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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

1t is rumored that II. s. Mills is about to
take another partner in place OF G. w.
Mills, his brother, who has retired from the
firm and is foreman in one of Barrels pol
ishing mills. Let us hope that the incoming
member of the firm will be as fair an en-
plcyer as was G.. w.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

AL Blanchard is again working at the
plant OF Dillon & Haley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

W. s. Hudson will sell his household
goods, including wardrobe, sewing ma
chine, baby carriage, range, carpets, etc, at
private sale at Is winter street.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03

Of all sorts had begun to do business.
The trainers of the constitution wise
ly concluded that if manufacturers and
otl.crs engaged in the production of
commodities and n~ecessaries could
combine nothing existed in the way
CT preventing those whose business it
is to furnish transportation for those
articles from likewise consolidating
and destroying competition, hence the
constitutional provision which Gov
ernor Toole quotes in his letter to
the Minnesota executive. Then the
Legislators gave their aid and the re-
suit is that we have both constitu-
tional and statutory safeguards
against the octopus which the kindly
disposed Messre. Hill, Morgan, Harri-
man and some of the same sort of phil
~anthropists are preparing to unleash
and head in this direction.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03

Adolphus Busch, the beer king of st.
Louis, has resigned his position of
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition because of a difference of
opinion between himself and some of
the other officers of the exposition.
He recently returned from Europe and
announced it as his belief that the big
fair cannot be held in 1903 because
foreign countries could not get their
exhibits ready in time. President
Francis declared that h~e-bel;eved Mr.
Busch to be mistaken and Mr.. Busch
quit his job. He says, however. that
he resigned because his private bus
mess demands so much of his time and
attention that he found it impossible
to look after exposition matters.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03

land rs it's fundamental fact, must be
built up in order to solve the irriga-
ton problem with equity. Several
states, and notably Wyoming, have
made beginnings toward such codes.
But in order to prevent interminable
conflicts Of many legislatures with re-
gard to water supplies in which the
up-and-down movement of a lever to
lift a three-inch cork is the kind that
has been long in vogue here. At no
point west of the Alleghenies, to the
best of our knowledge; are women now
compelled, when they wish to draw a
cork, to place the handle Of the cork
screw under a window sash, in the
springs of a wire mattress, under a
pile of flatirons, or under their feet.
The inventive genius of a progressive
people has made this and all other
feats a pleasure rather than a task for
them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
CHARLEST0WN EXPOSITION
MANY ATTEND OPENING DAY Ex-
ERcIsEs.
Senator Depew Orator Of the Day
Name of President
Cheered.

Charleston, S. c., Dec. with i'm
posing ceremonies, embracing a pa
rade of federal forces, state militia,
confederate veterans, beautiful women
and cheering collegians, and a pro-
gramme of exercises graced by dis
tinguished speakers and with words
of greeting from the president of the
United States, the South Carolina
Interstate and West Indian exposi-
ton was opened officially this after
loon. The day was set aside as a hol-
iday and all places Of business were
closed.
In the auditorium at the exposition
grounds, where the exercises were
held, an audience of 1000 people
cheered the name of the president of
the United States, gave hearty ap-
plause to Senator Chauncey M. De-
pew, the orator of the day, listened
attentatively to the afternoons ex-
ercises and then Joined the crowds
inspecting the grounds, and marvelled
at the %audacity of Charlestown in I'M
dertaking al exposition of such mag
nitude.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
NO NEED OF 1T.

The Gazette is surprised to notice
chat some of the state papers are call
ing upon Governor Toole to convene
the legislature in extraordinary ses-
sion for the purpose of enacting legis-
lation calculated to head off the rail
road trust which just now is occupying
so much of the thought and attention
of the people of this and others of the
northwestern states. Why they
should consider this necessary is not
easily to be seen. No matter what
sort of a law could be adopted it is
doubtful whether it would result in
any measures more effective than
those already provided by both the
constitution and statutes CT the state.
In the first is contained a prohibition
which seems to be strong and far
reaching enough to fully cover the
the constitutional law is reinforced
by statutory enactment so explicit and
complete that it is hard to see what
more could be done. That the gov
erno is of this mind is clearly shown
in the letter he wrote to Givernor Van
SAINT. All that now remains is to wait
and if the Community of interests
proves to be in violation of the laws
already framed the proper authorities
will only have to see thai those laws
are enforced, and this they may be
expected to do, if the promises of
Governor Toole and the assurances of
the attorney general are lived up to.
There is no necessity of an extra
session of the legislature. The state
has plenty of laws to cover the situa.
ton. All that is required is their en-
forcement.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
CURING THE DEFECT.

The one defect remaining in the cur
rency act of March IA, 1900, generally
designated as the gold standard law,
is to be remedied at the forthcoming
session Of congress. While the law
makes it the duty of the secretary of
the treasury to maintain all forms of
government money at a parity, it con-
tains no specific requirement for the
redemption of the silver dollar in gold.
Because of this defect or omission the
law has been unfavorably criticised
in many quarters and much discussion
has ensued since it's passage, it being
held in some directions that as now
constituted the law gives much power
for mischief to any secretary of the
treasury who might be hostile to
maintaining the gold standard, as he
could send gold to a premium in case
OF a monetary panic, or even great
stringency, by paying out silver dol
lars for current obligations.
Representative Overstreet, who is
regarded as the father of the existing
currency law, has announced that he
will introduce a measure for a law
making it obligatory upon the secre-
tary of the treasury to exchange on
demand gold coin for standard silver
dollars. By the passage of such a bill
what little danger may now exist
through any possible hostility to the
gold standard on the part of a secre-
tary of the treasury will have been
removed and the objections now urg-
ed against the monetary law will have
been overcome. While some objec-
ton may develop to the bill, it will
probably be not very serious and en-
actment of the measure may be con-
fidently expected.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
JOIN ISSUES ON RAILROADS.
Senator Clark Makes Combination In
Which Rock Island is Interested.

Denver, Colo, Dec. 2.-The Denver
Post says: Senator William A.
Clark of Montana and Thomas F.
Walsh of Colorado have, it is rumor.
ed, joined issues in railroad construc-
ton and will build practically a new
transcontinental railroad. The Chi.
cago, Rock Island & Pacific is said to
be in with Senator Clark and Mr..
Walsh.
'The new transcontinental line will
give Senator Clark an outlet for his
Los Angeles G Salt Lake City road,
which has been left without one
through the absorptions of the two
Colorado mountain lines by George
Gould. The Rock Island will get a
new and short route to California.
Mr.. Walsh some time ago incor-
porated a railroad to be built from
Ouray via Gunnison to Pueblo. If his
alliance with Senator Clark is per-
fected he will probably build on to
Liberal, Kans, where he will connect
his road with the Rock Island.
"It is said that Senator Clark and
Mr.. Walsh will meet this week in
Washington and there complete the
deal whereby they will become part
ners In railroad construction"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
A NEWSPAPER MERGER.

Having become satisfied OF it's sue
cess as practiced by the railroads
steel companies and some of the Others
of the smaller industries Of the coun
try, Colonel Samuel Gordon and Major
Horace Greeley Potter have come to
the conclusion that the Community
of interests" principle is practical in
it's application to enterprises Of great
er magnitude, and announce the merg-
ing of the Weekly Yellowstone
Journal and the S~tockgrowers Journal
into one vast publication. AS sent
out from Miles City the news is that
the weekly edition of the c%olonel's pa
per has ceased as an Independent and
individual compilation of gems Of
thought and compendium of valuable
information and news and will hence
forth appear as IN intergral, if the ex-
preston is permissible, of the majors
great family newspaper. The daily
edition of the Yellowstone Journal,
however, will be continued, for that
is one of the fixtures of Milestown and
without which the city would lose it's
individuality and standing and the
monument which the colonel has rear
ed to his name crumble and one of
the delights of his busy life would
have passed.
After today both papers will be pub
lished from the Office of the Stock
growers Journal, the weekly in 16-
page form and the daily, as hereto
fore, five column folio. By the merger
the two gentlemen believe they can
give their country patrons much bet
ter service, while at the same time
materially reduce expenses with a
pro~portionate gain to themselves. A
typesetting machine and folder have
been added to the new establishment
and other improvements are under
contemplation. The Gazette wishes
the new combine all the success that
honorable effort and conscientious
zeal merit and while on general prin-
ciples opposed to trusts" it hopes
that this latest addition to their num-
Der will prove to be everything. it's
promoters may wish.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
ADVANTAGE,

Considering the plight in which the
state of Minnesota seems to find itself
in reference Of the railroad trust, Mon
tana may after all, have good cause
of congratulations on it's newness.
When the former was created the
community of interests" discovery
still remained to be made and con
sequently neither it's constitution nor
laws contain any provisions for regu-
lating those latter day institutions.
At least so the attorney general of
the gophers declares and informs the
governor that as far as the state is
concerned it is powerless to help it.
self. Not so with this proud com
mOnwealth. When it's constitutional
convention was called the world had
made greater progress and combines
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03

Because Of his open hostility to the
merger Governor Van SAINT of Mine
sofa has been given notice by the
railroads that with the expiration of
his present term he will be retired to
private life. They have found that
he is not the kind of a man they
thought him to be and as they have no
use for him have decided to place him
on the shelf. 1t is just barely possible
that the people of his state may en-
terrain a differen opinion and in that
event the railroads are likely to be
disappointed. AS Governor Toole still
has almost three years more ahead of
him a similar threat from the "com-
munity of interests" in his case will
probably have little effect. Beside, he
says he does not want the Job any
longer than the term for which he was
elected.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
THE OTHER SIDE,

Minneapolis Journal: We have
heard so much and conceded so much
about the superiority of Canadian ad.
ministration on the frontier, especial
ly in the mining camps, that it is in
cumbent upon us to show the other
| side of the shield if it's color be differ
ent from the one that has hitherto
been chiefly exposed to our view.
That public order has been better up
held at Dawson than at Nome, and
that life and property have been much
securer at the former than at the lat
ter. we are free to admit. We have
also to blush for the corruption, dis
regard of the rights of others and high
handed claim robbery that have SO
furnished the reputation of Nome and
soiled the very ermine of the courts.
that Dawson and the Canadian admin
istration at that place are not without
scandal. 1t appears that there is
some little foundation for the talk Of
a Klondike rebellion in the intense
dissatisfaction of the overwhelmingly
Ameri Il popu'a.'on OF that mining
camp with the exacting and burden
some laws the Dominion govern ent
has imposed on their pursuit and, also,
with the favolitism which, it is al
legged, amounts to corruption.
A miner recently returned from
Dawson states that a clear distinction
must be drawn between the efficiency,
honesty and loyalty of the mounted
police, to whom the preservation of
good order is due; and the inefficiency,
favoritism and ~self-seeking of the
civil authorities, who seem to be es-
pecially %prejudiced against Ameri-
cans. So apparent in this prejudice,
says the miner quoted, that English
men concede it and mounted police
sympathize with the oppressed Amer
leans. From the American point of
view, conditions in the Klondike are
much the same as they were in the
Transvaal from the Uitlander stand
point, except that the Uitlanders in.
Canadian Alaska constitute three
fourths of the population and are op-
pressed by the representatives of a
distant power instead of a local power.
There is, of course, nc justification
of rebellion. If the Americans do not
like Canadian methods, they know
how they can get away from them.
But it is well for Canadian pride,
which has been getting a little vain
of late, that it should be acquainted
with these facts.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1901
A CHANGE OF 'FRONT.'.

The change which British public
opinion has undergone concerning the
war in South Africa is indeed remark
able, if the latest reports from London
are to be accepted as true. Absolute
silence has followed the governments
announcement of readiness on it's part
to enter into negotiations with the
Beers for a settlement Of the war on
a basis of conceeding ultimate local
representative self-government, a
vast difference between the official
declaration of only a few weeks ago
that only unconditional surrender
would be accepted. Even the most
rabid lingo organs have nothing to say
on the proposition, a fact which is
generally accepted az meaning that Of
fetal intimation has beer given them
that silence on their part would be
construed as the best sign of their
loyalty to the crown and the greatest
manifestation of patriotism they could
give.
Should it prove true that Great
Britain has really decided to offer
such terms to the warning African fed
e~ralists it may be accepted as mean
ing that England has decided hat to
subdue and thoroughly overcome the
fighting Beers is a task requiring a
much greater outlay of treasure~and
the sacrifice Of more lives than the
final results would justify, or hat at
last the weight of unfavorable opin-
ion of the rest Of the world is begin
ming to be felt by those who have been
responsible for continuing the war.
Whatever the cause, England may rest
assured that if it makes such offers of
peace that the Beers may accept with
out sacrificing all for which they have
been fighting and enable them to re-
tain their own respect and national
honor, it will make more friends than
if it should continue to wage a war of
determination and be satisfied with
nothing short of the total annihiliation
of its enemy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
JUST CRITICISM.

The Helena Independent proceeds
to take a vigorous and we'll deserved
fall out Of the Great Falls Journal be-
cause that newspaper has seen fit to
oppose criticism of the municipal gov
eminent on the part Of those who are
not real estate owners. It's critic just
ly holds that those who may not be
possessed Of realty are often better
qualified for criticising the actions of
municipal officers than those who are
SO possessed and by way of illustra-
ton remarks that in the opinion of
the Great Falls publication a China
man owning a lot of an infinitismal
value has the right to venture an opin-
ion on the city administration, while
a statesman or philosopher who lives
in a rented house must keep still.
While The Gazette and Independent
seldom agree on any proposition or
question, the case under discussion is
an exception and for once this news
paper is in hearty accord with it's
democratic contemporary of the cap
ital city. How the publication which
is the subject of it's animadversion
can advance such a theory or sub
scribe to such a tenet is hard to un-
derstand, more especially when it is
taken into consideration that the
Journal %pretends to be s'for the the
people, Something is wrong with
the brain that generated the thought
and mental strabimus would probably
be the diagnosis Of an alienist were
he to make an examination of the man
who is responsible for it's utterance.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
sHoRT-sIGHTED EAsTERNERs.

Inter Ocean: Certain Atlantic
coast senators, it is reported in Wash
ington, are preparing strenuously to
oppose any federal aid to irrigation of
the western arid region. Senator
Spooner of Wisconsin is also said to
oppose the project, on the ground that
it will open the door to all sorts of
"paternalistic schemes" of govern
ment.
Senator Spooners' eminent abilities
are we'll known and highly respected
all over the country. It cannot escape
attention, however, that his argument
against irrigation is precisely that
urged some sixty years ago by the
Jacksonian democracy against river
and harbor improvement. In order to
be consistent Senator Spooner ought
to oppose any federal aid to the i'm
provement of Wisconsin streams and
ports.
AS for the opposition of the Atlantic
coast senators, it is to be feared that
it proceeds chiefly from narrow and
sectional views-that it springs from
that lamentable inability to see across
the Allegheny mountains and to un-
derstand the vests needs and de-
sires, which was the principel cause
OF Organism and other recent political
vagaries.
Even more than federal aid, the irri-
cation problem demands federal con-
troll. The various rights and interests
affected by any comprehensive scheme
OF arid land redemption are SO diverse
and conflicting that no state can solve
the problem alone. An entire new
system of law, with water instead Of
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
GOVERNMENT PLEDGED TO AGAR.
IAN PARTY.
COST OF FOOD INCREASED
Chancellor counseIs Against Use Of
Immoderate Language in
Debates.

Berlin, Dec. 2.-Count Won Buelow,
imperial chancellor, in introducing the
greatest parliamentary struggle that
Germany has ever faced, counselled
the members Of the reischstag to mod
GRAFTON OF language, declaring that the
eyes of the world were upon them.
Although this was Germany's affair,
Count Won Buelow said, it was neces-
sary to maintain a resolute front to
other nations Of the world.
Allusion was made to the United
States in the course of today's debate
on subject and the name America"
is likely to be yet more freely used
by both sides to this controversy,
which is moving Germany more deeply
than has any other civil question since
the emergency of the empire. The
tariff experiences of the United States
and prssure of American competition
constitutes rich mines for argument
upon either side of the question.
"Brotwusher" (bread usury) or
raising of the price of bread, is to be
the battle word of the manufacturing
capitalists and socialists alike, who
by a curious turn of politics now unite
in passionate opposition to the bill
that primarily increases the cost of
food stuffs.
Every individual small interest
throughout Germany, that is adverse
ly affected by the tariff bill, is or
ganized against this bill. Popular and
irresponsible sentiment gathers
around this compact and highly organ
lied fighting units. This opposition to
the measure is more powerful outside
than inside of the German parliament.
While the government is aware Of and
feels the opposition it also recognizes
and e that the present period of in
dustrial calamity in Germany is an
inopportune time to press the meas
ure for raising the cost of food.
The government is so pledged to
the agrarian party, SO completely com
mitted to the measure that it feels it
cannot recede therefrom or postpone
its consideration. Consequently the
ministry are determined to see the
measure through but with no cheer
fulness of spirit. 1t is believed Ger
many is about to enter upon as in
tense a period of political disturbance
as existed in Great Britain during the
corn law agitation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
TooLE's STRONG POSITION.

Minneapolis Journal: If Governor
Toole of Montana is as good in act as
in his written opinion of the great
railway merger, Governor Van SAINT
has at least one vigorous guberna-
torial ally in his battle against the
dangerous and unlawful consolidation.
In his reply to Governor Van SAINTS
invitation to cooperate and confer re-
garding the course to be pursued Gov
ernor Toole does not devote space
to saying nothing. He does not use
words to conceal thoughts. Governor
Toole does not allow himself to be