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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
\ Trip to Wonderland

Having received many requests for
another of the Yellowstone Park excur-
sions, which were so popular last year,
the Northern Pacific has arranged with
the Park Transportation Company and
Hotel Association to join them in MAX
ing a very low rate for a special excur-
sion from Butte. They have named a
round trip rate of $50: children under
10 years Of age S25, which will include
all expenses en- route. rail road fare
Butte to Cinnabar and return. a double
berth each way in Pullman standard
sleepers, stage transportation through
the Park, and five and a half days
board and lodging.
They have also named a round trip
rate of S32 for bicycle riders who wish
to wheel through the park. This will
include the above tour with all ex-
penses except the stage ride.
August the 10Th has been selected as
the date on which the excursion will
leave Butte, as at that time there will
be 10 large parties going into the Park,
and the Butte excursionists will virtu-
ally have the Park to themselves.
Sleeping cars will Il both ways be-
tween Butte and Cinnabar, thus avoid
change at Livingston. Hotel accom-
modations in the park are strictly first
class with steam heat, electric light,
bath, etc. The stages used are the
finest in the world.
People contemplating this trip
should lose no time in making arrange
ments for sleeping cars, stage and hotel
accommodations. For all particulars
call upon OR write w. M. TUOHY.
General agent, Northern Pacific
Railway Company, Butte, Mont.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY cow EkTiCN

Notice is hereby given that the C oun-
ty Democratic convention viii be held
at Virginia City. August 18th, at u
O'Clock m. for the purpose of electing
delegates to attend the state convent ion
at Missoula. Montana, Sept. Bird, 1896.
Also to nominate county officers, if the
convention shall SO determine, and to
transact such other business as ma V
properly come before it.
The primaries for the election of del
egates to the county convention will be
held on August o2nd. 1896. at the fol-
towing places.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
Copyright In Canada.

When the international copyright
agreement was entered into by the
United States and Great Britain, it
was a question whether Canada should
be considered as a part of Great Britain
in that matter. The Dominion finally
allowed itself &c be counted in, but
with a condition attached. 1t was that
whenever Canada desired to withdraw
from the international copyright agree
ment she should be at liberty to do SO.
Here was the groundwork of future
trouble, but 1t was all that could be
done at the time, American and British
authors, however, proceeded to copyright
their books Oh both sides of the water,
end the new law worked we'll for a
time. Then came u hitch. Canada with
drew from the agreement and resolved
to publish books Gu her own hook, copy
rightable in the Dominion. An act was
passed declaring that any Canadian
printer might issue any foreign book he
pleased, at any time. The only stipula-
ton is that he shall deposit with the
Dominion government a 10 per cent
royalty on the book. This is supposed
to be for the author, in case he should
ever claim it.
1t is charged that the Canadian copy
right law is a blind to enable Canadian
publishers to food the United States
with cheap books and evade the copy
right law. The books will be struggled
across the border into this country, it is
believed. This it will not be difficult
to do.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08

Deer Lodge or Brook Nook. Fera is
still owned by MI. C.iX Larrabie, and
it is understood that Bay Bird will.
next season be brought back to Brook
Nook ranch. Mr.. Larrabie still owns
several brothers and sisters to Fellfare.
and all give great promise of extreme
speed.
It is understood that several of the
horses which We're shipped east by Mr..
Larrabee last winter. are showing ex-
tremely fast. a number of them going
miles better than 2:3O.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
$4,000 In Gold Given,

The International News & Book Co.,
OF Baltimore, Md, offer 5000 to any
agent who will sell in three months 225
copies of their book, Campaign and
Issues OF 49," A full, graphic and CON-
plete account of the campaign-all
sides given. Beautifully illustrated.
Biographies of the leading men in each
party. The book of all others to sell
now. Freight paid and credit given.
Complete outfit Is cents. Write them
Immediately. A gold watch given in
addition to commission for selling 70
copies in thirty days. Agents wanted
also for other books and Bibles. 1874
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08

"HEM you contemplate giving a ball
w facilitate matters and add to your re.
ceipts by having printed about
100 coupon tickets
100 posters
or . small ad in the M~ADIsONIAN. The al
will cost you from % 10 Us. according to
SIZE and will be read by several thousand
people. II through it three people are in.
duced to attend the dance Your I'D is paid
tor. The tickets avoid endless complies
tons. The coupons are tor supper. Write
us tor prices. There ia but one WAY OF
managing such things aud thatls the RI6HT
way. The MADyeOEIAN can help you.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08

The last Salt Lake excursion of the
season will be A lguet Sth. The round
trip fare, good fo r ten days, from i. p.
and NJ. L. Ry. points in Montana. will
be SI5.
1t should be distinctly understood
that tickets will be on sale one day
only. August q b. and they must be
used the same dav. I'd
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
Teachers Examination.

The third quarterly examination of
1896, will be held at Virginia City
school house, Friday and Saturday,
August 2lst and END. All candidates
for certificates will report at 9 O'Clock
on that date.
DELLA H. WELCOME,
County Superintendent OF Schools.
Madison County, Montana. 42-3 .
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
Economical
People

tho~e who want to make q
dollar do double duty
should take the Burlington
Route.
They'll he mere tn a "A
pleased with what We offer
free chair cars low rates
and the best road-bed in
the.west.
And then. ;hs.s OF the
- time they save. Hours
HF01(SE{6|l. HCTRS.
il|'f31i1 Omaha, Kansas City, 81.
iIlQ| Louis, Chicago.
Tickets, timetables and
full information on appli-
cation to the nearest No.
Pac. ticket agent or by adj
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The advocate., 1896-01-15
The Greenback Pump Gold Pump.

AS Congress has addressed itself to the
problem of revenue and currency, the war
question must be laid aside and certain
statements, so misleading as to be untrue,
in Mr.. Cleveland's message of December
8, must again be brought to the front.
Two weeks ago we showed the essential
falseness of the assertion that our present
currency system of greenbacks is an end
less chain that keeps pumping greenbacks
from the people and gold from the treas
ury. Mr.. Cleveland,in order to strengthen
his argument, said nothing of the con-
slant flow of greenbacks into the treas
ury to be exchanged for gold. The fact
is, that in the thirty-one months previ-
to October last, during which Mr..
Cleveland complains the greenbacks were
steadily draining the treasury of its gold
gold coin and gold certificates were puT
into the treasury in return for greenbacks,
to the following extent:
From March to December 81, 1893. s 57,451,l96
For the year 1874. ................. 1y,I4Vszde
For the year 1895 up to September 30 26,6lly978
Total. .S1OS SO3,4OS
So much for this endless chain argu-
ment which has been urged upon
Congress by the administration. Mr..
CleVeland's assertion that gold obtained
from bond sales had not been paid out
for current expenses has been clearly
exhibited as false by other figures
Nea0 York Sun, Dec. 80, 1895.
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Office.
The advocate., 1896-01-15

postofice In the union. There should
be no dicker with private companies
about leasing or purchasing. In 1866
they only asked for five years to close
up; but when the FIVE years were up
they had formed the present great
trust and defed thepubllc. They have
had thirty years. notice to abandon
their use of branch Of the govern.
mental functions. In that time they
have received hundreds Of millions of
profits, Illegally extorted from the
tOiling masses. They have no claim TO
extract another dollar by lease or sale
of their antiquated and Worn-out in
struments. Let the government give
the actual value of such wire as it may
wish to use and take complete and ex-
elusive possession of the duties of
postOffice. This is provided for by the
act of Congress Of 1866, chapter 230,
which clearly gave notice that the tel
egrsph companies had no franchise for
the loss Of which they could claim COM
pensstion, but that they simply had
temporary permission to operate, sub
ject to the governments right to take
the property on payment of assessed
value of wires and poles, etc.
Every postmaster who can talk can
use the telephone, and where tele.
graph Office is required the government
can employ an assistant as operator as
easily as any other k. O'hel eoun
ries, without exception, are doing this
4ood ork of furnishing electric mail
facilities al cheap rates TO all its people,
IN the country a. we'll as in the to n.
Why Ould this government, alone of
all the world, which claims par excel
lence to he government Of the people
and for the people, fail in this consti-
tutional duty of furnishing proper
postal facilities and to all its people.
The only proper postal facilities for
the American people are those which
shall extend to every nook and corner
of the republic, which shall be the
best which the latest advances in sci
ence can offer, and which are fur
nished as near the exact cost of the
service as possible without profit.
Such postal facilities the American
people are entitled to demand as a
right. They should rest contented
with nothing short of this.
The advocate., 1896-01-15
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
The Legal Aspect Of the Telegraph and Tel
ephOne-- Essential Parts Of an Eff
eiant Postal Service.

thoughtfnl and unprejudiced readers. It
presents some facts In relation to public own
ship Of railroads and telegrsphs that are not
generally known. We especially call attention
20 the opinion Of the Supreme court OF the
United States delivered by Chief Justice
Waite, and to the act Of Congress OF 1866, TO
which Mr.. Clark refers. The article 10 taken
from the Typographical Journal OF January L.
EDIToRl
Many who admit the great sdvsn-
tsges-nsy, the necessity-Of the tele-
graph and the telephone being operated
ss q part Of the postal system, are de-
tered by the inquiry, sis it Constitu-
tonslP" In truth 1t Is unconstitu-
tional for this essential branch Of the
postal system to be operated by pri-
Vate monopoly or in any other manner
than by the government.
When the constitution placed the
postoffiCe in the hands Of the govern
ment, 1t conferred its exclusive opera
tion upon the government, and with 1t
all means OF operating it to the best
advantage. The bestowsl Of the ex-
elusive right and duty to operate the
postofice carried with 1t the exclusive
right and duty to use all the agencies
that would make the pOStofice most
highly efficient, as such agencies from
time to time should be improved or in
vented. On this principle the first
telegraph line was built by Congress
sionsl appropriation under an admins
trstion which by that period in its
history had become q strict constructive
administration (Tyler'S), and the tele-
graph belonged to, and was operated
by, the government from 1874 to 1S47,
In Folks administration. Indeed, the
Supreme court of the United States, in
a unanimous opinion Pensacola vs..
Telegraph Co., So U. S. y, has held
that the telegraph came within the
grant of power to establish the post
Office. The opinion, delivered by Chief
Justice Waite, says:
"The powers thus granted are not
confined to the instrumentalitieS of
the postal service known or in use
when the constitution was adopted;
but they keep pace with the progress
of the country and adapt themselves
to the new developments of
time and circumstances. They ex-
tend from the horse with its rider to
the stsge,coach, from the sailing vessel
to the steamboat, from the coach and
steamboat to the railroad, and from
the railroad to the telegraph, as these
new agencies are successfully brought
into use to meet the demands Of In
cressing population and wealth"
And Justice Henry b. Brown, who
is recognized as one of the ablest
members of the United States Supreme
court, in the leading article in the
August Forum, says:
IF the government may be safely
intrusted with the transmission of our
letters and papers, l see no reason why
1t may not also be intrusted with the
transmission of our kilograms and par
cells, as Is almost universally the case
in Europe"
The act of Congress of 1866, chapter
2SO, recognizes the telegraph as a gov
ernmental function, and expressly pro-
vides that all telegraph lines thereafter
built shall be turned over to the gov
eminent on demand at any time after
the lapse of FIVE years upon payment
4 n Il. IL,
The advocate., 1896-01-15

ENSS9SAA Ne@~h
taken over by the government, is an
entirely different question, standing on
it's own basis, which has never affected
the undenisble right and duty of the
government to use them exclusively so
far as they are used for the carriage Of
mails. But the telegraph and tele-
phone $50 far as used by the public
for hire) are and can only be used for
the transmission of mail, and unqueS-
tionsbly come within the exclusive
grant to the government of operating
the postoffice.
The telegraph and telephone are
simply the electric mail, or mail sent
by electricity, just as the railway mail
is sent by steam agency In preference
to the horsepower formerly used in
the days of stage coaches and horse
back riders and canal boats.
When the government shall assume
It's duty Of sending the mail by elec-
triclty, railroad companies can still
operate their own telegraph lines on
their own business and private tele-
phon exchanges will still exist, just as
railroads and others may now send
their own letters by their own agents,
but not carry them for others for hire.
Then, as now, the government would
only have the exclusive privilege of
carrying mail for hire. This privilege
of carrying mail for hire, whether sent
by electricity or steam or stage coach
or on horseback, is an exclusive gov
ernmentsl function, and no corpora
tion or monopoly can legally exercise
any part of it. 1t is the duty of the
government to do 1t, and to do 1t In
the quickest and most efficient manner
and at the lowest possible rate con-
sistent with the cost.
The army and navy and the depart
ment of justice are departments of ex-
elusive governmental functions in the
same manner and to exactly the same
extent as the postofice. But suppose
that some branch of the department of
justice las by turning in the fles, pen
alties and tax fees) or of the war or
navy could be made q source of rev.
enue, would 1t not be singular to turn
over that revenue paying part OF these
departments to a private monopoly,
leaving the people to support the non.
profitable partP Yet that is exactly
what is done with the postoffice.
Though the postoffice is as exclusively
governmental function as the army
or navy or the department of justice,
the government operates only the
slow, sntiqusted, nOn-psying part
of the postoffice, leaving the tax
payers to make up an annual
deficit of S6,OOO,OOO OF $4,000, 900, while
the rapid, improved, up.to-date part of
the postofiice-the rapid or electric
malls operated by private monop
oily and pays a heavy dividend on its
watered stock of $l5O,OOO,O 900, ten times
the actual value of its plant
Besides, this system is unjust, for
the private monopoly naturally selects
the best.psying districts, and q large
part Of the people are denied the sd-
Vantages of q modern postoffice. In
every country, save ours alone, the
power Of the monopoly has failed to
maintain q system so unconstitutional
The advocate., 1896-01-15

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deficit which was usual before the tele-
graph and telephone were added to the
postofice by Mr.. Gladstone In 1870.
But there are those who say that the
telegraph and telephone would CEN
trslize the government. Yet it would
be hard to see why an efficient postal
service is more centralizing than an in
efficient one, or why mail sent by cleo
tricity or pneumatic tubes (which
should be adopted in the large cities) is
more centrallzing than mail sent by
horseback or by steam.
It is q puzzle to understand why
oWnerhip of telegraph or telephone
wires costing less than $40 per mile
should imperil the government more
than the ownership of gunbOstS or
pOstoffice buildings or postal cars. If
1t were a question Of adding new func-
tions to the goyernment-sS the
ownership of railroads and the
carrying of freight and psssen-
g ers-this argument would be q
legitimate one for debate. But when
the constitution has already tur2ed
over the exclusive duty of transmits
sion Of mail to the government, there
can be no argument Of this kind prop
erly used against the introduction Of
the most improved methods for the
transmission of the mail, whether , y
electricity or pneumatic tubes.
Telegrsphic dispatches would be as
sacred in the hands of government EN-
ployes as other mail is now, or as thu
kilograms are in the hands Of the en-
ployes of a private corporation. Be-
sides, government employees, especially
under civil service rules and subject to
the supervision Of public opinion,
would be less capable of using the tele-
graph for partisan purposes, as has
been done under corporation owner
ship, and as was attempted to be done
In the first Cleveland election, as every
one remembers.
With telephones at all country post
offices and all villages and the smaller
towns, few additional employees would
be required, and those few would be
added at centers requiring the tele-
graph and where civil service rules OBJ
tain. The telephone and telegraph
would be put in the postoffice buildings
already owned or rented by the gov
eminent, thus saving the rent Of all
the buildings now used by the private
companies. This and the saving Of
the salaries of the officials of the pres
ent corporations and the dividends on
their largely wstered stock would en-
able the government to reduce its tolls
to the uniform rate of 10 cents per
message independently of the large In.
crease In business.
In Italy, the government is now pro-
posing to reduce its telegraph rates to
5 cents per message, and in Sweden the
government rate for telephones is $6
per annum.
In Great Britain (by the official re-
port made to this government in
the United States consular re.
ports for April, 1885, the increase
since the government has taken
over the telegraph and telephone
has been tenfold in private messages
and thirtyfold in press messages, and
The advocate., 1896-01-15

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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-12
Grand Opera House.

"a Trip to Chinatown" comes to the
Grand opera house Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of net week. The cast
introduces Laura Biggar as the Gay
Widow; Bert Haverly, as Welland
Strong; r, c, Chamberlain, as Ben
Gay; Richard Karl, as Rashleigh Gay;
Harry Roster, as Mormon Blood; Jno.
P. Brown, as Noah Heap; Benz. LETTER,
as Hoffman Price; jeanette Lilford, as
Willie Grow; Mabel Bagley, as Tony
Gay; Isabelle Chamberlain, as Isabelle
Dame, and Maud Myring, as Flirt.
Among the musical numbers which
have become national in their popular
ity, are included; The Widow, Racket,
Crisp Young Chaperone Poor Girl, Put
Me Off at Buffalo, The Dago, A Bird
and a Bottle, etc
The talk of New York is Hogan
Alley" which r. f. Outcault of the
New York World has made famous
with his colored supplement in the Sun
day edition. Mr.. G. B. Bunnell has Sc
cured this laughing craze for Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday next, and will
present to his patrons Gilmore and
Leonard" known all over the world as
"Irelands Kings" and their funny
company Of comedians, in their new
and popular farce comedy, "Hogan's
Alley" The we'll known artists, the
Shirley sisters, Misses Leslie and
Halvers, the Gardner brothers trio,
Joseph Conlan, Thomas Clark, Harry
Fairbanks, George Kaine, Miss Glayds
Hayden, Fred Werd, Cliff Mech and
THE yellow Kid will assist. New
music, special scenery and properties
are provided.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-12
AN ARTFUL DONOR
He Didn't Want His Lady Love to
Think Her Present Cheap

He Didn't Want His Lady Love to
Think Her Present Cheap.
"You can see lots of human nature
in a jewelry store" remarked the man
who was arranging a tray of gems in
the window so as to give them their
greatest possible allurement. "One of
the things ! have noticed Is that most
people dislike to depend or their own
judgment They don't appreciate any
thing until they know it's value in dol
lars and cents"
Just then young man came in and
asked to see some rings. He was not
long in making a selection, and, pulling
out q roll of bills, he asked the price.
Twenty dollars" said the jeweler.
The young man put the money back
into his pocket
us that all?" he inquired regretfully.
Eyes. I wouldn't be justified in
charging any more. But it's very
handsome ring, and everything about
it is just as it's represented"
Twenty dollars doesn't seem enough
to pay for ring for this young LADY,
he remarked pensively. That's a
pretty ring and I think she'd like it
very IHuCH IL She uiuH HHu out WHAT
the price was. I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll buy the ring If you'll put fifty
dollar price tag on 1t and let it stay In
the window until day after to-mor-
row."
Il don't quite see what good that will
do you
I've set my heart on seeing her wear
this particular ring. 1 know she will
like its style when she first sees it.
But you know how women are; they're
never content until they know how
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PoIi,s Wonderland Theater.

So far as enthusiasm can indicate SUI
preme satisfaction, there has probably
never been feature at Polls Wonder
land theater to rival Roymon Moore,
the sweet ballad singer, who is the star
of the weeks bill Among his hearers
at every performance this week have
been our most cultured people, who
have echoed the verdict of the Ameri-
can press that Mr.. Moore has never
had his equal as a ballad singer.
Among the members of the excellent
company supporting him are the four
Luciers, Mr.. Barnes and Miss Sisson,
the Rice brothers, Mr.. and Mrs. Reilly
the American Novelty Clog quartet
Miss Victoria, the Nondescript trio
and Mr. Emery and Miss Marlowe.
Net week Merlainbark's Arabs