The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17

that Il 10 an easier and quicker method
to plumber the fruits of industry in
other than Of a man to exert IL in hs
own person. Avarice. however. sur
rewards of merit. The country must be
rescued from the hands of stock jobbers
and usurers who would ruin IL without
remorse. The expensive sinecures of
offices which both burden and disgrace
the nation. and a numerous tribe of pen
sions and grants for services never per-
formed must be lone away with, and
the savings applied where they ought,
to the public service. Senators I'M con
gressmen. who. before elected, are loud
In their professions Of economy
be taught by the people that they were
not elected so as to have an opportunity
of loading themselves and their relatives
with enormous lucrative appointments
without even a p%retense of any personal
merit in those to whom they are grant
ed. Now, when We see every effort
and pretext put forward by uch as in
wardly pray that May his tribe in
crease" IL Is time to cry halt. There
Is no doubt but these gamblers In Shis
country's destiny are anxious. like Alex
ander. for other worlds to conquer The
cry is already abroad we must quit
talking or agitating about the gold
standard and the ratio OF 16 to /, and
LIE RSOi itn NoetSs lii Nv soAt al
Of the goldbug. Already, as the Chi
nese beat a tom-tom to keep the devil
away, are they-the entire republican
party-like q pack of hounds In full cry,
seeming their quarry ahead. Imperial
ism is the latest addendum to our cur
rent street talk. 1t is even knocking the
spots off their side partners. the Anglo
American press, and by their noise we
do not rear SO loudly the peans of the
"Anglo-Saxon race"-the only tangible
remains Of which are the curios hung
up in the British museum as q remin-
der OF bygone ages. like the wampum
belts of the %Iroquois. a nearly extinct
tribe, presented to the New York insti-
tute a few days age.
The avowed champions of the so-called
moneyed power, the republican party,
who. as a party. those past years is the
foster mother Of corrupt syndicates and
mammoth ~monopolies. are now beating
their imperial tom-toms in order to d.
vert the people from the true issue.
They trumpet forth that the money
question Is a dead issue for the present.
Macbeth. in all his imperialism, thought
the same of Banquo. but reaching, as
he deludedly supposed, the very haven
of security, he % that Banquo's
ghost was still in evidence and would
not down" No, my masters, appeals
to passion, prejudice and sentiment are
going out of fashion. You will find that
In your desire for furthering o COW
etous desire for imperialism standing
armies and a moneyed aristocracy, with
all your Anglo-maniac aspirations, you
cannot debase the faculties and accom-
plishments of a great people, nor can
they be enslaved with impunity and
shackled with the golden gives OF the
money changers.
The fathers of our constitution hoped
that our national existence would glide
on like a quiet stream. Our quiet has
been seldom disturbed by the clash of
arms. Disturbed by no lodgings for
foreign lands, we have been content TO
cultivate and rear the tender shoots OF
popular liberty so auspiciously planted
by the inspired wisdom of the trainers
of our constitution, and by Gods help
IL Will be preserved, not by a plutocra-
cy, but a greater power, whose energies
Will be exhausted In the interest of all
who suffer-all who really are wanting
those good gifts which providence be-
slows, as the compensation of the ills
inherent In existence. Who will not
suffer undenounced to STAN between
the creator and the creature, the selfish
m~onopolist, the plunderer and hoarder
OF gold-he who is willing to barter the
food of millions for the price of his own
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and to purchase by the
hard bargain of a nations ruin the re-
alization of all his dreams of vile am
bition-wild shadows of a distempered
fancy? Who will hold up to unceasing
scorn those ~accursed money laws, which
robbing labor of it's reward, withhold
from Gods creatures Gods bounties,
and whose authors are hopelessly seek
ing. to dig up from under the basis of
our national strength, the constitution,
an imperialism to buy for them-insati-
ables-a new prosperity. an additional
happiness. The country's bulwark Is
the former, the merchant, the miner.
the mechanic, the laboring man-they
are the part OF the nation to command
respect. and enabled to win esteem or
20 challenge admiration. They read,
they reflect, they reason. they think for
themselves. they will neither let a presi-
den nor a politician, nor a placehunter.
nor a newspaper, nor a political pie
eater form their opinions for them. and
they will neither from views of interest
or motives of fear be made the dupe or
tool of others. They are the nation
the great American nation. The people
in every national and correct sense OF
the word, who will use every effort, and
exert every talent to save this country
and battle the schemes of the horde OF
adventures who will never be able to
push the work OF mischief to its con-