The Washington herald., 1912-01-21
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the legislatures Of their States elect
them again.
one of them, Simon Guggenheim, ON
ciaIIy of Colorado, finding the roads
clear and easy this time, is walking back
into the smelling and other business
whence he came His remuneration,
therefore, leaves g known and praCuC6i
total of sixteen. Other Senator'S now
ever, have an uncertain look in their
ewes and a strange hesitancy in their
natural output OF speech. There arc sus-
picions, consequently, that several OF
them NAV also shelter themselves by
an early and mastery retreat.
The seasoned fighters, OF course Will
neither be shot in their backs nor gallop
away on their pins. II they go down,
there win be weapons in their hands.
Nevertheless. the fall will be great, even
memorable, perhaps. Standpatters and
insurgents. varying in degrees from
Boies Penrose to Jonathan Bourne, and
iH stealthiness and paucity Of words
from Murray Crane to William Alden
Smith, will rush upon the enemy to sur
vive OF be destroyed. Shelby Moore Cul-
Iom, in his eighty-third year, and Will
lam Squire Kenyon, aged forty-twO, will
overlap their shields and courageously
advance together, short swords cleaning
In the sunlight and javelins cutting the
air.
big Men May Disappear.
Much besides the Presidency, then, is
at issue this year. Congress can become
Democratic in both Houses by a slight
change here and there. National char
acters may suddenly disappear-Knute
Nelson, once an immigrant, for instance,
or Francis f. Warren, the shepherd Of
Wyoming. Within seventeen Northern
States. zigzagging from Massachusetts, to
Oregon, anxious eyes are straining at
the signs, and listening ears are trying
10 catch revelatory sounds. 1t is dis
quieting employment.
In public matters, as in trade and other
earthly concerns, the ordinary man
thinks first Of himself. A Senator, con-
sistently. is more precious in his own
sight than is President Taft, Col. Roose-
vtlt or any one else. Prognostications
emenating from the region of the Sen
ate, therefore. together with fears,
doubts, warnings, appeals, arguments,
and convictions, no matter how earnest
ly voiced. must be judged in the knowl-
edge that self-preservation is the one
enforced and unrepealable law of man.
kind. Sixteen Senators, excluding Gug-
Eenheim, want to return. In harsh can
dor. the question with each OF them is:
Who, Taft or Roosevelt, will make II
easier and safer for me in my own
state?" Differences of present opinions,
accordingly. can be readily explained.
Once nominated. the Presidential can
didate, regardless his name, will imme-
diately have sixteen able, earnest, and
tireless fighting men-eXperienced and re-
sourceful generals OF wings and centers.
of whole armies and separate corps. So
the sixteen in jeopardy, savagely battling
for themselves, will strengthen, by the
aggregate of their efforts, the general
cause. Notable among them will be Jo-
seph Moore DiNon-'Walk In Dixon he
might be called. from the large and per-
manent invitation in black type that hos
pitably hangs outside his office door.
Montana is his home, a near-insurgent
his classification, Senatorially. But he
is a. gladiator everywhere and all the
time. He does not boast Of IL, or even
confess II, but the transcontinental rail-
roads and the Amalgarhated Copper
Company. capital sl55,OO0Ooo, will beat
him if they can.
4 Great Decision Coming.
More than 100000 Americans, living in
eighteen States, are waiting for the Su-
preme Court in Washington TO pass on
Senator Dixon's amendment, which pro-
kibits railroads from charging more for
q short haul than a long one. He is not
a cheap and noisy enemy OF transporta-
Son companies, but he believes that a
carload Of merchandise should be hauled
from New York TO Butte. Helena, or
Missoula, in Montana, distance 2,45o
miles, as cheaply, at least, as to Seattle,
distance 800 miles.
Enough Senators and Representatives
agreed with him to write his amendment
into the laws Of the United States. All
Of the country west Of the Missouri
River, north and south. is concerned IN
the awaited decision of the court, and
doubtless every day people from coast
to coast will watch the coming contest
IN Montana, with the hope that Senator
Dixon, a poor man, may triumph over
the Rockefellers and Hills OF the copper
and railroad trusts.
Switching from q cigar that looked as
IL it might have cost Is cents to a corn
cob pipe, which he filed out of a huge
tin box, measuredly walking, also, back
and forth, Senator Dixon said:
About $50, 900 a year is taken out of
Butte Hill In gold, silver. and copper.
The mines are owned in New York. Per-
haps 1b,006 men are given work. No re-
Eion on earth is so rich In copper. Away
hack. however, the quest was for gold.
When copper was found. deep in the
bowels OF the earth. there was mourning
in the valley and on the hill Butte, the
prophets said, was played out. Silver
was then SO an ounce. Gold brought
liIuts At any IN
the United States. So the human tide
doomed on and away in search OF more
valuable metals, and Marcus DAILY, Will
lam A. Clark, the RockefeIlers, H. II.
Rogers, and others came in and began
TO garner the harvest which seems to
be inexhaustible.
Wealth in Apples and Wheat.
We ara proud Of our copper, but the
profits recoIlect, go 90 New York. Bet
ter for US than copper. however, is Mon
tana hard wheat, with red apples on the
side, paying per cent dividends on or
chsrds valued at 5000 an acre. The
wheat money stays at home. Dry farm
ing will ultimately make us rich. II is
one of the miracles Of modern agriculs
ture. Dusty and bare hillside fields are
plowed one year and frequently narrowed
TO break up the clods, dig out the weeds.
and conserve the moisture Of the light
rains
''The next year wheat is sown. Twice
after the plants are up the ground IL
narrowed again. A crazy performance Il
seems, but the wide cracks IN the earth
are thus filled. the torn plants shoot up
once more. and forty bushels OF wheat
20 the acre is the result. where q short
time before there was nothing but sage
brush, loco weeds, and rattlesnakes.
The same dusty and dreary fields win
produce great crops Of rye. barley, and
oats At Billings, poor, wretched, little
Billings, as once knew it but now hap
py. modern. and prosperous, a factory Il
making $zoo0.Ooo worth Of beet sugar