The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07
WORK IS BEING PUSHED
Butte Man Shows why All Citizens
Should Do Their Share in Con-
| tributing to the Ever Grow
II ing Fund.

complete SUCCESS u Tie AoNeHAeHI' L AAAS
Is commendable.
Not only do the name and fame of
Marcus Daily deserve this public en-
comium. but its fruition will be last
Ing testimony of the gratitude of peo-
pie not wholly unmindful of great
achievements.
Without broad foundations no state
can keep step with the imperial march
which leads to the destiny of our COM
mon Union.
Take from Montana the all-doing en-
ergy, the colossal labors and achieve
ments Of the late Marcus Daily, and her
proportions would inevitably shrink to
& ths l.S s9mfaA }aa place.
lxals, sn, First in the Union.
she is first of all the Union
:in the production of that great metal
which supplies the lifeblood of Montana
trade. The great Anaconda hill Is known
from ocean to ocean, and it's fame has
spread across the seas.
Any state in the Union might be just
~ proud Of Butte and her sister city
Of Anaconda.
Those who travel far and wide return
to the shadow of this great hill and
here proclaim that all other centers of
trade and commerce are but the malarial
bogs and stagnant pools where indus
trial energies do but decay.
To Marcus Days master-mind, his
andomitable pluck, his unconquerable
spirit that under all difficulties, vicissi-
tudes or misfortunes came to the sur
face as a spring Of unfailing waters,
are these twin cities due.
What his pride in them was and what
his dreams for them may have been only
he knew.
Always Pushing Onward.
No worthy resolution was by him ever
formed and allowed to dry-rot. Rest
from the days toll meant for him the
inspiration of made plans that lin
gered in their inception only long enough
to become infused with the breath of
his life.
Whatever else he did, whatever mis-
takes he made in the on-rush of his
lmpulsive nature and in the tumult of
his active, many sided life, were but the
faults that proclaimed his common hui
manity, and pale into insignifcance in
the presence Of results.
All great natures have their GIBBS and
flows. That in his later years he amassed
great fortunes and still went resolutely
-on, conquering, performing, achieving,
directing the bounties Of nature through
all the veins and arteries of the state,
through its trades and its traffic, and
out upon its great public highways pro-
polling with mighty, individual force the
great industrial caravans that deposit
led their burdens where the well-paid
and willing hands of labor prepared
them for the market, demonstrated the
royal worth and purple of the man, and
exacted the tribute of respect from bust
ness princes and brawny labor alike.
=. None More Deserving.
Who better deserves a monument that
shall perpetuate these vigorous and no.
BILE traits of great life than him of
whom 1t can be said, as 1t can be said
of but few men in this grasping, selfish
age, that with great power in the in
dustrial world he used it mercifully,
Justly, generously, even compassionate
~?
Who, without the flourish of one single
trumpet, time and again rescued widow
end orphan from the hard tyranny Of
calling poverty, and relieved distress in
Its myriad forms?
(. Who encouraged with a lavish hand
tie young and the deserving to rise to
aHluence, to power and 10 place in the
world?
:. or him it may be said that with al
mest untold wealth and golden oppor-
Avnity, and force of matchless brain and
character, he ranked with the mighty
o; this earth. yet that he naver. for
got nor cavalierly treated the lowly end
the unfortunate from whose ranks he
himself had sprung.
Z To Perpetuate Memory.
TN x,,ihh 80 ~
.hermony with these. large body Of rep
resentative citizens Of the state Of Mon
'tana, a year ago, took upon themselves
tho pleasing task of forming some pan
that should perpetuate Mr.. Days men,
ory. -
The movement emanatea from those
who had been associates of Mr.. DAILY
in the upbuilding of the state.
a What the form of the memorial should
be 1t was decided to leave to those
best acquainted with him L.. l.1e. That
decision has now oes1 formally made.
Arguments Were brol;ht forward 10
favor of some more useful form Of memo
rial than that of a monument or statue,
as, for instance, some pubic enterprise
or public buii l'rs ti'at 1t was thought
might best perpetuate M. Days menu
ory. and be useful to the city or state,
as Marcus Days life hal been.
II Bronze or Metal Statue.
Iut it was ct ,ast decided by those
VINO had inspired the m " .!ncn., that,
in whatever form it might be desired in
future to further perpetuate Nj. Days
memory, the plan of a public memorial
hall that should entail permanent fund
for it's maintenance was impossible at
; this time; and, therefore, at a formal
meeting of the full executive committee
! of the association, it was decided that
the best and most feasible plan a. this
time was bronze or other metal statue
! Of Mr.. Daily in heroic size, placed urcn
a suitable pedestal and resting upon a
granite or other permanent foundation
Tor base. with such bas-relief figures on
either the pedestal or base as should fll