The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-16
SAM D. GOA ON
STATE DIVISION
ABSOLUTELY AGAINST IT.
THINKS ASYLUM PLACE
FOR DIVISIONISTS.
Says Montana Will Have 100000
People Some Day. Soon and Will
Lead Such States as California, Col
orado, Washington and Oregon.

~esJo VI 1dot week WOFklns
against state division in northern
Montana. Not that the agitation il
favor of making two states out Of
Montana is assuming proportions thai
alarm, but Sam believes in prepared
ness. He does not propose to allow
any new-state grass to grow under
his feet, and has started his campaign
against division years in advance.
"Dr. Scanland has an excellent in
stitution over at Warm Springs
said Mr.. Coca. "He treats every.
one consigned to his care with con.
sideration. He let's them rave on il
they are harmless and if they are
violent he resorts to mild restrictive
measures. All those who talk to
me about state division I tell of the
pleasant place under the supervision
Of DIR. Scanland, with the idea of Civ
ing them a-good impression of the
institution in which they are sure
TO find themselves, sooner or later.
\ States Great Future.
eve are going to have a great state
here if we just keep it whole. We
will have population of 100000
people one of these days, and there
will be no commonwealth in all the
west that compares with it. We will
have Washington, Oregon, California
and Colorado in the column below
US, we will have more money, per cap
tia, than some Big Hole farmers have
hay"
Sans antagonism to state division
is not all patriotism, however. Cruel
experience has prejudiced him against
division. Many years ago when he
was the business manager of the Lead
vile Herald-Democrat, disaster over
took him. He had made some money
out OF a mining lease and had in
vested all of it and borrowed some
more for the same purpose, in the
townsite of a prosperous Colorado
town. This particular town was
after the county seat of the county in
which it was situated. 1t had out
grown the old county seat and it was
just matter of putting the question
to vote. The removal of the county
seat to Sam IS town would have start
ed real estate boom and when this
boom was fairly we'll on Sam proposed
to sell out his holdings and retire from
the newspaper business. He was called
to New York on some business.
Here Come the Williams.
The state legislature of Colorado
convened during his absence. The
politicians Of the town that Sam and
his friends proposed to despoil by
taking from it the county seat had
friends in the legislature. They went
before the law makers and secured
the enactment of a bill dividing the
county in which Sam s town was sit
uated. That portion of the county
dominated by Sans town was at
tached to another county, whose coun-
ty seat was impregnable. The coun-
ty seat town was saved, and the real
estate boom that was being Matched in
connection with Sam s town dissolved
itself into the rainbow's end.
Plans Went Awry.
When Sam returned from the east
he found that his plans had gone
awry, and his investment had followed
his plans into oblivion. He became so
peeved over the incident that he aban-
doned the newspaper business and
went into isnurance, just out of spite
at himself, but he lived to recover
from his pique sufficiently to be-
come one of the first insurance men ,
Of all the west.
That is the reason Sam is against
division of anything. He even pro-
tested when the president of the ,
Northwestern Life Insurance company,
delighted with the long list of Mon !;
ANA millionaires whom Sam had writ
ZEN up for insurance upon his COM
oany, proposed to add to the terri
;ory of his general agency the north
,rn half of Wyoming, because i, :
meant a division Of that insurance ter I
'itory.
He looks upon Eddie Booth, the ,,
treat county divider of eastern Mon
ana, with suspicion, and all because G
eddie has more county divisional .
chemes to his credit than any other ;
nan in the state. He even objects y
o the name Of Lewis and Clark coun-
y, because it is a divided name. He T
'oted for Hughes because he is a g
epublican, but he does not approve ?
: the manner in which Hughes d. a
ldes his whiskers. He does not OBJ
ect to J. Bruce Kremer because u
truce is democrat, but because of his "
1onaker divisional scheme. When he $ $,
7as an alderman of the city of Hell q
ma he voted against the approval of p
n addition to the town, because the a
edition was subdivided into lots. 7
When some Of his farmer friends ask
i'm for chew of tobacco (Sam chews c
obacco when he s out in the country T
nly) he gives up the whole plug so IL
nat there may be no division. He is G
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