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

ASSuSS III NliS .SdiII pa IL
affects to believe that unless the Ameri-
can flag is hauled down in the Philips
pines and IL soldiers sent home in
disgrace. and it's friend and protege
Aguinaldo. permitted to set himseEf up
as a dictator, to rob n murder at will.
this republic will be doomed, its free in
situations destroyed. and all the splen-
did achievements in Dehalf of popuar self
government, of liberty and humanity. the
product of "a century and a quarter OF
the most enlightened civilization the
world has yet seen, will be swept away in
a selfish and despotic desire, on the part
OF somebody. for the splendor and tinsel
and glitter of empire.
To those who are familiar with the
history of our country these exaggerated
fears and unwarranted misgivings will
carry no %terrors. For they will recall
that the self-same arguments We're used
in every form and variety of expression
against Jefferson, Monroe. Jackson and
Polk. But perhaps they found their most
bitter and virulent expression in 1864,
when they were brought forward for the
purpose of enconppassins the defeat Of
that grandest of all republicans. Abra-
ham Lincoln. He. too, was accused by
this same democratic party of n oesire
to destroy his country, which he loved
better than life itself, and set himself up
as the emperor of an American empire,
to be erected on the ruins Of the republic.
No language was too brutal, no epithet
too vile, no motive too base or mean with
which to characterize that great simple
minded man. who gave his very life that
others might he free. An vet today his
same party which maligned him for life
and prosecuted him to his death, is de-
flaming his memory by using galoled
quotations from his patriotic speeches
In support of their present un-American
policy. And there are those among them
who malign his memoir by saying that
II he were alive he would be a democrat!
Lincoln. who signed the proclamation OF
emancipation which freed four million
slaves, belong to a party which today
Is doing all in it's power to undo the
great work Of his life by forcing back
into political serfdom those whom he lib
Grated! Never was a grctser insult of
feled to the life and deeds and teach-
ings Of a great man.
And then again in the campaign of 1868
when a proud and grateful people were
seeking to give expression to their love
and gratitude, by placing in the execu-
tive chair of the nation the great SOL
der, u. S. Grant, this same cry of inn
perialism and militarism and Caesarism.
was once more raised by the same party
IN the effort to accomplish his defeat.
And so today, in the same spirit and for
the same purpose, the democratic party
is once more resorting to the same wea~-
ons, in a dishonorable attempt to dis
tort the patriotic motives and tbs hui
name of the present .occllsant
or the executive chair, than whorc no
kindlier or gentler or truer spirit, ever
lived. But as their efforts to defeat the
martyr, Lincoln, and the soldier, Grant,
failed on this false and misleading cry
in the years gone by, so they will fail
again in the year OF our Lord 1900, to
defeat the generous man, the Christian
gentleman. the brave soldier, the states
maj and partiot, William Mckinley. And
they will fail, too, in defeating that
splendid specimen of courageous, deter
mined, independent American manhood
ana American citizenship. who so
Worthlly occupies a place on the ticket
beside him, Theodore Roosevelt.
THE TRUST QUESTION.
And then there is the trust question
about which we hear so much from our
democratic friends. 1t is agreed upon all.
sides that where combinations of capital
are formed for the purpose Of limiting
production, or Of enhancing the cost of
commodities to the consumers, or of re-
ducing wages of labor, they are a menace
to the pubic welfare and should, il pos
s1ble, be suppressed or controlled, All
parties have declared in their platforms
10 TINS effect. But l hope 1 shall be par
doned when l say that no intelligent, rea.
sonable man can give his endorsement to
the hystefical and unqualified denun-
cation of all combinations and all COR
porations without reference to the char
acter or purpose which our political on
ponents indulge in for the mere sake Of
catching the votes of the unthinking.
IN the present advanced stage of in-
dustrial developments large a~ggregations
Oh capital are absolutely essential, and
when confined to their legitimate func,
lions they are a beneficent factor in our
progress, for they set in motion great en-
terprlses which are beyond the capacity
OF the individual, which furnish employ-
ment to millions of wage earners
throughout the land. It is only when
they depart from their legitimate domain
and seek to invade the personal and no.
lltical rights of individuals and of the
community, that they become a public
menace and should be condemned. and If
possible dissolved.
Here in Montana we need corporate
capital to open up and develop our Won
derful resources. The farmers and
ranchmen, the merchants, the mechan-
les, the miners and prospectors, all want
1t to come, and we should invite it to
come, pledging it the full and equal pro-
lection OF just laws, as stated in our
state platform. But we shoul at the same
same let it be understood of all cor.
porations and millionaires, whether they
belong to Montana or elsewhere, and Of
whatever political tendency or associa-
ton, that they will not be permitted to.
control or dictate the nominations or he
policies of any political party. And
above all things, my friends, the people
OF this state should not permit Them
selves to be drawn into corporation quar-
rels through the medium of their politi-
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