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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
MR.. NATION ALSO OBJECTS.

There does not appear to be any radi-
cal difference between Mr. David Nation
and the general public in their estimate
of the Kansas disjointer. In an inter-
view given out by him a few days ago
Mr.. Nation said:
I married this woman because I needed
some one to run my house. She showed
to me that she had stern qualities and
could manage things carefully and with
economy. We went to Texas and set up
in business. In short time I accumu-
lated 100000. At times I-think she is
daft about this saloon smashing bust
ness. She will fast for days until I have
to make her eat or she will die. She
claims to have visions of the Lord, and
lots of times 1 have arrived home to
find her talking with an unseen being,
who she claimed was Christ. ! laughed
at her for this absurdity, but she as
sured me that it was true. I think that
her head is being turned by all this
notoriety. 1 have warned her not to
talk so freely about her plans and they
would carry better but she seemed not
to listen to me as much as she does
to some of those temperance cranks in
Topeka.
This all has very strong squirt
towards the insanity theory.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

PRACTICAL REPUBLICANISM.

The inauguration of the eight hour
due to the labor organizations them
selves and to the voluntary cooperation
of the great mining companies which
were quick to perceive the advantages
of the system. But back OF it all lie
the prosperity of the country and the
prevailing high prices for the raw
products of lab Dor. without which shorter
hours, except With smaller pay. would
have been manifestly out of the ques-
zion. Organized labor could not have
brought about an eight-hour day if cop
per had been selling for 10 even l.
cents per pound. Mining companies.
however generously disposed, could not
have conceded All eight-hour day if the
market had not justified the reform.
Every miner IN Montana We'll recollects
the time when. under the democratic
tariff enactment known as the Wilson
law. the industrial interests OF this
country We're in a state Of collapse.
when factories We're closed. Ia boz un-
employed and wages low. In those days
copper between 5 and 9 cents There
was no business IN the country. The
industries that consumed ,ae base
pnetals We're languishing. Capital va.
Withdrawn from all manufacturing en-
aerprises Foreign and domestic ira l.
was dull There was no demand fpr
electrical machinery, railroad engines,
Veil
red metal was drug on the mar,5,.t. 1
There was talk of closing shelters AMI
mines. reducing pay rolls. etc. to awai,
better prices There was no talk Of
eight hours in those days of dominant !
democracy.
I Later, the change came. McKlnlev's
election was follWed by an almost i'm
mediate restoration of confidence and
revival of business Good times rc> |
turned. The manufacturing indus ,fIAs
took new start. Labor found employ
,nent at increased wages. The demand
for raw materials at better prices
grew more active day by day. Capital
emerged from its hiding places. uome
and foreign commerce increased as if
1Dy magic under the STIMULUS VI III pt'-I"
tion and expansion, and the balance Of
trade in favor of our own country grew
until it reached 60O,O0O,OoO per anaurn.
The west became prosperous to a degree
never known before, for wool add
vanced to is cents, lead to cents
and copper to II cents. Eastern money
began to flow westward and in the great
district of Butte some of the old oper-
ators increased their plants and their
pay rolls while others sold out at hand
some figures to eastern capitalists who,
with magnificent courage and wisdom.
conceived and put into execution here
the grandest mining enterprise in the
world one which called for an invest
ment of $1,000 900 to insure success.
All this was made possible because of the
nations wonderful prosperity under re-
publican policies. The proofs of this wan-
derful prosperity are seen on every hand.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

| Marquis of Queensberry rules, which
! permits atrocious violence. such
| fights the committee adds, ARE felo-
| MES in many of the states" Their bru-
tality has all over the country so out
| ragged the public sense of decency and
humanity that they have been repressed
everywhere except at West Point. AT
West Point" the committee says frankly
they have gone on for years and no one
has been punished during the period
covered by the investigators. and the
time hes now arrived when congress
must decide whether the fights. sub
stantially everywhere else treated as
high crimes. shall continue to go on at
the military reservation al West Point"
To destroy these lighting committees"
i! is suggested to congress. is to destroy
the worst form or hazing.
Besides the hazing applied simply to
uphold the tyrannous code of the upper
class men. there are. the committee
finds. two other classes of hazing. name
ly. things done professedly for the good
of fourth class men and things done
apparently without purpose except
to annoy, or for the mere amusement
OF upper class men, Over a hundred
forms of hazing have been in use, some
of them endangering the health and life
of the victim and all more or less Of
fensive and humiliating. To the hapless
freshman not his education but the re-
qulrements of the upper class men be-
come the chief concern during his first
year at the Military academy of the ma
ton. AS regards the death of Booz and
other cadets the committee naturally
finds it impossible to determine with
mathematical accuracy" whether it was
the effect of this long course Of cruel
ana annoying treatment upon fourth
class men. We do know that several.
notably Cadets Mac Arthur. Breth and
Burton. were hazed into commissions;
that many more. including Cadets Has
call, kensal. McGinnis and Pegram,
were hazed until thew tainted. Cadet
NanNatta and perhaps others, have
been hazed until i'll. Cadets BooZ and
Breth We're both treated with great Sc
verify and We're never we'll after thew
LETT the academy. and each died in his
young manhood before the graduation
Of his class: but we cannot aftirmatively
fnd that their death was caused by their
treatment" The committee appropri-
ately concludes it's report with a bill
which provides, among other things, for
dismissal of any cadet guilty of hazing
and makes him ineligible for reappoint-
ment to the academy or to hold and office
IN the army. navy or marine corps
Baltimore Sun
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
fHE STATE PRESS,
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GAMBLING LEGISLATION.

Fergus County Argus: The committee
on public morals of the state senate
seem to be juggling with the gambling
matter. They promptly reported the
Tierney bill licensing gambling for in
definite postponement, but in it's stead
introduced loosely drawn measure.
which they hoped would be satisfactory
to all parties. If the desire of the law
makers to SO change the law as to re-
duce the penalty for violation to a mis-
deameonor and thereby make the vice
certain of such local control as public
opinion dictates, let them amend the
Chandler law in that particular-not at
tempt to palm off such a bill as the one
now on the senate calendar. 1t is full of
errors, notable for its loop holes and
would throw open the doors of every
gambling hole in the state, while at the
same time the law would appear to be
opposed The people of the state are not
SO ignorant of law as some of the men,
bers of the state senate seem to believe
in fact We believe the average intell-
gence is far above that of the members
of the present legislature.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
TO SEE THE ECLIPSE.

SAN Francisco. Feb. 1S-The William
ii. Crocker expedition from the Lick OBJ
servatory to observe the total eclipse Of
the sun in Sumatra on May II will sail
from San Francisco on the Nippon Maru
tomorrow. The expedition is in charge
of Assistant Astronomer G. d. Perrine.
He will be accompanied by Ralph H.
Curtis, for the past year student assist
ant of the observatory at Berkeley and
now assistant on the Lick observatory
staff. These astronomers have chosen
their assistants from the Dutch observa-
tory at Padang.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

efal mass of property, or are set ansrt
Tor public purposes.
AS a rule. the rich men of this conn
TRY nave been stirred by generous am
p.tlon TO use large parts of their wealth
10Y PUBIC objects. The voluntary gifts
lor education alone. large enough to be
separately noted in the press for the last
quarter OF century. amount to nearl,.
s'ooooo,oo beside gifts to libraries. II
they leave no children, it all goes that
way II they leave children. our laws.
"hich forbid tying up property by will or
deed for longer period than a life in he
ing at the death of the testator or grantor
and Il years thereafter. insure the rand
division of the great fortune, and the
heirs in many cases have a genius for
scattering property equal to that of the
genius that acquired it.
So the people who get in the way OF
employment, the benefit of the genius
that builds up great business enterprises
get, sooner or later, also the fortune ac-
quired by the man who originated them.
But agree that the effect of these vast
fortunes is bad in the substitution of
luxury and extravaganza in place of the
plain living that characterized our frugal
republican fathers. A greater danger
to deal with, is the corrupt use of money
to carry elections or to get high office or
Influence legislation. OF this We have
some most disgraceful recent examples.
These things cannot always be proved,
SO that their object is defeated, even if
the men who have done them not only do
not deny them but boast of Them Our
remedy must be found in an aroused and
indignant public opinion
The millionaire who would corrupt a
great state to get a great office must be
made to feel that his success will bring
with neither joy nor honor. Let public
contempt and scorn blast him. Let him
be avoided as one with a leprosy. 80.
We shall not, probably. revive the ig-
nominious punishments of the past. But
if they are ever revived let him be their
first victim. The whipping post, the
bl anding on the forehead the cropping
of the ears, the scourging at the carts
tail are light punishments for the rich
man who would debauch state, whether
it be an old state, with an honorable his
tory. or a young and pure state, in the
beginning of it's history.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
The REPORT ON nAZlNG

The report of the special congressional
committee which investigated the West
Point hazing scandal does not mince
matters. hut depicts the barbarious prac-
tees in vogue there in their real colors
The upper class men, it is shown. have
gradually developed II comprehensive
code of laws for the oppression and per-
seoution of the new arrivals. Designat-
ins them variously as "plebes' and
beasts the older and bigger students
Systematically bully and outrage the
younger and smaller boys. The code is
merciless and unnatural. No friendships
are allowed TO be formed between the,
freshmen and their seniors. The fresh
men are required to be treated f.as
strangers and interiors and are to be
made to do mental services for the upper
class men. Each freshman in fact, Ia
assigned to an upper class man as sort
o: body servant. and as such must sweep
MS masters tent. make his bed bring
him water. clean his accouterments and
arms, attend to his soiled clothes. In al
respects he must conduct himself as an
inferior being and dutiful slavs. So far
is this carried that the freshman is for
hidden to speak socially" to the upper
class man. If it be necessary to speak
on business he must address the upper
class man as MIR" or Sir" not receiy-
ing such courtesy in return. The lortlly
senior must not, indeed be looked in the
race squarely by the freshman. but the
latter must drop his eyes" in the pres
ehce OF his superior. and failure to do so
is a punishable offense
Failure on the part of the freshman IN
obey the code of laws evolved by the
upper class men is punished mercilessly
though that code is in violation of the
oelisation assumed by all boys on enter
ing the academy. The machinery of
punishment is so-called fighting com
mlttee,' whose function is to select from
the upper class men a bruiser able 70
whip the small offender. There Is no
real hghtnS, on account or the disparitv
OF age. size and training Fighting" is
nor intended. but punishment and ..exe
cutlon would better describe the trans-
ACT oh. such punishment of the disobedi
eht or dlSrespectful is absolutely neces
cary from the upper class mans point of
view, IN order to maintain his authority
1t IS. as the committee SAYS, the "ef.
receive means to coerce obedience to the
uhiaWtul behests of upper class men"
10 be effective" the punishment has
TO be severe. The committee describes II
as a system Of fighting which is shock
rs 1ne system is according to the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
MONTANA FRUIT.

Rocky Mountain Husbandman: 1t is
true large quantities of fruit are shipped
in but this generation will see fruit an
article of export: and Well it may be, for
the exquisite flavor of the Montana
berry and apple, the rich color and the
superb juicy quality of both the Montana
standard and small fruit are facts which
will bring the product into favor in every
land where it is introduced. Twenty
FIVE years since the industry was but an
experimentation it, is grand success,
and it is a pleasure to attend the annual
conclaves and learn the lessons of prac-
teal experience from the lips of men
who have wrought order out of. chaos.
success out of failure, by patient toll
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Carbon County Democrat: The time
has arrived, however, for Montana to
develop it's agricultural and horticultural
resources if it would keep it's place in
the onward march of progress. The
mines have been developed until they
employ a large army of men who want
farmers to raise them something to eat.
The farmers in their turn will become
consumers and will need clothes and
other merchandise which call for more
merchants, and more merchants means
added manufactures, so that the plan
will work all around the game as conf
mercial SNOWFALL which gathers the more
strength the farther it rolls.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

and established the orchard in these
mountain wilds. The Flathead region is
especially the home of the fruit orchard
as is at least one third of the area of our
state and lucrative living can scarcely
fail to bless our orchard growers when
their trees are in full bearing. Blessed
is the Montana horticulturist. May our
orchards increase and multiply, for Moth
ing else adds such happiness to our
homes.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The San Francisco Bulletin has been
going after big game of late and has
brought down the game in fine style.
Its expose of the corrupt and disgrace
full tactics of CALIFORNIA; commission at
the Paris exposition resulted in the
legislative report recently telegraphed
to the Inter Mountain. A great power
is an honest newspaper.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The Yankees will have to take back
seat now. Reports of the patent Office
for the year show that in proportion to
bia leads all the states in the number
OF inventions made, with Colorado a
close second. Even New York, with its
millions, is far behind those two Sec
tionS
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

At last Mrs. Nation has declared her.
self. Heretofore some excuse has been
found for her illegal work on the ground
that the Kansas joints are illegal, but
now she declares that she will smash sa-
looms in New York Chicago or anywhere
notice the attempts made at justification
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Great Falls is to be congratulated upon
having policeman like Officer Edward
Hogan. He showed the stuff he was made
OF on Sunday when, after being shot down
without warning by desperate MUIR
derer. he put an end to the career of his
assailant and rid the world of a wild beast
in human form.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
PER SoNaL.

Chief Justice Lore of Delaware who
has had forty years practical experience
in dealing with criminals, declares in
favor of the whipping post, which has
long been a Delaware institution. He
says that it drives criminals out of the
state.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

While Mrs. z. II. Bulger of Portland,
Ore. was travelling on train toward
Spokane, Wash. the other day, she
gave birth to twins. The elder, a boy.
was born in Oregon and the other, a girl.
in the state of Washington an hour
later. This is the first case on record
where twins were born in different states.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

to get along somehow without its 5000
francs. for Bismarck never gave way
Boston Transcript.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Pat Grove appears to be once more on
the wing.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Spokane Wash. the other day, she
gave birth to twins. The elder. a boy,
was born in Oregon and the other, a girl
in the state Of Washington an hour
later This is the first case on record
where twins were born in different states.
The South African war having created
a great demand on the part of toy deal
ers for leaden soldiers. a number of
Parisians have organized a society to OPP
pose the manufacture and sale Of the
martial playthings. THE League
Against I.eaden Soldiers" is the name of
the new organization and Emile lola
is it's president. The circular sent out
by the league states that the members
desire to combat the prevailing practice
of French parents who perpetuate the
military spirit which is so prevalent IN
the republic by buying toy soldiers for
their children.
The page of the Pipe at Windsor Castle
holds an hereditary office which dates
back to the time of Charles II. That
merry monarch acquired the tobacco
habit from some of his Virginia colon
lists. and required a page. who was paid
a salary of $500 year. to keep his smok-
ing apparatus in order. In moment
of generosity His Majesty made the APP
| pointment permanent. Until 1863 the
honor was held by the duke of Grafton,
who got hard up and sold it to a mer-
! chant named Harrison. AS Queen Vic
toria did not smoke, the office was a
| sinecure but the descendants of Harrison
are entitled to the privilege of entering
| the presence of their sovereign at any
/ time.
Earl Roberts will have to pay. IN one
way and another something like $4,000
! for the honor of being an earl. The
greater part of this. of course, will be the
cost of the coronet. but the charge is
swelled by fees of all sorts which many
| people will think ought to be abolished.
| Bismarck was once made furious by a
| charge of this kind. The Spanish gov
eminent offered to invest the chancellor
with the Order of the Golden Fleece. and
the prince promised to accept the honor
if the government would send the order
, and it's insignia to him instead of eX-
! pecting him to go to Spain to receive
it The request was complied with, and
a few weeks after the arrival of the order
and its insignia at Fredrichsruh there
came bill for 5000 francs. Bismarck
sent for the Spanish ambassador IF
had known the cost" he said, angrily.
81 should not have accepted the honor.
In any case, I won't pay it." Spain had
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-16
CoIIector.. rnkc NotIce.

There should be solemn warning to
the spoon collector in the statement of
the Smith college girl who was recent
~ arrested for stealing. MY first step
was n fascinating experience" she is
said to have declared. and by that first
she fell. So may it not be with others
who now are satisfied with pocketinG
table appointments from restaurants?
They always say, these freaks, that
they do il because il is such fun. But,
following the present case, where may
that fun not end? When they are look
ing at jewelry in a shop, it would get
so exciting to see if they could pocket
n diamond ring with no one being the
wiser. 1t would be such sport TO after
ward fash the ring, the giver of which
should remain a mysterious unknown.
1t isn't n safe game at any time, and
it isn't nice. That hasn't prevented
the fair sex from INDUCING in it, but
after this it is time that stopped.-New
York Telegram.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-16
Shall Women smoket

They have been discussing that old
question of whether or not women
shall smoke over in England. with the
usual results. There are both pros and
cons given-more of the latter than the
former. From Girton college comes the
strongest con. Girton says that it is
smoking which makes fashionable wo-
men silly and inane, that it arrests
physical and mental development and
fills the prisons and reformatOries. for
lit is very detrimental to the moral
tone of females" A doctor says that
smoking Injuries women no more than
men, and another man declares that
the English are already becoming a
race of pygmies because of the smok-
ing habit among men, and if women
go in for it the physique of the people
is doomed. No one. however, says any
thing new, as there is nothing new to
say.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-16
MISS MARIE LOUISE MEIER.

Walton street. She will go TO Paris as
n pupil nurse under Miss Meier. She
feels that she can better fit herself for
the duties OF a nurse abroad than in
this country
The appointment TO the position of
head nurse in the big Paris sanitarium
is a decided compliment to Miss Meier's
ability. The Lanneau du Chantel Is
one OF the largest and best known insti-
tutiOns of it's kind in France On the
hospital staff are famous surgeons and
physicians. Many hundreds of patients
are treated annually.
Miss Meier is graduate nurse of the
Jewish hospital in Cincinnati. Since
last November she has been head nurse
of the white charity wards at the
Grady hospital. She resigned her posi-
ton on May 1 and is taking a well
earned rest preparatory TO assuming
her arduous duties in the French sani-
tarium.-Atlanta Constitution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-16
Her Fortune I'm DoII,.

Miss Nellie Morrison of Salina, Kan,
is making a fortune by making dolls
from cornhusks. Her trade extends
all over the United States and Europe.
When a child. she made these dolls
for her little friends. The demand was
so great that she sold them for % cents
each. Now she is rs years old and sells
ile dolls by the hundred at the same
price.
The first corn carnival held in Atchi-
son in 1895 brought Miss Morrison
prominently before the public. Her
dolls exhibited there leaped at once
into popular favor. and she received
more orders than she could possibly
fill. She has never been able to find
an assistant who could put the corn
husks together as skillfully as she her
self does the work.
She is kept busy day and night sup
plying the demand. She has sent the
queer dolls to Germany and France