Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-19
EXPULSION AND CONFIsCATIon.

The following from the Boston News
Bureau, a journal which is devoted to
the interest of the NJ. o. p. Co., will be
read with interest by a good many peo-
pie. both in and out of Montana. During
the political campaign just ended. the
Inter Mountain repeatedly called atten-
ton to the threats made by the fusion
orators. and newspapers. to drive out
such corporations as did not meet all
their demands. and to the injury which
might follow the success of the fusion
forces upon their platform of confsca-
ton.
1t is true. as stated in the article. that
there is on the statutes OF the state a
most rigorous antitrust law. placed
there by a republican legislature in 1895.
This law is based upon tina clause of the
state constitution authorizing such a
measure. So far there has never been
any action, that we are aware of, under
this law, nor do we NOW of n occa-
sion existing for invok ng the law. If
such occasion does exist, then the demo-
cratic officials of the state are to blame,
for they have been in power ever since
the law was passed.
Tbs people of the state can judge from
the following article whether or not our
material interests have been greatly
injured by the campaign just ended. and
what the effect is likely to be upon capt.
tai seeking mining and other investments
within our borders:
Some of the recent dispatches to the
Boston News Bureau from Butte, Mon
tana, showing the possible results of the
election overthrow of the Standard Oil.
have been commented upon in Boston as
though they were in some way a reflex
of somebody's sentiments instead of the
facts in the case.
The Butte talk about driving the Anal
gamated out of Montana is not only COR
rect, but it is something eastern ii
interests should quickly give heed to. 1t
will, however, surprise most people to
learn that the 'anti-kerosene' candi-
dates who We're elected on the fusion
ticket in Montana, We're elected upon a
platform which requires the expulsion of
the A~malgamated Copper Company from
the state of Montana. 1t did not deal
with glittering antitrust g~eneralities, but
the Amalgamated company stands nam
ed in the platform of the victors and it's
expulsion from Montana was demanded
therein as one Of the issues Of this cleo
ton.
.Of course, it may be something Of an
Irritation to the Standard Oil people to
be defeated by candidates upon such q
platform, and it may be declared that
the the platform means nothing, but the
fact remains that the antitrust sentl-
ment OF Montana is not alone in the po-
litical platform of the people who have
lust carried the election, but 1t Is in the
laws of the state, and so deep down in
the laws tldC II is Ill lue CONSTITUTION ~
the state, and the law of Montana for
trust corporations is confiscation.
property is not sacred in Montana, at
least not more sacred than human rights,
and the above facts should be understood
by financial interests who are asked te
swallow at the present time a lot OF hon.
eyed words concerning how nice it would
be to have Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Heinze in
the Amalgamated Copper Company II
place of A. C. Burrage and G. M
Hyams.'
The Inter Mountain prints the above
extract as "a justification of it's position
in the recent campaign concerning the
effect in the east of "a fusion success
based on the dangerous issues enun-
ciated in the fusion platform and pro,
claimed on the fusion stump.
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