Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-07
Brief and Breezy

come out OF its sectlOnallsm. Does
he really believe that he and Luke
| Wright were the whole cheese and the
mites thereof?
The Ways and Means Committee is
discovering what painful operation
| it is to jar loose an infant industry
from the bottle habit.
Attorney General Bonaparte issues
a statement that he will not be in the
Taft Cabinet. This news will be re-
caived by the public with entire com
posure.
Judge Taft and President Gompers
shook oratorical hands across the AS
tor banquet table in New York recent
". We may all be happy yet.
The Shah may have become embold-
ened to abolish the constitution be-
cause Of the fact that his Great and
Good Friend had set aside the Consti-
tuition Of the United States.
There one thing about it, and that
is it is easier to be a liar than it is
to be malefactor of great wealth.
Speaker Cannon is evidently quite
satisfied with the power the rules of
the House confer on him, no matter
how much his fellow-members may
chafe under their operation.
If the women of this country had
the right of suffrage it is likely they
would look into a brutal tariff that i'm
poses duties of upward of 100 per
cent, on their wooden dress goods and
the fannels Of their children.
Americans make some complaints
about their Senate, but the English
Liberals are reported to be aiming at
the abolition of the House of Lords
and the Substitution of something
closely modelled on our Senate. It is
human nature to be disconnected with
possessions and to change them for
something else.
Mr.. Carnegie has stopped giving
away Libraries just long enough to
give away the steel trust.
The President has been seriously
warned against the insects in Africa
but how much more pestiferous the
presidential bee which will be flying in
America when he gets back.
4 San Francisco man gave his wife
four millions of dollars. Husbands who
have been groaning about the difficulty
Of finding suitable Christmas gifts may
lay this suggestion aside for next
year.
The funeral of the late Emperor of
China is said to have cost several
Of dollars and all this for a
little man for whom nobody cared
while he was alive.
The new German Ambassador is
said to be an expert golf player. Exit
the tennis cabinet and enter the golf
cabinet.
Our good northern neighbor, where
he language, religion, the laws, the
Institutions and the people are SO SINH
ar to those of the United States that
t is difficult to distinguish Canadian |
except through the expression of his |
strong fealty to the mother country, |
S moving forward with wonderful pro-
sress in agriculture, commerce, manu-
'actures and in the development of
transportation facilities. In the last
we've years, immigrants to the num-
,er Of |. 200, 600 have come into the
;ountry. As the population of the
United States increases, taxing the
apacity of our farmers to furnish the
ountry with the necessary food sup
lies, it is to the Northwest that we
must turn for the sources Of physi-
al life, The commercial interests OF
he countries are SO nearly reciprocal
nd Identical that free trade between
hem cannot be long postponed.
From various sources come evil
enees Of the killing effect of the tenn
erance wave on the liquor traffic. A
arge wholesale firm of dealers has
one into bankruptcy with the explain
ton that the temperance wave has