Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-01

to Maine and including even Boston and
Anaconda. When the transport bearing
the California troops was sighted and the
fact was announced, there is no kind of
noise the people of San Francisco could
make that they didn't make with all the
energy, they possessed. From that mo-
ment there was no sleep for anybody ex-
cept the dead. The day following the ar
rival OF the troops was given up to a
grand naval parade on the bay, to gem
eral rejoicing and to the decoration with
flowers. flags and evergreens of every
house in the business center. Nearly
every county in the state had contributed
a carload of palms and pines, while the
flowers were largely used to weave into
Wreatlta and garlands for the soldiers
on disembarking.
The second day the boys left the ship
! and marched through Market street to
/ the Preside. For a distance of three
miles all traffic was stopped and every
tloroughfare on the line of march was
densely packed with a cheering, gesticu-
latlng, frenzied. hilarious crowd of men.
women and children. laughing and cry
ing with joy, waving hats, handkerchiefs
ana banners, and manifesting at every
step the most enthusiastic and e~xtrava-
CANT deiiSht. 1t was a scene never to be
forgotten; 1t was a Roman triumph
Inagnlied a hundred fold, because the
war which called it forth was begun in
the interest of peace and civilization, not
blood and conquest; because
ana humanity. not pillage and destruc-
tlon, We're to be promoted by it's success
full ending.
On the morning of the third day there
was a calm. but it didn't last long. All
the AFTERNOON suppressed excitema nt pre-
Va1led, for the grand parade OF The Deo-
pie was to wind up the celebration, No
sooner had darkness settled down than
the general illumination began and soon
1oAloWed an uproar that Right almost
have been heard in LuZon, for The process
sion was coming and the great thorough
rare or the city was densely packed with
gaily dressed people shouting AMI cheer
ing in a babel of hilarity. Above them.
strung across the street in ali shapes
and colors, famed millions Of electric
lights. The spectacle was marvellous.
The popular conception of Fairyiand was
a deserted graveyard compared to it.
Along came the parade composed Of SOL
dlers, sailors. the state ami city officials
and all the civic societies in gala uni
form. The men marched sixteen abreast
and the start was the signal for a pro
fusion OF fireworks which made Market
street a continuous blaz, Of bright color
from the ferry building to the city hall,
both of which magnificent structures
were themselves literally covered with
ropes of living light. AS the procession
lin l. oIClA IAolCt, bd1SGlIlNtll1U Il
broke loose. On top of the Call build
ing was a cannon of the rapid fire sort
On the Chronicles roof was a steam
whistle patterned after that of the Gag
non in its palmiest days. On the Ex-
aminer office, which was covered with
red, white and blue lights. was Il siren
which shrieked and howled With glee.
From the top OF each of these newspaper
offices blazed mountains of red fire. While
fireworks of every conceivable descrip-
i ton bombarded the sky until it was as
bright as day-brighter.
Down on the street the people surged
and yelled till they grew tired and hoarse
and they never stopped till daylight.
If there was an anti-eXDansionist in
that crowd he took good care to concea
his sentiments. Republicans. democrats
and populists in California are all in
favor of keeping American territory UNI
+der American control. They rightly urge
that if a righteous war placed in our pos
, session commercial advantages in the
orient which other and rival nations have
vainly sought for hundred of years tc
acquire, and without which we cannot
hope to compete on equal terms for orr
entail trade, we should be worse thar
fools, from a practical business point OF
view to let go. Besides W. can't let go
No c~opperhead has suggested how G
can let go. Saying nothing Of the ques-
ton of humanity, civilization ard gooG
faith involved, no patriotic American
wants to let go. Admira Dewey has
never suggested that we 1T go. He die
not wage a great battle without expect
ing results, without anticipating the
fruits of victory: and not to pluck the
fruit now that it is within reach. the Cal
%ifornians say, would be at once coward
Iy, dishonorable inconsistent, %unpatrio.
tic, unnatural, unexpected simbecile
For this reason, therefore, an anti-ex
pansion plank may be safely antici
pated in the next democratic nationa
platform but, also for this reason, tn,
man who runs on such a platform will
be, and of right ought to be, defeated il
every state of the American Union.
MONTANA'S SHARE.
Montana will have q hand in the up
building of Manila ais IN American city
Each returning regiment so far has lief
from 100 to $50 of it's men in Luzon-no
to be buried as the democratic organ!
c%heerfully have it. but to r%e-enlis or tt
engage in occupations other than war
Many who have come back with regi
, ments are already talking of returning
Of course soldering is deadly work, bu
other forms of labor in Luzon are health
!, full enough. Sugar can be made in LUXOR
for half the cost in any other part of tn,
believed. The tobacco industry promise.
princely profits and tobacco will come tt
! the United States free of duty, thus Civ