The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26
THEY DON'T LIKE 1T
One Of the st. Paul's Organs Reads the
Riot to Montana.
HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED
1t Appears That Montana Has Been
Wrong From the Start and 1 hat
the win Cities Will Forgive
Us II We Are Good.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

to the comment of the Anaconda Stand
ard on the boycott of the Twin Cities.
the Pioneer Press of Sunday will print
the following editorial. entitled "A
Lovers Quarrel"
| Whether IL Is true that a boycott
has been established in Montana
aimed at the jobbers of st. Paul and
Minneapolis. by reason Of the opposi-
tion OF the Pioneer Press and other
newspapers of the two cities to free
silver coinage. we do not know. All
our information of the subject comes
from Montana papers. and II may be
taken, at least, on the evidence of the
attitude Of the free silver leaders Of
that state whether the facts correspond
to their wishes or not 1t Is an attitude
of an offended small boy who won't
play any more. They will not eat or
drink or trade or have any sort of in
tercourse with people who differ with
them on economic questions or who
tolerate newspapers in their midst
which hold that an honest dollar should
be paid for an honest days work. Just
what the silver miners of Montana ex-
pect the st. Paul jobbers to do with
the Pioneer Press for having the hardi-
hood to protest against debasing the
cents on the dollar for the benefit of
the miners aforesaid is not stated with
precision, but evidently they are ex-
pected to hang the editor. blow up the
Pioneer Press building with dynamite
and destroy its presses and having
failed to give some such convincing
evidence of their disapproval of the
sentiments of the Pioneer Press on the
silver question, they are taken as its
tacit accessions after the fact and put
under the interdict and ban of the sill
yer oligarchy.
The Pioneer Press has had occasion
heretofore. in noticing this alleged
Montana boycott of the Twin Cities,
for every implied completely with this
newspapers opposition to free coinage.
to remark that IL all the cities were
boycotted by Montana merchants
whose newspapers hold like views with
the Pioneer Press on the silver ques-
tion, they would have to go to Mexico
or China to. fnd city where they can
buy goods in an atmosphere free from
the contamination of sound money
| journalism. They could not 60 to Chi
cago. for with the possible exception of
the Inter Ocean, which has had periods
of imbecile wiggle-waggling on the
subject, there Is not a newspaper In
Chicago which Is not sound on the
money question. Nor to st. Louis.
which is the headquarters of the rap
idly growing sound money sentiment
OF Missouri; nor to New York. nor 10
Philadelphia, nor to Boston. nor to
and intelligence within the limits of
the United States. For there,
as everywhere in the United
States OF America, outside of the
silver mining states, In city and
village and county. the business men
of America and the newspapers which
represent the business sentiment OF
their communities, stand in solid array
for good money worth 100 cents on the
dollar whatever sort of dollar II may
be- Everywhere they are massed In
united opposition to the tremendous
swindle Of public and private creditors.
of wage-earners and depositors in saw
ings and other banks, and the policy
holders of insurance companies advo-
Gated by the silver miners who delib-
erately propose to rob all these classes
of thousands of millions of dollars for
the benefit of owners of mines In four
or Ave Rocky Mountain states. The
Montana papers impliedly admit this.
THE silver states can find neither
companionship nor consolation outside
their own little group of mining camps
In any northern state. Logically their
boycott against those who differ with
them on the money question should ex-
tend to the entire United States OF
cities therein. especially to Chicago and
New York, which, after st. Paul, are
the head centers Of the sound money
propogandism. That st. Paul and Min
neapolis enjoy the distinction of being
selected as vicarious victims Of the
Montana boycott Is said TO be due to
the fact that geographical propinquity
and the comities of good neigh borhood
have established a sort of moral obliga-
ton on the part of Minnesota to sup
port the Montana miners in their
schemes for sacrificing the interest of
seventy million American people to
those of this little coterie OF million
aires.
There could be no better proof of the
strength of the friendship and good
neighborhood between Montana and
Minnesota than this spasm OF a sweet
hearts rage against the loves who re-
fused ITO dishonor her-it Is a sentiment
which will survive the quarrel. The
day will come when Montana will
thank Minnesota for having refused TO
listen 10 the siren voice which would
have ailured the American people TO
their ruin, and involved the silver
states in the common catasthrope. For
the day will come when Montana her
self will see that free silver coinage
would have been as disastrous to the
silver mines as to all other classes OF
industry. that Montana. incluing even
her silver interests. can only prosper in
the general prosperity of the American
people and that the only path ITO pros
perity Is the path of honor. And there
are a great many people in Montana
who have already found this out and
are fighting bravely for sound money
In the midst of prevailing free silver
sentiment in the full faith that sound
money is as essential to the true and
permanent welfare OF Montana as OF
New York or Massachusetts. and that,
before long. this Is the sentiment that
will be upperTlost there as everywhere
else when common sense and common
honesty are the attributes OF people.