Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-24
SPIRIT OF TERRITORIAL
PRESS. -,

|SPIRIT OF TERRITORIAL
PRESS.
[ Muscular: The bulhon-tax suit wa
decided adversely to the mill men. Thi
is no doubt the law; but it must be SAT-
to tho everlasting disgrace of the las
Legislature that 1t passed no law to NEE
|just such cases. 1t is just as proper t
tax the gross amount Of goods sold IN
nually by a merchant, although he ma.
sell ten times Is many goods IS he ba
capital employed.
! Independent: There is no longer AM
doubt that the plan adopted by the Re-
publicans of giving the elective franchise
to the negroes before they were capable Of
appreciating its benefits has been com
lplete failure. At the close of the wal
there was 40 doubt a sincere conviction
that it was comforting blessing upon the
negro, and also upon the r. publican
|party. The latter end was gained, but
not the former. 1t was claimed that the
rebels could not be trusted and power was
|given to the negroes and their carpet-bag
allies. The result was just what any
sensible person would have expected. an
almost total ruin of the South, and q
degradation of the white people, but not
an elevation of the blacks.
Herald: 1t would be easy enough, il
desirable, to find cause of quarrel and pre-.
text for acquiring another slice of The
thinly settled northern portion of Mexico.
We acquired Texas by annexation with
ITS 318, 900 square miles of territory, by
assuming its debt of $7.500,000, but ii
involved us in war that cost $60, 0O0 900,
and at the close of that war acquired 522,
955 square miles more of Mexican terri.
tory, paying therefor after having con-
quered it, about $1s,0OO,0OO. And late,
still, by the Gadsden purchase we gained
about Al, 600 square miles of desert for an
additional $1O,0OO,O0O. Thus, within
abou: thirty years we have acquired 8S5. :
600 square miles of what was formerly
part of Mexico, at cost OF about 800,
600 ,O00 If We should reach out after the
'hinly settled states of Lower California
Sonora, Chla-hua-hua, Coahuila, SO as
10 draw a straight line from the mouth Of
The Rio Grande to the Gulf OF California.
It would take over 300, 600 square miles,
or nearly one-half of what now remains
o Mexico. But it strikes US that we do
not want this additional territory a.,
present on any terms. 1t would give us
more wild Indians to subdue and manage.
It would give us a population of about
lOO 900 more greasers, like those who
low constitute the bulk of the population
If New Mexico and Arizona, not a very
desirable or promising people to convert
nto useful American citizens. 1t would
i've good deal more barren descy! of
which we have plenty at present to occupy
ur full attention for century to come.
% US living in the territories, it would
be a calamity. 1t is for our
,terest to have the streams of immigra
ion from the old world and the old states
arned in our direction till our territories
an become settled into States. We al
lady fine it very difficult and slow work
} attract the attention of the general
overnment to bestow upon us those aids |,
'r development that we thi TX we have a
ght to demand, aud it would certainly
'duce our chances for the future If these
emands were TO be increased Ivy 50 much
territory. We want our GOV.
to improve the nob'c water i
purses that now almost exte..d fronts
;ean to ocean through its present terri |
ry. We want nolthern ard southern
ilroad to facilitate immigration and in
oduce capital to the woik of deyeloping r
II mines. .
New North West: We noticed in the
oURIER som. time since an article
the New Forth West amongl
hers that showed encouragement and +
IS apprehensiye Of an exodus of our
.ople. In
We think our brother must have read 4
is paper backwards when he found :
cli expression, even between the lines.
is true, we have believed and we do .
lieve railroad communication, if obtain
without too great cost, would ben. fit
c Territory as a Territory, and that ii
ould in a financial point OF view b n,fil I
certain proportion of the people now
re. Now, those who would be finan-
lilly bet:ered are those who have con- ,
lerable property, and they will stay =
re anyhow. Those who have not much r
operty, as q general thing, would not T
benefited, and they are the ones who A
from one excitement to another. There P
r, the logic of the case IS we'll as our P
Emory evidences that we were not an
ipating . stampede or bard times be
use Jay Gould & co. failed to put rs to Ill
expt nse of an election. We are glad
did not SO write, for circumstances
gative that view. Less than the usual
mber Of persons are leaving the Terri
y this spring, and our advices are that g
re people are arriving aud are on the
ID to Montana than has been known
many years. There may be some
ng of an out. 60 from the older count. s
Custer county before long. There will r
nrOhahlv mn ,otd,ors :, ~ sOO ~