Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-27
without the instruction Of to

without h instruction Of congress to
that effect.
But since Bryan SO loves to quote. n
generally to garble, Abraham Lincoln,
and since the Standard takes such zvio-
lent exception to the Inter Mountains.
opinion of men who encourage those enc
mics of the flag who are shooting down
American soldiers. let us call attention
to the martyred presidents utterances on
that very subject:
HE who dissuades one man from vol
unteering or induces one soldier to desert
weakens the cause as much as he who
kills an American soldier in battle. Must
l shoot a supplemented soldier boy who
deserts while l must not touch a hair of
a willy agitatpr who induces him to
desert? h is none the less injurious
when erected by getting a father. or
mother, Or friend into a public meeting
and there working upon his feelings till
he is persuaded to write the soldier boy
that he is fighting in a bad cause. for a
wicked administration of a contemplate
government. l t:link that. in such a case,
to silence the agitator and save the boy
is not only constitutional, but withal a
great mercy"
That is one of the sentiments of Lin
coin which Bryan does not quote in his
~demagogue harangues, though he comes
c~onspicuously within the class referred
to by the great emancipation. for he is
goins around the country trying to make
the people believe that the American
soldier is a wanton butcher engaged in
a cause having no semblance OF justifi-
cation.
In conclusion. and as further evidence
of the baneful results of making political
capital out Of an unavoidable war. we
quote from the Chicago Tribune the fol
lowing excerpt from a letter by a soldier
now serving in the Fortieth United States
volunteers and whose home is in Carbon
dale, Illinois:
In regard to the Philippines. many a
poor BOY with a gun on his shoulder
owes his death to the clamoring poll
ticlans at home. II they would only
close their mouths for a little while we
would soon put a quietus to this Philip
pine army. Do you know that in two
lays after Senator Pettigrew delivered
his speech in the United States senate a
translated copy of it was found in one
OF the insurgent camps? The people at
home, although they call us murderers.
are themselves directly the slavers Of
u boys who are killed by the Filinino
bullets.
1T is by such talk as that OF Senator
Pettigrew that the negroes here are kent
encouraged. It is too bad thai we are
made to suffer at the hands of our own
Iei.ow-cltlzens in the States, but we must
Slih anu pear IL as best we can. When
we get pack to the States we will have
a niue DIT TO say concerning some of
the patriots at home"
Ihe only trouble with the democratic
party Is that 1T wants the offices and to
get tnepa 1t frantically appeals to the dis
contented, to the indolent, to the envi-
Gus, to the ~disgruntled, to the lawless. 1t
gather into one party every man
who is unhappy, every man who has
MADE up his mind to kick. 1t gIoats over
FAILURE and deplores success, encourages
those who are wrong, ridicules those who
are right and abuses everybody who re-
fuses to take his medicine from the po-
ltical quacks Of democracy. The typical
democrat is we'll described in the follow
ing poem from the Denver Times:
He hurled anathemata and invectives by
the score.
And madly ragged and tore his hair and
violently swore
And raised a great disturbance in the cir
air
AS he yelled Keep out of China, for we've
got no business there"
H stopped you on the corner and hi
sawed and c1GSa6 and ra va6
Until you thought him looney, from thu
way that he behaved;
He backed you 'gainst a building and h,
pounded in your face
Emphatic condemnation of the whole eau
casian race.
We've got to take our horns in, an,
We've got to do it quick,
And if Mckinley doesn't, why, We'u max
Mckinley sick.
I hope the Chinks will slaughter ever
white man in the lot,
And that not an interloper ever leaves tn
bloody spot
"You might miss him on one corner. bu
you'd meet him on the rest,
And led lam his doctrines at you, this Gil
cumfOrnacOus pest,
With a wild and frantic frenzy. till vo
swore like rabid sin
That you'd hamburgize his features if h
didn't lock his chin.
"Then one day the news came over. like
ray of summer sun,
That the foreigners were rescued-that tn
good work had been done
And this crazy, rabid, frantic, %frothing, ar
archis,ic cuss
Kicked a hole clean through his brand ne,
hat and yelled:
'Hooray
For .
Usr"