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The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

prove of interest to the "aunties." Fl,
says:
The destiny of expansion was
stamped ON this country when east
ern adventures opened up the west
ern reserve and when southern ad.
venturers pushed beyond the Mis-.
sssippi. Both spread oyer the ter
ritory till they gathered strength.
cause and purpose to break a trail
through and over the Rocky noun
tains to the Pacific. And the like
spirit has planted our flag in the
Philippines-there to stay. 1t was
not accidental-it was the prophecy
that Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley,
westerners ali, have wrought out
the greatest issues of the century.
The first abolished domestic slavery;
the second saved the union the
third brought to an end European
oppression on American soil and
started this nation on nations
role i'll the world of nations.
The American people are of progres
slve disposition; they want new ano
larger fields 10 operate in and 10 curl
their adventurous spirit, and they viii
perhaps prove trifle too much for the
fault-finders and anti-expansionists L
these latter prefer to remain in the same
old rut which suited the purpose of thei1
ancestors, it is their undoubted privi
lege; but simply because the path of ex
pansion and progress does not suit theil
fancy, they ought not to expect that the
ambitions of a nation should be checked
to conform to their narrow ideas. The
"aunties" may attempt to obstruct the
progress of the country and do all in
their power to deter our paople from en-
joying greater prosperity, but their
efforts are in vain and expansion will
carry the day.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Our COuntry-R Right or Wrong.

From the arkansas Gazette (Dem.)
Who would recall troops like these
engaged in extending the business of
civilization to the benighted race, suf-
fering for centuries from the degrading
rule of Spanish tyranny? Certainly not
any patriotic American who believes
that liberty should be proclaimed
throughout the Philippines islands that
belong to the United States-and unto
all the inhabitants thereof.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

ES-United States Senator w. A. PETER
has returned to the Republican fold.
MIR. PETER was one of the founders of
the Populist party, but has come to re-
allze that this party has been absorbed
by the Democrats and that the issues
upon which depended the success Of the
Peoples party are gradually adjusting
Notwithstanding remaining for those
who are unwilling to become Democrats
but to join with the Republican party.
Senator PETER says: 1--WE are all get.
ting broader view of what American
ism means. The labor question is SET
tling itself, and then you don't hear any
thing more about 16,to-ore. have al
ways been Republican except on the
money question, and that now seems to
have settled itself"
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Thousands are Trying 1t,

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The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

st. Louis seems to be fairly bubbling
over with Joy on account of the recent
visit OF the cruiser Nashville to that city,
and the newspapers there are dreaming
over the probability of ship canal of
sufficient depth to allow of warships be-
ing taken from the Mississippi to the
great lakes. Some day it may prove
more than a dream.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Always Opposing.

From the Boston Herald.
1t is really the natural state Of the
democratic party to be for expansion
Its traditions for almost century have
been straight in that direction. 1t be-
gan with Thomas Jefferson, the party's
founder who was so strongly an ex-
pansionist that he declared himself will
ing to strain the constitution to bring
expansion about.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

Edward Atkinson has invented little
oven whereby man can do his own
cooking and thereby live on 35 cents a
week. That indicates Atkinson's caliber,
the only surprise being that he did not
bring the cost within 15c instead of a
31c limit
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Republicans will Fight Trusts.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
1t is predicted tlat the national plat
forms of both parties next year will
contain an antitrust plank. In this
connection it should be remembered
that the republicans keep their platform
pledges.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

A st. Louis syndicate got corner on
the cruiser Nashville which visited that
city short time ago, and charged the
public 2Oc head to look at it. That Is
something like out Chicagoing Chicago.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

Local Advertising.
Notices of church festivals, fairs. dancing
parties, concerts, sociables, suppers, etc. for
which admission fee is to be charged or
from which a profit is to be made from the sale
of fancy articles, etc, will be charged for at the
rate OF 10 cents line. Cards of thanks, 10 cents
line; obituary notices. 10 cents line
Resolutions of Coincidence, $50.
Subscription Rates.
Six months. Observation-Disclosures. l 80
Three months ........ .......................... 1J
Foreign postage added.
Renittances at the risk of the subscriber, and
should be made by express money order, post
Office money order or check. to the order of
BRYAN Bros. Il HAUCK,
Philipsburg. Granite County. Mont.
Address all business communications as above.
-Subscribers not receiving their paper
regularly will confer u favor by reporting the
fact to this office.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Its Growth Curtailed.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The slow growth of Farmer Morton's
new political party may be attributed
the backward spring in all parts Of the
country,
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
A Hot Yarn,

A yarn trust and lamp chimney
trust have been formed 1t is easy to
see that one will be worsted and the
other smashed.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

1t don't make much difference in
which part OF the country Dewey lands
Ever since he landed on Monteio's
fleet the people have idolized him.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Bob smith Adding to History

From, the Butte Inter Mountain.
THE Invasion Of Montana by Armed
Forces; or, How the Governor Was
Flambustigated and Squelched' will be
the title of a new chapter in the history
Of this state.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

Entered at the PostoDlce at Phlipsburg
Granite County, Montana, as Second-C1ass
Matter for Transmission Throu0h the Mail.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
GENERAL COMMENT.
Too Busy at Home

From the ST. Paul Pioneer Press
We have not observed the names of
the Transvaal representatives in the
list Of delegates to the peace congress.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
Makes the "Aunties" Sauirm.

From the Helena Independent.
The foreign trade of the United States
has grown during the last year beyond
all precedent. By far the greatest in
Ct ease has been in agricultural products.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
GOING BACK ON SILVER,

Hon. Sam B. Cook of Missouri, who
succeeds Coin Harvey as collector and
agent for the Democratic committee,
says that free silver will not be made
as prominent next year as in 1896. In
his judgment the Chicago platform
will be reaffirmed to satisfy the west,
while planks will by inserted against
trusts and imperialism to capture the
eastern malcontents. This is the same
old Democratic cowardice which has
won for it the reputation of never re-
naming constant except when wrong.
Livingston Enterprise, May 20.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

According to the public statement
recently made by Mr.. Cook, the gem
eral manager of the ways and means
committee Of the national Democratic
organization, the silver question will
be kept in the background in next
years campaign; "greater emphasis
will be placed on new developments in
our national politics, and the new
developments to be emphasized in the
Democratic platform, according to Mr..
Cook, are imperialism and trusts.
Just what capital either party can
make out of imperialism it is impos-
sible to foretell; neither rarty stands
committed as a party.-Bitter Root
Times, May 10.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26

1t is generally understood that "anti-
trust' will be the rallying cry for the
Democracy, with "anti-imperialism"
close second, and "16-to- o-one" not
entirely discarded, but kept in third
place. Dispatch, Anaconda Standard,
May 25
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

1t is right that this govern
ment should sustain the legiti-
mate commercial enterprises OF
it's citizens IN China and else
where, says the st. Paul Globe.
But if we are going into this
China business, as the British
spectators have gone into
South and Central America, for
instance, until they have sucked
the entire commercial and IN
dustrial fabric as dry as ever an
orange was sucked, it is right
that we should know it before
this government commits itself
to joining hands with England
in helping to maroon the Chl-
neSe.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
The people are not cOncerni

The people are not concerning
themselves with the partisan
aspects of the change in the war
department, says the ST. Louis
Republic. What they want is a
secretary of war who shall SO
order Philippine affairs that
congress may proceed unham-
pered to final settlement of
the Philippine problem. Sec
retary Root has, therefore, an
exceptional opportunity for dis
tinction. It is safe to say that
he will receive due credit for
good service. He will not be
criticised unless he develops
shortcomings demanding criti-
cism.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
National Irrigation Congress.

The Eighth Annual Session of
the National Irrigation Congress
will be held at Missoula, Mon
tana, on the 25th, Goth and 9th
of September, and more than
usual interest is being already
manifested. These congresses
have been heretofore largely at
tended by scientists, engineers
and men directly interested IN
irrigation, but now the subject
is attrac citing outsiders-business
men and manufacturing interests
in all parts of the country who
realize that the opening up Of
millions of acres of land into
enormous production cannot but
stimulate business interests in
every quarter.
It is therefore probable that
the coming congress will be the
most successful yet held. The
congress is constituted as fol-
lows: Five delegates appointed
by the governor of each state
and territory; one delegate from
each city of the United States
having a population of less than
$4,000, and two from each city
with a larger population; one
delegate from any regularly or
ganized irrigation, agricultural
or horticultural society, society
of engineers, irrigation com
pany, agricultural college, or
commercial body, duly accred-
tied representative of any for
eign nation or colony, any mem
Der of the United States Senate
or House of Representatives, or
governor of a state or territory,
any member of a state or terri
torial irrigation commission, or
the chairman of each section
and the permanent officers of the
congress.
The citizens of Missoula are
bound to make the congress a
success so far as lies in their
power. They are withal I'M
mensely proud of their big state,
which produces not only I'M
mense mineral wealth, but is
destined, under irrigation, to be
important agriculturally.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
New Traffic Line.

W. S. F'arnsworth, the enter
prising general agent of the
Santa Fe, has just received ad-
vices of the establishment by
his company of new line for
traffic between the City of Mex
leo and San Francisco. The
Santa F'e has secured control of
the San Francisco and San Joa-
quin Valley railroad, and as a
result is able to carry traffic
through between these two cities
by way of Albuquerque and Mo-
jave. 1t will soon operate it's
own line to northern California.
The Santa Fe will give spec.
ial attention to it's rapidly in
creasing California business, and
it's California Mexican traffic.
The absorption of the San
Francisco and San Joaquin has
already been consummated, and
the freight and passenger traffic
departments, respectively, of
that road are now under the man.
agement of w. B. Biddle, freight
traffic manager of the entire
Santa Fe system, and G.. T.
Nicholson, passenger traffic
manager of the system, with w.
A. Bissell as assistant traffic
manager at San Francisco
Mexican Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
Essential Imperialism.

When the public officers imag-
inc themselves privileged to de
ceive the people as much as they
please in carrying out their
schemes, they are imperialists
indeed-no longer as agents, but
the masters, of those who sup
port them in power, says the
Boston Herald. IF any people
would tamely submit to the sys-
tematic suppression of the truth
about the conduct of their Off
GERS, military or civil, or to per
sistent false representations of
it, they would be fit subjects of
an absolute ruler, and unfit to
bear the sovereignty themselves.
When the representatives of the
press stand in such fear of any
official, that they resort to the
round robin means of appealing
to him for the privilege of tell
ing the public the truth as they
see it and know it, things have
come to desperate pass under
the flag of the United States.
Such a proceeding is itself evi-
dence of a startling departure
from the conditions of liberty.
In this country the people are
the source of all power, and to
them the last appeal must be
made in any political cause. by
what right does any temporary
agent of their will undertake TO
prevent them from obtaining the
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
pers will always be resented
promptly and emphatically by
the public.

Water storage is the key to
water use, tritely says the Pa
cifc Rural Press. The time
must come when the great water
supplies of the west will be
economically utilized to the last
gallon. Even the ancient Hin
docs would have quickly con
trolled for their own benefit the
situations found in every west
ern and territory which our pres
ent civilization neglects. There
are hundreds of Western streams
passing through lands of unsur-
passed fertility, where the eli
mate is salubriOus and health
full, but where no pillow turns the
furrow, for the reason that the
streams are now raging torrents
and again dry beds of sand.
Only storage of these floods can
equalize conditions and make
possible the reclamation of these
lands.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

An exchange gets off the fol-
lowing: He was man of push.
Yes, he was. He played mar
bles for keeps when a boy and
cheated all his playmates out of
their alleys. He swapped a
bladeless knife, sight unseen,
for a four -blader, and sold that
for fifty cents. with the fifty
cents he bought a dozen lemons
and a pound of sugar and made
a barrel of lemonade, which he
sold for eight dollars on circus
day. He started in business
then and sold bad meat for
choice cuts, and made fortune.
When he had a thousand dollars
he organized a company with
S., 900, 900 capital, mostly water,
and sold the stock at par. When
the company busted it was found
he had sold out some time be-
fore. When he died he was a
millionaire, but he left it all
here. He was a man of push. 1t
is very warm where he is now.
It seems very queer.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

To keep the public ignorant
of the real state of affairs III the
philippines is impossible says
the New York Herald. NO one
with grain of common sense
would suppose for a moment
that the country would be salts
fed to take its news solely from
the president or the secretary of
war or the general in command
of our eastern forces. The rep
utable press of the country is
the direct medium between the
people and their officials, civil
or military, and any attempt to
shut the mouths of the CORE
spondenrs of reliable newspa-
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
Instead of spending so mucl

Instead of spending so much
money and sacrificing so many
valuable lives in an endeavor to
extend our possessions so that
the sun can never set upon the
American eagle, it would have
been far better for our sympa-
thetic and philanthropic states
men to consider that there is am
pie opportunity for interior ex-
pansion in the reclamation OF
many millions of acres of splen-
did land lying rightin the heart
of the country, that would at
ford comfortable homes for thou
sands and thousands of our des-
titute and homeless. When Con
gress gets ready to vote millions
for the Orient, let it also apprO-
pirate an equal amount to give
the west the storage reservoirs
she wants and thus make fertile
her deserts in the interests OF
American home builders. The
latter appropriation would be
far more humane, philanthropiC
and beneficial than the first.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
Bob lngersoIl on Money.


In 1894 Colonel Robert G..
lngersoll said:
Il said [ would say one or
two words to night on such vul-
gar things as gold and silver.
L am as satisfied as [ am that [
live that the few-the few who
control the debts, the currency,
the money of the world-have
combined, either consciously or
unconsciously, to make the
debtor pay more than the
creditor has right to ask.
1.-The tendency has always
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

knowledge that will enable them
to exercise their supreme author
ity intelligently? When in ou1
history was the proper freedom
of the press so trammeled be-
fore? There never was a time.
President Mckinley is forever
declaiming his controlling de-
sire to do the will of the peo-
pie. How can the people have
a will worth anybody's respect
if the means of fnll and true in
formation are prevented? When
the right proportions of current
events are recognized, this muz-
zling of the press of the land
will appear to be the most amaz-
ing deed of all, and sure indi-
cation of the nature of the work
requiring such means for it's pro
motion.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

The highwayman's plea that
might makes right is a princi-
pie unworthy of American di-
plomacy, and would bring shame
and dishonor on any government
that gave it endorsement. Re
publican platform 1856
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

The Star reports the sale OF
the La Clara gold mines, situa-
ted 81 miles southeast of Mag
dalena, Sonora, and which have
been under development for
sometime by JudgeL. 0. Cowan.
Sixty thousand dollars wasreal-
lied by Judge Cowan from the
sale Mr.. and Mrs. Cowan have
gone to South Carolina, to join
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

Mrs. Cowan's two daughters who
have recently taken their post
graduation in the South Caro-
lima college. The family will
return to Tucson to reside.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

Gen. Otis should have sent d
guard with every officer and sol
dier that has returned from the
Philippines, to censor their
words before they are uttered.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

The much talked of "wave of
prosperity" does not prevent
strikes. Men who are earning
good wages never throw up their
Jobs to Join a strike.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10

burdens upon those least able
to bear them. In barbarian
countries the women have to do
the work simply because thew
are weaker-that is all. And
the others, being the stronger.
expend their strength in making
the weaker do their work.
"This is precisely the same
in our civilized society today.
Between the rich and the poor.
if the burden is to be borne in
this counry, it is to be borne by
the poor-always.
''They are the first to suffer,
Let the blast of war blow in
this country, who goes to war?
Who goes to the front? The
millionaires? Not one. Who
goes? The president of corpor-
ations? The bankers? The
men who preside over great
vaults of gold? Not much?
The poor go because nine times
out of ten the poorer the man is
the more patriotic. The poor
bear the burden of this country
and of the world.
Only a few years ago our
money was gold and silver
money that had been the money
OF man for thousands. of years.
Our silver was demonetized and
gold made the standerd.
There is no man in the United
States with ingenuity enough to
account for the demonetiza ton
of silver in 1878. There is not
one. We need altogether more
money than we have. How
much have we got? -Four or
five hundred millions in silver;
four or five or six in gold-ten
Numbered millions, maybe, alto
gether.
Last year the farmers of
America raised corn, wheat and
oats over 81, 6O0,00O,O00 worth
and got the money, Sixteen
hundred millions just in corn,
wheat and oats-over s., 900, 900, :
900 in corn; over S., 900, ZOO, 600
in wheat. Just think of it.!
Sixteen hundred million dollars,
not counting beef or pork or
petroleum or cotton or any of
the manufactured articles of the
country.
Sixty-fve millions of people,
the most active, the most pro-
gressive people of the world
on the face of the globe.
We need twice as much money
per capita to do the business of
this country as is needed to do
the business of any other coun-
try. There is always somebody
that is crazy for fear there will
be more currency. [ want JUS
all the money we can get. Sill
yer is good enough for me. Al
I want of money is to pay my
debts. Yes, sir, and I want the
law to compel the other fellow
to take what I take. That is
good enough for me.
[ believe that every ounce OF
silver that is dug under the
American flag should be coined
free under the American flag.
In nv country they are mostly
on the other side. They are
with the bankers, with the rich
fellows. They get together
and say, we want gold. A man
makes a contract to pay GER
tain moneys in five years. l
want a law so that he can pay
tha money when the contract
comes due with the money that
was money when he made the
contract.
I do not think the few should
have the. right to combine to in
crease the value of what people
call money against the debtor
and in favor of the creditor. L
want free coinage of all the sill
yer that you can win from the
silver mines of America, and it
foreign countries do not want
our silver we will not trade with
them.
The Winslow mail., 1899-08-10
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