The Yellowstone journal., 1894-10-30

Helena has eleven audience rooms;
Anaconda two.
Helena has pure air and plenty. while
Anaconda shares the smoke and poison
ous fumes from her smelters.
Helena has no monopoly; Anaconda
only one.
Helena has nine newspaper diversely
controlled as permanent Investments,
while Anaconda has two hot house
ephemeral sheets with a single manage
ment and aim.
The permanent railroads, which from
corner to corner diagonally traverse this
state. cross each other at Helena.
From Helena it is DO miles in south
west direction by railroad to the state
line at Monida.
From Helena it is 80 miles by rail
road to the state line at Cabinet landing
in a northwest direction.
From Helena by railroad it is ola
milss in a southeasterly direction to the
state line at Sentinel Butte.
From Helena by railroad 1t is o0l miles
in northeasterly direction to the state
| line at Willows.
| The inhabitants of thirty-four consid-
cradle villages and cities containing
thirty eight per cent. OF all our popula
| ton. can reach Helena from their homes
without change of cars.
The inhabitants of four considerable
villages only, containing eighteen per
cent of our population. can reach Ana
conda without change of cars.
Only one county seat is in direct rail
road communication with Anaconda.
while eleven county seats are in direct
railroad communication with Helena.
Helena is near the border land which
divides the mountainous western third
of the area of Montana from the eastern
table land and plain which covers two
thirds of the state. and is therefore by
position. industries and communication
| fitted to be the place where these inter
ests meet. Her telegraph instruments
are not kept in newspaper rooms where
private dispatches may be sifted and eX-
posed. Who so desire to live or do busI
ness in her borders, none shall say Linn
nay. Her real estate and personal prop
erty is numerously and dlversely owned
| by private citizens imbued with the splr-
il of Independence, incapable OF assail
ing with ribald jests or wicked accuse
tion the good women of any part Of
Montana. For her men ! plead guilty
to the railing accusation made against
them that they are gentleman.
Had the people of country school
district or the pupils thereof assembled
to determine where therein they would
erect a school house no serious dissent
would be made to the proposition that II
should be erected nearest to an acces-
sible center of the district. If some
person should object to the location al
the center Of the district because some
person living there had the measles
such pereDn would be thought frivo-
. IN q To 70 a
away from the accessible center. because
ID remote aud inaccessible corner
there lived beautiful school teacher
the proposition would be secuted as an
irrelevant consideration. Were IL said
that around that center there was moral
and intellectual excellence and thrift. 10
man. woman ur child in sober earnest
would find IN hose facts any object .
But il these propositions are encoa-
/ passed every objection which has tu. .
raised to tie location Of the capital a,
Helena.
/ Great. not petty. considerations should
sway Us. for the capital II to be llcated
permanently. We are in this election To
/ take away from the majority tnereafte
+ the right 10 say where their capital sLai
/ he. Once located Its change Is not possible
/ to tLell. II it SHAH be misplaced auo,
/ become IN our political. geographic ana
! business life. clumsy aWkard cXasprra-
/ ton, partial TO one portion Of the state,
! Involvement anu isolated 10 the other
I portions. repentance VIII he unayaI.Ir
and re- refs vain. over the year, aru
generations The disadvantages viii coz.
tinue and j. crease and the colossal biur-
oer sunk 10y its methods to d heILUJ
cIIu.e viii remain To harass our descend
ants. tauut the survivors Of the atrOcity
and stain the memories Of the respon-
sible actors. whose sOrdiness. seltishness,
enyyings. jealousles. or cowardIce com
passed 50 supreme folly.
The conditions Of our great contention
are hourly improving. Never was state
swayed by profOunder impulse or tried
IN an intenser furnace in time OF peace
than is our loved Montana now. Every
loyal son and daughter. childhood and
age. belongs in the van OF the battle for
her rescue from the vIperous folds which
would fain to encircle her. The contro-
versy Is sitting the vertebrates from the
invertebrates and each man is writing
what manner of man he is in the focal
point of An universal observation. Here
indeed is a great occasion. great privi-
lege, a great duty. How mean and puer
lie seem the open threats OF the manag
tES anu IIOls NuoetINt liils
making. state betraying, couspiring cor
poration that those of us who will not
join them in traitorIously misplacing the
capital of our state will have long time
in which to repent: that we will be max
ing affidayits in six months that We too
were afraid and joined the cOwardly in
CRATES: that We have been sized mp" by
the Anaconda Mining company. These
are threats which brave hearts can we'll
afford to despise. Crawling at the feet
of no tyrant, trembling in no presence,
dictatorship, usurpation and
coercion, despising the harpies which |
lure. the vultures which devour and the |
brigards, corsairs and wreckers who |
espoil-against all this bribery and |
this perfidity and pusil !
lanimity, let us dare to be American |
freemen and in laundering tones again !
Proclaim liberty throughout the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof"
The student Of history bears witness |
to the ebb and flow Of human courage |