The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-03-20
A PRESS COMMENT.

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STATE PRESS COMMENT.
The Haytien affair IL not considered.
any warrant for spelling the Pacific
fleets program.-Butte Miner. az
II Idaho let's Orchard escape the
gallows she will add no new :luster
to her escutcheon.-Butte News.
Representative Willett Of New YORK;
may go to the head Of the Butte
Miners class in political economy
Missoulian.
The most unkindest cut Of all will
he delivered when the populists nomi-
nate Mr. LaFollette. for president
Butte Inter Mountain.
Spring Is at hand, and unfortunate
~ the rivers Of Idaho, Washington
and Oregon r rapidly rising to, the
occasion.-Anaconda Standard.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. slogan
is not SO wild, fierce and strident
this spring as 1t will be next fall.
Anaconda STANDARD.
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II Philadelphia .borrows nine million
dollars to provide municipal work for
the unemployed. the staid old city
ought to show some signs 81 almost
life.-Butte Miner. 9 Y
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An exchange says that the mort.
gage came direct down to us from
the Romans. When one has q mort.
gage to pay OF It seems Older than
that.-Musselshell News.
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Some people : 20 Dious that they
viii ask the Lord to bless the food
they are about to eat. while the
butchers and grecers are trying to.
collect their pay.-sidney Herald.
"Tell the truth, even il it is mex
pedient," says young John D. Rookie,
Teller. But what II your lawyer won't
let you?-Meagher County Republi,
can. ii
It Is. predicted that IL years hence
Bryan will have ceased to be . candi-
date and a woman will be president
of these United SHtates.-:virginia
City Times.
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The sugar beet industry. With z fac
tory here. will. give the cattle feeding
business : great boost. Sugar beet
pulp will put fat on beef cattle more
rapidly than, anything else known
Dil len Tribune. I, a4@. Il. ,ss,
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At s p. M. Sunday, Harry Logan
stole a woman's purse; ats s:sosa. n.
Monday, Harry Logan sentenced.
to ! nine Inc years. IS tgA..agspen1tlentiary;; that
is . record that lyilltrdo much to,pre-
serve order in; -Missoula.--Missoullan.
sSpaas WI x
Those In position to know state that
will vote differently this elee,,
ton than 1t did four years ,ago-by the
voting machines. AS II to think
we have not had machines for years
to tell US how to vote.-Missoula Her
aid. "a
Warden Frank Cunley' Of the state
penitentiary will hereafter have AZ
made to fit his gun instead
Of q gun to At his pocket. Sawed7off
that lessen the power Of
penetration are not reliable weapons
Of protection.-Fergus County Argus.
Eastern Montana, republicans and
democrats alike should stand to-
when they go to their re-
spective state conventions. And Il
they fail to do SO. they will continue
to be overlooked like the p%roverbial
white chip.-Forsyth Journal.
There has been considerable dis
cussion OF late as to whether tobacco
swoking vas injurious, but that does
not concern us half so much ~ to-
bacco splitting. We really think the
latter is injurious to the one spat
upon II tits kept up to excess.-Mis-
soula Herald.
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With MI. Bryan. claiming the credit
for. all the things Mr.. Roosevelt has
done,> which Senator Tillmaa de-
.nounces, the "peerlessaleader" is left
in q peculiar position as q result Of
the outbreak Of the South Carolina
senator.-Helena Record.
Big Timber will now show the peo-
pie q Montana that It's name is not .
and 1t will rise to q greater
and Tar better city than 1t eve was
the great IRE. And it will build