The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-15

| session to raise revenue, but he didn't.
| So revenue must be raised somewhere.
| Silver Bow was rich, but the governor
was afraid that Silver Bow might get
| weary of supporting the rest of the
state if he coolly called on her to keep
putting up margins. So, in order that
the bluff should be successful, he must
get real hot, and while he was mad
about the poetry was a good oppOrtun-
ity to make the people of Silver Bow
believe they were actually living off the
bounty of the COW counties. He couldn't
raise any revenue in Helena. He
couldn't even get up heated discussion
in Helena on the subject with anybody
but Colonel Sanders, and the governor
is no fool. He knows enough not to
light a firecracker under the rear plat
form of a mule. Really it is too bad
to have the governor always telling us
what a bad lot we are. What are the
other counties doing in the way of col
lecting revenue? Is 1t possible that all
these other county officials throughout
the state sit in the front pew of the
governors favor and are bright exem
plars of public virtue? Can it be posi-
BILE that all over the state every pros
pect pleases and only Silver Bow is vile?
Because Silver Bow can do it, must she.
support the rest of the state, like
pack of poor relatives? Is the insatiate
nav of the public treasury never to be
appeased? Why if his eXcellency
doesn't look out, Courtney and the rest
of these grocers will spill some of their
tea in Silver Bow creek and then the
governor will have a Boston harbor tea
party on his hands.
In his letter to the commissioners of
Silver Bow county the governor. says he
doesn't believe in a dollar of license to
raise revenue except on intoXicants, cl-
CARS, cigarettes. etc, but while the law
is on the books, let it be enforced. OF
course, what his eXcellency's individual
views are is not material, but it is
singular fact that we learn through
this public declaration that the COVER
nor doesn't believe in taxing anything
but those articles he doesn't use him
self l know he doesn't drink whiskcy
That is one reason, Notwithstanding his
penitental return to the democratic fold
last fall, why I have always doubted
the sincerity of his democracy He
doesn't smoke cigarettes, 50 that lets
him out of the republican party. He
doesn't smoke a pipe. SO he can't be an
! honest popuist. This must be new
platform of Bob's.
l am not going to plead innocence
on this question of official neglect, nor
am l going to attempt to shlrk respon-
sibility by accusing some one of DO
| ing something else. That is coWardly.
l will set a good example to my pro-
| teges in the county Jail by PLEADING
| guilty. There is, however, another suit
| pending in which the constitutionality
| of the same law is one of the issues.
| So no harm can be done by the delay
| in the Courtney suit. AS matter OF
, fact, when the Courtney suit was
| brought I wanted County Treasurer
Kinds to have Courtney and all the
| plutocratc grocers arrested and placed
! behind the bars with the other Grim
| inals but while he thought they ought
| to be punished, he said the sheriff
| would have to feed them on their own
| breadstuffs, and he thought that would
| come under the head OF the cOnstitu-
| tional inhibition against cruel and I'M
| usual punishment. So the criminal
| prosecutions were dropped. | have
! some little flesh in the county jail now
| serving out sentences for not taking
| out licenses. but they are poor untor-
| Inmates without any friends save the
Salvation Army. No civil case can be
| tried in the courts of Silver Bow coun-
ty in less than a year or IS months
after it is filed. Why didn't the legis-
lature give us an extra judge if they
wanted speedy justice for the license