Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-23
RACE %PEEJUDlCES.

rests the responsibility of trying to re-
vive racial and religious p%rejudices in
this community. There was a time when.
to the. regret of all good citizens of every
nationality and every creed, such preju-
dices were permitted to project them
selves into. the affairs of this city. Hap
PLY that time passed away with all its
attendant dangers to the we'll being Of
our people, and the equilibrium of the
community was regained in the sober
SECOND thought of fair minded men OF
every type.
The spirit of liberality and good fellow
ship ]broadened into every walk of life,
bringing to our business and political in
terests brighter hopes for a better day.
Men began to understand each other bet
ter, and to realize that all had in view
the uphuilding of the common interests
of a progressive community. By univer-
sal consent Cle narrow pIeJuultCo lIoC
had grown into prominence among con-
tending factions were permitted to fade
into n~othingness and be buried in the
graveyard of a mistaken past.
Since then no token of a revival of
those brief, unhappy days of the past has
found it's way into the heated forum of
| political. life. Men have been measured
| by their merits, and no political organiza-
| ton has Invited the opprobrium of the
! community by seeking to make an issue
! of a mans birthplace or his creed. 1t has
been reserved for the Anaconda Stand
ard, snarling and swapping like a beast at
bay in the corner into which it has been
driven by it's own political indiscretions,
Ito seek to resurrect the prejudices of the
past, and inflict upon this community the
turmoil and distrust and personal enmi-
ties that at one time threatened to eclipse
the glorious future that was in store for
Butte.
Apparently unable to conduct it's city
campaign on the issue of good govern
ment the Standard has sought to inject
into the contest a dozen eXtraneous ques-
tons that bear no relevancy whatever to
| the vital points in issue. Wednesday it's
leading editorial was a carefully planned
attempt to arouse in this city all the veno-
nous and dangerous prejudices that can
be forced to grow n7the poisonous soil OF
racial hate. With an ssumed premise it
built up it's ~disreputable rookery of plati-
tudes, and like a journalistic Iago sought
Ito arouse unfounded prejudices in this
community. Indifferent to the results Of
such a course, it pleaded for a speedy res
direction of racial hatred in the city
| of Butte. With the adroitness of the dew
il in Faust it gambled in phrases we'll call
culated to deceive, and like his satanic
majesty hoped to mature a majestic
wreck on the seductive bouquets Of
speech.
Fortunately our people have learned to
understand the motives that actuate the
Standard, and have ceased to look for a
conscience where none can be found. They
know hat paper would hesitate at moth
ing that promised the consummatior of
it's political plans, and they look upon it's
dastard1y attempt to arouse the preju-
dices of race and creed as in keeping with
the malignant hatreds of it's political ca
reef.
1t is amazing that an ably edited, in
fuential and widely circulated journal,
like the Standard, will lend it's energies
to such an ignoble political end. Let it
be said to the credit of this city tina it's
attempt to turn neighbor against neigh
Dor, and destroy the social harmony Of
the commonwealth, has been laid away
with it's other colossal political failures.
CRIMES CARNIVAL.