Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-01
The Montana Cdmpaign---fts Issues

! The democratic campaign orators who
seek to create hatred on the part OF
workingmen for their employers, instead
of a roper amount Of mutual respect
md good will, are neither good citizens
themselves nor seeking to make good
The hired stump-speakers who adj
dress an audience of contented, indus
trious and well-paid workmen, informs
ing them that they are being oppressed
and robbed and denied their rights.
when hat Is not the truth, are fire.
brands in the temple of labor and are
desecrating the shrine and plotting to
ruin the cause.
Oratorical gladiators who for pay as
sumo the right to tell workingmen how
to vote, and who resort to infamous
~falsehoods to stir up a hostile sentiment
towards those who ave been financially
successful in the world, would be an
archists and murderers If they had the
courage: but. lacking 1t, they try to
make anarchists and murderers of those
who believe what they say.
Let the good citizens Of Montana. par
ticularly the miners, mechanics n
farmers. depending on invested capital
for a livelihood-let them beware of such
false teachers and such injurious adj
vice. They are not the friends. but the
insidious and self-seeking enemies Of the
men who toll. The democratic party
has dozens Of such in~cendiary dema-
gogues in the field during the present
campaign, spreading their damnable
doctrines and their plausible lies before
will be ignorant enough of the facts to
believe their contemplate misrepre-
sensations.
Every citizen Of Montana has the same
est men in the state were once among
the poorest; some of the poorest were
the richest. It always was and always
will be so while some men are more
frugal or more lucky or more capable
than others. Opportunity to acquire
wealth is open to all, but no law and no
political party ever existed or will exist
that can guarantee wealth for all or an
equality of riches. Under existing cir
cumstances the best that can be expect
ed is for rich men. in seeking more
riches, to invest their means in indus
trial development. in manufacturing, in
mining and in the arts and sciences, by
which poor men nay be given employ
men ait good wages, so that all under the
law may enjoy the right n the olpor-
tunity to improve their conditions in
life according to their habits and ability
and merit. Why not recognize the inter-
dependency of. capital and labor, and
strive to make their relations as pleas
ant as possible, all satisfied that the
poor man today may be the rich man
tomorrow, or at least that all have the
same rights and immunities and the
same chance for the rewards of honor,
Of independence n of self-respect.
So it has been in Montana since the
early 'UdyS, anu never unLl1 now was a
horde of political vampires turned loose
upon a contented people to excite dis
s%a satisfaction. turmoil and lawlessness.
I Never before did hired jawsmiths de-
nounce the men who rave invested their
/ money in Montana for the development,
of dts resources, who hus give employ
lnent to our labor, markets for our farm
products, value to our real estate, bust
ness to our merchants, practice for our
professional men and prosperity for all.
Never before was it proposed to run
these public benefactors out Of the state
and discourage their further Investment
because a hungry and crazy political
party had pledged itself to break up the
i trusts, and because these Montana in
~vestors happened, a few Of them, to own
some trust stocks.
1t is notorious that some of the bust
ness rivals of these men, desiring 10,
selfish purposes to elect a pliable legis-
lature n a corrupt judiciary, were
quick to take advantage of this anti
trust cry Of the democracy, and, having
captured that organization in this state,