Show I EDUCATIONAL WORK STILL I NEEDED The editor of the Anaconda Standard has just returned to Montana from a visit to the east He gives his Impressions im-pressions to the Butte InterMountain and they show that there is still gieat need of spreading the gospel cf free silver He said he returned home impressed im-pressed with the idea that Montana has a duty to perform and one to which the people ot that state had not jet fully measured up That duty said Mr Durstan relates to the spread of the truth respecting silver in eastern communities where the question Is grossly misunderstood The belief is I spreadinJ throu hout th t rn I tinued he that the politics of the autumn of 18S8 will result in the election elec-tion of a free coinage house of representatives repre-sentatives The McKinley peoole fear it Be that as i may a national campaign cam-paign for free coinage is ah ad of us I must be a campaign of Instruction I come home impressed first of all with the idea that It is to be a contest In which Montana must take a share a larger and more generous share I mean than we took last year and I hope to see the newspapers of the state take hold heartily in the effort to awaken the people of the te state to a sense of the duty that rests upon them I In the work of spreading the truth among voting constituencies which have not yet heard the truth > r nhich hearing i have not fully appKh nJed i Wo may as well begin at once to think less about what the east can or cannot do anfl more about what we ought to do And ir isright and reasonable rea-sonable that in the way of assistance toward popular education the leaders in the silver crusade should expect much of us What is pointed out as the duty of Montana in the matter of aiding in the spread of the truth about silver t < s the duty of all the states in the fr Intermountain inter-mountain region The ground has not been half or quarter gone ever and i even where gone overnot so thoroughly i as it should be I I Much ado Is being made at the present I pres-ent time about what the administration administra-tion will do for silver by way of in I i ternational bimetallism Whatever Is done be it much or little will be the 1 result of the fear of the McKinley j j people a to the result of the congressional congres-sional elections in 1SDS I things do not mend and nothing is done t restore silver compietely or partially it is almost J 1 al-most certain that there will be a free coinage house of representatives elected in 1S9S But If things mend and there Is a fair measure of nrosnerltv and with some prospect of something being done for silver by way of international bimetallism bi-metallism no matter how little the election of a free coinage house is by no means so certain That interna tonal bimetallism will be conjured with and very cleverly there is not the least doubt But the surest way to accomplish something for silver is to continue the educational campaign In favor of free coinage |