The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-25
State Press Opinions.
If the fool killer ever visits the klon-
dixie country he will be overwhelmed with
business.-Red Lodge Picket.

If the fool killer ever visits the klon-
dixie country he will be overwhelmed with
business.-Red Lodge Picket.
IL seems probable. however. that 1t is
not the earth but these weather prog
nosticators' minds that have been thrown
out of their orbits by a few weeks of UNI
usual weather. The movements of the
weather. like those of all other natural
phenomena, are rhythmical. One extreme
Is generally followed by an equal extreme
I'm the opposite direction, and it is not
improbable that these interpreters of
cause and effect may be called upon next
winter to account for the borean zephys
that sweep down upon us from the snow
fields of Alaska.-Townsend Messenger.
Senator Mantle, though soundly abused
for so doing by a number of our Mon
tana papers since they did not approve
of his silver views. was a great power
in rallying the Western senators to the
support of tariff proposition that the
wool manufacturer could not dodge, and
the very men that called him pet names
owe him debt of gratitude, since it was
this provision alone that put the Mon
tana wool grower on the beneficiary list
to the tune of cents per pound.-Rocky
Mountain Husbandman.
1t is so long since the last war that
the country has forgotten its frightful-
ness. We do not fully realize the cost
of another conflict. We probably recog-
nize something of the slaughter of men
and the waste of treasure, but we do
not realize that it will come home to us
individually. That we might see hus-
bands, brothers. fathers and sons strick-
en- down, and that these might be our
nearest and dearest. We know that there
would be an awful slaughter in a mod
ern war; but we cannot feel that we per-
sonally would be affected. 1t is the other
fellow who will get killed, it seems to us.
Great Falls Leader.
The railroads in that country are do
ing an enormous business. and withal
Mexico is forging to the front as a com
petitor that cannot be ignored. AS to
wages, skilled labor is well paid as
in the United States, but great deal
of work is done by poems who work for
very little but who receive more in the
aggregate throughout the year in the
shape of good food and physical COM
forts than the hundreds of thousands of
idle American citizens who have been
thrown into abject poverty by the opera
tions of the single gold standard. To
"Mexicanize" the United States would be
a great Improvement upon present con-
ditions, to say the least.-Western Min
ing World.
The Yellowstone Journal gives the fig
ures in a recent number, representing
the cost to Custer county of four MUIR
der trials. The aggregate, exclusive of
per diem and mileage of special deputies
and the sheriff's mileage for subpoenaing
witnesses and summoning jurors is SILL
1929 This is a pretty big total cost for
the single item of murder trials, but the
people of that county have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that they have not per-
mitted any guilty man to escape. The
record shows that one Indian is sentenced
to hang for the murder of the sheep
herder. Hoover and that George Geddes
and Tom WEIGH are now serving SEN
tence, the first for % years and the other
20 years for the murder of Winnie Brown.
Livingston Enterprise.
There were some bad men in the demo-
cratic party. who for awhile shaped its
destinies, but they have been driven out
and have gone over to the enemy. There
We're some good men in the republican
party: they too have been given their
passports and have come to us. There
We're some impracticable men in the pop
ulist party. but they have been turned
down So the difference between the dem
ocratic. silver republican and popuist
parties is too slight to keep them apart.
They belong to the same army are con-
tending for the same righteous cause are
anxious to vote for the same matchess
statesman and patriot, w. J. Bryan, for
president of the United States. If the
voters who form the rank and file of
these three parties will unite. will form
themselves into one party. go into the
primaries county. state and national
conventions together. they can name
tickets from top to bottom that cannot
be defeated.-Flathead Herald-Journal.