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The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-06-25
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Fourth Of July to Be Celebrated in the
Usual Style.

The Fourth of July celebration il
Philipsburg this year promises to b,
about as interesting as is usually thu
case. The programme will begin will
a parade at 8 O'Clock in the morning
to form at the fire house, headed by the
Philipsburg Silver Cornet Band Al
the conclusion of the parade the eXer
cises will take place in the opera house
which will consist of music. singing
reading of the declaration of indepen
dence, and an grafton delivered by the
Hon. A. Craven, of Helena
At l O'Clock in the afternoon the
various sports will take place on Broad
way. Following is the programme
Hose race, between two teams of the
Fire Brigade, 300 yards prize, 20.
Bicycle race for local riders start on
Broadway and Montgomery street. west
on Broadway to Railroad street, south
on Railroad street to First street, east
on First street to Holland street, north
on Holland to Broadway, east on
Broadway to Kaiser corner; prizes,
first, $40; second, $780, third, 81. so.
Foot race, 100 yards; prizes, first,
$5. 90; second, 81. 80.
Boys race, 100 yards, under 16, first
prize, 100; second prize, 81. so
Fat Mems race, rs yards, 200 pounds
or over; prize, $1,000.
Sack race, 80 yards; prizes, first
s.. 90; second, ~. So
Slow Mule race-Start at Pardte S
crossing. The last mule in takes the
purse, $40. 90.
Potato Race-2O yards; prizes, first,
s.. 90; second, So. 80.
Bicycle race-300 yards, for local
ri ers. Winners in first race barred.
prizes, first $S. second $500, third
50. 90.
Indian Pony race-Prizes, first s.. 90,
second 81. so.
Baseball game at grounds, between
Fire Brigade and Star club, for purse
Of $25 90.
Entrees free. to be made at county
treasurer's Office or to A. A. Fairbairn.
Three to enter, two to start or no race.
Entries to close at 4 o'clock D. m. on
Friday, July Sd.
In the evening grand ball will take
place in Brigade hall, which the fire
is having remodeled. A new
floor is being put in and other improve
ments made. This was formerly the
old Hynes hall, which the brigade has
leased for two years. The dance in
their new hall promises to be big
success.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-06-25

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The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-06-25
GRANITE NOTES.

|
Fred Wills, of Elkhorn, spent Sunday
in Granite.
| w. j. SwartZAcame in from the Pine
Sunday to remain.
Master Mechanic Thomas Coonan ar
rived in camp Monday and began oper-
ations in the Bi Metallic drain tunnel,
etc.
People are arriving daily from all
parts Of the globe in anticipation of
renewed business operations just started
here.
Joseph Lutey was up from the burg
Tuesday, cleaning ont his store building
preparatory to reopening his gorcery
store.
Frank Notestein, a prosperous stock
grower and raneher near Stuart, spent
the first of the week with relatives in
Granite.
Mrs w. j. Swartz left Tuesday
morning for Gregson Springs, after
and business trip.
The Presbyterian Sabbath school held
their children's s service Sunday night
Quit crowd was present and an en-
joyable evening was spent.
Mrs. Fred Elliott raised her flag in
honor Of the company's announcement
of their intention to resume work last
week. Everybody i'll Granite felt cor.
respondingly happy.
John Paddy arrived home Saturday
from Gregson Springs, where he has
been for four months undergoing treat
ment for the benefit of his health. He
inI bx- Ia;
law, Frank Notestein, and two nieces.
Gildersleeve & Baier are busily en-
gagged in shipping their goods to Quig-
ley, where the firm will shortly engage
in business. Mr.. Baier will have
charge of the Quigley store and Mr..
Gildersleeve will look after the inter-
ests OF their store in this place.
When Supt. Paul A. Fusz announced
last week that work in the Bi-Metallic
drain tunnel would begin the people all
over the country were overjoyed. Citi-
zens of Granite shouted for JOY and our
patriotic townslady, Mrs. Elliott, hoisted
the stars and stripes in front of her res
idence in honor of Mr.. Fusz and his
enterprising associates.
Joe Sarish came in from Rock
creek one day last week and took the
train for Quigley and Missoula
on business trip for a few days. Joe
says it grieved him very much to leave
Rock creek because he knew that there
were several silver tip bears in his
vicinity that he wanted to get. He
said that they had killed four already
this season and wanted to get away
with the others. He consoled him self
however, with the reflection that he
would return in a few days and might
then pursue his pleasurable avocation
of decreasing the number of bears run
ming at large in Granite county, and
The Mail hasn't heard of anyone rails
ing any seriocs objection to his desire
to rid the county of those frisky inhab.
itants of the mountains.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
4 COSTLY CONFLICT

The taxpayers of Colorado will have
TO meet an expense of $1,000 n day
created by the employment of the mill
tia of the state in support of the effort
of the silver mine owners of Leadville
to destroy the miners union at that
place. The conflict has been going on
Tor weeks and large sum has been
expended by the state in maintaining a
force to guard imported labor with
which to break down the local labor or
ganization, because it sustained n strike
of the miners against lowering their
wages. The Denver News urges that
the time has come when n stop should
be put to this condition of affairs and
the parties to the conflict be called upon
to settle it by arbitration. The News
thinks the miners will be found will
ing to do this, but it appears to doubt
whether the mine owners would. 1t
urges that aside from money considera-
tions and sentiments of Justice. the
peace and good name of the state are
seriously threatened.
We are not sufficiently familiar with
the merits of the controversy to ex-
press an opinion as to the right and
wrong of it, but the Inference from
what the News says is that the mine
owners are not in the right Still we
have no doubt that they will continue
to have the support of the state in their
battle against organized labor until
their object is attained, for doubtless
the entire silver-mining interest is
deeply concerned in having the unions
destroyed. And these are the people
who little while ago We're appealing
to labor to support their scheme for
doubling the value of their product
and property.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21

$500, ,000, 900 OF silver on limited coinage cir
culates along with $500. 1000, 600 OF gold.
The United States could make silver a
legal tender at Its commercial cValue and
then there would be a concurrent clrcula-
tion OF both That would be a return to the
system which prevailed before European
nations tried to tio the two metals together
with a ratio fixed by law. But the Bryanites
VIII not consent to this simple method OF
national bimetallism.
The republican party, however. will not
agree to the proposition that congress lcgis-
late for free coinage at the false and absurd
ratio OF l6 to l. for that would not restore
bimetalism," but would destroy the exist
ing bimetallsm and establish silver mono
metallism of dollars worth but so cents
Because Mckinley was opposed to such
destructive, anti-bimetallic legislation. while
Bryan favors It, the latter asserts that he
is tho only candidate who believes the
American people are able to attend to their
own business"
The sound money men believe that the
American people are attending closely to
their own business when they refrain from
mcddling in that Of other nations and when
they refuse to give their consent to meas
ures which would be mpotent abroad and
disastrous at home.
Bryan not only misstates willfully the
position of his opponents, but he deccptively
rrovariC6tes concerning his own. He as
Serts that the money standard which was
good enough for Washington, Madison, JEFF
ferson, Jackson and Lincoln, will be good
enough for tho American people, and that
they favored half-value silver dollars" This
Is an insinuation that his proposed 50-ccnt
dollar standard Is the one that was good
enough for those men. What could be
more false and dishonest in statement?
What Bryan asks for is a system where
the silver dollar shall have half the bullion
value and half the purchasing power of the
gold dollar and yet shall have the same
debt-paying power. That is where the ras-
cality of this position exhibits itself He
has the impudence to call that "bmetal-
ism"
Washington. Hamilton, and jefferson de-
yised and enacted a bimetallic system of
hard money in which they expected the
dollars of each metal would be equivalents
in value in buying things in the market and
paying for labor. They never dreamed of
founding bimetallic system in which the
exceed that of the white metal by one-half
or vice versa. If the value of the metal put
in the silver coin were less than that in the
gold dollar, these founders of the repub-
lie would not have called it bimetallic or
a double standard system. They would
not have expected that both metals would
circulate If one POSSESSED twice the pur-
chasing power of the other. They would
have seen and admitted that only the
cheaper dollar would circulate as money
Lincoln was neither a fool nor a knave
lie approved OF the monetary ideas of the
father of the republic. He would have re-
pudiated with infinite scorn and anger
those promulgated by Bryan. 1t would have
grieVed him to find an lllinoisan could teach
such unsound and dishonest doctrines.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21

make possible the crcl,lon Of proper sinking
funds and provision for the payment OF the
debt But all this will be OF no use to
Dubuque unless there Is economy In the
administration OF the affairs OF the city. Du-
buque voted for honesty in national affairs
and ought to be In good condition now to
begin a home reform.
Des Molnos Leader: The city council of
Webster City has formally accepted the
bequest OF Kendall Young, who, when he
died, bequeathed all his large fortune for
the founding OF a public library, When
the smaller cities OF Iowa thus have public
benefactors. 1t is not beyond the realms Of
hope that some wealthy citizen OF Des
Moines may yet remember the people Of
the city.
Sioux City Times; Mrs. Pauline Swain Of
the Oskaloosa Herald has been invited to
deliver an address before the National Edu-
cational association, which holds It's next
meeting at Galveston, Tex The subject as
signed her Is "The Newspaper OF the Flu
turc" Mrs. Swain is one OF the few work
ing journalists of the state who has been
many years in service, and doubtless
shc will be able to give the editors an in
teresting article.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
CABINET MAKING.

Philadelphia Times: Often when it's
given out that some favorable son is thought
NJ as a member of McKinley's cabinet the
wish is very likely the father.
New York World New York has furnisl g
Van Buren, Seward, Fish and Evarts-and II
called on could furnish a fifth who would
do credit to the office and to the state. His
name is Depew.
Chicago Post: 1t seems strange that Nc,
Kinley should have any trouble selecting
his cabinet. It's no trick at all for most Of
the people in this country. There seem to
be few indeed who cannot make up one or
two cabinets before breakfast.
Chicago Times s-Herald: Thirty-seven cabi-
net officers already have been appointed
since election and still Major Mckinley has
not tried his hand at 1t. Enthusiastic cabi-
netmakers should understand that the
cabinet is not built like a bee hive or
doyecot with limitless pigeonholes.
Washington Pest There is a good deal of
talk in the clubs about the possibilities OF
Colonel John Hay and Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge going into the cabinet. Both OF these
gentlemen are among the social celebrities
of the capital and are rich Each has built
himself a palatial residence In the event
of their becoming cabinet officers their
entertainments would doubtless be on
scale quite out of the reach of the usual
cabinet officer and only possible with sec
retaries who enjoy large private fortunes.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
A FAR-REACHING DECISION.
Importance of the Irrigation Law
Sustained by the Supreme Court.


In sustaining the irrigation laws of Cali
fornia the supreme court of the United States
has added another great decision to the long
line of such that has made that court the
guiding star of progress as well as the bull
wark of conservatism.
Tho judgment VIII rank with the famous
decisions of Marshall and Tlney. which in
conformity with modern demands. extended
instead of limiting the new methods and in
strumentalities Cf progress and the new legis-
lation made necessary to the people by un-
precedented conditions and circumstances.
The decision establishes the principle that
q state may enforce a system of taxation for
public uses, even where there are many
individual citizens who could not or cannot
receive immediate or personal benefit to
themselves from such taxation. In other
words that the people of the whole state
may be taxed to supply artificial irrigation
to T. part of the state and thus benefit only
q part of the people. The advantages that
Will accrue to those Immediately affected
will indirectly accrue to the whole state.
This decision will stimulate similar legis-
lation in all the arid and semi-ard region
states and be the means of ultimately re-
claiming millions and millions of acres of
land for the use of man. 1t is of immense
import to western Kansas and Nebraska,
New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and the Dakotas
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
REVIyING INDUSTRIES.
Idle mills starting up in Various
pnrts OF the CnnmirN.


The industrial awakening caused by the
triumph of sound money continues spread.
ing throughout the country The list pub
lished in The Bee last Monday showed that
in the ten days following the election Of
Mckinley, "a mills and factories employ
ing 15S,62j persons had resumed operations.
In addition to this number, 1i,S50 persons,
working part time, were given full time.
Scores probably hundreds, OF small factories
when had started up were omitted from
the list so that the totals given are but
partial record OF idle hands put to work
and idle mills reopened by the popular YER
dict for 100-cent dollar.
During the present week the following
factories have resumed operations:
The Buell. woolcn mills. st. Joe, Mo.
Three hundred additional workmen have
been given employment by the Pullman COM
pany, Pullman, Ill.,
Groenville cotton mills, Norwich, Conn,
employing between 500 and 600 hands
One hundred additional men have been
put at work in the mills of the Hartford
Carpet company, HartfoI i. Conn.
The Moline wagon works Sechler Carriage
company and Moline Pump company, all at
Moline, ILL.,, hayo resumed with moderate
forces
The Dubuque enameling works, Dubuque,
Ia, resumed with eighty hands.
The GeImania and East Norrie mines al
lronwood, Mich, have resumed with full
forces Tho Colby ana Tildcn mines are
DOuhFu W start dl an curly utN.
Ashland steel company's mill, Ashland
KY started with $50 men.
ldlo workmen at Kewdnec. ILL.,, to the
number OF 5000 went to work Monday in
the mills OF the Western Tube company.
At Defiance O.. 200 men were set to work
in the Turnbull wagon works. Four idle
mills in the same city are preparing to re-
sumo.
The American plate glass works at Alex
andria, Ind, were put in full operation last
Saturday with 400 men at work. The plant
had been closed two years The Weatherall
rolling mill, at Frankton, Ind. has in
creased it's force over half. The Union steel
works at Alexandria started the sheet and
bar mills on Monday.
The Ilirois Watch company plant at
Springfield has opened all departments and
is running on full time
The Wilkesbarre silk mills, Wilkesbarre,
Pa, restored the Is per cent reduction OF
wages made last August. Four hundred
hands were benefited.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Birmingham. Ala, is shipping pig iron to
Birmingham, Eng.
Patrick Maloney is "a years old, but
works regularly every day as a switchman
in the yards OF the Erie road in Jersey
City
Street car mail service went into opera
tion in San Francisco few days ago.
Transfers who obstruct the tracks are
subject to fine of 500.
The Iron Molders' union of North Amer
ican has increased its membership 1000 since
July, 1895. This gratifying exhibit is cred
tied to the adoption of system of higher
dues and the payment of benefits.
The supreme court of Utah has sustained
the eght-hour law OF that state, 1t applies
to labor in the mines alone but the dicta of
the court are broad enough to cover an eN-
tension of the law to fractories and mills.
a Georgia marble man says that if all
the houses, not only in the United States,
but on the American continent, were de
stroyed so ineXhaustible is the supply that
they could every one, large and small be
rebuilt out of Georgia marble.
j. NJ. Dwyer, a San Francisco man, has
invented and put in practical operation a
new method of utilizing the power OF ocean
waves. His scheme is to anchor at some
distance from the shore a big buoy support
ing a strong mast From the top of the
mast a wire rope runs to the motor proper,
erected on land and consisting of a simple
arrangement, whereby the Intermittent pull
of the swaying mast raises a weight which
gives continuous motion to a heavy fly
wheel Mr.. Dwyer claims that his con
trivance is better than any of Its many prede-
cessons. and thinks that what was long ago
recognized as an ineXhaustible reservoir of
force has been tapped at last.
Mention was made in The Bee last week
of the cooperative experiment started by the
Illinois Central railroad. Further interest
ing details are furnished by an official circu
lar. On the lrst day of each month the
company will quote to its employees a price
at which their applications for shares will
be accepted. AS soon a share has been
purchased and paid for the certificate Is
transferred on the company's books and the
owner is entitled not only to dividends, but
also to a vote in the election of the board
of directors. Any employe making pay
ments on the instalment plan will be enti-
tied to interest on his deposit at the rate of
4 per cent during the time he lis paying
for his share. Payments may be discon
tinued at any time and for any reason, the
money to be returned with accrued interest
The plan, 1t will be seen, is extremely favor
able to the employe
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
OMAHA DAILY BEE. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER e1. 1896.

broker of ST. Louis, who is quoted ns
saying:
"The fall Is the natural consequence
of the throwing on the market of Il very
large amount of cotton that was being
held until after the election. Farmers
and holders of both political crceds Kept
back the cotton. Some were convinced
that If Mckinley was elected business
of every kind would boom, others that
Mr.. Bryans election would create n
tremendous demand for gold and there
fore for cotton, which is as good as
gold. The market is temporarily
gluttcd, but things will adjust them
selves in due time"
How any intelligent, thoughtful per-
son conversant with the laws that gov
ern commerce could be so blinded by
partisanShip as to aScribe the ups and
downs in the market price of farm
products to political intrigue or finun-
cial conspiracies passes our comprehen.
sion. y half n cent per pound rise in
cotton would he equal to an advance
of twenty million dollars on this years
American crop, not to speak of the
product of foreign countries. Is it
rational to assume that the Wall street
spectators could force the cotton buy
ers of the world who are chiefly located
in England, France, Germany and
Austro- Hungary to throw away millions
in order to carry an American cleo
ton?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
DESIRE RECIPROCITY.

There is evidently strong popular
| desire in Canada for reciprocity with
the United States. We have hereto
fore noted the statement of members
of the present liberal government, that
an effort would be made to negotiate
an arrangement very soon after the new
administration come into power, and
! subsequent circumstances indicate that
the reciprocity idea is gaining ground
in the Dominion. The effort of Il To-
ronto paper to obtain the views OF Pres
ident-elect Mckinley on the subject re-
suited only in elicting the statement
that reciprocity will be one of the
things to be considered by the next con-
gress, which is significant as an assur-
ance that this policy will not be neg
lected by the republican administration.
Major Mckinley is plainly fully alive to
the fact that the country expects n
restoration of reciprocity and it is en-
tirely safe to say that he will be found
in full accord with the popular senti-
ment
But while the republican party will
cndeavor to extend this policy as widely
as possible, presumably on the lines
laid down in the tariff act of 1890. the
chances of Canada securing an arrange
ment with the United States cannot be
regarded as very promising, for the
reason that that country is not likely
to be able to acccde to our conditions.
1t is utterly idle and absurd to talk
about reciprocity treaty that shall
embrace only the natural products of
the two countries. There would be no
mutual advantages in such an arrange
ment and having had one unsatisfac-
tory experience of the kind we shall
not try another. The great difficulty
in the way of reciprocity with Canada
is in the tariff discrimination in favor
of British manufactures, which 1t is
probably impossible to overcome. While
this remains the case efforts to nego-
tiate reciprocity agreement between
this country and Canada are very GER
tain TO fail. But the next administra-
tion will not decline to hear whatever
the Canadians have to propose.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-21
DRYAN'S SHAM BIMETALLIsM.
The Purposes and Policy of the Re-
publican Party.

Chicago Tribune.
Among the assertions made more than
100 times on the stump and reiterated sew
eral times in Chicago by Bryan was one he
thus stated
Tho republican party, for the first time
in the history of this nation has surrendered
the right to legislate on the money question
over to foreign nations, because the re-
publican party says in its platform that
until the leading commercial nations of
Europe join with us in the restoration OF
bimetallism we mus: have the gold
standard"
common sense, does not propose to legslate
on international monetary questions for
other nations with the idea that the legs-
latlon will be needed by them. without
the aid or consent of other nations the
United States could not have established an
international money order system nor an
international postal system, nor marine
signal syetem.
The republican party proposes to sur
render no right of legislation or any ques-
concerning which, only conjoint legislation
will be of any value. For the party holds
that the United States cannot impose its
DEGREES, especially when they are irrational,
on the rest of the world without their con-
sent. Fi
Bryan alleges 1t can. He asserts that If
the American congress declares that six
teen ounces of silver>ar as valuable as an
ounce OF BOld ana proceeds 10 coin SILVER
dollars on that false assumption all man
kind from "GreenlaRd's ley mountains TO
midas coral strand" viii be forced to fall
into line and admit that an ounce of GOLD
Is worth OILY sixteen ounces of silver when
the merchants all over the world demand
thlrty-two ounces of silver for one OF
Nor is the republican party so insane as
to propose to other nations an international
agreement relative to silver based on the
ridiculous assumption that sixteen ounces
of that metal will buy one OF gold when
thirty-two ounces are required In COM
merce Such an international agreement
would be as valueless as one to regulate the
tides.
The republican platform does not men
tion 10 to l." 1t specifies no ratio for
foreign nations to adopt 1t hopes. how
ever, that after consultation and delibera-
tion they will agree on one which approx
mates so closely to the commercial ratio as
to effect bimetallism.
Until that has been secured the repub-
llcan party proposes that the United States
shall hold fast to the bimetalllc system II
has. Blmetalllsm means the concurrent
circulation Of both metals That condition
OF things obtains In this country now. over