Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18
SUPPOSE!

carry the state on election day. elect
the governor, the legislature and the
judiciary, and proceed to execute it's
pledges of hostility towards what are
known as the Amalgamated properties
in this state. Those pledges are not
empty ones: they are not made to be
broken: they are intended to be carried
out. There is no way to carry them GU;
except to close out the enterprise. to stop
its mines and mills. This is to be ac-
complished by special legislation depriv-
ing the company of it's rights and its
property; by adverse court decisions
whenever the company can be dragged
INTO a court, and by the cooperation OF
the governor according to his own prom
ises on the stump. The fight the demo-
cratic party is making against the
A~nfalgamated means that if successful
it will put that company out of business.
1t can mean nothing else. Democrats do
not claiih that it means anything else.
The Inter Mountain, in calling the at
tention of the people of Montana to the
situation. once more inquiries: Who
"oulb NC liIS SItoAiu tiS SiAho
Gratis win?
1t would be. first and foremost, the H.
600 wage earners now employed by the
company, including the 5000 miners liz
Butte.
1t would be the local taxpayers. whose
property would shrink to one-eighth OF
it's present valu
1t would be the local merchants. seven
eighths of whose business has it's origin
indirectly in Amalgamated disburse>
ments.
1t would be the holders of the local
vested in them the savings of years and
are now drawing regular dividends.
1t would be Butte's professional men.
who have here a splendid field because
of the vast business created by the
Amalgamated and it's allied concerns.
1t would be the mechanics, the builc-
ers, painters, plumbers, plasterers,
blacksmiths, and all other industries,
seven-eighths of whom indirectly sup
port themselves from the business grow
ing out of the Amalgamated payroll.
1t would be the business men and pro-
fessional and real estate men of, Ana
conda, Deer Lodge, Missoula, Hamilton.
Great Falls. Livingston, Billings, and the
farmers contiguous to all of those towns.
All the classes above enumerated
would be personally and disastrously at
fected should the democratic party
carry out it's evident and declared in
tention of utilizing the machinery of the
state government and of the courts for
the denial and destruction of the
rights and interests of the Amalgamated
concern. 1t is an issue that appeals to
every citizen. 1t is not a political issue.
The republican party has nothing to do
with the Amalgamated or it's allies. 1t
is, in fact, a democratic concern. Mr..
Marcus Dly is president and manager
of it. He has never resigned nor been
superseded. He is still in power.
But that cuts no figure. The only
point for the miners of Butte and others
to comprehend is that the democratic
party's hostility to that concern contem-
plates such a policy of persecution as
will result in it's closing down. That
is the plan of it's enemies. Whether prl-
vate citizens AVE grievances or not,
whether the managerof the company has
enemies or not, whether the chief own
ers are interested in the Standard Oil
Trust or not-what difference does that
make to the laboring and business men
of Montana? Who will restore to them
the work and wages and the trade they
will lose by the retirement of the com
pany if they assist it's enemies to bring
about that result by voting the demo-
cratic ticket? After the election is over
and the cold weather sets in, will the
democratic party provide homes ana
wages for the $4,000 employees whom i.
is now the democratic purpose to incite
against their employers on malicious and
fictitious charges and the promise of a
Doodle distribution? Will the democracy
Guild up what it proposes to pull down?
Will it make good the losses it proposes
to inhict?
These are the questions which the
workingmen of Butte are called upon to
answer by their votes ON election day.