Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-19

Brass Will be fabricated in Great
Falls by the American Brass company
on greater scale than it is now done
by the company in any other city in
the country, John ID. Ryan chairman of
the board of directors Of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company. told 225 bust
ness men at a dinner given by the
Great Falls Commercial club Tuesday
evening in the Palm room of Hotel
Rainbow in honor of officials of the
American Brass company and the An
aconda Copper Mining company.
Mr.. Ryan did not specify the time
when the brass plant would be estab-
lished here, except that he hoped it
would be soon Higher freight rates
on manufactured articles from Montana
than on raw materials, condition
which he believes may be removed in
time. is the principal barrier to the i'm
mediate construction of factories here.
Charles F. Brooker. chairman of
the board of directors of the American
J Brass company, said that ''the star
Of empire will not set until the
American Brass company will be ex-
tended and Great Falls will fabricate
brass as well as produce brass articles.
Refers to Disorders
Con F. Kelley. president Of the
Anaconda Copper Mining company, the
last speaker of the evening turned
the thoughts of his audience away from
the industrial growth of Great Fails
for a moment, by saying there are
unfortunately places in this United
States, in this America, which belongs
to you and to me. where open warfare
exists; where. because men claim the
right to work. they have within a
fortnight been taken out and shot with
a barbarlty and cruelty that never
marked the colonial warfare
We read no longer ago than yes
terday that men in this republic Of |
the United States who have been !
sworn to administer the law in the per
formance of official duty have been |
taken out and slain because of CON
troyersies that unfortunately should !
Dot~exist. |
1T is time, gentlemen, when every
thinking man. no matter what his posi-
tion may be, whether a humble worker
in the ranks of industrial labor or one
charged with the responsibility of ad-
ministering the law. should look well |
to the manner in which be performs
his duty
Says Law Is Supreme
But above that. and beyond it, is a
time when. no matter what controversy
may exist between labor, organized or |
anized-and you all know nv po-
sition with reference to that-and the
employer; it is time when every
American citizen should take home with
him the crystallized thought that in
this United States of America, the 1
law is supreme and no man has the /
right 10 take the law into his hands
Because it seems to me that the
time is so tragic, that the time is 50
filled with a fOreboding. it must come
to everyone. whether he be an employer
or an employe. that there is a point at
which controversy must stop, and that
is the point where the government is
adverted and the security of life is
:,
II want TO say that on top of the
utterance that came from
a man yesterday who sought to in
fiame prejudice into warfare among ,
peoples in this United States, it is ,
heart healing today to read that the )
government at Washington still lives, /,
and that the president of the United 8
States said that he would put the :
american flag over every mine which .
sought to give men the right to earn :.
an honest living. !,
Stands for Living Wage h
Now the American people do not
believe that working men should be
lenied the right to earn living. and
hey will not support those in a CON :.
,roversy who do believe it. And the u
1oice of the people. the honest to God e
Americans will rise against those who "a
make that sort of doctrine a Temporary $
'lace of profit or to fulfill moment u
# hatred. b
1T WAS not on such a doctrine that II
his country was built up. and we who g
cap what other people have invested ;,
q property rights and in industries in
dontana, are particularly pleased at n
he presence of these gentlemen (the II
rass company officalsj who have el
oined in very large measure in the
Enterprises of Montana. We are parti- pl
ularly pleased to assure them. that ca
hey in turn may assure those for q
HON they hold the Arusteeship. that t'
uch is not the dogma, the doctrine of b,
he citizenship of this state. +
Now, gentlemen, ! did not intend al
, &c. off on such a serious subject to
ut II seems to me that one does not