Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-29

Now, what I want to ask you IL 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 nave 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 1t to do bust.
ness" @#
Then came the burst of eloquence That
stirred the audience and caused half fthe
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 h mod
ern nations of the culture of those early
days, days that are partly 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 on to the
waves of migration that swept over Eu-
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
growth of the country, he building OF
wonderful institutions, the inventions
due to the discovery of the latent power
in steam and electricity. the growth OF
commerce-in short, the story OF the iron
age. as exemplitied on the American con
tinent. a story which the speaker cons
pared to the work of genii in response -
the instructions of the possessor of an
Aladdin's lamp.
Coming to the state of Montana. he
declared hat 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 inhabitant.
of a mining country: they wanted to de-
velop their other unlimited
Their acquisition of the Philippines anc
Porto Rico would give this country a
| 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.
For this reason he begged his audi
ence to pay no attention to the sophist!-
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 would fade
into insignificance.
IF we bring upon us the whitening
blight of the democratic administration
again." he declared in impassioned ac-
cents. we will bring down upon our
heads the just maledictions of posterity,
Everybody in this world establishes his
standard of himself. No man can write
you down; no man can talk you down:
you stand or you fall by the gauge of
morality and decency and integrity that
you set up for yourself.
IF you are con%scientiously right, il
you enjoy your w self-respect, the
shafts of malice will fall powerless al
your feet and the tongue Of SANDER will