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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
allow it to blend with that Of its

1lAoW ~ " OlSAu Win ln0C OF It's
advisor.
The Gazette is above all things a
republican newspaper and because it
loves the party and believes in its
principles it has seen fit to criticise
the appointment which it's esteemed
Butte contemporary so zealously and
earnestly endorses. 1t is because of
its straight record as a party organ
that The Gazette rather doubts the
good taste and propriety of the Inter
Mountain to come forward at this
time with a plea for harmony in the
party. When the Inter Mountain
was doing it's best to help to elect a
democrat to the position Of. president
and when it considered the interests
of its neighbors, the silver miners,
as outweighing the combined inter-
ests of the nation to the extent that
it was willing that a pronounced free
trader should occupy the executive
chair and a free trade congress should
llegislate for the country so that the
crime Of '73" should be wiped out,
The Gazette remained steadfast in it's
faith and supported the republican
ticket, both as to the nation and the
state. At that time the Inter Mount
ain was sowing the seeds of discord
and was totally indifferent as to the
welfare of the nation, just so that the
owners of the silver mines about the
hills of Butte would get fictitious
values for their product, regardless
of the fact that success of the party
which it supported meant ruin and
misery for the sheep men, the cattle
men, the farmers and the laboring
men of the rest Of the country. While
the Inter Mountain has recanted and
it's contrition and reform are sincere,
it should not forget it's past trans
gressions and give the real, all the
time republican newspapers of the
state which may not agree with it on
the appointment in question credit
for being honest and actuated by mo-
lives pure and honorable. The Ca
may be relied upon to be al
ways truly and consistently republi-
can because it cannot be otherwise
and remain true to itself, but it has
it's own opinions about matters con-
corning what is good and what is
not good for the party and will at all
times give voice to those opinions, re-
CARELESS of the advice that other
newspapers may have to offer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
WHAT BILLINGS NEEDS.

A number of times The Gazette has
taken occasion to call the attention
of the people Of the city to some of
the needs of Billings to insure it's
permanency and future prosperity
and growth as we'll. One of these
needs and the greatest is the pres
ence of manufactures, institutions
giving employment to a large num-
Der of men all the year around. With
out a permanent payroll to send
money through the arteries of trade
no town or city can hope to assume
a position of Importance among those
of the state in which it is situated
or acquire more than a local stand
ing and name. The Gazette recog-
nizes the fact that Billings by reason
of location and distance from the
markets for certain lines OF. manu-
facture cannot hope to ever become
the manufacturing center that some
places no larger than itself are, but
for all that It is so situated that in
some lines it may aspire to compete
with the best of them. One of the in
situations that could be made to pay
here and pay well is a wooden mill.
Located in the heart of the largest
wool producing territory in the union,
with two lines of railroads to afford
communication with the whole Of the
west and northwest, it would seem
that Billings is an ideal place for the
establishment of such an enterprise.
1t cannot be said that a lack of cap
ital bars Inauguration of the indus
try. Not another city of it's size has
so many wealthy men whose capital
is less involved and so easy of con-
version INTO ready money. Only the
initiative is lacking, for the public
spiritedness of Billings men is pro-
verbal. The Gazette calls on some of
the many gentlemen whose homes are
here and who expect to close their
lives in the city to take the lead and
it feels confident that they will be
ably and enthusiastically seconded by !
many. The matter is one OF the ut
most Importance to the community
and further delay may prove injur-
ious, for there are other towns and
communities which are seriously dis
cussing the ACCESSIBILITY of instituting
just such an enterprise and should
they carry the plans into execution
the one to enter the field later would
find themselves greatly handicapped.
Billings needs more wage earners
and to secure them fields OF employ
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
JOURNAL is M,s,NFoRMED.

The Yellowstone Journal is candid.
~ of the opinion that the gambling
law on the statues of Montana is a
failure, so far as being a curative or
preventive measure is concerned, and
honestly expresses itself as in favor
OF the old method of licensing the
business of playing for money. AS
that method has proved unpopular
with a large class of people of the
state, the Journal is of the opinion
that the next best thing to do is to
arrest and fine the keepers of gamb-
ling resorts in the same spirit as
plain drunks' are arrested and
mulcted, or any other violators of the
law. This, it says, should be done
once a month or once in two months,
'just to remind the guilty parties that
the law is still active, though a trife
near sighted" The Journal is also
OF the opinion that to apply it's pen
alties so often as to drive the votaries
Of the sport into seclusion would
simply amount to killing the goose
with no commensurate results.
The Journals musings are the out
come of q special dispatch sent from
this city to the Helena Independent
in which 1t is said that ut is under
stood that gamblers are to pay a
small monthly fine for police protec-
tiop" Commenting o this assertion,
he Journal says: Doubtless that Is
~ actual drift Of the existing lnwl
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
a Strong Mining Company Operating
in Butte.

The Butte Mining and Development
company is sinking a three compart.
ment shaft at the corner of Silver and
Colorado streets. The shaft is down
$50 feet and the indications for a great
mine are very encouraging. The vein
on which the company is sinking is
the largest in Butte. 1t has always
been known as the Mother lode of the
camp. The plant consists of three 80
horse power boilers, a five-drill air
compressor, which does away with
hand drilling, an engine capable of
hosting from a depth of 1000 feet,
powerful pumps, tanks, cars, black
smith shop, shaft house, lumber yard,
etc. A force Of % experienced min
ers is putting the shaft down at the
rate Of so feet per month. They .ex-
pect to strike fine ore at a depth OF
$50 feet. You do not find a copper
mine in Butte except with depth. The
company thinks that in securig the
Emma" they got n of the best
claims in Butte. About $40, 900 has
already been spent on he mine and
its magnificent plant. There is now
about 5000 cash in the treasury.
The following list of officers, not
one of whom receives any salary,
absolutely guarantees the honesty and
legitimacy of the proposition: Presi-
dent, ex-United States Senator Lee
Mantle; vice president, ex-Postmaster
J. H. Lynch; treasurer, Fayette Har-
rington, cashier at the Silver Bow
National bank of Butte; secretary, w.
w. Mcdowell, former owner Of the
C~opperopolis mine.
Directors: Hon. Lee Mantle, j. H.
Lynch, Fayette Harrington, George H.
Robinson, consulting engineer and ex-
dert for the Montana Ore Purchasing
company; James A. Talbot, vice
president of the First National bank
of Butte; w. L. Meyer, vice-president
of the Western National bank of
New York City; A. e. Spriggs, ex-
lieutenant governor Of Montana; Jay
Anderson, merchant, White Sulphur
Springs. and other well known gem
tlemen.
The par value of the stock is S. per
share, but the company has decided to
place $4,000 shares of its treasury
stock on the market at $3.50 per share.
Prospectus mailed free. For further
information write or call on the agents
of the company, Reynolds & Nc
Dowell, 46 East Broadway, Butte.
260-10-24-2.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
TUESDAY,, JULY is, 1901.
TIME TO ACT.

The Gazette is thoroughly cognizant
of the fact that the present caloric
condition of the atmosphere is cor
ducive to lethargy and somnolence,
but for all that a certain amount of
activity is required of all who have
a task to perform and work to do.
The evenings are cool and invigor-
ating and much can be accomplished
between the time when the sun be-
gins to ~cast%long shadows and dark
ness intervenes. For that reason it
takes occasion to suggest to the Com
mercial committed of the Billings club
that it manifest some signs of life and
energy. The body gave ample evil
dence of animation when it was or
ganized and the people of the city
had reason to expect much from it,
but that expectation has not been
realized and because much was ex-
pected the disappointment is all the
greater. The Gazette knows of plenty
men who are willing to take stock in
a wooden mill, or some other manu-
featuring enterprise that holds out
the same certainty of profitable re-
turns and gives the same promise of
material benefit to the city. All that
is needed to interest them is for
some person or organization like the
Commercial committee to take the
initiative and start the matter. I'm
der the conditions which it was or
ganized and the motive for it's organi-
cation combine to make it obligatory
upon the committee. to get a move
on and do some thing to convince
the people that it is more than a
dress parade organization with no
other object than to afford an excuse
for it's members to assemble occas-
sionally and have q sociable smoke
and chat.
The Gazette has started out earn
estly in the matter of waking up those
in a position to do something mater
tally beneficial to the city, without at
the same time asking those whom it
thinks should act to incur any risk or
act solely on the "pro bono publicum''
principle. The enterprise it suggests
and the naturalization of which it
desires is one that must commend
itself to all who care to give the mat
ter thought and consideration as being
eminently feasible and practical and
productive of much good, not only to
the community but to those who un-
dertake it.
Wake up, members of the CONNER
clal committee, and bestir yourselves.
Plenty of sheep men and others are
ready to subscribe and take stock and
let Billings have the largest, best and
most modern wooden mills in the
northwest and n that will make it's
name famous. We have the raw
material in such abundance as it can
be found nowhere else and the mar
ket a be readily established to take
the finished product.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
GREATLY DIsPLEAsED WITH
OHIO PLATFORM.
CANNOT LOSE HIM
Despite Cowardly Action Of Col
vention he Asks support
for Nominees.

Lincoln, July 15-fn an extended
comment on the platform adopted by
the Ohio democratic convention, w.
]. Bryan criticised the convention for
Its failure to re-affirm the Kansas
City platform and what he regards as
the weakness Of some of the planks
it did adopt.
Bryan insists that the convention
made a mistake in making himself
(Bryan) an issue and says: "Mr.
Bryan is not a candidate for any Of
flee, and mention of him might have
been construed by some a an en-
dorsement Of him for office. The
vote should have been upon the nak-
ed proposition to endorse the plat
from Of last year and then no one
could have excused his abandonment
OF democratic principles by pleading
his dislike for Bryan
Referring to the platform he con-
tinues: THE convention not only
failed, but refused to- endorse or re-
affirm the Kansas City platform and
from the manner in which the gold
element has rejoiced over this feat
ure of the convention, one would sup
pose that the main object Of the con-
vention vas not to. write a new plat
from. but to repudiate one on which
the last national campaign was
fought.
"The gold papers assume that the
convention refused to adopt the Kan
sas City platform because it contain
ed a silver plank. If so, it would
AVE been more courageous to have
declared openly for the gold standard.
If the gold standard is good, it ought
to have been endorsed, if bad it a
ought to have been denounced.
ignore the subject entirely was inv
excusable."
"The money question is not yet out
of politics. Every session of con-
gress will have to deal with it. The
republicans declare that it is dead,
but they keep working at it"
Bryan comments on parts of the
platform, especially those referring
to state and municipal affairs. He
endorses the nominees Of the nven
ton and urges their support. Refer
ring to the senatorial fight and re-
ported candidacy of John R. Mclean
he says:
"Did the leaders ignore the money
question in order to please those who
bolted? or does Mr.. Mclean want to
be left free to affiliate with the re-
p%ublicans or the financial questions
in case of his election?"
He concludes as follows:
IF any of the Ohio democrats feel
aggrieved because the reorganization
element Of the party triumphed at the
let them not visit their
disappointment upon the state ticket, y
but rather see to the nominations Of
senators and representatives who will
select a trustworthy senator. Let
them see to it also that the state plat
form is made at the primaries the
next time, rather than at the conven-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
NEW SUBSIDY BILL.

Representative Minor of Wisconsin
has prepared a new shipping bill
which it is his purpose to introduce
in congress this winter to take the
place of the subsidy bill defeated
during the last session. The Minor
bill is designed to remove the chief
objections that attached to the Hanna
Frye bill and it is the belief of the
author that many of those who OPP
posed the old measure will give their
support to the new. Meanwhile the
advocates of the defeated bill are
credited with the intention of again
pushing that measure, but in a slight
ly modified form. OF course, they will
be opposed again by those who are
unwilling that the annual subsidy of
$9,0O0,O 900 shall nearly all go to the
owners of fast sailing passenger
steamers.
The Minor bill ignores the element
of speed as a guage of subsidy and
makes cargo carrying capacity the test
and the qualification. This is intended
to stimulate the exporting trade of the
country and will undoubtedly cause
some of those who YER in opposi-
ton to the old measure to favorably
consider the one which the Wisconsin
thinks should pass. 1t also con-
tains a provision that no subsidies
be paid to foreign built ships
owned by Americans, which puts the
recently acquired Morgan vessels out
of the running, SO far as a subsidy is
concerned. Another commendable
feature of the Minor bill is that it
reduces the period of subsidy to ten
years and the maximum aggregate
disbursed by the treasury shall not
exceed $4,000, 900, instead of S., 600, 900
the sum provided by the Hanna-Frye
measure. No ships more than 20
years old shall receive the benefit Of
the subsidy and the Standard Oil
tank steamers are ex-
pressly excluded from the benefits of
the measure. The new line of steam
ers from Chicago via the lakes and
Lawrence river to European ports |
is mentioned as being entitled to the |
benefits of the bill, the subsidy to
apply only for the ocean portion of
the voyage. One very commendable
feature of the bill is that which pro-
yides that subsidized ships shall carry
all postal matters free of charge to the
government and are subject to a sys-
of rigid inspection.
1t will be seen that the new bill has
much to recommend it as against the
DID and is a thoroughly ~business-like
measure. If it is absolutely neces-
sary to substitute American shipping
The results sought to be obtained by a
system of governmental aid are more
likely to follow some such law as con-
;emplated by Representative Minor
han by any law such as the advocates
II the defeated bill sought to have
enacted. Such q measure would 60
than to merely benefit the
lNpara n ! fer. tat aais,ng .nteamarsl,
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L t@I ~
illus to the construction and maintain.
ance Of shipping calculated to expand
the nations commerce with foreign
lands. While the Minor bill is i'm.
measureably better than the Hanna
Frye bill, it does not seem to follow
that it is necessary to substitute Amer.
lean ship owners in order to enable
them to compete with the foreigners.
American manufacturers of steel and
iron are now successfully competing
with those of Europe in every branch
of business into which those metals
enter and with the constantly increas-
ing growth Of the country's foreign
commerce and the concurrent demand
for shipping the Hill idea that no
subsidy is needed to reinstate America
as a maratime power does not seem
as absurd as its enemies try to make
it appear.
The national bureau of navigation
reports that during the last fiscal
year Lib ships Of 4O1,285 were built,
as against I,O58 of 3O5, 677 tons for the
previous year. BY adding the canal
boats and barges built during the
same period it is estimated that fully
1881 tons are added to the gross
tonno-e of the craft built in the coun-
try. A significant feature Of the re-
port is the statement that Of the num-
Der OF vessels built fifteen were ocean
going ships, constructed of steel and
aggregating 70,667 tons, built on the
seaboard, and nine steel steamers
built on the lakes for the ocean SER
vice. Great as the improvement is
shown to be, we are still a long ways
behind Great Brain and Germany, as
the former last year built 664 ocean
steamers of an aggregated tonnage of
], 432, 900 tons, while Germany con-
structed sixty-three steel steamers Of
213,9s4 tons.
1t is a somewhat peculiar position of
things that under the existing lays we
are able to build steel steamers and
warships for foreign countries, while
it is claimed that we cannot build the
for ourselves at a cost to
compete with foreign builders and
still make a reasonable profit on them.
Just how the friends of a ship subsidy
can explain this condition Of things
is not quite clear. If we can con-
ships for foreigners it would
seem that we should be able to con
the same for ourselves and as
our foreign commerce is continually
expanding the merchant marine
should keep pace with that expan-
sion. With increased freight and the
liberal subsidies which our govern
pays for the transportation of
the mails it looks to one not thor
oughly versed in all the intricasies Of
question that the American mer-
chant marine should be able to- get
along without additional aid from the
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16

While it is true that those concerns
employ many persons, their capacity
for furnishing work is limited to the
needs Of their requirements. It ID
doubtful whether anyone of them
could find work for another person
more than it now employees and unless
other n are opened it is need
less to look for a continued accretion
Of population and the city will remain
stationery, except so far as the natur-
al increase is concerned and even
those now approaching the g when
they must become producers will find
themselves forced to go elsewhere for
lack of something to do at home. The
question is a serious one and not only
concerns the immediate present, but
also concerns the future. BY taking
the necessary steps to establish and
operate such an enterprise as The
Gazette suggests it is only reasonable
to suppose that other manufactures
would follow. Nothing is SO effective
and productive Of results as example.
Let it be known that Billings has a
wooden mill and other men seeking
investment in the way Of maru:act-
nring establishments will cone here
AID before It is realized a number
of such concerns will be in successful
operation.
The presence in this city of a wool
en- mill would prove of undoubted ben
eft to the wool producers and they
would be among the first to realize
the fact and could be depended upon
to become liberal subscribers to the
capital stock of any company that
might be organized, provided reliable
and responsible men were at the head
of the movement. Inauguration of
the enterprise need not be under
taken ~hapharzardly or blindly. The
first requisite would, of course, be
some sort of a temporary organiza-
ton, after which a committee should
be appointed to visit places where.
t'Tr~"~
wooden mills are in successful opera
tion to acquire knowledge as to the
proper machinery and the probable
cost of a plant such as would meet
the requirements of the proposed
company. This accomplished sub
scription books could be opened for
the benefit of those who desired ID
take stock in the BY plac-
ing the shares at a reasonable figure
difficulty would be experienced in
securing the required amount of cap
1ral to build and equip the mill. "A
market for the products would speed
lily follow, for the fame of the wool
produced in the territory tributary
to Billings is wide spread and would
be a guaranty a to the quality of
the goods turned out. With two main
of railroad reaching every Sec
ticn where a market would be locked
for and with the promise of another
line in the near future leading into
large and rich territory, there is
everything here necessary to make
wooden mill a success from the very
inception of such an enterprise. It
needs only some one with push and
energy to take the lead; the rest will
be comparatively easy
'T-Ea 7sL9L Il
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16
Baseball.

National league: Cincinnati, 4;
Brooklyn, 8. Chicago. 4; New York,
s. Others postponed.
American league: Philadelphia. 6:
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-26

he was President, they abused and re-
viled and ridiculed him; but now they
are willing to admit that he was good
President after all. Twas ever thus.
1t is too soon for proper estimate
of Mr.. Harrison's place in our national
history. Nothing but eulogy has been
published since the news came of his
severe illness. He was certainly an
able man, and filed his ''grandfathers
hat" completely; and in one respect ne
has had since his retirement more
sense than some other citizens or high
office have had after their retirement
IL he thought the nation was going all
wrong since he left office, he kept stih
about it for the most part. W. A. +.