The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-09-22
LET REASON U L

Or the numerous influential papers
in Montana there are none that, for
strength and wide spread popularity
lay over the Butte Daily Miner.
This fact lends special weight to the
late appearance of that organ in the
most vigorous, logical and volumin-
Gus editorials favoring Helena for the
state capital. Its editor, John NJ.
Quinn, knows few peers in journals
tic ability, in consequence of which
he spreads it on in great big chunks
and give the public no reason to
think the vein of his argument has
"pinched out" He start off with a
most potent truth a follows:
The Miner is confident that the intel
ligent people of the state will ignore all
small methods and set the seal of their
disapproval upon the campaign tricks
by which INSCRIPTIONS partisans may
seek to confuse the public mind and APP
peal to the passions instead of to the
judgment and patriotism of men.
There may be some good reason why
/ the capital should be removed from Hell
ena and located at Anaconda, but if such
reason exists it has not been presented
by any newspaper or politician working
in the interest of Anaconda. The Miner
believes that it expresses the sentiments
of II large majority of the loyal and UNI
trammeled citizens of Montana when it
says thai such a removal would be not
only a fragrant violation of every prin-
ciple of justice and common sense, but a
crime against posterity and a stigma
upon the fair name of the state. That
the campaign has, to some extent, de-
scended to personality and acrimonious
accusation is to he deplored. There should
be nothing personal about it. The ques.
ton does not legitimately involve the
private or individual interests of any
man. 1t is not Il question Of whetheI
this or that man shall be victorious, bu
an issue which involves the general wei
fare. 1t should not be IA contest be
tween ambitious or avariciOus persons
} but a matter of public spirit and public
pride. 1t is not II question between pol
itical manipulators, but an issue which
deals with the rights, prerogativcs ant
a best interests of every man who hope
to see Montana grow and prosper as
free and Independent state of the union
. The appeal should not be to the petit
%factionalism or seltishness of the little
minded partisans, but to the honesty ant
sincerity of the people.
$ with the understanding of the qucs
ton and with a desire to represent TIN
best interests of the state, the Miner
unalterably and emphatically opposed
the location of the capital in "A owl
which is owned and controlled by on
E corporation and in which the pres
= trade, and public sentiment
are under the dictation of men who al
not residents of the state. That the 81
lection of such u town as the seat OF go,
Z eminent would be a calamity no III
e biased voter can deny, and that it is til
t duty of the people to prevent the COZ
summation of what is known to he a
attempt to subordinate public interes
to the avarice of a d%ictatOrial cOrpOratio
all must admit. There is not anoth'
state in the union where the %propositio
could be entertained, and the success I
the Anaconda boomers would be an al
nouncement to the world that Montar
% had become a political rotten boroug
in which true manhood was at "a discoul
and subserviency to corporate power
y a premium"