Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-02

should bear in mind what the Anaconda
Standard said about Swede Murphy.
When the soft blush of nature is upon
the daisies and the roses tai on the
bloom of heaven; when the sunlight
kisses the radient summer into glory. and
the angle worms dream lazily of fish, it
is time to remember that the atmosphere
In Helena was so thick with corruption
that no modern Diogenes could keep his
lanthorn burning when hunting for an
honest man.
And yet the awful thought will some
times spring into form-like Minerva
from the brain of Jove-that if the
standards allegations are always in
order why is it necessary to constantly
brace them up? Why put on shoulder
braces and electric belts and prescribe
copious doses Of ipecac to make them
cough up their nauseous and highly
colored generalities day by day-if they
are always in order?'' Why not take
them at once to the judicial dispensary
Tor dissection? Why not permit the doc
tors of the law to make a thorough dag
nosis of the symptoms and determine
whether these charges are always in
order?'
Every good citizen is opposed to the
crime of bribery-every good citizen con-
dennis it from the bottom of his soul
Int ox-nrx- ro.l AZ. -.y ,,
the Anaconda Standard with a monopoly
OF virtue because it spends most of it's
time on the ridge-pole yelling itse
purple in the face over glittering gener-
Antics. There are many reputable per-
sons in this state who are quite as will
ing to question the integrity of a demo-
cratic legislature as is the Standard
itself. Such persons care more about the
punishment Of crime than they do for !
the daily advertisement in the Standard !
that a crime has been committed. They
believe that the conviction of one NOM
Der of the legislature for having accepted !
a bride, either in the senatorial election
or IN the enactment of special legislation
IN the interests of corporations and
trusts. would do more to purify the
moral atmosphere of Montana thar all
the editorial invective that can be
crowded into the pages of the Stand
ard without bending the column rules.
There are some who think that the
standard, with it's capacity for close
observation in the illegal use Of
money in legislative assemblies, GOVERNS
a period of at least six years. and with
the many detectives and acute editorial
at its command, ought to be
able to take some conspicuous legislative
nose between it's thumb and finger and
Thou art the man." If what the
has alleged be true, more than
of the late democratic legis-
allure ought to be in the p~enitentiary, ]
yet the Standard has not specifically {
named one member of that body who
ought to be wearing stripes, to say moth
ng of furnishing him with that sort of
\ suit.
The feeling is general among those who
that money was corruptly used
n the late Legislature, that the Standard {
should follow up it's crusade against
political corruption with something SO !
and tangible that the authority
II the courts may be successfully in
Ioked. This cannot be lone by adver- {
Using through the editorial columns of :.
he press, and in Memorial day addresses, l
borough, but by practical work that will
terror to the hearts of the evil
loers.
The Inter Mountain never has stood. .
nd never will stand, against the en-
orcement of law and the punishment of
rhine. It's course throughout the entire :
enatorial fight was in protection of the /
God name OF Montana against the I
rothy allegations of universal corrup- =
ion, which should have found their way S
nto the courts of justice instead of into e
he columns of the daily press. The =
Bible is right when it says there is a g
for all things, and equally true is n
he modern adage that there is a place Q
or everything and everything should =
re in it's place. The place for criminal Il
Legations is in the courts-the time for a
he condemnation of specific crimes is =
hen they have been located definitely
proved. He who places innocent '
aen under the ruinous and structi |;