Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20
...s12,941,9OO 80

Boston & Montana ......... 6,D73,15S "a
Total ...... ........ .......s 81, 941 800 3S
Upon the above amount of net profits
the companies ,.amed pay in taxes for
the maintenance of the government of
Silver Bow county over $3.50, 900 per year.
Upon their property in this state these
companies pay annually in the aggre-
gate over one million dollars.
The number of men employed by the
above-named companies in the mines
alone is $500.
The amount of wages those companies
pay out for labor each year is over $15,-
600, 0Ds.
The number of people directly support
ed through the operations of those COM
panies, estimating three dependents to
each employe, is SO, 1000.
The benefits which the farmers of
Montana derive from the establishment
of markets for their products is meal
culable. Those markets more than
double the value of every farm in Mon
tana and account for the prosperity OF
Montana's farming population.
But the democratic party says that the
Amalgamated and it's concerns must be
'downed.' Democratic platforms de-
nounce the men who control those COM
panies as enemies of labor, as greedy
vampires, as Wall street sharks, and de-
mand their suppression and the SMASH
ing of their enterprises in Montana. Joe
/ VroD1o hoe ;a;o+aJ ~ A. l,,1 .~l 100. --a
promised his cooperation if elected.
Hired demagogues are going about the
state telling the people that the Stand
ard Oil octopus has them in its grasp
and is going to reduce wages and deny
them their rights. They appeal to the
people with these rotten lies and pro-
pose by crooked legislation and pre-
arranged court decisions to drive out or
business and out OF the state the men
who ave an investment here of $780,
900, 600, who pay out to the people 500, 0OO,-
900 annually, who employ l., 900 men, pay
a million a year in taxes and only ask
to be let alone under the protection OF
the law.
And What of the concerns which are
fighting the ~Amalgamated and try
ing to make a political issue of it's very
existence? All told, they do not employ
1,20O men, according to the last report OF
the state mining inspector, except at
election time.
According to that report, the number
of men employed by both the concerns
which are opposing the ~Amalgamated
and which are using the democratic
party as a stool pigeon to accomplish
!, what the law and the courts refuse to
attempt, would not sustain a population
in Butte of 5000 people. The other So, 600
l are sustained directly through the dis,
: bursements of the companies which the
l democratic party proposes to break
down and drive out of the state. That is
the object it is seeking to achieve by
these resonant n continuous howls
S about monopoly STANDARD OIL" ere.
duction of wages 'eight-hours," eco.
ercion," etc.
{ We warn the miners of Butte and tn,
y business men of Butte and all the othel
s good people against the demagogues VIII,
for their own benefit are willing t
wreck the company that is the basis O
so vast a share of the states prosperity
who, for a few petty offices, are tryini
r to array class against class. labo
against capital, n make another Ceeu
d'Alene of this peaceful and prosperou
e district. Let the people look at the fig
ures. Let them reflect Upon what wi
d happen to Butte If capital lis drive
away from investment here, and labo