The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-14

body OF people, men like you and 1, the
common people, who in the days when
the Savior preached upon the plains Of
Judea and healed the sick in its valleys
and towns and cities, the common people
are the men who never get IN the
Legislature, and 1t makes no difference
whether 1t is remote or near; the man in
the eastern section Of the state would
undoubtedly, on account of the mileage
perqulsite, prefer that it be near the
Idaho river.
Then trey tell you that Anaconda is a
mining camp. | was told that at Helena
by some OF the citizens there, those gen
tlemen who some would tell you would
glue their vest to the bar and wait longer
for somebody TO buy a drink than any
body else. QIaughter). Well, | happened
to be a little better informed; | had Wis
tied Anaconda, and you have visited it,
many OF you, nc doubt. 1t is a beautiful
little city, an emerald gem, set down
here upon the broad breast of
this great state Of Montana, and
it is not only that, it is al
model city; it is rot a Pullman city.
Mr.. DAILY, who has been so greatly |
abused, is a gentleman and a scholar. !
saw stated several days ago that be was
an Ignorant man, that he had never read
anything and that he was d regular old
roustabout; now ] happen to have met
him many and many a time, and as
COURTEOUS 4 GENTLEMAN
and as educated and we'll read u gentle
man ] have seldom met his equal; but
that is neither here nor there; he might
be a diamond in the rough; he may have
made many hundreds of thousands Of
dollars. ! don't know, | never saw the
color of his money, and [ am not here
talking for it tonight, whatever men may
say. l concluded to stop off here and
make arrangements to remove here and
to cast my lot with the people of Great
Falls and Cascade county, Montana, and
therefore ! consented to come here and
address you people upon this question.
This is a business propositian, and it is,
as n Of the speakers referred to il, a
cold bioodod business proposition. There
is no question of sentiment about it,
there is nothing that you can talk about
as appealing to the conscienciousness of
llCIg 10 ~ lCuIoL IA Wv III 2
world why Helena should forever pass
itself upon you for a capital; she has
never erected a public building and pre-
sented to the state: she has never done
anything to make her city attractive to
the legislators; she may have elegant
citizens and fine citizens, and some of
them are my friends, and some of them
are the sweetest scented liars | have ever
A-.l a. =, $40 e. ,aaN~Ia an n,
don't find the Cinnamon, smelling of lep-
rosy and opium, you go to Helena and
walk up the hill and you pass through
an A~nglo-Saxon civilization into a Mon
gollan civilization; you strike right into
the subjects Of the emperor of China;
and while ! don't share any great preiu-
dice against those yellow citizens, be-
cause | know that the time is coming
when the Anglo civilization will move
on and the Mongolian civilization will
disappear and we shall occupy the land
on the eastern coast OF Asia, which those
those two nation could fight for a hun
bred years and never clean out any Of
them. Their warfare is all noise, it il
like the warfare Of Helena. (Applause).
One thing, my friends, that makes
town-and you and | know it-and thai
is the tin-pail brigade. 1t is that thai
sustains your stores and your places o.
business; upon them largely falls tn
burden of municipal taxation. They ar,
the stalwart sons of toll that have bull
up our civilization from the Atlantic t
the Pacific, and wherever that elemen
is lacking, wherever it is not well paid
there you have
AN COMMUNITY.
there you have a community made up Q
snobbery and millionairism that is dis
tasteful to the common people OF Amer
lea. Not that / object to a millionaire
/ admire Peter Cooper, who could cougl
up his dollars and establish educationf
institutions for the people of New for
that will remain an enduring monumer
so long as time shall last. And 30 toda
can come here freely and nicely an
, say that Marcus DAILY is paying tn
! highest wage rate that is paid in tn
, United States today. (Applause.) Con
: pare the wage rate OF Helena and tn
! wage rate of Anaconda. Compare tn
: wage rate of Helena and compare tn
/, /, wage rate here and you will find tt
4 argument in favor of the two twin cite
: > the industrial center and the producti'
: center-Great Falls here upon the Mi
= souri, and Anaconda over at the head
that
BEAUTIFUL ALLEY.
Q Anaconda is a city of churches,
l educational institutions, of broad al
we'll shaded streets, of industrious al
patriotic people. The budding form
childhood is seen upon the streets al
the blossoming flower of health upC
the cheeks of daughters Of the son
toll. Mr.. DAILY has been a benedictiC
of the sons of toll. yet he is now bell
a abused simply because he has Il
4 ambition 10 make that the future capiti
!, After referring to the fact that Bismar
n North Dakota, has erected capital bull
ings and presented them to the state,
asked:
q Is Helena offering anything? Do
q hear any offer from Helena? Oh, no; on
that 1--WE are an eminently respectful
people here, we have come down to yc
from a former generation. Our first far
lilies are descended from a distinguish
gentleman who-lanGed on the deck of
bounding cayuse. They have gone
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