The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-13

"IV1ll DO me PROUD 10 De your bEIOSs
You lie in dextrous fashion.
To lose you now would break my heart,
No sorrow could be direr."
And SO by his mendacious art,
He won the sweet Sapghira-
LET'S PULL TOGETHER.
rhe Flood-Tide Setting Toward Us-Immi-
grafton Under Favorable Auspices.
The past week has witnessed in our city
the Inauguration of movement which ls
Of inestimable value, viz: The advertising
Of Helena and the excursion plan. More or
less has from time to time been sal DIR writ
ten relative to Helena's future, and with
steady step and substantial progress she
has passed the limits prescribed to her by a
too conservative public, and broken down
every barrier of discouraginR prophecy.
During the few days past she has begun the
process of energetic development. which is
peculiar to the American people.an out
tions, In by-gone years her citizens have
quietly laid deep and broad her founda-
ton, upon land whose basis. itself is gold,
and by their pioneer pluck and independ-
emit spirit she has developed into
a city whose present status is the
and whose destiny is as great
as her ambition chooses to make it. Built
upon the bosom of the king of metals;
watered by the purest streams the earth
holds: fed by the most fertile valleys, com
pared with which the ancient rich valley
of the Nile, the granarv OF the then known
world. was as a pigmy to giant; EN-,
braced on every hand by graceful hills and
rock crowned precipices, susceptible OF such
beautiful effects as to render them the envy
of nature and a fit garden for the tabled
gods; and within and throughout all,
warmed by the genial hospitality OF PEG
hearted generosity as the gifts of nature
which have crowned this empire with her
bounty Of surface, and wealth of hidden
resources-thus does Helena the queen city
of the Rockies, the bright gem in the crown
of this royal empire OF Montana stand forth
and glitter in resplendent power before the
world. But to a business public
this rhetoric must be laid aside ands some
cold facts considered. The richest treas
ures that lay buried in the bosom of these
graceful peaks must forever have remained
unknown but for the genius of adventure
and the spirit of investigation, coupled
with the thrice swift-mounted rumor of
"Gold in the Rockiesr' which swept like a
fury of contagion over the east in 40. That
rumor was an advertisement-or notice to
the world of facts. So all the possibilities
of Helena, her surroundings, as to metro
politan development, must be given to the
world. The wise men only found the Saw
ior in that lowly Bethlehem manger by the
HIGHT of q star that moved westward, and
however wise the people of the outside
world. however important the hour of fate
for Helena, it will not be seen but by the
star of energy. burning to attract all
investigating minds hitherward to help
rear her walls and beautify her streets and
plan her parks and build her colleges and
sustain her churches and extend her manu-
features and create her commerce and full
fill the destiny towards which she moves.
To parody Shakespeare: There is tide in
the affairs of cities which taken at the food
leads on to fortune, but neglected, their
destiny is forever bound in shadows and in
miseries. This land is full of cities to-day.
Wondering in the dust of defunct hopes,
whose millionaires sit among their ruined
prospects clothed in sackcloth and ashes of
vain regrets; sorry now when the iron was
hot their strokes did not fall heavy and in
harmony, to weld the bands of the COM
mercial ship into thrice strong storm resist
ing stays.
Now after these years Of careful sagacious
labor and thought our citizens are proud to
let the world see where she is, and soon the
brain and brawn-the energy and zeal of
thousand varied industries and employments
will overflow our streets, build here city
worthy to crown the great state as its cap
ital.
Think of the conditions everywhere,
Capital and energy is stagnant.in the south
because of national legislation unfriendly
to material and harmonious development.
Thousands of busy, Jealous business men
have retreated from that section in the last
thirty days, and stand waiting for substi-
tute channel of activity to which they may
turn for speculation, for material develop
ment, for commercial extension and every
line of human occupation. The extreme
northwest is OVERLOOKING with men and
MEANS anxious for the same activity, but
only waiting to see field; the east is look
ing even to South America and Mexico for
our country is trying to supply it by rec
iprocity treaty with the Latin American
nations. All this thirst, all this readiness,
all this investment seeking public, ready to
be shown the way to this rich field, and we
remain idls2 We put our light under a
ena's business tact is too great. She has
even now arranged to expend vast deal of
money and energy in telling the world
what Montana in general and Helena
in particular is and promises to be. That
!s we'll. But with that, with the revealing
OF our resources, and the invitation to visit
US, comes the Interior Land & immigration
Go. with every inducement of cheap rates.
courteous treatment, generous inducements
and wide reputation for success in former
efforts, to bring thousands of people to our
city, and nine-tenths of these people the
luNebtlueuu-seek1ng men OF the country.
SO far with only one excursion, with no
great advertising and only the individual
effort OF this company Helena real estate to
the extent of $4,000 was sold, and much
money put into circulation through our ho-
tells. This, only the beginning, shows what
viii be done before the season is over.
These excursions will come from the Pa
cifc-Portland. San Francisco, Seattle. Ia
coma. From Denver on the oath inst,
From Minneapolis and st. Paul, from ST.
Louis, Kansas City, st. Joseph, Omaha.
and from Chicago, Boston and New York |
These excursions following the awaiting of
interest in Helena by the advertising meth
DDS about consummated with the leading
eastern advertising agency, will result in
the very maximum of interest and profit to |
us and them.
It behooves our city to put on her bust
ness face and present to these visiting in
vestment seekers united front. Let her
show them wisdom in her local legislation, |
care in the health and comfort of her con-
veniences; business principles and broad
Rauged sagacity in her commercial Organi- |
cations, absolute unity of thought. word
and action; SO that every visitor who wants |
to ind business location of rich promise |
VIII see In us people united as one man |
to build a city here, which shall rival in
commercial and manufacturing enterprise |
and in residence and moral material gran |
deur the twin queens of the north. Mime |
apolis and st. Paul. These excursions should |
not be looked upon as the property of the |
Interior Land and Immigration company. |
Every man, woman and child of Helena, |
every surrounding city and mining camp, |
every fertile valley and looming mountain, |