Daily inter mountain., 1899-10-23

5.
Hawaii is the gem of the Pacific. It is
at once protection and defense of Amer
lean commerce and American influence
in the Orient. The democratic party was
opposed to it's annexation. X-Congress-
man Hartman in Butte inveighed against
its acquisition and said it would prove a
great national burden. Yet what Amer
lean soldier who ever saw it would vote
to give it up, or give up Porto Rico or
the Philippines? Why should they be
given up? Why throw away the fruits of
the war won by American valor in two
hemispheres?
The dispatches several days ago said
that number of prominent republicans
We're. invited by President Mckinley to
a discussion of the Philippine situation.
At it's conclusion Congressman Boutelle
or Maine, who was present, summed up
the presidents informal statement as
follows:
The administrations policy is to carry
out the manifest will of the American
people in furnishing troops to go to the
Philippine islands to sustain the fruits
OF Admiral Deweys victory. The duty
that now develops upon this government
is to maintain our sovereignty over the
islands, sustain our soldiers against any
enemy and against any disturbance of
law and ORDER everything being for the
purpose of esta blishing a rghtful gov
ernment for the people of the islands in
such manner as the American govern
ment through congress shall determine
The campaign must be pushed actively
and vigorously. and opposition to our
army must be ended as rapidly as pos
sible. Peace must be established by this
government and maintained there until
congress shall decide what shall be done
with the islands. From what the presi-
dent said. it is proposed to bend every
resource to the stamping out of all oppo-
sltion to our authority, the settlement of
the war and the esta ablishment and MAIN
tenance of peace.
Now if that be current statement of
the attitude of the republican adminis-
tration, won't some organ of the party
of Mr.. Bryan be kind enough to explain
the democratic attitude, so that the two
statements may be placed side by side
and the people be given a chance to de-
termine which is the more sensible prac-
ticable and patriotic? The Butte Miner
and the Anaconda Standard have the
IL lHcS uoH l Illlllu SldIulHS uD TO-
gether and declaring themselves To-
morrow morning would be a good time
to do it.
There is no dissension in Montana to-
day. The man who would make trouble
on such an occasion ought to be put
under pump and afterwards hanged
out to dry.
There have been no divisions among
the Montana troops. All sectionalism, all
professions, all creeds and all politics
have been subordinated to splendid
patriotism, which speaks volumes for the
character of the people of this proud
state, and promises a long era of peace
and good will.
The democratic press say that the
president is imperialistic and that he has
committed the country to a policy of
foreign conquest. But the president said
last week:
And there has never been a moment of
time, my countrymen, when we could
have left Manila bay or Manila harbor
or the archipelago of the Philippines
without dishonor to our name. We did
not go there to conquer the Philippines.
We went there to destroy the Spanish
fleet, that he might end the war, but in
the providence of Cod who works in
mysterious ways, this great archipelago
was put into our lap, and the American
people never shirk duty. And the flag
now there is not the flag of tyranny; it
is the flag of liberty, and wherever the
flag goes character, education. Ameri-
can intelligence, American civilization
and American liberty go.
Which is right, the democratic press or
the republican president? What return
ing soldier will admit he has been on an
unpatriotic fools errand?
The people of Butte have seen those of
San Francisco and have gone them a
stack better.
Butte, which is the richest town on
EARTH is today the happiest.
The general, the major, the captains,
the leutenants. the sergeants, the chap
lain. the privates and the cook. collect
lively and individually covered themselves
with glory, and the cheers of the multi
tude attest the public appreciat ton of
their valiant work for the flag.
The happiest people in Butte today are
the fathers and mothers of the boys who
have returned covered with the laurel
leaves of victory and proudly conscious
of having done their duty under the flag.
1t is such fathers aud mothas who breed
such soEs. Is it any wonder the old