Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-06
INTER MoUNrAIN MANIA.

A new disease has been developed IN
Butte and il duly diagnosed by the
family physician Of the patient would be
classified as Inter Mountain mania. 1t
is more virulent in its type than Inter
Mountain fever, because it is complicated
with strong symptoms Of hydrophobia. 1t
only yields to copious internal applica-
tions of beer. Our esteemed contempt
rary has, we fear, acquired an %incurable
case OF this violent disorder. The mere
mention of any public enterprise. de-
signed to promote the public interest
without fostering the special interests OF
the coterie that always responds servilely
to the demands of a certain clique, pre-
cipitates an attack of this Inter Noun
tain mania in its most acute form. THE
MINER had two innocent editorial para
graphs yesterday morning, the N ex
pressing regret that the City Council had
not taken more prompt action on the
ordinance granting the motor line a
franchise around onto Broadway in re-
Spouse to a petition of citizens, which
could hardly be disregarded, and the
other challenging the ability Of Carver
ct al, to furnish the city free water fol
fire purposes. Our esteemed contempt
rary in its commissions substantially ad-
United the correctness of The MINERS
conclusions in both cases. In the matter
OF the Broadway franchise it admits:
Naturally enough, Mr.. Bennett wanted
brought to q conclusion at once and it
turned out afterwards that one OF his chill
reasons was that final decision relative to
building the Walkerville cable line depended
in q measure upon last nights action; that
the delay last night makes a corresponding
delay in the cable line decision"
Then in the violence of its %contOrtions,
it essays to censure Mr.. Bennett for not
having stated the emergency to the
Council, which he could hardly have been
expected to do, without having been
placed in the false position Of trying to
force the issue. But this case Of Inter
Mountain mania Crews all the mefe eeff-
plicated as it appears in its editorial
epilepsy to finally fasten the RESPONSE
bility Of the missing ordinance on an Of
fetal of its own whom It's manager had
pledged in the convention on the
strength OF the statement that his pro-
tege had carried out a previous pledge.
After a mild course OF treatment, the
patient shows hydrophobiac symptoms,
with a tendency to water brash on the
brain, and seeks to show that Mr.. Franks
proposition al published in The MINER,
contained nothing novel; that the same
was substantially set forth in Mayer
Hamilton's suggestions Of Monday night.
Then, as these symptoms become more
marked in their outward exhibition, the
patient clamors loudly for a show down
on the part of Carver g. Co. as to their
ability to carry out their proposition, as
the Silver Bow Company had made much
money out of Butte already. Finally, in
the frantic form of the disorder, it de-
mands water, water everywhere and not
a drop to drink" before the hot weather
sets in. If it is a bath it wants, why
doesn't it say SO? But even in the ex-
tremity of its case, it cannot but join in
with The MINER in questioning very Sc
riously whether Carver & Co. can carry
out the covenants of the contract with
the city contemplated by their charter.
From all of the complications of the case
as exhibited in these two editorials in the
Inter Mountain, it would hardly seem
proper to prescribe any moe beer than
the writer must have been carrying when
he wrote the only two editorials that ap-
peared in the columns of our esteemed
contemporary yesterday evening.