Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-19

After a brief allusion to the troublous
period OF 1865. when the democrats We're
trying to save the constitution that the
republicans had destroyed" in putting
down the rebellion, the speaker made a
rev pointed illusions to the democratic
party as that Of despair, hate, and ben
on setting class against class n COM
munity aginst community, in the furth-
ernce of their own designs for power.
NO class. he said, is or can be successful
without benefit to all: none can fail with
out others failing too. Our interests are
mutual and the republican part has had
unparalleled success in bringing prog
ress. Therefore it is wise to keep them
at it.
AT one time. in other countries there
was such a thing as class and mass
1t meant that a portion of the people
were set apart by law for favors which
others could not attain. Read the his
tory of Greece, of Rome, of England, too,
where until this century a lev or Cath
Ole was debarred from legal protection
and in our own country, too, for the first
oo years OF the century there was the
master and slave. We do not have that
now.
when one speaks properly of class it
means certain one favored by law with
privileges not open to others; as the no.
bility, to whose sons are open the law.
the army, the clergy, because only of
their fortune of birth. There the son of
a duke becomes in turn a duke: the
grandson of a hod-carrier becomes a hod-
carrier. Here we have classes also; tall
and short men, r~ed-headed men and
bald-headed and many others. But is
there anything that fixes a man in any
one. social position? Here We are all la
borers, except the social butterfly at the
top and the tramp at the bottom. We
are ashamed of the man who does not
work whether with callous spots on his
hands or on his head. Ninety-nine per
cent of all Americans ~labor-where will
one draw the line between class and
mass'?"
Here he paid a magnificent tribute to
the boyhood of Lincoln, who by the light
of a fire knot on the hearth read and
raised himself to the highest type of the
American laborer, 1.-The %cleanest. best
earth" The audience responded with
thunderous applause. He went on to tell
of other notable examples; of Knute
Nelson, a poor Scandinavian immigrant,
now senator, and three times governor
of Minnesota; and of the principal speak
err of the evening. Theodore Roosevelt,
who owed his position to sterling man
hood, to a clean, noble, strenuous life,
willing to bare his breast for the country
in which he believed.
The speaker made a clever little hit by
referring to Bryan's words in 1896, when
he declared himself 'going into the en-
emy's country" Mr.. Clark said that he
found no enemies wherever he went; we
HllSul ul1lSE III pOllllcS, III CTe6u, Ill
choice of tailors, but wehever there was
an American with red blood in his veins
and ready to fight or live for his country,
whether in Butte or in Boston, that man
was his friend. The audience applauded
vigorously.
- Mr.}rC Clark explained very clearly and
concisely how the flag in the Philippines
was planted there by the assistance Of
William J. Bryan, by his ratification,
either as an honest statesman, or as a
In ox-o md fool Of tho froo rs yyhiah ooIo1
them to this country. At the name of
Bryan several democrats in the house be
gan to yell. He turned to them and re-
peated the statement: Because Bryan,
the im%perialist. helped ratify the treaty.
How do you like that? Bryan, imperial
list, brought the democratic votes that
made possible the treaty. The president
did not have the money for the purchase;
congress took UP the matter, voted it
through and the. Philippines became as
But it follows as have all other territorial
acquisitions: it is not yet a part of the
United States, but American territory.
Congress has power over 1T as 1T has
had over all others, first, by military
government then by local ~self-govern-
ment, and lastly by giving statehood, if
and when it ecomes competent to come
in. Never has the constitution followed
the flag in the sense of giving immediate
suffrage.
81 for one believe the Spanish war has
been worth it's cost in blood, in tears, in
death, to see Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh
Lee, and the countless others from the
south, arrayed once more under the stars
and stripes. The revolution, war of 1872,
the Mexican war, the rebellion and the
Spanish war, believe as you like whether
the product of fate, of destiny, or the
providence of God, have come to keep
alive the red blood and national spirit
The speaker closed by reading a letter
from the parents of Capt. George Cren-
shaw of Georgia. who was killed in the
Philippines and the adjutant general, ex-
pressing the hope that the soil baptised
in the blood of this and other heroes
might remain under the stars and stripes
and the generals reply, giving assurance
that the flag would be maintained there,
where it had a right to float in honor,
He expressed a final belief that the peo-