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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-24
GOOD NEWS FOR MONTANA.

Butte Inter-Mountain: A significant
dispatch comes from Portland, Ore.
1t is stated that the port sent out
more wheat the past month than n
point in the west except San Francisco,
Canal company. There was no, DELHI
GRAFTON of any kind. With it's mad
passion for doing things, right or
wrong, the house rushed in and voted,
so far as it was concerned, to commit
the country to a project that ma
cost several hundreds of millions
not stopping for a moment to consider
another means of arriving at the same
end which may cost many millions
less.
Here again the old mossback senate,
with it's century-old rules, stepped in
and blocked the mad haste of the
house. Whether the canal should be
at Nicaragua or at Panama, a meas
ure that c~ontemplates the expenditure.
and it's record surpassed that of New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Galveston combined. The shipments
from this port amounted to one-ifth
of all the wheat exported from this
country last month. That Portland
will continue to be the gateway of
the northwest out of which the wheat
will pass to the markets of the Orient
is undisputed. Expanding commerce
has found markets for American
wheat on the other side of the world.
When the lines of steamers now be-
ing built to handle this traffic are
completed, trade with the Orient will
go forward by leaps and bounds. The
most important trade development of
a century of national life, so far as
the west is concerned at least, is the
opening of the markets of the Orient
to the wheat of the northwest. Trans
p%ortation facilities will be provided
that will lay down Montana wheat in
Oriental markets at less price per
hundred weight than was paid in pio-
neer days to freight it from Deer
Lodge valley to Helena. A tremendous
increase in the value of agricultural
lands and the states taxable wealth
may be expected when the current
of trade now flowing through ports
on the coast reaches high tide. The
dispatch from Portland is indeed sig.
nificant.
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DEMOCRATIC FINANclERs.

Minneapolis Journal: The demo-
cratic members of the house commit
tee on coinage weights and measures
have agreed upon a minority report
against the bill providing for main
tanning the legal tender silver dol
lar at parity with gold. They con
tend that only the notes and bonds
are payable in gold or silver at the
holders option. This contention is
not valid, for The act of congress-,
March IA, 1900, provided for the in
terchangeability of u currency with
gold, but omitted to prescribe the
mode of maintaining the parity of the
standard silver dollars with gold. The
Hill bill does this by directing the
secretary Of the treasury to exchange
gold for legal tender silver dollars
when the latter are paid for exchange
in the sum of SIS or any multiple there
of, using the gold reserve fund for the
purpose, the fund to be increased to
33 per CEN of the outstanding green
backs plus S per cent of all the out
standing silver dollars.
The opposition of the democrats
to this reveals the democrat
ic tendency to a phantom silver cur
rency. They are yet afflicted with the
disease of silverism. Under the act
of March IA, 1900, the secretary of
the treasury is redeeming silver GER
tificates with gold. The act forbids
the treasurey to issue silver certif-
Gates of higher denominations than
$40, and when certificates of larger
size are received forredemption, small
er ones have to be issued in the place,
and the supply being deficient, the
treasury redeems with gold certif-
Gates. During the past year large
amounts of silver certificates have
been thus redeemed with gold. The
bill in charge of the committe is de-
signed for the very purpose of keeping
the silver certificates and the silver
dollars which the certificates repre-
sent, always worth 100 cents each,
gold value.
The democratic mind of Bryanite
caliber still objects to the term gold
redemption" more orless. The OBJ
lection is usless, for this nation has
had such an experience with silver
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is ONLY JUST,

While some of the republican news
papers of the country have placed
themselves on record as opposed to
the Crumpacker idea of a c~ongression-
al reapportionment of the south, it
would seem that a large majority of
the papers of the party favor the Poop
osition. The only argument made by
those in opposition is that it would
tend to keep alive sectional feeling
and also continue the southern states
solidly in the democratic column.
Neither one of these conclusions is
worthy of serious consideration. Sec
tionalism is a thing of the past and it
only finds harbor in the minds of few
narrow minded, obsolete individuals
on either side of the Mason and Dixon
line, men of the sort who have not vet
learned that the war is over and the
country reunited and one as it was
never before.
So far as hoping for a regeneration
Of the south politically is concerned,
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sentatives had hardly voted before
they confessed that it was a poor ex-

sentatives had hardly voted before
they confessed that it was a poor ex-
cuse for a law at a time when some
very able legislation was required.
Inc senate took hold of the Philip
pines tariff in quite a different spirit
and has been reforming the measure
with some thought as to it's applica-
ton, with some ideas of justice to
the Philippines, with some purpose be-
yond rushing legislation.
Then there is the Hepburn Mica
ragua canal bill, which the dumb-driv-
en- house passed with but a few dis
senting votes. No stop was made to
consider the offer of the Panama
of 20 much money should not be u m
dertaken without due deliberation. if
the senate shall now favor the Mica
rague canal, the people will be likely
to feel that the best route has been
chosen. But in the choice made by
the house the people have no conf
dence.
1t is too true that the house has
ceased to be a deliberate body.
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A POOR CRITIC.

DR.. Parkhurst the extremist and
fanatical reformer, is waging war on
Mayor Low because the latter does
not fall in with his overdrawn notions
concerning reforms in civic affairs
and declares that the present admin
istration of New York is giving the
city no better government than it had
under the Croker regime. Parkhurst
must have been making another of
his famous Investigations and by
the use of money induced some of the
unfortunate and shameless denizens
of the prescribed districts to give
more Of the exhibitions with which
his name will ever be coupled and
which he said he had prompted for the
purpose of securing testimony of the
existence of lmmorality in it's grossest
forms.
DR.. Parkhurst may be a good and
moral man., but the fact that he will
fully became a contributor to exhibit
tions of RIGHTEOUSNESS and d%epravity
SO shocking that they are almost i'm
possible of belief, will always leave
him open to the suspicion that some
thing more than a desire for actual
proof caused him to go where ONE
exhibited themselves in a state of
nudity and INDUCED in practices of
the most revolving kind. Anyway
he has much to learn concerning mu-
nicipal government and the sooner he
learns that it is impossible to put into
practice much which seems easy in
theory, the sooner will he know that
it is not possible to make people good
by law and that the most that can
be done is to keep vice under a meas
ure Of repression and compel it to hide
itself from public gaze.
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DR.. 0. B. Prickett,

and has suffered so much from the as
saults upon the public credit that
there will be no recession from the
present attitude on national finance.
There is much yet to do in the way of
financial reformation and the tendency
is in the right direction. The next
step in reform will be to better the
conditions of note issue and secure
greater elasticity and s%ufficiency to
our bank note currency SO as to make
it adequate TO meet periods of strin-
gency. The bank note circulation has
fallen off some $6,000,000 since Sep
TENDER last, due largely to the pur-
chase of 2 per cent bonds at high
premiums by the government, these
bonds having been deposited with the
government as basis of circulation
and the currency issued against them
and put in circulation.
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c o THE MOTION,

Yellowstone Journal: The an
nouncement that a French artist from
Frisco has been engaged to paint
"The Driving of the Golden Spike"
for the principal mural decoration of
our new state capitol and the accom-
panying information that the picture
after the details of ~portraiture of the
historic persons then and there pres
ent has been covered, will be filled
in" with Indians and cowboys, studies
of these accessories being now taken
by the artist, suggests something.
This paper has no desire to in any
way throw cold water upon the pur-
rose involved in this announcement.
1t is a good thing, a proper thing and
doubtless the artist engaged-whose
name we are not familiar enough with
to quote-is capable of achieving the
fullest success, but speaking of In
dians and cowboys, two types peculiar
to Montana that are rapidly passing
away, who is there that can "do them
like Charley Russell? Collaboration
in the main painting is perhaps i'm
practicable, but if it be considered
expedient and proper to secure for
the decoration of our state house a
realistic TRANSPORTATION of early days
in Montana, turn Charley Russell
loose with his brushes and pots and
let him work his own sweet fancies of
'injun," cowboy and stage-driver on
canvas for the qualification of the
passing generation and the delecta-
ton of the incoming one.
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AS was to- be supposed, already re-
ports come from different parts of
the country, Montana not excluded,
of ugliness On the part of the Indians
as a result of Commissioner Jones
order compelling them to- cut off their
hair and give up about all their other
customs and that still dis
tinguish them from the whiteman.
Mr.. Jones has evidently never heard
the old saw relative to the impossible
ity of converting a pigs ear into a
silk purse. -. @
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1T THINGS.

The action of the canal commits
sion in deciding to make a favorable
report on the Panama Canal COM
pany's proposal to sell to the govern
ment at the figure which the commits
sion originally considered as a fair
one for the holdings and rights of the
company may make it decidedly un-
comfortable for the Hepburn bill and
it's advocates. In view of the chang
ed conditions the members of the com
mission now recommend adoption of
the Panama route because of it's short
ness and the advantage of cheaper
construction and smaller cost of main
tenance and operation when once the
canal is completed.
With the report of the commission
now in the hands of the president and
its speedy submission to congress as
sured, the country eagerly awaits the
outcome. An advantage enjoyed by
the Panama proposition is the fact
OF its unanimous recommendation by
the commission. The gentlemen COM
posing that body are engineers of the
highest ability and the country has
confidence in their judgment and opin-
ion. If, as the Nicaraguan adherants
Claim, the fact is developed that .ae
tfanscontinental railroads and other
elements antagonistic to the construc-
ton of a canal, by whatsoever route,
are behind the Panama scheme and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-24
PRESIDENT HoNORs A BOY
Roosevelt Delights Youngster by
Shaking His Hand In Church.

Roosevelt Delights Youngsters by
Shaking His Hand In Church.
President Roosevelt recently made a
little boy from New Jersey very happy
in Washington, says the New York
Tines All he did was to shake hands
with sthe youngster and assure him
with characteristic fervor that he was
delighted to see nim. but that was
enough.
The meeting took place the other
morning in the presidents church.
which, in spite of a pouring rain, was
well filed. After the service the presi-
dent. accompanied by his daughter,
moved out of his pew and down the
aisle toward the door, the rest of the
congregation remaining in the pews
until he had passed out. On his a
he saw a little hand shoot out from
one of the peygs, and lie quickly grasp
ed it. it was the hand of Earl Milliken
of Jersey City, the t~en-year-old son of
E. j. Milliken.
Il am very glad to see you at church
this rainy day." Mr.. Roosevelt suid as
he shook the boys hand.
Il am awful glad I came" the boy
promptly replied. II never shook hands
with a president before"
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RENAISSANCE OF SENATE,

Minneapolis Journal: ANY one who
has diligently followed congressional
news for the last three or four years
must have felt that his estimate of the
two houses of the national legislature
was slowly undergoing a change. Not
many years ago the "millionaires'
club as the senate was called, was
looked upon as a stupid, dotted, aim
less body, principally occupied in act
ing in accordance with senatorial
courtesy and given over to jejune and
endless debates that were quickly
buried forever in that most volumi-
the Congressional Record. If a meas
ure was good, the public expected to
see it killed in thhe senate. There
was general disgust with the old SEN
ate rules, which permit unlimited de-
bate.
On the other hand, the house, under
the Reed rules, was regarded as the
keen, alert, sensible, practical, hard
working body, the brains of the ma
tional legislature. Tired of endless
debates in the senate and the frequent
stoppage of business, the people ap-
plauded the celebrity with which de-
bate was stopped in the house and
votes taken.
But the performances of the house
on two important measures, thus early
in the present session, have caused
the people to revise their previous
opinions as to the advantages of celer-
ity of action in some cases and the
ceasing of the house to be a deliber-
ative body, as Tom Reed boosted it
had become under his rules. The
house passed the Philippines tariff
measure after two hours of debate.
1t was a crude measure, without any
marks of craftsmanship. The repre-
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FAVOR FOUR HOURS SLEEP
Climb Formed by Some Chica.
go Men and Women.

Queer Club Formed by Some Chica-
go Men and Women.
Firm in their belief that sleep is Al
waste Of time, a dozen men and wo-
men Of Chicago have organized them
selves into a society which proposes to
teach people that too great a part of
their lives is spent in useless slumber.
The organization Is called the Four
Hour Sleep club. and the members are
pledged to sleep but four hours a night.
says the Chicago Chronicle. The men,
bers contend that sleeping in excess of
that time is purely a habit-that is,
nothing short of sinful in this day Of
hurry and progress. 1t is an addiction.
they argue. as harmful and intemper-
ate as the excessive use of intoxicants,
tobacco or drugs.
Members of the club who have chill
dren are rearing them to observe the
same restriction with regard to alleged
overindulgence in nightly rest. Some
claim that a child five years of age
a be trained to do with four hours
sleep. but the majority are of the
opinion that children should be allow
ed from six to eight hours. the amount
decreasing as the child grows older.
The club has secured Il large amount
Of literature on the subject, and the
members quote abundance of authori-
ty to show that they are right in their
contentious. They point to Napoleon
and a number of the greatest generals,
writers of history and thinkers who
are alleged to have taken four hours'
sleep Il night and less.
Mr.. Gaul, the president of the club,
says that it was through a natural
aversion he has to sleep as well as a
realization OF its wastefulness that he
was induced to abandon the habit"
His wife and his child, six years old,
also manage to live with the stinted
rest, and all seem to enjoy good health
and bright mental faculties.
The man who sleeps eight hours ont
OF twenty-four and lives to be eighty
one years old has in reality lived but
fifty-four years. Twenty-seven he has
spent in this suspension of all the pow
ers of the body and mind. On the 9TH
er hand, the man who sleeps but four
hours a night will have spent nearly
si~xty-eight years of real life if he at
tains the age of eighty-one years.
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DR.. Pearson's outspoken iconoclasm
is likely to result in the loss of his
job as an educator in the Northwest
ern university. Already some of the
trustees are intimating that some
thing will soon drop in the immediate
vicinity of the reverend gentleman's
presence. If they have their way he
will be hailed for trial on the charge
of being " a hereto, anarchist and
traitor" Meanwhile the doctor adj
heres to his belief that the miracles
reported in the bible were the results
of too heavy meals just before going
tC bed and the fabrics of over worked
imaginations.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY "a, 1902,
ALLISON AND DOLLlVER.

For the sixth consecutive time Will
liam B. Allison has been elected Unit
ed States senator from Iowa and
enters upon his new term without a
break in his i~ncumbency. His cleo
ton last Tuesday was a foregone con-
clusion, as was that of his colleague,
J P. Dolliver. Both are good and
wise men and Iowa's influence in the
senate will continue to be as it has
been in the past, n of great strength
and which is felt in shaping much of
the legislation of that body and the
entire congress-.
While both are good and wise men,
they differ greatly in temperament
and characteristics. Allison is of the
conservative, careful school of states
men and politicians. He is always
to be relied upon as inclining in the
direction of great caution and as new
er taking the lead in anything calcu-
lated to revolutionize existing policies
and conditions. While he has his
opinions and his advice is much sought
by his colleagues, he is not of the
strenuous, aggressive class. Because
of this characteristic he has often
been accused of being c~olorless and
negative in his actions and more in
clined to take care of Allison than to
take the risk of doing anything calcu-
lated to cause criticism of an unfriend-
ly nature. His name has never been
coupled with any startlingly new or
unusual legislation. He has always
been more of a balance wheel to the
machinery of the senate than the
initiatory power. This is nothing to
his discredit and is probably the
source of his influence and weight in
that body.
D%olliver is cast in a different mould.
He is inclinded to be more aggressive
n leans more in the direction Of
willingness to assume the leadership
than to be content with merely being
a follower, acquiescing in what Others
deem to be right and proper. His ad-
dress to the Iowa legislative session
shows this. He was plain in his
speech when abiding to the necessity
for revision of the existing tariff laws.
Without attempt to hide his mean
ing he declared that defects existed
in those laws and also made it very
plain that he was not afraid at the
right time to nov for a revision along
the lines he considers fair and Just
and as calculated to further the in
terests of American trade with for
elgn nations. In speaking he spoke
as n committed to the policy of pro-
lection and as one recognizing the
great good that has followed adoption
of it. But this did not prevent him
from acknowledging that there was
o for improvement and that the
time for making such improvement
had arrived.
Were all republican senators and
congressman as outspoken as Dolli-
yer the democrats would have but lit
tie ground on which to base their IT,
rades against the protective policy of
the republican party. 1t would insure
reasonable action in the direction of
making the changes advocated by
President Mckinley in his last speech
n would remoye the last existing
possibility of another tarin campaign
by depriving the opposition of what
little argument it may have to adj
n in support of the adoption of
the democratic notion of tariff and
revenue.
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WHAT WILL HE DO?

Aside from the interest the case it.
self arouse throughout the state be-
cause of the decision of the county
attorney Of Silver Bow to secure pun
ishment of the principals for violation
of the law, the people are also curious
as to what the action of the attorney
general may be. Will he call off the
prosecution the same as he did in an
other famous case which occupied the
attention of the courts of Missoula
county a short time ago, or will he
permit Breen to go ahead? In the
event of the former, will he set up his
judgment against that of the county
attorney and exercise his superior
ability of differentiation and declare
the two pugs merely carressed one
another and that it was a setto for
exercise only? Because of the pecu-
liar in which the gentleman
has enforced the laws in the past. the
public is unable to get a line on his
actions in any regard and would not
be surprised at anything he might see
fit to do, ever though it might be dis
appointed.
Had Mr.. Breen followed the exam
pie of Mr.. Trippett of Deer Lodge
county all this doubt and uncertainty
would not now exist to rack and worry
the minds of the people.
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THE BILLINGS GAZETTE.

are merely putting it forth to hinder
f~urtherance of a project to which the
nation is committed, then the present
favorable attitude of what may be
safely said to be the majority of the
people of the nation will undoubtedly
unlelgo a change and the othc. rn,te
will be the one for which demand will
be made. Until this is done, however,
the Panama route will continue to
stand higher in public esteem.