The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Only twenty feet of snow on some
PORTIONS of the Canadian Pacific.
There is one advantage on that route
which the Northern Pacific does not
possess. When q tunnel Is once
made under the snow there is no dam
ger of q blockade by drifts.
Delegate Brents is urging the adj
mlssion of Washington Territory as
q State, the admission to take place
after March 4th, 1885, In order that
the present electoral vote may not be
disturned. Montana will accept. ad-
mission upon the same terms.
Sacramento elected a Democratic
Mayor the 18th inst. That city is q
Republican stronghold but has at
last yielded to the irresistible ad-
vance Of Democratic principles. Cal
ifornla may be safely counted for the
Democratic Presidential candidate.
A Fargo genius claims he has a
scheme that will enable "busted"
Occur d'Alene stampeders to get back
to their homes without paying rail-
road fare and says there are millions
in it." What a Fargo doesn't know
about raising the wind isn't worth
knowing.
Our dispatches indicate q feeling
on the part of Congress to adopt re-
taliatory legislation towards those
countries which prohibit the impor-
tation of American pork. That body
begins to realize the fact that there
are such articles as adulterated wines
shipped to America.
Maplason played a sharp game on
the San Franciscans In the Patti
ticket speculation. San Franciscans
are pretty sharp in quartz deals, but
when it comes to opera they get left
There are q large number of hot peo-
pie in the Bay City just at present,
but they are not the Mapleson crowd.
Truth: Are Englishmen fools, or
Is 1t the London sgent of the Asso.
ciated Press who is an idiot? Such
. dispatch Us that IA suspicious
party, known to be- an American,
has been noticed lingering In the
neighbornood of Windsor Castle"
shows idiocy somewhere.
It is not all surprising that attor.
ney Bliss, of star route notoriety,
charged the Government with his
washing. A man who had the gall
to charge the Government 500 a day
for pettitogging services would make
the Government pay his bootblack.
ing bills If he could. Bliss has a
cheek as hard and impenatrable as a
Gillian iron clad.
It Is said that MI. Bum, the new
gov ,rnor of Idaho, Is the editor of a
Sunday paper In Philadelphia. That
Is something In his favor. He ought
to make u good governor. And if he
follow his announced platform, Ito
keep close to the people all the time.
and he q credit to the President who
appointed him." he will be likely to
introduce a new and gratifying order
Of things in our sister Territory.
MI. Edmunds has introduced a bill
In the Senate for the establishment
of forest reservations at the head wa
tiers of the Missouri and at the head
waters of the Clark's Fork of the
If the bill become a law
both reservations will be established
In Montana. Before the bill passes, !
the people of this part of the
West would be pleased to learn the
reasons which render such a measure
necessary.
The French government is still;
considering the American pork cues.
ton. France sees where the United
States can seriously cripple one Of her
if they resort to retaliatory
Her cheap wines find a
profitable market in the United
SO do German knitgoods. Our
people may refuse to drink the one
or wear the other if our porker be
much longer denied a place upon for
tables.
Wood-pulp Miller has again dis
himself by introducing a
bill In the Senate, providing for the
suspension OF the coinage of silver
for two years and the issue OF
Dne and two dollar notes. It would
be more in the line OF the interests
II the country if his bill provided for
In the one and two dollar
notes and the issue of one and two
lollar silver certificates in their
stead.
Chilli has not only advanced into
the position of the controlling power
IN the west coast of South America,
but by her naval strength, she can, if
he pleases, at this moment command
he Pacific Coast of the United States.
Any one of her three irOn-clads can
link every wooden vessel In our
wretched navy, aud the contrast be.
;ween her ability and our impotence