The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-20
Nobody Cares About Il.

What a merry time some of the
newspapers will have with yesterdays
loud talk in the house of representa-
tives! This country has a congress so
meanly constituted that nothing it
may happen TO do will excite the won
der of the people; yet ii can manifest
its stupidity in way that excltes
merrIment; and that is what happened
yesterday
Some pension bills for women were
up. Mr.. Jones, of Virginia, objected.
Mr.. Cooper, OF Indiana, accused Jones
of lack of chlvalry. Mr. Jones is from
Virginia, SIR, and he didn't like what
Mr.. Cooper said. His observation was
that PENSIONS to rich peop.e are not
what the government started out to
pay, and Jones argued that knight
hood wasn't in it when the PROPOSE
ton was to make rich widows richer.
simpson, of * insas, Cox, Of Ten
nessee, and Moses, of Georgia, took
part in discussion, which ended in
a row in the house. These are men of
account, all of them; that is to say,
they are men of account in times when
little men are of Significance, as is the
case in our day. Simpson is the sock
less. Moses is a nobody who, posing
as democrat, managed to make the
Farmers Alliance move him into ths
house of representatives. Cox is an
alleged confederate colonel Cox has
record. Years ago--it was away back
In lS12-he was elected as a Greeley
presidential elector, but, Greeley
having died before the official count
came in, he voted for Hendricks for
president. There are people III Mon
tana who will recall the incident.
These gentlemen shared in yester-
days debate over pension appropria-
ton. All went well until a member
from South Carolina put in his little
word. Yesterdays associated press
kilograms refer TO this interloper as
Mr.. Talbot. The truth is that, such is |
fame, he is Mr.. W. Jasper Talbert, of |
South Carolina. Talbert is quite a |
fellow. He served in the Confederate |
army from start to finish. After that, |
he tried farming, with about the same |
success as that which attended rebel |
lion. y sketch of h IN which the |
happens to have at COM
mand says that Talbert is good sun
day school worker, a staunch demo-
crat and, at the same time, promi-
nent officer of the Farmers alliance.
From this description, which we be-
lieve TO be correct, there's no telling
what Talbert really is. This much is
certain, however; he arose in his
place in the house of representatives,
Yesterday, and the dispatches say that
he was white with rage" lie fought
again the famous battle of Gettysburg,
all by himself, and, at its conclusion,
he remarked respecting the wrong
side in the rebellion: AS to the lost
cause, il was an everlasting cause be-
cause it is the cause of liberty"
Bad as 1t Is, this talk from South
Carolina is not treason. Section three
IN article three of the Constitution of
he United States says that treason
shall consist only in "levying war
against the United States, or IN ad-
herring to Their enemies, giving aid
md comfort TO them" Mani
estly, Talbert's announcement doesn't
,ome within the constitutions provis-
on for the punishment of treason.
lust the same, 1t is pretty wild talk.
Most of us would sneer at it, although.
II our opinion, Talberts talk would
cad those of us who are faithful A.
!. AS to join the nearest jew syna-
rogue.
What ridiculous sound this sort of
peech has, twenty-years, nine mon hs !
nd ten days after Appomattox. It's
n proof of the fact that this country I
lever saw more stupid congress. Ii
5 also in proof of the fact that the
anting of the unreconstructed is as
he blowing of the wind.