The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-21

coed In selling them ours. for some men
are fools enough to argue that the trusts
Souldnt buy II we declined to sell. and
that Ne are the men who Induced them
10 come, and took their money At our
own valuations. What kind Of logic dol
you oan that. my inteligent friends with
. "copper" Yet such were the insolant
.contentions OF these cracker pirates
when went to the factory only this
morning to inquire why they had not last
night sent me q box OF angel food crack
ersa simply because had omitted to send
60 with the order. told the cashter
~ was an inadvertence. But he must
have been an ignorant man. as he re-
piled that the bank where the trust did
Msiness-of course It was the Helena
Hoan and Trust company. which loans
nothing and trusts nobody-he replied
that the Loan and Trust company would
DOUBTLESS refuse to open an inadvertence
account with the cracker factory.
.No." said I. with whitening sarcasm.
/ aS 1 sized up the cashiers coat on a
uAil near the door, 1.-The banks Of Helena
now are mere pawn shops, which re-
fuse to patronize. The only bank we
ever had in Helena was the First Ma
tional. 1t received deposits with open
arms, even from the humblest and poor
est people. It opened accounts with
everybody and loaned money to every
body except the depositors, and 3d. when
it failed, nobody lost anything except
the depositors.. Everybody else quit
winner. I had an open account there
which the directors tried to close with
a bulkhead for seven years, but they
couldn't do 1t. 1t is still open, but the
bank is closed. That was bank worthy
of the NAME" 1 said, with true civic
pride. II had an account there that
made every barkeeper in Helena take
off his coat, vest and suspenders to me.
But now I have to take off mine to
them.
"But I must not indulge in reminis~
cence," added to the cashier. II think
your last batch of crackers is burning,
as can smell fire."
room to save his dough, I saved some
of mine by clipping with his winter over
coat. But that does not square me with
this Infamous conspiracy of capital to
monopolize the cracker business, simply
because they had the money to buy the
lot and put up the factory and hire the
| labor, when they might just as we'll have
built distillery and helped the town
without violating the antitrust law
that our party swore to enforce in the
last campaign If it threw every man in
| the state out of work after he had voted.
The cracker foundry is the only one in
Montana, and therefore a monopoly and
FL trust, and will smash 1t If have to
insult every girl on the pay roll as she
comes from work and deprive the place
+ OF her labor.
T.Gentlemen OF the Helena board Of
was getting dry and Schwabberman,
thought, was asleep, II pledge you in
this war for principle, my life. my for
tune and my sacred honor"
E|"You'n have to git 'em first" sal
| Schwabberman.
'Mr. Schwabberman," retorted, with
considerable dignity. 'you have been
asleep and probably dreaming of the six
men who starved to death while eating
Christmas dinner at your so-called hotel
in the winter of -. Naturally you feel
bad, SO make due allowance for YOU
r MsYes I hear yOur wife makes one FOL
you,' said Schwabberman, reaching fol
his hip pocket, while reached for my
hat. 1T must be a good thing
"You have grown corpulent," I retort
ed, 'since you gave up the hotel bust
ness"
ct move we hang old Ginx!" shouted
/ Schwa,bberman. He's been trying t