Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-17
IT IS EASY FOR THE STANDARD.

Tn commenting upon testimony gwen
before the senate committee the Ana
oo,da Standard this morning says:
III doesn't cost the Standard much OF
an effort to reach a Conclusion as 10 ho"
the committee win look at 1t.
Certainly not. 1t was ever thus. IL
never cost the Standard much of an ef-
fort to reach a conclusion as to anything
Without the capacity or the inclination
to reason out a situation or analyze an ar
gument, it seeks to convince the pubic
That it has at least one of the attributes
of the Almighty and cam speak a conclu-
sion into existence. Therefore, it takes a
short cut "across lots" and expects the
public to assume the impregnable position
taken by the little boy when he declared
that what my ma says is SO if it amt
sol"
Absolutely unreasoning in its hatreds,
it has conducted it's side of a democratic
feud just like the tramp who wrecks a
lightning express in order to kill the con-
ductor who has put him off the train. In
stead of singing out the chief object OF
its vengeance, represented by the chem
cal elements and cohesive principles at
present held together by three meals a
day, and known as w. A. Clark, it bung-
lingly ties huge instructions across the
track Of progress upon which the great
and glorious state Of Montana is running.
and prizes up a rail here and there, hoping
in the wreck of a commonwealth to crush
its direst foe .
Following up this course Of action, the
Standard has heralded to the world not
only the manifold iniquities of its enemy
in chief, and condemned as pestiferous
and diseased every highway and by-way
has also classed in it's great potpourri OF
sin and corruption every man, woman
and child in the state of Montana who
refuses to echo and re-echo its disgust
ing chorus of complaints. Any mar who
refuses to hurl the javelin Of personal
hatred into the Standards target. and nc
questions asked, is himself a monster oil
scarlet hue-a villain of the deepest dye
IT any man, endowed with the ordinary in.
stincts of humanity in contradistinctior
to the brute, expresses the belief tina
ever an enemy to the Standard shoul(
have the consideration accorded the horst
thief, the burglar or the assassin, and b.
takes place, he is alt nee branded by tha
great journal of civilization as a bride
taker and a fraud.
To ask for fair play for both sides O
the democratic controversy which is dis
graclng the state, to the end that the vir
tues and the vices of each party to tn
feud may be laid before a Discriminating
public for intelligent consideration, is t
transform the Standard into a mad bul
in a China shop. It dashes right and left
trying to impale upon Its badly splintere'
horns every interest which the state o
Montana may hold dear, hoping to reac
in the wreck of the state the men VIII
would even remotely question it's right t
rule. Scores of men prominent in the af
fairs of this state, and closely associate
with it's progress and development alon
various lines, rave had their reputation
blackened before the world for no othe
reason than thai they happened to b
Standing in the pathway of the Anacond
Standard, when, like a numbering hippo
potamus, it was making a bee line for tn
dirty pool of filth and scandal in which
so dearly loves to take a bath 365 DAVIS
the year.
No, it is net difficult for the Standa1
to reach a conclusion, when it override
every principle of justice and decen,
and common sense to attain the end
has in view. It doesn't cost it much
work a double shift trying to ruin IL
reputation of the state at home ar
abroad, and blacken forever the goo
name of scores of our most prominel
citizens, except the confidence and r
epect of the people. Built up by hood