The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-08-31
"Fla1,1ing Coffins .

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The Old Guard is burying the dead in Flaming cof-
fins Devoted and faithful to the last P. J. Ggan
and Larry Dobe in charge of the last sad rites The
inquest will be held the early days Of the coming
November Times changing very rapidly but good
many people still living in the dead past That
fusion is to be adopted between the republicans and
the democrats with the idea Of jointly opposing the
encroachnets Of the Nonpartisan Labor League is no
longer secret Musseshell county is preparing for
joint battle Of the old parties against the workers. The
League controls approximately two thirds Of the demo
cratic votes in that county; in the coal mining camps
the League is especially strong The miners busly
engaged in supplying the fuel for the Flaming coffns.
There are many "burning questions to be considered
at the coming presidential election Of which is,
how much money will be needed ''n the conspiracy to
buy the presidency" by the old party leaders?
After the fever Of feafer wearinesses, sicknesses
fightings and despondngs, languor and fretfuness,
struggling and succeeding all the charges and
chances Of this troubled and unhealthy sate' at last
comes death-at length the white throne of God-at
length the beatfc vision In the life of every there
sudden transitions Of feeling, which almost
miraculous. At if magician had touched
the heavens and the ear the dark clouds melt into the
air. the wind falls and serenity succeeds the storm The
which produce these changes may have been
long at work within but the changes themselves are
instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient
Death to all. Some meet death in 'flamng
coffins while fighting for their country Others are
politically buried in FLAMING coffns while their souls
consumed with the thoughts of wrongs done to their
fellowman What do we live for anyway if it is not to
make life less difficult to each other?
One leak in ship will sink it; one wound strikes
Goliath Dead as we'll as three and twenty did Caesar;
Delilah may do Samson much spite and mischief
as all the Phistnes; broken wheel spos the whole
clock; veins bleeding will let out all the vitals as
well more; fly will spoil whole box of ointment;
one bitter herb all the potage By eating apple
Adam lost Paradise; one lick of honey endangered
Johathans life; Achan trouble to all Israel
Jonah raises Storm and becomes adng too heavy
for whole ship; one Flaming coffin" was about all
the American people got for millions of dollars expended
when the life Of the nation at stake One little
daily paper in Butte made the exposure of the spruce
fraud One distinguished service medal was given to
one John D. Ryan, who served for dollar year. for
his Flaming coffin sent to France during the war;
One state has been politically lost to the SYSTEM be-
cause the people have risen up to destroy
an unhoy alliance. 4e
Great duties andx11oble purposes make men seem
part of the world ITSELF Humanity is drawn together
and held together by the living bond of Truth That
which is false must perish-and does perish It would
be better for us that the extinguished than
that be without the Truth The nobest life is the
life that gives that loses ITSELF that overfows as it
were and irrigates the great fields of human anxiety
and TOLL the warm hopeful hearty helpful social life;
the LIE that cheers and comforts and sustains by it's