The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-02
.NTANA AND GREAT FALLS
Brooklyn Life" Calls Montana
wild and Crude, and the
Citizens Natives.
Tribune COrrects This Antiquat-
ed Opinion and Gives a Few
Facts About

ltana In General and Great Falls
Sin Observation-Disclosures the
B~rooklynite.
. following excerpt is taken from
Brooklyn Life:
Only the other day ! got news Of Mr..
hby T. Christensen, the leading son Of
famous financial general, who has
"a away from Brooklyn for some
this. The far west has embraced
ng MI. Christensen, and he is now
wing in Cascade county, Montana, at
+ little town that goes by the name of
eat Falls, teaching, practising law and
)cruiting his health. They call him
Prof. Christensen there, and he is held
b the highest esteem by the natives. 1t
B to be hoped that it will not be long
before MI. Christensen departs from the
wild and crude regions of Montana and
BONE back again in the midst of his
Friends and nelghbors. A success in the
law was undoubtedly waiting for him
here, il he had only staid to grasp il, for
he was trained in a worthy school in no
50ther place than the celebrated Office Of
Sullivan a. Cromwell, the "den" where
'yhe lion, William Nelson Cromwell,
browses, or used to browse daily in a
Wilderness of corporate law, and in a
forest of legal technicalities, government
Ytports and receivers statements"
The above remarks are made over the
na de plume of ''Childe" in the LOCKER
b column.
The TRIBUNE does not know anything
to the truth of the remarks as regards
III. Christensen, but when the Brooklyn
4 aper comes to talk about the wild and
>6rude regions of Montana, it exhibits
1he dense ignorance S 10 often found in
The Atlantic states, especially in some
Darts Of New York, about the industrial
Growth of the western parts of their
own country. Natives of Montana +!
jHumph, the aborigine of BROOKLYN
vould lead one to believe we are Indi-
= ns-wild and crude Forsooth, not by
n good deal, the wild and crude is found
10 the illiterate thousands Of Poles,
Nagyars, Bohemians, Italians, ETC.,
which New York:City imports by tens of
thousand every year, polluting the po-
2%itical atmosphere with their wild, an.
|archistic opinions, and the social life
with their r~iotous, unruly behavior. 1t
lis dense ignorance of the great west, its
marvellous advancement, its enormous
resources, its highly educated masses,
which has in a large measure been re-
.sponsible for the unwise legislation
Which has been enacted this past several
years.
1t took Brenckelen of 1886 till 1925
ito make a Brooklyn Of equal population
with Great Falls OF the present year
that is, Great Falls has gained 1000
souls in six years, and it took Brooklyn
Just 1883 years to reach that point. But
Great Falls has infinitely greater advan-
tages, for the age OF steam and electricity
is forcing Great Falls to her destiny with
strides tenfold greater than ever was
known in the twenties.
Speaking of the wild and crude re-
lgions of Montana, it NAV be stated that
three great transcontinental railway
lines intersect our state and a fourth one
is noy- crossing the border to tap the
gy. At traffic of central Montana. Not a
~ htlah VAL no IOuuu WIlDlU the
pitts of our state. With the disappear
nee of the buffalo the spirit of the hos.
le was cowed and he found that to SUD
Prt life he had to adopt work as part of
, life's allotment. AS for wild animals
at might be dangerous to human life
by are only found in the deepest re-
sCcsaes of the mountain Businesses; but
AXE the whole state as an average it is
Doubtful if the glens Of the A~dirondacks
10 not contain more large game than the
average area of Montana.
AS for the natives, they are composed
principally OF hardy pioneers from the
pest educated element Of the Mississippi
yelley and the eastern states, a proof of
xhich may be found in the fact that for
pc total number of the population Mon
&na supports more public schools and
0ewspapers than any other given ratio
u the United States. More than this.
state for size of smelling establish,
l1ents, conducting Of deep mining, con-
~ OF vast water power, with no cessa.
~ OF water the year round, and adap.
mons OF electricity, can give pointers TO
amy or the eastern states.
AS Tor education, the public schools
Ife conducted on as high a scale as any
d United States, the requirements
emanded of a teacher in the high
pools being a standard fully as com.
Offensive and advanced as any outside
The most celebrated universities. The
lberate class in the state forms but a
ctlon Of ! per cent. of the whole popu-
lpon. and there is no communitv
.foughout its length or breadth, be i
pr so small, but what the vital issues of
e day are as thoroughly comprehended
Pa understood as they are in the larger
emmunities OF New York. In econom-
y matters Montana is far ahead of her
pier states. The wave of depression
pich cast a pail wei the union last
pr, n the effects of which are still
y, only cast an outside ripple over
Iontana, and though unwise legislation
Is crippled one great industrygsilver-
Z our are so varied. so vast
extent, and the intuitive faculties of
miners so keen, that it will now be
ply a question of substituting the nro-