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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
The Standards
Soldier Number.
The Most Artistic.

From the Fort Benton River Press.
A commendable feature of the recep-
ton extended to the returning Mon
tana war heroes was the brilliant ef-
fort made by some of the newspapers
In the way of special welcome day"
editions. AS examples of typograph-
ical excellence and compilations of
historical data connected with the war
record of the Montana volunteers,
these souvenir editions will be treas
ured by the soldier boys and their
friends. The most artistic of these
newspaper tributes was that of the
Anaconda Standard consisting in part
Of supplement of handsome colored
Illustrations and well executed photo
engravings. A large portion of the
Standard welcome day edition was
devoted to an extended narrative of the
campaign in the Philippines and the
engagements in which the Montana
boys took a prominent part, while 9TH
er pages dealt with campaign life near
Manila, the ocean trips to and from
the Philippines, and other Incidents of
their military service. In size and
quality the Standard special editi"~
was highly creditable number.
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Where Does the Fault Lie +?

TT is reported from the East tina.
ADMIRAL Dewey has told the Pres
ideht that a declaration of con-
gress as soon as possible after it meats
IN December, for the retention of the
fhiiipplnes and the suppression Of the
Agulnaldo rebellion, will be more eff
iective than the army and navy in re-
storing peace in the archipelago where
Aguinaldo has made the impression
that congress and the country are on
posed to the presidents war and will
repudiate it later on
This, OF course, is given out by the
friends of the administration in such
manner as to create the most favor
able impression possible Still it is
quite likely to be correct in the main
There can be no room for doubt that
the F1lipinos are hoping for the tri-
umph OF sentiment in this country
adverse to their conquest and subju-
cation. Nothing could be more nat
ural. Any people struggling against
a stronger power looks for diversions
in its favor of some kind or character.
This circumstance has been seized
upon by the supporters of the admin
istration as proof that those who are
opposed TO it's policy are in the wrong
and are responsible for the war. All
of this. however is immaterial, SO far
as the main issue is concerned The
question to be determined is simply
this: Is Mr.. McKinley's policy right
or is it wrong? If right it should be
sustained; if wrong. it should be con-
demned. To say that the president
must be sustained, however wrong his
policy may be, because to oppose it
might incidentally raise the hopes of
the Filipinos, is an outrage upon nat
ural justice and a travesty upon COM
mon sense. If McKinley's policy is
wrong, then the hopes of every Justice
loving man in the world, be he Fill
Pine or what, ought to be raised that
the American people in their honesty
and integrity of purpose will sooner or
later repudiate it. The principle that
the liking can do no wrong" is relic
of barbarism, and no man who has adj
vanced beyond medieval ideas can
honestly invoke it in this age.
But this is not what we particularly
desire to present for consideration. If
the report be true, and it be also a
fact that the converting of congress
Will have so potent an effect in We
storing peace, the question at once
arises, why was not congress called 10
gether months ago? Was it not just
as desirable to restore peace in the
Philippines then as now? If it be true
that Aguinaldo has simply been hold
ing out in the hope that congress would
repudiate the presidents war;" would
not a congressional Endorsement of
McKinley's policy have ended the war
and terminated the sickening slaugh-
ter both of the Filipinos and our own
gallant soldiers? Was it better that
the natives should be shot to death by
thousands and our own men buried by
hundreds, than that congress should
take action that would at once fright
en- the Filiplnos into submission?
This brings up the very point that
the Standard has repeatedly suggested,
namely, that President Mckinley
dared not call congress together be-
cause of the opposition which he knew
existed in his own party. He had no
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

the best rihed cannon and the power OF
sending a continuous and spreading show
err of bullets of the short-range machine
guns Inventions must travel by several
converging paths to realize this. There
is the mechanical problem of combining
lightne.s and simplicity in the whole ma
chine. the ballastic problem of carrying
a shower of bullets as far as a single
shell and the problem of discipline, TO
combine mechanism and human energy
so as to get the steadiness of the one
and the intelligent accuracy Of the other.
The typical result Is a gun operated by
hand but capable of very rapid action
through careful drill. propelling with high
explosive shell or shrapnel which can be
timed to burst when they reach a precise
point two or three miles away--a point
over trenches for the shell. which bursts
in all directions: a point before troops for
shrapnel, which bursts forward and slim
ulates close rifle volley. These guns
have been fired once a second. With pre-
cson added. the effect can be imagined.
1t is believed that the French were the
first to bring this type Of gun to per-
lection, though Germany followed rap
idly and Russia overlook the others by
lavish expenditures-about the time. by
the way, of the cars rescript Great
Britain had the new arm before Kitchen
er's march, and is abundantly equipped
now. We are in our usual position. Our
artillery experts aand inventors are fully
abreast of modern progress, but our
equipment, which demands expenditure OF
money. is far behind. We know how, but
congress won't spend the money. 1t is
certain that this gun is as indispensable
to us as the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, and we
might as we'll go to war with Springfelds
as with the field pieces now to be found
in our light batteries. Now that congress
has ordered more coast defense guns than
it will authorize regiments to care for
perhaps it will give more attention 10
field artillery
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sions, of course, would be made to ia
pan and China 1t is argued that such
a cable is military necessity, and
that by opening it to the public at
reasonable rates it will not only aiG
our commerce, but it will become
a paying investment for the governs
ment. The project, it is said, will be
vigorously pushed but it is certain
to encounter bitter opposition from
private and corporate interests, which
wish to lay Pacific cable as a pri-
waite monopoly,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

~ NE striking feature Of the South
~ African war is the humane
manner in which it is conduct
ed 1t is a square, stand-up fight, in
which mighty hard blows are gwen
and received, but the amenities of war
are studiously observed. Early in the
game certain atrocities were attrib-
uted to the Beers which, in view Of
what we know about them now, must
reports agree that the Beers have
treated their British prisoners with
kindness and consideration, that they
have tenderly cared for the British
wounded who have fallen into their
hands, and that they have given the
British dead decent burial. In every
way the English have found them an
honorable enemy
In his dispatch to General White
telling Of the death and burial of the
gallant Symons. General Joubert re-
vealed himself to the world as a large
hearted, true-minded. considerate, SYM
pathetic gentleman. Rough and I'M
CoutA DIS LIE bOeES nave Deen pictured
to be, they are full of kindness for the
suffering and the unfortunate. Presi-
dent Kruger's prohibition Of the use of
dumdum bullets is eminently charac-
teristic of his strong and deeply relig-
ious character With all his prejudices
and possible fanaticisms, this grim
old Joshua possesses noble soul and
all the world respects him.
The Beers are giving a good account
of themselves. They are displaying
strategy that fills military men with
wonder and admiration. They are
fighting with a courage and Stubborn
ness equal every whit to the courage
and stubbornness of the British, long
celebrated for those qualities. And
more than all that, they are proving
themselves to be thoroughly civilized,
intelligent and humane. x More and
more pronounced is the resemblance
between them and the sturdy revolu-
tionary heroes Of New England beeom-
ing.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

gross and fragrant violation of
fhe civil service law. The civil service
commission has decided that the circu-
lar recently sent out by the republican
finance committee of that state appeal
ing to federal office-holders for contri-
buttons to the campaign fund, violates
both the letter and the spirit of the
law, and this view is fully confirmed
by George F. Edmunds, who was chair
man of the senate Judiciary committee
when the law was enacted.
: This is no democratic roorback, de-
signed to injure the republican party,
but is the deliberate and well-consid-
cred judgment of commission and its
legal adviser, a majority of whom are
republicans.
X IT is doubtful if as fragrant case
as this has ever occurred since the act
was passed, and it is hard to imagine
how any case could present itself in
I a worse form. The republican commit
tee cannot plead ignorance, for the cir
cular was framed with the manifest
purpose of doing exactly what the
law prohibited, and it went the full
length of explaining to those addressed
how they could violate the law with
out making themselves amenable to its
penalties.
And even this is not the worst of it.
Openly, VIGOROUSLY and confessedly it
was done in the interest of President
Mckinley. The circular expressly de-
clared that the loss of Ohio by the re-
publicans would be construed as a re-
buke to the president in his own state,
which made it imperative that Ohio
should be carried for the republican
ticket.
OF course, it will be claimed that Mr..
mckinley had nothing to do with this
: unsavory scheme; being in the wash
tngton-Lincoln class" it would be i'm
possible for him to have any connec-
tion with such political methods.
Everybody will concede that Mr.. Nc
kinney did not write the circular or
lick the postage stamps upon the en-
velopes. But that he is keenly on the
alert with regard to everything that
concerns the Ohio election will never
be doubted for a moment, and to enter
the plea that he was ignorant of the
most important step taken by the re-
publican campaign committee. is to pre-
sumo very largely upon the stupidity
sof the American people
! Has any one heard of his rebuking
sthe committee? Was he ever known TO
Ediscountenance anything that Mr.. Han
ma did? Is it reasonable to believe that
1.-THE committee would have ventured
upon such a step without the fullest
assurance that it would have Mr. Nc
.Kinley's approval? But after all said
and done, the fact remains that the
law intended to purify politics has been
shamefully violated by Mr.. McKinleys
close personal and political friends,
and avowedly in his interest. And yet
we are told with endless reiteration
that Mr.. Mckinley stands for every
thing that is grand and noble and lofty
and pure and patriotic in statesman
ship and politics.
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Up-to-Datc Patriotism,

From the Billings Times.
The Anaconda Standard issued an
up-to-date patriotic edition Tuesday
morning. Eight of it's "a pages were
devoted to Montana's returning soldier
boys, the Goddess of Liberty occupying
the full length of the first page, stand
ing, as she did, with a green crown
in her hand ready to place it on the
heads of the soldier boys, whom the
artist has brought artistically to the
front In long line as they come
marching home. It is printed in pa
triotic colors with many elegant half
tones of each company Of Montana 8
cowboy" regiment.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
BY Far the Best.

From the Livingston Enterprise.
Those souvenirs that came with the
Butte daily papers the morning follow
ing the celebration in honor of Mon
tana's volunteers are indeed worthy of
preservation. They present a compre-
hensive history of the valiant part
which Montanas sons took in the war
resulting from our possession of the
Philippine islands. By far the best of
these art productions comes from the
press of the Anaconda Standard. More
money is spent and better talent en-
ployed in the daily getting out of Mon
tana's great paper than upon any
newspaper of its kind in this inter-
mountain country.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

number. both artistically and journal
lstically-if such an adverbial express
sion be admissible The supplement in
colors was especially flne--far exceed
ing anything heretofore ATTEMPTED. in
any newspaper office in this state:
while it's interior illustrations and pic
ture galleries were far beyond the or
binary. The Standard is great news
paper in all that the term implies
there's no two sides to that PROPOSE
ton.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
A Jim Dandy.

From the Basin Progress.
The Anaconda Standard of last
Tuesday was a Jim dandy and there
IS no mistake about that. To an out
slider it looks as though the Standard
tried to surprise itself, for the red,
white and blue edition issued on that
day far eclipsed anything issued from
the Standard Office. The illustrations
We're excellent and the printing and
color work could hardly be surpassed
In any state in the union. The Stand
ard should notify us when it issues
another special edition like that of
soldiers day, for it would tickle US
all to death to have our portrait in
such a handsome paper. Selah!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

The Standard can be found at the fol-
lowing news stands:
New York a Aston House. 80,
Chicago a Postoffice. 1T Z
Chicago al Auditorium Annex. W.
San Francisco at Palace Hotel. tFETi
Denver at 1870 Lawrence st. ~
!. Denver at 906 Seventeenth st.
Salt Lake at 81 w. Second South st.
Salt Lake at Salt Lake News Co.
All general business letters and corre-
spordence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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Handsomest East or West.
From the Pocatello Advance.
The Anaconda Sta ndA I'd ala

From the Pocatello Advance.
The Anaconda Standard did itself
proud on the return OF the Montana
volunteers. The souvenir edition was
the handsomest issued west of the
Rocky mountains and perhaps east of
them. 1t was profusely illustrated, ac-
curately detailed, with four pages In
clean cut national colors. The Stand
ard outdid all its former efforts, and
Montana should appreciate the worth
of such a magnificent paper. The Ad-
vance will keep the volunteer number
on file with our choicest literature.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
1t Was a Gem.

From the Ravalli Republican.
The Anaconda Standard kept up to
it's previous record in the matter of
enterprise by getting out special edi-
ton with colored supplement on the
occasion of the return home of the
gallant 1st Montana. 1t was a gem,
with numerous illustrations and Incl
dents of soldier life in the tropics, and
was a paper which should not only be
preserved, but copies of it should be
sent out to friends. The Standard cas-
lily retains its lead among the papers
of Montana.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
In the Vanguard of Them All.

FROM the Dillon Tribune.
At one time and another there has
peen many a special edition prepared
ny the newspapers OF the state upon
some especial occasion, but it is our
opinion that the one presented by the
Standard last Tuesday is far in the
vanguard of them all. Its colored sup
plement is a work of art; the manner
in which the news of the day was told
is modern and up-to-date, and it's H.
Illustrations are. such, both in the draw
ing and grouping, that they show for
themselves that Mr.. Trowbridge is an
artist In all that the word implies. The
three-quarter page cut illustrating the
feeding of the regiment at this place
ELECTED many favorable comments.
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1t EXcelled,
From the MadiSonian-

from the MadlSonlan
The Butte Miner and the Inter Noun
tain got up splendid editions in honor
of and for the occasion of the soldiers
welcome, but it remained for the Ana
eonda Standard, that peerless of Mon
tana's enterprising newspapers, to ex-
eel. The Standards edition is replete
with fine engravings and beautiful eff
fects in color printing, the first of the
kind ever turned out on a rapid press
in this state.
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Entertaining and Complete.

From the Stockgrowers' Journal
The Tuesday morning edition of the
Anaconda Standard with it's color sup
plement is a creation of which any
newspaper wherever located might
justly be proud. The issue was an
auxiliary of the celebration in honor
of the 1st Montana upon it's return
from the campaign in the Philippines.
The historical portion of the edition is
most entertaining and complete, and
the color supplement superb in every
feature,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

the arrival of the LIST Montana last
Tuesday with four illustrated pages
and portraits of the heroes of the LIST
Montana regiment and the Montana
squadron of Griggsby's Rough Riders.
The people of the great Northwest
NAV not only feel proud of their sol
diers. but of the fact that they support
on its merits one of the best newspa-
pers in the Northwest in the name of
the Anaconda Standard.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
One of the Finest.

From the Harlem Enterprise.
The Anaconda Standards edition of
Tuesday in celebration of the return
of our soldiery is one of the most ar
tistic efforts of modern journalism we
ever saw. Any metropolitan city
would feel proud of such daily as
the little city of Anaconda boasts Of
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
Far in the Lead.

From the Big Timber Pioneer
The Anaconda Standard is undoubt-
eddy far in the lead of any other Caily
in the Northwest. 1t is enterprising
and another proof of this fact is found
in Tuesday mornings edition with its
color supplement-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
stranpest street in the World.

Canton, in China, possesses the queer
est street in the world. 1t is rooted in
with glazed paper fastened on bamboo
and contains more signboards to the
square foot than any other street IN
any other country. The next interest
Ing fact about this Canton byway is
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

The scant courtesy that the natives
OF Guam have been showing their
American governor can't be any scant-
Ter than their attire 1t is understood
that their mothers do not use wool
Soap
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

~ NE of the important questions
that will be submitted to con-
gress at its coming session is a
project to construct al government eX-
pense, and to be owned and operated
by the government, a Pacific cable.
The plan proposes a cable which in
four links will connect the United
States with the Philippines. namely,
from San Francisco to Hawaii, 2,l20
miles; Hawaii to Wade island, 2,014
miles. Wade island to Guam, 1898
miles: Guam to Manila. 1850 miles;
the landing points all being within the
control of the government. Exten-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

Between the Ladysmith affair, the
Jeffries-Sharkey encounter and next
Tuesdays battles in Ohio. Kentucky
and Nebraska, somebody is liable to
get hurt.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

From the Bozeman Avant-Courier
The Anaconda Standards souvenir
number, issued on Tuesday last, in
honor of the homecoming of Mon
tana's brave soldier boys. was superb
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

If President Kruger takes the field
in person, he would do well to leave
off that plug hat. Otherwise there
will be some tall shooting on the part
of the British
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

1t is quite possible that the Guam
insurgents had just heard of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's sultan-of-Sulu system of paci-
fication and wanted some of it in
theirs
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

Ex-President Cleveland is going to
give course of lectures on public
themes at Princeton university. Well,
the tigers are trained down hard and
perhaps they can stand it.
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TO ADVERTISERS:

The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that Of any other newspaper pub
iished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ang contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

According to the London correspond
ent of the New York Herald, Queen
Victoria's heart is bleeding. There is
reason to believe, however, that the
queens heart has not been dislodged
from the right place.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

The supreme court of Montana de-
clines to reverse its own decision re-
garding the school law. The supreme
court is engaged in other business
than that of turning somersauts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
It Was brilliant.

From the Madison County Monitor.
The special edition of the Standard
soldiers day was "a brilliant number in
more ways than one. The Standard is
famous for outdoing itself.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

Admiral Dewey has ignored the eld-
er Wellers advice, but the elder Weller
was a lobster. If he hadn't been, he'd
have smashed the Elder Stiggins long
before he did.
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With only AZ wives to his credit,
Mr.. Farnsworth, the Chicago polyga-
mist, will be regarded by the sultan
Of Sulu as gutter.
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Governor Smith has granted Muir
derer Lucey a respite until January
l, 1900. Mr.. Lucey's New Years calls
will be limited to the call to account.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on APP
plication.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

The American people will love the
Widow Hazen for the sweetheart she
has made.
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Now that General Butler has arrived
at Cape Town, the grand stand is all
expectation to see him expectorate on
the palms of his hands and go to bat.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

Besides commanding the Boer army,
General Joubert is commanding uni
versal admiration for his strategy.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

1t is with emotions of the livellest
pleasure that Widow Hazen will chuck
her weeds into the garbage can.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

1t would save barrels of blood if
Joubert and White would meet and set
tie it Jeffries- Sharkey style.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

Among other rations, the Beers are
feeding their British prisoners the milk
of human kindness,
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What fuss the American people
will make over the little Deweys!