The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-20
INDEPENDENT; HELENA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20 1891

agement was illegal and expen-
sive, and recommended 10 suppression Al
once. The report was adopted. Cabet ,was
angry and proposed To aeparate the oolony.
part going TO the Iowa lands and tho rsss
remaining IN Nsuaoo; A. the ns saat s,so sSs;,
candidates and obtained a preponderance
Of executive power. But the minority re-
fused to submit, and the incumbents re-
fused to surrender their officer to their suo-
cessors. The excitement grew intense
the municipal authorities interfered to pre-
vent ~bloodshed. and installed tno neW.y
elected officers by force OF legal authority.
The Cabetists at once stopped work In tae
fields, shops and mills. ln the assembly
the opposing factions sat at opposite aides,
and at meals ate at separate tables; ever
the children in the schools TOOK oinerehb
sides and frequently had fistic encounters.
The majority decided that those who re-
fused to work should not cat; the assembly
assigned to each his work and
that all who, after the middle of the month,
would not work should receive no rationS.
CADET and his followers thereupon with
drew, obtained n large building near the
banks of the river, and made 1t their tenn
porary home. j.
From this time ON the soc aim of CADET
seemed to be to encompass the dissolution
of the society. BY means of letters ana
messengers he was in constant mmunaca
ton with the Iowa contingent and secured
their allegiance to himself. He then I'M
dertook to have the Iowa o ansn-
don their lands, which scheme, ii sue
o~essful, would have worked great
damage to the Nauvoo faction, for the rea-
son that the title to the Iowa lands was
vested in CADET rs ar individual and not as
a representative or trustee for the
~oolonists. But the scheme failed and
CADET, angry that his plan a
papers of the Nauvoo colony, circulated
damaging reports regarding its
standing and brought suit in the state
courts with a view to having the lcarian
charter set aside and vacated. and petit
toned the legislature to revoke it. This
was refused. In the meantime a few OF
the colonists, dissatisfied, returned to
ment against CADET, had him indicted and
convicted. The news Of this reached
Nauvoo in October. when CADET and about
two hundred of his followers were pre-
pairing to leave for st. Louis. Cabot went
to the assembly, which was then In SEES
sion, to learn officially whether or not ne
had been condemned and was told that
not only had he been found guilty in the
French courta, but had also bsen expelled
from membership in the colony. In the
following month CADET and his followers
started for st. Louis, whence he left for
France. There he engaged counsel, had
the proceedings against him reopened, &C
quilted himself Of the charges, had the sen-
tence revoked and was duly dismissed by
the tribunal which a few months before had
pronounced him an exile.
The following spring he returned proudly
to St. Louis. only to die a few weeks there
after at the age of " years OF apople1y.
Fol- sixty years he had lived IN france a. a
democrat, had suffered Islander, ridicule,
imprisonment and exile, yet nothing had
SO affected him as the trouble at Nauvoo.
He was old when he became the head Of the
colony and had abandoned all idea Of any
political recognition in France: Hence !,
can hardly be charged that ambition caused
him to be arbitrary. The colony he found
ed was henceforth all there was to occupy
Ills mind. He may have been ambitious,
but his actions were governed by honest
belief, for he had sacrificed trusts and posi-
tione rather thar his convictions. Some OF
the younger members Of the colony who
were anti Cabetists, still remain in Nauvoo,
and are principally agriculturlsts and wine
merchants.