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~ HE situation in the Transvaal
is dividing attention with the
Dreyfus case, but the division
is an unequal one and the real import
ance of the South African crisis is over
Swallowed by the political drama which
France is presenting to the world,
and. while the exile of Devils island
has been making his fight for honor
and liberty, affairs in Africa have
marched on rapidly 10 the verge of
war
Ultimate war has been the pre-
diction OF both Englishmen and Beers
humiliating backdown is the only
alternative and one which neither coun-
try expects. Ever since 1886 both Eng
land and the Transvaal Republic have
been preparing for the arbitrament of
arms in the appeal to force. Treaties
and agreements are recognized as
simply expedients to extend an armed
truce.
The points of difference between the
two countries are in such radical oppo-
stion that it is difficult to see how any
permanent understanding could be ar
rived at save by the complete surrender
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Coming Home at Last.

+ Unless another error has occur
J red in the Manila dispatches
the Montana regiment is at last
on its way home. 1t should arrive in
San Francisco about September 20, and
will probably be back in Montana the
following week. Whatever form the
welcome to the volunteers may take,
1t will be genuinely hearty and enthus-
dastic. Montana is proud of her regi-
ment. 1t has acquitted itself splenddly,
and comes home with flying colors
Fighting side by side with the Kansas
regiment, it participated with death
and daring in nearly all of the engage
ments that have taken place in the
island of Luzon. acquiring national and
permanent renown. 1t was often tried
and never found wanting.
1t was on April 25 1898, that Cover
NOR Smith was authorized by the war
department to raise a Montana regi-
ment of infantry. The response to the
governors proclamation a day or two
later calling for volunteers was prompt
Early in May companies began to as
semble at Camp Smith on the out
skirts of Helena, and on the 25th the
regiment, fully organized, left Helena
for San Francisco. whence three weeks
later it sailed for Manila BY the time
1t is mustered out it will have been I'M
der arms a year and five months. 1t
deserves, and will receive, a royal well
come home.
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Reeds Resignation.

IL IS formal letter of resignation
~ sets to rest the rumors that
Thomas B. Reed was contem-
plating the resumption of his place in
the house of representatives. Reeds
silence since his return from Europe
seemed to lend these rumors some i'm
portance. 1t was noised abroad that he
would return to congress for the ex-
press purpose of declaring against ex-
pansion and the conquest of the Phil
ippines. With the growing unpopular
ity of the war, Reed probably could
have commanded enough republican
votes in the house to overturn, with the
aid of the democratic members, the ad-
mnistration's Philippine policies. He
could, if he had chosen, have held the
destinies of the republican party in the
hollow of his hand. He could have
made Washington howl. He could easily
have rendered himself the most COM
handing figure in republican politics.
Unless the war is brought to a speedy
termination the country's dissatisfac-
ton with the administration will grow,
and the discomfort in the republican
party will assume formidable proper
tons. While it is not at all likely, it
is not beyond the range of possibility
that the republican national convention
next year may cast Mckinley aside and
turn to Tom Reed as the most popular,
most courageous and brainiest repuD-
lican of the period
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Personal Notes.

Arthur j. Balfour, who is so often
spoken of as one of the younger men
In English politics, does not indeed
show his years, but is nevertheless s..
Sara Bernhard begins this week a
tour of the French provinces and will
not return to Paris until next month,
when she will produce a new play by
the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Miles B. insolvency, governor of
South Carolina, won a scholarship in
Washington and Lee university at the
age of 16, but could not complete his
course because he was at that time
alone in the world and unable to pay
his remaining college expenses.
Russell Sage, at 49, says he can feel
that his has been an absolutely success
full life. Everything l have tried for
have got he says. 'All my ideals
have realized OF course, now l have
to improve things. to work right on and
carry on my work. But am satisfied"
The medal to be presented by the
city of Baltimore to Captain N. Mayo
Dyer of the cruiser Baltimore bears a
likeness of the captain. and Is suspend :
ed by ribbons of black and yellow, the
Maryland colors, from a bar in which is
set bit of sail from the Reina Chris
tina.
During some recent rehearsals Sir
Henry Irving was very displeased with
the work of one of the minor actors
What have you been doing before you
came here?" he asked of the delin-
quent. Il was two years with John
Hare" And what did you do in his
company?" asked Sir Henry. Not
act?" H.
DR.. Max Breuer, a former surgeon of
the German army, now practiclng in
Buffalo, has just been decorated with
the cross of the Legion of Honor for
saving the life of French seaman.
While on a German vessel the doctor
heard that the Frenchman was i'll on a
British ship which had no surgeon
aboard, attended the man and restored
him to health.
Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas is clean
shaver now, but once had beard from
which he could not be induced to part
While on visit to New York he wanted
to have his beard trimmed, but the
French barber knew little English and
shaved him clean. Then the governor
was angry, but came to like the effect,
and decided to grow no more hair on
his face.
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Thrifty Officers.
sHEN congress meets in it's next
" session. it will have another
1oI

sssso" '' win %sf nsvs I" an s essf
military scandal to investi-
the plain provisions of the law,
General Brooke, the governor general
of Cuba, has been receiving additional
pay from the Cuban revenues to the
tune of seven thousand dollars a year,
and 1t is alleged that other officers have
developed similar traits of thrift The
matter has been called to the attention
of Secretary Root and he is said to
have ordered an accounting to be made
of all the receipts and expenditures in
the various departments of Cuba.
1t all forms another count in the in
General Miles made his protest in vain
to the secretary of war. who snubbed
him as usual, and the president did not
feel called upon to interfere. The whole
affair is one piece with the incompet-
ency so persistently shown by the late
war to the end.
With fat offices like these it Is small
wonder that interviews with American
officers in Cuba are generally to the
effct that 1t Will be many years before
Cuba is flied for self government ana
withdraw the army Of occupation
Brooke and his official family know
good thing when they find it.
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An IrridesCent Dream.

I N THE press dispatches from South
America comes the gossip. as well
authenticated as most of the poll
tical rumors which cross the equator,
that the alliance of Argentine and Bra
zil is the beginning of a close federal
union which will eventually embrace
the entire continent in great Latin
republic. Such combination would be
the realization of the dream of Bolivar
and the other patriots of the early days
who led the fight against Spanish do
minion. While the present generation
will hardly see this goal achieved, yet
it is interesting as illustrating a poiti-
cal tendency which has been constantly
increasing in force during the last three
centuries.
The power of small nations has been
growing less and less with the years.
The day has forever passed when an
other Greese or Venice could make
world history. Great natons-great in
mass, in extent and in power-ptch the
key note in the march of civilization
and the little fellows exist by mere toll
erance and from the jealousy of their
more powerful neighbors.
The naturalization of Italy and the
birth of the present German empire
show the results of this historical prin-
ciple in Europe. The unification of
South America would be a movement
along the same lines of national de-
velopment with much greater chances
of ultimate success than existed a hun
dred years ago in either Germany or
Italy. With the exception of Brazil
the entire continent is populated by a
people of similar language and ideals.
They are practically homogeneous and
Brazil is closely akin to the rest
But in addition to the physical OBJ
stacles, vast areas of unhabitated land,
the great distances between populated
centers, the lack of roads. railroads
and telegraph facilities there is the
greater obstacle in the way of success
in the existence of so many military dis
potisms for the so-called republics of
South America are nothing else. Bull
lets and bayonets constitute the only
recognized authority in elections, and
government is a synonym for pillage
and plumber Public office is private
snap to an extent that would turn an
American spokesman green with envy.
The fact is that the Latins-Span-
iards, Italians and Frenchmen-have ut
terly failed to grasp the fundamentals
of republican administration or the art
of selfgovernment. France to-day is
an empire in all but name and repre-
sentative government in Italy has been
a scandalous failure, and in Spain a
ridiculous farce The tradition of au-
thority is so firmly planted in the Latin
mind that the idea of individual re-
sponsibility and initiative has hardly
any existence.
The Republic of South America may
be an ultimate possibility, but there is
no necessity for the immediate seiec-
ton of an ambassador by the United
States.
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A Raid on the Treasury.

~HE Hanna-Payne subsidy steal,
otherwise known as the ship
ping bill. will be pushed again
at the next session Of congress That
it did not pass last year was due to
the determined opposition Of the demo-
cratic minority, who were aided by a
few cool-headed republicans
The bill was the offspring of certain
shipbuilders and steamship companies
and received the approval of the ad q.
miniStratiOn as such a measure natur-
ally would. Now it is given out that
the powerful pressure of the admins
tration will be brought to bear upon
the members of the next congress to
push the steal through.
The history OF the attempts to COM
NIT the United States to subsidy
schemes on a large scale form an in
teresting chapter. Whenever such bills
are introduced the press is flooded with
stories of distress among shipbuilders.
1t is asserted that all the plants are on
the verge of bankruptcy, that the Unit
ed States is falling behind in the COM
mercial struggle. and that the only
remedy for such a pitiable condition of
affairs is to drop few millions of un-
earned dollars into the pockets of the
poor, millionaire shipbuilders and
owners.
But in spite Of these periodical walls
of woe the shipbuilding industry has
gone on rapidly increasing, and to-day
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From the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
Mr.. Bryan's great strength" said
Mr.. Croker, Lies in his sympathy for
and knowledge of the plain people. No
other American has ever been so close
to the masses. He understands and
feels for the toiler, and the toiler I'M
derstands and trusts him. 1 consider
him to be one of the greatest men
America has produced.
Within the year the democratic
party must agree upon it's national
programme and prepare for the over
throw of trusts and Imperialism. / be-
lieve that the party will be united and
harmonious.
Naturally I am principally inter-
ested IN securing a national platform
that VIII be source of strength to
the party in my own state. We hope
to carry New York for the democratic
candidate next year. ] am satisfied
that nothing will be done by the next
democratic national convention that
VIII drive any good democrat away
from his party
The silver question will be regu-
lated IN time, and congress may safely
be trusted to settle the ratio.
There has never been a time in my
experience when the republican party
has so clearly shown it's unfitness to
be in control of the national govern
ment. Mr.. Mckinley has turned the
war in the Philippines into a partisan
scheme for his own reelection. The
administration has purposely dragged
out the struggle, and is spending tens
OF millions of the peoples money with
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on the part OF one country or the other.
fact that England will not give in and.
judging by the past the Boer will fight
to the last ditch to preserve his indie
pendence. for that after ALL is the
main question at issue.
The story of the Beers in Africa is a
pathetic one and their fight for a ma
tional existence has been tragic.
Driven from Europe by bigoted perse-
cution, their one desire was to live
their lives and worship God as their
conscience dictated. Their highest ideal
of a state was and is a community de-
voted to agriculture and grazing and
one in which the tax collectors visits
are few and far between.
No sooner was the first republic es
tablished than England appeared on the
scene and with neither cause nor justif
cation other than brute force annexed
the country, the present Cape Colony.
Then began the war between English
man and Boer which has lasted to the
present day. Step by step, after many
bloody battles, the Boer has been forced
towards the interior. The Natal and
the Orange Free State, mark two of the
stands made by the Beers against Eng
lish aggression. When they had con-
quered the wilderness. driven back the
savage natives and redeemed the land
to cultivation, England would annex
the country without the formality of
an excuse and the Boer, rather than
live under the hated English rule,
would plunge again into the wilderness.
The Transvaal is the last stand They
can go no further. English territory
surrounds them and it is simply fight
or surrender.
The Boer is so far behind in the arts
of civilization, he is so much out. of har-
mony with modern life and progress,
that, handicapped as he is with the
ideas and ideals of the last century, he
is doomed to defeat. That he will put
up a good fight is beyond question.
Majuba hill is evidence Of his proves
and it has also given the Boer the idea
that he is invincible and that the
Englishman is a coward. Their ignor
ance and hotheadedness will tell against
them while their fanaticism will make
them determined enemies. They are
stepped in crude superstitions. Not so
long ago the raad refused to pass a bill
to rid the country of a scourge of
grasshoppers and to remedy the effects
of drouth for the reason that it would
be unwise to thwart the will of Provi-
dence.
The recent troubles between out
landers and Beers do not need review
and are important only from the fact
that they furnish the excuse which per-
mirs England to carry out long cher
ished plans of empire in South Africa.
Admiral Howison, who has recently
made an investigation of the situation,
sees but one possible solution of the
problem and that is war which will be
followed by the absorption of the Boer
Republic and the subjugation of it's
people, a repetition of the struggle in
The Natal and the Orange Free State
which will bring the long conflict to
an end with the disappearance of the
Beers as an Independent people.
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Lawyer Debating War Methods.

From the Indianapolis News.
Miles, the soldier, wants to send cav
airy to the Philippines; Root. the lawyer,
doesn't. and Root rules, being secretary
or war. 1t seems to US when it comes
to a question OF fighting the fighter, the
man who Is a soldier, who has spent his
life studying the art of war, ought to
be allowed to have his say. II General
Miles Is not competent some soldier who
Is ought to be in control. To put in con-
troll lawyer in preference to a soldier
seems rather absurd
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CROKER TELLS WHY BRYAN
is STRONG WITH THE PEOPLE

out making any serious effort to bring
the war to a close this year.
1.-THE presidential election takes place
next year, and the republican mana
gers are openly making preparations to
use the war as means of working up
! another outburst of popular enthusi-
asm, just in time to sweep Mr.. McKin-
ley into a second term.
But the people who are paying the
war taxes are beginning to see through
the plan. 1t is almost incredible that
a president of the United States is will
ing to desolate and destroy thousands
of homes and to shed the blood Of the
unfortunate Flipinos chiefly to keep
himself and his friends in office; but the
facts are plain to be seen by every right
thinking man.
THE situation is so shocking, so in
decent, from the ordinary American
standpoint. that thousands of republi-
cans are turning away from Mckinley
ism in disgust. The strongest men in
the party have turned their backs on
the administration.
I'm New York city the party was
never stronger. We will carry all be-
fore us this fall. The metropolis is
thoroughly democratic. The cheap talk
about machine politics has lost it's
force.
Every great public improvement ac-
complished in New York-good streets,
underground telegraph wires, extensions
of the dock system, the great Croton
aqueduct, the new courts new parks.
low taxes, the Harlem viaduet. the
Kingsbridge bridge, the speedway. the
pleasure docks for the people-are the
direct result of machine policits"
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Put the Law to Work.

From the New York World.
1t is stated that Secretary of War Root
is studying the Philippine problem like
a legal case" This is an excellent idea
Mr.. Root is an astute lawyer Why
doesn't he sue Spain and require her to
deliver the Philippine goods in accord
ance with the bill of sale, on which we
paid her $40 OOO,O 0O in good money? Why
not secure a mandamus or something of
that sort to compel Spain to make good
her defective title to the islands ?
Fighting under General Otis is a slow
and costly process The law is the
thing.
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Europe's Dumping Grounds.
From the Birmingham News.

from the BIrmlngham News.
The nations of Europe dump their
criminal class upon us and then when one
of them is summarily dealt with for his
crimes we must pay for his life. 1t is
not meant by this that no good immi-
grants come from across the waters On
the contrary. thousands of our best ctI-
zens are of foreign birth, but America
has become refuge for escaped Euro
pean criminals. This is the class which
should be excluded.
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An Astute Conclusion.

From the Sioux City Tribune.
After considerable thought the auditor
of the treasury for the interior depart
ment has come to the conclusion that d
negro is not a Sioux Indian. and whether
he lives on an Indian reservation or not
he is not entitled to receive the benefits
of the funds set apart for the red men
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23
Kruger's Threat to Wreck the Mines.

From the Washington Times.
If the manifesto Is indeed intended as
an appeal to the civilized world" it is
a dismal failure. The civilized world
could only reply to it that a people ca
pable of the harbarism which Kruger
promises the beers will descend to in the
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There is growing belief in other
parts of the counsry that it is not be-
You'd the range of possibility to i'm
prove the breed of some people who are
bred in old Kentucky
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23
May Precipitate the Conflict.

FROM the Peoria Herald-Transcript
The proposition to limit the output of
whiskey in Kentucky to 2o,0O0QO0 Of gal
ions may have good deal to do with
inaugurating the war against trusts.
There are certain things that the Ameri-
can people will not stand.
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New York C-ce-4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives
Washington Bureau-1.4l5 G st, N. W.
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spondence should be addressed to the
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Anaconda. Mont.
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Daily and Sunday. three times greater
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The fact that Bryan is for him and
Altgeld against him ought to make It
comparatively easy row for Colonel
Goebel to hoe
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The Kentucky election is exciting
enough, but what the people of Mon
tana will be chiefly interested in this
fall are the returns from Manila.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23

After the subsistence of the Dreyfus
excitement, Connecticuts national GRO
quet tournament will endeavor TO keep
the ball rolling.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23

The Standard has branch Offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
pication.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23

People on the inside seem to be con-
WINGED that Colonel Jousaust is about
to make a Wyatt carp of himself.
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Dom Paul Kruger has not only turned
cold shoulder to Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, but has placed a larga-sized chip
upon it.
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Colonel Goebel, it is said. is opposed
by all the Baptists in Kentucky on ac-
count of his unfriendly attitude in the
legislature towards a bill in which they
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23

1t looks as if England and the Trans
vaal had combined to demonstrate to
the car that peace conferences are a
failure
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The conviction of Dreyfus will leave
the Paris exposition of 1900 with a very
poor exhibit of French liberte, frater-
mite and egalite
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The resignation of Tom Reed will give
more satisfaction to the administration
than TO the country.