The Montana post., 1869-06-11
THE IMPERIALIsr.

! There is law prohibiting ordinary
obscene publications. There should be
one against political denominations. in
obscene or incendiary draperies Had
such law existed a year ago il would
have put quietus on the principal
democratic paper of the Countrywide
La Crosse Democrdt-and did the law
exist now. its heir the Iaperialist.
would disappear. Perhaps the latitude
given to political vice is upon the pre-
sumption that the patriotic virtues of
this people are less susceptible to the
approaches of vice than the moral vir~
tues Anyhow the Inperialist is en-
duIed just as the Democrat, the -Aqtta>
tor. the Border Sentinel, PolIard's Opin>
ION, ana half dozen others were. The
most of these are Gead. But the ideas
they advocated have yet an advocate.
Every one will remember that they
urged revolt rather than submission To
the rule of Radicals and the election of
" the azure backed butcher"-Grant.
The attack they made on Republican
ism was too open. The same enemy
now seeks the same objective point by
approaching under cover. Tactics failed
strategy is employed. Republlcanism
was invulnerable TO foe in front. Ii is
now sought TO assassinate 1t under the
approaches of a Dictatorship. The sti-
letto is Imperialism: the assassin is the
Democratic party, cloaked with the I'M
periaIist. But about the body of Re
publicanism is coat of mail-the low
atty that crushed Rebellion-and on its
triple plates the blade will glance and
pierce the heart of the striker The
first number of the ImperidIiSt was care
fully prepared; it's successors have been
weak. IL is a rehash. and slop soup of
sophomore platitudes that the chivalric
sons of slave breeding arisJocracy used to
delight To spread their eagles with in eve
ry college. and that cropped out in fire
eating organs of the South for half a
century before the war 1t publishes
letters commencing its course and ap-
proving its doctrines. Nine tenths of
them are written and dated in the South
ern States. 1t is asserted Borie sustsins
it. Ii was unnecessary, but Bone pro-
EOunces it lie. Ii is said TO be a friend
of Grants. We have seen no notice of
any appointment TO office from the In
peFidkiSt staff-so we know that is not
so.
Ii is asserted to be an organ nf Gen.
John A. Loganis. John A. Logan we
believe has a fine imperial" but it is
not an organ. 1t is also said to be the
organ of the q. A. r. Being in corres-
| pondence with that organization our
selves, a due regard for truth compels
US to say the information of its unnatu-
raj affiliations has first reached us
/ through democratic one horse country
paper in Pennsylvania and that anti G.
A. r. cotemporary. the Gazette.
The tact is the lmperialist is a money
making dodge.a cross between Spaldings
glue and shoddy clothing. Its ultra
views and enmity TO a Republican form
of government just suit those who eu-
deavor TO destroy it, while its field has
no other occupant, and it's letter press
illustrations of sensation are as attrac-
tive to some as the wood cut calves of
the Black Crook Weeklies are to others.
Being live child" of dead parent,
the friends OF the family are "totiug
il around, trying TO palm il off as re-
specially connected, but while it at
tracts little passing attention just as
all such sensational new comers do.
and is getting a good deal more gratu>
itous advertising that a better paper is
entitled to, it will get troubled inwardly ,
very soon and die all over before the
| H. \ 1sad