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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
CHILD MURDER.

Under the above caption the Leader
OF last evening contained an article
which never should have been written
and meyer should have been published.
1t refers to a matter which, the courts
having settled without eliminating any
one, should have been permitted to sink
into i%nnocuous dcssuetude or be rclc-
gated to that unbelievable sea of forget
~fulness where all kindred nastiness
should forever remain engulfcd. The
law has been appealed to in this matter
and the parties implicated in the
unsavory scandal have been unhesitat-
ingly discharged. What more can be
done? What more should be done? The
Leader suggests no course, but like a
defeated base-born enemy it INDUCES in
impotent snarls and unwarranted in
sulting charges. Were it not for the lat
ter the TRIBUNE would pay no attention
to its i'll concealed chagrin.
In commenting upon the attitude of
churches toward child murder and
commenting that of the Catholic
church the Leader gets off this most re-
markable statement:
The other churches have generally
condemned it also in scathing terms.
though sometimes the fear of offending
some patron has prevented a few clergy
men from preaching against it.
Does the history Of American journal
ism record such Il deliberate and I'M
called for insult to the churches Of the
country? Was EVER the high and sacred
of ministers SO maligned and
Iibcllcd; The charge is openly and boldly
that there are clcrgymcn who fear
to preach against child murder because
t may offend some patron. If this be
true to what depths the clergym"n of the
country have descended! Can one con
GIVE that Il man who has taken upon
himself the solemn obligations of priest
can jcW to preach against child
murder: What an unclean. unholy
The Leader is mad. insane. an
dot: 1t is charitable to suppose it is
lnything rather than assume it was in
is right senses when the article referred
o was permitted to appear in its col
INNS. Bv the way. no one has asked
he Leader to offer ar apology for fight
ne the crime of murder.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
AN IDOL BROKEN.

The iconoclasts are again abro.i
the land. This time they come in
shape of members of the G. A. r, kD1
ing the long idolized Drummer Bo,
the Rappahannock" off the high ps,
tai OF fame he has so long occupied
will be remembered that Robert En
Hendershott, a phenomenal drummI
has long been known throughout
country as the drummer boy of the R
pahannock. For years no import
meeting Of the G. A. r. was %considsl
complete without the presence of II
dershott and his drum, and the pra
little m a of how he acquired |
title was repeated so often that he !
came an idolized hero in the ewes
many women and children and not a
men.
The way the story goes he was a druid
mer boy in the Seventh Michigan Al
when the brigade of which that rAl
ment formed a part was ordered !
Burnside to cross the river at FreAI
icksburg to dislodge SOM rebel sbarl
shooters, who were annoying the end
neers that were placing pontoon bridJ
across the stream, the young drumn|
insisted upon going with his regimeI
He was denied, but seizing his oppl
tunity he chung to the stern of one of NJ
boats, which carried the troops acrO]
and when they landed he surprised \
comrades by appearing at their he'd
with his drum. He remained at \
place during the short engagemer
which preceded the dislodgcment of d
sha~rpshoOters. For this act of Won't
full bravery he was highly comm
mented by Burnside and received nun
erous fattering letters from Presideu
Lincoln and others high in authorit
The great Snowman, the late p. Il. Bs,
mum, picked up Hendershott and pa
AIDED him as the drummer boy of N
Rappahannock."
But it transpires that Hendershott wa
not entitled to the honor. That proper,
belonged to John Spillaine, a sergeant
police in Detroit. The Seventh Mich.
gan always denounced Hendershott as a
fraud and his story as a myth and atss
late meeting of the q. A. Il. at tha.dN
overwhelming proofs were produa
showing that Hendershott was never il
the battle Of fredericksburg and neye
owned IA drum. He was confronted wit,
the evidence and denounced as an in.
poster 10y the iratc and indignant yeter
ans to his face. Hendershott skunk ava
in disgrace and with his silent exit frcn
the meeting Of avenging veterans III
ldolized drummer boy of the Rappahar
mock disappeared from the high niche t
he had been elevated by an ai
world.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
SPiRRING FOR FIRE ADS.

The following letter Was recently re.
ceived at the business office of the New
York Herald, which it printed in its cdi-
torial columns with damaging editorial
comment. Advertising matter is being
sent over the wires as news and many
papers publish it as such. but it is a
purely advertising scheme. The TGIB-
y has received some of them. One or
two have appeared under the head. free
advertisement the others fell in the
waste basket. Who is responsible for
this fake business: But here is the let
ter:
MANAGER, New YORK HERALD:
DEAR SHR-Becausc of our connection
with the United Press and the nature of
business we are thrown into contact
with parties wanting to place advertising
reading notices by wire. the notice to be
run as news unde a Geographic head.
or course, we will not accept anything
AN objectionable character. and you
may be sure that anything submitted
will be all right.
Please to quote us by return mail a
price for such advertising, making a
price per count line. Within the next
ten days we expect to send out a one hun
lred line advertisement of this dcscrip-
ton, so want price at once.
The matter will be sent over the West
'rn Union OF Postal, addressed to the
business manager, and will be sent col
ect tolls to be charged in our bill.
Your immediate attention to the above
will obligc.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

REFERRING to President Harrison,
proposed withdrawal from the presidcn
tial race, the Minneapolis Times think
it is a good deal like the darkey's expla
nation of how he came to leave his en-
ployer. His boss had told him he ha.
no further use for him, in fact, had fired
him, and in telling it the darkey said
When a man talks to me like that
quit him cold. | wouldn't work fU,
man who would use such language"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

y CASE was recently tried at Kansa,
City under the Missouri antitrust Law
which settles a very important point in
that state. A man refused to pay a
plumbing company's bill ON the ground
that the latter was a member OF Tie
Plumbers association, formed to kccI
up prices. The court held that a con.
tract with "a company belonging to d
combination to govern pricesi is not valid
thus beating the plumbing company.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

court upon the question of his cis
ship. With a certain amount Of
state machinery of each state in
grasp the democrats do not 90 inf,
campaign handed, and with
prestige of last years victory they
enter it with a confidence which fl
publlcaus do not MOI can not feel
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

withstanding the terrible taxes levied on
the farmer meanwhile under the pre-
tense of providing him a home market
for what he produces. Can it be posi-
BILE that any intelligent man will longer
slave and toll and pay all that he makes
except a bare support for the purpose Of
a market that is actually moving away
from him. as these official statistics IN
doubleday demonstrate?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

lr appears that Harrison and Blaine.
through their friends, have patched
up a sort of agreement by which
neither will use any excrtions
to secure the nomination for
the presidency. If Blaine live and is
well enough to take the nomination and
the people want him Harrison will with
draw from the contest; otherwise he is
to be considered in the ring. In the
meantime both will follow the advice the
good old mother gave her newly married
daughter: "Let natur' take its course"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

pound, are fairfield out of sight. Where
does the justice of such taxation to coz
sumers come in? While our republican
contemporaries are answering this ques-
ton they may find a proper answer to
the following conundrum: If free hides
have built up a great industry in the
country and a great export trade for it,
what would free wool do?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

BY THE WAY how does our evening
contemporary stand upon the silver
question. 1t has a great deal to say
about what it is alleged two or three
eastern democrats have said upon the
matter of silver coinage, but it is as
silent as a last years clam concerning its
WI opinions in the premises. Will the
Leader show its hand?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
To the Public,

CADDo Mills, Texas, June 5, 1891
From my own personal knowledge, / can
recommend Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrh9a Remedy for cramps in the
stomach, also for diarrhGa and fux. 1t
is the best medicine / have ever seen
used and the best selling, as it always
gives satisfaction. A. X. SHERRILL. Is
and 80 cent bottles for sale by Lapeyre
Bros, druggists.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

JCDGING by the expressions of republi
ii papers the fate of the republican
party depends upon the life of Blaine.
As Blaine's life hangs upon Il thread the
victim under the sword of Damocles
could not have been in a more perilous
position than the republican party finds
itself today.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

TnE question is whether the TRIBuyr
favors the crime of child murder or not.
Leader.
The sucking of the Leader may rest
its soul in peace. The TRIBUNE may
occasionally roast it but will never
murder IT,.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

CINCINNATI INQUIRER: Commissioner
Raum says he has not been away from
his Office any more than President Har-
rison has. And it is becoming quite
clear that the latter gentleman has not
sufficient nerve to ask the former gentle
man to stay away from his Office alto
gether.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

The Leader does not propose to be
caught outside its party on the silver
question and therefore dare not commit
itself to the free and unlimited coinage
of the metal. The Leader will be found
Just where the next years platform of
its party will place it. 1t has no opinion
of its own upon the matter.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

The man who reads President Harri-
sons Albany speech will lay down his
paper fully convinced he has read the
speech of a pronounced gold bug. 1t
was a bid for the gold-bug vote of New
! ork. He tickled them and was ap-
plauded when he insisted that one dol
lar should be as good as another at all
times and everywhere. He didn't say
the silver dollar was not worth as much
as any other dollar, but every one of his
hearers knew his words were stabs at it..
Like all other goldltes he failed to state
the weight to which the silver dollar
should be increased to make it worth as
much as any other dollar.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
THE RACES.

The first meeting of the North Mon
tana Fair association is an event of the
past. The association was favored with
good weather and as ii result the attend
ance throughout WAS far beyond the cy-
pcctations of many who were cogniZant
of the disadvantages attendant upon the
opening Of new grounds. In point of
interest it was fully up to that main
tanned upon other courses in
the state. The excellent man
agcmcnt of the track and
grounds was evidenced 10y the absence
of protests or complaints, while, judged
as "A whole and not by individual ex-
pcrienccs, the decisions and rulings at
the judges stand were satisfactory. As
a first effort the meeting of the ~associa-
ton reflects credit upon the manage
ment. 1t was in the hands of c~onscien-
tious, faithful men, and if mistakes were
made they were of the head and not of
the heart. Taken altogether the first
annual meeting of the association was a
pronounced success.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

The st. Paul Globe very pertinently
observes hat it reciprocity furnishes
American products cheaper to people
abroad the home consumers go on pay
ing the old prices.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

Mr.. MCKINLEY tells the farmers of
Ohio that it requirers Sl,OOO,OOO a day to
run this government. He then tells
them that all this money must be raised
by duties upon imports. He forgets to
tell them, however, that the w~orkingmen
Of the country must pay the duties, or
in other words, that they must pay
100000 a day to support the govern
ment. But they have already figured
this out as the results Of last falls con-
gressional elections plainly indicate.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

The Leader sucking is thankful
for permission to live. Indeed it's lines
are cast among a forbearing, Christian
people.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22
DISTRiBUTION or WEALTH.

Thirty years ago the miIlionaircs in
the United States could be counted upon
ones fingers. Thirty years have wrought
great changes in the country. The great
w~ildernesses in the west have given place
to busy cities; great mines have been
opened and developed; four great rail
roads span what was once known as the
Great American desert. and a great,
robbing tariff has been yearly taking
from the poor and giving to the rich.
And now today let us see how the rich
and the middle classes and the working
poor stand in relation to each other
viewed from a monetary standpoint.
The figures were collected several months
ago by that very eminent statistician
and political economist. Mr.. Thomas G..
Sherman. Thus far their correctness
has not been challenged.
M .. Average
R i.,s 49,. t"'g ssa.sio s4s. WS%.,ei per Fs%l !;
49," " i'Eo!WW i.bp.UO $3.50
.."ih i''''''"" h.i'"'ouo,UO Hs
This is d most startling commentary on
protective tariffs as seer in the uncoual.
and it may be said. incquitable distribu-
ton Of wealth. The political economist
will conclude there is something wrong
in IA governmental policy that will result
in such concentration of great wealth in
IA few hands while the vast masses Of
people are comparatively beggars.
As PREDICTED by the TRIBUNE Jay
Gould failed to visit Helena. But the
good people Of the capital city have be
used to like disappointments and
while Gould is speeding away from Butte
toward the National Park they are max
ing preparations to receive some other
distinguished personages. 1t is a very
chilly day when Helena cannot have
notable in view to receive.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-22

HARRIsoN's chance for denomination
are growing small by degrees and beau
tifully less.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31

The shipping merchants here, as might
be expected. ''play" for the Asiatic trade,
and as consequence they "study to please"
the Chinese and japanese, at home and
abroad, and commercial conditions so shape
themselves that the heather actually has
the preference in the labor market. The
shipping magnates talk boastingly of their
vast trade with Melbourne, Callao, San
Francisco, San Diego, Honolulu,
New Caledonia, Montevideo, San
Pedro, Valparaiso, Falmouth, Rio
Janeirc, Adelaide, Shanghai; in fact,
with all the continents on the globe, and in
this international "deal' the white man on
the coast is hardly circumstance. These
commercial kings expect to substitute -four
for rice as food in China, and aa wheat
raised by white labor cannot compete with
the cost of rice by Chinese labor, the Amer
lean farmer will likely be ultimately lost il
this commercial shuttle.
And while idle hands, especially if they
are white, find so little to do, and the
streets in all the coast cities are thronged
with armies of unemployed-people to
whom wages are not so much an object as
work-while all this is going on, manufas-
tlifing, which could proftably employ these
idle hands, droops, the Asiatic continues to
pull at the latch-string and come in, and the
original coast millionaire of other days sits
in his ''back Office and continues to accu-
mulate and accumulate and accumulate
Here he is:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31

The tubercle 6aciM was discovered by
Prof. Koch, to be constantly present in
all cases of consumption. Where the
blood is impoverished or impure, there
results that constitutional condition
known as scrofula, which is character
lied by the liability of certain tissues
to become the seat of chronic intlam-
nations and enlargements. Virchow
says "their vulnerability is excessive"
Consequently, exciting causes which
would have only passing effect upon a
healthy subject, would produce infiam-
nation and disease in the scrofulous.
These troubles may start as catarrh in
the nasal passages, throat or lungs, and
as the membranes become weakened,
the tubercle bacilli enter, and multi
ply, and we have, as a result, that dread
disease-Consumption.
Find perfect remedy for scrofula, in
all its forms something that purifeS
the blood, as well as claims to. That,
if it's taken in time, will cure Con-
sumption. It has been found, in Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. As
q strength-restorer, blood-cleanser, and
flesh-builder, nothing like it is known
to medical science. For Scrofula, Bron-
chial, Throat, and Lung affections, Weak
Lungs, severe Coughs, and kindred all
ments, it's the only remedy so sure that
it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't bene-
fit or cure, your money is refunded.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31
CURSE OF THE COAST.
How the Cheap MOngolian
Crowds the White Man
to the Wall
IN ALL LINES OF WORK.
Everything Is Subservient to In
creaSing the Foreign Trade.
FARMERS LOST IN THE SHUTTLE.
The Celestial Manages to Pay Higher Rent
Than Others Can Pay.
7ARNIERS LOST IN THE SHUTTLE.
CHINATOWN By DAY AND BY NIGHT
-wEIrrEN FoR TIE pIsPArcu.l

There is no part of this big country where
capital chases the Almighty Dollar" so
hard that it lies down breathless and ex-
hausted from the chase, as here on this
coast; and there is no place, so far as nv OBJ
servation goes whera labor gets so poor a
chance 20 cauture the aforesaid dollar 1t
might be supposed that where money max
erS are 50 abundant and the rate of interest
SO high labor would get some proportion
ate share OF il. But the very reverse is
true.
Despite poorly constructed and suppos-
edlv iror-clad emigration laws providing
AGAINST paJnpe~ and contract labor John
comes here I'm overwhelming numbers, with
none 10 modest him or make him afraid.
With the exception of Tacoma he ''infests''
the whole coa>t. He is ingenious and in
Grsrrfou,. and even those who do not like
him freely admit that he is cheap and relia-
Hle. He compeJes here with skilled as well
p unSkilled labor with white as well
rs black. Instead of spending a
wears apprenticeship in learning, for in
stance. the carpenter trade, he viii sit on
board pile Ia front Of a building in course
OF construction by white skilled labor, and
such Is fhe perfection Of Ms initiative facui-
ties Unat when TIE oulLuIAS Is completed ne
can go and build another just like it in
every detail
You NAV call this the monkey faculty Of
Imitation or what YOU viii, but the hard
fact remains that as against such quick
ritted competition the average white
man Is mot in it to any
great extent The ''Sand Lot orators
oftle coast have proclaimel from the lots
thar the Chinese must go, but somehow
or ether he goetk not, and his stay here is
visible. perpetual menace, not only to
low-crade white labor, but to the white
saop-keepiug and minor business interests, |
The mere tact that they are able to occupy
Tie best business streets in the largest |
cities on the coast like Portland and San
Francisco, and pay higher rentals than
white men can pay and thrive, Is not open |
10 "a dOnbt
While the white man is idly Slipping"
thus.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31

The Chinese question here assumes not
only an economical and industrial, but a
political aspect. The Republican party is
friendly to John, and discourages any
''sand lot" agitation, or what they term
''demagogism. On the other hand the
Democratic party and the average
Irishman whom you meet, regardless of
party, have no use for the ''chape hathens. -
The coast people challenge you to deny
that Chinese labor is cheap, and that labor
is worth no more than it will bring; but
some Of these days-perhaps before the CEN
tury is rounded out-the commercial
Princes of the coast may discover that mere
''cheap" labor is not an enduring founda-
tion tOr progressive or prosperous commun-
tiles.
But from whatever standpoint this
Chinese problem is considered-and 1 am
not now dogmatizing about tit is odd
enough to find the American sovereign,
whom you read about in political platforms
white labor skilled or uuskilled-more or
less at discount ON his ''native heath" If
labor is king anywhere, it certainly is
not out here, where employment for white
men is uncertain and precarious, and en-
ployment for the Asiatic hordes is constant
and profitable
In my next shall outline, with such de-
tail as space permits, how rich country
may be "overdone"-how cities are
''boomed'' up beyond their normal growth
how much more preferable producers are
than spectators as elements of common
wealth building, and generally how the
Clown Site" business has been literally
''run into the ground
JAMES w. BREEN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31
A SENSATION IN COURT.
The Embezzling Ex-State Treasurer Pass

The Embezzling Ex-state Treasurer Passes
aNote to Witness on the Stand.
LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 30.-The proceedings
in the Woodruff trial were more interesting
than usual to-day Governor Eagle was
place on the stand early in the morning,
but the State only requested him to identify
an important document filed in his Office by
the ex-Deputy State Treasurer. After he
had retired, the Attorney General requested
that he be excused as a witness and be al
lowed to assist the prosecution in obtaining
facts relative to the case, which was denied.
w. r. Griffith, ex-Deputy State Treasurer,
was placed on the stand and testified that it
had been the custom to make quarterly
statement to the Governor as to the condi-
tion of the treasury AT the end of the last
quarter of Woodruff's term, he neglected to
prepare this statement, but did so at the
suggestion of Governor Eagles Private
Secretary several days after Woodruff's
term had expired. The document was pro-
duced in court and showed that it had been
filed in the Governors Office four days after
the Inauguration of the present Treasurer.
1t was signed w. E. Woodruff, Treasurer,
by w. r. Griffith, Deputy Treasurer.
While he was giving his testimony Major
Woodruff passed a note to him, which
created some surprise and occasioned con-
siderable whispering among those who wit
messed the incident. Fortunately Mr..
Griffith had the foresight to hand the note
to. the attorneys, who saw what was con-
tanned in it. 1t had reference to a private
business matter and in no way alluded to
the case ON trial.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31

LINCOLN in Politics is the subject of
Colonel A. IA. McCIure's letter to THE DIS
PATCH tomorrow,