Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-26
LABoRs RIGHTS AND WRONGS. /!
Says the Miner this morning:

liable to depopulate the town.
osition. 1t should be:
II the democratic party wins and COM
pels the Anaconda and all other Anal
gamated concerns to close down and dis
charge all its employees. they are liable
to ~depopulate the town. 4
That is the important fact in this
campaign. The Inter Mountain has
shown hat the .Amalganated companies
here employ seven-elgrths of the miners.
at work in this district; that they pay
seven-eighths of the wages, and that,
consequently Butte. having no other req
sources than its mines. derives seven-
eighthS of its business from the opera
ions of those concerns. These figures,
also prove that seven-e!shths of all the,
men employed in the numerous occupa
lions and professions represented in this
city make their living because of the
money first started into circulation from
the Amalgamated pay-rolls: that seven
eis1lths of Butte's 60. 900 population have
come here to make their homes because
y AiioSS NSiS pay L ~ ANA NilS
Of their continuance; that seven-eighths
of the value of every house and lot in
this city is dependent upon the operas
tions of the A~eracgamated mines, ana
that its value would decrease to that ex-
tent We're these companies to close down
and discharge their men.
1t is also true that the pay-rolls of the
concerns which are now seeking to use
the democratic party to help them IN
the legislature and the courts would not
continue to support a population here to
exceed 5000. and that all the rest would
have to leave or subsist on their savings
or on one another.
1t is also indisputable that to various
degrees the business of all parts of the
state would be disastrously affected
should the democracy win and suppress
the Amalgamated trust, as they call 1t.
Anaconda. where this trust is now
building a 5,0o0-ton Snelter as an eVi-
dence of its faith in the mines, and in
the l~aw-abiding character of the people.
would completely disappear from the
map, and its 1000 people would have to
walk if they could not ride out of the
Country. Great Falls would at once lose
two-th:rds of it's business and popula-
ton, because the smelter there could not
run. and the Sand Coulee and Belt mines
would shut dow if the Boston & Mon
tan mines belonging to the trust octo-
pus" were not taking out ore. The saw
mills of M~issoula and Ravalli. employ
ing hundreds of men and giving added
value to every farm in that part of the
state. and contributing largely to the
prosperity of Missoula, N1 Hamilton.
Steyensville and other live towns, would
be shut down, for these so-called stand
ard Oil mines would have no use for
more timber if Joe Toole and q demo-
cratic Legislature and judiciary were
elected and carried out their platform
and personal pledges to smash this
dreadful octopus. Next to close down
would be many of the coal mines in
Sweet Grass and Carbon and Park coun
ties.
Then woul follow the democratic mil
lennium. There would be a great car
niyal CT idleness and poverty in Mons
uana. A great trust" which now pays
out 500, O0O, 00n g year in this state, o.
which SIS, 600, 600 is in wages for labor,
woull be smashed to make a fusion hoii-s
day. How glorious it would be! There
would be no talk of eight hours then in
either mine or smelter. Most men would
not work at all. The fusion concerns
now ajyi i'm than, tn vote themselves!
out of employment to vindicate the DEM
ocratic hostility to trusts (and for their
own benefit on the side) do not pros
pose to put these idle men to work in
their own properties. Oh. no! The
voters of Montana must vote themselves
into idleness purely as a matter of prin-
cipie or to crafty some petty feeling Of
revenge against individuals. What hap
pens afterwards is not the concern of
the fusion party. These men, after voc-
ing for fusion and closing down the
mines in which they now work, can go
to Pennsylvania or Illinois and work in
the coal mines. There are G,O00 of them
in Butte who are expected to make this
sacrifice for a glorious democratic prin>
ciple and to say to the world after
wards:
Behold! We AVE stood in with Joe
Toone because he said hat if some Of
the Standard Oil magnates owned stoca
in the Butte mines, that made the latter
Standard Oil trust property, and as we
are opposed to trusts, we voted to smash
it and turn it over to a packed legisfa-
ture and a corrupt Judiciary, which will
persecute its owners till they close down
and invest heir money elsewhere. Hur-
rah for the red flag of anarchy and
fusion, the only one that the democracy
never hauls down! Hurrah for Joe
Toofe and the banner inscribed mo
Eastern Money Wanted in Montana. No
mere mining development, except on a
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