Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
FROM BEER LODGE COUNTY.

. There were questions before the Legislature
in which we were all deeply interested, but
after comforting with those chosen to repre-
santus, there was nothing left but to await
their action and be thankful tor whatever
just enactments they should see fit to put
in the statute books in these days of legisla-
tive wayWardness.
must congratulate the generations who
will follow us, however, through the tradi-
tons that their fathers will give them, re-
corded in the H~UsBANDMAN upon the good
fact that the present generation does not in
tend to overwhelm them with debt and tax
es, which looked almost inevitable four
years ago. When memory goes back and
we remember the eagerness which leading
men had in our territory to bond the rising
generations to monopolies, that we of to-
day might enjoy the temporary initiation
that railroads are supposed to give a COM
munity, and then see the wise action IF the
last territorial Legislature in relation to sub
sidies, we have great reason to grasp each
other by the hand and congratulate one an.
other as we hurry along the pathway of
y 1lN WHlCit VIC IdfC I'LL ulIIkC Oub ZOE
ourselves as public guardians, whether ia
or out of Office.
The last winter in the east has been very
severe, they tell us, and we NAV have Sc
we're ones here in this territory. The Bos-
ton and Albany railroads become blockad-
ed, and there became a freight blockade at
certain places. Some of the EMPLOYEES at
freight depots were suspended three DAYS at
a time, svithout pay, making those poor la
boring men responsible for the storm and
the blockade. Surprising we had exempted
the Utah Northern from taxation twenty
years, and my ''hlstorical triend's'' son had
been made a conductor on the cars of the
Utah Northern, and while pursuing his du-
trip after trip, between Butte and ITele-
IA, should, on account of a snow storm be-
olockaded In Boulder valley seuen, days, and
he owners Of the railroad should deduct
pay from his salary on account of the storm
think that he would realize the fact cor
ooranons were s%oulless, and being s~oulless,
nc rising generation by us should not be-
ONE m~ortgaged into their grasp. But We
re glad 1t is, by the Legislation settled. tor
ne next two years sand, Judging by the
plnlons uttered In the county conventions
's1 Aall' and corresponding opinions Of the
fess, 1t Is settled for alltime to come. here
AS the questions O fsubsidy and, exemD-
was settled; so will be the subject of
ISL taxation. / think, that needful rules Of
w are generally arrived at by DISCUSSING
~ s~taoJecCs pertaining to them before hand.
, tnag When the laws OF last session are
loilshed if'yon shall be willing, L intend to
vance some opinions and publish indiyid-
u sentiments chat will bring up discussion
adlng to the enactment Of rules. which
III not burden one class in our territory
"a excuse another from taxation.
"heh the navigation OF. the Upper Mis-
url becomes a liked fact, though the en-
'prislng directors of the Upper Missouri;
VACATION company, without public aid. it
II STAND as a monument to rebuke the COW
'ousless OF all public enterprises hereaf-
ahong us, that in their estimates of sue.
s. more frequently of legislative suscepti-
NY ala malleability, than an INQUIRY into
Snts and curves, rock, timber and ties
dges, expectant Of snow and water and
enterprise of the Inhabitants whose hns-
IS tley intend to invite over their nro-
ing thoronghfare. We are already mast
zero OF hard times in this territory. and
quicksilver is rapidly rising in. the tube
very aVocatlon of business usefulness
mere are non-workers, who make the
w among us, OF. course, but with
ehce we will wait on them till Congress
SET apart Alaska as a Siberian desert.
when they are to be bapished, either