The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-02
DOWN WITH THE CROAKERS.

BY some remarkable and curious over
sight a few lines of common sense and
truth crept into the editorial columns Of
the Helena Independent Sunday. The
main calamity bowler for the sheet and
the censor of the Helena capital commit
tee who approves the copy must have
been asleep. AS it is the one article is a
full and ample refutation of the most
selfish, infamous and cowardly of the
many campaign lies promulgated and re-
peated by the Helena gang.
For weeks the Helena Independent,
Helena Herald, Butte Miner and their
newspaper echoes throughout the state
and Maginnie, Toole, Carter, Sanders, w.
A. Clark, Mcconnell and all the liars
of high and low degree who have been
on the stump have been proclaiming that
if the capital be located at Anaconda the
credit of the state is gone forever. They
have not hesitated to declare that in the
event Of Anaconda winning all enter.
prises would cease, eastern and foreign
capital would be withdrawn AMI Mon
tana be reduced to q barren waste. The
picture they drew was a gruesome one,
but like all their other lies the more it
was repeated the more people began to
inquire, and they soon satisfied them
selves there was no danger. The people
realized that the splendid resources o
the state, not the location Of the capital,
was the basis upon which investments
were made; that the vast deposits of
gold, silver, copper, coal. iron and other
minerals, the fertile and productive val
leys, the forests of woods, the wondrous
ranges, were the material sources of
wealth and that they would remain as a
foundation for safe and remunerative in
vestment in spite of the location OF the
capital and the outrageous falsehoods of
Helena boomers.
The TRIBUNE has called attention to
this story before, not because it could
have any effect upon prospective inves-
tors, but in order to show that in the
contemplate battle it was waging Hele-
ma did not hesitate to stab the state and
attempt to iniure every industry and
community to serve its own selfish pur-
poses. Now comes the Independent to
bear witness that it's own assertions have
been false, damnable and slanderous.
Its article as quoted was intended to re-
fer to political speakers, but it applies
with far greater force to the Helena
h%enchmen on the stump and the HeleLa
for the capital newspapers.
Here is what the Independent says:
Every calamity croaker who is going
up and down Montana misrepresenting
the business situation to the people
ought to be run out Of the state. Such
fellows are enemies to progress They
retard prosperity. They libel our people.
In a time when eastern money is look
ing about for the fields for investment
these petty politicians are talking hard
times and ruin for the sake of getting a
few Offices. They should be called down
where ever they pop up their heads.
They are malignant falsifiers of facts.
1t is high time that the people Of Mon
tana, who want to see their own in-
terests advanced, should call off the
stump the prophets of evil who are try
ing to sweep back the incoming tide.
Down with the calamity howlers"
The Independent is right for once. 1t
is high time their lying emissaries we're
called down, and retired. The people
have no use for men who to serve a
purely personal end are attempting to
assassinate the state.