The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-30

happen? Who wants to see this town
states by rail. and the poor with their
families afoot? Who apprehends that
this community is in. the slightest dan
ger from any trust that does not exist?
Who does not know that should ignorance
and passion prevail, and legitimate min
ing concerns be broken up and driven
away, such disaster would ensue that
no man could estimate the loss In money
Or the extent of the suffering and heart
burnngs among the people? Who does
not know that those companies which
have bought mines here have done so
mineral wealth and that they could not
have bought them had not the former
owners been willing and anxious to sell?
Who does not know that the chief OBJ
ject OF NE consolidation of many claims
here was that they might be worked to
better advantage. employ more men,
turn out more copper and prevent the
endless and ruinous i.1..:ation and shut
downs that would have resulted had any
attempt been made to work them sepa~
rately? Who does not know that with
out such consolidation there would have
been a receiver in every mine on the hill
not permanently closed down, and that
the loss in human life and property
values through incompetence and favor
itism would have been SO tremendous
that the business and labor interests Of
this entire district would have been abb
that. Every merchant knows it. Every
man who Is a good citizen, with pride in
his town. hope of his own happiness and
confidence in his own success, realizes
with indignation and disgust that dis
aster to the big mining concerns of Butte
means disaster to every man, woman
and child in the community.
To those newspapers which charge the
Inter Mountain with defending the rich
and ignoring the poor, we say they deal
in atrocious falsehood. The very oppo-
site is the truth. The rich need no de-
Tense. If they are driven away they can
go in palace cars. If their mines and
shelters are shut down they can invest
more money in other states where the
people will be only too glad to give them
welcome. II the laws and the courts Of
Montana will not give them justice if
demagagues and Missionaries are to have
their way in this country, the rich can
even go to other countries, certain of
To Ga CHI f,u
| trying to keep up the price Of copper, for
| building great mills and smelters, for
| paying good cash prices for mining prop
erty and creating with their capital a
| market for the labor of the people and
| for all the surplus products of field and
| farm and forest-if that is a crime and
they are to be driven out Of business on
| account Of it on trumped-up charges
| about trusts, still can they stand thai
treatment better than the people O.
Butte can. How can. Montana afford Il
allow them to be put in a position where
half Of these great moneyed interests
that the Inter Mountain calls attention
to the malevolence and misrepresenta
ton of their enemies, but on account
Of the miners. the laborers, the me.
chanics, the farmers. the professional
and the business men of the state. 1t is
these who will be the chief sufferers
Nor is it likely that the beginning o.
their trouble will be long delayed, fol
few of them are financially able to live
in idleness while the laws delays are ir
progress. Receiverships generally NEAR
destruction to mining property, jeopardy
to human life, encouragement to home
and foreign capital and paralysis to gen.
| eral business.