The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-10

| agents now In Helena be lynched is horrible
| II may be true that they IRE trying to corrupt
some OF our leg slators, our innocent legislators
IL may even be true that they have succe eded
In corrupting some Of the poor fellows. but that
| Is no reason why all OF the agents should be
| taken out and hanged Why not compromise
| on a dozen? Nobody would kick-except the
| agents themselves-if a dozen we're taken out
and strung up one at a time. There is a trestle-
work between Helena and East Helena which
would make splendid gallows for about that
number OF men without crowdng. We enter
our protest against wholesale lynchlng. What
would the word say II the story tina. 1852 men
were lynched at Helena last night" was sent out
over the wires? We would be cons dered worse
than Turks. Let's be halfway decent.-MLs-
sotIId Democrat
The STANDARD devotes three columns OF
Mondays edition to showing how great minds
run In the same channel by publishing in par
allel columns extracts from a lecture on The
Discovery OF America" delivered by Rev. Will
Ham Rollins OF Butte, and from published lee
ture by DR.. Frank Bristol OF Evanston, ILL.,, on
'Ihe Discovery OF America" The published
extracts are singularly alike In language and
idea, and suggests the possibility OF mind
waves. IL Is true DIR. Bristols lectures were de-
livered two years prior TO those OF Mr. Rollins;
but that proves nothing. IL is a singular
psychologist study the STANDARD has entered
upon. In an interview Dr. Rollins said: 81
the royal seizure OF thought" Royal seizure"
is good.-Blltn0s Times.
After 10 days of honest and painstaking in-
vestlgation the coroner's jury. charged with fix
Ing the responsibility for the explosions at
Butte and the consequent loss OF the lives Of so
many men. has found that the Kenyon-Connell
and Butte Hardware companies we're criminally
negligent and careless In that they carried more
dynamite In their warehouses than the law al
lowed and are therefore held responsible for
the consequent loss OF life. There is every
evidence that the investigation of the jury was
conducted with the single object OF placing the
blame where it belonged, AMI no one VINO has
followed the testimony upon which the verdict
was based can find any reason to ques tion its
wisdom or justice. Now that the responsibility
for the appalling catastrophe has been definitely
fixed 1t is to be hoped that adequate punish
ment viii be melted out to those through whose
criminal carelessness there resulted such a
wholesale sacrifice of human life. While this
cannot bring the dead back to life or assuage
the grief OF the bereaved, 1t will exert salutary
influence and promote a more explicit obser
vance OF the law of municipalities forbidding the
storing Of large quantities OF explosives within
the confines OF cities or towns.-LtUtngstOn
Post
Spokane hasn't secured that focal post yet
Ii VIII not secure ii unless clear title is given to
1000 acres OF land and the committee is $1,000
short or the amount required for the purchase
OF the site already selected. Why not call the
deal of, let Fort Harrison slide and make of
MissOula the focal post Of focal posts the lowell
est spot in this Northwest, as easy OF access as
elsewhere a natural base for supplies on the
line OF one great transcontinental route and
soon to be on the line of another now building.
The government should declare all deals of.
pay Helena damages il necessary and make of
Missoula what nature intended 1t to be-the
focal post of he Northwest, the ideal spot for a
perpetual encampment of the armies of the
TT.,Rf.
mountains and our streams, the swelling chorus
prolonged by our lovely valleys, in which the
rosy Hours love TO romp, Time to linger as
he moves,
"Where the Sun loves to pause"
With so fond delay,
That the night only draws
A thin veil DER the day.
-MtssOuld Democrat.