The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-29
THE GREAT
CONSPIRACY.
The Founding of u Company
Store" i'm q Formerly Pros
porous Mining Camp.
MEN OF JAYYILLE GET A LESSON.
But They Give 1t Back i'm Null
tiple Doses and Save the
Town from Ruin.
MEN OF JAYYILLE GET A LESSON.
Written for the HERALD by . OHouLIGAN's PARB.
CHAPTER III.


Our liberty was not 50 much mountain as
swim, or she could run. The ocean was her era
die. Our fathers met her as she came like the
goddess Of beauty from the waves They caught
her as she was sporting On the beach They
courted her while She was spreading her nets
upon the rocks But an embargo liberty-a
handcntfed liberty-a liberty in fetters-a liberty
beating her head against the walls-is none of
our offspring. QUINCY.
Jayville was not built in day.
For many years the sturdy prospector
had pursued his resolute way in and
about the town, now scanning the
surface by the glaring light Of old
Sol, now peering beneath the sur
face, into crevices and "bug holes"
by the dim, Pickering ray of a candle,
pounding the drill, and blasting
away the eternal rocks in his zeal to
disclose the ledge of precious ore. 1t
was labor of devotiou-a task of
great interest, not without its enjoy
ments, but ever varied and seasoned
with that hope which nerves the
toiler to deeds of great heroism.
Brave men were they who had pre-
pared the way for such men as
ROCKEFELLER and his class; for truly,
the latter know not the essence nor
the name of bravery. Industrious
only as tricksters, and valiant only
at tables, the "soop" knew nothing
of the honest hardyhood possessed
by the so-called jays of Jayville.
Nurtured upon plain diet, cultured
in simple manners regular in their
vocation, they had labored together,
learned to know and to trust one
another, and had at no time lost their
faith in the future of the town or of
it's mines.
Such men are they who have fig
ured in all the worlds achievement.
Brave, resolute, enterprising; manful,
honest, trustworthy; patient, sympa-
thetic, magnanimous. 1t is true
there were dishonorable men among
them-''heels," as they were called,
but it is a well-known fact that
among a hundred proud pioneers
there was hardly to be found one
who would not back his all upon the
town or it's citizens, or make the fight
of his life when he saw either beset
with dangers from without.
Theirs was little republic; loyal
in the extreme to the laws of state,
they had settled their differences
among themselves. The court of
the land had seldom been called
upon to umpire their quibbles.
They had early adopted the citizens
meeting, the public assembly, for
their court The resolution emanat-
ing from such meeting was the law
of the district, and every mothers
son would fight to see it maintained.
There were no orators in the town.
Nor did they need them. Every
citizen was schooled to rise in the
meeting and defend his rights in his
own simple way, and none was so
timorous as to remain silent in such
a pass.
Peace was the word. Unlike the
typical mining camp, these men re-
spected their neighbors and their
God: So tranquil was the fraternal re-
lation that there was reported but one
case of homicide in the whole four
teen years history of the town. And
this grew out of political feud,
which stands as an awful lesson to
the succeeding generations, that
politics is not all of life, and that
union bonds are carrier worn than
the fetters of serfdom.
alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant and envy, the
vice of republics.
Neither locks had they to their doors nor bars
to their windows;
But their dwellings were open as day and the
hearts of their owners:
ihere the richest were poor, and the poorest
lived in abundance
The men of Jayville had contrib
uted a mint of money to aid their
town. In early days they had by