Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-22

out too much money in taxes. Municipal
taxation should be lighter in Butte han
in any other city in the United States.
I'm account of the cOmpactness Of the
city and the vast amount Of property
within small limits. Tn trouble is that
the criminal classes cost too much money
to control. Criminals who should be
driven from the city are arrested over
and over again for repeated offenses.
The Business Men association hould
look up this matter and apply the
Stemedy.
The next Legislature of Montana should
make inquiry into the charge that some
of the wealthy corporations of the state
are not paying their proportion of the
general axes. The man who has saved
from his scanty wages enough to pur-
! chase a house and lot for his family is
compelled to pay his full quota of taxes
to support the state government, but
some of the men who are living on in
4 terest coupons and dividends pay little
or nothing. Nobody knows this better
han the millionaire organ themselves.
Every pound Of farm produce which
the people of the Pacific coast raise but
do not need for their own consumption
will find a ready market in the Orient.
There never was a time when the west
ern farmer felt so sure of good prices
for his surplus as now. Even the COM
pletion of the T~rans-Siberian railroad
will not deprive the United States of the
magnificent market for American bread
stuffs and manufactures in the Orient.
~. ..-~ .-h, ,,.xlo ithaca ito r, + y n ppo
opposes expansion is simply opposing his
own prosperity and IS the enemy Of his
own country saaE5 nEt}. t#I
The present aim Of the democratic
managers in Montana is to split the re-
publican party, or rather to prevent it's
reunion. Men have already been selected
and put on the pay roll for the accom-
pIishment of that object. The will soon
appear on the street corners, at the
primaries and in the conventions. Their
mission is to stir up strife. They should
be promptly spotted in every community
and invited to get into the democratic
ranks where they belong. Every man
who is a true republican is an advocate
Of harmony and fraternity.
NOW CnaC GOVefIVUT OLulVII, OIdIC AASo0
urer Collins and Attorney General Nolan
nave returned from a 6O-days' so1ourn
i'm Washington, during which they neg
lected their official duties to the best OF
their ability. and have carefully drawn
their salaries which they did not earn
during that period. perhaps they will be
; kline enough to tell the people who
: elected them to office why they went
n away, and what they accomplished for
the benefit Of the state during their alb
sence. Had they forgotten to come home
they might have had some claim on
public gratitude.
The winter has almost passed and still
no democratic member of congress has
introduced a single useful measure OF
legislation. The whole democratic cam
paign in Washington has consisted OF
9 objecting to everything the republicans
have proposed doing or have done. 81
. object" seems to be the sole democratic
argument. While the republicans are
: honestly striving to accomplish good re-
suits, the democratic effort is directed
Y solely to the Illustration of all useful
legislation. The average democrat is g
: chronic sufferer from stomach-ache, but
e is seldom the victim of headache.
1t is about time to end the nonsense
that any one man is to be credited will
keeping up wages in Butte. That credit
d belongs to the Butte Miners Union
backed up by all the business men OF
this community. There has never beer
a time when the mining companies wert
not able to pay living wages, particu'
larry for copper mining. Reduction wa:
not attempted, because it was not justi
fable in the first place and was not safs
e in the second. The business men O.
Butte, next to the miners themselves
deserve all the credit for keeping VI
wages.
n News from Colorado is to the effec
hat nearly all the silver republicans O.
that state have gone back to the repub
lican party, not because they hav'
changed their views as to the benefits
g of free coinage but because free coinage
is not within the present n of posi-
bilities, because other important issues
n have been pushed to the front by tn,
democrats themselves and because ex
pansion, national honor n prosperit!
a require the attention Of all good Ameri
a.
1t is a matter of history which Senate
l. Teller will not deny that at the republi
+ can national convention in 1896 he wa,
personally opposed to boiling. and toll
his friends so repeatedly. He was per
sonally in favor of protesting against
gold plank, refusing to vote for it's adop
ton and retaining his seat till adjourn
% ment. hat was his natural inclination
" and desire. He was persuaded to pursu