Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-29

of the heavy holders in the Anaconda,
Parrot, Boston & Montana and Colorado.
and that one of it's purposes is to keep
those corporations on a peaceful foot
ing so they will not be compelled to use
up their profits in expensive litigation
between one another. which might result
in closing some of them down, and the
discharge of their employees With loss to
their stockholders. Surely if that be
the case it would be foolish and injuri-
Gus to compel the Amatgamated to re-
tire from business simply because some>
body calls it a trust. To what human
being is it doing a wrong, and why does
Mr.. Mae(iinnis propose that it be
smashed? Many Of its stockholders are
good men. MI. DAILY. who is its presi-
dent, is said to hold $4,000, 900 worth OF
it's stock. Surely no man in Montana
would X to deprive him of that in
terest. He has worked for it n it is his
own. Eight million dollars is too much
for one MAJ to have, but there are men
who have more, and still they are not
molested in their property rights. Mr..
MacGinnis pledged himself to support
one of them for the position OF United
States senator from Montana. which was
quite proper from his standpoint. Yet
we contend that Mr.. Days confessed
holding in the Amalgalnated is quite as
legitimate as Mr.. MacGinnis' eon>
fessed holding of a $4,000 interest
in the Boston & Montana, and so we DO
not think it consistent for the latter gems
tleman to demand the destruction OF the
Amalgamated. AS far as Mr.. Hyams IL
concerned, it may be said that he is NOT
officially connected with the Amalgam-
ated. His position is that of general
manager of the Boston 4 Montana, and
that is all. We make this statement to
correct a popular misrepresentation. as
we'll as to Illustrate the wisdom of Mr.
MacGinnis in investing his $4,000 where
it gets the benefit of tina g~entlemans
excellent management. 1t is worthy OF
note also that the major, in choosing a
! subject for sacrifice and demolition to
appease the fusion wrath against trusts,
selected the Amalgamated. in which he
HAS III 81 oiN
Montana, in which he has invested a
years salary as manager of the Montana
Ore Purchasing company. Yet demo-
cratic orators in Silver Bow county fire.
quently assert that both companies are
equally culpable and identified alhe
with he terrible Standard Oil octopus,
which. though it pay out S15,0oo.ooo a
- Nd.,+opo has MT I'M
the price of copper kettles in New YORK;
and must, therefore, be smashed TO VIM
dictate the democratic platform. Ihese
matters, however, are tribes. Ihe Inter
Mountains main purpose is to plead TOT
the life of the Amalgamated from fusion
wrath not on account of it's STOCKHOLM
ers. who are rich, but on account OF the
people of Butte, who are not flch' anu
particularly on account of the miners OF
R,1tte. who will need work and wages
after the election, and expect poth at TIE
hands of the Amalgamated company ana
its allied concerns.
Furthermore, inasmuch as Major Mac
Ginnis asserts that the Amalsaiia'eo
owns no property, and as we belleVe II
can do little harm to labor II, having nc
mines, it employs no miners, we p'eau
that if be not smashed this WINTER lol
the men who control it have plenty more
money in the east and may be lnauceo
IN purchase and develop other Montaha
mines and double the $40, 900, 600 they no"
ajsh,rse in Montana yearly, if we DO no
drive them out of the state and run
the investment they nave aiieaoS ~
here. -