The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-04
TEN PAGES.
FRIDAY, MARCH a, 1898.
A Year of Mckinley.


this country will recall the fact
that President Mckinley was in
augurated year ago to-day The conf
pact was that the mills should DE
opened the currency of the country
nut on a permanently good basis, the
lust complaints of unemployed labor
met and disposed of. Cuba set free, the
merchant marine built up, Hawaii con-
,rolled by the United States, the
Armenian slaughter avenged. foreign
immigration restricted, the territories
admitted to statehood, Alaska repre-
sented in congress, the civil service eN-
tended. and women admitted TO
.wider sphere" so as to help to rescue
the country from democratic and popu-
listic Acknowledgement and misrule.
If YOU turn to the platform on winch
President Mckinley was elected, you
will discover that these are some OF
the achievements to which the repub-
lican party pledged its candidate The
PROMISES were large. how insignificant
the performance.
Not that the friends of free coinage
are impatient on TINS ethiitAA 'iSAAS -
the Mckinley administration. Not
that: silver's friends agreed To give
the president all the time he wanted
in which to bring about condition
of prosperity. It's the other side that
has betrayed the evidences of impa-
thence during the twelvemonth that is
closed. The end of the first quarter of
McKinleyism finds the republican party
divided into two parts. One OF these
is demanding with all its lungs that the
country be put speedily on the single
gold standard basis. the other half IS
insisting that the administration must
not do a thing with the currency. 1t
has suited silver's friends to give the
administration time. Toward the inn
provement of industrial conditions
throughout the land, the administration
has contributed nothing thus far but
the silverites aren't saying anything In
particular; they. have given Mr.. Mckin-
ley one year. they now agree to give
him another year. If by hook or crook
he can hold. in the next election his re-
publican control of the house of repre-
sentatives. he win be in pretty good
fighting form. Whether he can hold
that or not Is wholly a question. Its
his affair: he certainly ought 70 expect
to hold ii. if the administration comes
up to what il promised. or makes rea
sonabIy good stagger in that diree
ton.
The year was not eventful. A fey
matters that were an inheritance from
the Cleveland administration wer'
quietly disposed of. The Venezuela
matter was closed by ratification @
the boundary line agreed TO In III
early days of the official year the sen
ate rejected the proposed arbitration
treaty with Great Britain. The frs
important business of the new admin
istration was TO gel tariff bill passed
in extraordinary session OF congress
this bill was to be the grand ushering
in of prosperity.
In this matter the opposition in cor
gress was less a party of obstructio
than has ever been the case in the his
tory of this country, except, possibly
during one or two sessions in the year
when the Lincoln administration va
responsible for the conduct Of the civ
war Last year the friends of silye
stood faithfully by their resolution I
let the Mckinley administration hay
what it wanted. the kind it wanted. a
il wanted in the way OF tariff legisla
ton. There was some jangling OK
the tariff bill; it was republican jams
ling The opposition in congress gay
TO the administration the right Of Il
line. The result is. up To date, the lari
est deficit-the largest By many mi
llons-that this country's reEenue-earI
ing devices have ever accumulate
SIN. the friends Of silver are not say
ing 50 very much. It isn't their tuf
yet. they propose 10 give the admins
tration time.
President Mckinley, on his advent