The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-17
MS LIFE AND his WORKS
8Ths Glowing Tribute Paid BY Mon
tana's Eloquent Governor to
Col. Broadwatsr.
N Address Delivered 1t the Clos
lug Exercises OF Mon
tana College.

sxe Dauasa Bsttsr Than He Knew ans
out es Chaos brought All This
and More"
The blessing exercises Of the College o
Montana took place at Deer Ledge yester
day. The address of the occasion was de
livsrsd By Gov. Tools, who. after referring
% Tho good work tho college was doing IL
ths matter Of education, closed with thu
following beautiful tribute to the late Col,
Broaawatsr:
We have many men II this stats who
have gathered from her treasures wealth
beyond tho possibilities Of expenditure in
the ordinary COURSE Of life. What = grand
field tho endowment Of educational institu-
tons Offers 10 suchl The lats Col. Chaa A.
Broadwatsr, whose death 10 lamsnted by a
whole state, had in mind such q noble pur-
pose. And having mentioned this fact to
hin old friends in this city. the scene Of his
earliest exploits, ] am asked in conclusion
TO nay a tribute to his memory. A brief
reference may stimulate others TO emulate
his example.
Let IL be written that Charles A. Broad
water WAS q self-made man, that he was
courageous and chivalric, and As BELTS the
brave he was instinct with kindness. CON-
siderate OF tho poor and never oppressed
the weak. He was hospitabls to strangers
and p~rincely to his friends. He did not
look Ut the exterior but the interior quail
6cations Of the man. He believed that if the
touch-stons was applied to every life, that
some noble sentiment would respond. And
30 il was, that among those who loved him
were found many men in whom Others
could sss no good.
HE was OF gentle blood. but there was
enough iron in it to resent . wrong, and an
open foo did we'll to guard with caution and
watch with apprehension. but when the sun
went down upon q battle finished, every
record was expungsd, and every memory
was oblitsrated in the fragrant fumes of
the pipe OF peace. He did not meddls with
small affairs. but %erapplod with great en-
terprises. Ho was at all times amiable and
plausible. His fame as a pioneer builder
and potent factor in business and
politics was wide spread. l cannot
undertake to recount his successes
or review career SO remarkable
and 90 prolific Of great results to this state.
but if I had the power of condensation and
statement might do 10. for have ssen
him grow from the adventurous and FESTIVE
period of life into the strength and symmetry
Of rugged manhood. from the wagon boss
to the presidency of a great railroad, from
the hard pressed borrower to the generous
lender, :from the private to the public bene-
factor, from obsourity to fame. All along
this steady pathway Of progression there
-. ~ fri.or. fspf mo patropizino
air. no supereilious look. no conscious
pride to obstruct his march or dim the
glory Of his achievements.
His life and works show the great posi-
bilitiss that wait on we'll directed thoughts
and stimulated energies. He never made
% Ills mind 10 do 1 thing until he had con
sidsrsd IL we'll and counted all the %chances,
and, having determined, no man ever knew
him TO abandon q project or desert q cause.
He deserves the commendation of one
gifted with more than poetic inspiration
who has said:
All my life long
have beheld with most respect the man
him.
With . clear foresight, not a blindfold courage,
And. having chosen. with a steadfast mine
Pursued his purpose.
He had many projects in mind for the
betterment and upbuilding Of the city that
U6 Mall HlWAYb D1OuN W Gull LID aOkut, Auu
so fortified were we in tho confidence which
his endorsement and aid inspired, that we
we're prone to consider them half accom-
plished. Nc man can Approximate the good
he would have done had he lived for twenty
years more. What IN array Of witnesses
We would call to testify to his devoted
friendships, his genuine kindness, his broad
charity, his reassuring advice. his wide
philanthropy!
I do not say that he was without imper-
fections. ] would not set him up on the
cold unyielding pedestal of severest ortiz
cism and pursue his life to the last and
final analysis without the expectation of
finding some clouded canopy, some dreary
desert, some waste place. I would not
measure the life and character of any man
warm-hearted, impulsive, aspiring. whose
dawn Of manhood opened on q far frontier,
and whose habits were shaped n formed
in the midst of Rrest activities, by the
supsrtine standard of a dreamer or the
Utopian idea OF a moralist. l would prefer
TO Judge him by the elastic line of Z COM
mon sense man who can recognize the obli-
cations of morality without a tinge of as
ceticism, and who can observe all the Just
proprieties without engaging in Pecksnifian
pretense.
His daily life in the sweet abandon Of
boon companionship afforded the best op-
portunity to know that his heart was
warmed by the rays of the ancient faith,
and that the best criterion by which to Judge
him IL not by his professions but by his
works.
'Tis not tho wide phylsctery.
The Stubborn fast, nor stated prayers.
That makes uB saints: We judge the tree
BY what 1t bears
1t is reserved for others to spread upon
memorial pages the complete history of the
life and character of this brave pioneer,
worthy citizen and true friend. Many
there are whom he has loaded with the
proofs of his esteem who will gladly do it.
! have only spoken of him in the abstract;
! caunot pursue tie subject further and
restrain this flow of natural emotions. 1t ia
due to those who survive him to say thai
the symmetry of our friends we'll rounded
career WAS not wanting in the ~harmonious
complement of a prosperous wedlock. No
one can tell how much of his success was
due to this happy union. A son and
daughter survive to comfort their widowed
mother.
We have lain him to rest in the place
Conseoratsd to the dead. It is unlike the
enchanted spot from which we bore him
but the great white sentinols that surrounc
him in the city Of the dead are the silen
monitors that sooner or later we must al
meet upon . common level. We shall no
soon forget our friend.
When in after years the virgin soil OF the
great Milk river valley, which he explored
and brought to the attention Of the dirac
tors of the Great Northern Railway compa-
nv ahhll hava reapondel Tn tho pIou ~ IN,