The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
EDITORIAL T

from carefully cotnplied reports received
10y the Authorities of Germany, it is
estimated that that country will harvest
about so per cent. of the usual crop of agri-
cultural products.
Tn New York Mail, a "dyed in the wool
republican journal INDUCES in the following
ding at Conkling: "All boys know that a
kite can fly well only when it has a good tail
30 balance it. Platt wasn't heavy enough
Thu immigration boom, the mining boom
and tie building boom have already struck
Butte, but now comes the railway boom and
strikes it IA blow that will raise it head and
shoulders above all its sister cities in tie
Northwest.
The public debt OF he United States is
said to be SOS for each of its inhabitants; Of
Spain, $l54 a head; of France. Sl56; OF Eng
land, SILT; of Holland, STA; o, Canada, SIS:
. OF Mexico, $50; of Switzerland, So. ia pub.
&ic debt is a public blessing, as some conterd,
some of the countries above named are boun-
.itully blessed.
Texas has a magnificent school fund, prob
ably the largest one of any other state in the
Union. When she was annexed to the Unit
ed States she retained her rights to all the
public lands within her borders. BY her co.,
s%titution the proceeds of the sales of the pub
lie lands must go exclusively for school pur-
poses. She has already $4,000, 900 in the
state treasury, aud yet there are 4O,OOO,OOO
acres of her lands unsold. Her school fund
soon will be enormous the interest of which
should enable her 10 establish a school s,s
tenn unsurpassed by any other State in the
Union.
The Gar is a doc med man. A woman was
at the head of the conspiI ators who succeed
ed in taking the life of Alexander ii. She
expiated her otfense upon the scatiold. Now
we are informed another woman of high
ram. is at the head of a desperate set of Nj
hilists who have sworn to assassinate the
present Gar. The gang was captured but the
woman escaped. Notwithstanding the first
failure, it is a safe prediction that she will
eventually succeed in her unholy mission.
From the days of Eve to the present t me his.
tory fails to record but few instances where
an enterprise directed by a woman was I'M
successful.
If We are to measure the progress of a
country by its railroad development the Unit
ed States will stand at the head of nations.
In 1880 there were only twelty-three miles
standing TO its credit. At the close of tie
present year nearly 100000 miles of road will
be in operation. During the last halt CELL
Jury enormous strides have been made by the
Republic in every direction, and one can
hardly underestimate the importance of the
cart which the great rail trauspoltat,o ON lines
have played in that progress. Tl.ey have
been frequently the pioneers of a count try,
and may always be found following closely
upOn the trail of oLr mountaincers, and op-
ening the way for the advance of civilization.
With its Groves and Guitteaus it is evident
this country is able to- furnish all the
tiends, assassins, Internal machine makers
and robbers 1t can well take care of without
receiving the professional king-,layers and
other choice criminals that Europe is sending
to our shores. In view of the number of out
laws flocking from foreign countries to the
United States, an exchange remarks that sit
might be wise for the government to make
Up a cargo Of refugees from European Justice
and ship them across the Atlantic with an in
fernal machine of their OWL devising in the
seine would be wholesome for the surviving
wretches Of their class"
The new telegraph company, of which
James r. keene and John Mackay are prom
inent members, promises to work a complete
revolution in telegraphy. 1t proposes to make
The TRANSMIT Ssion of messages as cheap as the
sending Of letters. This will be done by
means of the wonderful appliances which t e
new company has at command that enables
Il to transmit messages at the rate Of 5000
words a minute. This being so, the day is
not far distant when postoifices, post, flee
clerks, poslotice rings ard star route frauds
will cease, and the occupation of such gentle
men as Brady, Dorsey aud a host of ether re-
publican lights will be forever gone. Speed
The day.
Reports from Afghanistan tend to confirm
the prophesies of many that England would
fail to establish what is termed a scientific
frontier in that country. When England
recalled her trO"Ts some time ago and evacu-
ated Candahar, she folsted the present Ameer
upon the people as their ruler. But they,
recognizing Ayoob Khan as their head, re-
pudiated the Ameer, and the latter's down
fall is now only a question of time. While
ms strife between the factions is going on,
the British government can only look on and
see tie result Of an expensive campaign de-
stroyed by ieas III OF tie inability OF the
Ame r. to susta n himself in the position in
VII CHI it placed him..