St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-15
MONTANA Is ALL RIGHT.
The Silver Legislation Has Done
No Injury.

LILO OltcF Legislation mas Done
No Injury.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.
GREAT FALLS, Mont. Feb 12.-Dem-
ocrats, Republicans and Populists
Some of the latter having drifted out
here and bettered their conditions, but
from force of habit continue to oppose
the regular parties) all agree that the
Wilson bill temporarily touches our
principal industries. but we all be-
lieve we can stand a little pull
back, if it is such, and come out
better in the end. Somebody usually
suffers in reform movements which
evolve new methods for the general
good, and Montana is about as able to
adapt itself to the new order of things
as any section of America. Our people
heretofore worked one thing at time,
and worked it with all of the energy
characteristic of the West. The chief
industries were mining and stock ralS-
ing, ana few were content with small
ventures; the policy was to make or
break, and the makers only stimulated
others to greater activity and too often
failure. The stockman was not salts
fed to have variety Of animals. and
do a little farming. but instead
risked all in one industry. The milk
used on the ranches of the cattl emen
was canned in Massachusetts,, and the
butter made in Minnesota. Practically
no attention was given to the produc-
ton of staple food crops which the
country is SO capable of yielding. If
the Wilson bill has the effect to diversi-
f. our interests, as we think it will, all
hail to the Democratic party.
When congress thought best to cease
bOlstering up silver and let it stand OH
its own merits as a m etal and product,
most everybody in the silyer-producing
states felt that it was a serious blow.
Men who had everything risked in
sheep thought they could not con-
tinue in business unless the govern
ment backed them up by taxing foreign
woods. Not knowing whether they
could or not, they very naturally made
an cutlery. No country has richer
grasses. purer water and better climate
for sheep raising, indeed, stock raising
of all kinds. than ours. Today the store
houses of our city meat markets con-
tain no less than two carloads of dressed
poultry from Minnesota, every pound
of which could have been produced
here as easily and cheaply as in that
state.
The withdrawal of governmental sup
port to silver has not injured US, at
least. On the contrary, never in our
pistory wat there greater activity than
now. The railway facilities are crowded
by the increase in business; the side
nnI~ oIa no
with loaded cars. E. b. Wakeman, of st.
Paul, superintendent of transportation
Oh the Great Northern. is here to look
over the field and help extricate our
local superintendent out of his Difficult
ties. Over 400 cars of local ores, coal.
etc., are being handled daily in the
Yards here, and with the output of the
Belt mines now opening I'D,
and which will employ 500 new
men and turn out more than
100 cars day, the situation will be
more complicated, unless there is an
increase of engines, cars and working
crew. The number of crews at work
now is more in number than last winter.
or ever before. The chief paw rolls
were never as large, now amounting
to over Sl60,000 a month, and
our merchants have felt no apparent
Stringency in trade. One only needs to
visit the immense smeiters, filled with
noisy machinery, kissing, white. heated
furnaces and busy men to realize what
is going on. Minnesota men are run
ming roller Touring mill of 50O-barrel
capacity, and this year Will see more
wheat raised in Montana than ever be-
fore. An old Minnesotian, S. NJ.
Emery, formerly of Lake City,
is director of the state expert
mental station. and is going to do the
state the same good that Prof. o. G.
Gregg is doing in Minnesota. Agri-
culture is destined to become an i'm
portant industry. Washington Muzzy,
a well-known MinneSotan, is publishing
an agricultural paper here called the
Montana Farmer. Even without a
pound Of food crops grown here,
this city will become the chief city
of the West in the smelling and
refining of precious metals, and the
manufacture of iron, steel and copper
goods. The appliance of electricity can
be made here and powers from water
utilized 10 degree beyond your CORE.
spondent's modest computation, regard
less OF the Wilson bill, cut Of which we
believe good will come. Think that the
United States, blessed with resources
beyond any other land, climate advan-
tageS equal to any in the world, and
people untrammeled by the narrow
prejudices of other countries. and in
telligent. active and SkIllful beyond any