The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-18

body who comes from the same empire
an Austrian or Hungarian. I would be
surprised TO see q man who Is able to
prove with the evidence the existence
of the Austrian nation. The wisest men
cannot do H. Austria exists in name
oniy and not az q nation. Therefore.
we Croatian people who find ourselves
to-day in h United States are not
Austrians; we are Croatians and good
cftizens OF this grand country, which
teaches US to be free men and not Aus
TRANS or Hungarians.
Now. IL Is true that we are Slavon-
ians. but ~Slavonians are also Bohem-
ians. Polanders. Slovaks. B~ulgarians.
Servians, Montenagrins and some
others. Therefore, collectively, n
word Slaves or, better. s~lavonians. il
not broad or clear enough to specify
the nation of the slavonic race.
"Appreciating you kindness n
courtesy. I subscribe myself. Yours
very respectfully.
Thongs MARSHALL"
Ex-senator E. ID. Mats has not as
yet confirmed a dispatch which APP
peared in the New York Sun a few
days q under the heading. ASKED
Bryan to Lead in Prayer" The dispatch
reads:
Indiana Mineral Springs. Ind. April
1 ~ w iIid u. pTydu WAS dtktu 10 ISdu
In prayer to-day when he attended the
Easter services in the little Elm Grove
Methodist church on the farm of Su-
preme Court Judge McCabe, adjoining
the Indiana mineral springs. The Rev.
N. c. Bentley a fervently prayed
for peace between the United States
and Spain. Then he stepped from the
pulpit and whispered In Mr.. Bryan's
ear. The latter smiled and shook his
head. Mr.. Bryan had refused during
the morning to express an opinion on
the pending trouble over the Maine and
Cuba. and he vas unwilling to commit
himself enen in a prayer.
Farmers drove from all parts Of the
country to see Mr.. Bryan at church.
When he arrived at Willimsport at
midnight from Lafayette he was greet
ed by cannon a brass band and a thou
sand citizens. He was the guest OF
Judge McCabe. who, after the services
to-day, took him to see the mud baths
and to drink the waters of the springs.
AT the big hotel he a a guest. Paul
Dresser, author of ON the Banks of
the Wabash sing that and two other
songs. MIR. Bryan wrote his name on
the hotel register and was photograph
ed by guests with kodaks. He also met
there r. ID. Mats. a Montana delegate,
who voted for him in the national con-
vention of 1896. Mr.. Mats and III. j.
Kramer and Mrs. Kramer were guests
with Mr.. Bryan at dinner at Judge
McCabe's. Then the visitor left over
the Wabash railroad for Pittsburg, Pa,
where he will speak tomorrow night
The cooperative colony in Washing
ton has been started and efforts are be-
ing made to get IL settled. Martin j.
Elliott and George O'Malley are making
a tour of the various unions of Butte
in the interests of this colony, telling
of it's advantages and the progress be-
ing made in settling. n inviting mem
bers of organized labor to join. A
membership can be purchased for $3.50,
and can be paid in installments OF
small monthly payments. There mas
already been organized in this city the
brotherhood of Cooperative Common
wealers. which meets every Sunday
evening, and whose object is to pro-
mote the interests of the colony. The
new cooperative colony is at a place
in Washington which has been named
Skaguay. -