The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-27
lNsiDioUs ATTACKS ON NOME lAooe.

In great labor center like Butte there
are always many idle men. Some are
skilled miners; some are laborers. ALL
could find work and wages if conditions
in Butte were such that eastern capital
felt perfectly secure in coming to Mon
tana for Investment and If the district
east of Butte should be thoroughly ex-
plored with successful results. There r.
believed to be in that vicinity enough
mineralized ground to furnish profitabl,.
investment for number of big COM,
panies, but We cannot expect those COM
panies to come here if intending in
vestors not only have to take chances
on the mines, but on the laws equal
protection to all interests. 1t is fact
that only last year political campaign
was fought on the issue of protection VS..
hostility to capital The "hestiles" won.
Something must be done to dissipate the
opinions then formed in the east about
the safety of investments in Montana,
for otherwise other states will get the
mines should have, and our idle labor,
instead of finding employment and thus
becoming independent, will be driven
away. as it is proposed to drive Gap
ital away, for capital can not be IN
jured without injury to labor. The die-
ference only is that capital is better
able too survive injury than labor, not
that it is any more deserving.
From some parts of the state. periol-
ically, terrible screeches are heard against
the men whose money is desired to open
the mines here, and it is noticeable that
these hostile acclamations are the LOUD
est where the need of capital and enter
prise is the greatest. Trades, eloquent
! and warlike, are heard against the
trust magnates and all other solvent
buy property here for development. They
are denounced for being willing to buy
the property the people have to SELL aai
naturally they are timid about investing.
The logical result is idle labor. If some
Of these anti-capitalistic newspapers
could only be given eyes to see the hun
dreds of honest miners daily trarnpirg
the hills applying for work to keep body
and soul together, or perhaps support
families in need of food, or to lay UP
few dollars for the old age that comes
only too fast, it would then appear to
such journals that while they may be.
in their Jealous anger, injuring and dis
couraging capital to- some extent, they
are really delivering body blows to labor.
That is the effect of their TRADES abo,lL
trusts and their efforts to drive them
off the earth. Every idle man in Butte
and every working man must come to
| that conclusion if he will but rea son the
proposition out for himself. No resort
| to rhetorical fub-dub will conceal that
| fact. Aside from the Helena smelter.
| there is no trust" doing business in
Montana. AS to the men like Senator
Clark and the Lewissohns and CONF
panies like the Parrot and Anaconda,
alleged to be in the trust, it may be sa!j
! that they and they alone are keeping up
! ing the splendid prosperity of the copper
! districts, with consequent benefit to the
labor and business interests. Instead OF
| lamenting and decrying that prosperity
by driving invested capital away, and
| keeping new capital out it should be the
proud aim of every good citizen to en-
| courage both, for in that way alone .,:.n
labor find occupation, independence and
strength.