The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29

ton, it attacked by another employe.
who makes scene, resulting in scan
dal. The heads of the house hold 10
minute conference and discharge both
employees, considering the Irregularities
complained of as of little Importance
beside the good name of the house ana
it's vast interests on land and sea. This
is the sentiment of the big syndicate
men backing the administration.
Politics and Business.
In word. it is politics. Success for
our party in 1907 is the cry. 1t meets
the approval of men like Hanna De-
cabinet not expecting to be presidents
themselves.
In the old days of Jefferson, Webster
and Clay, constitutional law, the
science of government and the tariff
were problems of great minds. To-
day. politics and business are synony-
nous terms. Without one, the other
fails.
That Miles should have the bad taste
to step in at the last hour and make a
row about the beef sent to the soldiers
during the greatest and most glorious
conflict ever waged against despotism
is an impertinence not to be for
given.
incidentally, however. General Miles
has strong backing among the volun-
teers of the country who are not in the
administration ring which controls mil
lions in New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia and other financial centers.
farmers and the masses are solid for
General Miles, because he attacked the
beef. They argue that if he is wrong
Roosevelt is wrong. Each man cor
roborates the other and majority of
the soldiers of the country, volunteers
and regulars, who were at the front.
The low death rate of the marines on
shore duty-being less than four per
cent-who live on navy rations, is con-
sidered point of startling significance,
as against the large death rate by i'll
ness in the army
Despite these scandals and the evils
OF Algerism. President McKinley's ex-
pansion warnings are the saving grace
of the situation. Less Algerism and
more executive ginger would make him
president, indeed.
Serious National Scandal.
Letters pouring into Washington
snow the country Is getting aroused.
The beef controversy, Judging from the
tone or these letters, Is becoming a
serious national scandal. Every rep
resentative knows what the soldiers of
his district think of the way the troops
were fed and cared for.
The attempt to suppress testimony
and facts will be fatal boomerang to
the war department end of the govern
ment. Private reports from East and
West show that the crime of giving
beef not fit for food to the soldiers is of
less significance to the people than the
tendency to ignore or belittle the ex-
pressions of the returned soldiers scat
tered over the country.
The people see that the men who
practically give the lie to these wit
nesses represent the continent-these
men in every county and state who
have suffered and been outraged by
Ayers war department, that has
played its shiftless part through the
campaign of suffering and starvation.
1t IS held that these outrages against
the army and it's veteran officers should
be the subject of wide open investi-
cation, with all the newspapers rep
resented by their own reporters and
correspondents, instead of by two press
associations.
Taking Revenge.
The persistent attempt to hush the
scandal and punish the army officers
who have been given the facts as re-
quired by law are well understood. No
one can touch Governor Rooseyelt's
evidence that rotten food was fed to
the army So Roosevelt is left in -eace,
but Breckenridge has been sent away to
yellow fever climate, exiled as it were.
not for conspiring against the govern
ment, but for telling the truth about its
little boy blue baby carriage war de-
partment system
And now they talk of Furnishing Cen
eral Miles. 1t is said that nine-tenths
of the letters from different parts of
the union sustain the generals course
In every city, town and hamlet, at
every cross roads, are the returned SOL
diers, who have told their friends of
their cruel treatment by the war de-
partment, and the administration is
bitterly denounced for the Russia sys-
TEN OF rewards for the sycophants and
punishments for brave men.
In the face of the coming storm-and
the storm Is coming-it is safe to say
that Alger will have to go that McKin-
ley may be saved.
1.-THE soldiers Jonah is too big a load
for McKinleys ship of state'' said
government man to-day, and there was
not whale in sight.