Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-03
THE 1SUE OF LAW AND ORDER.

Inc claim of the democratic .papers
mat the issue of the pending election is
between the people on one side and the
largest mining in Montana on
the other is without a particle of founda-
ton.
Inc issues are purely political, as de-
fined in the several platforms. No min
ing company has anything to do with
them. No mining company has any con-
nectlon with the republican party, its
platform OF it's candidates. We chal-
lenge, and have repeatedly challenged.
proof to the contrary, and the only reply.
is silence or a volley of personal abuse,
But if the democrats propose in, This
campaign to make war on the laasees
mining corporation in the state, What
does the democracy propose to do il. sue
cessful in the election? az
Does it propose to ~legislate the com
pany out of the state? Does it proposs
TO elect judges who will deny it iustiee
and divide it's property among rivalcen,
Germs? Does it propose to harass the
concern until it shall close it's mines and
withdraw in disgust from a stateii in
which equal and exact justice sono
longer assured? Does it propose to dis.
franchise the employees as we'll as de-
prlve them of employment by the closing
OF the company's mines and all allied
enterprises?
Are the people of Montana ready 70
put out of business a concern mai d;s-
trlpute S2o,ooo,OOO a year among the!
miners, lumbermen and farmers Of the
state. to declare war against organized
capital, to notify the world that Mon
tana desires no more eastern monev r.
ueVeiop us resources and raise the red
rag OF anarchy over all corporate prop
erty whose owners do not subscribe to
the doctrines enunciated by Hon. ,Josenb
K. Toole of hostility to corporate inter-
ests?
These are the propositions the people
OF Montana are now facing. The Inter
Mountain knows them to be law abiding.
conservative, justice-loving Americans.
1t knows what answer they will make
to the ~demagogue campaign the demo-
Gratis are now making. 1t knows sttey
will declare for personal and proberty
rights applicable alike to the rich and
the poor, to individuals and to COM
panies, to foreign as we'll as home CAPT
tai. They will a war on no mining
company upon false and trumped-un ac-
cusations of it's desire to control ndafpfcs
Inc democratic campaign is a shame, a
fraud and a farce. The real issueess are
political and nothing else. On athhn,
alone are the people divided. AS to the
right of every legitimate mining com-
Pahy TO DO business without molestation.
10 employ labor in the mining OF ore. to
demand for itself n for its emn,oves
the same rights that all other mining
companies enjoy, there is no d;vis;on
liz any attempt to single out one cor
poratlon as an object of public onnres-
sion will miserably fail and he ,pd;y.
hantly r~epudiated. Ten thousand en-
ployes of the A"lnalgamated co,,no,u..
NOT yet ready to quit work, and the BUSH
ness professional and laboring men of
Butte do not propose to give anv SANG,
lioh 10 a policy that contemplates in1us-
tice or loss or embarrassment +o anu
eohcerh mat Toes it's share towards
maintaining the marvellous prosperity Of
Butte and of Montana. @
r.. SIC