific or opportunistic?
"Workers of the world unite, you have nothingto lose but) ourchains," saiil Karl Mar\ , and upon this m i \un the true "W orking Men and W'omen" are uniting in the Socialist movement which is the only educa tional club for the workers. Let u say too, that nowhere has the So cialist movement stooped to the depth of opening booze joints, upon the opportunistic plea "that it is the only way you can get the workers together to teach them." The element of workers that can only be gotten together by the booze rout, who are living examples of the present demnable system, can never be taught the principles of Scientific Revolutionary Socialism. The revolution does not lay in the hands of that man of today. It lies in the hands of the working class, of tomorrow; and who are today in the schools and at work.
The above organization is headed and manned by poor examples of the working class. It received too many commendatory suggestions f rom the citizens' alliance press to be strongly right on the working class ground. There is no need of the organization. If the promoters of it are sincere, the Socialist organization the proletariat movement of the world— stands with open arms to welcome them into an educational organization for men and women alike.
W orking men should scorn such moves as these, and realize that these false teachers via., the booze route have sometning to learn themselves.
Thev stand as the conservatives, opportunists of the day. Their philosophy of the solution of the working class is the philosoph of misery. They would sell more booze in order to do away with the booze trouble. 'They would place a barrel of good apples around a bad one to save it. 'Thev would, and do work contrary to all scientific and natural laws. Their natural inherent over zealousness for immedate demands is the cause. The same as the dog that grabbed to get the large bone he saw in the river, when it was only the shadow of the one he had in his mouth. Always going to move things rapidly or out of their natural order, and then at the end stand the conerva-tives in society, the same as the church and preachers, while across the way remains the red light district, the tin horn and the saloons.
Hosh! This is all nonsense and sooner or later the worker must learn the lesson that is before him. M a n y a worker will not agree with the News on this side of the matter, but the time must come when yon will have learned the lesson, but not of course until after you have been trapped.
The Montana News extends to all of the workers of this state, on behalf of the class conscious Socialist movement, to align with your own organization and one that admits your wife and children and declares in every principle in the upbuilding and education of all the workers but not for the booze proposition in a single instance.
one introduced in a Montana legis lature. He was also the initiator of the free school text book idea which won out.
When the populists fused with the democrat! and labor party. Comrade Elliott withdrew, and was one of the men instrumental in organizing the Socialist party of Montana. He was the congressional nominee in 1900.
His last campaigning was done in Carbon county last fall for the Socialist ticket.
A family consisting of a wife and six children survive him, the oldest 20 ami the youngest 2 years.
The party mourns his loss and extend to his bereaved family their sincere expression of condolence in this time of sorrow.
MARTIN J. ELLIOTT IS DEAD
Martin J. Elliott of liutte died May 11 at the St. James hospital after a long spell of suffering and sickness and a third operation for kidney trouble.
Comrade Elliott was 48 years old and well know in the labor movement of this state. He was a switchman in the yards at Hutte at the time ofthenotedA. R.U..strike, and as a member of the executive board was called to Chicago, where he afterwards served time in Woodstock jail with Comrade Eugene V. Debs.
In 1S9I he was aligned with the populist party and while in Chicago attending to union business, he was nominated by the populist convention of Silver How county for the legislature, which resulted in his election that fall. He was noted for his ardent work in the 5th legislative assembly in support of an initiative and referendum bill , the first
In defining Socialism Wilshire says:
"Sociolism means the government ownership of railways, factories, lands and other instruments of production and the payment of wages upan the co-operative system instead of the competitive system."
This strikes the News as being a new one. " A n d the payment of wages upon the co-op e r a t i v e system," is a good one for Comrade Herger to get onto. Socia 1 i s m means the abolition of wages.
Every Socialist should attend his local meetings, pay his dues and see if he can be of some good to the cause. You can do your share no matter how incompetent you feel that vou are. Your services are as necessary as the most prominent speaker or writer. Always bear this in mind ami remember, that the one to help is the one who does the task set aside for him.
W . A. Clark is looking for the next term in the United States senate. It will cost him about $5,000,-0 0 0 this time, or five times as much as before.
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approaching: we must be organized to take advantage of it.
Now comrades, one and all, see that the sale of special organizing stamps is pushed with renewd vigor; bring the subject before your local.
Have you secured a copy of Revolution to Revolution, scents. Rush your orders to headquarters for literature. Did you order the American Farmer, 50 cents?
The state referendum No. 2 on amendments to the constitution resulted in the following vote: Article 1, Section 5, 130 for | J against. Article Y , Section 1, 113 for 30 against. Article V, Section 4, 130 for 10 against. Article Y , Section 7, 134 for 8 against. Article Y , Section 18, 140 for 2 against. Article 6, Sections 5 and 6, 107 for 6 against. Article 6. Section 8, 81 for 62 against. Article 6, Section 11, 125 for 18 against. Article 7, Section 1, 127 for 16 against.
* To the members of the Socialist
party of Montana. Comrades there is a balance of
575-00 of the old debt contracted by former secretary 1'. J. Cooney still standing against the state organization, which is keeping us from earring on the work of organization and education throughout the state.
At a meeting of the local quorom held on Apr i l 23rd the state secre-tar was instructed to ask all members of the Socialist party in Montana to donate from 10 to 25 cents during the month of May for the purpose of paying off this indebtedness. Let every c o m r a d e donate a little and the old debt will be wiped out and the state committee will be able to vigorously carry on the summer campaign.
Has your local appointed a committee to solicit donations. Have this circular read at each meeting of the local during the month of May.
Frantenly submitted, J A S . D . G R A H A M ,
State Secretary.
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Hozeman, Mont., May 15, 1905. Dear Sir and Comrade: I gave
you a dollar the night you were here in Hozeman at the opera house. Please let me know or change my time for another year.
Yours Truly, M . S T K F A N Y .
[Your name has been put on. Your card was misplaced. Thanks for your prompt notice in calling our attention to the matter. If the comrades would alwavs do this we will see that the News reaches them. —Kditor . ]
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Hillings, Mont. , May n , 1905. J. H . Walsh, Kditor Montana News:
Comrade Walsh: I received my copy of the News today and after reading it through I confess to a feeling of elation over the apparent awakening of the comrades throughout the state and 1 was particularly plased to see Kastern Montana represented by the local at I'orstfiy in such definite manner as Comrade lloltkamp's letter would indicate, lint 1 was not a little dissappointed by the absence of a communic ation from local Hillings because, to use Comrade Holtkanip's words, we, too have been trying to "help some." A comrade was elected to send the News a communication, but, as there was none published I take it for granted there was none received; if you received his too late for publication last time, have no scruples in kil l ing mine.
The third day of May we gave a social to which all party members and their friends were invited. Socially, it was a success and we hope it will be productive of good results, not only as propaganda but in organization. A feature of the evening was a contest in "speech-making ." The contestants were limited to a ten minutes talk and the V i c tor decided by a vote of the entire assemblage. A neatly bound copy of " A Hiography of Kar l Marx" was offered by the local as a prize to the winner. Those who contested were Comrades Horn, Roberts, Nelson and Trott, jr. Comrade Horn was awarded the prize. Comrade Skerving added much to the success of the evening by several cleverly rendered recitations. The rest of the evening was spent in feasting and card playing.
No definite action has yet been taken in regard to the engagement of "Mother" Jones for a lecture here, but "we have hopes."
Yours for Revolution, C T. Trott.
1'. S.— We have .local Forsyth beat by one point; we meet every Sunday afternoon.
C. T. T.
cash is used in buying leaflets of the pocket library series for distribution. If we should decide to take a press share it would take the local over a year to pay for one share unless the present membe r s h i p could be increased;now I have heard so many hard luck stories myself that 1 positively refuse to tell you one. So I enclose check for J10.00 personally—you may apply on press share or on editor's salary. As long as I hold my present position I could spare /5 00 per month rather than see the News suspend. I would like to have you talk to the Kibbey folks but the farmers are busy now with seeding and Sunday would be the only day you could get a crowd; if you could get some other dates on this branch a Kibbey meeting on a Sunday could be made a success.
Yours for the Revolution, J. M . R K C T O R .
Monarch, Mont. 3, 10, '05. Comrade Walsh, Yours of 1st
at hand. The wage slaves here all have a hard luck story ready when I ask them for a sub or to buy a press share— strange isn't it, that men give so grudgingly to aid in their own emancipation? If you could only get half the wage slave money that goes for booze or into the slot machines in Mont., you could give us a paper that would make the editor of the Hutte Miner turn green with envy. ( hir local has only 7 members and our treasury
Clancy, Mont., May 10, '05 To the Montana News:
Mask off! War Paint on!! Mr. Post has blowed out a gasket
He raved with all the madness of dispair
He roared he smote his breast he tore his hair.
Evidently Mr . Post of scab coffee faim has had a horrible night mare; by the way he has flew off the handle. Say you grafter you better join the busters union along with Carrie Nation and Teddy Roosevelt; you bust the unions—All except the engineer's—Don't bust them because you might need them to haul troops to shoot down honest working men. See.
As I said before you bust the unions while Carrie busts the saloons and its a safe bet by that time Teddy will have busted the trusts. Why you poor thing you make a Socialist; smile you talk about laboring with brain to make money to pay those who labor with their hands. You poor little parasite those words prove beyond a doubt that you are entirely ignorant of what you are trving to tell some one something about.
Your long on Postumand short on brains. You better take your (Irapenut machinery and get the off earth, you and all the rest of the parasites have an offensive smell to all honest men. Socialism and unionism is here and will be long after all such grafters as you are dead and forgotten. The medicine is bitter of course but the doctor says its good for you and you will have to take it. And the name of the doctor is Socialism.
J O H N BRACK.
To the Socialist of Minnesota, Comrades: A peculiar condition
of affairs exists in the Wisconsin State organization of the Socialist Party and local Minneapolis of the public-ownership (Socialist) party presents the following facts for you to act on through your local.
1 Comrade Victor L . Rerger, member of the national executive committee of the Socialist party and national committeeman from Wisconsin, published in the "Wahr-heit." a German Socialist newspaper, two editorials, advising the Socialists of Milwaukee to refrain from placing a candidate for judge in the field for the spring election.
2 The city central committee of local Milwaukee of the S. I). P., also advised the members to vote by referendum against placing a candidate for judge in the field.
3 As a result of the advice of Victor L. Herger and said city committee the members of local M i l waukee decided by referendum ballot not to enter the campaign.
4 1 ollowing this Vidtor L, Herger wrote two editorials advising Socialists in Milwaukee to vote against one capitalist candidate in favor of another.
5 That said editorials were submitted to the city central committee before they were inserted in the "Wahrheit" and were approved and endorsed by that body.
f It is a fact that the Wisconsin state organization has no charter from the national office.
7 It is the only state that refuses to furnish the national ottice a list of its local organizations.
H It is the only state that refuses to use the due stamps issued by the national office.
The foregoing paragraphs are each individually and all collectively in \iolation of the national constitution of the Socialist party, therefore be it;
Resolved by the central committee of local Minneapolis of the public ownership (Socialist) party that the proper dicipline of Victor L lierger would be his expulsion from the national executive committee bv the national committee and local Minneapolis requests the co-operation of all locals of Minnesota to endorse this, our instructions, for national committeemen, Comrade Holman and Peach, to take all action that may be necessary to remove Victor L . Herger from the national executive committee, to compel the state organization of Wisconsin to take out a charter from the national ottice, and to comply with the provisions
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V o i l e Skir ts .
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The dHys IIr«- here when the spring •tilt Is to We | H H 4 M i the H V models nr»- certainly Hiniirt iiml becoming. Very stunning are checked voile skirts worn with short. Jaunty l i t t le Jackets of taffeta tucked In the prettiest kind of fa-hion.
Pongee In natural color and the blue Unit conies In such a good simile in this material will lie used for shirt waist lUlts inn] stunning loose coats to wear over fluffy summer dresses
Burllnghnm Is another material which lends Itself beautifully to the needs of the tailor walking continue. It looks tike silk hopsaeklng and Is very serv Iceahle and at tractive.
Mohair Is the most satisfactory fabric for hard wear and In Its present nipple weave adapts Itself perfectly to tbe demands of fashion.
Panama cloth, the plain being eonatd-m l smarter, makes an Ideal coat and
acme of the season's novelties Very •mart Is the Dutch collar of eyelet embroidery. The linen turnover collar ami cuffs are of the same work. Kllet net •ppll<iued with a fleur-de-lls forum tha Corners of the deep linen turnover, and herringbone I* the dainty finish of the pointed collar.
W A R M W E A T H E R M I L L I N E R Y . A most nttractlve spring hat la of
bronze horsehair braid. The brim, which Is turned up in front, gives the appearance of a trlcome hat at the aid' s and back. The crown is softly Indented on the top. It Is very simply trimmed with folded hands of hronse velvet, which tie drreetly In front Into A five looped how laid on the upturned brim and rest almost on the hair The bat Is encircled with one lung r
Not, O O W K O F M T S T A H D C L O T H .
Alrt gown, the skirt plaited and the eoat a trim little blouscd affair tucked Into a high girdle of silk or velvet
Tile spring costume illustrated Is of mustard cloth. The skirt Is trimmed with twonrws of brown silk fllier braid two Inches wide. Above the bands Is a design done in narrow braid in geometrical figures and tilled in with rows of bronze buttons. The blouse Is draped In plaits about the figure and trim med with braid. The smart little inner Teat is of Irish lace fastened with two Hues of tiny buttons. Braid also trims the shoulders and full sleeves.
H A T S A N D W A I S T S . Fine crinoline straws In the most ex
traordinary . (dors are the first of the spring novelties to be launched. The shape Is neither large nor small, and the crown is low, a mere apology for a crown, and the hat proper rises like a saucer around It.
The colors In the new hats are puce, amethyst anil a kind of hluey mauve difficult to describe and all the tones of green, rose, pink, red and white.
The trininling on tills saucer-like bat la of the simples! description—a fold of velvet around the crown tied in n knot with two pointed ends In front and a feather aa a trimming over the back.
The art of the new millinery consists In the selection of shades, for straw, velvet and feather are not alike, bat harmonize perfectly.
On lingerie blouses medallions of em broidery are trimmed around with uiir
P O L O T o y t r . n» ROSE run*, colored ostrich plume. It starts at the back and contiuues 'around the crown. At the left side the plume curls over the brim and hangs down towurd the back.
Barut lil.ics adorn one smart hat, and roses crushed and faded are to be seen on all the millinery of the moment.
Picture hats in smaller shapes will reign side by side with the tiuy models Paris has whimsically insistisl upon all the world wearing.
Linen b us are exquisite and ure stunning when made of eyelet or unglalse embroidery. They launder well and may be always kept t i e sh and attractive
The spring hats are simply trimmed and depend for their style entirely Upon shape and coloring.
The smart little totpie Illustrated la called the "polo." It is carried out In rose crin, the braid forming In rows the deep upturned brim. Directly In front of the toi|ue are aa sjgral and a panache of shaded ostrich feathers.
L I N G E R I E N O V E L T I E S . Double beading is one of the lingerie
novelties of the hour. This double beading, combined with narrow < ;er-man valeucicuues. ts made up into the daintiest and prettiest of collar and cuff seta and the dearest little yokes.
Duplicates of the old fashioned tuck ar are to be seen everywhere In tbe
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row valcin leunes luce. The material ts cut from under the embroidery, and the effect Is very lacy nnd pretty.
One charming organdie waist has a finely tucked yoke outlined with medallions of swIss embroidery trimmed around with narrow Ineo. The medal-law are put so close together thnt the narrow tare rutlles fluff up against each other In a froufrouy fashion.
The collar and cuff sots pictured are
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dress world. All over embroidery is used for Uiis purpose, and sheer tucked material with entre deux of lace is Quite as smart. The tucker is used as a small yoke to give the fashionable touch of white about tbe face or fills in the V front formed by the sur-pllced waist effect.
Another quaint conceit of the summer will be the matching of a prominent color In a flowered dress design to be carried out in girdle, shoes and stockings. This touch gives an Individuality to a guwu.
Some of the charming spring models Parts has sent over are trimmed with flat crystal buttons.
French ribbon embroidery Is o.vu slonally to be found on the elaborate spring frock, but braid, luce and orl ental embroidery are the trimmings
I moat used. The dress In the cut Is suitable for
a girl of ten. It Is developed In fancy dotted beige voile. The full gathered Skirt tins two puffings of beige chiffon taffeta. A putting of this silk outlines the shirred yoke, which extends surplice fashion down the front of the blouscd waist. The girdle and pompa-dour bows forming the bodice trim nilng are of almond green velvet. The sleeves ure formed of two puffs above deep cuffs. Jl'DIC C H O L L E T .
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of the national constitution. Resolved further that local Min
neapolis does not consider Victor L. Berber a fit person to serve on the national committee for the following reason:
(a) That the state organization of Wisconsin is not working under a charter issued by the national organization.
(b) That they buy no due stamps and therefore have no direct connection with the national movement.
(c^That said Victor L Rerger, personal)-, violated the national constitution and platform of the Socialist party of America by using his influence to prevent the nomination of a candidate for judge by the S. D. P., and, afterwards, openly advocated the election of a candidate on one of the capitalist tickets.
Resolved that the organizer of local Minneapolis make a mimeograph copy of these resoltions, send a copy to Comrades Holman and Peach, the secretaries of the locals in Minnesota, the national secretary and the Socialist press.
W. H . BROWN, Organizer.
W. L HE E M A N , Chairman of Session
May, 8, 1905.
Montana News. Wi l l you please send me a couple
copies of the paper containing my letter. Also will you let me know if you keep postal sub cards, I will try and get you a few subs. Let me hear from you as soon as you conveniently can. I am still working on the Santa Fe on the extra list. Expect to go to work out of Missoula soon. Excuse brevity.
Yours for Revolution, J. C A R L O S B E C K E R ,
Gen. Del. Denver Colo.
There is over one hundred unorganized places that must be visited by Socialist speakers this summer you can help in this work by donating to the state campaign fund.
Rank And File Speak Again.
Vonkers, N . Y . , May 7, 1905. Dear Comrades: — Local Yonkers,
Social Democratic Party, state of New York, at a meeting held on Mav 1st, unanimously endorsed, despite the lukewarm attitude of our National Committeemen, Spargo, Han ford and Hilhjuit, the resolutions offered by Local Crestline, state of Ohio.
We believe the rank and file will repudiate the action of Merger and his co-workers in compromisng the
great cause of Socialism in M i l -wuakee.
Fraternally yours, J O H N k l l 1.KK1 .
Yonkers, N . Y.
Shall Ben Wilson tour Montana this summer? "It is up to you comrades."
Telegraphers. All progressive trade-union journals
in the I'nited States admit intelli gent and respectful treaties ofpoliti-ral questions which are of vital importance to the working class. Our journal refuses admission to articles bearing on the economic question. I ask every comrade operator who reads these lines to immediatly write Brother L . W. Quick, St. Louis, Mo., editor of the Order Railway Telegraphers'Journal, a personal letter requesting that political questions, of any character, be properly given space in our journal, and induce as many telegraphers as possible to do likewise. f j . " — F r a -ternallv, Henry Lynch, Great Northern Division, No. 70, O. R. T .
Storrs, Mont., May 17. 1905. J. H . Walsh, Helena, Montana.
Dear Sir and Comrade: Yours of the n t h at hand. The good book says Bear ye one another's burdens. And I would not claim the honor of being a Socialist if I would not renew. So enclosed please find my dollar. I would send it if I had to rob a hen roost to get it. As to the others 1 will see them tomorrow and see what can be done.
I see by your letter that you some times have the blues and have doubts as to )our paper's worth. I ' l l tell you what 1 think: the paper is al l O. K . , but the trouble is with the comrades. They can have any thing they want if they will quit quarrel ing with their neighbors, open their eves, roll up their sleeves and send in their dollars.
II v the way did you not leave something behind when you were at Chestnut? I think you did. Some thing like a hornets' nest, by the way some of them got stung. You will always see a bird that has been hit begin to flutter, and that is just what a goodly number of them are doing ever since the lecture.
Co to them hot and heavv; it is what they need, and I am with you to the end.
Fraternally Yours, DOC M O N R O E .
The summer campaign has now commenced.
Chesnut Mont., May 13, 1905 J. H . Walsh, Helena Mont.
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. . Uorsey Arrive 12:55 p. m. , . Summit Leave 12:30 p. m. . . Summit Arrive 12:00 m. . . Lennep Arrive 11:20 a. m. Martinsdalc Arrive 10:53 a. m.
. . Twodot Arrive 10:23 a. m. Harlowtown Arrive 9:55 a. rru . . . Ubet Arrive 8135 a. rn.
. . . Moore Arrive 7:50 a. m. m Lcwistown Leave 7:00 a. m.
MONTANA RAILROAD CO., Helena, Montana
BANKING BY MAIL The Union Hank & Trust Company receives deposits by mail on ex
actly the same terms as though made in person at the Hank. The mails are entirely safe and are convenient, and people in all parts
of the country transact banking in this manner. Deposits may be sent by registered mail, postoftice or express money
order, or by bank check or draft. As soon as we receive the first deposit it will be entered on our books, and a passbook mailed the depositor as a receipt for the money deposited.
We have issued a small booklet telling of the simple way in which an account can be opened by mail and we will send a copy of it free to anvone asking for the same.
ACCOUNTS OPENED FROM ONE DOLLAR UPWARDS FOUR PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS
THE UNION BANK & TRUST CO. OF MONTANA, AT HELENA
Capital - $250,000 OFFICERS
GEORGE L . R A M S E Y , President A . P. C U R T A I N Nice President F R A N K HOC, A R T S. M c K E N N A N - • Treasurer C. F. M O R R I S - • •
D I R E C T O R S
W . A . C L A N K A . f . CURTIN R . C . W A L L A C K W . I.. I I A I I . K V G E O R G E L . R A M S E Y F R A N K l l O ( . A R T
• .Cashier Secretary
h a o c u t o r o f Hi.- H . nr> K l l l a i Batata A t t o r n e y of V i r g i n i a C i t y
» ' H . l . n a . of i h e N . t . W a l l a c e C n n i , " , , , " ' H i i' i ia. Capitalist
PrasMaM C a s h i e r
one dollar for renwal of the News. With best wishes to you and the Socialist movement,
I am yours truly, ( H AS S W A N .
See that J. H . Walsh and his stereopticon visits your town.
Stevensville, Mont., May 13, '05. Dear Comrade: There is a mis
take somew here in my communication as I meant to say capitalist papers and if I said local paper it was my mistake.
Yours Truly, J. W O R T H C . O O D S O N .
Did you pay you dues last meeting night?
A Capitalist Lie Refuted By Facts There is always two sides to a
story, is the old saying, and such is the case with regard to the condition of the Miners at Aldridge. The fo l lowing interview by H . G . Merry givin to the Record of this city one day last week, tells the philanthropic side of the parisite that exploits labor every day that it works:
" H . O, Merry, manager of the Montana Coal & Coke company at Electric, Park county, formerly Horr, w ho has been in the city a few days, says that the plant is still idle although he is making every effort to resume operations. The company has had a difficulty with some of its employes for a period of several months over the refusal of the company to employ certain men and the plant which usually has monthly pay roll of $25,000 or $30,000 is contributing nothing to the community. Mr. Merrv declares he is not fighting the union and is willing to pay the scale asked in Montana for coal miners and cokemen but he proposes to exercise the right of hiring whomsoever he desires. According to him the trouble started over the discharge of certain malcontents who were breeding trouble continually rather than working for the interests of the company which employed them.
" l i e says the men engaged in the fight on the company meet every incoming train and by threats and intimidation force intending workmen to turn back. He has appealed to the sheriff of Park county for assistance and a deputy sheriff has been delegated to preserve order. The manager says if the sheriff canm >t afford his plant the protec tion the law guarntees he will have to ask a higher authority. Mr. Merry seems disposed to be fair in the matter, being willing to pay union wages and not run counter to the union rules, but he insists he shall have the right to employ whatever men he knows by former experience are fitted fur the position."
n In answer to the above mess of
misstatements, Alex I airgrieve president of the Motana State federation of Labor has the following truth to tell the Record about the conditions of the Aldridge miners and the trouble existing:
"I notice in the issue of the Record of Mav () a misstatement of the conditions now existing at Aldridge and l lorr , where the Montana Coal & Coke company operates a mine and coking plant. The name "Elec t r ic" is used in this interview purposely to mislead miners who are looking for work. By omitting the names of Aldridge and Horr men would be led to believe that all the trouble was settled at those places and that "Peace and harmony prevailed."
Mr. Merry says that the < ompany has had difficulty with some of its employes for a period of several months and that the trouble arose over certain of the employes whom he refuses to re-employ; that he has nothing against the union and that he is willing to pay the state scale.
On August 23, 1004, Mr. Merry, in an interview with a reporter of the Livingston Post, said that he was in formed by someone (but declined to give any name) that the Aldridge union contemplated demanding the same wages paid in other coal camps in Montana and that in order to teach the miners a lesson he would close down the entire works until the men would be whipped into subjec
tion. At that time it was the scale that bothered Mr . Merry. That statement nine months ago and the one now made by Mr. Merry don't jibe very well. The trouble started over the discharge of all the em-•-loves, and not a few of them.
There is no regular scale in Montana governing the price of mining coal; different sized coal veins demand various prices for digging. For instance, Red Lodge pays 75 cents in No. 4 vein, 85 cents in No. 5 vein and so on Chestnut and Mountain Side differ in price, although both are owned by the same company. It is impossible to have one price apply to all coal mines in the state, Mr. Merry has offered to pay some of the men who are employed by the day the scale paid in other camps, but not all, and in order to do this he wants the coal miners to accept a reduction in the price paid per ton. He offers them 70 cents for 2,240 pounds, a long ton; a legal ton in Montana is 2,000 pounds. He wants to rob Peter to pay Paul.
For nine months these men have struggled peacefully to maintain their union and get what their brother miners in other camps have—a living wage for a fair and just day's work There never has been any rioting or ungentlemanly conduct among them. The only ones who have violated any law were the men whom Mr, Merrv imported. When Mr. Richards was made foreman he and his companion, Mr . Jones, got into trouble with someone (not a miner) and was shot. This occuurred in the company's saloon; and by the way, it may be well to mention that in connnection with the coal mines and coke works the Montana Coal «V Coke company runs two company stores and two or three company saloons in order to Christaini/e its employes.
The citizens of that section of Park county know that everything is being conducted peaceably by the locked-out miners, and it will continue so. There never was $25,000 or $30,000 paid out to the miners of these camps. Park county never received the benefit of this amount the company was recipient of its own payroll.
ALEX KAIRGRIEVE, Pres. Mont . Federation of Labor.
Eggj a n d Cheese. Cut very thin I quarter of a
pound of cheese and put it in a frying pan over a slow fire. Add to it half a cupful of milk, butter, a pinch each of salt and pepper. Stir until the cheese i> almost melted. Then add thrt'e well beaten eggs with half a cupful of milk. Cook until set, and serve in a hot dish or on thin toast. An agate pan is much the best for BhoOMb
Save Bita of Soap. Take dry bits of old soap and
pound them to n powder. Put them in I DO* I and set the bowl in boiling; water. To a cup of the OOwdof add a quart of water. To this add ten drops of benzoin and a tablespoonf 111 of borax powder. Let it simmer unti l th«' soaj) is dissolved. Pour to cool into wide mouthed bottle.
Dye For tha Hair. The following hair dye is to be
used after the hair has been thoroughly shampooed with eastile soup and dried. Do not prepare it yourself, but intniMt it to a good dnifr-gi.-t : One quortot ounce prronlM acid dissolved in one and one-half ounce- of hot distilled water. When cool add one ounce of alcohol.
Sewing Black Cotton Gooda. When sewing black cotton ma
t e r i a l , such as Italian cloth, sateen and bhiik prints, always use silk, as the black sewing cotton turns rusty with wear and washing and spoils the appearance of the articles on which it is used.
Toaat For Invalid*. A sick person wil l sometimes eat
water toast when other food is re-
Sugnant. Toast bread crisply and ip just for a second in boiling salt
ed water. Keniove instantly to a hot dish, butter lightly and servs.
Homemade Cologne. One quart alcohol, two drams
oach of oil of lemon, bergamot and rosemary, one dram of oil of lavender, ten drops each of oil of cloves and cinnamon, eight drops of musk and two drops of oil of rose.
Obstinate Fruit Jar Cover.. If tha OOVOt of a fruit jar sticks
do not attempt to wrench it off. Simply invert the jar and place the top in hot water for a minute. Thon try and you will find it turns easily. —Pi lg r im .
The following table shows the official Socialist vote by states and each state's percentage of the total vote:
State Debs vote Percent.
Cal i fornia a9>535 8.911 Montana 5.529 8* 705 Oregon 7,619 8.45 Nevada 025 7.633 Washington 9.975 6.952 Idaho 4.949 6.818 Illinois 69,225 6.445 Wisconsin 28,220 6.373 F l o r i d » a.337 5-945 U t a h 5.767 5-674 Kansas 15.494 4 773 Minnesota 11,692 4 0 0 5 Ohio 36,260 3-619 Wyoming 1,077 3.507 Nebraska 7,412 3.298 South Dakota. . . . 3 ,138 3.093
>4.847 3 0 5 6 Massachusetts . . 13,591 3-°*-5 North Dakota.. . . 2,017 2.874 Connecticut 4.543 2.384 New Jersey 9,587 2.232 New York 36,883 2.23 Maine 2,106 2.182 Missouri 13,008 2.027 Louisiana 995 1.836 Indiana 12,013 1.762 Michigan 8,941 1.721 Pennsylvania . . . 21,863 1.604 Arkansas 1.814 1.557 Vermont 859 1.478 Rhode Island 956 1.408 Colorado 4.304 ' . 3 S 2 New Hamphire . . 1 , 0 9 0 I . t t l Maryland 2,247 1.001 Texas 2,287 985 Kentucky 3,602 825 Alabama 853 783 Mississippi 392 672 West Virginia . . . . 1,574 654 Tennessee 1,354 557 I )elaware 146 332 Georgia 197 143 Virginia 218 122 North Carolina .. . . 124 059 South Carolina 22 035
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