Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-01

they propose to use 1t to close down and
despoil the greatest mining company In
Montana on the false plea that 1t is a
trust" that 1t is a Standard Oil trust,
and that the liberties Of 200, 900 people in
Montana are in danger of being swal-
lowed by q trust octopus unless they
vote the democratic or fusion ticket ana
stand in to rob and smash this .''men-
acing'' corporation. In reality 1t is not
a trust, and it is not owned by the
Standard Oil monopoly, and though a
hundred screaming demagogues assert 1t
is both, not one of them has ever proved
1t is either. 1t il easy to tell q lie, but
difficult to prove it Is a fact, as these
Standard Oil alarmists nav found out.
Furthermore. this so-called Copper trust
Of the Amaagamated company. though
accused IF controlling the republican
party. is not in politics, Is In no way
connected with the republican party.
asks nothing Of any party except the
protection OF the law, pays more taxes
than any other twenty companies in
the state, employs $4,000 good men in
various occupations. rays them $15,OOO,-
600 a year In wages. Is the main support
of Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls, Mis-
soula and Hamilton, pays out yearly
$50. GOO, 900 in Montana, pay good wages
and intends to continue doing so. and
asks only to be let alone in h enjoy
p,on< IF ito Ia ufu1 riphfQ.
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Yet that is the concern the democrltic
party proposes to smash Joe
Toole says it Is a trust" because Sow
ereign says John D. Rockefeller request
ed that troops be sent to the Occur
d Alenes, which he did not, as he had
Caldwell Edwards fears its employees
will not support him; because Peter
Breen says 1t will reduce wages. though
he knows better; because John Mac
Ginnis says 1t is not a legitimate enter
prise; because Senator Clark thinks 1t
produces too much copper; because F.. A.
Heanze has some suits against It, which
the people are invited to decide; because
Rabbi Eisenberg has figured out that
Rockefeller makes $1,964,13 while walk
ing to church on Sunday; because the
Helena Independent says that H. Fl
Rogers struck the Danish government
the sale of the Danish West Indies fol-
three millions; because Judge Clancy
really needs another four yea on the
bench for the instruction of the supreme
main arguments advanced by fusior
orators for closing down the BUTTE
mines and depopulating Butte. g
It would be too bad to expect thu
fusion democracy to mark up as a dead
loss the million dollars expended for the
publication Of politics in Montana ant
for the encouragement of the colonizers
and the men fraudulently registered
for drilling repeaters; boarding ballot.
box suffers; paying "Eight-hourp Sow
ereign $40, 900 for twenty rotten speeches;
buying a Derby hat for Major Burke;
fixing the Independent" clubs; import.
ing vaudeville stars and literary graft.
ers; paying for interviews ~denouncins
the Standard Oil company as an octopu!
getting ready to swallow Montana
Idaho and California; paying for CORE.
spondence printed in the Miner, signet
Taxpayer" "Workingman,' "Vox Pop
uli;" paying for a rumor that David e
Folsom cut wages in a mine he ha
nothing to do with, n for a RAILROAD
ticket for the man who started the lie
paying for a special train, to be KEEP
steamed up for use of Ferguson in cas-
OF emergency; paying hotel bills fol
democratic, populist and labor part,
conventions at Helena and whisky 70,
the same: paying for medical service.
for Joe Toole and, meeting other legiti
mate expenses of the campaign agains
trusts" But is it not better to lose tn,
money han to throw II, 900 men out O
employment, uin the business of 81,
Montana cities, drive away capital
make justice a farce, and disgrace tn
state in the eyes of the nation?
| it is for the people to decide.