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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
Lew Wallace In Spurs.

) OR want of something better with
which to amuse the public, some
l of the newspapers are running
what may be described as a longd dis
lance guessing contest-they offer a
prize to be awarded hereafter to the
person who guesses the event that
proves to be the most important in the
annals of 1898. This silly contest is get
ting patrons.
If Gen. Lew Wallace were to guess,
he probably would predict that, as the
beading event Of 1898. Japan will get
a good thrashing: he says that Japan
needs it. General Wallace is no lingo.
He is, indeed, an tempered sort
OF citizen who undoubtedly cherishes
the hope of amicable relations for this
country with all the world. But from
what he has lately written it is plain
TO see that he would even consent that
this country administer the punish
ment which, in his judgment, Japan
stands sorely in need of.
In the opinion of Lew Wallace Japan
is puffed up beyond patient tolerating.
She is so elated with her triumphs over
the Chinese that she Graves new con-
quests, and General Wallace says she
will hunt for them until she gets the
proper kind of discipline-his notion is
that Japan will manage to fall foul of
the United States. More probable 1t is
that the near future will furnish Japan
with an opportunity for a brush with
some of the European powers. over in
the mikado's neighborhood Russia and
Germany are fixing up entanglements
into which England may easily be
drawn. and out of this wealth of armed
and cruisered opposition Japan will be
able to select a foe.
What on earth does the United States
want to go fighting Japan for? Pos
sibly the Wallace talk is intended mere
ly as a harmless holiday diversion for
those restless Americans who for long
time but vainly have been wanting to
have n scrap with Spain
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
TEN PAGES.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER %, 1897.
A Merry Christmas

Y o favoring are the conditions that
81 prevail and SO prosperous have
been the seasons, that the cele-
tation of Christmas in the region
Which the Standard reaches may with
god right be merry. Thousands of
bmes in Montana will present this
iorning a joyous scene: few are the
harths where the tokens of Christ
lastide will be lacking.
From all that the Standard learns,
he preparations for the celebration of
christmas have been more generous
han usual in every important COM
nunity in the state. The merchants
Nport a gratifying holiday trade, the
hustle of busy people in the gathering
" Christmas gifts has been more
marked than has been the rule in re-
tent years; the tokens of good will and
bf affection will be generously dis
tributed to-day.
They get the greater measure of
pleasure and the larger blessing out
of Christmas who make 1t their SPECIAL
mission to care for the needy, or who
see to it that child-life passed amid
the surroundings of poverty is not left
without its Christmas token. The
churches and the benevolent orsaniza-
tons have cared 'or many of these
with willing hands and with timely re-
membranes: and the hope may be cr-
tertained that the number is small of
those in Montana for whom the day
must be a cherries anniversary.
May 1t be a royal Christmas for all
the Standards readers! Surely, it
ought to be. for the people of Montana
have been singularly favored. i yen
find yourself inclined 10 say that the
day has small significance for you, 70
forth this morning and, ministering TO
those who truly are in sorrow or want
or distress, with some gentle word ~
yours or kindly act however modest,
learn that il is a Christmas in whose
good will you have a share and lay to
heart the days loving lesson.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
Mr.. Gage and the Banks.

1CHE heavy and unexpected bank
failure in Philadelphia, happen
ing at the most untoward mo-
ment of the year, is a case where. were
Mr. Cages plan to prevail, the govern
ment would have to go into the banking
business-the treasury department
would find itself. under the secretary
plan, the same rs now, compelled to
take hold Of certain features Of the
banks business, provide for the redemp-
tion OF its outstanding currency and so
into the market to sell the bonds that
secure the banks circulating notes. The
essential difference is that those would
be gold bonds instead Of coin" bonds.
Ta degree, the government must con-
tinue 70 be in the banking business
under the Gage plan.
The failure of this famous Philadel-
phia baak IS of Itself no argument TO
the discredit Of This couutry's banking
system. Banks VIII fail; the percent
age of failures win be as large under
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

all the treasury's plans as they have
been. Indeed. as bearing on the Cage
plan, this conspicuous failure is not
nearly so significant as was last weeks
furry in the New York money market
about which next to nothing was said
in the newspapers. That furry taught
lesson. It happened because it became
necessary to pay on short notice into
the treasury department IS. 500, 900 in
connection with the Union Pacific fore
closure sale. This happened on short
notice because the manner in which the
transaction was conducted differed
somewhat from the former methods of
the treasury department, with the result
that this amount of money had actually
to be paid in legal tender notes
The transaction set New York in a
flurry-there was a quick advance of
four per cent. in the rate for loans. OF
course. it was temporary. But as an
item in national finances, the amount
was insignificant, and 1t must be deemed
strange that a call for $8,500.000 should
have created so much excitement. The
lesson is that the banks-the best of
them-are always more delicate and
sensitive than is the government. The
country's currency Is likely to be stead
Ter under direct government control
than under a banking system that tries
to remove the government as far from
the currency as possible.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
That Is the Question.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph
The republican party was put in
charge of the government by the people
of this country mainly for the reason
that the people believed il would give
them a debt-paying and not a debt-in-
curing administration. There is a
heavy deficit staring us in the face,
and we want Mr. Dingley and his COM
peers TO tell us what they are going
TO do about il. How are they going to
meet the shortage which exists now and
is daily increasing That is the ques-
ton we want answered. and Mr. Ding
ley's bright antiCipations respecting
some period in the dim future do not
afford any satisfactory answer.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

sentatives he helped Bland in some OF
silver's fights He acted with the men
who demanded free coinage. When
that could not be obtained he voted for
the Bland-Alison act. that being the
best silver could secure at the time,
and he voted to adopt the measure over
a republican presidents veto. Sen
ator Wolcott knew this: possibly there
is some shadow of excuse for his mis-
taken course in putting faith in the
president.
But. in any event. Mr.. wolcott knows
better now. Late in the day he dis
covers that the president is wholly
Joined to the goldbug idols. If he in
tends to be for silver. the senator must
part company with the administration.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
The Last Straw.

% RoBABLY the last straw in the
case of Senator Wolcott was the
conversation that took place in
the room of the house committee on
banks and banking when Secretary
Gage was there expounding his plan.
Mr.. Gage explained his goldbug scheme
and, to his mind. everything was in
nice running order. Up spoke Mir
Brosius. He presented the possibility
pf democratic control of the next house
of representatives and of the passage
an both houses of a free coinage hill.
That involved a contingency. The
newspaper reports said that in the COM
mittee room Mr.. Gage raised a smile
and called out applause when he dis
posed of the suggestion with the
words: I'm view OF the absolute Ger
tainty of a presidential veto, ! think
we could pull through
This remark was widely quoted The
gold-standard organs seized upon it
and, with their 1--WE told you So" they
made the utmost of it, They asserted
that Mr.. Gage spoke by the card. that
the administration is all right. that no
gold man need fear the president or
suspect him of fellowship with VOL
cott-commission schemes or any silver
projects.
That was enough TO roll Mr. wolcott
or any other man who had worked
hard to keep the president in the silver
column. One might challenge score
tary Cages statement. or demand his
authority for his assertion respecting
what the president might be counted
on to do under given circumstances,
but Mr.. Wolcott realized the folly of
that course-in truth. the president
himself permitted MIR. Cages remark
TO stand; and thus his silence tells
sc all.
President Mckinley has changed. He
is wholly at the service of the gold
standard people. 1t was not always
thus. There was a time in his public
career when he dared TO have a mind
Of his own. He used 10 vote with the
silver men. Ia the house of repre-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
~HE New York papers report that

rHE New York papers report that
there's a new scheme in town.
The inventor is a Brooklyn man
named Brooks. He proposes that there
shall be attached to the machinery for
the registration of voters additional
machinery for the making of party
nominations The citizen registers and
then goes to the booth of his party and
registers his choice of nominations. This
means that the primaries of all par
ties would he held at the time and place
of registration. The scheme would in
sure a heavier vote at the primaries
than the vote of the real elections, for
no elections ever poll the full registra-
tion strength. Under such a system it
would be easier to smash machines and
break up rings than it is now 1t would
materially increase the cost of elections
but it is argued that the results would
be more than worth the additional ex-
peuse
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
Some Ominous Talk.

* EVERAL of the Washington cor
~ respondents are sending out
~ suggestions of a foe more re-
lentless than Foraker which they say
Senator Hanna is facing. If the hints
that come from Washington are true,
the friends of the senator have reason
for alarm. Some of these friends al
NIT that Mr.. Hanna's appearance
shocks them-so changed is his look
and they speak ominously of a sena-
torial fight which they profess to be-
| lieve he will not survive. The repor-
tiers tell of his recent call at the white
house when YEARLY and apparently in
painful way he climbed the stairs
leading to the presidents office.
The gossip about Mr.. Hanna's physi-
cal condition may be highly charged
with imagination. OF late, he has been
out of health. but no authoritative
statement suggesting fatal results has
been given to the public. Meanwhile,
there is health and vigor in the sena-
torial contest that is rapidly shaping
itself in Ohio. Yesterday mornings
dispatches announced that Charles l..
Kurtz has shown his hand-he is the
recognized leader of the opposition to
Hanna. Until recently Kurtz has kept
the newspaper reporters guessing; he
is an out-and-outer now, and they all
do say that he is a man whose opposi-
ton even Hanna may dread
This week the Hanna candidacy has
recognized the fact that it has a
heavy fight on hand. Major Dick,
chief-of-stam for the Hanna organi2a-
ton, has sent out a general alarm. The
clans will gather next week at Column
bus in anticipation of the meeting of
the legislature. The Ohio congressman,
the office holders, the oflice-askers, the
local bosses all will meet, to bring
the weight of their presence and influ-
ence to bear" on the members of the
or not, the report has been credited for
several days that Governor Bushnell is
the man who will try conclusions with
Mr.. Hanna. TO defeat the ambitious
capitalist eight republican votes are
necessary; Kurtz says he has twelve
pledged. and his assertion has caused
CONSERVATION in administration circles
January days will be exciting in CO.
lumbus, yet somehow Mr.. Hanna is not
an interesting figure in politics. 1t is
impossible to admire him: he came
suddenly to the surface and he won a
national election, but. for all that,
the very large public looks upon him
as a hob-nailed performer rather than
a persuasive and inspiring party lead
er--his work is coarse. Then. too,
there is IA bit of sentiment involved
the feeling is widespread that Ohio
ought to elect John Sherman to the
senate as long as he lives and wants to
stay there. Ever since the day when
Lincoln was inaugurated Tor his first
term in the presidency till the day
when Hanna virtually crowded him
out. Sherman represented Ohio in the
senate. except during his term in the
Hayes cabinet and n senatorial cen
test in Ohio will seem TO lack an es-
sential factor with Sherman alive yet
left out
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

We feel safe in announcing that the
picture of Governor Altgeld which.
after a bitter fight. has finally been
hung up in the Illinois state house along
with the pictures of Illinois other gov
errors is not by any of the artists of
Puck or Judge.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

If Senator Hanna finds one of his
stockings missing this morning it is
because Senator Foraker has taken it
away and filled it full Of sand, with
the intention of giving it to Hanna in
the back of the neck
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

Instead of great standing armies and
navi,s being n guaranty OF peace. they
are menaces of war. Throughout the
world to-day there Is the greatest dan
ger of war I'm precisely the countries
where armies are the strongest
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

The Lowell manufacturers who met
yesterday and agreed to let their $1,000
employees get their wages hereafter at
a great reduction. are not manufac-
turing any merriment at this season
of the year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

If he We're in a place where the
weather permitted, how old Helioga-
balus' mouth would water at the
thought of Howard Gould's cold bottles
and hot birds.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

Most Of the black hair used in wigs and
switches comes from the Italian and
Spanish converts. most of the blonde
hair from tbs heads OF wtdish. Danish.
Russian and German peasant girls
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
-rHE New York state board of rail-

1>HE New York state board Of rail-
way commissioners. which has
been investigating the cause Of
the slide Of the New York Central rail-
way tracks near Garrisons in October
by which an express train was thrown
into the Hudson river and 20 persons
lost their lives. has ACCOMPLISHED Very
little. but still has accomplished SINE
thing. As To the cause of the accident
the report leaves the public - as much
doubt as ever. The commissioners
couldn't lind out whether the train was
derailed, destroying the embankment Us
a result, or whether the embankmeut
gave way, derailing the train. But Trey
agreed that the force Of track walkers
was too small and t&al Il il had been
larger and better The condition II The
track and embankrant where the ac-
cident occurred wugld have been
known, whereas its condition at the
time must now forever be mystery.
J he boar1 recommends m increase If
the track-walking force and n more
complete and constant inspection of the
track, recommendation taat could he
prohtably followed by many other rail-
roads, particularly where their tracks
are laid along the banks Of rivers or
/ crooks
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England would thank Russia to dis
continue her annexation schemes and
give her rest. AS soon as she Sc
cures all she wants of China Russia
will cheerfully offer England the rest.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

The New England manufacturers
who find that. rather than starve. their
employees are disposed to return to work
at the reduced wages. pronounce it a
beautiful case of cut and come again.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

United States in one hand and the flag
of Christ in the other" And still the
missionaries think he's not the right
man for the place
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

The University of California student
who has been arrested for stealing a
copy of Quo Vadis" was doubtless I'M
able to restrain his desire to take a
Swipe at Nero.
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BABY's SMOOTH, FAIR SKIN

A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter
Tells all about Her Troubles when
Baby Broke out with ScrofuIa Sores.
"At the age of two months, my baby
began to have sores break out on his right
cheek. We used all the external APP
plieations that we could think or hear of,
to no avail. The sores spread all over one
side of his face. We consulted a physi-
clan and tried his medicine, and in a week
the sore was gone. But to my surprise in
two weeks more another scrofulous look
ing sore appeared on baby's arm. 1t
grew worse and worse, and when he was
three months old, ! began giving him
Hoods Sarsaparilla. l also took Hoods
SarsapariIla, and before the first bottle
was finished, the sores were well and have
never returned. He is now four years old,
but he has never had any sign of those
sevofuIous sores since he was cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, for which feel very
grateful. My boy owes his good health
ana smooth. fair skin to this great med
icine.n MRs. S. s. WRoTEN, Farming
ton, Delaware. Get only Hoods.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
Personal intelligence.

Miss Minnie Noble, teacher in the
schools of BRENNAN, Texas. recently mat
ried and was forthwith requested by the
school board to resign, as under their
regulations on married woman should be
allowed in the schools as a teacher
Jere Simpson. it is said. owing to a deal
whereby he agreed to keep out Of the
congressional race in 1898, will retire from
public life when his term expires. Charles
Butcher of Newton is said to be the dem
ocrat who threw the democratic vote to
Simpson last year for the populist vote
next year.
Lieutenant O'Brien. stationed at At
lanta. has resigned from the army, giving
as his reason for doing so that a great
Asiatic war is to occur in a year in
which China will be dismembered and
partitioned between Japan and other in
terested nations, which will give him
the opportunity to use the Oriental knowl-
edge acquired when military attache
in Japan as a war correspondent.
Arthur A. Fowle, managing editor Of
the Boston Globe. was recently given
banquet by the editorial staff and hea6s
of other departments to celebrate his
50th birthday. The feast of reason and
flow of soul occurred at Young's hotel,
and Mr.. Fowle. who has been connected
with the paper for % years, was the re-
cipient of congratulations and other more
substantial tokens of affection from his
employees who are generally his friends.
General Taylor, in a neat little speech,
attributed Mr. FoWlc's great success in
the management OF the paper to never
going outside for men 70 fill the RESPONSE
BILE positions but strictly adhering to
the policy of promoting the most deserv-
ing on his staff
Mrs. Susie Kay. a cultured woman of
Houtan, Maine, has eloped with Thomas
Sweeney, Il tramp and an old jail bird.
While Sweeney was sick in jail Mrs. Kay
visited him as a good Samaritan. and as
he was ignorant. vulgar and dirty and
ugly, no one. of course. thought of his
turning out a Don Juan. But when he
was released Mrs. Kay met him fire.
auently en- the outskirts of town and
wound up by running off with him She
soon tired of her tramp lover and Satur
day returned TO find the door of her home
barred against her and a divorce proceed
ing pending. Sweeney celebrated his Sec
ond liberty by gigantic jag" conducted
on the money furnished by the erring
wife.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

1t is possible that after settling for
the gangs dinners at the New Holland
tonight. Howard Gould will still have
enough left to tip the waiter two bits.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

There can be no reasonable doubt
that the twelve select guests Mr. How
ard Gould has invited to dinner to.
night will be fully as select as the oys-
terS.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

AS the second edition of Mr.. Carlisle,
Mr.. Gage contains rather more scare
heads and double-leaded sensations.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

New York Object Tribune Building.
Chicago Off:ce-509 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
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The American missionaries evidently
want an American minister to China
who will inspire the respect rather than
the establishment of the natives.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

All general business, letters and corre-
epundence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda. Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

The Standards Fat Jack story is be-
coming fat take for exchange edi-
tors.