The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-02

r. it seems to us, the people who
will say that Memorial day and
the Custer field are not the TIME
and place for eloquent denunciation of
bribery are few-not many" as the
Inter Mountain intimated yesterday.
Indeed, one who looks at the matter
from the right standpoint would say
that this matter of the bribing of men,
bers of the legislature furnished a
theme peculiarly appropriate, when ac
count is taken of the place and time
scathing denunciation of bribers and of
bribery. Militarism, the administrators
satrapy in Cuba, the trusts, the much
discussed English American alliance,
issues involving national integrity, the
question of the country's trade rela-
tons, labor interests-these and other
items furnished themes for some of the
most noteworthy of this weeks Memo
rial-day addresses.
Surely, there is no subject that more
intimately concerns the public welfare
in Montana than the one for which, in
the Clark senatorial purchase, theme
is found by Montana orators; and this
especially in view of the fact that
Memorial day was the first opportunity
since the adjournment of the legisla-
ture when, in Montana communities,
the people have been gathered together
for participation in the observance Of a
national holiday.
is solid philosophy in the declaration of
the ancient sage that there is a time
for all things That is we'll enough;
but all the sages--the ancient sages and
the modern sages-agree that, in the
hearing of free people, it is always
timely to denounce the arch crime of
bribery and the corruption of the votes
of citizens. ThefwaTnings against this
crime should be sounded in season and
out of season-rather, gthe warning. is
never out of season.
One is left tosFguess when, in the
the Inter Mountains opinion, for the
| denunciation of bribery. That newspa-
per, in certain sort of way, was re
sponsible, for legislative triplets in the
session. that, sold ssout to Clark. If,
when men Were. openly and publicly
accused of bribery--if then the Inter
Mountain praised its so-called silver
republican contingent for going over to
| Clark, we do not remember it; If, on
the other hand the Inter Mountain, in
those eventful days, held bribe-givers
and ribe-takers up to public condem-
nation, we have forgotten about it.
In Helena, while the Clark purchase
was going on, Colonel Sanders de-
nounced the bribe-givers and the bribe-
takers right to their faces. The repub-
licans in the legislature who were
openly charged with having sold their
votes to Clark never made any de-
malls to Colonel Sanders or to anybody
else, that ever we have heard of.
AS we view it, there is altogether toe
much nicely in this plan of the Inter
Mountains for picking. out the partic.
ular time for the denunciation of brib-
cry. The charges against w. A. Clark
are widespread enough: it is only a
few weeks ago that the Inter Mountain
itself said that w. A. Clark would bet
ter come back to Montana and dea
with them. That being true, can yor
think of any holiday in the American
citizens calendar, or any public occa.
sion that brings American citizens to-
gether, or any meeting in church o.
hall, or any assembling of pioneers OIL
soldiers or civilians-can you think Of
one of these at which the denunciatior
of the crime of bribery is out of place