The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-01

in the wool markets Of sydney and
eibour than the Montana woods are
quoted in Boston. while the best dressed
feeces we raise are 2oc lower than the
best imported fieeces OF Australia, taxed
though they be. He did not tell them.
for not having consulted the
American authority, The woolgrower,
he did not know. that under the sigma
ture OF one Of the greatest wooibuyers
in America that the war with spain
caused an excessive demand for the
coarse grades of wool such as to keep
up an abnormal price on account OF the
immense demand for the manufacture
OF American flags. so much so that the
same authority on this enormous de-
mand states that there was more wool
required for the manufacture OF flags
than there was for the clothing OF the
entire army. This. of course. a read
lily be believed. for cotton cannot be
used for bunting, but any old shoddy
will do for our brave defenders. Mr..
Carter did not tell them that were IL
not for the miners OF gold. silver n
copper. the silver lunatics of the mining
camps. there would be as little profit
in woolrsising in Montana as without
the great transcontinental railways
entirely developed through mining
industries-the woolgrowers of Nom
tana would be as far from Boston as Is
Dawson City. Without our mines this
state would be thrown back so far In
the career of civilization that. without
the home markets the mining towns
furnish. the sheepowner and herder
would be compelled to revert to a no.
madic life and seek a p~recarious sub
sistence amidst their fiocks and herds.
like tie "gaucho" Of the Pampas. The
advancement of silver means the adj
vancement of wool. as well as OF all
other Industries. The woolgrowers of
Montana. II they will carefully consider
the above points. will see that their
share Of Mckinley prosperity owes
nothing hut heavy taxes TO the grand
old party"
People may be deluded by specious
reasoning. but they can not be deluded
by facts. II they find that a system
recommended by every pomp OF elo-
auence and elocution eventuates
in the misery OF the people.
in the decay of trade. in the
decrease of manufactures. In the
impoverishment of productive industry
OF every sort and kind. they will come
to their senses and spurn a deception
thai was seducing them to their ruin.
IL Is with an adherence OF that In
dividual selfshness OF Office seekers of
the Carter type that no nan having
the power OF voice or pen should ever
shrink from ~impeaching h senators
tina have ~counselled or that have up
held this cruel and villainous goldbug
system. Our hostility to the selishness
of those who dupe us does not stop
even here. Indeed. as a principle, may II
be ~propounded. with selfishness. what
ever form Il may assume. whatever the
garb 1t may clothe itself with. whatever
color ID may wear or whatever name IL
may affect. with selfshness the great
issue. the paramount Issue of silver
i'm its ratio of rs to ] al n shall have
no brotherhood.
This selfshness IL the monster parent
of the monster brood of evils
against which the people are now wag-
ing war-war even 10 the knife, war
to which there shall he no cessation. i
care not how this selhshness may meet
us: whether in the humble garb of the
gutter politician who Ii ready to be-
tray labor's trust. or the foreign tailor
groomed senator who has betrayed his
constituency-be he in rags or in rich
clothing tits all the same. a traitor Is
no less a traitor i'm one gulse than in
another. The patriots who seek them
selves only. no one else should seek. but
there are such cunning DISCUSSES by
which this selflshness may conceal mis-
native ~hideousness hat IL Is to be
feared he is often welcomed where. IL
known. he would have been the least
wlcome. The history of our monetary
law since 1873 Is a striking exemplihca-
tion OF this. For how long. think We.
would those laws exist IL the policy
which dictated their enactment. the
policy whose objects they nave so large
ly subserved. were generally known. APP
preciated. UNDERSTOOD But their pro-
motes are men wise dixie that pillar. |
mean "~Carterpillar." Of the state, "Our
Toni at least after a certain fashion.
II not wise. they are at least cunning.
They conceal. as Carter did. their real
designs. the base selhshness of their
purposes. under the false pretense that
they are consulting the public good.
The public good-that apology for 80
much crime. that palliation of so much
folly. IL is the duty. the appropriate
business of every journalist enlisted on
the peoples side-for the cause of the
people-to expose all pretenses. TO take
from s~elnshness it's ha%rlequinade and "a
publish II to the whole world i'm it's real
character. The great cause of free
coinage OF silver Is the only issue i'm To-
cal as well as national politics in this
campaign.
Let every patriot citizen keep the
main issue i'm view on election day. lie,
no mans individual ambition, passion
or prejudice, no matter with what cum
ming influence he may clothe his evil
counsels. do not for your q sake
for humanity's sake. debase that heav-
en-given power Of the ballot by cast
ing your vote against the liberty oi
your country. Keeping the great ma
tional issue i'm view until success re-
wards IA pains. of which democracy
gives the present promise. we shall
struggle on for his, caring not who
works with US or against US. willing tc
fraternize with any one aiding and
abetting us. and needing nothing wha,
u opponents may be. what name the,
may assume, what banner they may
unfurl. JOHN mcguire.