Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-19

have faith in the permanence of our in
and our financial integrity. Our
debt Is funded at two per cent. per an
mum, and millions of our interest charge
annually. The world has never wit
messed 50 triumphant a financial success
as has followed the passage of the cur
rency Law, and our two per cent. bonds.
held the world over, already command a
h republican party and the wisdom
of a republican administration, we have
not only made stable and permanent our
financial credit, at home n abroad, are
utilizing more silver as money rnan ever
before In our history, but we have left
the populistic democracy a dead issue
they can never again g%alvanize into Life.
and compelled them to seek to create new
issues growing out of a war which they
were most eager to p~recipitate.
May J.. q western man, add another
word? The passage Of this bill which
the vote of every western re-
publican in congress, marked the ter.
animation, forever final. of any sort OF
difference between republicans OF the
east and of the west, growing out OF cur
rency problems. Even If the stern logic
of events had not convinced us, u deep
and abiding loyalty to the principles OF
the party, our belief that the Judgmens
of its majority should govern, would ieao
us 10 abandon further contention. Ano
the Thousands of republicans in the west
who lat us four years ago are returning
home. The men of the far west are bone
of your bone, and flesh of your flesh. Inc
sun that shine on you blesses tneHl also,
and the shadow before your door oarkens
their homes as well. They are naturaly
expansfonists in the western plains n
mountains, and when they see a greae
political party attacking the integrity Oh
the nation, and lending
to insurrectionistS who are snootlle uoMn
orr soldiers and resisting the autno!l.s
Of the government of the United STATES
81, other iuestions fail n are forgot
ten. and they find themselves stanoahs
shoulder to shoulder in the OIL .ne
renuhIican party, keeping step, Always
ITO the music of the Union"
There is more to follow TINS suilllia1s
of a few of the leading measures pa ased
nv q republican ongress and approveo
Nv q. republican president. Before the eA-
n;ratinn of Mr.. McKinley's first term, we
shall have passed a law relieving certain
oytic,es from a portion at least on the
burdens they now carry because OF lhe
war revenue act, and W.
have, out of surplus revenues al.eau'
paid and called in for cancellation forty
three millions of outstanding bonos. Ihe
co.n;ng winter will see enacted into law,
legislation which shall revivify ana up,
h,ild our American ocean marine, anu
enable MS to compete on fair terms wrn
the subsidized ships of foreign NATIONS
which now so largely monopolize 'lie
carriage Of American goods. AND ABOVE
all. we shall, having then before us the
raport of the able commission now ascer-
taininp the most favorable route, pass a
law under which we shall build and own
and operate as property of the United
States, under exclusive American domm-
ion and control, a ship canal connectlns
the Atlantic and the Pacific. Through II
in time of peace the or the
| world shall pass. If we shall be unhap-
PLY engaged in war, the n snail
carry our warships and shall exclude
| those of the enemy, and under conditions
which shall violate no treaty stipula-
TONS.
RESULTS OF THE WAR.
This is the brief account of our stew
ardship for four years. During a porofon
| of that period we were involved IN a wal
that for a time paralyzed business and
, and would have X heavily
the resources and credit Of any other
country than ours: and for the past year
or more we have been employing an
| army of some so, 900 men in suppressins
an insurrection against our authority
5000 miles away. No industry has felt
the strain of these extraordinary eN-
penses. nor ave they affected the gen
eral sum of our prosperity. More than
a the conditions resulting from the
| legislation of the past four years have
! obliterated every issue that was raised
during the last campaign. The dem
ocrtacy, having therefore to find some
rallyimg cry. seek it in the results of our
late war with Spain, and upon that ques-
| tion, as upon all others, we stand ready
to meet them In the open.
During the weeks and months proceed
ing the outbreak of hostflities with
! Spain. the president of the United States,
who knew by personal experience on
many a battlefield something Of the hor-
rors of war, and who realized the ex-
pense and suffering which war entailed,
stood firmly upon the ground that a
! peaceful solution could be found. And
when that awful occurrence took place
in the harbor of Havana, and a hot fren-
zy of Indignation swept over our people,
and a conflict seemed inevitable, he faced
popular clamOr and heated ~counsels, and
still believed that the wrongs of Cuba
could be remedied and redressed without
an appeal to the arbitrament of war.
The folly of Spain and the indignation
of the American people forbade a peace
full solution. Then the president, sec
onded by a republican congress-, before a
gun was fired, declared ito the world the
lofty and unselfish motives hat alone
actuated the nation. No man now or in
the centuries to come, when history,
which alone ''triumphs over time re-
counts the marvellous story of the wal
which changed the map Of the world,
shall ever truthfully say that this repub-
Tic was animated by any but the noblest
purposes. Recorded time tells of no such
war, for it was fought, with bloody sac
rifice. by a great and free republic, for
the freedom of another race, while its
own liberties were unassailed.
This is not the time or the occasion tc
dwell upon the incidents of the war
crowded with successive victories and IL
j l1nnaad urith cnInflaSS aYamnlaS Of inli-