Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-21
THE INTER MOUNTAIN.


sued with the compliments Of the season
to all the people of Montana Its typo
graphical appearance and the amount of
reading matter it contains afford convinc-
ing evidence of it's growth and populafl-
ty Its business has kept even pace with
the extraordinary growth of Butte and
the development Of the diverse industrial
resources of this peerless state.
Twenty-one years have come and gone
since the Inter Mountain was first pub
lished in response to a popular demand
for an afternoon newspaper that should
advocate the best interests of the COM
munity and print the news. This mis-
sion it earnestly undertook and good
faith fulfilled. The appreciat ton
of the people has been so practical and
so generous that today the Inter Noun
tain is the leading republican newspa-
per of the state, enjoying the confidence
of the people of all parties, recognized as
| the champion and defender of all their
| material interests and the source upon
| which they confidently rely for informa-
| ton about the city, county and state in
| which it is published, as we'll as for the
news of the nation and the world at
| large.
| The Inter Mountain has not been con-
/ Quoted merely as a business enterprise
| Though it has been successful fnancial-
| ly in recent times, after many years of
vicisstude, it has kept constantly in
view higher purpose, viz: the adyo-
cacy and defense of those political prin-
ciples which give the best assurance OF
/ the prosperity of the people in all their
avocations, which guarantee honest and
responsible and progressive local govern
ment, and which are based upon consid-
erations of patriotism and the conserva-
ton of public and private morality and
education. 1t has been the Jealous sup
porter of the school house and the church
and in this and every ether public aIty
it has been at all times but d reflex of
the public will. Newspapers are what
the people make them. They survive or
perish as they are true or false in the re-
Election of public sentiment, and the al
vocacy of honest convictions and consis-
tent policies. Firmly believing that the
doctrines of the republican party when
crystallized into law are best calculated
to advance the industrial, moral and edu-
cational interests of the state and ma
ton; believing particularly in the prin-
| ciples of protection, expansion, the su.
| premacy of the law and the courts, and
l in ba trio iSpo of ha y4r,1V
the Inter Mountain proudly declares its
continued fealty to the republican party
and pledges its best efforts for the pro.
motion of that party's interests, becaus;
! they are the peoples interests. In Mon
| tana republicanism stands for the flag
the government and the law; for the edu
cation of the poor; the encouragement
n and protection of capital, absolute free
dom and good wages for labor; fraterni
: ty and peace between al, sections ant
9 all classes; equal taxation; economy il
I official business; honesty in public sta
g | ton: for the security of property, as wei
r. as personal, rights; for the everlasting
s | eXtinguishment of feuds and hatred, o
n factionalism and disor der; for the Dan
e ishment of demagogues and tie punish
# | ment of crime. That is the republica
al party's platform, and in it's advocacy an
! defense the Inter Mountain has eve
been and ever will be true.
$ In this connection it may be interest
It ing and We trust not immodest, to ca
>, attention of the business department G
i the Inter Mountain. 1t was the HOr
" Lee Mantle. who founded the enterpris,
=. and still owns and controls every shar
ID of its stock. He organized the compan
Of and was elected its general manager. I
W it's early struggle for existence agains
to powerful and wealthy competition, it wa
i Mr.. Mantle who overcame all obstacle
IN and kept the institution on its financi,
Is feet. He personally managed its bus