The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-06
Millionaire Money.

1t is the policy of the democratic
organs these days to consume large
quantities of ink in abusing J. P. Nor
gan, John D. Rockefeller, the Goulds,
Samuel Schwab and other men at the
head of the great industrial enterprises
of the country. few years ago John
Wanamaker and Andrew Carnegie We're
the chief objects of attack, but those |
first mentioned now receive most atten-
tion in the columns of the Bryan organs. |
There is no doubt that they are all |
richer than any man ought to be. Much |
of their wealth has come from opera
tons in which watered stock figured. |
Some made their fortunes in oil, which
they bought cheaply and sold dearly in
the early days. Some squeezed the
millions from interest bearing loans.
Morgan made his greatest cleanup in a
government bond deal in which Grover
Cleveland and a democratic congress
largely figured. There are bound to be
rich men and poor men in the world as
long as it lasts. Nothing would be So
beneficial in this country than some
scheme by which the rich could be made
poorer and poor men richer. There is
great need of some means of equalizing
the burdens of humanity, so that no.
where would there be any very rich
men or any very poor ones. Any man
whose sympathies are not With the toll
ing masses who do the worlds work and
pay most Of it's taxes, is himself un-
worthy of consideration. To the ex-
tent that the wealthy classes are respon-
sible for existing conditions, let them
he censured and regulated; but to abuse
men simply because they are rich is
worse than folly. To abuse them be-
cause they made money in trusts is
senseless, provided they injured no man
in so doing and are willing to re-
invest their money so that the people
may receive some of the benefits of it's
distribution.
If the oil trust or steel trust or sugar
trust is soulless monopoly, injurious
to any man or any interest, let 1t be
restricted in it's power for harm, or sup
pressed by law; but if IN the meantime
any of the trust magnates desire 20
spend their millions in Montana, be-
cause they see profits here, what is the
use of harassing and denouncing them
and seeking in rival interests to drive
them from the state? How can Mon
tana prosper without capital? How can
its people find work and wages where
their homes are, if they indorse the fool
fsh efforts of the democratic newspapers
and undertake to drive all rich men and
divert all their capital to Colorado, Ari-
IONA or New Mexico. We need not de-
fend the millionaires or hesitate to crit
icise them whenever they go wrong or
become tyrannical, or deprive any man
of his perfect independence or refuse
him rightful privileges? It is the mate
rial interests of our own population, OF
the poor men and the toilers that re-
Quire aid. and they require it from the
very organs that profess so much anx-
iety about their being swallowed UP by
some wandering octopus. The alarmist
democratic papers are really the worst
enemies of the working classes. The
more prosperity we have the worse the
democratic organs feel about it. They
revel only in times of trouble and dis
tress; they rejoice only when the pros.
poets are black; they seek to stir w
strife where peace would reign. They
abuse the millionaires for being rich
yet when the latter desire to invest theil
money they undertake by more abuse te
prevent their doing so.
But the most glazing proof of demo-
cratic newspaper hypocrisy is the fact
that while the bourbon organs are de-
nouncng the eastern millionaires as pub
lie enemies, they all supported for the
senate at Helena last winter one of the
richest men in the world, Hon. w. A