Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-23
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain
kaiispell. Oct. 23.-There was a "hot
time in the old town last nj CHIT, when
Senator Thomas Carter addressed the
voters of this .l.ace on the issues of the
campaign, both local and national. The
hail was crowded and during tn progress
of the meeting the speaker was fire.
quentiy Interrupted 10y the plaudits of his
hearers.
Senator Garter is an interesting speak
err ana was fortified in his oratorical eff
fort by the knowledge that he was maxi
ing a FLEA for the party of prosperity. a
plea for the W~orkingnlan and a plea for
peace on earth. good will toward men,
His satiric u~tlerances concerning the
deanagogues who were enicavoring to
make it appear that the United States
now occupy the position of public prs
ecVtor in the Philippine controversy and
that Aguinaldo is a little Malay divinity
whose statue should ornament every pub
lie building in Manila, were keenly APP
preciated 10y the audience ard at times
the speaker was oJr;ged to stand quietly
and wait for the applausa to cease before
he could proceed with his speech.
This cry of Imperialism is a bugaboo
raised Simply for campaign purposes"
declared Senator Carter. Every move
that was made during the war with Spain
had the sanction of the democrats, and
1t was by the aid OF their vote in congress
that an appropriation was secured for
carrying on the campaign in the PM
tppines. Bryan advised his followers to
vote for that measure and the New York
Journal ran at the head OF its editorial
columns the words, Nail u tie Flag
in the Philippines which 5 not re-
moved from the editorial la.se of tina.
paper until at the Kansas City conven-
ton in July last the democrats adopted
a plank in their platform declaring
against expansion.
1.-THE imperialistic bugaboo is no worse
than is it's twin brother, militarism. The
proportion now is about one soldier to
eN ,ry 1900 citizens, and when anybody
tries to make Is Believe that this one
little blue-coated hero is going to make
things dangerous for so many men. then
I must say that all the brave men in the
country have gone to war and that a race
Of towards is left"
Senator Carter explained how we OBJ
tanned possession of the Philippines. He
said they were forced on us, and now that
We had them it is a duty we owe to civili-
cation and humanity to keep them and
direct their lettering feet along the path
of good government. If we should with
draw the army now chaos would follow
and the massacre of human beings in the
islands would be frigLntful ito contem-
plate. Warning tribes would fall upon one
another and blood would flow in rivers.
The policy of this nation would be a by
word in the mouths of hundreds of mill
lions of people.
Free silver was also discussed, and the
speaker stated that the democrats are
e~ndeavoring to elect their leader presi-
dent by ~chicanery, stump speakers de-
claling in the west that silver is an is
sue and in the east that it is not. Four
years ago these same men declared that
without free silver the country would
soon witness a revolution. Four years
have passed, and the nation was never
more prosperous han it is today.
Trusts were briefly discussed, Senator
Carter maintaining tnat this is the third
bugaboo of the democratic trinity of
"scare heads" He said there will AL
ways be combinations Of capital so long
as gigantic enterprises are undertaken.
Some of the democratic leaders are famed
as being at the heads of trusts. The only
legislation concerning them in the past
has been enacted by republicans, and it
is safe to say that this same policy VIII
be true in the future.
The meeting closed with three rousing
cheers for Mckinley and Roosevelt and
for the speakers of the evening.