Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-21
THE QUESTION or SELE-RESPEcT.

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Yesterday the Anaconda Standard tool
occasion to question the self-respect OF
the Inter Mountain in it's defense of the
general policies of the national admins,
t@ration. while favorable to the recogni.
ton of silver.
1t must be conceded that the STANDARD
is in an elegant position to raise the
question Of self-respect, having been or
all sides of all questions, and true tc
/ none
AS a democratic organ. 1t has lone
mocracy than any other influence, when
it was not permitted to control the coun-
ellis of that party.
1t was true to the democratic organiza-
ton only when it was recognized as that
organization, and allowed to name it's
nominees and direct it's policies.
1t has been for and against free trade.
and has blown hot and cold on protec-
ton.
1t has been on both sides of the silver
question, yelling Justify for free coinage,
and h declaring that the ratio was i'm
material and that the relative values of
silver and gold are fixed by the worlds
exchanges.
1t has praised Aguinaldo to the skies
as the same kind of a patriot as our
revolutionary fathers, and lauded the
cause for which he fought, only to poke
FUN at the poor devil when his hopes were
blasted, and criticise the administration
for not having suppressed him at an
earlier date.
1t has posed as the champion of Mon
tana's good name, and blasted bv vhola-
sale the reputation of it's accredited law
makers.
1t has declared against the aggressive
ness Of trusts, only to become the official
organ OF the biggest trust that ever at
tempted to control the politics of a state.
by muzzling the right of free speech and
making political subserviency the price
Of bread.
1t has done all within it's power to
make the politics of this state a brace
game of faro with itself as dealer.
1t has hoodwinked the public and de-
ceived the people.
Tt has been true to nothing and nobody
but its fixed habit of changing it's views
a political advantage or an ex-
ira dollar was in sight.
1t has attempted through a mushroom
growth, dependent upon the dollars of the
trust behind 1T, to make size atone for
conscience and a gaudy display take the
place of brains.
1t has labelled it's g as dignity.
and tried to hypnotize the public with
froth.
1t has been faithful to nothing but a
policy of political hypocrisy thai has been
as conspicuous as the weather cock on a
red barn.
And yet, the Standard accuses the Inter
Mountain of a lack of self-respect be-
cause it accords to he national admins
tration a credit that is justly it's due in
the management of public affairs.
1t accuses this paper of crawling back
lnto the republican party, after the dis
has been made that the democracy
is like 1.-THE mule that has no pride of an
cestry and no hope of posterity."
With the one bubble of democratic vir-
Tue which struggled to the surface in 1896,
by the selfish exigencies of
nungry ofice-seekers there is NO honest
season why any believer in the rights OF
silver should look for hope in that muddy
pool of political intrigue.
If the Standard wants to write an essay
IN the lack of self-respect, let it buy a
mirror and for once in its lifetime look
tself squarely in the face. |