Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-30
VINO IS MAD?

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Because the Inter Mountain has re-
fused to fly to the support of Aguinaldo
and the cause he represents, and turn
traitor to the interests of our republic
when engaged in war. it is warmly &C
cused of having gone administration
mad" The Butte Miner. whose propri-
etor pretends to believe in the justice of
the federal contention, but whose editor
keeps the dagger of criticism drawn for
every movement which the adn1inistra-
ton may see fit to make in the conduct
of the war, has this to offer:
The Inter Mountain seems to have gone
administration mad. Not satisfied with
having gone over to the former love and
swallowed all the political tenets of the
party it was fighting three years ago,
including it's financial policy, the Inter
Mountain feels that it is necessary as an
evidence Of good faith to defend all the
mistakes that nave been made in the
conduct of the Philippine war.
In reply to the foregoing it is only
necessary to say chat whenever the
Miner submits the proof that any mistake
Of serious import has been made hy the
administrat ton. in the course that has
been pursued in the Philippines, the Inter
Mountain will freely admit the force Of
it's claims. 50 far. however, the Miner,
in common With the bourbon press gem
orally, has INDUCED il nothing but criti.
cism and abuse Of the president and his
ara, 11-ifln,,t ~ ,,.;,, ~ .s,,, r,ir,+jJ1nM az
evidence in support of its statements.
Like a mud turtle on its back, the Miner
has paved and clawed the air, all to no
purpose.
The fact that every battle in he Phil
ippines has resulted in a complete and
overwhelming victory for the American
troops is lost sight of in angry Jenuncia-
tions Of the president, because. first, we
are engaged in a war which no one but
Aguinaldo himself could have averted:
second, because the soldiers were nos
Immediately withdrawn after the flag
had been fred on; third, because the vol
unteers We're not sent home at a time
when their leave-taking would have
resulted disastrously to the American
cause: fourth, because a large standing
army is a step toward imperialism;
fifth, because more soldiers We're not sent
to the Philippines, regardless of the size
of the army; sixth, because the federal
troops treated the natives cruelty and
destroyed their lives and property: sew
enth, because the own captured We're
not destroyed, together With the grain
fields, thus cutting the insurgents of
from their base of supplies; eighth-but
why continue?
There has been one constant round OF
troops to remain in the Philippines, be.
cause he did not send more, because the
army was too big. because it was not biz
enough, because the natives were slaugh,
tered, because they We're not slaughtered
, because their property was dstroyed, be.
, cause it was not destroyed-and so on
ad infnitum ad nauseum. In refusing
to recognize such clap-trap as argument
the Inter Mountain is accused OF DelnE
administration mad"
The Miner even goes so far as to &C
cuse his paper of endorsing the finaS
cial policy of the administration, when
in fact, no newspaper in the state ha
done more to keep the free coinage issu
before the people. The democratic or
gans, one and all, have been trying 70
months to let go the silver question, il
order to effect a union W the east
, ern and western wings of that party, pre-
paratory to a solid front in the campaig
of 1900. Were it not Tor the agitatio.
u kept up by the Inter Mountain the silve
issue would nave been allowed to dro
) into complete obscurity in Montana. Thi
: paper has exposed the hypocrisy of tn
c democratic press as to that issue. and
e entitled to the approval of silver men fc
u so doing.