The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-05-31
Official Paper Of the City of Havre

It strikes the Herald very forcibly
in the face of recent events that the
people of Northern Montana are re-
ceiying theirs in very large punches,
but for such a united republican con-
st}-uency the dose will be easy to
swallow. This isn't the first time
th:,t your Uncle Tommy has given
the double cross to a few Of his
faithful followers, and it probably
will not be the last. However, the
press dispatches and the Army and
Navy Journal tell that orders have
been issued for the abandonment of
Fort Assinniboine and Fort Keogh,
q are some in this City who still hold
hope thatAssinniboine may yet be
held, the majority bow to the newt
able (but their opinion Of Tom Carter
could not be printed) and only hope
that no long, tedious wait should en-
sue before this vast expanse of the
finest land laying out Of doors is
thrown open to settlement. If this
is done, it is maintained, the prosperi-
ty of this section will not be retarted
one bit, but will be advanced several
stages.
The Assinniboine reserve is the
largest in the United States today. 1t
is the only one where the announced
program of the war department could
be carried out. e., the assembling
euvers. But-and there's the rub
Thomas H. Carter wanted Fort Har-
rison retained; Joseph NJ. Dixon want
ed Fort Missoula retained: the Pre-
sident outlined his policy of reducing
the military reservations in the
country to the number of six; Con-
gresham Pray was handed the double
cross to parcel out to his North Mon
tana friends. This is not the only
complaint that SHOULD come forth
from the solid republican flock of this
part OF North Montana either; the
present administration has made an
excessive endeayOr to prove dozens
of entry men on homestead and desel
land claims, perjurers; they have
dilly-dallied over the Milk River IT.
in the valley has not any established
value (the only exception to this fact
is a little squirt caused by Thos. Carte
buying q section of land near Harlem
where he and the Amalgamated Suga
compny would locate a beet sugar fac
tory by leasing a part of the Fort
Belknay Indian reservation) and ye
Chouteau county is the banner repub
lien county in the state. What q
pity that men cannot see when they
are being used-that they are cats
paws to lift the chestnuts from the
fire for Helena Or MissoUla statesmen
The only hope is in a re-organizet
democracy. Not the old-time, old-lin'
organization bound hand and foot tt
the administration as is the petty re
publican leaders, but a new democrat,
that will be right that WILL DC
things RIGHT for the SAKE of right
North Montana needs men who are
men, who will stand up and fight thu
world for North MOntana's rights AM
when We say North Montana, w
mean all that portion of the state be
ginning at an imaginary line 40 mile
east of Great Falls, and extending tt
the Dakota line, and from the Mis-
souri, river north to the CANADIAN
line. This is North Montana-a dist
riot in the constructive epoch-noy
with close to ten thousand energetic
determined people just beginning t
see the first results of their labors O
fifteen years, and who resent thi
buffeting about by politicians VIII
promise anything and then resort
any little mean tricks to further thei
own ends.
It's hard dose-this double eros
treatment, but then few jolts ma
wake our Congressman to the fat
that "oily' things should be handle
with sand paper.