The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-03
How to Lower Your Assessment.

now 20 Lower Your Assessment.
To The INDEPENDENT: Never give
thought or a penny to the poor.
Always remain cold and indifferent to en-.
terprises.
Stop paying your bills regularly. II
pleases your butcher, the grocer and plumber
to know that you are rich.
Be wise In your own conceit. and exact
big rents OF your tenants, and they are sure
to remain.
Never give a cent to open up the gold and
silver mines in sight of your property. Be
u crcaker.
Tell the assessor, owing to your vast
holdings on real estate. which became valu-
able and made you rich, n not by your
efforts, that a 30 per cent. reduction will be
the proper caper until after you have un-
loaded.
Never help those who seek your assist
ance. tor you are rich; it might make them
Keep your rents up and your money in
consolation In what you have lone on the
ancient pine wooden pavement. that may
be laid at 1.-THE time of the Columbus Worlds
fair.
Never try to improve the town by build
ing or engaging in mines or manufactu-
rles; it would give too much employment to
the miners and mechanics.
30 q high roller. give literally to the club
and a nickel to the preacher. Live high.
drive rather than walk and some day as
tonish the natives by your display as a
public benefactor. Discourage mining, and
INST your real estate paper boom, by liberal
subscription in far away eastern papers. It
p!!eases the eastern investor when you tell
him of the richest city in the world, and a
lot, even a graveyard lot, in such a place
has its high imitation rs only rich men can
buy. Don't mention to him il a hundred
0r T~nrn nf thnnn SDh ~~S.A-- - l
that the city would thrive in ways innum-
erable,-Rrow fast n become a live min
ing and manufacturing center. Don't tell
the eastern capitalist shat your heirs and
would resort to picks and drills,
burrow. tunnel the hills and bring out the
reward. Don't tell him how the business
would boom, BY. buildings going up square
after square with many railroads and their
branches, with smelters and mills in variety.
al giving employment and adding cheer
tulness and riches to the people.
then will be dull, but that its increase ia as
sured by the thrift and growing population
enterprises of daily occurrence.
But you might say: This will be done by
heirs or successors,; in their laudable efforts
and capital that would be put into the
mines IN slght; the manufactures and in
built up by other enterprisinp men
who would be drawn into the solid business
Of the then proud and rich city Of Helena.
Tell your eastern man, not in name alone,
then in fact, that the mechanic, the
rlner, the manufacturer, the farmer, the
b%asiness men. the banks and the great cor
porations and newspapers would all be
strong in wealth, and adding to their
riches each succeeding dav by their
progressive spirit. Tell him Of the prompt
acting and pushing forward Of every
industry and enterprise for the welfare of
III IN rrInoyN n~1
% and Is per cent. interest. Finally say to
they will show the world that a realty ,
Exists in gold and silver which changes not,
aor has it any opposition in producing or
price for the benefit OF man, but now be- ;
cause of lethargy INC misery proclivities,
les in our beautiful mountains
n sight, till that era, or a change of spirit
axes place amongst the moneyed men of
Then will men seek to invest their
Mt home. and not in isolated places !
other states, where only disaster awaits
heir wealth. Yours,
HTCKTFREppv