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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

poets to be able to accomplish this
without serious inconvenience.
This will leave three months of the
school year to be provided for. The
opinion prevails that the school board
cannot legally issue warrants against
prospective funds in its treasury. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Evans, there is no pen
atty provided in the statutes for a vio-
lation of this law. but there will be no
attempt to bubble over this matter.
The trustees will adhere to their deter
mination to keep strictly within the
law and it's letter. But the salaries of
the teachers and the expenses Of the
schools are to be met in some way.
The board is responsible, even in the
the teachers for the full school year.
The Missoula board proposes to issue,
not warrants, but certificates of in
debtedness to the teachers. The Mis-
soula banks will cash their certifi-
Gates and hold them until the school
board lis able to redeem them with war
rants, regularly drawn, when there
shall be money in its treasury.
This plan presumes that there will
next year be some provision made, by
general county levy or otherwise for
a sufficient sum to meet the expenses
of the school district. This is not an
unreasonable presumption, as there
seems nowhere in the state an unwill-
ingness to adopt any method that will
afford relief from the present unfortu-
nate conditions. Furthermore, the
success of the plan depends upon the
willingness of the banks to cash the
certifificfiates of Indebtedness. In Mis-
soula, we are told, this has been sat
isfactorily arranged 1t is not inn
probable that it can be accomplished
elsewhere.
The Missoula plan seems to be reason
ably certain of success. There is APP
parently no legal obstacle in the way
of it's realization. So far as we know,
it is the first practical suggestion that
has been made for the solution of the
problem that now confronts Montana
school people. 1t is to the credit of the
University city that it originated there,
and the plan is worthy of the consider
alton Of other districts in the state
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From the BOSTON Globe,

From the Boston Globe.
President Mckinley has completed
trip of 5000 miles, and been making Is
speeches day. Though his speeches
have been printed day by day. doubtless
few even of his own friends have read
them. After making his Chicago speech
he had really nothing more to say. The
keynote of every speech then and subse-
quently made was American sovereign
ty in the Philippines. With that every
eXpansionist is agreed. The rest was
merely the putting Of himself on exhi-
bition and telling the people how pros
porous the nation is at present. fact
that Is pretty generally understood
without presidential mention.
But what President Mckinley neg
lected to tell was that he is largely re-
sponsible for the present melancholy
conditions in the Philippines. 1t is chief
ly due to his stubbornness that the ma
ton has been put to the expense of
sending 10000 men and As vessels of war
to put down by force an insurrection
that would in all probability have never
existed had Dewey been put in COM
mand. The fruits Of his obstinate per-
sistence in keeping General Otis in COM
tests, are still being made manifest. In
spite of the latter's blue pencil, reports
are daily arriving telling of the woeful
condition of affairs. due to his lax civil
administration of affairs, to say moth
ing of the military shilly-shaIlying that
is sorely trying the patience Of our
brave boys.
Never were Drawer and more loyal
set of men sent to the front than those
at Manila. But they are kept engaged
in paradoxical military movements,
such as capturing and abandoning po-
sitions once won with loss of life and
held through great hardships Why
they were evacuated, to be again re-
captured. nobody knows. But that such
desultory and indecisive work must be
discouraglng and disheartening to the
men can be easily understood.
Moreover the blockaded ports are
said to be filled with immense quanti-
ties of goods, and shippers and traders
are being ruined. The failure of Otis
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Men and Women.

Thomas Balm, new speaker of the
Canadian house of commons, is the
first farmer to gain that post.
General Won Rock und Polack will
succeed Count Won Schliffen as chief of
the general staff of the German army
after the autumn maneuvers.
NJ lola is nothing If not unique. He
London was the number of hairpins
he observed on the sidewalks.
The Ingersoll Monument association
has issued an appeal for funds to car
ry out it's project of erecting q memoir
ial to the famous agnostic at Peoria,
Ill.
Senator Beveridge Of Indiana de-
clares himself much improved by his
trip to the Philippines, and does not
believe the climate injurious to a man
in good health.
has bought for $4,000 historical Buffalo
Rock, three miles west Of Ottawa, Ill.
which had been the scene Of the war
dances by the Indians at an early
day.
James Oliver, the plowman of South
Bend, who recently celebrated his 10th
birthday, worked in a Mishawaka
foundry for so cents day when he
came to Indiana, young man. He
now owns the largest pillow factory in
the world.
George has now succeeded in establish
ing firm and settled government in
Crete he will be able when autumn
comes to pay a series Of flying visits tc
the courts of Rome, London, Paris and
St. Petersburg, to express his graft.
tude for the help given to him and his
new subjects.
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An Undignitied Statement.

~ HERE are many people who
seem to think that they settle
the whole Philippine question
by calling Aguinaldo an "upstart."
nobody" "bribetaker" or a "ban-
dit" The Standard has repeatedly
shown the weakness and absurdity of
such a plea. So far. from settling the
question, the personal character of
Aguinaldo is not even a material point
in the case.
The issue turns not upon the char
acter of Aguinaldo, but upon the rights
of the Filipinos as people. If they
have no rights in the contest now PEND
ing, then if their leader We're the best
man in the world they would still be
hand, they have rights in their cwn
country, that We ought to respect, then
they cannot be deprived of those rights
by pointing out defects in the char
acter of the man who happens to be at
their head. Even in America bad men
sometimes get into high places
Such a contention is utterly weak and
zen; but when the president of the
United States employs the same lire
of contention-we will not call it argu-
ment-it is in the highest degree rep
rehensible. In his speech at Fargo the
president is reported as using these
words: THE leader of the insurgent
forces says to the American govern
ment: You can have peace, if you
will give US independence Peace for
Independence, he says. He had another
price than that for peace once before,
5ut the United States pays no geld for
peace We never gave a bribe for
peace in all our history, and we never
will"
1t is not entirely clear what the presi-
dent means by that tatement-wheth-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

~HE successes Of the British in
South Africa last week caused
universal establishment. The
most sanguine admirers of the English
army did not look for anything of the
kind. People everywhere had been
taught to believe that the Beers were
the best rifle shots in the world, and
that until they should be completely
surrounded and overwhelmed by super
ior numbers they would play havoc
with the British troops now on the
ground, just as they did with the ILL
fated British forces in 1881. In that
war, for instance, according to one de-
scription, General Anstruther marched
into the Boer country with bands play
ing. He met the sharpshooters, and in
ten minutes he was shot down. with
one hundred and twenty of his men.
leaving victory as clean as that OF
Manila This was the slaughter of
Bronkhurst Spruit. Then Colley march,
ed into Laings Mex and could not drive
the smaller force of Beers from the two
hills at the entrance-they simply
L
on Majuba hill, in the night, threw up
intrenchments and placed two Maxims
and five hundred men in command
ing position. The next day eighty Beers
crept from rock to rock and slew at
their pleasure. The English lost fifteen
officers and three hundred men; the
Beers are said to have lost two. Jane
son marched into the Transvaal with
the best of rapid-fire guns. The Beers
silenced the artillery by shooting every
gunner, and continued the slaughter at
will till Jameson surrendered. expect
ing to be massacred for the pirate he
was.
Emboldened by their victories in the
past. and perhaps rendered additional
ly audacous by a belief that they
would receive aid and comfort from the
Deity, the Beers assumed the aggres-
sive last week and We're compelled to
fight in the open, where they proved
no match for the better organized, bet
ter drilled, thoroughly seasoned troops
of the enemy.
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err he has reference to the oft-told tale
of Aguinaldo having accepted a bride
from the Spanish government, or in
tends to convey the idea that the Fill
Pine leader has Offered TO acceEt a
br:he from the United States. in either
case the statement was an uniignificd
and improper one.
If he had in mind the alleged re!a-
tons between Aguinaldo and the Span
ish government, the declaration came
too late. 1t ought to have been made
at the time when Aguinaldo was CO.
operating with the American forces
rrder Dewey. III the Filipino was at
that time considered good enough to he
the friend and Virtual ally of the great
admiral, it fairly must be considered
that the old charge was looked upon as
untrue, or, if true, that the offense had
been condoned.
On the other hand, if Aguinaldo has
mace corrupt nver.uras 70 the AIEeri-
can government, Mr. Mckinley has no
right to use nn:nrtain language about
it. He should either tell us what lie
1ieans or he should not mention il at
all. Rut M" ,IcKialey is i man of in
telect. He knows that whether Aguin-
aldo has or has no. offered 10 bet-ay
his people cannu. affect heir status or
their rights He was slmrly trying u
sc Gle a point ~ attacking the char
acter of their leader and at the best it
was nothing more than the cheapest
kind Of stump oratory
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23
One Way of Doing 1t.

I N Missoula they have taken hold of
the public school problem in bust
nesslike way and with a determine
ton to keep open for the full term their
city schools, that promises to win out,
even if the supreme court decides not
to reopen the special tax case. One day
last week the Standard published an cx-
tended review of the situation by Mr..
S. G. Murray of Missoula, who ventur
ed the opinion that there is no neces-
sity for depriving the children of Mon
tana of one-half of their school year.
Mr. Murray is a man whose opinion in
these matters is valuable, and worthy
of consideration. He has had long ex-
perience in practical school work and
is a lawyer of recognized ability
In his interview last Wednesday Mr..
Murray said: school boards through
out Montana need not be alarmed
about keeping the schools open the
usual length of time" He takes the
position that the school board is bound
by its agreement with its teachers to
pay them for their services for the usu-
al length of the school year and that
the board has full authority under the
law, to make such arrangements as
will enable it to fulfill the obligations
that it has incurred in engaging its
corps of teachers. He quotes the stat
utes of this state in support of his po-
sition, and 1T seems as if he had made
out a good case.
John NJ. Evans, chairman Of the Mis-
soula school board-himself an attor-
ney--in Sundays Standard made a
semi official statement of the case that
is most encouraging. He says positive
ly that the Missoula schools will not
close before the expiration of their full
term: that the matter has been care.
fully Investigated and that, While the
school board intends to keep fully with.
in the letter of the law plan has beer
decided upon which will enable tht
board to meet it's obligations.
The plan outlined by Mr.. Evans is
substantially that suggested by Mr.
Murray. Their plan is, in brief, as fol-
lows. The schools will be conducted as
usual, as long as the income from the
general tax levy holds out. By strict.
est economy and closest management
this will be, in Missoula's case, until
March. To accomplish this some sac
ritice will be necessary-repairs and
improvements that were contemplated
must be deferred-but the board ex-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23
Wisconsin's Progress.

WO or three times the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin has come
mighty near winning big inter-
collegiate prizes from the proud and
naughty institutions Of the far East.
Nobody seriously considered Wiscon-
sin in the boat race at Poughkeepsie
last summer, but she rowed the most
sensational race of the day and was
beaten only by a floating berry crate,
which compelled her to defect from her
course in the finish. Wisconsin. too,
put up an amazing game of football
against Yale last Saturday and was
beaten in the last minute or two by a
phenomenal and lucky squirt on the
part of one of the Yale players. All
things considered, the University of
Wisconsin must be credited with one
of the best football teams of the yea.
Consider what it did. 1t Travelled 1900
miles and gave up a weeks practice on
it's home grounds for two days light
work in Connecticut; it met one of the
oldest teams of the East on its home
grounds; ut faced crowd that had
been keyed up to the expectancy Of
seeing Yale's chances for victory en-
dangered by rank outsider, and was
therefore prepared to root for Yale
with all the more energy and enthu-
siasm. The Wisconsin boys did nobly
and the West is proud of them.
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M'NNLEY IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE PHILIPPINE MIDDLE

to occupy and control these ports is
causing peaceful people to starve
through lack of food. 1t is also said
that the medical department is sadly
hampered through the refusal of Cen
eral Otis to supply more room, as we'll
as more nurses, for those still kept in
dirty tents, and who have been crying
for relief many months. There Is album
dant testimony that the sick are being
neglected, and that there is need of
more surgeons. But Otis seems to
think otherwise, and disputes the dag
noses of the attending doctors as to
what is the matter with the sick. In
short. General Otis is attempting just
what Admiral Dewey distinctly de-
scribed when he remarked that "Otis is
trying to do too much"
Who is to blame for this state of af-
fairs IL not Mr.. Mckinley himself? 1t
is he who has insisted upon retaining
Otis and Of forcing him to try to do too
much BY keeping him in command he
permits him to divide his efforts among
quent neglect on all sides. Admiral
Dewey has spoken plainly in this mat
ter, but still the president Is stubborn.
OPol WAlOli SlSS uOSS Lie
rest. then, but upon him? How much
longer does he propose to trifie with
the will Of the American people?
The presidents rhetoric on these po-
htical fence repairing trips is, of course,
fine. This is year Of sublime patriot
ISM he says. Has he quite shown 1t
in his stubborn retention Of Otis? THE
shedding OF blood is anguish to my
SOUL" he exclaims. But how much OF
this may possibly be due to his policy
of keeping the navy in the shadow of
the army, and of not giving Dewey chief
command at a time when he might
have handled the Filipinos without the
shedding of a drop of blood?
These high-sounding aphorisms OF
Mr.. Mckinley are all well enough But
they are only words. What Is now
called for is deeds of the kind that
Dewey has suggested, else. in spite of
his political tours, the president may
yet find his support sliding away from
him.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23
MONDAY, OCTOBER %, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Welcome Home.

- O-DAY it will be homecoming
which the members of the First
Montana volunteers will keep III
remembrance While they live and
which will pass into history as ole of
this states most memorable occasions.
Latest of the Standards bulletins
was one announcing the hour this
mornin@ at which the soldiers will
reach Dillon. the manner in which the
sections are run and the time al which
these sections may be expected to ar
rive in Butte.
Butte IS ready. The city is prepared
to welcome. in the name of Montana,
these returning veterans. For them the
citys gates are open wide: they will
be hailed with manifestations of pride
in thai which these soldiers have
achieved and with Joy over the fact
that a sat- return home has Eeen
vouchsafed to them.
For the period of their soiourn IN
Butte. the city belongs wholly to the
soldiers. They will find that no act
of hospitality will be lacking.
Welcome to them, one and all! They
have broush. honorable distinction to
Montana; their fellow citizens lay at
their feet to-day the tokens of endur-
ing gratitude and pride.
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stand it: the castings are made Of pigs OF
iron, which in turn are fed from a SOW.
In Massachusetts more money Is in.
vested in cotton mills than in any othe!
manufacturing industry. but the making
Of boots and shoes yields the most valua-
BILE product
The giraffe was thought to be near ex
tinction. but Major Maxse, a British ex-
plorer, has found great herds of then.
along the Sobat river, a tributary of the
White Nile.
There is much French and Belgian cap
ital invested in the principal railway lines
of Spain, while England owns many of
the shorter lines, and is also at the head
of the mining interests.
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The Standard can be found at the fol-
lowing news stands:
New York at Aston House.
Chicago at Postoffice.
Chicago at Auditorium Annex.
San Francisco at Palace Hotel.
Denver at $50 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 CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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MISSOULA NEWS.
Mfssoula's Delegation.

Missoula, Oct. 22.-Missoula and the
surrounding towns sent a delegation of
about $50 people to Butte, who will help
welcome the return of Montana's volun-
teers Tuesday morning. The train that
pulled out of the station here tonight
was one of the largest that ever pulled
out of Missouia. extra coaches having
been pressed into service to accommodate
the crowd. The train arrived from the
West an hour and a half late.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23
New Books for tho Library.

Missoula Oct 22.-The trustees of the
public library have placed an order for
about 10 new books for the library. They
have ordered few of the latest in flc-
ton, and also some reference books for
the scholars of the public schools and
the students of the university. They will
be here In about three weeks. at which
time complete list of them will be pub,
lished.
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Current Comment.
Argument by the Foot.

From the San Francisco Call.
AS might be judged from its title, See
kraft Seegeltung Seeherrschaft." publish
ed at Berlin by Rear Admiral Valois, is
book of the sea. In words not less than
a foot long the admiral sets forth argu-
ments that cannot be refuted. except in
words two feet long, the benefits of ma
val alliance between Germany and Amer
ina
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VIII BE Discontinued.

Missoula. Oct 22.-The Copper City
Limited. the best train on the Northern
Pacific railroad, will be discontinued on
next Wednesday at noon, and the old
accommodation train pressed into SER
vice. The combination train will leave
Missoula at a:o5 D. M, and will reach
Hamilton at 6:15 p. m, leaving Hamilton
at S:35 a. m. 1t will reach Missoula at
l.50 a. m.
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General Whites fame is secure. ST:
Redvers Butler is 4 little to-. far away
and doubtless a good deal too much Of
a gentleman to Sampsonize The Glen
coe victory.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

Kansas may have the advantage of
us in Germ, but Montana can raise as
much patriotic enthusiasm to the acre
as any state in the union.
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Enual RIGHTS.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
In evidence Of the fact that a man IL as
safe in Louisiana as in Kentucky, Judge
Laplace of the former state was called
from his home and assassinated by a
mob of respectable citizens the other
night in true Clay county style.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

New York Office-4S Tribune Building.
Chicago Otfice-469 The Rookery
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1,4l5 G St, n. w.
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Where, oh, where, is Dr. Jameson all
this time? There seems to be an ex-
cellent opportunity for the doctor to
pose as the John the Baptist of the
affair."
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Although Butte's ovation to the Mon
tana regiment may not be so big a
thing as New York's ovation TO Dewey,
it will be 1850 degrees Fahrenheit hot
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If they give vent to their feelings, the
volunteers will have difficulty in re-
straining themselves from turning the
march into cake walk.
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Alone in Brooklyn.

From the Washington Post.
Representative-eleet Roberts has taken
refuge in Brooklyn. If the New York
polygamists only dared to come out in the
open. he would not want for company and
defenders.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

In the state Of Montana the 23rd Of
October will knock the eternal stuff
fling out of the goth of November and
the 25th of December.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

The girls the Montana boys left be-
hind them will go to the front to-day
fully prepared to inaugurate a rapid
fire of kisses.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

At the present writing the Montana
troops have crossed the border and are
hurrying to attack the Dillon break
fast.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

In addition to the two dozen hogs
heads of red fire, 1900 barrels of red
paint will be tapped in Butte this even
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

The tail of the lion is wagging in
a remarkably rapid and self-satisfied
manner.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

Dillon will not use the leftover
scraps of last nights supper for
breakfast this morning.
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President Kruger has probably turned
from the S3rd Psalm to the third chap
ter of Job.
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The English newspaper correspond
ents are apparently in possession of
Rubber Mex.
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Young ladies on the kissing line must
be prepared to give and take the con-
sequencese lI
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70 ADVERTISERS:

The Anaconda Standard guarantees it's
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation,
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
lished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-23

In the matter of ovations the Mon
tana regiment is up against the real
thing now