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LOW ESTATE OF CONGRESS.
The lowered reputation of congress is a thing
that begins to attract public attention as it
should (|o. The Springfield Republican, which
is strieây independent and non-partisan in its
attitude, feels compelled to comment on it and
charitably attributes some of the doings of the
republican majority to the irritation and bad
temper that comes from overwork. It says :
"Congress would be better qualified to deal
with the present difficult situation, both with
regard to the railroads and the league of nations,
if it had not been almost continuously in session
for the last several years. Recesses and the in
terims between one congress and another have
been few and short. Aside from other causes
this alone would tend to promote friction and
jealousy. Added evidence that tempers _ in
Washington are bad and nerves on both sides
not what they should be is found in the angry
protests in the house against even the rulings of
Speaker Gillett. Until within a few days ago
Mr. Gillett had apparently been suavely proceed
ing with as much success as if the house had re
solved itself into an afternoon tea and no one
had risen to question to whom the hostess should
give the first cup. But in recognizing a repub
lican instead of a democrat the other day be
cause the democrat was endeavoring to employ
dilatory tactics, Speaker Gillett committed
what former Speaker Clark heatedly described
as an "outrage." A year from next March when
the present congress comes to an end Mr. Clark
will presumably have cooled down and be making
either the usual motion or the usual speech com
mending Speaker Gillett on behalf of the minor
ity for his fair rulings and courtesy in presiding.
At the end of a session both parties are apt to
remember that they have been playing politics
and that a good deal of their fury, however sin
cere at the moment, has after all been dictated
by the mere fact of opposition rather than by
any real cause of grave accusations. It would be
well if what they remember then could be bet
ter realized in times of crisis, and not merely
when the crises are past."
But the deterioration of congress and its loss
of respect in the public mind does not apply
solely to this session. Neither is it a partisan
matter. Congress had a democratic majority up
till the present session and it was not a great
deal better than the present session, so far as
securing the good opinion of the public is con
cerned. It was also governed largely by partisan
considerations and dodged responsibility. If it
did not equal the present congress in that re
spect it may be said that we never had a more
cowardly and trivial congress in both chambers
than the existing one. They do nothing but
talk and beef about what Woodrow Wilson does.
They do nothing themselves but kick about what
others have done. That is more true of the up
per branch of congress, the senate, than it is of
the lower branch. When there is any really im
portant matters put before them, like the threat
ened tieup of all transportation in the United
States, congress promptly passes the buck back
to the president in a resolution telling him to
settle the question himself according to his wis
dom and inclination because congress to whom
the matter was referred does not care to tackle
the matter or express any opinions about it at
all. Such cowardice and lack of initiative of
course tends to lower congress in the minds of
the public. The Massachusetts newspapers goes
on to say:
"For the present congress must remain in
session. But if for a few hours elections could
be forgotten and jockeying for political position
be abandoned in the face of a domestic crisis,
there would be more hope of wise decisions and
less danger of those both hasty and ill-judged.
If instead of making a spectacle of itself for the
past two months, congress had been proceeding
to the orderly transaction of business, it is pos
sible that the labor leaders would not have re
fused to await congressional action or dared to
try to elbow congress to one side with the asser
tion that their appeal was to the people. The
fact that certain republican senators have been
chiefly engaged in making faces at the president
while the great body of the people, including a
probable majority of their own party, has taken
a different view upon the league of nations, has
diminishedL popular respect for and confidence in
congress at a time when respect and confidence
are peculiarly needed. If there had been an ab
ler, more responsible and more constructive con
gressional leadership it may be doubted whether
the ultimatum with regard to government own
ership of the railroads would have been put for
ward as it was. The present situation is a chal
lenge to the development of such a leadership;
if it does not appear there will probably come a
further dominance by the president, whatever
the wisdom or the unwisdom of the course which
he may urge and in spite of the republican ma
jority. To be effective, congress, or the major
ity party in congress, needs to know what it
wants and what it does not want, and to stand
accordingly."
THE BIG INCOMES.
The income tax returns furnish for the first
time accurate information about the wealth of
individuals, which is almost invariably exagger
ated in the public mind. We are told by the
government reports that in 1917 there were 141
persons in the United States that had incomes
of a million dollars or more. Assuming that
they received an average return of five per cent
on their property, this would indicate less than
150 persons in the whoie country who had for
tunes of more than a score of millions. There
were, however, 315 persons whose incomes ex
ceeded $500,000 and yet did not reach a million.
Presumably they were worth between ten and
twenty millions each. There were 559 persons
who had incomes ranging between $300,000 and
$500,000 and counted in the very rich class.
There were also 2,347 people who had incomes
of between $150,000 and $300,000 and wer«
therefore millionaires, and also 3,302 whose : -
comes were $100,000 to $150,000. That would
make 6,664 persons in the United States whose
fortunes exceeded a million dollars. Too m;my
millionaires, one would say. Perhaps so, but
those who are jealous of such piled-up wealth
and would have it distributed more evenly might
be interested in a calculation made by the New
York Sun, which finds that if all these big in
comes of $100,000 or more were divided up even
ly among all our citizens it would give each of
them four cents a day, and the government
would be deprived of a very large amount of tax
money which it would have to levy in some other
way, and be paid by people less able to pay it.
The figures refer to the year 1917 just before
we entered the war. The year 1918 showed less
large incomes than the year 1917, but we have
not seen the details published as yet. The treas
ury department, however, announced a falling
off of big incomes as compared with 1917. it
is an interesting fact because it gives the lie to
statements often made as to profiteering during
the war. While these charges may be true as
to individuals, yet wealthy men as a whole grew
poorer during the war, as the income tax re
turns disclose the facts.
PROPAGANDA STUFF.
The average newspaper editor is made weary
these days with dumping in the waste basket
every day piles of propaganda stuff gotten out
hv every agency and organization under the sur
from organizations to free Ireland to simila:
ones to stir up war -with Japan. In fact the Tat
ter is mighty active and has been for ' long tiros
for some reason we do not quite understand
Hand and glove with it is a propaganda to in
duce the American people to commence war
against Mexico and annex the country. There
is nothing mysterious about this last propagan
da. It is financed by men who have property in
terests in Mexico and would naturally like to
have the citizens of the country who do not have
property interests m Mexico chip in and pay for
the cost of rescuing American property from
the hands of the bandits who govern that coun
try at present. The desire is natural and easily
understood. An eastern newspaper gives us this
thumb nail sketch of the forces that are working
to embroil this country in a Mexican war: "The
charge made by the Presbyterian board of for
eign missions that the oil interests are conduct
ing a propaganda to embroil this country with
Mexico is not exactly novel, but. it needs the pub
licity that the Presbyterian church can give it.
The board of missions asserts that the hearings
at Washington have been staged so as to present
only a certain class of witnesses; that it is im
possible to get published in many American
newspapers anything that is not unfriendly to
Carranza. That intervention would mean the
destruction of all Presbyterian and other mission
work is a matter of secondary importance, view
ed in the light of the whole situation. But if it
enlists Presbyterian influence against the ef
forts to provoke war, it will help to keep the pub
lic mind alert with regard to Mexico. Congress
might well investigate this propaganda along
with other propagandas which are being con
ducted in the United States at present—not, in
deed, with the object of stopping them, unless
they are against the laws, but to let the public
know with just what motive and bias certain
statements are given to the public."
Œfje ©ptntonö ot ©tfjers
HE AIN'T GONNA TAKE A CHANCE.
(Ohio State Journal.)
About everybody of supposed importance in Germany has
now offered himself as a vicarious sacrifice for the kaiser
except Count von Bernstorff, and we imagine he's afraid we
might really take hiin up.
LUCKY CENSOR HAS BEEN DITCHED.
(Boston Transcript)
Now that the mail service has been resumed to Germany,
everybody has a chance to write over to the powers that be
nnd tell them what they think of them.
ANOTHER HOPE BLASTED.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
"Swig Bill Passed by Senate," reads a headline in a Bos
ton paper. It sounds very intriguing until an investigation
of the story reveals that the "Swig bill" is not a prohibition
relef measure, but a financial law introduced by one Senator
Swig.
BILL H0HENZ0LLERN KNOWS THAT.
(Philadelphia Record.)
The packers complain of "an unprecedented propaganda"
against them. We doubt it; and yet unprecedented evils de
mand unprecedented remedies.
WOULDN'T BE UNPRECEDENTED.
(New York World.)
The New York burglars who rifled three safes and got
only $350 have just grounds to go to the police and demand
their rights.
WHY NOT DROP THE SUIT?
(Chicago News.)
If Henry Ford were an anarchist the $32,000,000 melon
he is cutting would be somebody else's.
AN IMPROVEMENT AT THAT.
(Chicago Post.)
"French and Bulgars in three-hour «fight. Three dead."
It's bad to have such chronic-lings in time of peace, but. it is
at least an improvement upon the bloody days when such a
happening would have been recorded as "Nothing to report:
all quiet on the Franco-Bulgarian front." ,
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HASKIN LETTER
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
THE BUFFALO COMES BACK
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fi'ashington, D. C., Aug. 12.—There
nr • now no less than 7,000 buffaloes in
Nor; h America, they are increasing rapid
d America's most famous and char
eristic large animal is considered to
fa'rly safe from extermination.
bhis news was brought to Washington
re v ;;ly by Dr. George W. Field of the
bioj "ical survey, who has charge of the
gove: -iment's several buffalo ranches,
ancî of all its other bird and animal res
f*rv(a lions.
The Buffalo has long figured in the
popular mind as a creature practically
or iisoarly extinct. He has been classed
witjb Dodo, the great auk and the bigh
balp. as a thing which was. "Gone the
v. a 'if the buffalo and the passenger
pipjeon" is a standard oratorical and lit
erary bromide implying irrevocable ob
livion.
For the last twenty years, while he
hfii: bt en serving as a pathetic example
of man's ruthless destructivenesa, while
accounts of his extermination were he
•>,i4 written, and while his likeness was
t vin? "tamped on the nickel that Ameri
cas*» might know what he looked like,
th.ii buffalo has been steadily multiply
ing. By attending strictly to the busi
ness of raising calves, and paying no at
îeïitio nto the alarming rumors that he
wäa extinct, the buffalo, as a species,
hs^ literally crawled out of his gruve.
There was a time, within the memory
of: living men, when there were more
bujffalo in the United States than there
srè now people. In 1880 there were
quite a few left. In 1897 a taxidermist
killi'd. iu Lost Park, Colorado, the last
Members of the last wild herd of buf
falo outside of a national park in the
i'àited States.
At that time there were not many
more than a thousand buffalo alive in
the wo-id. These were scattered in small
herds ; public and private parks. The
only v : 1 ones were a small herd in Can
aria, nd those in our Yellowstone na
; ark.
>'O any species of animal is re
•: v a thousand individuals, scient
;■ » rally give up hope for it. It is
r ctt'h-l as practically extinct. And
"v ; 'ilj is this true when many of the
, ittîdrfljrls are old and most of them
it: uptivity.
Tt ' -i great deal of interest was felt
in the late of the buffalo. He was < ne
animal that the people knew about. He
had been extensively depicted and de
scribed. Buffalo Bill had chased his buf
faloes and shot blank cartridges at them
in every town over 10,000 in the Uni
ted States. The buffalo had been sculp
tured and painted and stamped on coins.
In a word, he had gotten that thing
which in America is the maker of des
tinies—advertising.
The scientists of the biological survey,
who watched and nursed the buffalo dur
ing the days when he was almost gone,
firmly believe thnt advertising saved his
life. It lead rbh men to buy buffalo
reservations. It saved the buffalo from
neglect, of which he would surely have
died.
As showing how important publicity
has been to the buffalo, the scientists
compare him with the pronghorn Ante
lope. There are now only about 9.000
of tbepe auimals in the United States,
and they are in far greater danger of
extermination than the buffalo. Altho
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH
HUNGARY 'S MASTER
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Archduke Joseph of the house of
Hnpsburg has been recognized by the
allies as the master of Hungary. He
has assumed power with the title of
governor of the state and announces his
intention to organize a coalition cab
inet.
Archduke Joseph was a commander
of Aus tro-Hungarian forces on the
southern section of the eastern battle
front duriug the first two years of the
gre.-it war. In 1918 he headed a move
ment looking to the securing of inde
pendence for Hungary from Austria,
and when the collapse of the dual mon
archy came in November, 1918, he was
asked to take charge of the situation and
find a solution for the political crisis
before the country .
With his son, Archdultc Joseph Fran
cis. he took the oath to submit uncon
ditionally to the orders of the Hungarian
national council, and later took the oath
of fealty to the new government.
Last April it was announced he had
been executed by the communists at
Budapest, but this report was promptly
denied. Archduke Joseph was born at
Alosuth on August 9, 1872.
The archduke frequently has been re
ferred to us the most popular member
of the Hapsburg family. He did much
work among the poor and unfortunate,
particularly iu Budapest.
slightly more numerous, they are not
nearly so well protected and do not live
and breed well in captivity. Unless res
ervations are set aside for them, and
other radical measures taken for their
protection, they will be gone in another
10 years.
And the antelope is just as distinc
tive and interesting an American animal
as the buffalo. Like the buffalo it once
lived all over half the continent in un
counted millions. It was the familiar
daily sight of the western pioneers. And
it is a far more beautiful and graceful
animal than the buffalo. Yet for some
reason it failed to impress itself on the
popular imagination as the buffalo did,
and so it seems doomed.
The buffalo, in addition to his hold
upon popular affection, has another
strong claim to the right of survival, in
the fact that he has great possibilities
as a domestic animal.
It has been usual to say that the buf
falo had to go to give way to the cattle
herds on the western plains, and it is
probably true that it would have been
impossible to conserve the enormous wild
herds of buffalo—to use them for the
national meat supply instead of domes
tic cattle. But now that the buffalo has
been reduced in numbers and handled
like a domestic animal in many parks, it
hag been discovered that he is really not
much harded to manage than any other
variety of cattle. It is true that he re
tains a feral contempt for fences, v.nd
the great weight of his shoulders, pro
tected by a mantole of heavy hair, en
ables him to express this contempt for
barbed wire by going right through it.
An ordinary three or four-stand barbed
wire fence does not hold him at all. Those
buffalo keepers who use barbed wire
fences do so with the full knowledge
that they will have to round the buffalo
up and drive them back into the enclosure
every once in so often.
The government buffalo pastures are
enclosed in woven wire fencing with
strong posts planted about 16 feet apart.
This spacing gives the fence a certain
resilience, so that when the buffalo hits
it. he has a tendency to bouncc back.
There have been many cases, however,
when the bouncing idea didn't work. Once,
for example, on the Montana bison
range a buffalo bull in a bad humor saw
a big black ahd white Hostein bull paw
ing up the dirt and bellowing in an in
sulting manner just outside the enclosure.
The buffalo bull very deliberately backed
off about a hundred yards and took a
run at the Holstein, completely disre
garding the detail that a fence was be
tween them. His disregard was justi
fied by the fact that he went through
the fence just as easily as the lady at
the circus goes through the paper hoop.
After properly drubbing the impudent
domestic, the buffalo bull walked back to
the gate of his home pasture and waited
for the keeper to let him in.
The potential value of the buffalo as
a domestic animal lies in the fact that he
can stand very cold weather. _ He can
survive a vfinter that would kill cattle,
iir.d can get to the grass through deeper
snow than can cattle. If the buffalo
herds were established on a commercial
basis, beef could be produced on moun
tain ranges, which are now producing
nothing. And the buffalo makes a fine
grnde of beef and more of it under the
same conditions of feed and age than
other cattle.
The extreme scarcity of the buffalo,
and the fact that breeding animals cost
$250 a piece, are the reasons why the
domestication of the animal has not pro
ceeded further. Another ten years is
verv apt to see good progress in the es
tablishment of the buffalo as a ranch
animal.
The cattalo, which is a cross between
the buffalo and domestic stock, is nn
even more promising animal than the
buffalo. This hybird is generally larger
than either of its parents. It inherits
the hardihood of the buffalo and elso his
heavy valuable coat. A cattalo robe has
been sold for $1.200.
But the difficulties of putting the cat
talo on a sound productive basis are even
greater than those of domesticating the
bufftilo. In the first place only about
one-in ten of these hybird?. is fertile. In
the second place a breeder must have
sevèrnl different strains of them in or
der to produce a stock, free from inter
breeding. Thus a very large number of
buffaloes and a long time would be nec
essary to produce a sound strain of cat
talo. That the animal would be of great
value, and that it could be greatly im
proved by scientific selective breeding,
cannot be doubted, but the preliminary
work would cost millions and would re
quire several generations. It is not like
ly. therefore, that any private individual
will ever undertake it, but it seems prob
able that when the government buffalo
heards have increased to eight or ten
times their present size, the cattalo will
be bred and developed by the scientists
of the biological survey.
Of the 7,000 buffalo now alive, about
half are in the United States and half
iu Canada. The government owns slight
ly less than a thousand buffalo. These
are on eight reservations and national
parks, the largest herd being that of
the Yellowstone, with 440 members, and
the second largest that on the Bison
range in Montana, where there are 290
buffalo in a fenced pasture of 18,000
acres. The government has in its parks
and reservations range enough for ten
times as many buffalo as it now owus.
The rest of the buffalo in this country
are in five or six large herds which
aie privately owned.
Aliens at Libby Fail
to Observe State Law
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Helena, Aug. 14.-—Twelve aliens in
the employ of the J. Neils lumber com
pany of Libby have refused to comply ;
with the state law in giving reports to ,
the state accident board of their natura
lization and ability to read, write and .
speak English. Chairman Spriggs said
he will start an action thru the courts j
to compell compliance with the law.
Roll Call on Higgins
Bill Not Stolen
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Helena. Aug. 14.-r-The missing roll
call on Higgins' appeal from the chair
on the last, day of the special session
was found in the drawer in the desk in
the journal clerk's office in which it
was placed the night before, according
to AV. O. Craig, chief clerk of the house,
who has completed the clerical work in
cleaning np the special session busi
ness.
UNIVERSITY HAS RAISED $103,000.
Spokane, Aug. 14.—-Spokane univer
sity thru direct gifts and bequests has
received $108,000 in its campaign* to
raise $500,000 withiu five years.
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ESTABLISHED 1891
Careful Saving
does not mean miserliness. It is the
daily use of prudence in your business
life.
A Savings Account in this bank is a
great aid to thrift.
Have you started one yet?
It pays 4% interest which is com
pounded semi-annually.
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Great Falls
ES3 National Bank
TRAVELETTE
By NIKSAB.
CAPE MAY COUNTRY.
If you travel by boat from Philadel
phia to New York, Cape May lengthens
your trip by thirty miles. It is the
southern most tip of New Jersey. It
projects like a horn into the coastal wa
ters which, next to those of Sandy Hook,
carry most traffic.
Cape May, in addition to being a point
of land projecting into the water, is a
county. As such, here in the effete
East, it throws down the gauntlet to any
other county in the union for that qual
ity supposed to be peculiar to the west,
Cape May county is wild. It is unbrok
en, uninhabited, unsubdued. Bears prowl
about its wastes, deer bound through its
thickets. All the creatures of the wood
and marsh live unmolested in its soli
tudes while huntsmen from nearby cities
cross the continent for a shot at other
creatures of their kind.
The game wardens of Cape May coun
ty are Jersey r o..*!««'.-■•■«s io the sum
mer. and tangle s >penetrable jungle
at all times. So .'•> ihat stretch of land
between Delaware bay and the Atlantic
ocean, is in hailing distance of New York
and at the front door of Philadelphia,
is still left to the creatures that inhab
ited ît when Henry Hudson first sailed
this way.
The only exceptions to Cape May's
wilderness are a few pleasure settle
ments, along the sandy ocean front, that
escape the mosquito plague. They are
Ocean City, Sea Isle City and Cape May
—^labs of prosperous and fashionable
American life on the very edge of a
primitive American wilderness.
Patents Issued to
306 Valier Entrymen
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Helena, Aug. 14.—The Carey land act
board has granted during the last few
weeks, patents to 305 entrymen on the
Valier project giving them title to 26.
480 acres which have been reclaimed,
according to Fred Lange, secretary of
the board.
TAC0MA WILL NOT TAKE
U. S. BACON IF NOT PERFECT
Tacoma, Aug. 14.—Acting Mayor F.
n. Pettit has announced that the gov
ernment bacon which is en route here
for sale by the city, will be rigidly in
| spected and sent back to the government
1 if it is not fit for sale.
Spal - Bor Insect Powder
EXTERMINATES ALL INSECTS
LAPEYRE BROS.
LOTS
Industrial Sites, Business Lots
Trackage
X
Residence Lots in all parteof the
city—With Water, Sewer» Cement
Walks, Boulevards
TERMS
Cash, '/sin 1 year, V 3 in 2 years
7 Per Cent Interest on Deferred Payments
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Prosecutor Makes Statement as
Eight Winnipeg Strike
Leaders Are Held.
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 14.—Eight Win
nipeg strike leaders were formally com
mitted for trial at the November session
of court, on a charge of seditious con
spiracy.
Presecutors Andrews said that spread
ing of propaganda had been noticeable
during the past month and that he had
information which led him to believe
that a general tie-up of the dominion
was planned for October 1.
A youth of 20 likes to have some on<>
refer to him us an old friend. But it
is different with a girl of 20.
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P H. Buckley J. O. Patterson
James W. Freeman Jacob C. Far
Bart Armstrong A. Beardsle«
Philip Jacoby M. S. Klepps
P, H. Jones a. J, Doyle
George H. Stanton
OFFICERS
George H. Stanton President
P. H. Jones Vice-President
8. J. Doyle Caabler
H. M. Emerson Assistant Caahiee
Stanton Bank Building, Great S'alla.
American Bank & Trust
Co. of Great Falls
DIRECTORS
R. P. Reckard« H. G. Deseïie»
W. K. Flowerree William Grills
Fred A. Woehner Charles R. Taylor
Frank W. Mitchel Albert J. Fouseîî
h. E. Foster Alfred Malmbers
Robert Cameron Charles Horning
Charles E. Heisey
OFFICERS
R. P. ReckarCs President
W. K. Flowerree..«^. Vlee-Presldent
H. G. Ijescher. Cashier
F. O. Nelson.. ...Assistant Caahlec
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