Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1921-11-10

gether and swap stock and sell IL. In
a very short time the control OF the
whole string of local plants was In
the hands Of a hundred men. To-day
it's In the hands Of less than twenty
with John Marshall at the head OF
them. Citizens Storage & Warehouse
Is now a consolidated property. and
John Marshall. Henckel and l control
a majority of it's stock. How does
that strike your
ut strikes me that the people most
deeply interested have been exceeding
ly foolish to sell their bIrthright. But
that is strictly their own business. and
not mine or the railroad c~ompany's."
"Waitr I" Hatch snarled. Its go
Ing to be both yours and the railroad
company's business. before you are
through with IL. Marrow, here. rep
resents Marshall. and / represent
Henckel and myself. What are you
going to do about those ground leasesY"
Nothing at all. except TO insist upon
the condition under which they were
granted by the railroad company"
Meaning that you are going to try
to hold us TO the fixed percentage
charge for handling. packing. loading,
and transferring?'
Meaning just that. If you raise the
proportional market-prfce charge on
the producers and merchants, the
leases will terminate"
Il thought that was about where
you'd land. Now listen: we're It.
Marshall and Henckel and land
what eEsay. goes as II IIes.[ We are
going TO use the present G. S~>& w.
plants and equipment. charging aur
own storage and handling percentagesA
based OF anything we see tit. If you
pun that gronnd-lea@e business on us
and try 10 driye ms out. well fight you
all the way up to the Supreme court.
II you beat us there, we'll merely
move over TO the other side OF your
tracks to our old Red Tower houses
and yards and go ON doing business
AT the old stand"
The boss sat buck IN his chair, and
I could tell by the set of his jaw that
he was refusing TO be panic-stricken.
You r taking altogether too much
for granted. aren't you he put in Z.
you ARE assuming that the
will eventually nullify the terms
IF the ground-leases. or. IL they do
not. that the railroad company will
10 nothing to save its patrons from
into this new graft. trap"
Hatch snapped his fingers. Now
are coming TO the milk In the
'oconut.'" he raped out. THAT is
what we're assuming You
going TO let go. once for all. Nor
You ARE not going TO fight us
n the courts and neither ARE yoti go-
ne to -arass us out of existence with
hort cars, oyer-charges. and the thou
and and n petty prosecutions that
gu railroad buccaneers make use OF
0 line your WI pockets -
But If we refuse 10 lie down and
you walk over us and our patrons
them" the boss inquired.
That brought the explosion. Hatch's
yes blazed and he smaeked fist into +
aim.
Then wen knife yon-and we'll de-
10 a velvet finish After so long
time. we've got you where you can't
Ide-step. N~orcross. .
The bessHFefHsed be panic
tricken or. RHyhews he locked that
'ay.
"We have heard that kind OF talk
ANY times In the past" he said. 1.-THE
'ay 10 make tt effective is TO produce
goods"
That's just what we're here to dol"
the Red Tower president vim
sYou, and the Big Fellows
! New York, want a lot of the state
laws repealed or amended.
5y5as eHHf9 Eet4effHt sefHfg united, +
on can't gamble any more with your
took. Well and good. You came
six months ago and set out TO
manufacture public sentiment In favor
T the railroad. You ran up your
,ublic-be-pleased' flag and beat the
and blew the hewgag until
on got a lot Of dults and chuckle-
and easy marks to believe that
on really meant H."
"Fell. go n
"Uith all this humbug and hulla-
alloo you stu couldn't be quite GER
ain that you had mnde your point:
hat your measures would carry
the incoming legislature.
.fter the primaries you counted noses
the candidates md found II
7as going to be q tight squeak-a
I'D tight squeak. Then you did what
on railroad people always do; You
out quietly and bought few
ien-just to be on the safe side"
SO II was sprung at last. Hatch
accusing Us OF the one thing that
hadn't dones that the boss knew
.e hadn't done.
TN afraid your have to try again
n. Hatch. he said asih q sour little