Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03
ments of populism and socialism which
have allied themselves with it.

ments of populism and socialism which
ave allied themselves with 1t.
The place to settle lawsuits is in the
courts. That is what the courts are for.
and we may we'll look with suspicion upon
the man or the corporation who seeks to
evade the true political issues of the
campaign by injecting his own person.
ality and his lawsuits as the paramount
issues. Never in the history of Montana
politics has there been such a brazen at
tempt to fool the people by substituting
false and misleading issues for the pur-
pose of -deceiving the voters. The stand
ard Oil company, which has absolutely no
relation whatever to the political con-
test in this state, Is being constantly
dragged in by paid attorneys and hired
stumpers in the interest of the dominant
wing Of the democratic party and it's few
alleged republican aiders n ahettors in
Silver Bow county And yet 1t has never
yet been shown by a solitary fact or
figure that the Standard Oil company has
attempted directly or indirectly to in
terfere with our politics.. That concern
Is not known in this state, and the state
mentthatit has dictated republican NOM
nations, or that 1t car OF will control
them, is absolutely false. The Standard
OilbugabOois a straw man behind which
are hiding the forces which, for their
W personal and corporation profit, are
ready to d~isorganize and disrupt the
peaceful conditions which have pre-
vailed for the past twenty years between
capital and labor, and which will con-
tinue to prevail for twenty years more,
unless these purely personal and selfish
considerations shall be permitted to
succeed. In the event of their success
fTOlhla iS S,1ra RI coma pifafi1o will
succeed harmony. Turmoil and trouble
will follow peace and contentment. Legis-
lation will be attempted for the injury of
vested rights. Investment seeking cap
ital will be discouraged, and the whole
machinery of state and local govern
ment will, if possible, be converted into
an instrument of retaliation and revenge.
And in such an event we may be very
certain hat the people; the miners and
wage earners, the business men and
property holders and the professional
men will be the chief sufferers, as they
always are, in cases of social u~pheavals
and attacks upon vested and property
fights.
Montana is prosperous. labor is well
paid, business IS good. WOrkingmen n
employers are on good terms. Let us vote
10 keep them so. Whatever reforms are
necessary and fair will come around in
good time, not as a result of threats and
blatant d~emagogic agitation by political
boosters and paid heelers, but as a result
IF the calm dispassionate appeals of the
real w~orkingmen themselves to those
who employ them.
But my friends. I nave too much faith
md confidence in the sense of justice
md in the honesty of the masses Of our
people to believe for a that he
policy of deception now being practiced
IAN succeed. 1t it should it would indeed
De a sad day for our commonwealth for
It would brand us in the eyes of the ma
lion as a state in which justice, equity.
aw and vested rights are insecure, and
in which all these corner stones of So
ciety and good government We're brush
ed aside in response to the appeals to
passion and prejudice now being made
oy those who have forfeited all right to
the respect and confidence of the people.
The problem of how to control those
trusts whose operations are against
public policy and the interests OF the
people, is one very difficult to solve. The
only effective law passed by congress
dealing with this subject is the Sher-
man antitrust Law of 1890, a repub-
lican measure, and it is generally con-
ceded by those qualified to judge that
gre exhausted all it's constitutional
powers in the enactment of that law. If
the forty-flye states would pass uniform
laws on the subject Of trusts they could
all be reached and effectually regulated.
But this is manifestly impossible ,as the
different states view the matter in
different lights. The only remedy left,
therefore, is a constitutional amend
ment as suggested by William Mckinley
giving full power to deal with
trusts and monopolles independently of
the tates To accomplish this desired
end the republicans in congress last
winter offered a constitutional amend
ment which I will read to you.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
Article XVI.
Section 1. All powers conferred by
hi article, shall extend to the several
states, the territories, the District of