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the plunderers to surrender to the publ
treasury a portion of tho swag derived
from unjust and partial LEGISLATION.
Denver Republican: The death OF King
Kalakaua and the circumstance that his
subjects are yet in ignorance of his death
calls attention to the need of a cable CON
Meeting our Pacific coast with the Hawaiian
and other island groups in the Pacific.
This cable should be laid to New Zealand.
II ia not practicable to communicate by
telegraph with countries bordering ON tho
Pacific ocean without sending a message
across the Atlantic and then across Europe
and Asia. There ia al enormous expense
connected with communication by this
means, and. besides, we are too much sub
ject to the control of European govern
ments. Those governments could cut the
American government off from communioa-
ton with fleet in Japan or China ports If
they saw proper to do so. A cable across
the Pacific would be of great commercial as
we'll as naval advantage to the United
States.
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Much Like Other Princes.

Helena Journal: As a sample prince the
heir to the British throne seems to rank
away up. The general SAVIOR of his ''repu-
tation'' has permeated the whole globe, and
now even an Indiana man speaks of, him
thus after remarkinR that he is too fat to be
handsome: Ellis face ia a little too soft
ana ~tallowy; the top Of his head is also
getting away above the timber line, but still
he would pass anywhere on our side of the
water for q plain, pleasant and intelligent
American gentleman. Meeting him in
Indiana ! should at once set him down as a
st. Louis drummer and should try for a
seat next to him in the smoking car, ex-
pecting to hear a really new and nicely
naughty story."
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-31

THE wrecks of last November's gale
have thrown up lots of driftwood from
which President Harrison can select
timber for a secretary of the treasury.
AS Mr.. Harrison is opposed to free sill
yer coinage and thinks the American
people are wrong in their tariff views,
he could not do better probably than to
appoint William w. Mckinley, of Ohio,
retiring chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house. Or, if
he wants a man who knows, and won't
tell, what next years deficit in the
treasury will be, Mr.. Joseph G. Cannon,
of Illinois, retiring chairman of the ap-
preparations committee, would do.
Or, il he wants to reward
a victim OF the force bill,
there is the retiring McComas, of Mary
land. Perhaps, however, the president
is now more of a believer in reciprocity.
In that case the Hon. Ben. Butterworth,
of Ohio, would be a useful and Jealous
member OF his cabinet. There are many
other leftover republican statesmen be-
CiAOc q AbClo IN fulU Us, Jul NOW
York already has Tracy in the cabinet.
There is little Spooner, but Wisconsin's
place is filled by Uncle Jerry Rusk.
There is Ingalls,, but stop, the jawhawk-
er is for free coinage and against the
force bill. There is Farwell, but, CON
found him, he is for Gresham in 1892.
There is-hurrah, we have it there is
Carter, Jul own Tom, a friend of Tom
Reed in Washington, a friend of silver
in Montana, a friend OF either gold or
silver, or both, as you look at him. Mr..
President, allow us to present the name
Of the brilliant manager Of the late re-
publican congressional committee, the
Golden Eagle of the Rockies, Carter
our own Carter, OF Montana. Match
him! (Note to proof reader-Don't get
it watch him.
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A SUCCESS.
Ming's Opera House to SEQ the
of Pinafore.

Ming's Opera House to Sec the
Production of Pinafore.
H. M. s. PINAFoRE, by Gilbert and Sulli-
van, in two acts.
Commodore, the Ri. Hon. Sir Joseph
Capt. uorcoran, commanding H. IL. .
Ralph aia'i Ssskstraw, able ssapaa:; .vsn's
Josephine the captains daughter 1: n .t.;.on
Hebc, Sir joseph's first cousin A''s ~ A'A'nS0n
Little Buttercup, a Portsmouth, Bum.
DICK SS"i Ds % a q able seaman ~ M:f + 'i i: w siHssy
T.m = l = e R Maslals :, M IT., +. E 4 LIKELY ksl!S
First fYrst'I Lords Sisters his Courins. his Aants.
Sailors, Marines. etc. vi.
The production of an opera by the Encore
club always draws a large audience. Such
was the case last night at Ming's when the
club rendered Gilbert d Sullivan's Pinafore.
Helena theater-goers have HAD many oppor-
tunities of witnessing the opera by profess
sional companies, and when it is consid-
cred that the work last night was by anna
tours a favorable comparison may be made.
The chorus work was excellent and showed
the effect of careful drill coupled with con-
scientlous study. OF the principals as
much can be said. The announcement of
the cast a few days ago aroused great inter
est among those who have seen several of
the members i'll former productions
under the auspices of Helena's leading
musical organization. People who had
seen MIR. +. Il. Wallace AZ the miser in
the Chimes of Normandy several years
ago looked forward with keen IN
terest to his Dick Deadeye. They
were not disappointed, although the latter
character does not give him the oppor-
tunity to display his skill as in the miser.
Miss M. Atkinson, Mr.. G. w. Jackson and
Judge Eddy are also prominently identified
with former triumphs of the club and ii
was we'll believed that on this occasion
they would maintain the STANDARD achieved
by them in the past. Miss Wilson, Mrs.
Clare Avery, Mr.. Hoenig and MIR. Metten
have not been heard here before in promi-
nent parts in orern. They are welcome
additions to the ranks of the club, while
their efforts are to be classed with thost
who have made the organization what it il
which was under the leadership of Pro
fessor Henry G. Yaeger. The harmony be
tween the stage action and the orchestra
WAS Il noticeable feature. This was due IL
the long experience of Prof, Yaeger il
handling n ompan of musicians befor'
the footliRhts.
There was just a tritle Of q drag in tn,
! opening scene that was pnrdonable. A few
minute III the glare OF the lights, md tn.
direction of Mr.. Wallace. who was stag
manager, started things OFF smoothly. Aftel
this the movement did not hitch and STUN
BILE as is 30 often true of amateur perform
: ances. A pleasant innovation upon the ok
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version was the neat dancing of a hornpipe
by Miss Susie Dickens, Helen Langhorne
and Mr.. Wallace in the first act. They
highly deserved the encore which followed.
The scenic work of the quarterback show
ing the Pinafore off Portsmouth was very
natural and contributed greatly to the
scene. It is about as fine a piece of work
as has been seen on the stage of Ming's for
some time. It was made by Verno and
would be a credit to any theatre.
The performances this afternoon and
evening promise to surpass that Of last
night, the members now having passed
through the excitement of a first night.
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JUST COMPLAINTS OF FARMERS.

Prof. Rodney Welch discusses IN
the February number of the Forum
some of the ills of which the American
farmer is the victim. He sees in the
drift of all II legislation a tendency to
do something for the people who live in
cities and towns, to the neglect of peo-
pie living in the country. The rural
districts have not shared with towns, he
says, the recent great improvements in
the postal service. In the country the
postal facilities are hardly any better
than they were a century ago. There
are no money-order postoffices, except in
largo commercial or manufacturing
button of mail matter. II a farmer
wishes to mail a letter he must go the
p~ostoffice, perhaps ten miles away, to do
it. No good reason can be assigned why
o orders should not be issued and
cashed at every postoflice in the coun-
try. AS to the free collection and free
delivery of postal matter, the people in
the rural districts are as much entitled
to it as town people are, although the
service could not from the nature of
things be performed so often in a
sparssly settled region as in a thickly
populated one. The general intelli-
gence of any class largely depends Oh
the facilities for learning what is going
ON in the world. Favorlng one class
gives 1T a special advantage, which In
time will produce marked results. De-
priving country people of the postal ia
%cilties that are enjoyed by those who
live in large towns. tends to lower their
intellectual standing and to keep it be-
low that of those who live in cities. In
nearly all European countries the pos
tai facilities are as good in the rural
districts as in the large towns. In sew
eral of them country people have the
advantage of the parcel post and of pos
tai savings banks. They are not slight
ed because they cultivate farms and
vineyards, or raise cattle, sheep and
fowls.
There is a good deal Of force in this
criticism, but it should be remembered
that our farmers have themselves to
blame, in a measure, for the condition
in which they find themselves. Instead
OF choosing to live in little communities
or villages, going to and from their
farms daily, like the farmers of Europe,
our farmers have isolated themselves by
living OF the land they cultivate-and
by trying to cultivate too much.
We believe the ideal life for the
American farmer will be found IN Mon
tana under the colony system on our ir-
rigated lands. With absolutely sure
crops, with no season of drought or fail
ure, smaller areas of land can be cult
waited with greater profit than in the
prairie states. The colony plan has been
tried in parts Of California with the best
results. 1t can be made even more adj
vantageous in this state where farm
products find a reader market at the
highest prices in our own mining dis
tricts. Colonies of homogeneous peo-
pie, living in compact communities, all
sharing the same water privileges and
with other interests in common. will make
agricultural life in Montana very near an
ideal existence. Under such conditions
of living it will possible to secure all
the advantages that Prof. WEIGH points
ont and many ctbarc ha.,Iac
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stage one Of the most prominent actors
in the scenes OF the latter half of the nine
tenth century. His fr~ee-thought ideas
had brought him into notoriety in his
own country long before the British
house Of IN made him conspicu-
GUS the world over by refusing to allow
him to take a seat IN that body because
his ideas would not permit him to sub.
scribe to tho regular oath Of Office. With
Bradlaugh it was a matter OF conscience.
However wrong or right his opinions
may have been, he believed that way,
and refused to fall into the fashion OF
pretending to think otherwise because
his views We're unpopular. But how
eve unpopular the mans opinions may
have been, the man himself did not
share in the unpopularity. An out
spoken advocate of what he held to be
right, a friend of the oppressed of all
countries, an earnest republican in a IA
ton Of royalists and admirers OF
titles, a free thinker in a land of
orthodoxy, he was as II set apart from
his fellow men, yet beloved and hon
ored by the masses. The world admires
an earnest and an honest n whether
it subscribes to his doctrines or not.
was both of these. Reason
ing from cause to effect, it may have
have been the difference with his father
in early life that confirmed the impress
sions which were the direct cause of his
being driven from home. A different
course might have made him come, in
time, to change his opinions. In that case
he would probably have died an ortho-
dox believer, and the word would never
have heard of Bradlaugh. II that cpl
sode had any effect in shaping his flu
ture course, it may be said of Brad
laugh that his fame was greater than
that of the men who were responsible
for it.
The aspiring youth who fired the Ephesian dome,
in fame the pious fool who reared it.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
HELENA, MONT. JAN. 81, 1891.

e4y- Montanians abroad will always find The
DAILY INDEPENDENT on file Mt their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New
York; Grand Pacific. Chicago; West, Minneapo-
lie: Baldwin and Palace, San Francisco; McDer-
mott, Butte; Leland Hotel, Springfield. Ill.
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Bon INGERsoLL is going to Butte. And
yet that audacious agnostic says there is
no hell.-Spokane Falls Review.
What does our Washington contem-
porary mean? Does it intend to insln-
uate that it would be s%uperfuous to
have two such places, or that after the
descent into Butte the other place
would have no terrors for him, or what?
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Californians. Read This.

Talk about Montana weather.! Col. W. B.
Hundley came up from his ranch yesterday
and reports hat one of his ems stole away
a nest of eggs and has just Matched out Il
clipper brood of thrifty chickens. He also
says that he has lost all his fish. The lake
is frozen, but the fish insist on jumping at
ter the grasshoppers, which are thick above
the ice, and have butted their brains out to
reach them. The colonel will, however,
voucn for the story about the chickens.
Wooden and iron wagons at less than cost, to
losa tho bnSinnag ri lla Roc Hive.
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Now that the legislature is in work
ing order it might be we'll to state that
it is not SO much the quantity of laws as
it is the quality that counts.
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The death of Charles Bradlaugh, the
atheist, orator, and member of parlia-
ment for Northampton, removes from the
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Hot Lunch from IL Il. IN. to $50 p. M,
trail Hotel sample rooms. Drop In and try
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Ex-MARsHAL IRWIN has been telling
the st. Louis Globe Democrat some po-
litical truths from the point of view Of
a Montana republican, that fatty con-
tradict the statements of Sanders at
Washington. He says:
The people of Montana do not care a
straw about the bill, as it will not af-
feet them, but they regard it's pressure
at this time as a piece of idiocy. Its
passage can do no good, while it may do
harm. The negro now gets a chance
to vote in the southern states some
times, but if this bill passes he will
never see a ballot box. Again, they
naturally look with disgust on the spec
tacle OF such mugwumps as Hoar and
Lodge have been, monopolizing valuable
time and placing the republican party
in a dangerous position by excluding
from consideration important measures
which the republican congress ought to
take up. The force bill or the McKin-
ley bill are not the greatest issues-the
money question is the great and all-im-
portant problem that must be solved,
and the defeat of the republican party
last fall was due to it's failure to keep
the pledges made in the national plat
FORM"
That is a very true statement of pub
lie opinion in Montana to-day.
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STATE AUDITOR KINNEY announces
that he is about to make a contribution
to the mass of harmony that has filled the
air at the state capital for the past few
days. He will pay the members of the
legislature their per diem and salaries.
He finds he can do so without tearing
the constitution, though it may require
something of a stretch of that elastic
instrument. The constitution says the
compensation of members Of the legisla-
tive assembly. sster the first, shall be
fixed by law. AS no laws have been
passed subsequent to the adoption of
the constitution, the pay fixed by that
instrument is held to stand good until
changed. The argument seems plausi-
BILE and is doubtless correct. The peo-
pie of Montana evidently never contem-
plated asking their legislators to work
for nothing. They might have enter
tanned some doubt as to the wisdom of
paying them for services not rendered.
But now that they have shown them
selves right good boys, and kissed and
made up, and shown a disposition tc
carr their daily bread, they should get
their pay. When they do there will
doubtless be more harmony.
The morning call., 1891-12-05
THE COMMISSIONER.
Mayor SandersOn Says Dan Burns
Acted DiscOurteOusly.

Mayor Sanderson was chatting in his
Office with Supervisor Burling when CALL
reporter dropped in and asked the Mayor as
to the right of the newly elected Police
Commissioner, Dan Burns. to leave the city
and State without official sanction.
Il have never been consulted by Mr..
Burns on the matter" said the Mayor in an
injured tone. land | think there has been
great lack of courtesy, to say the least. /
understand an application for leave of alb
sence has been lodged with the Board Of
Supervisors and will be considered on Mon
day next. l suppose. as Mr.. Burns has
already left the State for Mexico. that there
will be nothing left but to grant him the
leave he has already taken.
There is section OF the Political Code
of California, No. APO, which expressly pro-
vides that city officers shall obtain permis-
sion before leaving the State. L was asked
by some person who protested to be sent by
Mr.. Burns to call meeting of the Super
VisorS, but l receive so many requests of
that kind for the most triiing personal
causes that pay no attention to them"
Questioned as to the validity of Mr..
Burns appointment the Mayor Thought there
could be no doubt about that. Formerly the
appointment was vested IN three of the court
judges, but that Is done away with, and he
believed the matter rests with the Governor.
Mr.. Buring was absolutely nOn-commit-
tai. There is general feeling among the
faction opposed to the State Admiuistra-
ton that it has been outgeneraled, but it
will make an effort to have the Supervisors
declare the office vacant on the ground that
Burns left the State without leave. The
name OF ID. V. Il. Henarie will be put for
ward, and it is thought the majority Of the
Supervisors Will vote for him. The matter
will then, if necessary, be fought out in the
courts. The friends of Burns treat the OPP
position as very triiing affair.
The morning call., 1891-12-05
TO FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Twenty.nine New Doctors Receive
Their Diplomas.
Graduation Exercises at the Cooper Medical
College-Valediotory Address by Pro-
lessor E. II. Plummer

The medical fraternity Is richer to-day by
twenty-seven doctors and two doctresses
than it was yesterday. The newly diplo-
maed disciples of Esculapius have been
plodding for terms of two or three years
each in the Cooper Medical College, and last
night they were given the greatest event of
their lives in the large auditorium of the
college, which was filled to its utmost ca
pacity. The commencement was surprise
in every particular. ana will be remembered
with pleasure by the audience as well as the
graduating class. to whom it meant so
much.
There had been no attempt to decorate
and mo flowers" were allowed. This was
in coed form, as the well-lghted auditorium
needed no ephemeral ornaments, and the
program me was veritabie bouquet of tai
ent Upon the rostrum were seated bare
majority of the faculty, but several of the
absent were discoverable in the audience.
Those on the rostrum were: DR.. l.. c.
Lane, President; Drs. Charles Ii. Steele, G.
N. Ellinwood, Adolph Barkan. Joseph Fl.
Wythe, joseph o. Hirschfelder, w. ID.
johnson. r. Ii. Plumber and William Fitch
Cheney.
The well-known college march. "Com-
men cement.' by an orchestra, was the an
nouncement that for the twenty nine young
doctors the great event had commenced.
This was followed by an overture by La
vale, entitled the Bridal Rose" DIR. u. 5.
Abbott led in prayer, and after a selection
from Bach by the orches tra-"The Springs
Awakening"-t degrees were conferred
by President l.. c. Lane This took some
time and was received with great cheering.
After a cornet solo GOOD Night, Fare
WELL" Professor r. II. Pummer, Md,
read the valedictory address. which was
able and eloquent, and spurred the gradu-
ates on to higher attachments in their actual
conflicts with sickness and disease. Bishop
&. III. Fowler made a short address. full of
good words for all, and after musical pro-
gramme, embracing the waltz "Hydropat-
ten" and the gavotte Princess" Rev. G. S.
Abbott, DID,, pronounced the benedicllon.
The audience retired after medley of
college Songs" by Tobani
The graduating class embraced: Harry
Alta Andrews, George Blumer, Benjamin
Franklin Burke. James Foster Christal.
Melvin Sherman Coffman, Louis Charles
Deane. Frank Fischer. A. B. Richard Ed
ward Gibson. Charles Francis Griffin,
Edmond Louis eros, Alden Cayins
Richard Irvine Hewitt. Charles Will
lam Jones, Clarence William Kellogg,
Sanbabro Kobyashi, Robert Joseph Nc
Gettigan, BIS, Iga Mori, Arthur Aloysius
O'Neill, Kate Overacker, William Calvin
Riley, Emmett Rixford. BIS, William
Arthur Rowell, Edward Huxley Samuels.
Ph.G., Arthur James Sanderson, Eyange-
line Shelper. David Shoemaker, Josiah
Adams Simpson, M, Fenton Blakemore
WHITING
The morning call., 1891-12-05
WITTMAN'S PRESENT.


Il Beautiful Diamond Star Given Him by
Merchants.
Police Sergeant George w. Whitman ex
hibted last night among his brother officers
magnificent gold star which cost over $500.
The star is about as large as the ordinary
badge worn by an officer 1t contains forty
nine diamonds. tho center one alone being
worth S125. No official of the department
can boast of a more splendid insignia of
Office
The work of the setting and the ornament
tation is performed with all the jewelers.
best art. The star was presented to Ser
geant Whitman by over forty firms on
Kea rny, Suffer. Post and Bush streets. 1t
was presented 10 him in letter to The Po-
lice Commission on November 18th, but as
the commission did not meet till Thursday.
1t was not known whether he could accent
it or not
The commission at its executive session
decided to allow Sergeant Whitman to ac-
cept the gift The communication accom-
panylng the handsome present stated that
certain malcontents had attempted to SLAM
Der his good name and character, and that
the gilt was given TO testify the merchants
appreciation of his services, and their rec
ogniton of his truthfulness and integrity as
man and an officer.
The ISLANDERS referred to were the accusa
tons made by Officer r. p. Kelly when he
was dismissed from the force that Sergeant
Whitman had fixed a case about eight wears
ago. '~'-,S