The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-03

report what was the proper construction of
the existing law, and that committee, COM
posed of a republican majority, with Sena-
tor Edmunds at its head. reported that ii
the ore contained more silver or gold than
iead, that such ores ought to be classified
as silver or gold, as the case might be, and
that the lead should come in free. Now
what are we to do for
SELF PROTECTION
under such circumstances If the lead
winch We send out in our silver bullion is
reduced In value when we get it east we
must find some way BY which we can get a
corresponding reduction in the price of lead
ore which we are compelled to buy here
and in this connection 1t Is proper to en-
quire what Is the character of our mines,
IS lead and plenty of it. The ores of Mon
tana are essentially dry ores and lead is
indispensable to their proper treatment and
reduction. We have few mines that have
an independent value for the lead in them,
WHERE ARE THE LEAD MINES
of Montana? Where does the Wickes
smelt.r gets Its lead for flux? Not from
Montana. Where will the great sneIters
being erected at East Helena, and at Great
falls get their lead for fluxing? Certainly
noti n montana. Large works, | under
stand, are to be erected in connection with
the works at Anaconda in which silver ores
are TO be treated and large quantities of
lead will be required. The great mining
camp OF Butte has no lead mines. Its mines
carry no lead except such as is chemically
COMBINED with It's silver and copper ores in
comparatively small proportions so far as
value Is concerned. l do not understand
That they have any mines that have an in
dependent value as lead. If these smelters
ahd LednGtion works, great enterprises in
which millions of dollars are being invested
by, our citizens, are to remain with us and
reduce our refractory ores at such a price
as to justify the operation and working of
many OF our mines which are being worked
az a small profit and many others that are
Idle because of a scarcity of lead in this
terrltory for huxlng purposes. and furnish
employment for thousands of laborers, it
seeins 10 me upon mature reflection. that
nothing will contribute so much to that end
as . market well supplied with lead ores
and that If taking three-fourths of a cent
OIL OF the present tariff on lead will tend to
BRING ABOUT THAT RESULT
the people OF Montana more than all others
ought not to complain. Now, how are we
going to get it, Not from Mexico because
the smelters nearer the source Of supplv
VIII take 1t, long transportation and conse-
quent heavy freight charges would prevent
US from competing. With the tariff re-
dnced tothree-fourths of a cent an ample
i f1af the Of ko ssppily m wGnld be Of av RIii{ss
mines carrying only about two
ounces OF silver. The reduced rate at
MnlGu we could purchase these ores
the reduction in the price Of the
lead in our bullion. OF course
| understand that those gentlemen who are
interested in lead mines in a neiphbOrinp
territory will not relish these views, but /
people who are for Montana, first, last and
all will agree with me that now is the
time to put into practical operation mai
homely but pregnant truth, charity should
begin at home.
WHAT l CONTEND Is THIS,
i ~ n1 u I've W. a AIT thai q reduction of the tar
lead contained in the bullion when put up-
on the market, will not there be a cores
pondihg depreciation in the price of the
lead furnished from the Knotnai country
Ior haxlng, without which increased sup
Ply we could not produce the bullion.
Inc logic or facts have forced this cOnclu-
sion upon me. | do not claim to speak for
nthers. With the change of a single word
I couid adopt that celebrated prayer IN
Immortal gods, 1 crave no pelf,
l speak Tor no man bnt myself.
If l am mistaken in this it is
an error of Judgment only and
neither pride OF opinion nor marty
FEELING will prevent me from conforming
my future action or official utterances with
the facts whatever actual experience NAV
prove them to be.
HARRISON N MoRToN.
several weeks before the nomination at
Chicago, ! wrote to a friend at Butte, saw
ing That Harrison and Morton would be
nominated, 1t seems | made some reputa-
ton as a prophet. Well it was the natur-
a. and logical result of republican methods.
why? The republican party for twenty
hve years has posed as the friend of labor,
and never missed an opportunity to legls-
late in the interest of capitalists and bond
holders and against labor, and so to be con-
slstently Inconsistent Harrison and Nor
ton were selectad. Harrison voted four
teen times while in the senate in favor of
chinese cheap labor, and never recorded a
vote against it. Morton while in congress
voted against Il g bill to make eight hours
a day. labor, and by this vote demon
strated his friendship for labor. So you
see these these two gentlemen were the
great friends and opponents of American
labor, hence the fitness and propriety Of
their nomination. Harrison and Morton
knew better and no amount of
PRoTEsTATIoN WILL EXCUSE THEM.
Let me appeal to the citizens of Helena
upon ups TN this 9 3ms ion, l. !. not true that dur
senate and opposing the legislation then
pending to restrict Chinese immigration.
that he was a frequent visitor at this city
where his son resides and where the deian
prostitution, the degrading opium joints,
fiji b, and generally the disolute and de-
| PRAYED character of this strange people
were the subjects of general remark and
universal condemnation? You know that
he was and that aside from this considera-
ton which our civilization Justly and In
dignantly spurns. he saw tie impossible
ity Of American labor competing with a
people whose instincts and aspirations do
not rise but little above the brute creation.
But his course in the senate may be ac-
counted for perhaps by the fact that he
had the distinction while in that body of
representing the only
CHINESE CONSTITUENCY
in the United States, it having been proven
and never denied that at the election when
the legislature which elected Harrison to
the senate was chosen, four Cinnamon in
Harrison City in Harrison's ward, with
Harrison's knowledge and upon Harri-
sons advice, were naturalized and voted
the republican ticket. We must all con
fess that the Kansas senator, who had
served In the senate with Harrison, had a
pretty correct idea of the fitness of that
gentleman as a presidential candidate.
When he sent this letter to a member of the
Chicago convention
THE NOW CELEBRATED LETTER WHICH SENATOR IN.
CALLS WROTE TO HIS KANSAS FRIEND.
VICE PRESIDENT 3 CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, June 16