The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-08
The Erstwhile Occur d Alena Editor Is
in johannesburg.
HE DRAWS A $4,000 SALARY
An Article in the standard and
Diggers News" on "Private and
orporate Greed" is His
Latest Production.

South Africa, during the recent trou-
bles in the Transvaal. George Hall,
formerly under sheriff of Missoula
county, seems to have emerged from
the heap without a scratch. With
Characteristic diplomacy Mr.. Hall is
saying nothing, but saving wood-or,
rather, building railroad grades.
Deputy Sheriff oliver Pichette has
received two copies Of the weekly edt-
ton of the Standard and Diggers
News, published at johannesburg. the
latest one under date Of Dec. rs. They
were sent by Mr. Hall but were unac-
companied by letter. However, 1T is
presumed that he was not a member
of JamesOn's band. George can al
ways be counted upon to be on the
winning side. He has a happy faculty
of always securing a front seat in the
band wagon of popularity.
The papers forwarded by Mr.. Hall
are quaint looking affairs. They con-
tain "a pages. Irrespective of deep
red cover, and in makeup more close
" resemble Harper's Weekly than an
American newspaper. typographical
~, they are up to the standard. n
general glance through their pages is
imtere sting. Column after column is
devoted to letters from prominent res
idents upon the situation in the land
the consensus of opinion being against
the usurpation Of further power by &C.
ell Rhodes and his followers.
one of these letters is from the pen
of r. +. Brown, more Familiarity
known as Barbarian Brown. The
latter is well known in Missoula and
the Occur d'Alene country. During the
labor troubles there a few years ago,
Brown published a weekly paper at
Wardner, under the rather inharmon-
ious name of THE Barbarian" He
was a very caustic writer, and was
- Il A
cause of his opposition ito the Miners
union. Later Brown was connected
with Harveys Coin" the Chicago sill
Yer publication. Then he started the
Spokane "Outburst." a literary week.
~. Two years ago he departed for
South Africa and upon the recommen-
dation Of John Hays Hammond Sc
cured a position as consulting engineer
win one OF the large mining COM
Tanies i'm the Rand district at a salary
of S35. 900 a year. He recently created
a sensation by making an after-dinner
talk in opposition to the policy of Ce-
ell Rhodes, Hammond and others, who
were seated at the same table with
him.
Browns letter to the Standard and
DiggerS' News is good American read
ing The author has taken for his
subject Private and Corporate Greed"
The News introduces it to the public
under the caption, Here is Mark An
tony Brown" The communication in
part. is as follows:
The echo of the shibboleth Of the
evolutionary forefathers of America
No Taxation without Representa-
TOMS heard on the Rand to-day, and
I'm that cry we read the promise Of po-
litiCal emancipation.
Here where wealth Is abundant
and all the consideration Of climate
,ttat-i1,t - hn 1fDr -
the Inhabitants We wish to see a re-
public that shall fulfill all the dreams
Of political prophecy. We want to de-
velCp THE soil and encourage emf
grants from Europe and America. The
TTanSvaal can supprt, in prosperity.
many millions. 1t is folly for the few
rhpuT8nd Beers to CINE that they
can maintain an oligarchy of Voor-
trekkers and deny all the rights of
government 10 the thousands and hun
Grcds of thousands who shall come
hitheT from all the nations of the earth.
AT the same time, as | have point
Cd out. these newcomers, because the
government is inopt must not advocate
an overthrow which shall rob the pion-
Ger Of his home and of a voice in the
government which he has hcroically
established.
Tho history Of nations will be re-
peatti i'm South Africa. The now I'M
'ufr1uchiS.l inhabitants of the Trans
vaaI must rise 10 the intellectual. COM
mercial. ard political standard Of the
alien. or the day win come when they
must step aside. II is a question Of
the survival Of the fittest.
Il recognize the many evils Of our
governments. hut | have been and am
wholly opposed To the intrigues Of pri-
waite and corporate greed. Better an
Imperialism of the Beers than the inn
.
oily.
My position is not the foolish one of
waging war against capital. or saying
that because capital is interested in
securing a newer republic therefore it's
movement is ubiquitous. All reforms
require capital: and. so long as any
political movement for purer govern
ment is based upon the recognition Of
the rights of every inhabitant of the
Tra nSvaal then the more capital in
Vollcd the better Rut In any move
ment OF this kind. having for its OBJ
feet a higher citizenship and a just
constitutional republic. the support Of
the Topuace must be enlisted. There
Is a difference between revolution
born Of unjust opprC ssion and cabal
melted 10y voluble demagocues or en-
gin aercd by clique Of intriguing cap
1talstS
When changes come they must come
with asSurInces-stahle assurances
that i'm the reconstructed democracy
there shall be neither Roer nor Tit
lander and no political and social div
i.inn based urnn wealth or priC rity Of
residence. II must come with an UNI
cuuiNorll manifesto that In the new
Transvaal republic there shall be a
free and undivided people dwelling to-
uethcr I'm political and domestic am
ity."
IN another column appears copy Of
a resolution passed 81 a meeting Of
JphauucSlU~E. ON Christmas day as
follows.
IT. Ills Honour tn state President II
the south African Republic
TO shake your house IS what some
desire.
But we. with YOU. shall build it high
pr.