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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

From amid the ruins of the Waite
wreck in Colorado Tom Patterson crawls
out long enough to make an address to
the labor convention. Beyond question
Mr.. Patterson is one of the most bril-
liant men in the silver state, and his ad-
dress was no mountaineering; but by the
shuffling course he has recently pursued
and by playing into the hande of the
demagogues he has bid farewell to what
ever of influence he possessed. His fate
will be a warning to those who do not
temper ambition with judgment.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

The president has once more sent to
the senate for confirmation the name of
David G.. Brown as collector of customs
for Montana and Idaho. This is proper.
Mr.. Brown is a democrat, the admins
tration is democratic and democrats are
entitled to the offices. That Senator
Power has a personal prejudice against
Mr.. Brown should not cut any figure.
A senator is supposed in his official
capacity to be above petty malice, and
if Mr.. Power is not his democratic COL
leagues should be.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
HOUSE OF HERSH FIELD.

In another column will be found a let
ter from the head of the "house O.
Hershield' which appeared in the indie
pendent Saturday. 1t refers to the re
cent trial at Fargo, and is in some re
spects a remarkable document, in that il
was written with the idea that it would
be a defense of the "house', while, as a
matter of fact, it is just the contrary. II
is the wall Of a very sour and disap'
pointed man, who, in his chagrin, barks
at shadows, and who, out of the wreck
of the trial, gets one grain Of satisfaction
in announcing that he had influence
enough left to secure the discharge of
an associated press reporter who would
neither be bribed or driven into doing
his bidding. He speaks of his brothers
witnesses being i%ntimidated, just as
though they were not a band of self con-
victed hired perjurers, and then has the
gall to remark that the trial and the in
cidents surrounding it was a race or, as
he puts it, an anti. Semetic crusade, and
in this connection he abuses the press
and the lawyers.
In the light Of the testimony and the
decision of the court, the press and the
lawyers can we'll afford to laugh at the
twaddle of l.. H.. Hershfield. They only
did their duty and will do it again, for
the case is not yet ended, and the public
will need to be RECALLED with such bits of
Hershield inner history as may appear
in court. 1t is all we'll enough for him
to play the old time dodge and talk of
the length of time he has lived in Mon
tana, and also to refer to the dignifed
silence that he and his wife had main
tanned, but he should remember that if
there had been a dignifed silence
in that Dom in the Chiacgo hotel,
in which the cane episode was enacted,
and even subsequent to that there would
have been no trial, no scandal, and no
need for an appeal for sympathy, The
letter, however, is relieved by one flash
of humor, which occurs in the paragraph
in which Mr.. Hershfeld refers to his
as ian unknown woman
from no one knows where" This
is, no doubt, intended to be severe, but
it is ludicrous. Just as though the
''house of Hershfield" could trace it's
.genealogy any further than the 'house
Of Hogan or to get a little closer to the
present time, to intimate than in tho case
Of Dell nature had made an exception
and that she was not born, but like
"jes growed."
The card of L. H., like the trial of
is a failure.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
THE CHURCH OF ROME.

One Of the most portentious and re-
markable documents Of the present time
is a decree alleged to have been issued
by the pope of Rome a few days ago, the
substance of which will be found in the
Geographic columns. 1t recites that
Pope Leo XIII. has decided that there
shall be a reunion between the Greek
church and the church of Rome. The
move is a most important one to all
C~hristendom, for it gives emphasis to
the fact that the great organization
known as the Roman Catholic church is
stretching out it's arms in an endeavor
to once more assert it's supremacy. The
present Leo may be physically a self
immured prisoner within the confines Of
the vatican; he is shorn of the tempo
raj power that was enjoyed by his prede-
cessors, but the signs of the times all in.
dictate that he proposes that the spiritual
power of the church shall be augmented
to such a degree that it shall one more
be the most masterful agency for good
or evil in the universe. Any observer
of current events will realize that in the
United States the policy of the pope has
been to place the church in sympathy
with the spirit of the times and
the spirit of our institutions. He
has, SO to speak, adapted the church to
American ideas, and in 80 doing has
robbed the opposition of it's most power.
full weapon Of attack. The ALLOCATE,
Satolli. vested as he is with plenary
power, has seen fit to effect a revolution
in the practices of the Roman church in
this country. In this he has been
backed up by Cardinal Gibbons, Arch.
bishops Corrigan Of New York and Ire.
land of Minnesota and Bishop Keane
the rector of the great Catholic univer.
sity at Washington. No matter where
they may have been born, the gentlemen
named are each and all Americans and
any abuse aimed at either their national.
ity or their creed falls harmless. There
can be no d~isputing the fact. the church
is on a wonderful increase here and the
ephemeral religio-political organizations
will have a tendency to help, not to harm
it, for intolerance is not a tenet Of Amer
lean doctrine. But while the pope il
pushing thu church in this land he is moi
unmindful of its progress in other lands
and has in contemplation a reception OF
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

It is reported that a vote on the pool
Ing bill will be reached in the house to.
day, and that the decision will be that
the interstate commerce commission will
be given authority to regulate pools.
This whole railroad business, 90 far as it
relates to the west, is a huge farce.
There have been combines and fights
and determinations and special rates,
but in all the so-called battles the
people of the west have got the worst of
it. Only a few days ago the managers
met and agreed that rates to the coast
should be raised and the issue Of round
trip tickets limited to certain periods of
the year. This was followed up the next
day by a large increase in freight rates
on all the lines, and the effort now is by
legislation to give force to all these stand
and deliver agreements of the several
roads. The situation is becoming mo-
notonous in the extreme. Today it costs
as muchto bring freight from st. Paul or
Omaha as the original cost of the article
freighted, and when the contemplated
pooling bill is passed there will be an
advance. 1t will be a brave man who
will suggest a remedy, for the roads and
their receivers seem to have the bulge.
In the meantime Congressman Bryan
of Nebraska seems to have struck the
proper chord when he declared that in
all dealings regarding the subsidized
roads, the actual value Of the roads, not
the sum for which they are stocked or
bonded, should be the basis from which
to reckon charges and earnings. Mr..
will hardly convince a majority of
congress that he is right, but he will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
there is not a shipper or traveller from
the river to the coast who will not say
''amen" to his proposition. The pooling
bill will probably be passed, but there is
a better day coming, and when that ar
the relations between the govern
ment, the roads and the public will be
determined upon an equitable basis.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

As q sort of a p~ost-election amusement
the st. Louis Republic has been eschew-
ing politics and devoting the space in it's
editorial columns to the discussion of
social and economic questions. In a
recent issue it must have had in mind
the letter of L. H. Hershfeld, in which
that gentleman, who can trace his
ancestry back to Moses, speaking of Dell
Hogan Aaron Hershtield contemptuously
said she was a woman who came from
no one knows where. This was rather an
unkind thrust in free Americs, a land
in which Dell Hogan has as much right
to carve out a fortune az has l.. H
Hershfield. While their methods may
have differed both Dell and l.. H. were
seeking whom they could devour and
neither in the rush we're supposed to
care particularly a ITO tho genealogy of
themselves or of their victims. However,
l.. H. in his letter by implication rather
prides himself that the "house of Hersh-
field" is a little higher in the social scale
than the "house of Hogan" Both SEN
fences are alliterative and the chances
are that one "house" is as good as the
other, despite the slur of the elder Hersh-
field. He must have forgotten Tennyson.
who wrote:
Trast me, Clara. We're de We're.
From yon blue heaven above us bent,
The grand old gardner and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
How ere it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood.
But we are wandering from the sub
ject. The st. Louis Republic in one of
it's apropos discussions asks, "Do we
need a grandfather" l.. H. Hershfield
may think he does and Dell Hogan may
not care whether she ever had one. All
she needs is a husband and father fol
her baby, and the court has decreed that
she has both.
This being the case, The TRIBUNE
quotes as follows the answer of the Re
public to it's own query, and commendt
it to the careful consideration Of bott
L. H. and his sister.in-law. The Repub
lie Gays:
"Paul Bourget, Frenchman aud littera
teur, complains Of the lack of grand
fathers in this country. What Pau
Bourget means, doubtless, is that there
is a noticeable lack Of people in thi'
country who can tell what their grand
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

The unfortunate death of Joseph A.
Conrad at Los Angeles has led the news
papers in that city into a serious con-
fusion Of James that does injustice to
the living. They have telegraphed
broadcast that the deceased was John
H. Conrad Of Helena, one of the best
known citizens Of this state. While the
error was unintentional it is one for
which there is hardly an excuse, and
mention is made Of it in order to set the
matter right. In extending its respect
full sympathy to the family Of the de.
ceased in. their sorrow The TRIBUNE
feels that it is but doing a right to make
this correction.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
OF CUBA,

Those who are old enough, and the
woods are full of them, will remember
that it was only a few years before the
war that the cry was "S4O.OOO,OW and
Cuba is ours" Brief as has been the
intervening space as measured by years,
it has been long enough to show a
growth of the United States that is
phenomenal in it's wonderful increase.
While the project to acquire Cuba was
at it's height the war broke out and that
and other important matters we're al
lowed to drop. However, since the agi-
tation for acquisition Of the beautiful
Isle of the sea was so pronounced in the
late SOS there has ever since been in
this country a feeling that Cuba should
be either an independent republic or a
portion of the United States. Lives
have been lost and treasure expended in
vain efforts to accomplish this purpose,
yet it is still a dream. Now the scheme
has been revived. The Cuban patriots
and their compatriots in the United
States have again begun active opera.
lions and a movement has been set on
foot to make Cuba free, behind the
movement being our government. To this
end it is refreshing to note that in the
senate q resolution has been introduced
by n of the Florida senators, reciting
that "the independence of the island of
Cuba is an object of great Importance to
the United States and requesting the
president to commence negotiations with
Spain for the recognition of the indie
pendence of the island and for--the guar
antee of the United States of the pay
ment Of such sum Of money as shall be
upon between the United States
and Spain" There are many citizens of
this country who will argue that our ter
ritorial possessions are already extensive
enough, but the large majority will be-
that by reason of it's geographical
and commercial relations Cuba, if not
a part Of our possessions,
should be divorced from Spain and be in
closer touch with this country. The
TRIBUNE is of the opinion that no matter
what the cost Cuba should be a part Of
the United States and it seconds the mo-
ton of the senator from Florida to make
it such.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

There seems to be an unusual number
of cottontails in the brush and Jacks
ia the sageb 'ush in the country around
about Helera this year.-Helena indie
pendent.
And every one of them is waiting for
the coming legislature in the hope of
capturing an Office of high or low degree.
Most want to be senators, but il they
can't get that many will be satisfied with
committee clerkships.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

Breckenridge, he of Kentucky and
Madeline Pollard fame, is still in con-
gress, and yesterday took occasion to let
the people of the country know it.
During the proceedings in the house he
called up the urgency deficiency bill. 1t
is row in order for Madeline to move
that there Is an urgent necessity for
Breckenridge to settle that deficiency
represented by the verdict of the jury
and the sum she has thus far received
from the Kentucky congressman.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

fathers were. There are government
statistics to show that there is a very
large number of people in France who
cannot tell what or even who their
fathers were. But we waive the point,
for convenience of discussion, to ask, in
all seriousness, how M. Bourget discov-
cred Dur lack of authenticated ancestry.
Where did he find Americans willing to
admit that were not entirely familiar
with all the branches OF their family
trees? Has M. Bourget been Summing?
Certainly he could not find Americans of
the right sort n who who would con-
fess to a missing link in the chain
which binds him to the primordial age.
We grandfathers, if we have
them not. And we will defy M. Bour-
get or any other foreigner to impeach
our veracity.
I'm the meantime the lack of grand
fathers encourages the fantastic exhibit
ton. If we had church records a thou
sand years old it would be easy to con-
vince these people that there is no u
for another Naseby or Marston Moor in
this country, fought between commoners
on n side and commoners on the other.
But We are powerless. An ocean rolls
between US and the fourth generation is
distant. And the man you challenge for
American proofs Of his puritan or cave
lier claims will tell you that they were
destroyed in Indian wars. So there you
are. And what is Paul Bourget going
to do about it,"
While this article OF the Republic may
not have been written for the especial
benefit Of L. Fl. Hershtield he can read it
to good advantage and remember it
when he next refers to any Of his rela-
tives coming from no one knows where.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

The doctors all disagree. That is to
cay the goldbug currency doctors. T he
Baltimore plan is not 80 elastic as it
was supposed to have been, and some of
the experts are antagonizing the propo-
%sition, doctor Carlisle, secretary of the
treasury being among the number. In
the meantime the real doctors who know
the exact symptoms of the country
have a plain and eficacious remedy in
free coinage, and in due time it will be
applied with good results.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

from his hunt for the ~senatorship and
devote it to devisipg a scheme to aid
those who are in search Of lesser Offices.
The other Helena hunters should do the
same thing. The election is over but
there is no reason why the men who did
the voting should not be provided for
until the legislature meets. What's the
matter with providing them with tempo
rary quarters in the Montana club.
There is room enough. and they are de-
serving though they are not ex-states'
men.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
GREAT FALLS.

If our friends in other Montana cities
needed an ocular or physical evidence Of
the present prosperity of Great Falls it
can be found in the advertising columns
of The TRIBUNE this or any other morn
ing. These columns tell the story better
than any or all laudatory articles that can
be written. They are proof positive and
go to show that il all lines of business
there is a modicum of good times. There
is no boom here nor does Great Falls
need a boom. 1t long since passed that
incident to the life of western cities and
is now enjoying the rewards that belongs
to it of absolute right. This community
is as cheerful as it is prosperous. Why
shouldn't it be? After the strain and
excitement and hurrah Of the great
election there was nc reaction here.
There was not room enough for
any such fall-back. The reason is
apparent. Great Falls is not built upon
sand but upon a solid foundation. Its
past has been phenomenal, its present is
assured, and in its future it is prepared
to discount fate. This is all true.
Within the radius of its limits or it's
immediate surroundings it combines all
the elements that go to make up a great
and progressive city, and it is inhabited
by men and women who are not un-
mindful of its resources and who are
ready to take advantage of the good
things that have been vouchsafed them.
Just think of what it has to bank on
when you call the roll OF resources as
compared with other places. 1t is de-
pendent upon no one industry. The de-
velopment of it's wonderful water power
is as yet in its infancy; the adjacent
coalfields, employing, as they do, thou
sands of artisans, have only been
SKINNED; it's splendid deposits Of stone
have not yet been quarried; the cattle
on it's ranges are the best in the state,
and the products of its valleys in the ag.
ricultural line will compare with those
OF any other section.
The growth of the city seems, and, as
a matter of fact, is normal, yet the cold
census figures tell US that within the
period of one year the school population
has increased % per cent. Truth com
pels US to say that much of this has been
imported, for while the water here is
particularly good, it is not quite rich
enough to account for any such increase
on the part of the old timers. AS it is
all are welcome and there is room fol
more if they come as producers. 1t il
now the closing days Of the year 1894
which has been a hard one, but Grea
Falls shakes hands with the retiring
monarch, assures him that it has no il
will and that 1t will welcome 1895 in tn
firm hope and belief that it will usher il
the best season that it has yet enjoyed
The times seem propitlous and Grea
Falls will take advantage Of the times.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

II there is any possible way Of Fastening
the meeting Of the legislative assemble
it should be resorted to. The Helena
candidates for Office are in a bad way
and their only refuge is at the hands Of
the assembly. Says the Independent OF
yesterday: "Every night several desti-
tute men wander into the police station
and ask for lodgings" This is a worse
condition OF affairs than The TRIBUNE
imagined existed. Gov. Richards il he
is as philanthropic as he would have
people believe should take q day of
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

left to individual enterprise. The expert
ence of the country with subsidies of all
character leads the people to feel just a
little timorous in lending national aid to
any enterprise, no matter what its mag
nitude or how far reaching it's ultimate
results. W. are just now struggling with
the Pacific railroad problem, which, to
say the least, is rather a hard nut to
crack.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

David G. Browne, collector of customs
for Montana and Idaho, was a visitor in
Great Falls yesterday. Commodore
Power will please take notice that The
TRIBUNE uses the title collector of
customs advisedly.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

In order to kill time the senate of the
United States seems to have made up its
mind to discuss the proposition to elect
senators by a direct vote of the people.
It could occupy it's time more honestly
and to a better purpose, for no one
imagines that a majority Of the body
have any idea Of making a change in the
existing system Of electing the senate.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

That Helena irrigation scheme by
which it is hoped to bond the state for
about 100000 in order to irrigate the
lands of the Northern Pacific and thus
double their value, will appear at an
early stage Of the legislative proceedings.
Look out for it.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

Under a heavy pressure congress at
it's present session will try to decide
what action the government will take in
regard to the Nicaragua canal. 1t is
conceded that the canal should be built,
but the question is whether the work
should be aided by the government or
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14

President Gompers Of the Federation
is opposed to compulsory arbitration.
There are many men in the order who
would be opposed to compulsory work.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-03-10

A great prize is to be won by some
body. Its amount Is 80, 900, and it will
be paid by the Metropolitan Traction
company Of New York city to the in
ventor who can devise a way TO make
street cars run cheaper than BY the ca
bic, without horses, without any over
head wires and withou. tracks or wires
anywhere that cannot be crossed with
perfect safety BY one walking along the
street. The motive power is of course
expected TO be electricity, either in the
storage battery or underground conduit.
The difficulty TO be overcome is that O;
insulation. Now, there never was vet
an obstacle that could not BE- overcome
or got around by the ingenuity Of the
human intellect. That is what this life
y for-to overcome obstacles and gain
Development thereby. 1t is certain that
the early years Of the twentieth century
VIII see just such motive power as the
Metropolitan Street Railway company Of
Kew York city are after. Many compel
itors for tine so. 900 have already applied.
and one or two individuals are sure tbey
have found the right thing. The offer.
however, is still open.