The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14

ers of Butte into submission by star
walton.
Should it decide to operate itssmines
in Butte at reduced wages it will not
be necessary to shut down. The usual
procedure of applying to the courts for
an injunction and the governor for
militia is all that will be necessary.
Should that time come while the pres
ent democratic incumbent fills the
gubernatorial chair, he will find as little
trouble in turning a handspring to the
side of the trust as he did in jumping
from the populist platform to the dem
ocratic platform with one bound. I
have not attempted to picture the dark
side to you; I am speaking from actual
experience with the methods of the
Standard Oil company at Wardner Ida
no, where it has paid S1.50 per day less
wages than any other mine in the Occur
dAlenes.
1t now appeals to the public for SYM
pathy through the subsidized press over
the destruction of its concentrator
which it values at 100000 while the
manager appeared before the board Of
equalization less than one year ago
and, under oath, valued it at $52, 900,
and refused to pay taxes on a higher
valuation. This corporation has done
everything in it's power to disrupt or
has the unqualified support of the en-
tire state government, which is COM
posed of democrats and silver republi-
cans.
Governor Stuenenberg and Attorney
General Hayes are its plant tools and
are we'll paid for carrying out its in
structions. They should go down in
history as the Benedict Arnolds who
sold their honor for Standard Oil boo
Some no Il,
condition of affairs will not prevail
while the president of the copper trust
is a Western man. Grant that it may
be true How long is a Western man
liable to be president of the trust? He
may at any time sell his interest, re-
sign or die. Then the hopes of these
people are dashed to earth and they
are placed in the same category as
millions of others whose life depends
upon the will of the trusts
Inside of two years the Standard Oil
trust, the lead trust and copper trust
will be merged into one great trust or
syndicate, under one management with
headquarters on Wall street In the
hands of such an enormous syndicate
the people will be as putty. unable to
help themselves because the syndicate
will have the support of every depart
ment of the government backed by
the strong military arm of the law, to
enforce the execution of it's claims; for
such purposes the standing army has
been increased.
Upon all sides we can see the wealth
of the nation passing into the hands
of a rich money oligarchy, whose avari-
cious greed is never satisfied, nothing
less than the complete subjugation of
the American people will ever salts
fly it.
To-day less than quarter of mill
ion persons own more than so per cent.
of all our wealth; the middle class is
being rapidly eliminated. The business
man who 20 years ago found profitable
fields for his energy, now finds himself
bankrupt by the operations of the de-
partment store where the wage slaves
of the large corporations are compelled
to trade or seek employment elsewhere.
The average business man in the large
cities has found it utterly impossible
to do business under such conditions.
consequently he has been forced with
his family to enter the ranks of labor,
! and with millions of others depend en-
tirely on the large combines of organ
lied capitalists for a living.
| When l view the rapid accumulation
of wealth in the hands of a few dan
| gerous millionaires, whose grips are on
| the throat of the people through vari-