Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-12

ito those whose circumstances were not
fortunate. He personally knew thous-
ands of his employees, and they all re-
spected and many loved him as friend.
He had ever been their stout defender
in the mattter of wages.
Mr.. Daily was man of wonderful en-
eoutive capacity, in no way inferior to
Collis p. Huntington or James J. Hill;
but he worked himself into an early
grave, and his sad ending is a tem'ible
lesson to those who ovelTaX their phys--
cal energies under the spur of ambision.
Politically. the history of Marcus Daily
need not be here recited. 1t is known
to all the people, because it is part OF
the history of the state. Twice did he
s;gna:ized by an almost unoIoken line of
vdoisor: es he achieved. What his purpose
and his methods were have been only
PARTLY disclosed, for he kept his own
ccunsecs. but he has made and unmade
many men in Montana. He has been a
very Warwick in politics, yet never did
he seek political! preferment. So intense
were his aninosities and his friendsll. pc
t,.at necessarily, perhaps, many good
men have reason to complain that Mr..
Daly's powers of discrimination were
net good and that often his friends suf-
fered with his enemies. In striving for
results he often aasregarded men.
whf,ther those results were commend
able or not is a matter about which
men will differ as they are numbered
among his supporters or his opponents.
Yet now that he lies in a distant city,
hts life untimely closed, with GRIEF
stricken wife and children at his bier
and numberless friends all over the west
in gltef and awe as they conlsem-
pate his true nobility of soul. who
shall utter even harsh criticism Of any
aot Of his or bear towards him any but
feeling OF forgiveness?
Think what Marcus Daily accom-
pished for Montana. He was the fist
man to demonstrate the wealth Of the
Butte silver mines below the water level,
and he built at Walkervilie what was
then the greatest chlorfdizing silver mill
open the Butte copper mines on a grand
scale, and he built at Anaconda the
greatest copper sme,ter in the world.
He built UP city of 10000 souls where
no human being lived before. AS a
matter of personal pride and pleasure
The laid out and stocked and perfected
the finest and most valuable horse ranch
in the world, on which he placed the
nobest and fastest horses in the world.
Then, as one of the closing incidents
of his life, he organized what was and
is the greatest copper enterprise in the
world, wfaich will live as monument
to his genius.
Think of such achievements by one
man, and he a plain man Of the people,
who worked as a miner for days pay
twenty-five years ago an unknown man:
Think of the benefits Montana has de-
rived from this mans life work! think
of what labor has received, how labor
has been benefited, how business has
been built up, how homes have been
established!
Surely he was a man of great brain,
of great thoughts and great deeds. Let
it not be said of such men as Marcus
Daily that ''the evil that men do lives
after them; the good is oft inferred with
their bones" Let it rather be said OF
them that the good shall live after them
and the evil be buried and forgotten.
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career, except to regret its ending and
point out its lessons.
If only the widows and orphans Mar
Gus Daily helped could attend his funeral
they would form great concourse OF
grieving people; but if added to their
numbers, could be all his friends, and
all who had received benefits from his
having lived, then no deep-toned church
bell could be heard by all the sorrowins s
thousands who would assemble at his
grave.
This is a sad day for industrial Mon
tana. The people of a great state feel
grievously AFFLICTED. To Marcus Daily
they bid long farewell; to the wife and