The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-20
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faster than it is being carted away.
For the moment the street cleaning de-
partment is helpless, but as soon as the
storm king retires, the work must be
pushed with all of the vigor and ability
that money can command. To prop
erly remove the snow throughout the
entire city would cost over a million
dollars. Think of that item and you
gain some conception of the magnitude
of the city and the tremendous respon-
sibility which rests upon the party in
power.
There is suffering in New York to
day. Men, women and children, faint
ing in the struggle for existence, are
unable to do battle with SO cruel an
antagonist. While the palaces are filled
with music and laughter the novels are
entertaining the unbidden guest who
comes to lure their loved ones to the
other shore. There is glory in the
storm as a spectacle, but it brings pain
and suffering to thousands. 1t is bring
ing death to jewellers on the land and to
toilers Of the sea. Its picture Of suffer
ing is more terrible than it's magic dec
orations of Brooklyn bridge are awe
inspiring and grand.
Elect United States senators by d.
rect vote of the people. The cry is go
HiS up lTOIil ali SECTIONS ol the country.
The issue is taking form. The people
are awakening to the fact that their
surrender of the franchise to DOODLE
grabbing legislatures is placing the
highest law-making body of the land
under the absolute control of political
criminals.
Catching the popular pulse. the New
York Journal has swung into line for
the reform
Nf 1,o1
toon which eloquently depicted the evils
of the present system. While some of
its details are erroneous, the cartoon in
the main is worthy of a place in every
home in the nation, showing as it does
the littleness and pusilanimity of men
who, through their vast fortunes, are
creeping into seats once occupied by
the Websters, the Clays, the Summers
and the Calhouns.
Conservative citizens who have stub
bornly opposed further constitutional
amendment are breaking away from
their prejudices and demanding a
change.
The object lessons of the present year
have brought to their senses those who
have honestly opposed the amendment.
They see how far the nation has drifted
from the safe mornings of honesty and
fidelity. They are compelled to admit
that while the present system was adj
mirable when the young republic was
fired with the noble aspirations of an
unpolluted political community, it is
utterly unfit for the present day of
money worshipping surserviency
The most unyielding opponents of
constitutional amendment must see the
need of reform in senatorial elections.
If this, Is to be a government of the
people, then surely the most important
legiSla tive BODY should not he the pro-
duct of bargain and sale. 1t should not
represent bribery, duplicity, poltroon-
cry and base degeneracy. 1t should not
be composed of men whose states would
scorn and repudiate them at the polls.
The chief qualification of it's members
should be brains and not money.
No nation whose government is
placed in the hands of constituencies
gold hoarders can live. The fnstitu-
lions of liberty are founded upon JUS
tice, not upon dishonesty and low cum
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