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mills IN various states, the bureau Of
statistics has found that only 1853 owned
houses, and 768 closed the year with q
deficit, while the average saving per in
dividusl was 2 Al cents per day. This
income 10 quite down to the Chinese
standard, and much below the income
OF American millionaires, Of whom q
group consisting Of three one hundredths
OF per cent. Of the population own as
much property as 81 per cant. Of the
population.
Not only the common lRborer but
skilled labor itself has been q sufferer
from the almost Siberian despotism Of
our system. The labor. saving machine
does not save labor. A Boston daily
newspaper is putting in thirty type,set-
ting machines which means the dis
charge Of sixty compositors. A rival
newspaper is preparing to do the same,
and it is within bounds to say that no
less than 200 printers in Boston will fall
before this little gstIing gun Of the COM
posing room.
Boston and the West are very near
neighbors, however much they may look
over the fence and call one another
hard names. After the failure of the
AtChison, Topeka and Santa Fs rail-
road, certain families living on the
avenues Of Boston changed to the side
streets In consequence Of their losses;
others closed a portion Of their mansions
and discharged their servants. The
placing Ut seventy-One roads into re-
Ceivers' hands has injured the New
England factories and swelled the ranks
of the unemployed, 10000 Of whom have
been q burden to Boston the past winter.
Boston and the West, / repeat, are
neighbors, and in the long run will pros
per or suffer together. A hungry
farmer in Dakota means in the end q
tramp in New England. The funny
man Of the Boston press may ring the
changes on the tramp, and hold up to
ridicule the governor of Kansas for
issuing his circular to the police sd-
Vlsipg them not to arrest trsmps as va
grants, but students should not make
light Of any non-producing class.
Trsmps are the decsyed fruit Of COM
potion. A mechanic IN Boston, long out
of work, being denied further credit by
his grocer, recently filched q sack Of
-four. The grocer called q policeman,
and both followed TO the tenement of the
mechanic, where the mother and chill
dren were found eating the -four made
into q paste with cold water, there being
no coal in the house. The policeman re-
fused to arrest the mechanic.
"Thsse men ought to be clubbsd," was
the remark Of Boston woman concern
ing the first procession Of the unem-
ployed this winter. sand their hungry
families tooP" asked o bystander. "Well,
you know there is always o certain
amount Of suffering. God will take care
Of that. Even salvation comes by grace
and not by any right in ourselves"
These expressions, brutal and un-
Christian, carry with them the ethics of
business. A wheat broker of Chicago,
whose name I have, issued a confidential
circular to his customers January "a,
in which was this significant passage:
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Indiana, who is reported in the papers
to have instructed his chief Of police 10
furnish night pstrolmen with black
snake whips to lash trsmps out OF town.
About Christmas time were discovered
along the railroad between Kansas City
and Fort Scott, lines Of camp fires where
tramps had erected shelters from the
storm. It will soon appear shat there
are not rswhides enough to 90 round,
nor policemen enough to do the lRshing.
AS for clubs for the unemployed, their
manufacture would be an industry in
itself.
There are more tenants eviCt0d in
New York city alone in o year than in
thewhole Of Ireland. SpeculatOrs un-
derstand what these evictlons mean.
The poor pay more rent per square foot
Of flooring than the rich, and, other
things being equal, real estate invest.
ments in the lower wards pay better
than in the more select districts. 1t is
easy, therefore, to understand the ru-
NOR in Wall street that q syndicate has
been formed to buy property whom the
real estate panic strikes New York. 1t
will, however, be year or two before
New York wakes up to the gravity Of Che
industrial situation.
Proprietor Kramer, Of Atlantic Gar
den, in New York, refused to prosecute
Charles PLACER, who recently threw q
brick through $l6 window pane. JUS
tice Talnter, Of the Toombs court, was
about to discharge the prisoner, when
he cried: "If you discharge me, I'll
break another window. Ihsve no work,
no money, no home, NO friends, and may
as we'll be in prison. I cannot beg and
/ will not steal" The justice accord.
ingly held PLACER for trial.
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Take another line Of disturbances.
Tho loss OF equilibrium in railrOadiug
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The average wage in New Orleans is
S1,07 per day; in Richmond, Va,
go cents; in Augusta, Ga, 73 cents;
in Louisville, KY, 80 cents. Cotton
hands can be hired for 80 cents. The
average income Of farmers in Georgia 10
AZ cents per day; in Mississippi, "a cents;
in Alabama, A cents.
In Alabama the private debts amount
to s26 per capita; Florida, $40; Tennss-
see, 1923. In Alabama 1914 per cent. OF
the assessed valuation Of the real estate
is covered by mortgage.
Coal from Alabama mines can be laid
down in Mississippi at So per ton at q
profit. The market price is from "a
toss.
Cotton cannot be raised and sold IN the
south at profit below cents, and 1t
has besn as low 40 5 cents within .
twelvemonth.
/ shall not cloud this page with the
story of hard times in the south in de-
tail. 1t is q subject for volume. A
workingmsn tainted away in the Kim
ball house, Atlanta, Ga, one day in
March. He had been looking for work
for weeks, and it was a clear case Of
starvation. This did not check the
boasts of the daily press that Atlanta
was economically in q stalwart condI-
tion. The same may be said concerning
a destitute baker in San Antonio, Tex,
who took his life the same week. A
young woman last autumn applied Rt all
the dressmRking establishments in
Delaware city, and received one offer
from all-six months for nothing, and
after that 81 per week. The city is no.
torious for loose women.
Heretofore poverty has been consid-
cred the special ward Of philanthropistS.
That time has gone by. Poverty is Q
menace to capital. The unemployed
class has become q permanent feature
of our civilization.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
by WAY OF p
A Great Falls Citizen POintedly Answers
Helena Abuse

A Great Falls Citizen PointedIy Answers
Helena Abuse.
GREAT FALLS, Sept. 10, 1894.
Editor Great Falls Tribune:
The wolf has thrown off his sleeps
clothing. The Helena Independent, real.
izing the overwhelming sentiment OF
Great Falls citizens in favor Of Anaconda
for the capital, throws off it's temporary
disguise of friendship towards our city
and assumes it's former attitude of hos
tility. Fearing that by making its
charges against Great Falls too sweep
ing, it will ALLEVIATE the few followers it
has here, the Independent concentrates
its attack upon the Great Falls Water
Power and Townsite company and en-
deavors to create a big noise with it's
Chinese gongs.
The Helena capital committee must be
hard pushed for ''sinews of war; when
compelled to make their fight along the
line of misrepresentation and falsehoods
regarding this company.
Without referring in detail to the
statements made in the Independents
editorial Of the 9th, | will state that the
city of Great Falls today. with it's popu-
lation Of 1900 and its industries giving
employment to an army of men whose
payroll amounts to nearly 100000 a
month, gives the lie to every sentiment
expressed against the Great Falls Water
Power and lownsite company.
There is no man here SO ignorant or SO
unfair who will deny that this phenom-
email industrial development in Cascade
county has sprung from the efforts of the
Great Falls Water Power and Townsite
company. This company has paid $40 in
Cascade county for every 81 it has sent
away from the county, 1t has done more
for the establishment of Industries in
Montana giving employment to men
than all the people of Helena have done
since the foundation of that city away
back in the sixties. In taxes alone this
company paid the past year into the
treasures of Great Falls and Cascade
county oyer $4,000. Every reasonable
man in Northern Montana knows that
the water power development of the falls
of the Missouri will be the most power.
full of all agents for the up~.building Of
Northern and Central Montana, and
every one knows that this great work,
already begun, will be carried forward
with energy and ability by the Great
Falls Water Power and Townsite COM
pany.
1t is to be expected that Helena. al
ways jealous of other towns in our state,
will lose no opportunity in the future,
as il has lost none in the past to belittle
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
GOING A

The Independent of Sunday had a
very ~self-laudatory article in which it
spoke of a large increase in it's subscrip-
ton list, and said ''the increase is not due
to any particular effort on the part Of the
management" This is probably true,
for som n evidently furnished a list
and the mailing department did the rest.
1t is also true, though the Independent
forgot to mention it that the increase in
circulation was not accompanied with a
corresponding increase in cash. In other
words, beginning Sunday, Great Falls,
Sand Coulee and other points have been
flooded with copies of the Independent
mailed from the Office to persons who
did not order it. They cannot sell the
papers and are forced to give them away.
In a few days the Independent will pub
lish a pamphlet addressed to publishers
under the title, "To increase subscrip-
tions. Mode explained in one short les
SON.
The Independent should be an author
ity on the subject, for if Great Falls is
any index It has increased to the extent
of a couple of thousand dead heads" in
one day.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
L ii CALLED ID

The organization of the Great Falls
Anaconda for the Capital club seems to
be a thorn in the side of Helena. The
resolutions and the speeches spoke vol
umes, bat the large attendance, the en-
thusiasm manifested and the personnel
of the meeting spoke more As The
TRIBUNE has said before the gathering
was a representative one in all respects.
1t was prominently a peoples meeting
at which all shades of opinion and all
classes were mingled. In spite of this
fact and in their desperate efforts TO be-
little the movement the Helena fugle-
men in Great Falls are going about the
city referring to it as IAN Anaconda
mob" and the Helena papers are in line
with abuse, but it takes a little different
shape. For instance the Helena Herald
says paris Gibson and Tim Collins
held a mass meeting at Great Falls and
organized an Anaconda Capital club"
This was intended to be a crusher.
Then comes the Independent with this
scorcher: "When Mr.. Hill gave orders
for the organization of an Anaconda
club and Mr.. Gibson repeated them to
the servile subjects of the townsite COM
pany. a number of them responded in
meek obedience" This will of course
be news to the gentlemen who make up
the Anaconda club. They had an idea
that they had gone to that meeting vol
unfairly, but it remained for the indie
pendent to discover hat they were ser
vile subjects" of a master, had been or
dered to attend and responded with
meek obedience" Not satisfied with the
abuse of the gentlemen the Independent
adds insult to injury by flooding the city
with copies of its sheet containing the
vile accusations. At the same time it is
sending here thousands of dollars as a
corruption fund, in the hope that it may
be able to purchase a few ignorant and
venal voters.
Let them 60 in with their mud and
MONEY campaign. The great mass of
the voters Of Cascade county are as in
telligent and patriotic as they are hon
est. They know the men who are made
the victims of Helena's spleen, know
that they are free and self respecting
citizens and as such they honor them
and will agree with them in spite of the
malignant TRADES to which they are
being subjected.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
A perilous Lean,

The grounds around the street car
pavilion were black with people last
Sunday afternoon, who came to see
Harry A. Harmon make his big leap
from the chimney of the electric power
house into the waters of the pool below.
The street car company took in 1929
fares, which broke the record of Labor
day, and outside of last Fourth of July
was one of the largest days receipts in
the history of the road. At the hour
advertised Harmon made his appearance
and, standing with his back to the
water, gradually tipped himself back
ward till he descended like a flash head
first toward the water. When he had
fallen about half the distance he per-
formed a double somersault and struck
the water feet first, while the crowd held
their breath and a creepy feeling went
up their spinal columns. He emerged
a few seconds later unhurt, although he
sustained quite a shock and a few
bruises among the rocks at the bottom
of the pool. This was due to the fact
that he had miscalculated it's depth,
being informed that the water was ff-
teen feet deep when as a matter of fact
it proved to be less than seven feet,
owing to rubbish thrown in since the
last measurement was taken. In his
last leap he made due allowance for this
and came out all right. The height
from the top of the chimney to the sur
face of the pool is just seventy-four feet
six inches. BY request Mr.. Harmon has
consented to repeat his wonderful per-
Torrance next Wednesday afternoon at
5 o'clock and again next Sunday after
noo
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necessaries Of life they want some
the luxuries. They want to see
their wives and children we'll fed
and clothed and educated. They
want to see them indulge in rational
enjoyment and recreation. They are
willing that they shall be brought up to
honest labor and become producers, but
they are not willing that this shall be
done at the cost of all the creature COM
forts that make life worth living. Oh
no, Mr.. Carnegie, the American working
man does not want to barely exist; he
wants to live and this he cannot do on
continental wages, and what is more he
will not, in spite Of the fine figuring and
finer theories of the Carnegie class, whose
business it is to Cypress labor that they
themselves may ape royalty in their
mode of living.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
COMPTE DE PARIS DEAD.

The cable dispatches this morning an
nounce the anticipated death of the
comte de Paris, Louis Philippe Albert
D'Orleans. The death OF the count
while it cannot in any way affect the
affairs of France is none the less a no.
table event, for it removes the one figure
about which the royalists Of France CEN
tered their hopes and aspirations. 1t is
true that he left a successor, but he is
too far removed from the old line, being
the fourth generation, to inspire the
loyalty and devotion that followed the
father.
Deceased was the grandson of King
Louis Philippe, the last of the Bourbon
line to occupy the throne, and was DC
years of age. Taught from his infancy
and fully imbued with the belief of a
Bourbon restoration, he had lived a life
of hope for the consummation Of such
an end and his ascension to the throne.
This feeling was more than fostered by
the group of nobility that through all
its varying fortunes had adhered to the
cause Of the house Of Orleans. Bitterly
opposed to the Napoleonic dynasty it an
not be said he was as ultra in his oppo-
sition to the republic as were his associ-
ates and kinsmen, still in his opinion the
people needed to be ruled and he was
born to rule them. This sentiment is
evidenced in a letter written only a few
weeks ago to baron Lambert in which he
said: "France is beginning to yearn for
a strong government to end scandals
and avert dangers arising from the ex-
listing regime. Experience proves that
she never will find such a government
under the republican form, still the
royalists while reserving the question Of
principle must not allow themselves to
be accused OF systematic obstruction"
The concluding sentence is equivocal
and diplomatic, though it was
generally interpreted as meaning
that if let alone the French
republic would destroy itself and
thus afford the Orleanists the long
awaited opportunity to return to power.
The counte de Paris had Travelled
much, was highly educated and was
possessed of many admirable traits of
character. During the wal of the rebellion
he and his brother, due d'Chartres,
visited this country with their uncle and
were volunteer aids on the staff Of Cen
eral Mcclellan for about ten months
and in that capacity they participated in
several engagements with much credit
as to personal courage. Some years
later he wrote and published a history
Of the civil war in the United States
which was highly endorsed by competent
military critics.
The death occurred in England where
the count has made his home since he
was exiled some years ago, and at the
time he was surrounded by his family
and faithful friends.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
HELENA ABUSE.

The organization OF the Great Falls
Anaconda for the capital club seems to
have made the Independent sick at the
stomach. In referring to the meeting it
says with its usual lofty and supercil-
lious sneer: Paris Gibson, Tim Col
Inns and the other gentlemen who con-
troll the Great Falls townsite company
have declared for Anaconda for the cap
ital. But there are a lot OF people in
Great Falls who are not wearing the col
lar of the TOWNSHIP company. or taking
orders from party renegades.' This is
the same old story. Those who oppose
Helena are venal, corrupt, bribe-takers,
and wearers of collars. 1t will, of course,
be news to the gentlemen who joined
the club, and thus expressed their pref
erence for Anaconda to learn that they
are wearing collars. They had no idea
of it until they were kindly informed of
the fact by the Independent. Up to
date they had imagined they were citi-
zens and entitled to have and express
convictions upon any subject SO long as
they did SO in an inotfensive way with
out consulting the ambitions of Helena.
They did not realize that the Helena
people had set up shop as the keepers of
the conscience and the custodian of the
morals of all the voters of the state and
that the one who dared to step beyond
the line marked, Helena for the capital.
was a pariah and an outcast. Yet this
is the Helena view Of it as voiced by it's
mouthpiece, the Independent.
That the people of Great Falls take a
different view was evidenced by the Or
ganization of the club and will be more
fully demonstrated on election day. The
coarse abuse showered on individuals
and the wrathful bluffs against the en-.
tire community of Great Falls will have
but one effect upon the self respecting
citizens Of this city. There may be a
few Helena men in this city now, but
the SANDER mill will compel them to aban-
don the cause. As citizens they have on oC-
caslons heretofore differed with their
fellow citizens, but have done so without
impugning their motives and assailing
their personal regulations. The bond
of citizenship, the advancement of the
common good, to say nothing Of the ordi-
nary decency that obtains among gen.
tlemen requires this: Let Helena re-
member that courses like chickens come
home to roost.'
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
DEMOCRATS OPPORTUNITY,

In spite Of efforts to conceal it the re-
publican split in the large counties of
Silver Bow, Lewis and Clark and Mis-
soula is something very much more sub
stantial than a shadow, and the turning
down of the two Toms Carter and
Power at the state convention at
Helena is causing a rumbling that por-
tends a storm. This is a sort of a family
quarrel and has reached such proper
tioust that it is liable to end in disruption.
Now is the opportunity of the democracy
Of Montana, both county and state. A
united front and good candidates will
win the day. The populists are whistling
to keep up their courage, and the repub-
licans are trying to keep down an i'm
pending instruction. The democracy ia
the only party that has an absolute in
tegrity Of purpose, and it can achieve
victory IL it dares to do right.
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the public domain shall pass from the
government, either national or state.
The irrigation congress may unite upon
some plan that is feasible, and il it does
it will prove to be a public benefactor.
The text of the Cary bill, which cedes
the lands, is moi at hand, but it is within
reason to suppose that the grant is so
conditioned that the lands may be taken
up in any section, and il that be the case
the state or even county authorities can
make a beginning and construct bitches
in some particular locality. However,
the Denver congress is in possession Of
all the facts, and they will be fully ven
tilated, and, let it be hoped, with the
result that a practical plan will be de-
yised. The Importance of the subject
justifies the meeting Of the body and if
it accomplishes any good it will be en-
titled to more than praise.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14
SENATOR JONES.

The all-absorbing question with the
political press and the leaders of all
three parties is the manifesto of Senator
John P. Jones Of Nevada %renouncing al
legiance &c the republican party. His
reasons are vigorously stated in a letter
and are briefly that he "has become CON
vinced that the republican party organ
ization is unalterably opposed to the
free coinage of silver to the ratio of 1G
to l or at all except with the consent of
foreign governments and at a ratio to be
dictated by them"
Senator Jones is concededly one of the
ablest Of republican members of the sem
ate and his action has created conster
nation in the camp. In his lengthy let
ter he does not indicate that he will act
with either the democrats or the popu-
lists, but he boldly advocates the cre-
alton Of a new party with free coinage
as the paramount issue by saying: "We
should vote at the polls as one party in
our individual capacity. All who be-
lieve in the predominance of monomet-
alism should, in my opinion, come to-
gether on that issue and for the time being
hold In allegiance their convictions
upon other questions, reserving to them
selves the right to readjust their party
relations when the money question is
settled and other issues come to the
front. In the immovable conviction that
the progress, prosperity, and happiness
of the people OF the entire country are
more Immediately dependent on none
tary reform than upon any other issue
that can be presented for political action,
/ shall henceforth vote and act with the
party that brings this overmastering
issue to the 'front.'"
From this it would seem that
the senator would naturally seek
refuge in the democratic camp,
for in that he would surely find the
nearest approach to a free coinage party,
though in his letter he scores the
democracy for having repealed the
Sherman law and given nothing in it's
stead. 1t may be a gentle reminder to
the party that it has yet the opportunity
to redeem itself and it's promises by the
passage of a free coinage bill during the
coming session. II that fails he is in
favor of a campaign in '96 with free
coinage candidates from president down.
| In this move the senator cannot be &C
cused Of booming himself, for he is moi
eligible to the presidency and there is nc