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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
NATURDAT. JANUARY 0. 186LS
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
No discussion of the capital question
can be had without Great Falls entering
into it as a very prominent factor. And
the more the question is agitated. and
written and spoken about the more
prominent Great Falls becomes. This is
due to the fact that as the merits of the
several candidates for the honor are
passed into review the claims of Great
l alls are forced into prominence, and as
a moue an importance, by comparison,
which attracts general attention. The
Taini.st has eapressed the belief, and
now reiterates it, that if time election for
the pIrmianent capital were poistponed
for tive years, Great Falls would literally
have im walk over for it.
The centralization of the principal
snmelting, rehining and manufacturing
industries of the state at Great Falls; its
large and rapidly increasing population;
the vast increase in the population of its
unuerous tributary mining and agricul
tural centers: the impetus which the
building of one if not two transconti
nental railways into the city will give it,
and the acknowledged fact that Great
Palls will become the center of popula
tion of the state within the next decade
will become so apparent. if not veritled,
that by common consent the capital will
be given to it. This is no idle boast, for
the statement is warranted in the light
of the present. A few short )ears ago
the ground upon which Great Palls
stands was almost a stranger to the
presence of a white man. Today it fur
nishes homies for 8.000 souls, and a be
ginning only is made. The most san
gine will fall far short of measuring the
possibilities of the city during the next
half decaiie. Hie can, however, in cast
ing his horoscope. discern the capital of
Montana on the banks of itroadwater
Toni I io vn has his foot into it up to
his nut-k. Ii, will always wish that irri
gation iongriss lad been held where he
couli not poseil lv have reached it. lie
iimust me-t Sanders and his tongue. .us
tire Fields and hip letter, and the coll
shoulders of every self-respectinglUnitedl
Staties sinator in Washington. Men
h lie to not kn'n Power wonder why he
made the charges he imid. but those who
have measured his mental calibre are
not at all surprised. Power was at home
whei buying robes and furs from old
squaws. There is where lie shone. But
he was and always will be a failure as a
politician. lie owes his present laisition
in the senate to Sanders, but the colonel
will henceforth let hint paddle his own
-anrii. Those two worthies will divide
their blank-ts as soon as l'iiwer reaches
Washington.
I1N a revert speep before an agricul
tural convention in Ohio. I ii vernfor Mc.
Kinky sail: There is one thing that
that all miiLt as a ell make up their
minds t"" ,hawr east: That they cn t
inave ywan in " .Awn it ci-le-i from the
-h.". p"- la~n-; ý d ut a taritf ti it t IhenI
it -nt , , tahawks. 'I ith -anijit
` :a c, %% to (".1w : to their fac turn s in
N\ w In : . ;nl mit et a alt of
, n ý .t Ill tarill to the .h 1er.
I"u lint ask tlat it
I. . . .. in tarttf ta it. M.1 r
L b ii -iii fret nail andi
. i ree h t. I- markets of the
ual li t. r tputt. and 'titht
-I " a i~rket 11," pslnt n". prolenu. g
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ti0 . thari'n t "u I .n t nua wl I.n.io ex en
}. .t, I .I' in \'" t n ;.Ilil, Il. ill the
ture ioitll n'".r i. xeeI :tiitatiNt1t. We
piit i1t:tc ciii. last year and itl pay
about tc1 si0mM0, 00 this year. Nocw it
strikes us that President tlarrieiin could
certainly in tht 4 lillian iatter make as
aceurate an estimate as diid Mr.iartield.
Tir Washington correstondent of the
Blutte Miner says: "1t is generally con
ceded that all possibility of usefulness
for Power in Washington is completely
destroyed. and the people and the legis
lature should demand his resignation."
That is about the size of the situation.
If no other reason existed for calling an
extra session of the legislature than to
give the people of Montana, through
their representatives in that body, an
opportunity to demand Mr. Power's re
signation, Governor Toole would be jus
tified in calling it. Mr. Power should
resign his ill-gotten seat in the senate
and leave Washington forever.
Tar. stock outlook for northern Mon
tana, and, indeed, for the whole state,
was never so tiattering in January as it
is today. There has not been a day in
the winter thus far that sheep have not
enjoyed their daily run on grass and re
turned to their sheds at night with a
sense of fullness and Elenty within them.
Oattle and horses have found excellent
feed upon the ranges. If this weather
continue and the absence of snow be as
marked during the next two months as
it has been during the last two, stock
wW come out of their winter quarters in
as good condition as they went In and
losses will be nominal.
CHINAMEN AND THE CAPITAL
The labor vote of Montana can decide
the capital question. And it will decide
it. The city that can draw the solid
labor vote of the state to its support will
be selected as the permanent capital of
d Montana. And there is only one city in
the state that can do it. That city as
is Great Falls. When it was laid out and
e began to assume form and substance its
e far seeing, enterprising promoters, prof
t iting by the mistakes made by others,
wisely determined that Great Falls
should not be contaminated by the pres
ence of Chinamen. They have adhered
d to the resolution then formed and today
rI Great talls is the only candidate for the
d state capital which can boast of absolute
freedom from the heathen peats. There
is not a Chinaman in it to take bread
from the mouths of laboring men and
women and their families. None but
citizens of the United States or those
who may become such can he found in
x the workshops, in the laundries and in
the kitchens of Great Falls.
a The labor convention which recently
closed its labors at Anaconda wisely re
solved not to support any city for the
t state capital which employs or encourages
- Chinese labor within its limits. The
resolution is the expression of men who
have seen and felt the depressing effects
I and demoralizing tendency of Chinese
r cheap labor. They are workingmen,
t many of them with families to support
while others are the reliance of enfeebled
parents or orphaned brothers and sis
ters. They see around them many of
- the lighter occupations in which the
stronger dependants may add something
to the common subsistence, tilled by
Chinamen. Turn which way they will
they find a Chinaman blocking the door
leading to honorable bread. The kitchen.
r the dormitory, th' laundry. the garden
are occupied by Chinamen. What can
the suffering white laborer do? The
law protects the heathen from violence.
and the almighty dollar grasping dis
position of the average mouney making
American of the day, smoothes the way
to his employment because h:" is cheap.
The result is the ituathen fih.ds work
while the white man and woman go to
bed hungry.
The laboring men of Montana have
long been aware of this fact. 'T'hey have
made earnest appeals to be relieved of
the intolerable burdens which the
presence of Chinamen impose upon
them. Their appeals have been met
with indifference upon the past of the
many and opposition by the interested
few. in the meantime Chinamen are
daily being smuggled into the state, and
the same old order of things continue.
The heathens trade with their country
nien. The money they make in the
country tinds its way to (Ihina through a
Chinese trade channel cut deep by the
customs of the heathens during the
past forty years. 'T'hey are renters of
cheap shacks and not investors in and
builders upon real estate. They obtain
tieir clothing and most of their food
through Chinese channels from their
own country. Thhey employ their own
phymiSins when they are sick an m have
no use for white nien aside fron niiaking
money through thietr go iI nature, in
ti fferne nc r suprenwuj selish W hey
Inak.. it.
Po~werli ft t~ p', t cvt Ii"th:em l ves
tirough process of law' ;!l; asint ti ei'vils
mii intion-I tii( laboring menm of the itate
miprio to nierciue a tinal givemn righlt ti
inhiui the larger cities in tih state to re
CsVnt their wmishme conering thii( Pin
Iln nmt of 4ihinani.n. 'Taey uc f no
hvnii i iiormis to mike thIlni kn imn.
Thin simply say thel will prat tic( what
thmy prealh vote as they tall. Ihy
will mit isupport a ienimidatejltr m ihn. eat
i ta l t h a t e m ap l nyi o r ~iai o u (ag t fa lls
hlabmi. Thati isimimmumtl. (hi-mt Iul di
tiUs the hill. It is tI i only candiilate for
ti-' captul of Ite mmti hine(i vmti of m
1imtana. fir it is tii. only one which isi
not cursed by the presence of the
heathen pests.
Ir. as the Helena Journal asserts. Mr.
Carter has granted a hitter IRoot com
puny a permit "to cut rio per cent of the
timber growing on the timbered sections l
of Miesoula eour ty." a few men down
there have a pretty good thing, and no
others need apply for a share of it. But
isn't the pJournal mistaken in this? Dose
the permit cover all the timbered sec? o
tions of Missoula county, or does it cov
er only a few timbered sections in Bitter
Root valley? There is a distinction as
well as a wide difference in the two I
propositions.
New YoRK is put down by the gold<
bugs as a determined enemy to free coin
age. And yet Roewell P. Flower voted
twice in congress for the free and unlim- I
ited coinage of silver, and in less than a I
year thereafter was elected governor of I
the state by nearly 50,000 majority. It J
these facts prove anything at all they
prove that a majority of the voters of I
the state of New York are very partial
to silver men or very bitter enemies of
the McKinley measure. Either horn
may be taken by our republican friends.
As Mr. Tom Power promised to attend
to the appropriation for irrigation pur
poses in Montana at his end of the line,
tt will soon be in order for the doughty
commodore to introduce his bill. It may
reasonably be feared, however, that the
introduction will be the ending as well
as the beginning of his promised work.
SANDERS' LAND DISTRICT BILL.
The full text of Col. Sanders' land
office bill appears elsewhere to this issue
of the TRiBUcE. Provision is made for
the establlshment of two new land dis
tricts in the state with offices at Dillon
and at Fort Benton. A glance at the
designated boundaries of the Fort Ben
ton or northern district reveals a plot
whereby the immense land office busi
ness of this city and vicinity shall al
ways be retained by Helena. If the bill
become a law Great Falls will be ascom
pletely shut out from obtaining a land
office as she is now evidently shut out
from the favors or smiles of Sanders and
Power There will be no hope for her.
All of her people, with those from liar
ker and Neihart, will be compelled to go
to Helena to transact their land business.
It is a very cunningly devised measure,
gotten up not so much in the interest of
Fort Benton as it is in the interest of
Helena. In a word. it is a Helena bill
whereby that city seeks to protit at the
expense of its more prosperous neigh
bors.
Mr. Sanders fixed the Dillon land dis
trict all right. That is done for the pur
pose of tying Dixon'shands. He wanted
to get in his work in western Choteau
county and Great Falls and Neihart and
Barker, and in intermediate points
where the lands are about all surveyed
and from whence a prosperous land
office business may be expected during
the next few years. And the way he at
tempts to do it is this: Great Falls is
not included in the Fort Benton land
district, but the south boundary line of
that district is laid upon the north
boundary line of this city and passing on
westward twelve miles it strikes the
Montana meridian which it follows north
to the Canadian line, thus leaving Great
Falls just outside the breast-works, as it
were, but within the grasp of Helena.
No greater outrage was ever attempt
e I on the people of northern Montana.
since Clagget turned over this whole
great north country to the Indians as a
reservation than Mr. Sanders proposes to
perpetrate upon them by his outrageous
bill. It is a direct insult to the people
of (treat Falls and contiguous territory.
It is an insult to the intelligence of the
people in the proposed new district.
Fort Benton, already within 25 miles of
a land district, is designated as the sup
posed business center of a territory
which more than equals the combined
area of Massachusetts, Connecti
cut. llhode Island, Delaware and
New Jersey. One boundary line is
purposely brought up against Great
Falls, and its citizens thus notifled they
need not look for a land office during all
time to come. Mr. Sanders' fealty to
Helena's interests, and his jealous watch.
fulness of those of the Northern Pacific,
find expression in his bill. The latter
corporation claims no lands in the pro
posed Fort ienton land district. Will
MIr. l)ixon si- to it that Mr. Sanders'
bill Ie so amended in the house as to
provide for the estatlishmieint of a land
district embracing the western half of
Chotean county auni all of Cascade, with
the land Othee at Itreat Falls. Suih a
hill would be in the line of the interests
of all parties miie dir'tily interestemi.
II:.t iTH OuF .It 'sTi' ir: lAt L E .EY.
'lITe death of Jose-'h P. liraliey re
moves from the scureml court of the
United States one of the most prominent
mermiers of that body. Mr. Birailley was
born in Albriny county. New York,
rarch II. 151. grriiuatoi.I at lint;:ers
aliege. New relsey. in 1i8i:. soul way si
nitted to tie krr in I a39 at Newirk,
N..I.. where hie has line resitleri. ie
sidr" hit labors in lie ry branch of his
;rrfesion he Ia, iivotel i muet time
and attention to ni iteniatics and
the Stur' of law ais a urcie re. lIe was
formeriy a whig, bit hiaded the electoral
ticket for (runt in 18iit. I1i was ap
pointed associate justice of the i uprene
ourirt of the United States in March,
1870. lie was a imeniber of the famous
electoral comiussion in 1877, and by his
voting with the republican members of
the tribunal he gave the presidential of
lice to I. B. Hayes.
For some time past Justice Bradley
has been in very poor health, the result
of an attack of Ia grippe from which he
oeemed unable to rally. His age-70
years- -told against him, and Friday
morning his spirit took its flight from
earth. He will be buried at his home in
Newark tomorrow.
Axornr the resolutions adopted by the
labor convention which just closed its
session at Anaconda was the following:
Resolved, That we will not support
any city for the state capital that em
ploys or encourages Chinese to remain
among them
Great Falls has not a ('hinaman within
its limits; It never did employ Chinese
labor and it never will. Great Falls is
the only candidate for the capital in the
state that answers to the requirement of
the 8,000 or 10,000 labor voters in the
state. It neither employs nor encour
I ages Chinese to remain here. Labor
! delegates. please make a note of this
I fact!
ST. PAUL didn't seem to be in it from
I the start for the democratic national
convention. Chicago captured the prime
without an effort, which fact goes to
show, taking everything Into considera.
tLion, it is the proper place for the con
vesntion.
Full line of Blank Books and Memor
andums at Calki's book store.
THE ROAD TO CASTLE.
Castle wants the Neihart branch of
the Great Northern extended to that
place. It wants an outlet for its untold
mineral wealth. It wants cheaper and
speedier transportation facilities than it
now enjoys. tfter looking over the sit
uation it finds that the extension of the
Neihart branch affords the best, the
quickest and most profitable connection
it can possibly have with the outside
world. The question of the ability of
the great mining camp to supply an
abundance of ore for shipment to and re
ducti n at Great Falls or at other points
does not enter into the discussion from
the fact that that point is conceded by
everyone who is acquainted with its
magniticent mineral resources. There is
no room for a division of opinion upon
this question. Castle must have hoist
ing machinery; it must have mining sup
plies; it must have an outlet for its ores.
and to get all these at minimum cost it
must have railroad connection with the
world. This is the Castle view of the
situation.
Great Falls is in a position, or will be
by the time the road can be completed.
to handle all Castle ores which that
place cannot reduce. It can furnish
the camp with its mining and other sup
plies. It can add investors in its mining
properties and through a railroad con.
nection-it can and will stimulate and ad
vance the business interests of the two
places far beyond the expectations of
the most sanguine. Great Falls is quite
as much interested in a direct railroad
connection with Castle as that place is
in any enterprise which will bring it
about. Each would he benefited and
each should spare no honorable means
to unite the two places by rail at the
earliest possible moment. This is the
Great Falls view of the situation.
But railroads upon paper add nothing
to the taxable or prospective wealth of
coniunnities. There may he cities in
Montana which derive a certain degree
of aid and comfort from paper railroads.
But Great Falls is not one of them. In
all of its enterprises this city tirst
weighed. then decided, and then acted
It has completed what it inaugurated.
It proposes to be quite as methodical in
the Castle railroad enterprise. It nas
weighed it as a business proposition and
found it not wanting. It has decided
the road should be built, and action is
determined upon.
As railroads cannot be built without
money, and as the Castle road will re
quire at least a half million to complete
it, the first thing to claim the attention
of the enterprising citizens of Great Falls
is the question of money. This is a mat
ter in which the board of trade should,
and doubtless will, interest itself. A
certain amount of money is expected
from the business men of the city. It
all put their shoulder to the wheel the
necessary funds can he guaranteed and
the ball set moving. No business uiman
is so blind that he will fail to see the re
sulting benehits of a generous outldy of
capital in the enterprise. As a business
venture money put in a road to Castle
would prose a paying in ICshwCrat if nov
er a divideiCCC were deeh-r.r . 'L ire thor
ough business raCan does not require an
argument to impreIs this fact upon his
m1ind. The mCaking of one of the moIt
promising Cining stectiCCns Cn the state
tributary to I treat Falls would soon tell
the- story of CCnney advantageously et:
ICCC nd. If, however. nothing hr- Ven
tIred, nothing will be gained. Tilis 1.1
adlage is quite as true when applied tit
the ailing of railroad CenstrsuItiCn i ,s
When applied to the CoCuCInC. emery -CIy
CIuCCiCCCCS5 of lift.
A orCI the first thing a hout- seeker
inquires about after satisfying hiCself
as to the healthfulness of the ClirCate
and fertility of the soil of a place is its
school and church facilities. Nto sensi
file man, let the advantages of a town he
otherwise what they may, will willingly
remove his family from good school and
church influences to a place barren of
either or which possesses them only in a
very moderate degree. Happily for
Great Falls its enterprising citizens
have left nothing to be wished for in
this direction. No place in the state has
more church and school buildings in
proportion to its population than Great
Falls. Its educational facilities are ad
mirable while the church-goer will not
fall to find the denomination of his
choice in possession of a comfortable
house of worship. Great Falls is truly a
church going community.
THE Missoula Gazette is authority for
the statemeut that Justice Field has not
i yet decided whether to have Power
hanged or shot, The justice has not
C yet elected what dispuoition he will
make of Power. He is waiting to see in
what shape he will appear when Sanders
I gete through with him. He may be a
tit subject for a coroner's jury or a luna
tico inquirendo. In either case Judge
Fields will let him alone.
*Tan St. Louis Republic says the Chil
Ian war party consists of Blaine, Har
rison, Egan and the guano operators of
whom ex-Minister to France Levi P.
Morton, of Morton, Bliss & Co., can fur.
nish a list. Yet these few men with the
aye vote of congress can set this great
overgrown country upon Chill me the
whipping of which neither glory nor
profit may be gained.
BILLIARD TOVRNAMR3T.
ehabashr still Helds the Champiosship of
the World.
Naw Yoai, Jan. 22.-1t was a repre
sentative audience that filled Lenox Ly
ceum in this city tonight and watched
"Wizard" Schaeffer and "Student" Sloe
eon cross cues for the championship of
the billiard world. Schaeffer held the
championship and tloeson wanted
it. The match was for a cup,
a stake of 81,000 and the not receipts of
the house. The game was 14-inch balk
line, 800 points and up. The referee
was Pincus Levy of Philadelphia. Re
sults as follows: Schaefer 800, Sloseon
5I)2. Highest run: Schaefer 155, 1oesson
11:1. Average: Schaefer 22.85 5-7, slos
son 17.41 I.17. Time of game: Three
hours and If minutes. The winner was
challenged by Ives.
(luny Wins His Libel Hail.
Prrrmarmo, Jan. 22.- After being out
three and a half hours the jury in the
famous criminal libel suit of Senator
Matthew Htanley Quay against the Pitta
burg Post Publishing company, Albert
J. Harr, president, and James Mills, ed'
tor, brought in a verdict this evening of
guilty in the manner and form as in
dicted. The morning session of the
court was devoted to arguments. Fer
guson addressed the jury for the dIe
sense and Marshall In behalf of the
prosecution. Judge Porter then charged
the jury, who retired at 3:15. When the
verdict was rendered at 0:48 none of the
principals were present. The court then
adjourned.
Concerning the verdict in the libel suit
the Post will say tomorrow: "The jury
in the Quay Post libel case found a ver
dict of guilty. This cannot be a surprise
to the public as it does not suprise us.
A republican court, a republican prose
cuting attorney and a republican jury
convicted a democratic journal of libel
on a leader of the republican party. In
the Quay trial at Beaver the first part of
the week the republican prosecuting at
torney took a jury panel of thirty, select
ed sixteen republicans out of it and
stood aside all the rest. Two of these
sixteen were brothers-in-law of two of
his attorneys; two were republican oftice
holders and the fifth was a man stand
ing close to Senator Quay personally,
who was stated in that county as fre
quently having handled his political bete.
The defendants were then given the
cheerless right of striking off four of
these sixteen men and going to trial be
fore the remaining twelve. Of course
there ways a verdict of guilty."
The same charge is made regarding
the trial here, and the paper adds:
"So firmly are we convinced of this in
justice and wrong of the tremendous pos
sibilities of evil and oppression insepara
ble from this pernicious system, that the
Post will protest against it in the highest
courts of our country. The future use
fulness and liberty of the press to com
bat wrong in high places is involved in
this issue. It exists in no other state in t
the union than in Pennsylvania. It is a
relic of despotism."
Duu's lieviow of Trade.
Nc.w YottiK, Jan. t2. R. G. i)un &
( o i weekly review of trade Pays: lie
ports front every part of the country ex
press even greater confidence than he
fore in the prospects for trade, while in
some lines definite. though gradual iet
provernient is already seen Itumnors of
cmii lug tar dering the past week had
not substance enoigh to alfect oint-y
markiate or traile iti the least. Markets
fir staple prodnct- have been undis
turhld by speculation. which is 1ehi u!
ch uk ty- nortius suppliis.
W-eat advantet- l't hte :t!l tildt
at the west have -i-ti hlihtir owing to
tiii- covere wiatler. but expor t- utintue
large, Cmrn is run, forward i-r%
urvly anu has I t li-ei Ih u ,l tt.iial
expostis for tho work %W0 provably I,".
itry heavy. In it-- miarketi no im
port at changes in pri-F are ri ittiid.
though tnriusitung strength is riportid
in Iuiructs iur iron and stlil products.
keports ft iu hities i- ticate cii.
real incrunse in trat-i a- well as great
innuidiullii in the future. At Miliault-t
m~ttt- weath,-r has it good a fe,"t and the
I demand for stoney in lumibr iuil live I
stouk trails is easy. At NIinneapolis
the e ,tretuuold crotea- a slight dci-rease
in trai. lit hlour to is titter demand.
the output being 17:;.I I .rrilc. against
11.I.(t)i last yo-ar for the week. At it.
Paul the prospects o. trade are excellent
and money easy and at thtaba very easy
with trade ittproving.
The output of previous metals in 1191
bas been surpassed in only two years ac
cording to 11 ells, Fargo &. co.'s state
minnt. amounting to #31:.75,094 gold:
f(0,514.0(14 silver; 813t,261,t413 copper, and
$12,3i85,780 lead. The tlexican output
of silver was$43,000,lXti. Annual reports
of many other industries show the pro
duction in 1891 has rarely, if it ever has,
been equalled and the new year begins
with no prospect of decrease in any im
portant industry. Even wool manufac
turers appear to have used more wool
last year than in any previous year. im
ports having been the largest on record.
In woolens there is a considerable re
turn demand for spring goods and the
opening of many styles of men's wear
for the following season Is not thus far
by good orders.
DEADLY CHLOROFORM
Endst the Lift of One of Bliniigs' eunag
Ladies.
BJIA.iusto, Jan. 22.- -While under the
influence of chloroform, given to allevi
ate the pain while extracting a tooth,
Thursday, Miss May Hewitt, an estim
able young lady, died in the office of Dr.
J. N. Featherson, a dentist. The drug
was administered by Dr. Chapple, a
skillful physician. who is believed to
have usel every precaution, but before
the operation was complete she was sec n
to be sinking and every effort was made
to rally her, but without effect. Miss
Hewitt was about 2 yearsof age and
came here from Chicago, where her fam
Ily reside. She has two sisters and other
relations In this state, one sister being
the wife of Jefersoa D. Brown, a loco
motive engineer of Butte. She was ex
tremely pretty ad a general favorite.
An inquest was held today, at the docu
tsr' request, by Justice Campbell.
IMMORTAL eue
Anniversary of His 1l'rth45
ably CommemqateN
Here
By IlaBanquet and lall
Geod 'l'oasts mid
Sungs.
The birthday of the iummortal
was fittingly celebrated in i ;at
last night by those of Scotch ni
Scotch descent. Many inhitel
were present and at least my
lade and lassies were gathered
the banquet board in the Inter
hotel when Judge Race, toaster
monies, declared the festivitij
menced.
Landlord Bruce of the late
had prepared a substantial se
cluding the delicacies of the se
few failed to do the repast justi
hour or so was devoted to par
the good things provided, includi
goJ old-fashioned brew, when
Rce knocked for order anl
feast of reason would he full
songs and addresses appropriate
occasion.
He then called upon Mr. Ha
to sing "There Was a Man." rhi
gentleman did in a commendable
ner. The next on the program
toastmaster's reply to the toast, '
Burns." Judge Race comman
proposiug the health of the mreat
which all drank standing. He
briefly sketched the career of
from his humble origin until the
become the acknowledged le
Scotch poets. Burns differed f
most any other great literary et
in that an his writings he neeerdi
any of the results of a college ed
but choose for his subjects nature
her varied forms. If there ever
true child of nature surely it was
The man's versatility was prodigii
ran the whole gamutof human@
and portrayed all of the plait I
If necessary the poet could te ea
and history records the fact that
well-known :scotch people of the
writhed beneath his caustic pet
times he could also be snteumdv.a
he wrote that beautiful apltri
'"ary in Heaven," beginning with
immortal lines, "Thou lingermgete
lessening ray." One hundred and
years after his birth the event sc
brated all over the Jnglish
world which showed in what osg
was held while the great Scot"'
Wallace, Manstield and c
almost forgotten. Burns, likes.
of the race, had his faults wh.
quently followed to extreoenAt
mantle of charity shoutl be drum
these little follies which at tns
tracted him from the straight
Judge Race closed with a 1,
tribute to the poet and his I!
history.
The next was a song by N1r'.
who gave 'Scotih Lassie ti ea
manner which elicited tuerite app'
Andrew Lyall then recitod ""
Shanter," giving the dialect part,
perfection which displayed cmisiL
stueiy.
-The Land We Left and t11w la
Live In" was the title of the ii
snonded to by liev. J. lIvid. jr. Tu
part of his speech was givin iiit
Scotch dialect, which drew rair
round of applase from the S..t.
preelnt. It was an original i- l a:
tlayyii the r'i..ciii gintuioume
nritty with the vartous ilio;
:perch. Th" uart relatire i. thi
Aie live in- was given int) ,
IFnalieh. The speaker
fell protud or the liun It" hig ca
gavet ti the world ita \\alluh i
(Carlyle, a Ncott and at illa :
filt e1ual!y proud of tli
adoption whirl like Ntiandit~
bhie coniueri I and owed I
greatietis to the lii. d hil Sc ct
that flovwel in the tnis of it;
ien. Carlyle. who was l.
stowing praise. ,tii said that I
tilt greatest character of ti
whoi stsel as a reality teiiaast I
ant of the leii. Thoughi Ih
thums overhulied his l ,grue t
literiry aehieveenitis aakt -
unperishablo.
M]uessrs. Geioyiar, Lyal:. an,
drostwd in partial IIgihlolaol
then sang "Willie Ilriwd :e
Maiuit," imitating in their (l0
tIe characters required to jI
teliction.
The laust speaker was C. M. \\"
who spoke on the *Lassies." V\ l"
troducing hint Judge Itace call ! a.
tion to the fact that it is leap sour
advised the lasses present to pay
attention to the speaker's adiel '
Webster said that whether lep .
otherwise the subject was one all
loved to embrace. This sally was gri
with great laughter. The .pr
then paid a glowing tribute to
woman of America, Montana, C
Falls and especially to those presi
the banquet. He metamorphhized
lines from "Pope's Essay on Man"
ing to vice as follows:
0 woman Is oer hours of sass
Uneertian coy sail hard to please.
Bat mesa too tot famrslhar with thy fau
We rMa eadure, thea pity sand thea em
With other poetical quotations
several tributes to the gentler sex.
Webster closed and one of the most
ceseul banquets ever given here
memory of Robert Burns was over.
The tables were then cleared a
and dancing commenced. It contic
until a late hour. The music for
dancing was furnished by irN
orchestra.
Likes Egas.
WA5IINmTrON, Jan. 1i.-Said Assiet
Secretary of State Ades today:
Egan's course in Chili has been one
to merit praise. I consider Mr. F
one of the best ministers we have in
service. I can say this conscientili
because when he was appointed
thought, as perhaps others did, that
was risky to appoint a man who had
lived long in this country. But
after his appointment Mr. Egan she
that he was a diplomat of ability,
and discretion. Throughout this Cl
be has acted ia a most statesmanlike
titude. His telegram have been law!
like ln their ability and clearness."