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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1914.

THAT PROSPERITY.

The election over, we ought to see

more of that prosperity. Election al-

ways throw doubt into the minds of

investors, whom the war already had

made timid enough.

Christmas will put a pot of money

in circulation and after that glad

holiday has passed, the impetus to

trade through the European muss

ought to make itself, strongly evident.

Not that we shall see boosp times,

despite predictions. While the war

lasts, a certain amount of caution will

remain advisable. Indeed, along home

lines, continued deprersion is possible.

We ihali not escape our share of the

misery of the most bewildering pe.

rlod mankind has faced in our annals.

BATTLE FOR SUFFRAGE

T4e batt e for suffYIge will go on-and it will eventually be won. The

ladies need not be discouraged over

Tuesday's polling in the nation. The

war played hlavoc with their cause;

and hard times had some effect. The

next period of peace and prosperity

will see substantial gains for them.

Suffrage is already indorsed by two

parties and favored by many leaders

in two others. Th campaign of 1916

probably will see all of the parties in

line for it.The war in Europe undoubtedly

caused many men who otherwise

would have favored suffrage to with-

hold support at this time. There is

a growing uneasiness lest we be

drawn into the struggle and feeling

that if we were, ladies in power might

complicate matters. This belief, of

course, is (ytid:' but politics Is ever

ruled by al ites.

FOOT AND MOUTH SCOURGE.

It never rains but it pours: troubles

never come singly; when one is on the

toboggan, anything may be expected.

And it is the same with nations as

with individuals.

The foot and mouth scourge, cur-

tailing our food supply very seriously

at a time when we are supposed to

keep Europe from starving, is a ter-

rible blow. The only solution maylie in the consumption of less meat by

all of us, for a while. There is some

consolation in the fact that the aver-

age American consumes too muchflesh, anyway.

They make a big sensation, over in

Butte, of the fact that 3,000 men vot-

ed for a dead man. But millions have

voted for a dead one for president of

the United States on several historic

occasions.

Newspapers accomplish the Im-

possible only in "newspaper" fiction

written for the Saturday Evening Post

by maiden ladie* residing in New Eng-land.

The Germans declare their sea sur-

ims will eclipse their land surprises-- n which event, they may have the

British seeing things.

-N{one of the European censors show

i sitaUm's victory is not to be

#@,tbal w ell bas it place. _,

.. THE N.E FREEDOM IThe fight for equal suffrage in. Montanxt: is won. The

constitutional amendment has been :adopted by. not lossthan 2,500 majority atn the full retu~ifs nay make the fig-uires as high im e,000.

Both the advocates and opponents of the measure ex-pected a larger majority in its fator, ,but the margin is suf-ficient to enfrandhise 75,000 women in this state.

While the ultimate result of giving the ballot to womenwill be farreaching, wekdo not apprehend that there will beany immediate rev0lutionary changes in our laws or cus-toms.

The liquor interests carried on a quiet, but effective, cam-paign against the amendment, being influenced by the be-lief that woman suffrage means prohibition.

We believe that they are mistaken. The results in otherstates do not beat out the theory.

Before equal suffrage was adopted in Calfornia, the cityof Los Angeles voted dry; after woman suffrage wasadopted in California, Los Angeles voted wet.

Last Tuesday, statewide prohibition was disastrously de-feated in California. Three months ago, Virginia, not a suf-frage state, adopted statewide prohibition, as did West Vr-ginia a few months' before.

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We have never believed that equal suffrage would .seri-ously affect the numerical ratio of political parties, ques-tions of finance, or matters of public interest, that for.a bet-ter term, we'designate as ordinary, everyday politics.

This, for the simple reason that women are endowed withthe same mental processes as are men.

In political matters, affecting financial policies, such astariff and banking, we believe that women will very largelyfollow the advce of the male members of their family.

In political matters affecting public morals, the .schools,rights of women and children, and like interests, the votesof women will be a power for good.

Fundamentally the question of equal suffrage is a biolog-ical one. While the exercise of the franchise will not makewomen masculine, or 'cause them to neglect the home, orcare more for dogs and less for babies and except in rareinstances, to seek for public office, it will surely tendtowards the abolition of the presenit moral code that fixes =one standard for men and another for women.

The adoption of equal suffrage will tend toward a bettertype of candidates in local politics.

The votes of women will constitute a vast reservoir ofstrength to draw upon when great moral questions are atissue.

To the well-to-do woman, living in a sheltered home, theballot is not of so much consequence, but to the unmarriedworking woman, with no positive voice in the regulation ofhours of labor, conditions of employment,"and wages, it willprove a tremendous force towards the betterment of socialand industrial conditions everywhere.

All honor to the Anfia Shaws, Jane Addams, Ruth Mc-Cormicks, Jeanette Rankins,, Mary Stewarts and Jessie.Thompsons,,whose indefatigable work in the cause of equalsuffrage has raised the political status of Montana womenfrom that of serf to citizen.

More and more citizenship is becoming a duty instead ofa privilege.

SThe Way They Take It -FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

(Col. Sam Gordon in the YellowstoneJournal.)

It is, of course, much too early tomake intelligent comment on the re-sults of the campaign, but from theindications divulged by the first re-

iports from everywhere, the conditionrevealed is that the republicans havegained and the progressixes have al-Smost disappeared. To any progressivewho has held to the progressive partyas a political machine, to be used--ifthe opportunity offered, or could bemade-- to carry him into office, thisdisappearance of the party will . n-doubtedly be looked upon as a griev-ous event, and the time spent inmarching and counter-marching as aprogressive, as time wasted, but iothe msn who is a progressive at heart,and on principle only, the disappear-ance of the party as a political entitydoes'nt spell much. To the man lastreferred to, progressive principles aremerely expressions of desire for goodgovernment, not for party or partisancontrol, and if the progressive wavehas done nothing else, it has indeliblyimpressed on the minds of all intelli-gent people that the party tab is norecommendation if the man wearing itis not to be desired as a public serv-ant.

There are just as many progressivesof the right kind still in existenceas there were in 1912. hut it Is too truethat the righteous spirit that pervadedthe mass of them in that campaign, tooverwhelm and destroy the whitedsepulchers of the republican party evenat the cost of democratic success, isnot the moving force pow as then. Toofrequently and too emphatically hasit been pointed out to progressives inthe past two years, that within alltheir zeal and high purpose, they haveonly succeeded in figuring in the du-blous position of "assistant democrats,"and while no progressive need chargehimself with an error in helping toelect Woodrow Wilson instead of Wil-liam Howard Taft, that consolationcomes to him only in a general way,and he has been too often demindedthat President Wilson, intelligent, pureand high-minded as he is, has on manyoccasions permitted himself to be usedby politicians for purely partisan pur-poses. Such instances exposed his feettof clay, but knowing that he has them,

let. us hope that they may be stoutenough for him to use il stamping outsome peculiarly partisan excesses.

On the whole and by a large ma-jority, his administration has beensuch as has commanded the respectand jpproval 9t the country at large,

but he has not yet attained the claimon the people's support, that he canrisk the wholesale approval of ademocratic congress such as has justadjourned; and it is perplexing toprogressives who have a high opinionof the president, to think that with hisclear mental power, he can lend him-self to any such farcickl performancewith the belief that it will carry anyweight, and-if he knows that it willnot-that he should stoop to the pub-lic indorsement of some who he Cer-tainly would not indorse in private. Itis too evident that our president is stilla politician in the worst sense of theword, and that he relies on combina-tions purchased through and by suchacts as this, to get the legislation thathe thinks is essential. Perhaps hethinks he can be more "his own man" ain a second term if he wins that prize aby judicious distribution of his favorsduring the first. But at worst, he isno worse than other presidents whohave preceded him, and some betterthan some, but still a disappointmentin that he has feet of clay. 1

Perhaps there is a sting-to the realprogressive-in the fact that Mr. Wil-so has fqrgotten who made him presi-dent. HIe ascribes all power and gloryto the democratic party, but the meresttyro In public affairs knows differently.It was due the progressives of the na-tion, who made his position possible,that he would have flavored his dem-ocracy with progressiveism; but he hasmostly failed to do this, and has gath-i ered about him as advisers some very

pronounced ,exemplars of bourbonismwith only a modicum of democraticD progressivelsm.

The result of the congressionalelections, if it holds as it now points, 1

.i will be a trimming of the large demo-s cratic majority in the, house, which

ordinarily would be interpreted asa veering of public opinion to the

e stormy quarter for the democracy, ando a disapproval of the president's first

. two years, but the spokesmen of then dominant party have'already discount-

r, ed that mark of disapproval by assert-d ing that it was desirable that the ma-e jority be reduced, as it would then hbe

y more managable. 'But when "Uncled Joe" Cannon and "Boss" Penrose win

- back, it looks as if a good many pro-t gresslves had decided that--fo a whilea, -they would cease. to be "assistantt democorate." Yet they may have theIt leaven of progressiveism still in their'

systems and it will work up. Speak-- ing for itself, The Journal never went

a through a pleasanter campaign than Iit this, free from party ties, though still I

", strongly progressive,

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REPORTS OF EXPANDING BUSINESS FROMALL SIDES

(By Robert H. Benedict.)The great codi'nercial organism of

this country is taking on new liferapidly, as evideinced by scores of op-timistic reports coming in from alldireetiQnhs sincinhe middle of October.

The enormous.demands upon us fromthe warring nations for textiles, can-non, grain, canned meats, flour andother foodsttiffs, motor trucks and au-tomobiles, harness and other leathergoods, rubber boots, clothing and ahost of other articles, have given greatimpetus to a trade that was alreadyreviving rapidly to supply home needs.

It must be remembered that thegreat exports now moving to Europeare in large part extraordinary. Theycomprise millions of dollars worthof goods that would not be needed atall in times of, peace, or if needed,would be manufactured in Europe.

The meat-paclcing industry is oneof the great beneficiaries, and thepackers are bu:ping up all the cattlethey can find, at the same time plac-ing 'big orders for .tin for cans.

Makers of I.xt4le machinery are

FRENCH FORTS POOR,(Correspondence of Assoclated Press.)

The Hague. Oct. 13.-Accoitding torecent reports in the German, pressnot all the French fortifications a'e sostrong as had been .bellved. Sev•ralof those which have been taken by theGermans are said to have been anti-quated, little effort to modernize themhaving been spe)nt. on them. A note-worthy example of this, and one whichis rather typical of what the Germansassert they have found, is the case ofFort Lee Ayvelles, which, located al-most due south of Mezieres-Charle-ville, guarded the bridges and fords ofthe Meuse in that locality.

Describing 'what he saw in the ,fortafter tt h~ad been occupied by the Ger.mans,' Henry Binder, war.correspond-ent of the Berliner Tageblatt, says inthe idbite of that paper of October 9,Lmong -other things:

Dependent on Belnians"Alt 'i'rench forts along ti Belgian

border have been constructed with suchcarelessness that one can easily deter-mine the degree to which tlle Frenchdepended upon their Belgiannneighbor.Generally the forts were lei't in thestate they had when built, 4 nd sincethe plan of their construct on' datesback to 50 years ago, the sarategicalweakness of several or more of them isplain enough.

"A typical example of this is FortLee Ayvelles which guarded thebridges and fords of the Meuse southof Meakerese-Charleville, and which wasshot out of the ground with 300 shotsfrom our 21-centimeter mortars. Thefort was built in 1878 and was armedwith 40 pieces. Its main armamentwas two batteries of six guns eachof 9-centhineter caliber, dating fromthe years 1878 and 188. and which hada range of only four kilometers (note:the range of even the smallest German

buying much pig iron to supply thenew demand resulting from-large salesof textiles to Europe.

Russia is negotiating in New Yorkfor 200 locomotives. France has or-dered ;$26,000,000 worth of six-inchfield guns from the Bethlehem Steelcompany.

Activity in the home building tradeis bringing many orders for Btruttur-al steel. The certainty that enormousorders will be placed in this countrywhen the time comes to replacebridges and other structurems destroyedin the war, gives the steel industrysomething to look forward to.

If we care to anticipate further, wecan see Europe's needs afte3r the warbringing an unprecedentetl wave ofProsperity to us, but there, is enoughto cheer us in the knowle.ge of whatis coming to us right now.

From every hand we hqar of facto-ries taking on more men jand workingto Capacity to fill Eurobean orders.Let us grasp the psycho'ogy of thesituation and do ll we c(n to spreadthe news of Increasing jactivity andgrowing confidence. I_

siege pieces is never l.ss than eightkilometers).

Guns of 1i84

"In addition there we e found in thefort several 12-centime er bronze gunswhich had been cast /in 1884, whilein the casemates we f und several ml-trailleuses and five-b .rrelled revolverguns which had been litended to sweepthe moats. In the for .was also foundseveral old mortars from the year1842-old muzzle-load rs with the-typ-ical pyramids of roun cannonballs be-side them-guns of a type we use inour villages to fire sa utes.

"The fort showed ne ;lect everywhere.Not alone was its ar •ament antiquatedand primitive, but-th management be-fore and during the' attack must havebeen defective. T e road to the forthad been blocked merely by felledtrees and an occ• lonal barbed-wireentanglement, and1 trees befoie one ofthe batteries of th forts made it nec-essary to replace it after our troopshad arrived. To do this 'a winch hadto be used. But they succeeded onlyin getting one oP the pieces into posi-tion. This gun ,asoitannded to serveagainst aircraft above the fort, andan effort had b -n made to give it thenecessary high- ngle elevation by dig-ging a trench alodnd it in which thelimber rested. even at that, the ele-vation secured -as insufficient.

German Fire Accurate

"Our artillery bombarded the fortfrom a north esterly direction andworked with precision that wouldbe hard to eq al. One of the batteriesin ,the fort h been put out of actionby a- bull's eyt. shot for each piece, andin other cas-e the barrel of the gunhad been tor from the carrIge, leav-ing a scrap heap of barrel, wheels,limber parts and masonry. One of thebarrels had dents four centimeters

deep where fragments of our burst-ing shells had hit it.

"In this 'helpless cage' a garrison ofIabout 900 men had been stationed. It isundeir'tood that the men fled as soonas fire was opened by our artillery. In-stead of placing this force in trenchesthey depended upon thip poor positionwith the result that their defeat wascomplete morally and physically.

"Tlere is the grave of the poor coth-mandant who witnessed the futilestruggle and then saw his men utterlyrouted by a numerically superiorenemy. The poor man ended his life.Simple German soldiers have -honoredthis deed by a massive cross of woodupon which they painted in good let-tering the words:

"'Here rests the brave commandant.He found it impoAsible to survive thefall of the fort in his charge. R. I. P.With this simple cross of wood theGerman soldier honors in you the herowho did his duty-Second Landwehr-Pioneer Company, VIII, A-K., Sep-tember, 1914.' "

Fuel tests by the geological surveyhave developed that at low rates ofworking run-of-mine coal gives ahigher equivalent evaporation thanbriquettes; at medium rates there islittle difference, and at high ratesbriquettes do considerably better.

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