The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

rs no sure thing that the real name
of the writer of letter published
on one of this mornings Butte
pages is William Jones' When you
sign that name to letter and omit the
postoffice address, your communication
misses little of being anonymous. There
are Jones and Jones; there are seventy
four of them accounted for in Butte's
city directory, and the sponsors in bap-
tism for six or seven of them prefixed
William as the Christian name.
At any rate, there is in Butte either
a really and-truly William Jones or a
pseudo under that name who has
hyphenated grievance. 1t will do him
good to air 1.-THE Standard gives him
room. Besides, a communication from
a real or a feigned William Jones is
we'll worth printing when you take ac-
count of the fact that he is the only
man, Jones, or by any other name, thus
far heard from who has "a kick COM
ing on the Glorious Fourth's demon
stration in Butte.
The recent hyphenic talk got its start
III tIt ItlIdI Vi lle SdltdHl
navy officer who, some time ago. by a
bit of misadventure, brought into
rather uncanny prominence the dog
gerel that never was intended to be
complimentary to Kaiser William. This
gallant tar made emphatic protest
against hyphenated Americanism. and
what he said is getting response of the
heartiest kind in the press of the coun-
try. Newspaper sentiment is earnest
in denunciation Of Irish-American,
French-American, GermanAmerican
and kindred hyphenations.
But it puzzles us to apply this criti-
cism to the Fourth of July parade in
Butte or to see how the protest of Will
lam Jones can be made to fit the facts.
What's the matter, for instance, with
the Meagher Guards? A fugitive from
oppression, Thomas Francis Meagher
became an American citizen, served
with distinction in the army of the
Union died when he was actinggov-
ernor of the territory of Montana; and
the Standard is doing what 1t can to
promote the building of a memorial on
Montana soil to the memory of
Meagher. To the mind of our CORE
spondent, would the Butte parade have
been more picturesque if this particu-
lar section of it had been mentioned
by the reporters as the William Jones
Guards?
How about the Christoforo Columbo
tXyJo ral lNr
American? Would Jones be better
pleased if the name We're changed from
it's original and anglicized? All there
is that is of account of Chrstoforos or
of Christi Jones likes that better-is
American. 1t is true that in its mag
nanimity the government of the United
States permitted Spain to transfer the
alleged coffin of Columbus to the land
that neglected him while he lived. But
recently the testimony has accumulated
which shows that the Spaniards I'M
doubtedly moved the wrong bones; so
that the name and fame of the great
mariner still are essentially ours.
Then there are the grip-sack carriers
and the imitation Shoshone Indians
and the Elks and the battalion of the
Butchers; are they a hyphenated folk
Would the parade Of last Tuesday have
been of more patriotic import if, with
William Jones at its head, it had set in
| procession an aggregation of hack
drivers and editors and aldermen and
Cranks?
Go to, Billy, go to. You betray the
grabbed disposition of a next-mornine
man in your snarling about the parade
! on the Fourth. 1t was the best thing OF
! the sort Butte ever turned out; but our
! belief is that, in celebration of the final
Fourth of the century, Butte will rally
! a bigger and better parade next year.