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

delinquent whisky bill in Lewis and
Clarke county except Massena Btllard's,
and leave fortune every month for
cigars. OF course. the money for the
flour goes to the farmers, and the money
for the sand goes to the owners of the
sand lots east Of Helena and to the
transfers who haul it to the factory;
but as leading citizen of Helena, living
largely on LIQUID food, which I regard
as the staff of life, would ask the re-
publican trust press, and I demand
categorical answer. if any octopus organ
has a reporter here who knows what
that means-I would ask the monopo-
listic press which is run by a lot Of tenn
perance sharks who can not tell cock
tail from solution of cyanide of potas-
SUM, and who are defending the trusts
which are brfbins thousands Of men to
work for a living, and thus bringing the
Sons of Rest into disrepute-I repeat, as
I was about to say. that I would .-sR
the trust organs which prostitute their
columns by discussing wages instead
of principles, and which defend this
cracker trust in all it's infamy-I would
ask of what use is a cracker to man
who is never hungry but always dry:
Dare any of the creatures Of capital at
tempt to answer that simple question:
We have all heard of the man in the
Bible who begged for a lemon pie ana
was given a grindstone. So 1t is with
this aggregation of capitalists engaged
in the infamy of making crackers in this
state against the law.
There is something in the very ma
ture Of a cracker that suggests to i
man of my keen intelligence the trust
| idea. First, there is the consolidation
Of the ingredients corresponding to the
consolidation Of two or more companies
to form the trust. In each case the.e
| ingredients must be made to stick to-
gether, for separat ton means disaster.
One of them is water, and we all know
that trust stock is watered After the
flour and water come together the pro-
cess of manipulation follows, just as
trust stock is manipulated up and down
until the market is ripe and the public
is ready to invest. When the cracker is
done brown, the investors may be lone
brown also if they grow reckless. To
complete the comparison, there are
finally the inside and the outside to
every trust and every cracker. The re-
| semblance goes even to the shape and
| style Of both the cracker and the trust,
| for some are square and some are not,
some are smooth and others rough,
some are hard to break up and others
crunb1e with exposure. 1t is also true
that some crackers may be trusted and
some trusts may be cracked, but that
as a rule the trust and the cracker with
the most dough are the hardest to
smash.
NOW, gentlemen resumed, "hav-
ing thus exposed the insidious and de-
PRAYED nature Of the cracker and ITS
natural analogy to the unholy combina-
tons called trusts, I ask this board OF
trade if they will live longer in town
that tolerates a cracker factory? Every
cracker it turns out Is separate viola
ton Of the principles Of human liberty.
a menace to our national institutions
and a mockery and defiance of every
plank in the Kansas City platform. The
same is true of the Lead trust, which
works 400 men at East Helena, and OF
the Copper combine, which gives employ
ment to 10000 misguided miners across
the range in the wickedest city on earth
If these men can not five on democratic
; principles alone, say, let them starve
: whether I do or not. They would have
the consolation Of knowing that after
they are dead they will not need any
, thing to live on.
Il propose to bring a handme down
. law suit to drive the Cracker gang from
the state as an illegal and insolvert mon
opoly and trust. To this end I gave m!
; note for six bits for one share of stock
owned by my friend Sam SchWab since
the early days. Sam told me there were
15O, 900 900 other shares in the hands o.
INSCRIPTIONS stockholders who We're
never dry in their lives. But why should
hesitate when matter OF principle is
at stake? There was some talk also Of
the consolidation of this Cracker trus
with cheese factory and brewery
and a number Of prominent citizens who
prefer their beer straight and withou
eeleterious foreign substances on thu
side, called me to to extend their con
gratulations and sympathy. I borrowe!
few dollars from each OF them, and a.
soon as I recovered from the effects O.
what followed, I went to one of tn
| preatest LAWYERS in town. of HON the m
are 225 altogether, and told him I needet
his services in a very important mat
ter to every man who loves his hom'
and family.
"'Why, you COMPOUNDED fool re
marked the lawyer, pointing to hi
: | loolx For. aca4