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Year: 1879

Every now and then some Southern news
paper revives the visionary idea of political
union between the West and the South to
oyerwhelm the East aud run the Government
in the interest of those sections. The notion
is based upon ignorance of the character of
the Western people and of the commercial
and social ties which unite them to the East


The great bulk of the population of the West
came, either in this or the preceding genera
ton, from the States east of Indiana. Iowa
is a second Ohio. Minnesota is reproduction
of Maine and Vermont. Michigan, Northern
Illinois and Southern Wisconsin drew their
energetic Inhabitants chiefly from New-York.
So il is all through the West. Early associa-
tions and ties of kinsLip connect its people
with the older States from which they or
their fathers emIgrated. Besides, the great
movements of trade and travel run on east
and west lines, causing constant intercourse
between the two sections and practical


community of interests. The daily traffic over
any one of the trunk lines of railway between
New-York and Chicago is probably greater
than the business of an entire fortnight on
any road connecting the West with the South.


So far as political ideas are concerned the
difference between the West and the South is
very wide. The Western States are the home
of Stalwart Rrpubicansm. Inherting none
of the early traditions of State separatism
derived from Colonial times, the Republicans
of these young communities believe in the
power and duty of the National Government
to protect every citizen in the exercise of his
essential rights of citizenship. They make
broad interpretations of the Constitution when
ever the shield of State Rights is set up to
cover outrages on liberty and the suffrage.
and they demand that the strong arm of
the Nation shall be welded to break
down all such defences of wrong. The
intolerance which is the worst fault of the
Year: 1879

elections Patriotic citizens OF all parties ien
TINT there was danger 10 the country, wnen
they saw the course Of the faction which had
gained the upper hand in Congress. wen
may we all be thankful this day. whether
Democrats or Republicans, that the country
has demanded better conduct from those VINO
seek power. as earnest Of their fitness Tor The
responsibilities of government


Ii is not by adversity alone that individuals
and nations are tried. The great blessings
which have been showered upon this people
are also trials of their constancy and worth.
1t is yet to be seen whether this Nation can
bear prosperity; whether it will rush from en-
forced economy and patient toll to the widest
excesses of speculation and extravaganza
whether it will have the forttude and the
wisdom to guard well hereafter the public
honor and the free institutions which have
been saved from peril. In our thankfuness
to-day, let us not forget that great response
bilities 20 with great blessings.
Year: 1879

South has no counterpart In the West. There
every mans right to speak and vote his own
opinions is so universally respected that II is
hard for the people to understand how COM
munities can exist in this Republic where hon
est differences of belief are suppressed by
ostracism aud terrorism. Such condition OF
things seems to them blot on American CIV
i,ization. They have no patience with II.


The men Of the South ARE hugging dein-
sion If they imagine that the time Will ever
come when the free. liberal, progressive W est
will quarrel with the East on some
question of tariff or trade, and join with them
to protect and perpetuato the barbarisms IN
herited from slavery, and revive sectional
strife. The West is not section apart, jeal-
ous of the East. There Is no dividing line
between East and West. They merge into
each other and are parts of homogeneous
North, inspired by the same ideas OF liberty
law and National supremacy. At some time
in the future, and we hope the day is not
very far distant, the South will cease to seek
support for its sectionalsm. and outgrowing
its intolerance and exclusiyeness, will be so
fully identified with the life and progress OF
the Republic that its name viii be like that
of the Wcst-a mere geographical term. Then
1t will have the sympathy not OF the West
alone, but of the whole country.
Year: 1879

The Long Branch Reading-room and Library
is already a self supporting institution, and
begins its second year with a surplus of no
less than eight cents Its success is due to
hard work, and perseverance in a good object
Year: 1879

The telegraph celebrates heroic men and a
good many who are not heroes. Why should
it not sound the praises of a faithful dog 7
That picture of the loyal dog, pacing Iii the
darkness round and round his master, fallen
dead in the Ohio woods, is quite as impress
sive and instructive in its way as Congress
man Blowhard's latest speech, OF the proceed
lngs OF the Convention of the National
Association for the inculcation of Spoon
Victuals.
Year: 1879

The Local Board of Steam Vessel inspectors
at Philadelphia have decided that the recent
collision in which the Champion was sent to
the bottom, was wholly due" to the lack of
a proper lookout on that vessel. This will
not call the dead back to life, nor re-create
the property that was destroyed; but 1t will
at least put the responsibility of that manifold
murder just where it belongs, and will serve
as grim warning TO the whole passenger
carving trade.
Year: 1879

IL is announced from Washington that the Woman
Suffrage agitators are going deuge Congress with
no less than 81 800 petitions. Amid the rattle and
roar of the preliminary Presidential skrmish they
will make about as much noise as popgun In
modern artillery duel.
Year: 1879

Little Falls, Feb. 4, 1879.
Editor Of the Transcript:


AS might be expected there is some
diversity of opinion in regard to issu>
ing county bonds to aid in building
the Little Falls & Dakota railroad.
There are some who are crying out
against furnishing county aid to se~
cure the grandest results, and the on
ly thing that will ever lift Morrison
county from a fourth to a first class
county. Many Of their objections are
so frivolous that we will not take time
to answer them unless they will take
the trouble to arrange them in proper
shape and publish them. In some
senses of the word the county may be
compared to person. In law they
are treated nearly alike. While the
law restricts the counties from running
in debt for railroad purposes more
than FIVE per cent of their assessed val
uation, an individual may run in
debt for any purpose to the extent of
his credit. AS the law now stands
Morrison county can raise but $41 900
for railroad purposes, but owing to the
addition of about $4,000 acres that
will 60 on the assessment rolls this
year, and the natural increase Of prop
erty otherwise, the next assessment of
Morrison county must reach about
81 100000, against $780, 900 last year,
so that we can raise $4,000 in bonds,
ii necessary, which I hardly think will
be required.


In this county the farmers are bet.
ter posted in regard to these matters
than our town croakers who have con-
stituted themselves the sole guardians
Of the people. The bonds that may he
voted will be conditional, the condi-
ton being that they shall not be is
sued until the road is completed and
in operation, which will not be before
two or three years. In the mean time
the company that builds the road will
not expend less than 100000, per-
haps double that sum, in Morrison
county. The man that cannot make
enough out Of all that expenditure to
pay dollar or two of taxes must be a
lazy, good for nothing drone, and had
better seek more congenial cline in
the interior Of Africa, By little CAL
culation each man can see about that
he would have to pay. The interest
on the bonds at 6 per cent would make
a tax of three mills on the dollar, so
that the man who has to pay on $lO0
Of assessment would pay thirty cents a
year. But that is the outside figure,
calculated on the present value of our
property and the highest amount Of
bonds that We can legally issue. We
can safely say that the first tax that
would be levied would not exceed
twenty cents on a hundred dollars, and
even that would grow less every year.


Mr.. Editor, when I started in I In
tended t to demonstrate e how every res
Year: 1879

and moneyed aristocracy rule instead. We
have labored in quiet way to secure re-
peal of the desert land law, but in vain. We
advised the people to take advantage OF
its provisions, because though detrimental
to the good of the masses, it was benefit to
the individual, yet in the meantime hoped,
through correspondence with those in the
councils of the nation TO secure its repeal
before any excitement was raised. But it IS
idle to longer hope for this. 1t is measure
in the interest of few and against the ma
ny, and Will be in force until there is a
change in the policy of the government
Then let the people take the desert lands if
they wish, but we cannot sit by and see a
garden spot like the Judith-a land of wild
pIumbs and natural meadows-where crops
germinate, grow and mature without lrrlga-
ton, taken under its provisions without Of
fering our protest.
Year: 1879

THE withdrawal Of the Crawford line of
coaches from the Helena and Butte road
and the increased rate of fare is said to be
telling largely upon the travel between the
two cities, so much so that there is a strong
probability that the business men of those
cities will offer some inducement to Col.
Black to continue his line. Stage fares in
Montana are altogether too high TO Sc
cure that life and hustle in the way of travel
which naturally arises i'll consequence OF
cheap rates. But these things are regulated
by competition, and until the country is
thickly enough settled to warrant such IN
creased service, we may make up our minds
to stand good rates The Helena and Butte
road is the only one we believe which can
furnish paying business tostwo lines, and
Black Is capable of furnishing the second
line if those interested will show the proper
spirit. He is a man of great energy and en-
terprse and has good outfit-good coaches,
good teams, good stables along the route
and blacksmith midway the line, and no
line. The present close relations existing
between these towns are due in great mea-
sure to him,-the Boulder road being his
pet scheme, and in the building of which he
expended considerable of his private means
and if those interested are only forthcoming
with proper assurances, we are confident
the line will be continued. No community
will lose anything by encouraging WIDE
awake man like Col Black, whatever the
undertaking, and Helena and Butte would
certainly reap great advantage from main-
tanning a line of stages that guarantee cheap
1
fare. We do not offer this as a s'new de-
parture" of any kind, but as q business
proposition for the consideration OF those
directly interested.
Year: 1879

we want home in every nook and cor
ner by every water-course, whose occupants
starting with few head of stock and gar
den spot, are by free pasturage able to


maintain themselves until their gardens


gradually grow to farms and their dozen
head OF stock to hundreds. Thus these
lands will be pastured to their fullest capa-
city, and the country become popuous and


wealthy, yielding an annual revenue to the
government worthy of moment. And as
settlements progress and the grasses grazed
down, these lands will be gradually taken
by farmers until the whole face of the coun-
try, from the very margin of our streams to
the timber line of our mountains, where
they rise precipitously, will be one vast sue
cession of homes and fields, yielding annu


ally millions of bushels of grain. fruit and
vegetables. 1t is a mistaken idea that there
is any considerable region in the vicinity of
the Rocky mountains valuable only as ''pas


tural land.' The land usually designated
as such are as fine for agriculture as the lands
of Kansas and Nebraska, which are to-day
so eagerly sought by those wanting homes.
To the present system Of selling public lands
to actual settlers alone, do these States owe
their present prosperity. And the day that
our lands are put on the market in quantity
will the progress of Montana and sister Ter
rtories cease. Already the pernicious et-
tects Of the desert land law-another of those
great land and water steals authorized by
Congress in the interest Of capitals begin
ming to be felt. This, with the opportunity
the railroad belt furnishes, should, we think,
be all that the moDied interest should ask.
Great possessions may besecured without any
further legislation, and we ask that for once
the welfare of the country and people at
large may have some influence with our law
making assemblies. In behalf of the hus.
bandry, the very foundation of the wealth
and prosperity Of the civilized world, in be-
half of the homeless thousands of honest
people OF our nation who have no other
show, except by obtaining free home from
the government, Of ever rising above the
position of menial labor and serfdom, we
enter our solemn protest against such ruin
Gus policy. Let the press Of the Territory
and the nation everywhere unite with US in
frowning down such scheme in its very
infancy. -..s.d
Year: 1879

WITHIN the past few weeks some half a
dozen or more desert land claims have been
located in the Judith basin. And the ques-
ton very naturally arises. can titles be per-
fected to desert land claims in this valley?
If SO, then there is not foot of public land
in America that may not be gobbled up un-
der its infamous provisions. 1t is well
known fact that the Judith is the most sea-
sonable section in all the Rocky mountain
region. Neither Texas, Kansas, Nebraska
nor Dakotah surpass it in this respect, and
neither of these countries can equal it In the
quality of its natural productions. On the
farm of Reed & Bowls, the only one in the
basin, wheat, oats, corn and potatoes, cab
bage, tomatoes, in fact great variety of
products, are raised with great success with
out irrigation, while the whole extent of
country from river margin to mountain top
is one vast meadow field. The decision of
the commissioner, that land that will not pro-
duce two tons Of hay per acre, is desert land
is in error, for land uncultivated that will pro-
duce even one ton of hay per acre is not des-
ert land by any means; besides, the quality
of the production should cut some figure in
regard to the estimate of its value. A ton
and half of bunch grass or blue-oint hay
is equal to three tons OF common hay, and
our land commissioner is off wrong if he
classes Montana lands, capable OF producing
ton and a halt per acre without cultivation,
nine years of ten, as desert lands. But even
If this decision is valid it does not argue that
the Judith lands are subject to entry under
the desert land act, for there is scarcely an
acre of blue-joint land in the entire valley
but what will produce over two tons of hay
per acre if not graZed by domestic cattle or
buffalo, And the bench lands which yield


ton and half of bunch grass now. and


would yield two tons of blue-joint or timo-
| thy if seeded or forty bushels of winter


wheat per acre, without artificial watering.


are not to be classed in the category of des-


ert lands and gobbled up under such pre-


text if justice has not forsaken her throne
Year: 1879

THERE is rumor afloat that the U. & N.
railroad intend to luild their road forty
miles this side of Red Rock yet this fall;
but the general impression is that the win
ter terminus will be moved back to Camas
creek instead of to this side of the Pleasant
Valley divide.
Year: 1879

correspondence Ol the hthlstSIs


would like to ask through your col
umns whose duty il is to investigate
the late incendiary fires in the Fifth
ward? 1t seems to me that it is as
much the duty of the Fire Department
to prevent AS to extinguish fires, and it
would be rs much to the credit of our
new, much vaunted, eternally vigilant
police, To detect incendiaries (who rank
in the law with ravishers and murder
ersl as to arrest Toby Vance, Steele
Miller, ct. al.


Let me call your attention to the fire
record Of the last four months, begin
ming with the Hobbs-Taylor fire on the
oath OF December, 1878, then the VIM.
Myles fire on the east side OF Main
street, between Twenty-Second and
Twenty-Third, then the bakery fire on
the west side OF Market street, between
Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third, and
the Kreiter fire on the west side OF
Main street, between Main and Twenty
Third street, all in four adjoining blocks,
and each and every one conceded as Of
incendiary origin. On these occasions
fortunately the conditions were the
most ANoIaDtc pOcSioic iuI tnc tAAui-
guishments of fires, vet three Of them
resulted in total loss. The only thing
that has saved the business portion of
the Fifth ward, may be attributed TO
the lucky accident that there was no
wind, otherwise that which is now the
most valuable portion OF the ward
would be in ashes. These very seri-
Gus affairs are passed over without any
notice by the officers of this city, and
soon become things Of the forgotten
past. have no idea that this article
will have any effect upon the branches
Of the city government above referred
TO, it is written TO call 10 the attention
of the property owners Of the Fifth ward
that they must do something 20 protect
themselves.


FIFTH WARD PROPERTY 0wSER.
Year: 1879

backbone OF the President and force
him to starve the army TO death. 1t
would be fitting close to the Republican
power in the executive branch OF the
Government for their President to sig
nalize his last term by attempting to
defeat the will of the people for the pur-
pose of doing the will OF his party. The
result OF the adroit knavery OF that party
had been to cheat the ballot-box OF the
fruits of its victory, and still the Repub-
licans had cheek enough TO talk OF the
purity Of elections.


The committee rose. The time for
the termination of the debate was fixed
at 5 o'clock tomorrow instead of 2
O'Clock as previously ordered.


The House took recess.
Year: 1879

The Mayor notifies the clerk of the
market that he is constantly receiving
complaints of violation of the law
which provides against market people
and Others leaving their horses stan
ding in harness in the shafts while the
wagons are backed to the curb. This
he means to break up, and notifies the
clerk Of this intention and cautions him
70 do his duty.
Year: 1879

From our eastern exchanges we learn that
Cuba is again agitated by the runors of an
other rebellion on that island, and we find the
American newspapers, or at least number Of
them and they not the least influential. en-
gagged in formenting the spirit of revolt. This
state of things cannot but have an influence on
that portion of the Cubans who are hostile to
the home Government, and who are deter
mined not to be content till the freedom of
Cuba from the Spanish Crown shall be effect
ed. We understand that the government at
Madrid, comprehending the gravity of the
situation, have determined to crush the rebel
lion at one blow by sending to Cuba an army
of 10000 men. The long and bloody struggle,
which reigned in Cuba during the late rebel
lion, cost the Spanish Government fearful
loss of human life, and an enormous amount
of treasure, and should hostilities break out
again, Spain will have to put forth tre-
mendous effort, or the probabilities are " the
ever faithful isle" will be lost to her forever.
Revolutions never go backward, and should the
tres of insurrection in Cuba be kindled once
more, they will never be extinguished till one
or the other side is completely exhausted.
Year: 1879

We learn that it is the intention of his honor
A F. Judd, First Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the Hawaiian Islands, to 90
East by the next steamer for San Fran
cisco, to be absent for the winter. Justice
Judd has not been absent from his post for any
length of time in the past five years, during
all which time he has been occupied with
his official duties. Such a strain upon the
mental and physical man as five years contin-
uous labor in such a climate as ours induces,
is only understood by those who have expe-
rienced it, and therefore we do not wonder
his honor Justice Judd requires rest and rec
reation. We can say for Justice Judd that he
is patient, conscientious, pains-taking judicial
officer of much promise, who enjoys the entire
confidence of the bench, the bar, and the peo-
pie generally of this Kingdom. We hope he
may have pleasant sojourn in the States, and
return to his home and post of duty recuper-
ated and equipped for long life of usefulness
Year: 1879

Friday the 18th inst, was the anniversary
of the fourth birthday of the Princess vIcro-
RIA-KAwEKIU-KAIULA I-LUNALILo- KALAN
INUIAHILAPALAPA, daughter of the Hon. A.
S. Cleghon and the Princess Likelike, ON
which occasion there was pleasant party of
friends at the residence of the parents His
Majesty the King, and other relatives aud
friends were present to congratulate the in-
fant Princess and her parents on the occasion,
and scene of festivity usual at such times
was INDUCED in 10 the delight of the guests.
We trust the young Princess may be spared to
her parents and friends, and that she NAV
grow up TO be an ornament to society and a
blessing to her country. The young Princess
is a fine healthy, promising child in whose
future are bound up many hopes, and although
not of full royal blood, she is a representative
OF race whose history is interesting and in
structiye