The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-04
IS 4 GREAT COUNTRY
ASTIR WITH PATRIOTISM
Inspiring Military Scenes Along the
way-War Enthusiasm Throughout
the Wide Land-The Magic
Touch OF Progress.

Deputy County Attorney c. p. Con-
molly Of Butte il spending a few weeks
in the East and was recently interview
ed by the Call Of Newark. N. j. Mr..
Connolly says in his Interview:
II have made four trips across the
continent in the last IL years. since 1
first left Newark. On each ccasio
what most impressed me was the mag
nitude and the majesty of this country.
But on lone of these trips was my pa
triotisp so thoroughly aroused as on
this one. The day l left home the
troops from Butte left for Helena. the
capital Of the state, to go into camp.
When / arrived at Lincoln. Neb., two
days later, the first authentic news Of
the great Manila victory had just flash
ed over the wires. There / saw a city
Of go, 900 people wild with the war fever.
| and a parade OF all the state troops.
1000 strong, brought out all that was
| best Of the patriotism of a typical Amer
| can city.
And so 1t was as we crossed the
continent everywhere. The procession
of regulars and militia that started the
| Jay we lclt oultCs Tia aiOuSS0 oAl tuC
| rough but mighty patriotism Of the
mountain denizens, seemed to circle the
continent. We whirled through cities at
| night and lay down in our sleepers with
the roll of drum beats, the steady tread
Of marching columns and the patriotic
cheers of war-mad multitudes falling
upon our drowsy ears, and we awoke in
other cities and in other states far
away, where the wheels had carried US
with the speed of flying birds, and the
same tread of marching columns and
the same patriotic cheers beat the morn
ing reveille in our ears. We seemed
only to leave one part of the great pro-
cession to take a ~circuitous route by
rapid conveyance to catch up with the
other.
In Omaha the same wild scenes; in
Chicago the same electric enthusiast SIN,
the name Of Dewey on every tongue.
and flags everywhere. In Cincinnati ii
was the same explosive patriotism, as
though the Cincinnatians were the only
Americans, and they the first celebrants
of victory, and theirs the first soldiers
that had put on the armor to go forth
to battle. But in Washington's streets
regular army, with no blare of band,
not ever a drum beat; no b~uttonhole
bouquets, nor war-enthusiastic express
sion of face, but a passive look that be-
spoke pressing business of importance,
was the most comfortable sight of all.
One did not feel like cheering these fell
lows so much. Their appearance was
more inspiring than intoxicating. But
as we whirled through Trenton the ST.
lent symphony Of the regulars was
broken by a thousand strident yells
from the threats of a trainload of New
York militia on their way to wet tents
and Chickamauga bareback.
so l say, as l have said every time !
have crossed the continent-this is a
great country. A piratical nation like
Spain may harass and annoy us, but no
nation that this same sun shines upon,
no nation canopied by the same heav-
emily armament can whip US. That
certain. Any one that doubts 1t should
go out upon the great plains Of the West
n see the Drawn and the vtgor and the
strength of Americas countless plains
men. whose patriotism 10 deep-seated
md uncomfortable. / will wager q
dock-tailed horse against a Montana
cayuse that it will take not less than
10 Spanish rifle balls to kill one Mon
tana cowboy, and that the cowboy will
be still shooting Is minutes after he is
dead.
Around the dome of the capitol at
Washington are paintings representing
types of American history. I wish, while
we are still young. there could be pre-
served In like manner somewhere in
Washington a panorama view of the
United States just as they exist to-day
in their formative development. / would
have some great painter, a Reynolds or
a Moran, paint the picture story of our
country just as she is to-day, for the
face of 1t all is changing rapidly as the
school boy sponges off one picture on his
slate and draws another, and soon there
will be nothing left of what we are but
the vista Of a living recollection-no
words that shall portray II, only the
hand Of a consummate master painter.
1 would have him reproduce the great
primeval forests Of Washington, her
woodsmen; the rough, but glorious face
of Montana, with her brawny miners,
prospectors, anchme and cowboys;
the great plains of the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas and Iowa, ~boundless and
inspiring as the sea; the ndian upon
their reservations, slow-learning in the
ways Of civilization; the gradual change
farther and farther east and see the
trained hand of man even in the tilling
of the soil. And / would ave pre-
served the types Of citizenship that rep
resent these different conditions, for
while the United States il one homo
geneous nation, yet has each section
its lineaments that will vanish with the
coming Of the years n the mighty
march OF all things human among this
transcendent race Of Americans. The
up-coming South ought not to be for
gotten. It has its types that are vanish