The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-15

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ND the vices and eschew the virtues
of the white race. The Indians on
the Jocko reservation, SO Major 10
nan states. were terrified with great
fears of the iron horse galloping con-
tinually through their reservation
! for a distance of about sixty miles,
and were anxious last fall to take a
reservation bordering the line OF
British Columbia; out they have
seen the animal, had free rides be-
hind him and, like children, are
rather pleased with the novelty.
They do not now care to move.
But the time is rapidly advancing
when the Indians must 60. The
sentimentality that respected the
right of a handful of savages to a
large tract of country in which to
hunt and fish, while others of Gods
creatures, equally as fair and equally
as fit for a survival, were hungering
for the bare necessaries of life, is hap
PLY fast dying out in the land. The
earth is for the use and enjoyment OF
the human race, and no branch of
that race can claim a monopoly OF
any part to the exclusion OF the bal
ance. Amy other view would be an
admission that vermin-infested red
skins are altogether lovely, and that
their perpetuation is a survival OF the
tittest. The Jocko reser walton is
needed to raise food for hungry nu-
man beings; and, if the Indians
choose to work out the problem of
human destiny in this manner, their
rights ought and will be respected.
But they will not work, and the
earth is becoming too crowded to es.
tablish for them large hunting parks.
We can better afford to feed them in
perpetuity and take their lands.
So we move along in the adjust
ment of the varied problems that are
continually working out the sum Of
Miseoula county, from
being the frontier and more sparsely
county in the Territory,
has in the past year so increased in
and population as to make her
the peer of any county III the
Territory. Natural resources are es-
to the permanent growth of
any locality, but men and brains are
essential to the laying broad and deep
the foundations of a commonwealth.
What will be the character of the
men who will step forward in this in
FAINT commonwealth Just starting to
mould its destinies time alone must
dete mine; but it is certain that at no
time can the aspirations of the peo-
pie rise above the conceptions of those
who assume to be public educators.
AS well might We expect the pupils
Of a horse jockey to become refined
and public spirited citizens as for a
state to become great without mem
The transient market afforded by
he army of railroad builders last
year is a thing of the past, and pro-
1ucers must look elsewhere for a mar
xet, unless thy adopt the financial
actics Of the boys who went into a
Darn on a rainy day and got rich by
L dU1AS dLAlOLS CAChlSCAVSos nuC 10 a
healthy financial proposition fully as
much must flow in as is flowing out
or the purchase of goods and such
lrticles as must be had from abroad.
t is better for all to look the matter
quarely in the face and realize the fact
hat there will not be much surplus
o send out of the county this year.
The dry season has left but a light
Considerable money will be
expended in building depots, ballast
ng the road and providing fuel for
he locomotives, and no doubt the
'ounty will receive some revenue for
exported; but the question
emains whether the distribution
rom these outside sources will be SO
as to make present driblers
bondholders. Candor forces
he admission that it will not.
There is a land where the wintry
oists are continual reminders of the
of Noah; when the men and
are reported to be footed like
he spaniels; and where the business
zen are reported to be cording up
urrency like stove wood. A skeptl-
al impulse that fairer lands exist
han the Italian skies of Montana
rompts to a desire for investigation.
~ next will be from a point nearer
the Pacific coast. B. {