The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-29
OgR NElGHBOR.

The initial number of the Daily Inter.
Mountain was laid upon our table last even
ing. 1t is a tour-page, twenty-eight column
journal the same size as the MINER-and
geographically presents a neat appearance.
Politi cally, the Inter- Mountain Is republican,
and using its own language, "of that particu-
lar variety known as s'stalwart." 1t defines
'sstalwartism" as "merely the adoption of in
telligent means to attain a desired end" II
this definition be accepted as the true one, all
parties are 'stalwarts''and all men who adopt
intelligent ideas to attain a desired end are
~''stalwarts." We presume the lnter-Moun-
tain speaks &c cathedrG upon this subject,
therefore we shall not, at this time, dispute
its definition, Notwithstanding Blaine, who
was the first to apply the word in a political
sense to members of his party, and Conk-
ling, Logan, Cameron, Grant and other
distinguished members of the republican
party give quite a different one. In its
lengthy ssprefatory'' the Mter-Mountain
sandwiches some very silly assertions between
good things tc which no one can offer an OBJ
lection. For instance it says that .'under the
solemn declaration of a statutory enactment
by a democratic legislature, NO republican
paper deserves to live.' Our newly born CO.
temporary refers to the printing law, and
makes the above declaration in the face of
the fact that the republican paper, the New
North Vest, has lad the county printing in
Deer Lodge county since the passage of the
printing law that the republican Sheridan
Messenger took it from the democratic Mad
asorian that the republican Aodnt- Courier
has it; that the republican Dillon Tribune en-
joys it, and that the Inter-Mountdin's repub-
lican twin brother at the head of Main
street has, or claims to have the
county printing of a half a dozen
or less counties in the territory. This I'M
warranted statement is made in the face of
another fact that out of the fourteen news
papers now published in the territory only
three avowedly democratic have the printing
for their respective counties, and one of these
the MINER-but recently obtained it. Dur
contemporary has evidently forgotten that
+'under the solemn declaration OF a statutory
enactment" of a republican congress, no man
can make an application for a patent for min
eral ground, no struggling ranchman,n no ''poor
widow who seeks to gain something through
the forms of law, for the maintenance and
education of her fatherless children can
make a homestead or descent land entry, with
out paying tribute to a republican journal, If
such be published in the county in which
the applicant resides. Where one dollar has
been paid under the law, to a demo-
cratic paper in the territory for
public printing, ten have been paid to
republican journals.
1t is surprising with what hungry longings
our republican cotemporaries in the territory
look upon the public printing. Our new
neighbor, fresh from the hands of its accOuch.
ers, is no exception to the rule. With the
instincts OF its kind, the first word that il
utters Is %"printing." Like the young nesting
that with closed eyes and open mouth de.
ponds upon the mother bird to supply it will
food, so our bright young neighbor with dis
tended jaws awaits the droppings of printing
sspap" from its federal mamma. 1t will receive
1t. Although at its birth our neighbor ha.
evinced an unsatis6ed spirit, we wish it sue
cess. There is room for it in our midst
While we may have cause to dissent from it
conclusions in political matters, we hope t.
find in it an able coadjutor in presenting t.
the world the immense resources of on
county and territory.