The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-01
No Gear, no Slave,
No boodling Knave,
No k~nuckling down,
No one-man town.
WILL o SELL IT.?

Montanians, is your state capital FOL
sale?
IL not, isn't it about time you we're
saying so?
A rich and powerful corporation-the
richest and most powerful in the state
proposes to buy it, remove it far be-
You'd the center Of population, remote
from through lines of travel; to place it
on it's own grounds, in a town abso-
lutely owned and controlled by itself.
1t proposes that when you go to trans,
act public business you shall stop at It's
own hotel, pay the rates it presoribes
and, in your journeying to and fro, that
you shall pay toll on a railroad line
which it proposes to build and operate.
This corporation has no argument to
advance to you why the capital should
be surrendered to 1t; 1t knows, as you
know, the absolute %unfitness of the
town that it owns as a place for the seat
Of government-but it does not care a
rap for that.
1t believes that you will sell it for a
price!
1t proposes to pay that price, be it a
quarter Of a million, half a million or a
million.
Its paid agents Turk in every saloon
and alleyway in every town in the state,
flashing their rolls OF greasy Doodle in
the faces of the venal and the weak, cor
rupting the suffrage, debauching man.
hood.
1t says, in effect--this corporation
which is owned and controlled by mon
who live in New York and San Fran
cisco-"What do we care for the conve-
nience and welfare of the people of
Montana; we don't live there; we don't
intend ever to live there; some of these
days the mine will work out; we know
that; before that time comes we intend
to sell out to foreign capitalists; in fact
we have given n London syndicate an
option on our property and borrowed
several millions from it on a mortgages;
we know what we are about; don't you
see if we can get the capital located OF
our property we can get a bigger price
when we come to sell? Yes, we intend to
buy your capital. We have the stuff! 1t
only takes $4,000 votes. Well pay a
million dollars for 'em, il necessary.
You think you are the people Of Mon
tana, don't you? Well, there's where you
are wrong. Marcus DAILY is the people
of Montana. We want the capital, and
we're going to buy it. What are you
going to do about it? Say!"
Voters of Montana, what do you think
of the situation? How will you like to
have the Associated press flashing over
the wires next Tuesday night a dis
patch like this:
STATE CAPITAL SALE.
ANACONDA, Nov. S.-The Anaconda Copper
company. through Marcus DAILY. has pur-
chased the capital of Montana and will re-
move it at once to a site near it's works.
Consideration, 81, 600, 900. This greatly en-
hances the value of the companv's holdings
and it is understood that the London syn
dictate, which recently held an option on
the property, will become the owners of the
mines and works in a few DAYS. The Eng
lish capitalists are greatly pleased over the
purchase of the capital by the company.
The enormous output Of the mines pays no
taxes to the state--all the burdens of taxa
ton being put upon other interssts-and
the location of the capital here insures for
all time the defeat of any legislation that
may be attempted to that end.
Yes, voters of Montana, what are you
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