Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
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trusts springing up as if by magic. reduc-
ing the wage earnerS to the merest pit
tance, driving thousands of business men
inso bankruptcy or into the ranks of the
unemployed and creating paupers which
society must feed.
All the industries of the nation are fast
passing into trusts and combinations,
whose real object is to control the entire
wealth of the nation n thus dictate to
the people what they shall pay for what
they eat and wear. All the natural re-
sources of the nation are controlled by a
few corporations that dictate to their
white slaves how much they shall re-
| ceive for their labor and where they shall
spend what they do receive.
The railroad corporations own I'll ,0O0,-
0GO acres of land, foreign lar owners
own over u 600, 900 acres of the finest ag-
ricul tural lane on the American coatl-
nent. A few corporations w the entire
coal fields of the east. They nave gone
a little further n organized a coal COM
bine, through which they raise and lower
the price OF coal, shut down their mines
and reduce the wages OF their white
slaves whenever they 80 desire.
In addition to this, they have corpora
ton stores, where their wage slaves are
compelled to trade. If they object they
are discharged, blacklisted, and, If neces-
sary, shot down by deputy sherltfs, for
which there is no redress in any court in
the nation.
The Standard Oil trust, the cruelest of
all under the supervision OF that pious
old fraud and religious hypocrite, Rookie
Teller, controls the oil industry of the
nation and make it impossible for any
individual to compete with it in the mar
ket. The Standard Oil company has, in
many instances, put Oil on the market fol-
nothing in order to freeze out its COM
petitCrs; when the competitor has beer
been driven to bankruptcy or absorbed
by the Standard Oil trust the price of oil
is increased from one to four cents a gal
Ion and the public is made to pay the
trust for the free oil it placed on the mar.
ket while freezing out its competitor. II
, also controls the lead industry of the
world as it owns the controlling stock
in the lead trust. 1t owns nearly all thu
large lead mines Of the United ESTATES
and pays it's wage slaves whatever wag
!, it wishes regardless Of organized labor
and sells lead at the maximum to the con
sumner; in both of these industries the PEG.
j, pie have nc voice. They are at the mercy
Of one trust which can shut down every
lead mine and close up every oil Well il
| the country in twenty four hours.
, Recently a smelter trust has been or
! ganized which appeals to the miners ant
, small mine owners in the west more di.
\ rectly than any Of the other great trusts
! because in a short time the trust will Sc
a certain price on ores, and if the min,
owners will not sell at the trust price hi
! must keep his ores or build his own smell
}. ter. Soon the trust will begin to cut doWr
: the wages Of the miners and the smelter,
men of the west to the same wage schea.
3 ule as those engaged in similar occupa.
: lions in the east. Soon this trust vii
I suggest to the mine owners that a & u
! in wages will enable him to continue t.
: make profits in spite of the cxto.tions o
the trust. Should he refuse to heed thit
: suggestion he is notified that the trust ha'
no more use for his ore, consequently h
will be compelled to choose between a re
duction in wages or closing down hi
mines.
: Inside of a few years the trust will s hu
down it's smelling plants in different 10,
%calities and concentrate them into one a.
some central point. easy of access ano
pay the lowest wages possible and when
ever practical follow the example Of tn,
railroad corporations and employ Jap
anese or Mongolian labor.
With the miner will suffer the merchan
whose business largely depends upon min
ms LIN loDoISl II ID GllS dSeu IL Glllc
occupations at fair wages will find hi
occupation menaced by the trust: and tn
farmer whose ma ket is the mines will
suffer from its effect. Entire cOmmuni
ties will be placed at the mercy of thi
trust which will prove as cruel as tn
! numerous other trusts which Cypress la
Dor, shut down their factories, crush GU
! small competitors and rob the people tina
, a few unnatural tyrants may roll in lux
ury and revel in wealth.
; q The recently organized copper trust i
OF more importance to the people of Butt
than any of the other great trusts be
cause the entire business of this commu
nifty depends on the production of coppel
! Let us see how this trust will operate
: These people who organized the cope
T. trust have done so with the same objec
in view as all the other great trusts an,
syndicates, to make money.
:, The Standard Oil mpan is one of tn
heaviest owners in this trust and beyont
the question of a doubt will resort to it
we'll known tactics. 1t will establish it
stores and eating houses and when tn
Opportune time arrives It will say to it
employers, as it has at Wardner. Idaho
where it paid underground men s1.5O pc
day less than any mine in the district: w
will not pay miners $3.50 per day whel
we can hire men on Lake Superior for 81. 0
per day, we will not pay laborers So. o
per day when we can hire men at Studs
bury for 90c. We will not pay smelter
men $3.50 per day. We will ship our or
east where we can smclt it for half; W,
will not pay the mechanic $500 per da,
while we can hire mechanics in the cas-
for $3.50.
AT a meeting of the board of director
held in some palatial mansion on tn
banks of the Hudson it will be decide,
to make a uniform rate for all the slave
working for the copper trust. The morn