The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-02
IN SPITE OF THE LAW
Did Business, but They Had No
Stamps to Lick.
THEY HAVE NOT ARRIVED
The Banks Have Run Out Of Stamps.
Checks VIII Be Dated June 30.
Mine Employees to Be
Paid in Cash.

Those who had stamps to lick licked
them yesterday. But a great many
people in Butte didn't have stamps of
the right kind, and wen on doing bust
ness in spite of the law. None of the
druggists had the required revenue
stamps, but they went on doing bust
ness just the same. The stamps have
been ordered. but they have not arrived
yet. The check stamps were received
by the banks all right, and there was
a big sale of them, so big, in fact, that
most Of the banks ran out OF them
before the day was over. 1t will prob
ably be noted by the local banks that
more checks bear the date of June 80
tina bear any other date In the history
of the institutions For days yet
checks will be received dated back to
June so, no stamp being required on
checks dated before July 1.
When Butte gets down to business 1t
will furnish a big share of the war tax.
Most families in Butte pay their month
ly bills by checks instead OF paying
cash. The mining companies all pay
in checks. and the employees in most
concerns are paid in checks. A two-
cent stamp on each check will figure up
quite a bunch of money in the long
IuI. 10 tttaN 49,
companies and other concerns employ
ing many men will change their sys-
tenn. They will probably draw all the
money to meet the pay roll in one
check, and pay the employees in cash.
A check for ten dollars requires the
same stamp as a check for thousands
of dollars.
kilograms require a stamp, but the
stamps for this purpose were not TO be
got here yesterday.
The drug stores will not raise on
prcies at present. At least some
of them will not raise for 30 days, or
until they ave to buy goods at ad-
vanced rates. Here is where the wise
druggists have an advantage over the
foolish druggists. The manufacturer
of druggists goods have notified the
druggists that rates will be raised or
July /. The wise druggists, there
fore, ordered great quantities OF goods
during June, getting them at the Ole
rates. They will. therefore, be en-
abled to sell at present rates as long al
their stock lasts. But the foolish drug
gists have failed to lay in a stock a
the old rates. so that they will have L
paw advanced rates at once for what
ever they. order. This will compel tn
foolish druggists either to raise retail
prices before the wise druggists rals'
them, or. if they sell at the old retail
prices, they must. be content with niue
less profit.
The only goods on which the drug
gists are likely to raise rates are PAT
ent medicines and cosmetics. Althoug
only a 21ac stamps required on a doila
bottle of patent medicine, and the IN
trinsic value of the patent medicine l
probably not as much as the stamI
vet the manufacturers of the paten
medicines have raised prices % TO
cent a bottle. So the man who buy
a dollar bottle of patent medicine WI
have to pay at least 2e cents extra o
account of the war, and this % cent
won't help much towards paying fo
the war either, for only 212 cents OF IN
advance goes to the government. IN
othed 221h cents going to the manufac,
urer. The advance i'm cosmetics
even greater than in patent medicine
Pinaud has advanced from 81 to 81 o
ali his goods. There is nothing slo'
about that. Evidently there are otf
ers besides army contractors VINO wal
to get rich off the war.