The new North-west., 1897-02-05
A Dream of &4.SOO.

It is natural for the Anaconda Standard
to object to the division of Deer Lodge
county, natural for it to use every avail
able argument against such division ana
no one can properly object to its doing SO,
provided there is no departure from the
line of truth. The better the cause, the
more argument and the stronger argu-
ments that can be brought in favor of it.
If. therefore, there are good arguments
against the division of Deer Lodge
county, why are they not used! when
the Standard misquotes the Deer Lodge
newspaper to make point against dl-
vision it leads fair minded persons to be-
lieve that it is short on good arguments;
and when it has dream of S4,sOo
Doodle fund to be used by the Powell
county advocates to influence the men,
hers of the legislature, and records that
dream as fact, it makes its cause ridicu-
lous. No one believes that the people OF
the proposed Powell county are more
likely to be using Doodle funds than the
people of Anaconda. Every one knows
that Anaconda can raise more Doodle in
an hour than Powell county advocates in
a year. 1t is simply common-sense
proposition that Powell county cannot be
created by Doodle, and the Powell county
advocates know that as we'll as do other
people. Nor do we insinuate that the
of pcirr hpna1a in
this case. In an editorial article pub
lished last Monday the Standard started
out to lecture the Deer Lodge NORTH
WEST for using epithets, and was soon
engaged in the same reprehensible busi-
ness. We are told by the Standard that
the defeat of the Powell county bill has
always been an assured fact and if that
be true, we would like to know why such
an urgent call for help was sent from
Helena to Anaconda last week, in re-
sponse to which some of the most prom
inent citizens of Anaconda soon arrived
in Helena. Undoubtedly these gentle
men had right to come to Helena on
that business; but why did they waste
their time coming here If the defeat of
the bill has all along been foregone
conclusion?
Again, it is fair to ask why the figures
given by the Standard do not agree with
the official figures given by the Powell
county advocates. AS general rule
official figures are quite reliable until
they are shown to be unreliable. The
Standard appears to be doing deal of
worrying about the expenses of the pro-
posed county of Powell. The people of
that county have made investigations just
as searching as has the Standard, if we
may judge by its figures, and they are
not worrying about the expenses. They
are satisfied that they can bear the bur
den, and are willing to bear it. 1t is GER
--'-'r extraordinary that the Standard
which claims strong desire to do or have
done the best thing for the residents of
the proposed county, should oppose their
almost unanimous desire in this matter,
as though it had been appointed their
pillar of cloud by day and Illuminating
material by night.
The Standard and other opponents of
division assume that their quotations OF
per centages of vote and population rep
resent the whole of Deer Lodge county
when in fact the figures they give apply
to Anaconda; and thus they assume that
Anaconda is Deer Lodge county. Their
why not agree that Anaconda, in vote
population and area shall be Deer Lodge
county in fact, and let the others flock by
themselves who wish to do so?-Helens
Independent.