Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-30

wade mecum' of this world and the next.
II we would establish q higher standard
OF morals for the coming generation than
the mere lust OF lucre. II we would have
our children see something more In the
running brook than SO many millsites
and water rights, more in the spreading
tree than so many cords of wood, more
in the setting sun than SO many candle
power, more in the lowing kline and the
sporting lamb than 30 many pounds Of
beef and mutton, more in the landscape
than SO many corner lots, more in the
performance Of official duty than the
mere meoluments OF office: If, finally,
we would endeavor by precept n ex-
ample to establish and maintain a gov
eminent OF which poets have dreamed
and prophets spoken, the first important
step in that direction ~admonishes us to
obliterate that pernicious phrase Orc y
plata from the great seal OF this state.
Money Root OF All EVIL
IF all of us should not recognize the
truth OF the statement found in Holy
Writ that the love Of money Is the root
Of all evil, we nevertheless will shrink
from longer retaining that undesirable
exotic. because 1T is Spanish in origin.
Spanish in language. and Spanish in SEN
timent, and we will unite with one ac-
cord in remitting 1t forever to that I'M
happy land which has brought desola-
ton and death to hundreds OF thou
sands OF its W people and filled its
trenches with the rich blood Of SO many
American soldiers.
IF I should be permitted On this &C.
casion to suggest a substitute for such a
sinister sentiment, a motto to be hung
high upon the ~pretentious walls Of each
department of the state, to be seen and
observed of all men In all time, / woul
venture to offer this:
INC tyrannical sentiment can intimi-
date,
mo gilded brides seduce."
senator Sanders, in his address at the
corner stone laying, emphasized the
transition OF Montana from a savage
state to hat of law and order. He said
in part:
"Thirty-seven years ago, a small band
Of adventurers. possibly without definite
aim, and certainly without the con-
sciousness Of what was to follow, came
to these remote. isolated, uninhabited
mountain wales. unlimited and unwel-
! come guests Of the savage tribes who,
from immemorial time, had roamed over
but had not inhabited this goodly land.
Their ~undaunted spirits would brook no
denial, accept no puerile ostracism. They
planted here the ineradicable footsteps
Of civilization, and they set in motion
those forces which have eliminated in
what is now and here accomplished.
Many Contrasts Visible
III greed melted to adventure, adven-
ture herself rose to enterprise, M en-
terprise vaulted yet higher to patriotism,
until from all these mountain wales
there are attentive listeners to the COM
handing and alluring voice Of duty.
How many contrasts between that
early time and now! Then, the savage
roamed, unbridled and unchallenged,
disdalning the prolific forces Of nature.
| content II each day supplied his coarsest
physical needs. No highway facilitated
| intcrcommuntcation over the lac, 600
miles Of mountain. vale and plain The
audacities of adventure had placed along
| the majestic rivers two or three trading
| posts, and the zeal OF devotion had thrust
err occasional mission among the stolid
tribes. who yielded to their presence a
most sullen consent. Neither science
nor industry had prophesied or promised
the wealth or variety of her
and the springs of the Columbia and
Missouri. unvexed by the hand of man,
danced la%ughingly to the sea.
Cruel tragedies from time to time
occurred. the story OF which no tradition
even preserves, nor was humanity her.
self much exercised or interest in their
result. Dulness, stolidity, ignorance and
Incidence universally existed-too coarse
to reign as ktngsl
To-day, a hundred cities and villages
beautify the landscape; homes every
where dot the valleys and mountain
sides, n Montana is the abode of more
than 100000 sensate, courageous, intel