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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Everywhere the Same.

n NIB law knows no boundaries
MI which the geography furnishes.
The North has been taking on
terribly about recent outbreaks in the
South. Nowhere has lynch law found
seVerer critics than those which New
England furnishes; and nowhere in
New England is the outcry against Gin
terfering with the courts" louder than
in Maine.
Is it different when they appeal to
mob law in Maine itself? Last week, a
little town called Levant, down in
Maine-as they say in Boston-furnish-
ed an Illustration of the fact that New
England's north corner can be as for
getful of the majesty of the law as
rural Georgia can be. In this town of
Levant they didn't happen to like the
doings of a preacher who was holding
meetings there. The Levant mob didn't
go so far as to burn at the stake the
man marked for its displeasure, nor
was the offender hanged to a tree; he
was tarred and feathered and the Le-
want mob rode him on a rail. But the
Maine mob was punished with really
greater relative severity than was the
fact in the case of the man recently
lynched in Georgia. assuming that this
latter victim was guilty of the heinous
crime charged against him.
The man Higgins, with whom the
Maine mob dealt, is a lay preacher. He
became a member of the Levant COM
munity several years ago. He has lately
taken up the doctrine of sanctification
and holiness and has been conducting
meetings of such fervor that the mob
believed he had driven some women
practically insane on religion and that
his doctrines had interfered with their
family duties. The preacher was hauled
out of the house of a farmer, where he
was holding a meeting and where his
converts went on with their singing and
exhortation until their leader came
back some hours later with his coating
of tar and feathers. Higgins was warn
ed to leave the town on pain of getting
worse, but he says he has no intention
of going or of stopping his exhortations,
so that the trouble may break out
again.
This was simply an outbreak against
something which this neighborhood in
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1899
TWELVE PAGES,
An Inquiry Opposed.

II COMPANY of retained attor-
n neys has made the discovery
that the supreme court is one
OF the places where cognizance
should not be taken of the
charges made against J. B. Welcome
these charges are an accusation that
he handled money with which he pro-
posed to purchase for Clark the votes
of several well-known members of the
legislature.
The attorneys for Mr.. Welcome de-
mur The charges brought against him
are notorious-every intelligent citizen
in Montana knows about them. They
are heavy, harsh charges, and terrible
If true. Resting under them, Mr. Well
come himself has never proposed that
they be inquired into and, now that
they have been brought to the atten-
ton of Montana's highest tribunal, the
effort made by his attorneys is to pre-
vent an inquiry into the integrity of
what has been charged against him.
1t is not for the Standard to say
what course Mr.. Welcome ought to
ever, that, if charges that have been
given the widest publicity are untrue,
Mr.. Welcome is the one man who must
necessarily get the bulk of the benefit
out of an inquiry, honestly conducted,
that would expose their dishonesty
they are villainy itself If they are not
true.
But, were Mr. Welcome himself in
different, the fact remains that the
matters involved in the proposed in
quiry are of direct interest to a large
public. They do not deal with a pri-
vate transaction; they relate directly to
affairs of state. Some time ago. the
preliminary steps We're taken, looking
ito an investigation into these charges
associated with Mr.. Welcomes name.
The first step was an appearance be-
fore the supreme court yesterday. On
behalf of Mr.. Welcome, the request
was that the proceeding be dismissed,
in short, the claim set up is that the
supreme court has no jurisdiction in
dhe affair. There the matter rests,
awaiting the decision of the supreme
court on the point raised yesterday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

Maine didn't fancy, in the way of
preaching. In this instance, apparently,
the preacher was entirely within his
rights, yet Levant will be prepared with
a special plea in defense of it's conduct,
ways ready with an excuse for theirs.
Human nature is just about the same,
up in Maine or down in Georgia. It's a
fair presumption that if the Levant
case had been one of horrible assault
on women, among the men who gave
Higgins his coat of tar and feathers
some excited individual would have APP
piled the torch.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

trust in the land. but depends upon
money contributions from them to buy
his election. This removes all suspicion
that the action of the Ohio convention
was designed to be a Joke, and clothes
it in all the seriousness of confidence
game
Mr.. Hanna is against the trusts, of
course, yet in the senate he has secured
an Endorsement for his infamous ship
subsidy bill which contemplates an
ocean transportation trust, backed by
the United States treasury. Mr.. For
aker is against the trusts, OF course,
vet. in the federal senate he is the
father and chief promoter of what is
known as the Foraker pooling bill, de-
signed to create a gigantic railroad
trust as big as all other trusts COM
bined, except the money trust for which
Mckinley, Hanna and Foraker all pull
together.
Those who are seeking to dodge the
silver issue can make an issue out OF
the trusts, for next years presidential
election, if it be possible that there can
be such thing in logic or politics as an
issue that has only one side.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
In a Line or Two.


Seven hundred ana civ cot. wera or.
hibited at tha recent cot show in The
CRYSTAL Palace Iondo,
The trained horse shau,d ba ridden with
both reins enualIv ana The unframed
horse onlv with tba srof1a
CITY are without glass A sinai, light 10
xt2 inches. readily brings 81
An electric doormat has been invented
which RINGS halI a. .oop .s anvnne
the doors omen.
1t has been demonstrated that the voices
of women prompters are more distinct on
the stage and are less audible in the audit
In Austria at the present day the pub
lie executioner wear. A pair OF new white
gloves every time he il called upon to
carry out capital sentence.
Piscatorial authorities say that. were II
not for the natural enemies of fish. the
Goldfish would fill all the available space in
the seas. rivers and oceans
Extensive coal beds have been discoy-
cred in Russia. near I,odz. Brown coal has
from IS to 40 feet below the surface.
Germany does not propose to be left be-
hind in the realm of gold discovery. and
auriferous sand has been discovered in
Hanover which Yields 20 grains to the Ton
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Making a Farce of 1t.

IT LREADY, enough has happened
1 to show that the republican effort
is to make the trusts mockary
rather than an issue, in the election of
] 1900. Early in the day certain demo-
Gratis who professed to speak for the
party made ostentatious announcement
of the fact that the democratic slogan
for next year shall be opposition to the
trusts.
The other fellows were ready enough
to take the wind out Of that sail-the
republican bosses FASTENED to announce
that their state and national conven-
tions will yield to no party in the Unit
ed States in the vigor of the denuncia-
fion of the trusts. These republicans
went right at it, under Mr.. Hanna's
personal supervision the recent Ohio
republican convention framed into its
platform an antitrust plank, and this
was done with as great showing of
earnestness as if these republicans We're
candid in their criticism of the trusts
On this proposition Hanna Foraker
Mckinley, the factions, the rivals-all
pulled together in the Ohio convention.
The delegates denounced trusts as ''un-
lawful combinations" they congratu-
lated the republican party in Ohio for
having put an antitrust law upon the
statute books, they demanded the en-
forcement of the law and then they
turned down the present attorney gen
eral Of the state because he attempted
10 enforce the law.
The fact is that President Mckinley,
under whose administration the trust
boom developed. and who has used the
power of the government in every way
to foster all the trusts, not only ex-
poets the continued support of every
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
And Norman KNOWS.

Henry Norman, the London correspond
ent of the New York Times says of Es-
terhazy that his dismissal from the army
involved the loss of his pension of 5000
francs a year, and that he refrained for
so long from confessng to writing the
bordereaus in the. hope that his pension
might be grantedWto him again as the
price of his silence. Nevertheless he re-
fused an offer for the confession of an
annuity which would have paid him 5000
francs year for life. 81 made him this
offer myself" says Mr.. Norman, $50 l
know
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Current Comment
Other Uses for 1t.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
At an Eastern society wedding the 8
year-old cousin of the bride, while tod
ding down the aisle behind the blushing
leading lady of the occasion, suddenly
lost her nerve and broke out in sore la
mentations. She was carried out as
quickly as possible, but the reverberations
of her penetrating voice fingered long
amid the pillars and the echong chancel.
Probably when the slippers were thrown
the mother of the infantile squaIler had
other business for hers
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Deserved what She Got.

From the Washington Star.
After the report that Anna Gould pa
raded in front of the grand stand as a
royalist leader, there must be a certain
suspicion that a great deal of sympathy
has been wasted on her and that it serves
her right to have a husband like Castel-
lane
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Probably She Does,

From the Chicago Record.
When it comes down to facts, the girl
graduate probably does know more about
the science of government than many
persons of the masculine gender who
pose as statesmen.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
What Paris Needs.

From the San Francisco Call.
Paris should consult some authority on
nerves, With its Dreyfus, Marchand and
a dozen other nerve exciters the great
city seems to be bearing the burden of a
serious siege of national hysteria.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

New York Ofice-4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, Sol
Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-1,4l5 G St, N. W.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The grocers who are organizing a whis-
key. company to compete with the whiskey
trust propose to fight the devil with fire
water.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
More to Come.

From the Detroit Tribune.
The worst of the Dreyfus case is to
come. NJ. lola is being inspired to write
a novel about it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Mfssou1a and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on sp-
picaton.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
They'll stick.

From the st. Paul Globe.
The cold truth might as well be known
first as last. Neither Mark Hanna nor
Secretary Alger proposes to resign.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
A Toborpan Slide.

From the l.. A. w. Bulletin.
Many man who boasts Of his descent
from William the Conqueror shows what
a steep descent 1t has been.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
It's NotaThat EASY,

From the Baltimore News.
The report that Mr.. Cleveland had been
put off a farm for poaching is denied. 1t
takes more than a mere rumor to put him
off farm.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
Tobacco Chewing Expensive.

From the Chicago Tribune.
In Kentucky the grassnoppers are said
to be eating up the tobacco crop. To-
bacco chewing is an expensive habit
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
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advertisers bona fide paid circulation,
/ Daily and Sunday, three times greater
ethan that of any other newspaper pub
slished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
enng contracts will be made subject to this
guarantee
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Will be paid for the arrest and conviction
o. any person caught stealing the Stand
ard from subscribers.
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A efinition.-Johnny-P what is
plutocrat?
Papa-A man who has as much
money as I'd like to have.-Puck.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

new system Of advertising is in vogue
In San Francisco. A poultry dealer has
an intelligent rooster, which parades up
and down the street before the market
with his owners business card displayed
in his bill, and commands attention by
frequent growing.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

~ ND now comes the word, through
the Washington Post, that the
] Hon. Thomas B. Reed will not
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

Wife (earnestly)-G dear, 1
have prayed SO fervently of late for
tailor-made gown, that feel it would
be flying in the face of Providence not
to go and get measured at once
Brooklyn Life. Na
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

Seven hundred and six cats were ex-
ninited at the recent cat show in the
Crystal Palace, London.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

II COMPANY of retained attor-
neys has made the discovery
that the supreme court is one
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

- N every occasion that calls for
bit of poetry to commemor-
ate the event, England's laur-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

Experiments made by G. Lloyd Morgan
prove that chicks have no instructive
knowledge of food. A young chick was
twice deceived by a piece of orange peel
After this he could not be induced to
touch it, and for time refused the yolk
of egg.
The age-herald., 1899-03-28

gether with her probable absorption of the better parts of Austria, gives her secure hold upon power in the next century. Sea power and colonies and insular isolation render England secure. Bulk and popula- ton give Russia strength. and growth and isolation render the United States invinei- ble
 The indications are that Italy, France and Austria will materially lose ground during the coming century; will, in fact, sink to the second rank; and there is no possibility of the rise of any European na- tion to the first rank, or of any other na- ton. Japan lost her chance when she had to give up foothold on the mainland of Asia, and no other people in the world have any chance to rise even during century to the highest rank in the world.
 It is, in other words, settled that during the twentieth century the world will prac- tieally be dominated by the four countries Russia, Germany, England and the United States. Three of these, it will be noticed, dI6 UT COIiIlOn dHu TtCSs 1hiSo dAS Anglo-Saxon nations; one Is Sclavic. In the long run, then, the Sclav and the An glo-Saxon are to fight 1t out. The one or the other will yet rule the world. If intel ligence counts for anything 1t will not, as things now look, be the Sclav; but if the Russians gain China 1t may be that the barbarians relatively speaking will again overrun and dominate the world. Roman history does some way have knack of repeating itself.
The age-herald., 1899-03-28
The Fighting About Manila.

The Pasig river Is the waterway, about eight miles long, between Manila on Ma nila bay, and Pasig on the Laguna de Bay The fighting is to the left of the Pasg river, as one looks toward the interior lagoon On the right of the Pasig river not moving in an aggressive manner. He is watching the South Luzon insurgents.
 On the left General Otis has about 14OOO men moving effectively and rapidly Gen. eral McArthur commands one of the divis- ions. and his capture of Noraliches and Polo at first indicated that he had cut the insurgents into two parts, and that one part would be crushed and captured be- tween Wheaton's force and McArthur's; but later advices go to show that Malabon and Caloocan have been burned and de- serted, and that the Aguinadoites have escaped northward, and will make a stand at Malolos. Malolos is near the shore of Manila bay, twenty-five miles north of Ma nila. The intervening country Is difficult because 1t Is bisected by waterways, and is practically a big rice field
 Agulnaldo has diligently built defeaces about Malolos, and the Filipinos display more tenaeity and staying powers as they are driven towards those ,defenees. Mo- Arthur. at the head of three brigades, is rapidly moving upon Malolos, and the nature of the resistance that Aguinaldo can make will soon be known. one-hak of the distance between Manila and Malolos has been traversed by McArthur. and his appearance before the latter city can only be delayed by Filipino successes or stub bornness Maloos Is due to fall in about two days.
The age-herald., 1899-03-28
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
The Real Size of the Boom.
Editor.

carefully conducted investigation, free from partisan influences, has just been made by Bradstreet's, and it finds that ad vanced wages have largely been confined to two industries that of iron and steel and its allied trades, and that of cotton manufacturing The increase of wages in the latter is confined to New England and the middle states, and it simply restores the wages that were paid up to about two years ago. No increase of wages in the southern mills has taken place. The in- creases in the eastern mills help about 100000 people.
 The sliding scale in operation in the iron and steel industry is much more important The rise in wages in this great industry has been continually going on since the in- coming of the present year. The advance in wages ranges from ten to twenty-five per cent, and Bradstreet's estimates that 100000 people have been benefited by the movement. In most places, however, wages are held down by the low rates at
 
 of the present year were made.
 This makes 3OO,O0O people who are receiv- ing higher wages, and careful cautions Bradstreet's adds 100000 more people who are being benefited in furniture and wood working trades, in clothing manufactur- ing, cigar-makng, silk weaving, wagon building and implement making not by in creases in wages, for none have taken place, but by longer times of work or in creased opportunities of work In all 5OO,- co people, in the opinion of Bradstreet's have been benefited by the upward move- ment.
 If one were to judge from the reports printed in administrat ton high-tariff jour nals, he would conclude that at least five millions of people had been benefited by wage increases, but the naked truth is good enough and promising enough, and that is beyond doubt presented in the con servative statements of trustworthy Brad streets.
The age-herald., 1899-03-28
THOMAS JEFFERsoa's EATING

From the N Y. Evening Journal.
 There is much nonsense in the air about a ten-dollar and a one-dollar dinner-var- ious wise ones are telling what Jefferson would do, would eat, would drink, would say.
 It seems to be a lot of fuss about nothing.
 Jefferson, like the rest of creation, all ways ate the best things he could get, pro vided they agreed with him. His house was kept In good shape, with good food and good wines. He spent money as freely as he could reasonably afford. He travelled in his private carriage and generally acted in sensible sort of way.
 He had the decency to wish for better ment in the condition of others-he lacked the hypocrisy which pretends to deprive itself and suffer because others have not enough
 One dollar a head as things go at pres ent, is not enough for a public dinner. It does not permit of paying the union rate to walters, the usual rent for hall, the usual price of good and sufficient food and the usual profit to the caterer.
 Of course one dollar ought to buy din- ner good enough for any one since the average man must work all day to earn dollar, and his family must live on it. breakfast, dinner and supper included.
 But pretense is always a bad thing, and if a dollar IS too little there is no use pre- tending that 1t is enough.
 If MT. Bryan eats the one-dollar dinner he will not eat as good dinner as he usually eats at home
 It will be a skinny pretense, not sub stantial or solid, and it will be a good deal of humbug.
 Ten dollars per head is too much.
 It is foolish extravaganza, probably far worse in it's way than the affectation of one-dollar simplicity.
 Were Jefferson here he would probably laugh at both dinners, stay at home and dine with Mrs. J.
The age-herald., 1899-03-28
More Houses Are Wanted.

Not even in the boom days were houses scarcer in this city than they are today. The city is overcrowded, and capitalists should begin to see that the pressure has just begun; for the expansion of the iron and steel and mining industries is only way-that is, factories which turn out heavy castings; and very soon factories that consume steel will be located here, and the pressure for houses will be correspond ingly increased When 1t is remembered that this Is becoming the iron and steel country of the world and that the Ala bama district is expected to furnish the larger portion of export iron and steel as soon as the Warrior river Is opened, it will readily be seen that houses in Birmingham, the sole central town of the mineral dis trict, cannot well prove poor investment.
 Fully one thousand houses are needed in this city, and these should be built by Christmas time. Five hundred houses will be erected this season at Ensley, and per-
 
 burbs of this city; but these will not obvl- ate the need of one thousand houses in this city. The scarcity of houses here Is unprecedented, and the crowdng process cannot be carried much farther. Relief can only be had In the building of houses. One thousand vacant lots should become the seats of homes before Christmas if all com CTS are to be comfortably accommodated. Rents are high enough now. There is no reason why they should be higher. There is every reason why houses should be built to meet the demand. The present scarcity of houses means that people will be eom- pelled to go to the suburbs, and even they are filled to overfiowing. There are prac- tically no vacant houses-none that arc habitable-in Jones valley.