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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
ENCOURAGING THE RI P/NOS.

Democratic in this locality
Mountain for making the statement that
they were pursuing a course that en-
couraged Aguinaldo to continue his fight
against the government. This paper
pathy expressed for the Filipino cause,
and the contemplate criticisms of the
government in it's efforts to suppress the
insurrection, had a direct bearing on the
conduct of the natives, through the rep
reservations made by their junta.
But if the bourbon press of this state
object to the milder term of "copper"
head applied to men who tax sides
with the enemies of the flag insofar as
opportunity permits. what will they
have to say to the statement that they
are directly responsible for the death Of
General Lawton. and the other brave
men who have fallen under the deadly
fire of the Mauser? Such an accusation
is made by the New York Journal, the
leading democratic newspaper in the
country-a paper which supported
Bryan in 1896, and which is intensely
loyal to what it believes to be the best
interests of that party today. The
Journal says:
The death of General Lawton in the
Philippines will undoubtedly have the
effect of encouraging the Tagalogs to
further resistance against the authority
lot the UnitedStates government. In the
meantime letters have been captured
from the Filipinos indicating that
EAguinaldo las had the active moral sup
port of prominent anti-eXpansionists in
the United States. His assistants are
now keeping up their incendiary oratory
lin congress-.
Upon the heads of these unpatriotic
and ill-advised persons rests the shame
of Lawton's death and the blood of every
lbrave mai who has lost his life in the
Philippines. Every word of encourage
ment to the Filipinos uttered in congress
has been conveyed to Aguinaldo. In
this relation let us quote Representative
Grow of Pennsylvania:
"Wherever on the earth's surface the
mag shall rightfully float it can never
be removed, save by IN act of
Or by an order Of the communicating
Chief OF the army and navy in time oil
war. Any attempt to remove it in any
other way would be an act of treason
against the sovereignty of the United
States. The terms that General GRAM
fixed for all persons engaged in such at.
tempts were unconditional surrender.
Why should any different terms be made
now for Malay or Monaghan insurgents
han were then made for American citi.
Gems born on American soil?"
The war in the Philippines will no
end until the last man who fires on thu
flag has been disarmed or ~su1renders.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
D UP or SHUT UP!

The following little paragraph. slightly
changed in verbiage, perhaps, but not
in it's import, appears once or twice a
month in the Helena Independent:
With a perverSeness found only in
apostates, the Inter ountai continues
to lie about the position of the demo-
cratic party on the silver issue. Having
betrayed the cause, it tries to convince
itself that no one else is faithful. 1t
may succeed, but it will convince no one
else.
This may be a cheap. but scarcely an
effective way of answering the state-
Mountain from time to time. If his
paper has stated any untruth in defining
the position of the democratic party, as
outlined in the public utterances of it's
accredited leaders, and in the columns of
it's press, it is clearly the duty of the
Independent to make the proper eX-
posture. But so far it has seen fit to
confine it's defense to the unsupported
statement that the Inter Mountain ''con-
tinues to lie about the position of the
democratic party on the silver ques-
ton"
Why does not our east side contem-
porary explain away the efforts made by
Bryan, and other silver leaders, to build
up a paramount issue for 1900 other han
it not reconcile the public declarations
of Dick Croker, the Tammany mogul,
, against the free coinage of silver, with
his avowed purpose Of supporting
Bryan? Hundreds of questions of this
character have received no consideration
! whatever from the Independent, yet they
all advertise the reactionary tendency
of the democratic party on the silver
! question.
The Independent has had time to at
tack the Anaconda Standard on local
polysyllabic adjectives, trimmed with
red fire, and emitting a strong ~vitriolic
odor: but, alas, it has not had time to
take issue with that paper on the prop
osition that the relative values of silver
and gold are fixed by the worlds ex-
! changes! The Independent has refused
to protest against the attacks which dis
tinguished democrats at home and
abroad have made on the fundamental
principles of free coinage; yet, like the
hysterical recipient of bad news, it fires
it's suppressed wrath at the innocent We
hicle of information. The Independent
ought to get a pair of crutches for. it's
oVerWorked intellect for awhile. ..*,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

On this theory, it would be held that
he was unquestionably "out for the
stuff as they say in the classical ver-
nacular of Montana politics, affording,
it would seem, another case of moral
turpitude upon which disbarment pro-
ceedings might with propriety be based.
Whether his original testimony was
true or false, his confession is an ire
sistible shock to his standing as a per-
son of truth and veracity, and prac-
tically eliminates him from all consider
alton in the Clark controversy.
His sworn statement in the Welcome
case had an important bearing on the
senatorial fight, inas1nuch as it was call
culated to connect Clark with the acts
of Welcome, and show the relationship
of principal and agent in the work of
purifying the democratic legislature.
1t vas clearly worth $500 to the anti
Clark democrats, in spot cash.
Even $500 would not have been an ex-
~cessive figure. as prices run in this alti-
tude.
But a recantation was worth even
more to the Clark men, especially after
the conviction of Welcome.
With a supreme court decision against
them, it is necessary to show that no
understanding existed between Clark
and Welcome. and that the latter acted
on his own responsibility.
With Rev. Warren under a cloud, and
Cason's confession in hand, the Clark
men have made a long stride-on the
face of things-toward severing the po-
litical umbilical cord which was sup
posed to have connected the senator and
his legal associate and friend.
Under the circumstances, Cason's re-
c%antation was worth more than his
original testimony.
1t ought to AVE brought enough to
place that attorneys family beyond the
reach Of starvation for the remainder of
the winter, with a few Strawberries
thrown in.
Whether Cason, in double switching
the turn has set an example that will
become Infectious, to the great annoy
ance of both wings of the democracy,
in their efforts to purify the politics of
this state, remains to be seen.
If this sort of thing keeps on, both
sides may have to borrow money before
the case is ended, in order to keep the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth constantly on tap.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
THE CASE or cASON,

When the Inter Mountain last evening
suggested the possibility that both sides
to the Clark contest in the senate might
have a few extra aces UP their sleeves,
like Bret Harte's pigeon-English speak
ing Chinee, it spoke more wisely than it
knew.
Today the Associated Press reports
state that Zachary Taylor Cason, an i'm
portant witness for the prosecution in
the late Welcome trial, has made a con-
fession to the effect that his testimony
was false, and was given for a consid-
Grafton of $500.
He alleges that his family was starry
ing, and to get money to relieve their
necessities he took the step which he
now repents.
Ii is undoubtedly true that as a prac-
ticing attorney in Butte. Mr.. Cason has
not been successful in acquiring a COM
petence.
In fact, it is believed thai he has had
a hard row to hoe, and there is an ele-
ment of Dathos in the confession that
he consented to perjure himself on the
witness stand to keep his family from
Starving.
In his act many will see more of weak
ness a of criminal intent, though a
step of that character cannot be too Sc
yerely condemned or too promptly pun
ished, regardless of who may have been
aided or injured by UGH testimony.
The foundations of society rest upon
the sanctity of an oath. and the inan-
cial extremities of no one can justify
the bearing of false witness.
If Mr.. Cason was weak enough to give
false testimony for a financial consider
ton, many will infer therefrom that he
was weak enough to accept another ten
der of cash for a written recantation4
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

der, whom all the nation mourns?
without political ambition and with no
object or purpose beyond that of faith
fully serving his country, he speaks out
the blunt, sincere feelings that welled up
from his big heart and are confirmed by
intimate acquaintance with the facts he
unselfishly discusses. With the impend-
ing consideration by congress of the
Philippine question, it is we'll that there
should be a clearing of the atmosphere
and an unprejudced effort to reach the
truth and do what is right in all respon-
sibilities. The apparent bitterness and
intense prejudice that so often charac-
terize the arguments of the "anti-re-
sponsibility' party cannot help their
cause.
No matter how much we respect the
personal character of Mr.. Winslow, Mr..
Atkinson, ex-senator Edmunds, SENATE
Mason and Colonel Bryan, it cannot be
expected in all f~rankness that the Amer
lean people will follow the advice of
these men, who have never been in the
Philippines, or wen crossed the great
Pacific, in preference to that of Admiral
Dewey, President Schurman, Minister
DENLY. Professor Worcester and Cen
eral Lawton, who have mastered the
history and conditions of the problem by
actual contact, participation or associa-
ton. Are we to accept the opinion of
Colonel Bryan of Nebraska, or of Colo
Z ololClloOu4 s VI INK NSD oShb 1851
ment, who died leading his men on the
field of battle? The former. from his
quiet home in Lincoln, says we provoked
the conflict, and we alone are RESPONSE
BILE; the latter, in command of the regi-
ment at that point of the line around
Manil where the firing first began, went
on record for all time before his death
that the Filipinos provoked the outbreak
after he and other officers had lone all
in their power to prevent it, and hence
the Filipinos must suffer the inevitable
consequences.
Here. then, men of New England, you
have the story of responsibility and duty
as told by those who know by experience
and by those who know by hearsay.
Which will you accept? Speaking with
no disrespect for those men in Boston
and elsewhere who in good faith prophe-
sled disaster for the nation from it's
Philippine policy, and viewing both the
moral and material issues at stake. I
can add my own humble testimony that
if, after residing five years in the Orient
and then closely watching at or near the
| seat of wal the development of our re-
sponsibilities in the Philippines Nor
nearly a year, from Dewey's victory to
the capture of San Fernando, I drew
their conclusions or took their position
l would be guilty of qualification and
Willful Misrepresentation.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
THE REACTION SETTING M =

In carrying their anti-expansion views
to an extreme that almost touches the
border-line of treason, through persist
ent efforts to encourage the Filipinos
to resist the policy of American odcu-
pancy, as a moral right, the democratic
leaders are responsible for a decided re-
dictionary movement in the east. The
original opposition to expansion is dis
tofore conscientiously opposed that poll
icy; and aside from those who blindly
follow whatever line of thought is laid
down by the democratic leaders, east
ern people will soon be fully in touch
with the progressive trend of the day.
At the outset, the New ~Englanders
We're most active in their opposition to
expansion, but the democrats have
forced the proposition to a point where
the issue of patriotism is involved, and
his has had a decided reactionary
England society in New York, on the
22nd instant, a vigorous rebuke was
given Filipino sympathizers in an adj
dress delivered by Mr.. John Barrett, re-
to General Lawton are of particular in
terest at this time, and show where that
brave officer placed the responsibility for
the war. Mr.. Barrett said:
1t is fitting in this notable gathering of
New Englanders, whose prouds common
| wealth of Massachusetts and classical
capital of Boston are the home If the
leading d~issenters, that we should give
heed to q prophetic message from Gen.
eral Lawton. In my hand I hold a mes
sage to the American people, which
came to me in the last month in the
form of a letter from this hero. whom I
had often seen on the firing line. Had
he lived, his official position would have
prevented giving publicity to these SEN
timents: as he is gone, but his influence
still lives, it is good that they should be
heralded throughout the land. From his
lonely, rain-Sodden, heat-Steamed camp
in the jungle. he wrote:
81 would to God that the truth of this
whole Philippine situation could be
known by every n in America as I
know it. If the real history, inspiration
and conditions of this instruction, n
the influences, local and external, that
now our the enemy, as we'll as the
actual possibilities of these islands and
peoples and their relations to this great
east, could be understood at home, we
would hear no more talk of unjust
shooting Of the Filipinos, or of hauling
down our flag in the Philippines. If the
so-called anti-imperialists would hon
estly ascertain the truth on the ground
and not in distant America, they, whom
l believe to be honest men n misin-
formed. would be convinced of the error
of their statements and conclusions and
of the unfortunate effect of their publi-
cations here. If l am shot by a Filipino
bullet it might as well come from one
of my own men, because I know from
observations, confirmed by captured
prisoners, that the continuance of fight
ing is chiefly due to reports that are sent
out from America"
Who can question the honesty of opin-
ion voiced by this fearless. noble SOL
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
SURPRISING SMALLPOX,

Though the health authorities have the
smallpox epidemic we'll in hand, and the
stamping out of the disease is
promised, the misdirected efforts of some
of our citizens are bearing legitimate
fruit. In a recent interview. DIR. C. X.
Cole, president of the Interstate Medi-
association, suggests the POSSIBLE
ity Of a state quarantine against Butte.
While the actual condition does not
warrant an extreme step of that kind, a
sentiment along that line has been cul-
tivated by residents of this city, who
have made wal on the efforts of the
health officers to suppress the disease.
Some have assumed that no cases of
smallpox actually existed, but that the
physicians We're cultivating a scare for
the harvest which they expected to reap
in the way of vaccinations. Not a few
have made wal on the policy of vaccina-
ton, and lone their utmost to encourage
resistance to that form of protection,
while others lave been equally Jealous
in opposing the exercise of quarantine
rights by the city.
With the knowledge that there ale a
antagonistic efforts referred to i'm
pressed outsiders with the belief that
proper steps to eradicate the disease
would not be taken. Hence, the talk
about issuing a state quarantine against
Butte. Had everybody cheerfully yielded
to the wisdom of the board of health,
and encouraged universal vaccination
and all necessary guarantees, the dis
ease would have disappeared long ago.
Instead of a lot of idle talk on the
| street and in the press about the hor-
| good citizen should have waived his pos
| sible rights under the constitution OF the
| United States, and contributed a sore
| arm to the public welfare, rather than a
i sore head to the misery of the people.
| Such a course would have checked the
disorder weeks ago.
Under the circumstances, the board of
| health has throttled the disease With
extreme difficulty, n it's present prom
Use of victory has been meritoriously
won by hare work. The disease has been
confined wholly to those who have not
been vaccinated, and will be kept within
that circle, in all probability. Only
through gross and unjustifiable careless
ness on the part of our citizens can
smallpox experience q revival in our
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

The Lawton Fund is growing, and
those who wish to subscribe before the
papers are called in, should lose no time
in doing so. The list will be kept as u
perpetual monument to the generosity
of the American public. in looking after
the widow and orphans of a brave officer
who devoted his time to the service of
his country. instead Of to money making.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

who had no seen each other for ten years
since their chool days.
Whom did you marry, Billy?" asked
one.
"A Miss Jones, of PHILADELPHIA re-
piled Billy, who was a trif1e sensitive.
"YOu always did take to the name of
Jones. l can remember when we went
to school together you used to tag
around after a little snubnosed Jones
girl
Il remember it, too,'' said Billy. She's
the girl l married. Companion.
There died last month"; says 1.-The
Chicago Tribune - "a man who had done
much to shake belief in the legend of
Jonah. William Simpson devoted his
lie to a study of the narrative, and wrote
a book to prove that the Biblical story
is due to an initiatory ceremony connect
ed with the religion of the Assyrian fish
god, who was akin to the Dagon of the
Philistines. Recent researches have
brought to life hundreds Of pieces of AS
syrian sculpture containing representa-
or protruding head and shoulders from
himself in fish skin was supposed to be
endowed with the attributes of the deity,
and after undergoing the rite the novice
was supposed to be born again. Simp-
son argued that in course of TINT, when
the fell into disuse and it's
meaning was forgotten, the incidents of
the rite We're developed into the miracu-
lous story"
Tina a is guilty; didn't you notice
how his eyes shifted around ?"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A new advertising scheme was recently
employed by a firm in a southern city.
The Junior partner of the firm sWore out
a warrant for the arrest of the senior
partner on the ground that he was SELL
ing goods below cost, and that the firm
was constantly losing money thereby.
The case came uD in court, and the
counsel for the senior partner asked for
a postponement in order to have more
time to prepare his case. The judge
granted the request, bail was liked, and
the senior member released. AS he left
the courtroom the Junior partner arose
and exclaimed, eff he is released the
sacrifice will go on!'
The news spread and the firm did a
better business.
plaintiff appeared and the charge was
dismissed. The firm had succeeded in
their Observation-Disclosures
An Early. Rescue.-"Yes, lady said
Weary Walker, Il was rescued from drink
in me early youth be me dear ole mother,
an' I had fell pretty low, too
"Here's a quarter for you, poor man.
Tell me more about it,
Tanks. Oh, they amt no more ter
ted. When de ole lady heerd me yellin'
from de bottom O. de we'll she jist yank-
ed me out. Goodby, kline lady.'-Cath-
Ollie Standard and Times.
"Collier's Weekly says hat when Lord
=Charles Beresford was a boy of thirteen
his father told him that he must make
choice of a profession.
What is it to be, my fboy-the army.
the navy or the church,"
"The navy sir"
Sand why the navy boy?'
"'Cause I'd like to be an admiral, like
Nelson"
"Pshaw, Like Nelson. Why Nelson7"
"'Cause I want to-"
"Rut even if you We're to join the navy,
! why do you think you will ever become
an admiral, Charlie?"
"'Caus I mean to-" was the blunt re-
ply. He had his wish and entered the
navy.
La.- ..A.il
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

There are many Joneses in this world.
but perhaps not quite so many as people
think. Not long ago two friends met
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

THAT man is guilty; didn't you notice
how his eyes shifted around?"
How about the other man?"
"Oh. he's guilty, too; didn't you see
how boldly and steadfastly he stared at
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-06
AROUND THE MILLS.

The Iverson mill viii be moved to point
above Snohomish in the near future.
At least one. and probably two. big saw
mills will be built in Port Angeles next
spring.
The Mcyay single mill at Ballard start
ed up last Monday after a two-months'
shut down.
The Hastings Mil Company win soon be-
gin the construction Of new shingle mill
at Silver Beach
Iamonts shingie mill a, Wiser lake.
which was destroyed by IRE a short time
ago, is to be rebuilt.
Ferguson g. Tasior's shingle mill at
Blaine, capacity 10000 daily. has SO far
run steadily this winter.
The Seattle g. International is building a
spur ut Halier to accommodate the Lincoln
Single Company and all the other mills
there.
One day last week the F'iiion e. Darby
shingie mill turned out 1900 shingles. This
il the largest cut ever made on a hand ma
chine in Clallam county. George Dippold
was the sawyer.
The big Mason County Logging Company
just organized and which has been grant
ed dumping facilities in Olympia, Is al
ready about TO construct four niles o.
standard gauge railroad from Black Hills
TO Little Rock.
Frank Borden. knot sawyer employed
al one of the Fairhaven shingie mills, re-
Gently lost the tops OF two fingers of the
left hand while at work. One by one the
shingie weayers are becoming the victims
OF the knot saws.
Lake Whatcom will experience quite a
boom in the shingie business next year.
There are three mills on the lake at present.
and the construction OF a new mill will be
under way at the beginning of the new
year. The shingle mills there at present
are: Jerns MILL daily capacity. 5000: J.
A. Cooks, daily capacity 3Goo0: Geneva
Mil Company. 90; new mill TO be built
by the Hastings Mil Company, so. go The
daily output OF all the mills On the lake
VIII be over 10000.
The Sfimson NH Company, at Ballard.
is having automatic fire cxtinguishing APP
a number OF pipeg SO arranged that the
pipes will easily melt and SET free Eausd
spray that will extingussh any fire within
its range. These meitabie connections are
made at every few feet throughout the
mill. and with each IS connected an alarm
which enables the watch in case Of fire 10
locate the exact spot where IL occurs.
J. A Cook. the well known Lake What
com shingls manufacturer. reports extens-
I've improvements being made in his rnlil
IF the lake. The entire mali Is being over
hauled and new machinery put In. The
mill when finished VIII have a capacity of
About seyeuty-five men will bs emp,s,vesf
by the rnsi. counting those cutting bolts
and working n the mill. The Geneva mill
will he enlarged and the daily output In
creased from 5o.apo per day to about 80 e,s
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