HELENA WEEKLY HERALD2

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E. E. FISK...............................................Editor.

THEIiSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1S7G.

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The intervening month between this time and the opening of the Territorial Fair in this city will soon speed away and bring the day and the event almost before we are aware of it. We have good reasons to expect fair weather. The fall rains we have some rea­son to believe have already fallen. Never since white men knew of this country has there been such a rainfall as the present sea­son. It has kept the face of Nature in a con­tinual glow of freshness and verdure, and promises the pleasantest autumn that has ever been seen. The time for hot weather is past. It cannot become very dry and dusty though we were to have no more rains at all. At this stage of the season we do not expect any who have not already made a beginning can mature any grain, fruits, or vegetables for the Fair, but a little care and forethought in saving and selecting the best of every produc­tion will enable us to see a better display in every department than has ever been seen, in spite of the fact that smaller acreage has been under cultivation than usual and the devasta­tion of grasshoppers. We hope our citizens will generally feel a pride and personal re­sponsibility in making the Fair a success. It is an institution that is not run for the benefit of the Directors, and still less for the benefit of the stockholders. Its principal design is to awaken interest, excite competition, and promote success in production—to extend the range of personal experience by bringing to­gether the best fruits of the experience of all. Men learn by observation much more easily and rapidly than by merely reading or hear­ing. We are living in a comparatively new country, whose resources and capabilities of soil and climate are yet to be tested. There is every inducement to make experiments, as every successful experiment is an actual in­crease of the wealth of the country. While the value of our mines is being proved, other and even richer and more enduring sources of wealth may be developed. One harvest­ing of our rich placers generally exhausts their wealth, but crops of grain, fruits, and vegetables may follow each other with in­creasing richness as long as time endures. We believe our mineral veins will yield a profusion of wealth for thousands of years, but even these will some time be exhausted, while the annual production of our soil, under constantly improving methods of cul­ture, can never be exhausted.

There is an additional reason why the pres­ent residents of this Territory should exert themselves to make our Annual Fair a suc­cess, in the consideration that this is the best method of advertising the country so as to induce settlement. It is quite a general im­pression that mining countries are good for nothing else ; that only those who have money to invest in the purchase and working of mines, or those who are experienced and content to work in the mines, have any ob­ject in coming to or settling in such a coun­try. While we have special inducements for these classes, we believe we have other and even greater and more permanent and at­tractive inducements for settlers. We have a productive soil and exhaustless resources of rich pasturage. IIow can we better realize to ourselves or proclaim and publish to the world the richness and variety of our resour­ces than by these annual Fairs ? It is a very narrow and unworthy view of our own inter­ests to think that there is no other considera­tion to aid these exhibits than the premiums offered. Those who attend for no other pur­pose will doubtless derive little benefit be­sides ; but it is also true that those who come for the purpose of seeing to learn, and in order to turn their acquired knowledge to practical account, can carry away a harvest of information of more value than all the other harvests of the year.

Those who are satisfied that they already know everything, of course are in poor condition to learn anything, but we hope few of our citizens have thus shut themselves off from the possibility of growth and improvement. There is not an art known among men that ever has or can reach a condition beyond improvement. There is not a person in the world but may improve his circumstances and lighten the labor of his hands by cultivating his brains ; by reaching our after better methods of doing the work of his chosen employment in life ; by carefully observing defects and seeking to remove or remedy them. It is true beyond a doubt that there are in our Territory richer placers and lodes than any that have yet been discovered. We may be daily running over them and die without discovering them, hut whether this be true or not, there are undeveloped resources in the minds of our people, which, if discovered and worked, would prove richer than any other mines.

We have rejoiced over the great Exposition in Philadelphia and the opportunity that it has given to our people to observe and study. We know that it will produce lasting valuable results. Men will go home and think and study over what they have seen, and new in­ventions will be the fruit of this study. Our people have generally been deprived of this great privilege, but they realize that, by a general effort among themselves, they can supply very much of the deficiency. The true policy of a successfull life is to seek to supply by such means as are in our reach those things that are denied us in the ways that we would prefer.

The directors of our Fair feel the finan­

cial responsibility devolved upon them in a great degree, and seek U ■ make the Fair attrac­tive and remunerative, or at least self-sus­taining. If there are those who think that too much attention is given to horse racing, let them contribute the more earnestly to make some other department superior in success. It is not necessary that a man should be an official director and wear a badge to give him power to accomplish his purpose. Every one who will open his eyes and his heart to exert his energies will be able to find congenial spirits who will co-operate with him in any department that he regards most important. Let those who see defects in the usual management, instead of sulking, grum­bling or staying away, come up cheerfully and bravely to tiie rescue and conquer pub­lic opinion and lead it captive to what is more useful.

We hope every one will resolve to do his and her share to make the coming Fair the best one ever had—not only the best in a general sense, but the most pleasant and profitable to themselves, and this will depend exactly upon the amount of generous and energetic efforts personally put forth.

T H E IN D IA N SIT U A T IO N .

The conflicting rumors about a great Indian fight were set at rest by the dispatches re­ceived on Saturday, announcing that the Ind­ians had escaped and the campaign for the season was ended. We are not going to say that Crook and Terry have not done the best that could have been done under the circum­stances. The Indians know as well as Crook himself when his reinforcements arrived that would enable him to commence offensive operations, and very wisely declined the con­test. It is evident that Sitting Bull, with all the braves that he is credited as having, did did not feel that he had any chance with so cautious and experienced a General as Crook. It is evident, also, that the Indians have be­come aware that by allowing the soldiers to collect around them, they will be in poor shape to defend themselves against a winter campaign and have concluded to make use of the season that remains to put their families in safer quarters.

It is a question of greatest interest just now to know where these Indians have gone. The general impression is that they are moving over into British territory, so as to be out of reach of our troops, and be where they can secure supplies of ammunition to prosecute future expeditions. It looks to us as though the situation was becoming much more com­plicated and not at all more satisfactory. These Indians have not yet been punished for the slaughter of Custer’s command, and it is becoming doubtful if they soon will be. So long as they had their families in the country the3r could not well divide into parties nor leave them exposed, but once they succeed in getting those families in safe shelter they can prosecute their marauding enterprises with comparative security and immunity. If the Indians would all of them leave the country and not return, we would bid them good rid­dance and be willing to let the slaughter of our soldiers go unavenged.

We hardly know how the Queen’s subjects will like this invasion of our dusky subjects. It is not to be expected that they are in con­dition to apply to them the rules of civilized warfare and compel them to surrender their weapons and intern them, as was done to the French troops when, fleeing from the vic­torious Germans, they ciossed over into Swit­zerland, and still more recently as was done by France when the troops of Don Carlos crossed over into that country. The inten­tion of these warlike Sioux will no doubt raise a commotion among the British Indians. They cannot hold their own against such a force as Sitting Bull is taking with him. If the British authorities choose to regard these invading Indians as part of the subjects of this nation and hold our government respon­sible for the mischief they do and the ex­pense of subduing them and driving them out, it is likely to lead to much misunderstanding and trouble.

It may not be true that this is the purpose of the Indians to escape from the country. There is much about the dispatches that we cannot yet understand. We cannot see how it was yet that Crook and Terry should have abandoned the main trail, as reported, to make the circuit they did, where they found nothing, and allow the Indians to gain so much the start of them in getting over the river and out of their reach. It hardly seems possible that so large a force of Indians could have crossed the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers without being discovered and inter­rupted by some of the boats now patroling the river and transporting troops and supplies. If they have crossed and escaped, it ought to be known before this time, and until it was known beyond a doubt it hardly seems as if there should be any thought entertained of putting troops into permanent quarters. If the hostile Indians once get over to the north bank of the river, it seems to us that the troops should be posted at many different stations and within connecting distance along the river and keep up a constant patrol to see that none of them returned.

We had feared that the Indians would post themselves in the Bad Lands, where it would be especially difficult and dangerous for troops to follow and fight, and from whence they could issue easily and without warning upon the settlements in the Black Hills. And we prefer to believe the reason that they have gone north of the river, though iu that case we shall be more exposed to their ravages here in Montana. It cannot be long before some positive information of the locality and intention of the Indians as well as of our own troops are known. Meanwhile uncertainty and uneasiness will be felt by ail of us.

The day of establishing toll-roads is over in Montana, and is a matter of general relief and subject of congratulation, but the neces­sity for building new roads has not passed away. Among the schemes of this nature, there is none of greater importance at pres­ent to our city than to open the proposed road direct to that new and nourishing little min­ing city of Butte. The route is reported feasible, and estimates of its cost are re­ported as low as $2,000. It ought not, as it seems to us, to take a single week to raise the needed funds and put the work under contract. The work to be done lies in another county, but it is very little of the benefit from the opening of the road that will fall to that county compared with what oui own citizens will receive. It is not hard to see what localities or what persons in those lo­calities will be most benefitted. Those are the ones that ought to take the matter in hand, start a subscription, and invite proposals for building. Those who stand mourning to see our laboring men leave us for the Black Hills ought to bestir themselves to furnish some employment at home. It will be a good time this fall to carry out this project. After the mining season is over and the crops are gathered, there will be plenty of unemployed hands willingto workfor small compensation on such an enterprise. Some would con­tribute work, others the use of teams, others provisions and tools. It should not be a very difficult matter to secure enough subscriptions of money to make success certain. We pre­sume the people of Butte would do a fair share ; the people of Jefferson county would do something, and when the amount of these contributions are ascertained, we would not think it unreasonable for our citizens to un­dertake to make up the deficiency and de­cree that the work shall be done. It is a project where utility is unquestioned, and any one who will step forth to lead in the enterprise will deserve well of the country. If there is no other way to set the scheme under headway, let us have a public meeting to consider the merits of the subject and as­certain the temper and enterprise of our people. We believe $1,000 could be raised readily in this city, and the rest could prob­ably be collected in some form along the route in Jefferson county and in Butte city. Let some one volunteer to circulate a paper for a call for a public meeting at no distant day. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

T H E G R A V IT Y OF T H E IX H i AN W A lt

Gen. P. E. Connor is an old campaigner who knows whereof he speaks when he talks about the war with the Sioux. He is confi­dent that it will take all winter to conquer Sitting Bull. A “stand up fight,” he says, is the last thing that the Indians want. They will harrass Crook and Terry until the grass fails and the cavalry horses become unser­viceable, and force them to end the campaign for the season. • The mass of the Indians will then winter further north, in the buffalo range, while many of them will return to the agencies and be fed by the Government until the grass grows in the spring. “I regard this,” says Gen. Connor, “as the beginning of a great war, and unless the Government throw's into the conflict at once a much lar­ger body of troops than are now’ in the field, and continue the campaign right through the winter, the Indians will undoubtedly have the advantage and be in better fighting trim in the spring, when they will be re-enforced by allies from bands that are as yet still neutral.” ^ _____

T R U ST E E ELEC TIO N .

Enough interest in the School Trustee elec­tion, on Saturday last, was manifested to draw to the polls a fair attendance of citi­zens. Upwards of 300 votes wrere cast, divi­ded principally between three candidates— Rumley, Crounse, and Walker—with the former named gentleman at the head of the poll. Politics did not enter into the contest to any extent, the concern of voters pri­marily being to select the most suitable man of the several named for the place. Demo­crats contributed to the number ot ballotts thrown for Mr. Crounse, while the Republi­cans helped, perhaps more considerably, to swell the vote of Mr. Rumley. The Catholic citizens were mainly for Major Walker, who voted for him to the number of 54. The election of Mr. Rumley by a plu­rality of 20 votes is accepted as the fairly expressed preference of our people, and is creditable no less to them than to the candi­date. Mr. Rumley is one of our oldest and most esteemed citizens—aman of intelligence and of practical good sense, and free from any of the narrow prejudices of the few who have sought in an illiberal spirit to dictate the management of our public schools. We be­lieve Mr. Rumley will try to do his full duty, without fear or favor, and that our people will have reason to regard his election as wise and of substantial benefit to the schools and to the tax payers who support them.

The treatment of Tilden by Republican jsurnals is highly respectable compared with the “ dressing down ” frequently given the old man by such eminent Democratic papers as the Brooklyn Argus and Cincinnati En­quirer. The latter paper, in a recent issue, thus eulogizes him :

“ Tilden’s surroundings are bad. If elect­ed, he would take to tiie White House the worst set of political jobbers ond thieves ever seen in Washington, and that is saying a good deal. It could not be that a man educated in cunning, in hypocrisy, in iniquity, nominated in corruption and shameless ef­frontery, even though his millions could elect him, would give us the most corrupt administration the country has ever known.

The Bourbon who gibbers a cheap drivel in the columns of. the Independent seems to want a controversy with the Herald about the election of Trustee last Saturday. He cannot be accommodated. Into whatever causes we carry party discussion, it will not be into the public schools. Mr. Crounse, among several others named, was satisfactory to us, and we so stated. The simple fact is— and Mr. Crounse knows it—he owes his de­feat to the support of Barret. Whenever we wish for revenge on a candidate we shall get the Bourbon to support him.

The foolish chatter iu the Independent over this small affair is not useful. The imputa­tion that party politics has entered the arena of the public schools here is, of course, false ; but the charge, or joke, or whatever it is, may do harm. One thing can be said to the credit of all parties in the matter—they have never been influenced by party considerations when acting on the subject of public educa­tion. Mr. Crounse, we are quite certain, will not thank the Bourbon, who effectually slaughtered him on Saturday by advocating his claims, to come out a week after and at­tribute his defeat to his identification with the Fair Association. Mr. Crounse did not seek or want the office, is satisfied with the fact of his defeat, and gratified with the cause of it, and would not approve of our wasting words upon it further.

T he Helena schools should be kept open at least eight months of every twelve. This can easily be done if the right course is pur­sued. Utilize the school fund to the best possible advantage. Don’t divide the meagre means at our disposal in trying to sustain a separate caste school. That has been tried at a cost to the treasury of $50 a scholar against $10 for each scholar in the public schools. It is neither just nor right to cut one month or two months off from the regular school terms every year in order to sustain a separate school for a small number of colored children. There is room enough for all in the several departments of the public school building, and all should be admitted thereto. Prejudice, it there still is any, should give way, and in a liberal, generous spirit, heartily sustain the School Board in every effort to advance the educational interests of the people.

T iie Cincinnati Enquirer is glad to have General Brinkerhoff, the “ Quixotic warrior who led the Liberal hosts of Ohio iu 1872,’’ in full sympathy with the Democratic party, but gives him welcome after this style ; “ He may possibly be able to control his own vote in November, and every vote will count in the great contest. But Mr. Biinkerhoff should understand that while the entire country, and some portions of Europe, consider him an ass, there is no particular reason why he should advertise himself a9 a fool at this time.” Severe on Brinkerhoff and on the Democratic party, but true. Any man who gives the Democracy his full sympathy “ ad­vertises himself as a fool.”

It is always well enough to lead the Re­publicans off the scent w'hen you wTant to run in a Democrat on the sly.—Independent.

The above has reference to the election of School Trustee. The Independent singled out Mr. Crounse, made him its particular candidate, and urged Democrats to vote for him. It was apparently sincere. It now publishes its treachery, boasts of it, and exults over its candidate’s defeat. We don’t know what Mr. Crounse thinks of this treatment, but the average citizen—Republi­can or Democrat—has his opinion of the matter, and it is fair to say that it does not redound to the credit of the Bourbon.

Mb. Dawson, editor of the Charleston (S. C.) News, in answering the article of R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., charging him with cowardice because he declines to fight a duel, gives the record of Rhett. Dawson and Rhett were both in the Mercury at one time, when Rhett asked Dawson to become responsible for all articles written as he (Rhett) was a church member, and could not conscientiously fight a duel. Now’, Rhett prates about Daw­son seeking shelter behind the pretense of a religious principle. Mr. Dawson has the best of the argument, and public opinion will sus­tain him in his war on the code.

Zebulon D. Vance, Democratic candi­date for Governor of North Carolina, said in a recent speech : “ I am sorry that I laid down my arms in 1865. I am in favor of re-enslaving the negro ; and if that cannot be done at once, my idea is to adopt a plan which will bring about such a condition of things. I would deprive the negro of ed­ucational privileges ; I would pay him low’ wages ; I wTould prevent him from acquiring real estate; I would deprive him of arms, am­munition, stock, and agricultural imple­ments.” ^ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Governor Hayes said recently, in answer­ing an urgent appeal that he should appear at some great political gathering : “The first of Republican Presidents was the greatest of American orators before a popular assem­blage, yet from the moment he was nomina­ted in 1860 he was dumb and stayed at home. I think in that Lincoln showed that high appreciation of public trusts which so dis­tinguished him.”

It is proper to correct the Independent if it entertains the notion that Mr. Charles Rumley is a man of its political stripe. He is as far from that as a patriot is from trea­son, oi* an honest man from treachery. What comfort the Bourbon may find in Mr. Rumley’s politics it is welcome to a hundred

1 times over.

Gold in New York, 110£.

He “heaved” a Si— the Bourbon did.

Music by the band in front of the post office this evening._______________

Granville Stuart becomes a permanent resident of Helena.

W e l l , Napton, there’s the Governorship— when Tilden’s elected.

Don’t go West, young man. There are 12,000 unemployed in ’Frisco alone.

Col. W oolfolk makes the speech wel­coming Delegate Magiunis home.

Say that all the local offices be given to the Missouri wing. How will that do as a peace offering ? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

T his is the wray the Evansville (Ind.) Journal states the case : “Hayes—Harrison— Hallelujah.”_________________

Seventeen tons of bullion at the Helena Smelter. Where's the railroad to transport this cheaply to market ?

T he proposed railroad to Benton got a good send off in the meeting at the Court House on Saturday evening last.

The emphasis given by the Virginia City paper to Word’s Democracy above that of Tilden’s is in the italics—Madisonian.

N ew' mineral wealth is opening daily in every part of Montana. Cheap and quick transportation is what is wanted to giye it development.

T he Terre Haute Evening Mail, an inde­pendent paper, expresses the opinion that General Harrison will carry Indiana by 20,- 000 majority.

A Democratic storm is brewing. The party in Montana has all the necessary ele­ments to make it a “lip-snorter..” Wait till Convention time and see.

Gen . J oseph D. Cox, ex-Governor of Ohio, is the Republican nominee for Con­gress in the Toledo Ohio, district. It is believed he will be handsomely elected.

Mayhew thinks his chances of an election, if nominated, would be better than Word’s. Alex, has a hard task to convince any num­ber of Democrats to his way of thinking.

W est Side Democrats, seeking the empty honor of the Delegate nomination, pluck up courage to come over here and “beard the lion in his den.” Paws, gentlemen? You’ll get scratched.

D emocrats who ought to know, say there is only one man with w hom the party can reasonably hope to win in the Delegate race this year. We surmise the man referred to is Major Maginnis.

The Fair Association of Missoula county has invited Hon. Cornelius Hedges to deliver the agricultural address at the forth coming Fair to be held at Missoula, September 13th. Mr. Hedges has accepted.

Last week the Independent affirmed that the School Trustee election had nothing to do with politics. It now asserts right the op­posite, and claims the election result as a Democratic triumph. Tnat’s true Bourbonism tor you.

The Main street paper speaks of its ruse to try and “ run in a Democrat on the sly for Trustee. Major Walker indignantly pro­tests against the intereuce conveyed that the Bourbon was one of the fifty odd Democrats who voted for him.

W hen Democrats plan how best to avoid the endorsement of the Independent, iu wholesome fear of the prejudicial effects to follow, how much more does it behoove Republicans to exercise a wise precaution not to incur its real or pretended favor.

The Bourbon editor gives out the inference that he did not vote for Mr. Crounse, whose election the Independent advocated. Howr- ever this may be, we have the assurance of good citizens that the aforesaid editor did no more personally or by his vote for the successful candidate than he did through the medium of his paper. _________

Deer Lodge has had recent visits fro m McQuade, Kerley, Cullen and other of the smaller Democratic fry from this quar­ter, and Helena, in return, i9 favored with visits from Mitchell, Mayhew and a number of other Democratic lights from Deer Lodge. All this, it is said, in the interest of the little job to be put up on Maginnis.

The combination against Maginnis, from all accounts, don’t get along first rate. A dozen or more of so-called “ leaders have tried hard and for some time to organize and bounce Mac., but the trouble is to harmonize. Every last one of them wants to be declaied the chosen of Democracy, and there the trouble begins. Where it will end remains to

be seen. _

W e believe there are very few if any now disposed to object to the admission of any particular caste, kind, condition or color of children to the public schools. The Herald, as a matter of principle, of justice, of econo­my, favors the schooling of all alike—White, Black, Indian, and Mongolian. G’ve them all a chance at w’hatever of educational fa­cilities wTc have to offer, and set them ev en iu the race of life they have to run.