The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-14
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Sure ahead of him-certainly no rhem-
Der of his unusually talented ella S. OF
1876 ever left New Haven with so many
kind wishes and as many loving predic-
fions of honor to come to him.
"As has been correctly stated in the
esolotions, he studied law at the st.
Louis law school Grinding poverty
overwhelmed him at this time. and IN
order TO live he was obliged to teach
q night school in the city of st. Louis.
His salary was $50 a month as teach
er, and upon this amount he lived aad
acquired an excellent legal education.
He has often told me Of an overgroNn
man he had as pupil. who became
obstreperouS on one occasion IN ms
night school and threatened to hit Hlld.
Forgetful of the dignity of the relation
between an instructor and his scholar,
Horace Buck dropped his book and pro-
csaded forthwith to thrash the htS
pupil.
His Start in Life.
But in due time he completed his law
studies and was sent out into the world
syith a letter from Gen. John w. Noble
to the effect that he was a man of Won
1erfully logical mind and the best stu
dent that the writer had ever known.
General Noble voluntarily Loaned him
500 with which to start out in life
Il
Benton when he had saved enough
money to buy draft for tnat 500 and
mailed it TO General Noble with a letter
of grateful thanks for its loan He
Joined me and another brother of mine
--Randell Hunt who was also his
friend. at Fargo, y. D., in 1876. and to-
Kether he and cast about for ways
and means to live. / remember We'll
that ne went on TO one of the Dali
rymple farms near Fargo as harves-
ter in the wheat fields. His duties there
were to throw the straw out from the
1hreshers, work commencing at
O'clock in the morning and continuing
until o'clock at night. OF cours",
this was terribly har1 work and some
what Incompatible with his training,
but he stayed there several weeks when,
my recollection liz, he was discharged
Just at the beginning of the harvest
season the Dalrymples had advertised
for 500 men by casting circulars all over
the Northwestern states saying that
wages were good and men were scarce.
AS a consequence hundreds of men
were sacrificing everything in order to
get 10 Dakota. The result was that
over a thousand men applied for work
on the farms. and 400 Of them We're
necessarily turned away to tramp and
suffer. Horace r. Buck, true to his
sympathetic nature, resented this cruel
system Of the Dalrymples and wrote
vigorous but scathing letter to the St.
Paul Pioneer Press, exposing the meth
DDS of inducing poor men to go out into
q strange country there TO be denied
employment. Among other things he
said:
He Denounced Trickery.
I know that the law of supply and
demand. governing the lives of the la
boring masses. often presses upon them
with a severity which. relentless though
1t be, no power of law or reason as yet
can understand; and that to indulge in
sentimentality on the subject as rule
is both idle and maudlin: but apart
from bare economic aspect of the
case, viewing the matter sociologically
and morally, have employers because
they have the power, any right to re-
sort to tricky devices 10 impose upon
ignorant and helpless employees, which
amount virtually to a confidence game
such as city sharpers practice, and are
continually punished for attempting to
practice upon stupid, unwary country
men,.
He signed this communication "A
Harvester. and for several weeks after
its publication the local press of Fargo
and Northern Minnesota, largely under
the Dalrymple influence, wondered who
the discharged. dissatisfied employee
was who had the effrontery to repre-
sent the toilers. The letter had a tell
ing effect. Extracts from 1t were cop
led by Wisconsin. Illinois, Minnesota.
Iowa and Canadian papers. It's infiu-
ence deferred many man from giving
up a certainty for the dreams of wealth
in Dakota; but the name OF the poor
young lawyer. who wrote ii purely in
yindication of a suffering class of peo-
pie. never has been made known until
to-day. i
As a Teacher.
After this experience he advertised
for a position teacher and was en-
gagged TO take charge of the public
schools in Shakopee, Minnesota. Mean
while. by agreement, l had come ia
Montana to look UP a place for Us "a
settle in. Toward the end OF the first
term of his Shakopee school he had a
quarrel with the trustees-two of them
were against him and one was his
friend. The former objected to him
because he insisted upon an apology
being made for insolence to lady
school teacher, or Of submitting to a
whipping The boy was the son of q
trustee, who advised no apology
Thereupon the hoy was whipped and
the little town of shakopee WAS stirred
TO fever heat. The teacher had about
half the community on his side, hui
only one-tnird of the trustees. Ii
thereupon resigned under compulsiun
and was on his way to Fort Benton bA
Christmas, 1879. He came as an emf
grant over the Union Pacific railroad
and reached Fort Benton one bitterl,
cold night about the holidays. with
capital of s. to begin his career with