Show WILL HE LEARN vice president and Genc general iFal manager potter ot of the union pacific is a great a very great railroad man ho ile works for his company and lie works successfully in many particulars par ticul ars when he gets among the expenses he cuts and slashes like a french cavalryman and before his desperate strokes hundreds of unnecessary agents and clerks roll into the dust but N ft hen ho he gets into the freight tariff iff lie the vigor of his strong right arm seems to have vanished and lie dont cut and elash slash worth a cent in IR this respect his work or rather his lack of effective work will scarcely be any more remunerative to his company than it is satisfactory to the public of this region the rocky mountain country is not more dependent for prosperity upon the union pacific than the union pacific cide is dependent upon the country for years this region has contributed a royal revenue to the corporation and while he was able to pay with open hand there was wa no hesitancy on the part of the enterprising westerner he ile knew something of the difficulties w m aich had been encountered in bringing the railways here herland and he cheerfully divided all profits with the companies giving them by far the larger share but competition haa has grown sharper the price of many rocky mountain moun tat n products has declined and the old rates of freight are too high W while hile the railroad traffic has increased so rapidly and largely that the old rates are no longer necessary white mr potter was cutting with his lie might have decapitated the pompous high swelling freight rates which live too richly off t the lie fat 0 ot this land instead of a freight tariff for revenue only the present tariff is prohibitory or in another column is recorded the fact that one of the butte smelters haa closed down because of the high price of salt our readers are familiar with the salt question as it has been ventilated many times in these columns but few of them even will understand the full significance 0 of f the announcement that the alice 0 mills have been shut shutdown down it is simply that the means of living of people in butte has been withdrawn the town must suffer seriously from this even event but how about the railway company will the closing of th sAlice alice bring money into union pacific coffers not by any means in reality the disaster is as great to the company as to the town the union pacific first loses the yearly on rait salt freights then a vast amount on coal and finally and most important of all it has deliberately robbed people of their purchasing power these people spent the bulk of their means tor for goods carried by the union pacific at high rates of freight into butte it may bo be according to lie the methods of the successful railway financier to grab al ablat lat once and to oppress communities muni ties to the verge of ruin and starvation but to one who only views the situation at a distance it looks as though the union pacific would gain more profit by helping al all the cities along its lines to be prosperous the resources of a country are i nothing without the people all the n health in the mountains of montana is worthless to the union pacific I 1 in its present shape but the people to transi transmute u to it into available bars of bullion a are r e a mine ine of constant yield to the ra railway i 1 baym if a country haa has certain natural wealth which can support a largo large population of industrious people the railroads penetrating that region hould should foster the re resources burces and until the managers of the union pacific can be brought to an effectual realization of this fact both company and country will suffer TUB tim chicago aw news pent rent a reporter to tag great blaino blaine all av over er europe and so far from impressing the world with the idea that its purpose was to gather legitimate items the nan has excited considerable on sider unfavorable comment the detroit tribune says on this subject 0 if the reporter of the chicago netra following o mr blaine come back of the experiment may be called a success if however the principal object waa was to pursue nd persecute mr blaine the intelli gent public would at once advise the news i to call off its yellow dog etisa it is a puppy performance on the part of the aw news which it ought to bo be ashamed bv of tar of the east rast present A peat eat conundrum of which the follow low ing are the terms A freight tra train in one mile in length stopped with tile caboose just opposite the depot the co conductor ductor got orders to move his hi train tr n to the next station which was J juet five miles distant lie ile cave gave the engineer the order to move which the latter did while the conductor walked over ahead on top of the cars and got there justas the engine arrived at the next station eta tion where ho he got afi off tho the 9 qu question ution is bow how far did ho bo walk or as ho he was walking during the entire five ave miles did be he ride st t all |