Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-07

his lines. Did not the Anaconda COM |
pany years ago secure the passage Of
that law to enable them to steal every
thing under ground that they could
reach? Are not they today extracting
ore south of the N. p. depot in Butte,
wheeling it over two miles under the
entire length of the city of Butte and
hosting it to the surface on the PIN
nac1e of the famous Anaconda hill?
Has not this thievipg corporation for
the last quarter of a century robbed
every small operator working near
them as we'll as many a large operator?
Senator Clark spent fortune fighting
them and finally for one million dol
lars sacrificed his Colusa-P arrot mine
which the Butte Inter Mountain, an
Amalgamated republican sheet, admit
ted at the time of the sale contained
over ten million dollars worth of ore
blocked out and in sight. A few years
ago Heinze came upon the scene and
they commenced to rob him the same
as anybody else, but being consldera-
bly, smarter and quicker witted than
many of his predecessors he has re-
peatedly given them bitter doses of
their own medicine oy following veins
to their limit when fonnd apexing in
his ground. Year after year the stu
alton has waxed hotter and hotter,
year by year has seen new complica-
tions arising between these rival con-
Germs, until the situation now is a
sphinx-riddle almost beyond descrip-
ton and the supreme court finds itself
swamped beneath cases which form a
docket that would take over two years
to dispose of even if no new cases came
up for trial. The supreme justices re-
ceive IS, 900 per year. We cannot give
any very close estimate as to the adj
ditional cost for incidentals but would
guess that $500 each would be suffic-
| lent to supply stationery, etc. With
225, 900 people in our state and an adj
ditional expense of $500 a year the
reader may readily see that the in
creased cost would amount to the out
rageous and eXhorbitant sum of six
cents per capita. Gerate Gawd! This
would certainly sweeney our pocket
books beyond repair.
The Dillon Examiner furthermore
says:
| "a proposition to increase the men,
berspip of the supreme court would
cause both the Amalgamated and the
Heinze interests as a plain matter OF
self protection to take a hand in the
fight and attempt to secure by fair
means or foul the appointment and
subsequently the election of justices
favorable to their particular side of the
prevailing litigation. Our judiciary
should be pure, unbiased and incor.
ruptible; there cannot and should not
be the least suspicion that any one OF
a majority of the judges would unduly
favor one side or the other interested
in litigation pending in the state
courts. y
Very, very true, but what are we GO
ing to do aboutit? Our judges are elected
by popular vote of the people and from
the time of Scion and Lycurgus dowr
to the present day there has been fount
no able method of dispensing justic,
than by the sovereign will of the PEG
pie. Political parties we must have i
seems, through them and only through
them can an expression of the popula1
will of the people be made. The pres
ent situation certainly demands NOR,
justices. The natural and norma
growth of the state as the years go by
will claim the entire attention of fiv,
supreme justices even though the min
ing litigation eventually subsidies. TIL,
next legislature through the terms of ;