Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12
TO THE BUSINESS MEN OF BUTTE

a few words to the business men and ad
vertisers, as we'll as to the people in gen.
eral of Butte. And first we wish to say
that in twenty years that the Daily Inter
Mountain has now been published it has
always and without exception, advo-
Gated those public policies which We're
designed to aid in the growth and up
building of the business and mining in
terests of this community and the better
ment of all classes of our people. 1t has
steadily advocated the payment of good
wages, realizing that as a rule. when
always favored, and now favors. the
proposition that laboring man owes
full and honest days labor to his en-
loyer in return for the wages he re-
oeives. but that when his work is done
his wages should be his own to spend
where and for what he pleases. And We
have always stood for the proposition that
mans vote is his own. to be cast in ac-
eordance with his honest convictions and
that no employer. and no boss, has a
shadow of right in decency or justice to
demand that the employee shall surrender
his political manhood as a part of the
consideration for holding his job.
Whenever the business men of Butte
have gotten together in their own inter-
est to consider and to advocate meas
ures for the good of the community they
have always found this newspaper ready
and willing to aid them to the full extent
OF its ability. These things are so we'll
known that there will be no denial of
them from any reputable source.
Politically this paper has been repub-
lican and in the heat of political cam
paigns when partisa nship holds sway we
have, no doubt, in common with all par
tisan journals, made enemies among
those of opposite political views. But
these things ought not, and We believe as
p rule do not, last much beyond the cam
i,aign itself.
In pointing out the past record of the
Inter Mountain and its present condition.
we have no intention of rejecting upon
any of our contemporaries further than
the statement of the facts themselves
may do so. But we particularly wish to
invite the attention of business men to
the fact that the Daily Inter Mountain is
9 Butte institution. 1t is printed here in
Butte. 1t buys it's supplies as far as pos
ing nearly sixty men, many of them hav-
ing families, besides about So boys, all
live in Butte. Its pay roll amounting
to thousands of dollors monthly, is
paid out in Butte and is spent
among the Butte merchants and
not in some other town. It's
water rates, its light and power bills are
paid out in Butte. 1t pays out yearly
thousands of dollars for repairs, for car
penters, for machinists and other labor.
all of which remains in Butte. These
Gre facts which ought to carry weight
with the business men of Butte when dis
tributing their business among the news
papers.
Then again there are other reasons
why the people of Butte, and more es-
pecially the business men and adver-
Users, should consider this newspaper
when desiring to reach the people who
patronize them or whose patronage they
seek Among them is the fact that the
Inter Mountain has a larger bona fide
circulat ton in Butte and the immediate
outlying points, among the reading pub
lie than any other daily paper. Its street
sales are three times as large as any
other daily paper which is circulated
here. 1t goes to almost every house and
is read in almost every family in the city
Deer Lodge, Bozeman, Livingston, Big
Timber and Billings than any other out.
side daily paper. 1t has the exclusive use
OF a leased wire for it's day press report
Its subscriptions are bona fide, that i.
to say, no one is compelled to take the
Inter Mountain. Those who subscribe
for it do SO because they want it and no
because they have to take and pay for i
whether they want it or not.
Then this newspaper is the officia
organ of Silver Bow county, in which il
published all the official notices and in
formation generally touching the public