The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-10-26

none in which there had been so much of
bitterness introduced, yet truth com.
PEELED him to say that for this feeling
Helena and her advocates are respon-
sible. Applause. The two cities stand
upon a common level with equal rights.
Because Helena had been the temporary
seat Of government was no reason why
it should remain permanent, and because
Anaconda had never been the capital
was no reason why they should not
aspire to the honor. In spite Of this
Helena assumes that she only is entitled
to the position and that the opposition to
her shakes the foundations Of the state.
Laughter and %applause.] She has no
federation for anyone who questions her
desires and denounces them as fools and
hirelings. He mistook the temper of the
people il a campaign waged on those
lines could be successful. Applause.
One Of Helena's main reliances in the
campaign was floods of abuse upon Mar
Gus DAILY. [Applause]. What had he
ever done9 Nothing but exercise the
same right that the people of Helena
claim, support for the capital for the city
in which he lives. Applause. Mr.. DAILY
has his faults-he never claimed to be
perfect-but his bitterest:enemy will not
deny that he has lived for years in Mon
tana, that all his interests are here, that
he loves the state, and no man has done
more to build up and develop it. Zap
p%lause.] He is a man of courage and
resolution and convictions like your own
Paris Gibson. [Applause.l Such men
are invaluable in all new states and
communities, for they open up
NEW ENTERPRISES.
and new lines Of business. The
more you have Of them the better you
are off. [Applause.I Next to Marcus
DAILY Helena had attacked the Anaconda
company and painted it with raw bones
and bloody head to stampede and fright
en- the people Of Montana. Yet the state
was certainly better off for its existence,
for it had in its enterprises distributed
among the people nearly $4,000 900, and
Of this sum $30,O00,OOO had been paid
for the support Of workingmen Of all
classes, and the other S2O,OOO,OOO to
developing mines, coal and timber lands
and other industries. [Applause.] Could
any fault be found with this? Has il
been q detriment to the labor of Mon
tana? Is it not clear that if there we're
a dozen such companies Montana would
be better off. [Applause.] And yet
the people Of Helena forget the
merits Of the case and abuse and de-
nounce the company.
They first claimed that it was a foreign
corporation owned by the Rothschilds.
The fact is the company was organized
under the laws of Montana and every
share Of it is owned in the United
States by citizens Of the United States.
[Applause,1 The Helena people claimed
and are still repeating that the Roths-
childs held a mortgage on the property
for S7,5OO,OOO. There was not one word
Of truth in this. There had been a
mortgage on the property of S7,5OO,OOO
to the Mercantile Trust Co. of New York.
This was made necessary by the fire
which destroyed the lower works and
was used to rebuild them. The mort
gage was filed February 2, 1891, and was
PAID AND RELEASED
just one year later, Feb. 4, 1892. lap
plause and cheers This release was
shown on the margin Of the page on
which the mortgage was recorded, and
the Helena people who hunted up the
mortgage must have seen the release.
There was no excuse for such reckless
statements on the part Of Helena. He
then said that there was no especial rea-
son for all this abuse of foreign capital,
for it was needed to build up new states
and when it did come the corporation is
more in the power of the people than
the people are in it's power. The speaker
next referred to a long list Of companies
that we're said to be owned by the Ana
conda company, the townsite company,
the bank, the brick yard, etc, ETC., and
denied that these were owned by the
company. AS an offset to these he
read a list Of twenty six railway corpora
tions that had been incorporated by Hell
n people, which created great laughter.
The capital stock Of these Helena rail-
ways was, on paper, S57 100000, but
there was not a tie, not a foot of earth
moved in the building of them, excep. in
the case of the Boulder Valley, which
had been built 10 miles and then turned
over to the Northern Pacific. [Laughterl.
All the money spent for these S57 Co.,
OOO Of corporations was the pen, ink and
paper to write them and the clerks fees
for filing. Laughter. He then con.
trasted the Anaconda company, whose
every enterprise was legitimate and
which had expended
FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS
in the state. The next point taken up was
the horror expressed by Helena at the
Anaconda company owning 5000 acres
OF land in Deer Lodge county. He ex-
planned how and why they had this land
and said they paid taxes on it at the rate
OF $3.50 per acre, while in the came
county the Northern Pacific owned 49,
600 acres Of good land which was only
assessed at 65 cents an acre. Laughter.
In their fight the Northern Pacific is
the backbone Of Helena. It furnishes
free transportation and excursions to
that city. If Helena should be victor
she would be everlastingly indebted to
that corporation. That corporation holds
a strip of land 80 miles broad and TAO
miles in length through the state. It
has fought against the mineral land
owners since 1864. II was defeatod Loot