The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25

take it for granted that they are still
members of the Regulators reform
club, which Mr. WalsWorth made fa-
nous among the Standards readers,
and that their severe disapproval of
gambling in any form kept them stran-
gers to the Inconvenience of the
wagers' ring. And yet, Jerry left me
suddenly just before one of the i'm
portant races-and l haven't seen him
since.
Politically. the Havemeyer explosion
is about the only topic of serious dis
cussion. Everybody in these parts is
wondering why he did it. They are
not sure that he was in earnest. Some
of them think that he intended the
shot for Hanna, because the republi-
cans of Ohio have been saying naughty
things about the trusts. Others as
sert that the sugar monarch has grown
so weary of the annual or biennial in
vestigations into his business that he
has lost control of his temper and has
entered upon people be- id" cam
paign.
Certain it is that he stirred up the
animals. The cruelty of his nature is
shown by the season during which he
touched off the dynamite. Had he
given utterance to his opinions in the
winter it would have been bad enough
for those whom he hits, but to inject
so hot a controversy into the summer
season is too much. He is anathe-
matted in every nook and corner, and
by every man who has Corner
The Havemeyer feature of the next
national contest will not be the least
interesting. II will require more than
a barrel of sugar" to make amends
to the republican party for the evil
that he has done.
The war in the Philippines is grow
ing monotonous. The people are inn
patient They are not unpatriotic.
They do not say that the United States
should retire from the islands under
fire. They are not particular whether
annexation or anti-expansion wins, but
they are desperately in earnest in their
desire that the war be ended. They
have reached a point where they grow
indignant at the reports which tell of
the killing of Americans
Better send a million men to the ISL
ands and end the war than to have a
long drawn skirmish which must grad
ually destroy the American forces.
Lives are being sacrificed by the pol
Icy of the government. Western boys
are being killed and more are to be
killed. No matter what the newsra-
pers may have said or what partisan
QlSCuSSl0n may nave feVealeu, IL mas
been McKinley's solemn duty to end
the war and bring back the volunteers
who have suffered in the Orient 1t
is hard to tell what form the war is
sue will take in the next national can
vass, but it is easy to see what will
happen to the republican party if many
more Americans are killed in the Phil
lippines. The war should have been
ended long ago. 1t is not enough for
Mckinley to say that political enc
mics opposed sending a large force to
the Philippines. The president of the
United States is not expected to waveT
in great emergencies. He is not elect
ed for the purpose of giving weak ex-
preston to weaker fears. He deter
mined upon a course in the Philip
pines and should have made a sue
cess of it without needlessly sacrific-
ing American soldiers in a puerle
campaign against the natives.
| The sensation of to-day in the me
| tropolis is the statement of Magistrate
| Crane to the effect that nine-tenths
| of the women of the world are liars
His statement was made in deciding
an action for divorce. 1t is printed
in flaring letters In the afternoon pa
pers under the heading "All Womel
| Are Liars" / think I see Cranes fin
ish. JOHN M. QUINN.