THE NEW NORTHWEST
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896.
LEE MANTLE AND SILVER.
Senator Lee Mantle has written from
Washington to a resident of this commu
pity stating that in his opinion loyal re
publicans in the West should stand un
hesitatingly for the two cardinal princi
ples of free silver coinage and protection.
It is the expressed conviction of the sen
ator that these two planks in the republi
can platform would constitute the causes
of a great triumph at the presidential
,ggjon this fall, This newspaper is in
hearty accord with Montana's juiior sEti
gp9 in so far as silver is concerned. It
does not agree with him, however, that
the principle of protection is one essen
tial for the advancement of the interests
of the great traus-Misesissippi country.
There Is this ulmich about it: Protection
will never become popular in this vast
part of the union until silver has been
recognized by the protected gold bugs of
the East. This newspaper takes its stand
with the old line democrats who believe
in tariff for revenue with incidental pro
tection; in a financial system that use
both gold and silver as money metals and
as the foundation of the monetary sys
tem; who believe that all paper cur
rency should be redeemable in coin; who
believe in a flexible and increasing cur
rency proportioned to the increase of
business and population; who know the
history of the party and the country, and
who doubt the ability of the present con
gress to relieve the distress of the coun
try by the issuance of more bonds. See
ing the terrible necessities of the govern
ment at this time, with the danger of
bankruptcy abs3lutely staring it in the
face, the republicans of the east and a
vast proportion of the democrats refuse
to come together and enact a sound bank
ing system which will be a credit to the
party inaugurating it, and a defense of
the United States. The present condi
tion of affairs in the commercial world
was not brought about by laws enacted by
a democratic congress. The evil consists
in not rising to a full appreciation and
thorough apprehension of the conditions
that bad laws enacted by former admin
istrations have produced. The crime
against silver in its demonetization, and
the destruction of one-half the founda
tion of our monetary system, the unright
eous discrimination against the use of sil
ver money now coined, and, as Senator
Mantle says, the enforced issuance of
bonds to replenish ai gold reserve when
silver should be used as the reserve and
in payment of the debts of the country;
the enormous expense saddled upon the
government by former administrations
acting under the dictation of an iniquitous
bondholder's combine, and made under
revenue laws inadequate to meet those
expenses; all these things should unite
the West, independent of party allegi
ance, to demand a finallcial IlleLasure de
signed for the good of the whole country
and not simply for the money lenders.
The principle should be observed thatt
the government, as the constitution pro
vides, should coin money, and as an in
ference it should supervise all the issu
ance of currency so as to insutre the re
demption of the bills issued. No one in
this country wants to carry around either
gold or silver if a bill can be had that is
redeemable and sure to be redeemed
upon demand in coin. The people of the
West should unite in demanding a law
positive in its character, directing the
secretary of the treasury and all bankers
to pay out gold and silver in equal quan
tities for the redemption of currency,and
in the payment of all contracts not other
wise specified. At the very lea-t, the
discretion left to the secretary of the
treasury should be limited to the equal
use of both gold and silver. In fighting
for these principles Senator Mantle will
find his constituents in this coimmon
wealth standing firmly at his back at all
times. Montana- people are proud of
the stand taken by the representatives of
this state in congress during recent
weeks. This newspaper, in common with
the press of the state, refuses to take its
politics from the dictators of the East.
The NEW NORTHWEST will enter this
campaign free from party prejudices and
will taklce its stand with the political party
that promises to best serve silver and
the interests of the great west.
3.R. HASKELL'S LEITER.
Ever since the state board of examiners
decided to suspend work on the eastern
penitentiary building at Billings, the
Gazette of that city has kept up a tirade
of abuse against the state officers com
posing that board, charging them with
fraudulently using the money appropria
ted by the legislature for the benefit of
the Deer Lodge prison and the insane
asylum; when, as a matter of fact, the
board was pursuing a wise policy, and
for the best interests of the state, in re
fusing to cripple institutions already es
tablished by using the money necessary
for their maintenance in erecting new,
and, at this time, unnecessary buildings
at Billings. But the Gazette, in its windy
warfare against the board, has met with
but little encouragement or sympathy
from the press and people of the state:
and for the purpose of correcting some
of the misrepresentations that have been
paraded before the public, Attorney Gen
eral Haskell has written a letter in which
he fully explains the duties and scope of
the state board of examiners and the rea
sons for suspending public work in cer
tain cases. We think a careful perusal
of Mr. Haskell's letter will satisfy all fair
minded people that the board has acted
wisely in the matter, and for the best in
teretst of the state, The letter,, which
W.a pablisheld in the Ielena Indepen
dent of March 10, Is as follows:
As the atpproprlat1olts made by tile leg
Islatlve mdenibly exceeded tlhe revenues
of the state, it necessarily follows that
funds to meet such appropriations are
not always available. It is, of course,
disappointing 'o communities ill which
public buildings are to be erected to have
the work of construction delayed. If it
was as easy for the state to collect reve
nues as it is for tie legislative assembly
to appropriate money, all our public in
stitutions might have been completed
long ere this and fully etquipped for the
work assigned therr. Unfortunately,
however, an appropriation does not curry
with it the ways and means by which
money can hte sectured to ma:tke it effect
ire, hence it follows thalt in the expendi
ture of public moneys state olic:ers must
be governed by thie condition of the funtds
in the treasury, rather than by the a:ppro
priations made.
Intelligent men understand that state
officers cannot incur any indebtedness
and must adapt their expenditures to the
revenues. Even the legislative assembly
is powerless to create any indebtedness
without providing revenues to meet it, in
accordance with the constitution. Money
cannot be drawn from thre general fund
and expended in line with the approprli
ations made when it is not in the general
fuind. This is so clearly ra business prop
osition that no one should criticise a state
olticer for being governed by it, yet it is
unfortunately true thart evilly disposed
individuals, with ipersonal and tpolitical
ends to serve, are libelling thre state of
icers of Montana, using as a text the
fact that the eastern ipeuitentiary at tIil
lings has not been completed, although
an aplpropriation was made by the legisla
ture for thatt Ipurpose. Not only are their
state ullicers censured for the nonr-comrt
pletion of tile building, but the allega
tion is made that the money approlpri:
ted for this institution has been fraudu
lently used for other pIurlposes, unallely:
Turned over to Messrs. SMitchell & diuts
sigbrod, of the iusane asylum, and Messrs.
Couley r& AlcTague, of the penitentiary
at Deer Lodge.
Although conscious of the fact that
these malicious attacksi arte mlla solely
for political effect and to serve :a political
purpose, we believe it to bet our dutiy to
show their untruthtl'uluess front the pui
lic records, which are acctessible to all
who may idesire to investigate the details
of public business for themstelves.
The depreciation of values and relative
shrinkage of revenues irhas adllt the
strain upon the general lntlud a severc
one. T'ie outstarding warrants ftr ' lar
registered upl to Nove'miJber Uth, trhat
yeiar, anld drawn against that fund arilll
ted to $6,14,l.81, while there was only
$2,084.5 ill the treasury \ ith which Ito
imeet these bills, outstanding revenllres
nlot being due and collectable at that
date. The total appttrolriation for 1f95
arlounted to $631,950.CUS, while the in
ctmre of tile general fund atIounted to
$418,li)03.61, or $213,257.07 in excess of the
revenues. Under these conditions it was
necessary for tile state boardt tof examin
ers to do a great deal of cutting down to
bring tile explenditures within the rev
enues.
It was not deemed wise to close down
institutions already established in order
to complete and equip new ones, especi
ally when the former could not be dis
pensed with. lucluded in the appropri
ation of $631,950.68 were $105,000 for the
maintenance of the insane in 1895, andt
$~5,000 for the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge. The most ardent champions of
the eastern penitentiary at Billings
would scarcely insist that either of the
foregoing institutions should be closed
down in order to facilitate its construc
tion by some specific date. That the
money appropriated for the eastern pen
itentiary was not used to maintain the
institutions namrred is evidenced by the
fact that while $55,000 was appropriated
for the Deer Lodge penitentiary, but
$46,897.55 was expended-a saving of $8,
102.45 being thus effected in the general
fund. The care and keeping of the in
sane slightly exceeded tile appropriation,
but Messrs. Mitchell & Mussigbrod did
not receive one dollar in excess of the
appropriation. The amount appropria
ted and paid was $105,000, the amount
expended being $10(6,217.10, or $1,217.10
more than thie appropriation. This ex
cess is represented by a certificate of in
debtedness and is incorporated in the de
ficiency bills for 1895, which amount to a
total of $16,i73.69 for that fiscal year. In
addition to the saving of $8,102.45 in the
appropriation for the Deer Lodge peni
tentiary, the entire appropriation of $7,
500 for the University at Missoula was
saved; and the appropriation of $15,000
for the deaf and dumb school at Boulder
was cut to $6,204.84, a saving of $8,799.16.
By careful and economical management
a small saving was also made in running
the reform school and orphan's home.
Over a great deal of the money the
state board of examiners has no jurisdic
tion. Of the amounts appropriated, $26,
000 went to pay clerical hire in the legis
lature and the general expenses of that
body, while .i51,773.65 was appropriated
for deficiency bills. The general appro
priation bill, amounting to) $10(.677, wtas
to pay salaries of state ullit'ers and lthe
expenses of state Sgovt'ernnlll as regula
ted by law. That the expenditure o'
3574,l50.8,. of an apprrml-iation amount
ing to $W831,950.68, under the regulations
provided by the constitution and the law,
from an income o oolly $'1t8,69;.01, re
ir!!rd careful financiering to say the
leant,
ThIe board of prison c·mnltiissriontrs rtc
uommended to the legislativl asse mtbly stn
aplpropriaition of S$30,00t(,the exact amonut
required to complete lih eastern peini
tentiiary, including all furnishings. This
reoitnIlu endatlion was taken up by t(he leg
islature and $20,000) added to tlhe amount
specified, for what purpiosew t re uili
hle to say, as the ,70,1510 was fully ample
to cover all details, ev\i to fulrnishling
the rills of thie prisoners.
When it became evident that the Lop
prupriations largely ,x(,tided lthe reve
Iunes that tmild be applied tlhereun, the
hI:ard of prison 'olllltmistsioniers nlade ov
'ry flflort to devise solei witay by which
the colnustrui tilon of theil asit rli p'liitell
tiat'y could be proceeded with. lFromn
April 3, 1ts 95, to Augc . i 0, 1', 1itr meelit
ilug's were held by the hi rd for the putr
pose of securing fundis to complete the
buildting. At one tim airatngemnl fts
wPre mIade wherehy loca'l hanlk:s atried
inude tedness, provided they could he
glaranteed the difi erl u ic e in lu't erest be.
tween that which woult he allo.wed by
the leislattture, probahy six per cri t., and
the 10 per cen't. they retquiridr , for thet
few mot)nths intervening before the iheet
ingof tihat body. No'e of the lilizens of
lillings, however, wouhl nike thi, guar
antei, and thie rraigel tents it fll hre segh.
Failing in every elfort to raise the funds
to proceed with the work, and the col
tractor, 1r. Shaffer, diaudiu llng nu' ime
diate li ttilet et t, a cII 1(r11111 (iitseii was elf
fected lby which ll. was 1o quit work on
the building aud accept ctertilicates of in
l t'lodIlc ss ti l 'roi t h b1 tr for( the tlI ioti llt)
of labor turd material fnrnished by him
Ui to thati flitei excll sive of the aI lount
already ptaidt him. ''hese ertly ii lcates,
which g'o into the ' dii'i' ncrlly hill, amrount
to $4,62:3.:(, a final settlement Meing ef
fecled with Mr. Shaller Aug. 30, 15;5.
Frlm the foregoiii facts it will be seen
that the efforts of any torru])pt and venal
state tl ui,.rs of Montanm, as the price of
itls silence, is wastd enery. The public;
reverds, ope, n to the inspo iton of all.will
how precisely what coroev goes intothe
alens fnd and for whsoa exp anded.
Under the irc illt ntes the eastern pents
itniary has, o ste ram-heatedt of ll, been
l t u st the s thi thng r statto use in
stilutials acre uuWvailhl3" the advenl of
Ilow's This :'
We nl'er o)ne Hunhdred Dollars Howard
o no isrh thao te consi not d
red; leaves 1111s atarieah Cieapolis
St. PalENEY & C., Props., Toledon , O.
lane, thic uderi d, hav known press"..
Chviay for lh. last 15 yeNo r, and beliere
hi perfectly honorable in all busiuperss
trtYourtials homn agen to arsellry
out tany oligcketis viadh their first
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The record of renmarkable cules effect
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plentifully supplied with
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