The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-20
moNTANA's TRIBUTE.

Thursday. September 10. 1901. Is q day
that will long be remembered in Mon
tana. Impressive memorial services were
held all over the state Men Of all creeds
and faiths Joined together Beautiful
tributes were laid upon the bier Of the
dead president Never before have the
people of this state been more strongly
united, more loyal and more firmly re-
solved that the government at Washing
ton shall continue to live. The services
in Butte We're remarkable. solemn and
impressive. The spacious AuditofOM
was packed with fearful people. The ad-
dresses of Ex-Governor Richards. ex-Sen-
ator Mantle Col Dolman and Professor
Young moved and comforted. At Hell
.ena. Justice Milburn, Col. Sanders and
Bishop Brondel addressed large audi
ences and moved them to tears as they
recounted the virtues of the president
and the man. Bishop Brondel voiced ahe
sentiment of the American people in his
condemnation of anarchy. He said:
Murder is ever execrated but when 1t
touches the life of one who rules S0,0OQ-
900 of free and enlightened people in time
of peace. under the form Of friendship.
against one appreciated as he deserved
to be- words fail to express our horror
and indignation at this most infamous
crime. But 1t is not enough for us as
citizens and Christians to express our in
digation and sorrow. We must be armed
against the enemy who caused this cal
anity. The individual who was fool
will meet his deserts, but it is anarchy
that all are called upon to combat.
At Great Falls. as elsewhere in the
state, business was suspended and the
people met together in the opera house
for memorial services. Elks,, Knights
OF Pythias. C. A. r. and Spanish war
veterans attended in a body Eloquent
addresses We're made by Senator Gibson,
c. NJ. Webster and Sam Stevenson. Sen
tor Gibson's remarks were remarkably
virile OF President Mckinley he said:
While no human power can call him
back to earth and place him again at
the head Of the nation, yet we can re-
solve, in the presence of this national
bereavement, that our love OF country
shall be stronger than ever and that We
will be more loyal than we have ever
been to the great principles that under
lie our governments government estab-
lished by Washington and his illustrious
conpeers, and made stronger, infinitely
stronger, by the life and death of the
immortal Lincoln. And SO we may con-
fidently believe the tragic death of Pres
ident Mckinley will make this nation
stronger and better and more mindful
of the principles of justice and human
ity than it has ever been during its uu.
paralleled history. &c.,
The resolutions adopted condemn not
alone the criminal who killed President
Mckinley but also the secret, cowardly
bands and societies of assassins, their
fanatic votaries and unthinking sympa-
thizers.
In Bozeman, Red Lodge, Billings, Big
Timber. Miles City. Philipsburg, Deer
Lodge, Anaconda. Hamilton. gMisseula -
in short, in every city, town and hamlet
CT the state men and women gathered
| together to mourn the great ruler who
| has passed from among US and to silent
ly renew allegiance to the greatest and
freest government on earth.