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The Anaconda StandardI librarangMayor Frink* sought n» » iiruuKh th* nrlt;lilianlt; * . foilarger r*v* nu»* than the nn«-ndl! tax will yield, ftu* h i nuin difll ulti ■** arose, it being not clour whether thlt;law permit* or does not permit the up*plication :lt; the liitrai fund of err-j tain oth»*r revenues sugg* sod for it by th*‘ mayor. Th** general tax of on* -8 T A \ D \ R D ITHLISHI ; Po\| PANTPublish*-?* atiU Pruprli'iorh.Printed Every Day in the Year, i it the Post office at Anaconda a*«**cond-ci«i**s mail matter.Sihslt;-rtptfon Kates. Payable in AdvancePally and Sunday, one *\ir ____Daily and Sundry. month**Dally and Sunday, three month*Daily and Sunday, one month .Sunday, one ye«*i ...I10.W»5.00S. 001 .♦*' •*tnI iulii• »« *A itMain Office--Standard Block, Anaconda. Business Office TOphnne No. IEditorial Rooms T* I* phone .... N*BRANCH OFFICES.Butte—28 East Broadway. Tolephor c 41-Missoula~llt» YY* st Main street shone liftGreat Falls—Post office News StandT* hJ. Morton. Manager Foreign A ivt tiring*New Tork Office .,.K Nassau tr**tChicago Office *7 Washington tr»»twnThe Stand .rd can be found at the following news stand'New Tork city at Brentanos, UnionSquare.lllE . .. ^ ' .Chicago, at Vandersllce’s, 217 Dearborn •treet.Chicago, at Auditorium Annex.Minneapolis, at Kavanajgh's, 50 SouthThird street San Francisco at Palace hotel.Denver, at Seven te# nth street.Salt f*ake City, at 51 Weat Second south street.Salt Lake City, at Salt l^ake News Co.*a Ogden. Kind’s 304 Twenty-flfth street. Spokane, at 108 North Howard street. Tacoma, at 1.121 Pacific avenue.Seattle, at Hanbury s. 301 First avenue south.Portland, at Portland hotel.Kansas City. My, Riekslcker s, Ninth and Walnut street*All general business letters and correspondence should ho addn need to theSTANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Anaconda. M ntkvECRNTI,Y the Standard ref. rred to a petition which Is said to be receiving many signatures and in which the national conventions are asked to include m fheir platforms a plunk declaring in favor of ultimateIndependence for the Philippines.•Governor Taft, now secretary of wa», does not approve this suggestion. Homebody asked him. a few days ago, why not make this promise. His answer was: Because. If you do, then just assurely as the sun rises a delegation will appear before you withlng three weeks staking whether that Independence is to come in six months or a year. The demagogues ar-t the elements of the population on which they work are not Interested In an Independence which is coming after they are dead.”When It comes to predictions as to what the Filipinos may do under given circumstances, Mr. Taft Is good authority. But suppose the islanders were to act precisely as he says they would -can harm come of that? He himself has been quoted as intimating that, in time, our wise policy will be to accomplish the separation of the Philippines and the United States.Is it the Taft idea that it is wise to keep the people of the islands in ignorance of our intentions or to put barriers in the way of their appeals forWhy not let them ask and ask often? The answer from Washington would probably be that before independence can be achieved, the Islanders must tirst develop themselves up to the point where they are fitted to he free. Jt la possible that the inducement thus held out would stimulate the Filipinos to progress.The logic of Mr. Taft’s position seems to be that our country ought to have good intentions respecting the Philippines, but that It Is not wise to let the natives know what these good intentions are. or even that we have any in mind.rTHEY KEEP COMIX..HW sentence to deportation of iUhlnaman who claims Sai Francisco as his birthplace and Anaconda as his place of residence calls fresh attention to the mendacity, in-Senility, industry and perseverance displayed by the heathen Chinee in his efforts to establish himself in America. Th* particular ('hi nee in question has no proof whatever to offer In support of his allegation at San Franciscan nativity, and notoriously the mere word of a Chinaman counts for nothing. The Immigration authorities are having their hands full trying to break up the industry of smuggling live Chinamen into this country. The commonest trick is for a Chinaman to assert that he is a native of the United States. He declares that he is confident of this, hut that, as he was the merest infant when he was born, he cannot remember the town or any of the attendant circumstances, if he cannot name the town, cannot he name the state? No, he does not know anything at all about it. He gets into a wooden condition of mentality, from which nothing can budge him. The inspectors assumethat he has been coached and warned that he must say nothing after his assertion of the general proposition of his American nativity, or he will get into trouble. The usual procedure is to lock him up in a detention pen until he can be deported. Then his counsel comes to the front with a writ of habeas corpus,and the cage is carried into the courts. The number of cases In litigation in this way, and never figuring in the newspapers, is said to be astonishing.If the Chinaman or Ids friends can produce money enough to carry on the litigation, he may be successful in his effort to stay in the country. A simpler method is resorted to by many Mongolians. that of stealing into the United States via Canada or Mexico. The other night an Inspector on the border dragged three Chinamen out of one berth in a Pullman car which wa% entering this country from Canada. Of course the porter is responsible, but it is next to impossible to prove a case against a porter when he swears by everything holy that he has no idea how the yellow peril got into his car, and when the yellow peril Itself refuses to offer a word of explanation.Not long ago railroad men were preparing an empty refrigerator car for n fresh trip, when, on opening the tank that holds the ice, they found a few unmelted cakes from the last supply still lying at the bottom, and on top of these the corpse of a Chinaman, frozen stiff. An investigation followed, resulting !nTSUTYE’8 democrats, assembled yesterday In city convention, transacted business in pond form and they submit excellent nominees for the offices to be tilled by thewards this spring. The proceedings in the convention were characterized byearnestness and. manifestly, the main purpose was to select a ticket entitled to the approval and the support of the voters In the city. The standard commends the ticket to the favor of thepeople of the city.In resolutions the convention dealt principally with topics that are of local Independence? Interest: pledges were given of faithfulefforts for the promotion of projects that relate to the prosperity and thewell-being of Butte. Pome of thlt;»s«* areof much more than ordinary importance. A decoration respecting them is timely and wfll undoubtedly be help-fuLThe convention. In its membership, was the product of primaries whichhad large attendance, it was broadly representative of Butte democracy, and Its work merits the approval and the loyal support of democrats who vote In Butte. The democrats always carry Butte when they come to the front, in a falr-and-sq.u*re convention managed according to open, honorable, democratic methods. Assuredly, yesterday's convention answers that description. Ifthe rank and flle do as well as the delegates did yesterday, there can h«* no question as to this spring’s results.f1 8 IT seems to the Standard, the / A members of Anaconda's city • council, under all the circumstances, acted wisely and well in dealing with the ordinance which Involves city ownership of the Hearst Free Library. It is a subject which has received the council’s careful and intelligent attention.At the outset Mayor Frtnke evinced deep personal interest in the project and he manifested a candid and earnest purpose to do the very best thing.In all that concerned the public good, in dealing with this very important matter. For their part, the aldermen earnestly sought light on the question, to the end that this splendid gift, if it comes to the city at all. may come in such manner as to make its management and use of the utmost service to all citizens.After the first draft of the proposedordinance was submitted. MayorFrinke went actively in quest of suggestions and recommendations, with the result that a second ordinance was drawn. The two thus proposed werepatiently considered by the council. Inconference outside the city hall, with the result that a third proposed ordinance was prepared. It received the approval of the council last night.If this ordinance is not idea! it is. at least, so excellent with respect to vital points that no fair-minded citizen will be disposed to find fault with its provisions. Almost all of them warrant the belief that, under them, the library can be managed along the lines of the best methods. Possibly It would have been a little better had the power to lix the salary of the librarian and of other employes been lodged with the library trustees instead of with the council; it may, however, be that Montana’s crude municipal code would make that im-possible, dn any event the proposed ordinance, as It seems to us, is. In its gresent shape, altogether creditable.This ordinance will be submitted to tbs people of Anaconda for approval rejection at the com In* city election, provides for the levy and collection P one-mill tax, the proceeds thereof SO constitute a library fund. Thethus obtained, by tax, will be about $3,600 a year. It has cost more than that, annually,| mill is th»* limit allowed bvj law through n tr* nera! levy.This question of w?iys and n library support Is one which, no doubt, vAll be talked iibout Is -j now ntid ^1* cfloti dntr, The Stand trd I contents Its* If, for thl* morning, vhhI this general statement of fact- aboutj fh»* preliminary steps. It win yim to 1 put before the community all the con -* f ’ *i-ms that tend toward 1t conclusions, and the Standard will cheerfully print all pertinent eomtniii cations from eltfgcns of Anaconda, discussion of the ordinance. This morning, by way of preface, it is per*i-nont and proper to say that Mayor Frinke took up this matter In a com* rm ndable way and that he and his associates In the council have sought to act with public-spirited prudence in the reparation of the ordinance now sub* milled to the*r townsmen*Et HKTtRV TAFT** VIKW'**THE LIBRARY ORDIIVAXEIT'S A GOOD TICKET.TUESDAY. March 15. l!*r.l
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana, US
Tue, Mar 15, 1904
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