Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

different states. Mr.. Bryan had proposed
that inspectors be kept at the boundary
lines of every state and that all trains
passing from one state into another should
be stopped and examined to see If they
were carrying as freight any goods nam
ufactured by trusts. This was an absurd
proposition, and would rot only retard
traffic to a marked extent, but would
interefer with the comforts and conve1l-
fence of passengers. 1t was not to be CON-
sidered for a minute. 1t would entirely
paraiyze the world of trade. =!
The only remedy would be a constitut-
tional amendment, and when such a
proposition had arisen the leader OF the
democratic party in the house a said:
IF we pass a constitutional amendment
now the effect will be to eliminate the
trust question from the campaign.
Now, are we going to do it? 1 hope
not" When Bryan was a member of the
house it was a peculiar thing that not
a word had been aid about trusts.
Il would have the critics turn to Sec
ton 321 of the Penal Code of the State
of Montana" said the senator, passed
in 1895 by a legislature overwhelmingly
republican-the most drastic antitrust
law on the statute books of any state
in this Union. Governor Richards signed,
IAdI UiLp dIIA dIlCi l Ill IL I0td
lions of politics passed out of the politi-
cal field as an ~officeholder. Republicans
were displaced in Office by democrats;
Now, what I want to ask you is this,
Have you ever heard of any democratic
attorney general or other prosecuting
officer in the state of Montana institut-
ing proceedings against any trust in this
state, when the plain law was there in
his favor? Until the laws we have are
executed, what is the need of enacting,
any more laws? The law is there, plain
and drastic-a law that will stop the OPP
Grafton of any trust in the state and
make it impossible for it to do bust
ness"
Then came the burst of eloquence that
stirred the audience and caused half the
men in the room to be on their feet
shouting and %hurrahing for the party;
and it's principles, the speaker and the.
candidates. Beginning with the migra-
ton of the Aryans from the barren
steppes of Central Asia in prehistoric.
times, Senator Carter traced them down
into the valley of the Euphrates, where
a wondrous civilization was built; across
the Nile into Egypt, where the pyra-
mids still remain to enlighten the mod
ern nations of the culture of those early
days, days that are partly hidden from
scientists and historians by the misty
veil of antiquity. which is waited aside
only in places to give us a glimpse of the
wonderland beyond; then or to the
waves of migration that swept over Eu-
1 rope and across the ocean channel into
Britain, and finally the coming Of the
Pilgrim fathers to America-the story Of
Plymouth Rock. ,'|>
In graphic language he pictured the
uroyvth nf tho on,prt~u tLo hpi11ire of
wonderful institutions, the inventions
due to the discovery of the latent power
in steam and electricity, heagrowth of
commerce-in short. the story of the iron
age, as ~exemplified on the American con-
tinent, a story which the speaker COM
pared to the work of genii in response to
the instruction Of the possessor of an
Aladdin's lamp.
Coming to the state of Montana, he
declared that the people of that state
had the natural advantages to take their
place as the residents of the greatest
state in the Union, a state more richly
endowed by nature than any other shell
tered by the Stars and Stripes. The peo-'
pie OF this country did not always de-
sire to be regarded as the inhabitants
OF a mining country; they wanted to &C.
velop their other unlimited resources.
l. ISA ia lax III
Porto Rico would give this country d.
market of which it had never dreamed
And the endless benefits which would
come in a commercial way by the ac-
QUESTION of this territory Montana would
share to better advantage than any Of
her sister states. 9l
For this reason he begged his audi
ence to pay no attention to the sophisti-
cal arguments of those who would lead
them away from the plain path of duty.
The election of Mckinley meant an era
of good times, in comparison with which
even the present good times world fade
into insigniicance. .s.
IF we bring upon us the whitening
blight of the democratic administration
again." he declared in impassioned ac-
cents, 1--WE will bring down upon U
heads the just maledictions of posterity.
Everybody in this world establishes his
standard of himself. No man can write
you down: no mar can talk you down,
you stand or you fall by the gauge Of
morality and decelscy and integrity that
you set up for yourself. .
"If you are conscientiously right, il
you enjoy your own self-respect, the
shafts of malice will fall powerless at
you feet and the tongue of SANDER will
be paralyzed in it's own hateful work.
Will the people of Silver Bow take the
moral aspect of this campaign into con.
sideration and give notice to the people
of the United States of the standard uf
morality prevailing in this "art of the
country? This rests with US. -Th. Nc
Kinley administration will succeed Itself
regardless of what we do. and we are
just as sure to receive the benedictions
of that administration. But as for us,
as we act so will we be judged.
LET every citizen remember that on
the 9Th day of next November the voting
booth is the altar where he must perform
the most sacred rite any man on earth
is permitted to perform; hat on tha
day n in hat booth he Is a king
among men. And let him remember that
he enjoys that privilege because on ten
thousand bloody battlefields patriotic