Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18
81 AM A DEMOCRAT"

the welkin ring with the above declara-
ton. Spoken by ordinary men it would
not attract more than ordinary atten-
ton, but mouthed by the great gold
bugger of New York it seems to be an
imperishable gem in the intellectual
hierarchy. Dave Hill has been governor
and senator of New York, assistant
wrecker of the democratic party and Sc
veral other things unnecessary to men
ton at this writing. Like many other
public men he has periodical attacks
of doing something startling to make
the name of David Bennett Hill the
cynosure of all eyes. But we fail to
see wherein his latest break is going
to be successful. Like the maid in the
old blue backed speller, he has tossed
his head in high disdain only to spill
the milk With one Whit of air from
his lungs-that fateful bag in which
the political Odysseus should have kept
close confined the adverse winds-We
fear that he has blown his 1904 presi-
Dental boom into the great void and
sunk his frail bark fathoms deep in
Stygian wave. In an evil moment he
forgot that the hand that yields the
powder rag is the very hand that rocks
the world, and if the associated press
reports be true has brought crashing
down upon his old bald pate, the lurid
anger of that portion of humanity sup
posed to be little lower than the angels.
Henceforth Mr.. Hill will find many
tacks in his bicycle path to the White
House even though his moustache does
drip with honey dew, and he profess
to worship at the shrine of beauty; for
the girls look at him askance-su spi-
cion that his patriotism will hardly
stand baking powder test, and resent
his neglect of duty to his God, his
country and his kind. 1t looks like a
case of political suicide, in which a
man deliberately impales himself upon
the feminine finger of scorn and hangs
suspended there warning to all the
world. His offense simply consists in
recent suggestion to an associated
press reporter, that the female devotees
of fashion ought to be kicked out of
Washington, bag and baggage, and
fired over the willows and into the
water,-so to speak,-in order that
Uncle Sans public servants may be
relieved of exhaustive social duties and
thereby come somewhere near earning
their salaries. He intimates that men
who COO and spoon, dance and flirt
with the fair Four Hundred until the
trolley cars commence to rattle and the
rooster crows for morning, and then &C
about their duties fairly soaked with
imported wines, do not find themselves
in tiptop condition to pass upon inn
portant affairs of state. He woult
adopt as his motto: '.Business before
-subordinating the social t.
the political function. He has some
how wormed the absurd idea into hi,
head, that the American people having
hewn this republic out of the wilder
ness and erected here a new and create,
Nome, have not given these men mic,
lat offices simply to enable them tt
play Lord Chesterfield and Bea,
Brummel, hence he attributes the lapse
Of Our public servants to the ladies.
Its the same old story THE woman
tempted me and did eat
But seriously considered it is unques
tionably true that too much time, pai
for by the public,is frittered away wit
charming women, with winning, din
ing and the frivolities of fashion. Nc
few wealthy men accept public sci
vice solely to get their families in
mersed in the sacred blue waters {