Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-29

cratic ticket In the belief that the repuoe
pfcan party il in some way responsible
ffbr those scenes OF strife. Fortunately tho
working men Of the land have memories.
when the democratic party was last in
power three million men We're idle. Home
and foreign commerce was dead. The
factories were closed. The farmers were
burning corn for fuel. Every farm had
"a mortgage. The free list was enlarged
but men were without means to buy
goods. Over a thousand banks clos
ed their doors. Wool was seven
cents n copper ten cents a pound.
There was no. building going on.
a black pail of gloom hung over the land
and the people with blanched faces ask
ed of each other what the end would be.
Even the government was hard up, so
much SO that Cleveland had to borrow
$3.50, 900, 900.
What a mighty change occurred when
the republicans returned to power by the
votes of a dismayed and disguised peo-
pie. The country is more prosperous
! than ever before in it's history. More
men are employed than ever before and
at higher wages. The balance of trade is
$500. 00O, GOO a year in our favor, we are
sending goods to every quarter Of the
globe in spite of the democratic howl
against expansion. More money is in
circulation han there was ever known
before. Every man who wants to work
has employment. The farmers are
happy and prosperous. They are buy
saries of life. Corn is forty cents a
bushel, copper sixteen cents, wool twen-
ty cents a pound, and every other prod
uct has advanced in proportion. The
We have swaged a successful war against
a European power. We have established
freedom in Cuba, acquired Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines and advanc-
a full share of the worlds responsible
ties and benefits without issuing a bond
or expressing the people by a noticeable
tax. Within four years the republican
party has saved the nation a second
time and made it prosperous from Flor
ida to Oregon, while the democratic par
ty, through it's representatives in con-
gress and through a dishonest and hyp-
ocritical press. has made faces at the
procession as it went forward.
These things need no elaboration. They
are within he memory of children and
must ave impressed even their youthful
minds. Yet the party that was respon-
sible for the country's condition four
years ago asks Tor another lease of
power, and in his state of Montana
such papers as the Butte Miner, Amazon
da Standard and Helena Independent
are filling their columns with stuff about
Hanna and Misrepresentation about the
work Of the republican congress, false
hoods about the administration and ap-
pealing to the passions of voters in the
hope that they will forget the past and
be carried away by catchwords and pet
ty personal abuse and wilful perversion
of the truth and the Facts. 1t would De
ridiculous if the consequences to the
American people were less vital, but be-
cause they are vital it is infamous. In
the days that are to intervene before
election, the only safeguard of the n
ton is the peoples intelligence. While
the welfare of the nation hangs. in the
balance the ambitions and disputes OF
individuals should cut nc figure. ,fIt is
the duty of every man so to cast'hi
ballot that it Will strengthen the pur-
pose of the republican party to keep the
country on the highway of prosperity
{ and not to cast it for encouragement Of
l that organization which and for pen.
! ury and paralysis for retrogression and
l ~incapacity, and for treason, strategems
and spoils. The American eagle, not thu
l crawfish, is the true emblem of American
e liberty and progress.
n
e Said the Butte Miner a few days ago