The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-03

in The Muscular that Eddie Booth
wrote an opinion upholding him." The
people will watch the governor and
attorney general carefully in the flu
ture. Perhaps some future move will
reveal their true status in the case.
Meanwhile let us give them credit for
being honest in their decisions, even
if We do not agree with them politi-
cally. Anyway, Senator Edwards
opinion of a mans political honesty is
not much to judge by.
Log-rolling, did the governor say?
Yes, log-rolling; sandbagging, holding
up a dairy inspection bill that would,
if passed, protect the babies; peddline
]townsites; smuggling; lying about the
electrical workers protection bill;
threatening to taxi away educational
institutions from their present places;
trading county division gold bricks;
piling 100000 of money on the speak
er's desk, and then having a copper
representative kick about it going into
the school fund (pass the cider); brib-
ing the fireman to roast us out when
we were trying to stave Off the pas
sage of IS. 3. 81 in the Seventh as
sembly; forcing the governor to cal a
special session to put a rival out of
business by means of the fair (?) trial
bill-in fact, anything, any old kind
Of bait, any kind of a so long
as the A~malgamated interests can run
the state and walk off with their mil
lions annually, and leaving the dear
people to pay the taxes, while the
Amalgamated owns the water power of
the state, and in getting the revenue
therefrom, charging whatever they
please.
l fail to see what special kick the
county division men had coming
when they upWrapped their prizes and
found they had traded the honor and
welfare of the state for a nice, new,
shining gold brick. The copper bunch
has been trading gold bricks for the
privilege of getting away with the sWag
ever since Marcus Daily put in with the
Standard Oil bunch. These men will
promise anything, will do any dirty po-
litical trick, just SO the copper bunch
can get away with the swag; they
will furnish Representative Cults with
arguments that oun like the top
story of the Hennessy building; they
will lie about the republicans, demo-
Gratis, progressives. and about how ex.
travagant the socialist administration
of Butte has been-anything to control
Butte and in this way control Montana.
They will sacrifice state and personal
honor. No matter o nan men-die
of tuberculosis in the mines, no matter
how many are crippled, even if they
are not all reported by the inspector.
They will promise the miners a COM
pensatiOn act n the electrical work.
ers a protection act, and then down it
in Gallwey's committee. They will do
anything to the end that John d. and
Johnny can get away with the sWag.
John DIS collection box needs it. John
d. says, Save our n boys, and
be like me-" And then just look at
Johnny-What a promising young man
Johnny is; sure thing, he and his
bunch are promising, and bright, too.
The next morning after we had passed
the copper tax law in the house l
shook hands with Johnny at the Gran
don hotel, and when l mentioned it to
him he replied, "Oh, well, it will never
go through the senate" 1 wonder how
Johnny knew?
John DIS collection box will always
be good and fat while the people out
west are so easy at election time, and
there is such a market for gold bricks
in Montana. C. H. CONNER.
Eureka, Mont, March 81, 1913.