The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-07
EDITORIAL T

been scored on the English turf, and Ameri-
ca is happy.
The World says s'the Halfhreeds come to
bury Caesar, not to praise him. That is the
real difference between the Halfbreeds and
Caesar.
The Paris Citoyen is to be prosecuted for
publishing a report of the private meeting
organized by the Irreconcilasles to protest
against the sentence on Hessy Helfmann,
and which, in a resolution, blamed France
for crushing the right of asylum.
1t is stated that Mr.. Henry Willard, Of the
Oregon Navigation Company, and Mr.. Hor-
ace White, formerly of the Chicago Tribune,
but now interested with Willard in the Navi-
CATION company, have bought the whole CAPT
tai stock of the Evening Post newspaper
association and will make Carl Schurz edi-
tor-in-chief.
As the MINER predicted, Riddleberger de.
clines the honor Of being defeated as a can
didate for governor of Virginia. He thinks
the Office ought to seek the man. He learned
that little lesson in political ethics at Wash
ington recently. He sought an Office there,
but the office didn't seek him worth a cent.
He proposes to wait now until one does.
Sensible Riddleberger. Riddleberger will
die in private life.
The course which the Inter Mountain has
recently pursued in making unwarranta-
BILE charges, and when confronted with proofs
Of their falsity, in sneaking out of them in
the midst of a jargon of unintelligible words,
legitimately entities it to a place side by side
with its patronymic at the head Of Main
street. Our surprise at the unmanllness of
our evening contemporary is equalled only
by our disgust at its publicly showing it. 1t
is burying itself beneath public contempt.
General Grant is quarantjned at New Or
leans. This is an eXasperating situation for
the old veteran to be placed in. Conkling
wants him at Albany, and he wants him now.
He needs hin in his Business there. He sent
to Mexico tor the General and told him to
come running. in obeying orders he ran
into quarantine where he must be washed
and fumigatcd before he W ill be permitted to
charge upon the half breeds at Albany. The
delay may be fatal to Corkling's hopes. 1t
is certainly eXasperating.
If the following be correct, the Wood river
country is not a desirable place in which to
seek a fortune. In referring to it the San
Francisco Chronicle says:
"The Nevada newspapers contain several
letters from the new Idaho bonanza of Wood
River. Nearly all describe the camp as bad
ly run down, with no coin save what is
brought into it by newcomers. The rush is
greater than to any recent camp, as many as
forty-two teams arriving in one day. Thu
cost of living is cheap. but the majority of
prospectors are engaged in the ~tavorite diver
sion Of the unlucky -'walking on their up
perS.' The chief town, though it boasts of
nothing more imposing than canvass and log
houses, wears the pretentious nane of Belle
vue."
The French Government has shut off the
importation of American spork and now the
French millers have become alarmed at the
importation into that country of American
-four and have petitioned the French senate
praying for all increase of duty on that arti-
Gle imported into France or that a law be pass
ed that flour be not allowed entrance on the
same equality with wheat. The mlllers base
their petition upon the old cry of protection
to home industry, claiming that "the impor-
tations from America are very prcjudicial to
the milling Interests of France, and that it is
not in accordance with French interests to
admit foreign manufactured products OIL bet
Ter terms than the raw material"
THE Inter Mountain cannot, it seems, re-
fer to that White Sulphur Springs and Fort
Custer mail route without making a mis-.
statement. In its issue of last evening l.
charges that the MINER ." says the matter has
been contradicted by the New York Tribune
and New York MaR." The MINER said
nothing of the kind. What it did say is this:
:" The whole matter was ventilated some time
ago by a Fort Custer correspondent of the
New York Tribune, and appears in the New
York Mail of a recent date" A reference to
the MINER ofthe End inst. will show the above
words. We can hardly believe the Inter
Mountain would wilfully m.squote us, but
are inclined to charge its misstatements to its
proverblal stupidity. AT the same time we mus
warn our contemporary that, . that style Of
dealing with a question of fact is calculated
to injure newspapers and build up a belief in
the public mind that they will lie
Notwithstanding the declarations of the
Halfbreed press throughout the country that
the administration republicans in the New
York legislature would not 60 into caucus
with the Stalwarts and would thus prevent
an election for United States Senators during
the present session, ballotings have m
ed at Albany. Our dispatches inform us that
he New York World and Sun. have come to
heretofore been bis bitterest enemies. Their