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THE DEMOCRAT-HERALD
VOL. XXXV. No. 49
Three Great Epochs
In Baca County History
Second Epoch
The Depopulation of the High
West. the Exodus Extending
Over the Western Third of
Kansas and Nebraska and to
the Mountains, Lands and
Houses Abandoned and Sold
For a Song.
With the count; seat settled,
the towns that got left had noth
ing more to look forward to, and
the town that got it found the
honor to be an empty one.
Right at this time a number of
u-wspapers had steady given up
tie ghost, halt the houses in all
the towns were already vacant,
and the people of both town and
country were already scattering,
We have given some of the
reasons for this. And there are
Others, one of them being that
they came from a corn country,
and when their new ground fail
ed to yield the big eats they had
been used to seeing, they damn
ed the country and pulled their
freight.
Another trouble was. they
came nere Deiievlug that the rains
here would fall on tt, j—* —* J
the unjust the same as it did
wheye they came from. Anotbr
er trouble, in their experiences
back east there was nothing to
bring out a thought of some
plants standing drouth better
than others-
Anotbe
ever sr
ify war
»ore
The lands thafcwsre not prov
ed up of course went back to the
government and of those proved
up about ninatesn-twentietbs of
those who went with the exo
dus, were afterwards sold for
taxes, or rather what the county
could get for them.
The last offering of these, in
order that the county could get
them on the tax roll, was at $25
a quarter section, when every
body began to scratch around to
gat the money, and Anally
they were all sold at thatfiigure.
The seeond and concluding in
stallment of tba second epoch
next week, wa finding It too long
for one issue,
Raising a Beard
Vs. Raising Wheat
Exclusive Democrat-Herald:
Raising a beard Is juat aa
profitable and a blame eight eas
ier than raising wheat under
present conditions, in the opinion
of tarry Crlaman of Harmony,
according to a recant news story
in the Ft. Collins Courier.
Crlsman. states tba story,
...gv.wsiya tMStrmSHDf
agreement with the Colorado
Wheat Growers' association dur
ing n resent membership cam
paign conducted in his territory
by tlpe bgdneaa men of Fort
Collins. 4t th# Sams Sips be
-eed wttb bis neighbors ppt to
1 until the aseoda*
Mr membership
'-*rp ip fb-
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNT’, COLORADO, FRIDAY DEC. 28 1923
YOU HAVEN'T SEEN COLORADO—INTIL YOU HAVE SEEN BACA COUNTY
Poor old Mexico is off sgain,
on again, gone sgain.
The town has been full of
Santa Clauses the past week.
Both churches had Christmas
trees this year, and large crowds
at both places.
During this present year it is
reported that S4O 000,000 were
coined in I Vie Denver mint.
Ford hus sai l ihe tariff is a
joke, and then he jinei the G.
O. P. old guard to help perpetu
ate the joke,
Senators on thn floor of the
senate have douhioJ the veracity
of the Hughes red-flag story.
Tbsy know Hughes.
School vocation this week is
pretty general over the country,
and the little fellows are enjoy
ing themselves immensely.
Congress convened on the 4th
■nA adjourned last week with
out having passed a single bill.
That’s a good start for 1924.
Despite the hard times, the
merchants enjoyed a wonderful
holiday trade, most of their
■toeks being pretty well sold
out.
The cold and bald-headed facta
art that reducing taxes $223,000,
000 on incomes is simply to raise
taxes that much on those who
are not in the income class.
Prance may pay U. S. debt
toon.—headline. That’s awful
generous of them. And here
we’ve been complaining because
they wouldn’t pay their own
debts.
Southern senators have charg
that postoffices down that way
I have been turned over to the
iguv. wiNuoiej —— * - .u.
gation by the senate has been
ordered.
Thirty-one war prisoners were
pardoned by President Coolidg.
last week. All the prison
ers qf Europe were pardoned, it
is said, immediately af“
war was oyer. —cl . on plao
' OP incomes
-* .000 is O. K. and oughj;
—wd right Hjeye the **r
: °Wght to step—unless
qld be increased.
■ator Borah of Idaho has
rduced a bill requiring that
in members of tty? supreme
rt shall concur when the
stitutiopallly of an apt of
greis ip before it, Bqt why
unanimous?
Pflt Neff indorsed for prpsi
msy-headline to dispatch
.-outing up from Dallas, Texas.
The dispatch filling to tell us who
lin John William Benry Pat Neff
Is, all we know is that Pat mafces
:t just op e more,
ffallroads cannot operate at a
■ogg and continue to supply the i
tyuspyitation oeddif' of the
>untry.-' P.ueblb • CHleftain.
baw! That's what tilt, farm- I
: l ? ave been rfoing J iof‘'the past/
yfears. Can’t the railroads 1
’ well as the farmers? I
ile the administration is
ng the great benefits of
•ng taxes on incomes, it
to have Illustrated the
to the people in taxes by
of the 30 billion invest
-empt boLds. Well,
ell us-what’s the dif.
?
that Judge
ct in the capacity
v attorney after the first
“ offering to make no
or his services except
’ the county being'in a
This it In .line yvitli the
Democrat-Herald has
K?. For over twenty
ere wasn’t an at tor.
tOunty, and things
•it as well as sihee
ms been 1 employed,
rragqnieril, though
dl save the county
Arthur Brierane, syndicate!
writer, gets if the following: i
‘'Congress votd a pension ol 1
$5,000 a year for life to the i
widow of ex«> Bident Hsrding
and every bod jwill applaud that.
Had he not been president
and overworkd, Mrs. Harding
would still live her husband
and a nappy lie.” [t is popu
lar at this fine to refer to
presidents wh< have met with
“physical colj-pse or died in of
fice aa having given their lives
for their eotptry, but the
chances are tiat the; died no
sooner and no later than thay
would out of office, and the
eame in the /cam of a physical
ci illapee, ,
Henry Ford, in declaring for
Coolidge, didn t sell his birth
right for a men of pottage, but
be has sold his Honor and repu
tation and betrayed the confi
dence of his fri mdß and support
ers for a nee? egg in a commer
cial enterprise. In other words,
he undertakes to turn hie
friende and followers over to the
reactionery yring of the G. O.
P.’s in exchange for Muscle
Shoals. But it’s our long guess
that Ford will take about as
many progressives over to the
reactionery camp as Benedict
Arnold took Americans over to
the British grimy.
Which are -ihe progressives in
congress, theJmen who are try
ing to do aoowthing or the men
that are trying? to prevent some
thing being-7 done? Pueblo
Chieftain. Itfall depends. Those
fellowß at tijfe Canon City pen
who recentlytjumped into t high
powor car anfa went tearing out
of the gateafimQ out of the city
were do something,
sad thfttst*' Wgot after them in
ITi.d 7 wi yic
ventTjfiat something beiag done.
It all .yepends on what those old
guard \';rand-standers up there
to Was 1 inn*** o " are trying to
do. j—i , o ats \.l
message as an i’
and frank presentation
of the stand pat reactionery
theory of government,” adding
tliat there is nothing in the
message “that woujd offend the
most spq-itiye of the bjv busl
ne.-s int P l. jtp.,” La Follette may
t> t ail kinds of a feller, but his
diaguosis of the message would
be hard to iirni-pye up.
We have recently sent out a
few statements to those in ar
rears. Weare needing the mon
ey, and would uppreciate settle
ment as soon as possible.
A. L>, Thompson, working
down in the Stonington neigh
borhood, was baled into court
last week on a shoyf check
charge, and was c continued to
alouday,
E. E. Ellison and wife were
visiting with the folks back In
Kansas the first of the week.
Baptist Church
James M. Graham, Pastor
Services for Lord’s dsy, Dec. 30
10 a. m. Sunday school bro.
W. W. Golden, supt.
11 a. m. Morning worship.
6:30 p. m. I'ioior and Senior B,
V. P. U’s.
17:30 p. m, Evangelistice service.
,| Address by pastor. Always
! good singiug and music.
Monday evening, 10' (j,clock,
. Watch night gathering, ) ...
Tuesday evening, f:00, annual
• business meeting when re
freshments will be served.
Oor church welcomes every one
to all our gatherings. Conic and
worship with us
So teach us to number our |
days that we may apply
hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90: i
12, i,
W. B, Gordon is now tha
deputy district attorney for
Prowers county, Aliyn Cole hav
ing resigned.
We don’t blams ambitious
Democrats for wanting to get
into the senatorial race against
Phipps, A candidate that can’t
beat the senator had better jump
in the creek.— Steamboat Springs
Pilot. We agree with tbe senti
ment, but can’t quite agree with
“had better jump in the creek.”
The home character imperaon-1
plav at the school last week was I
called specially rood. It waa
said that Gap Hsgermin, Bob
Dickey, Jerry Jollou, Sam Holt
and the Great County Builder
were the principal characters im
personated. It was one of the
most interesting plays so far
given. ________
It would have been just as
easy for Mellon and the admin
istration to have made a reduc
tion in taxes of several billion
dollars as to have made it 228
’million dollars—by making tha
reduction in the income tax just
that much more. Indeed, if
1 that can be called "reducing
1 taxes,” why not take the income
1 tax all off.
Preacher Thomas of Denver,
who accused Billyer of being in
league with bootleggers, will be
called before the January grand
jury to substantiate his charges.
That’s the right move. If the
preacher lied, he should he kick
ed out of the pulpit; and if he
didn’t lie, Hiljyer should bn
kicked out of ble offioe. So let
them go to it.
If you want a really happy
> Cbiiatmas do some aet to bring
‘
- captured a whole lot of fellers
1 in the act of making and die
* pensing of somethinasJtL^MiHas
afl() tnm ratals,
Arthur Brisbane gets off a lot
of foolish stuff, bqt we commend
him foy the following) ,> Ut
Cool,due issues finoth*:message
on cut tin* taxes—soothing to
those that have big incomes.
Little people, buying a bouse on
the installment plan, will believe
that their real estate taxes are
to he reduced. That false im
pression will last up to election
day,
The Stonington News hag de
cided to go into winter quarters
at Stonington, rather thqn try
ing a new fjelq. Htonlngton
should now get back of Editor
Ransom 500 strong. A paper is
just what the patronage of the
town makes it. The advertising,
of Stooiagiou ought to ran $75
a month, the job work ought to
run $50.00 and would giye
tbe editor a chance to do" some,
thing.
Qne qf fh£ tun.ts of 'the ku
kiu* is enforcement of the law.
Last week at the end of a trial
by jury in Atlanta of one of their
members for killing another
member, the judge said to tbe
defendant—“ You shall spend
the balance of your natural life
in tbe penitentiary of the state
of Georgia.” What more could
the klaD have done? The killing
was brought about by reason of
a split in the klan national or
ganization and the hostile-feeling
growing, out of if. i
Every once in a while the
newspapers have told us of Ruß
- propagandas'll this country
to overthrow the United States
government, but we didn’t think
a man ot the wisdom of the
secretary of state could possibly
give any serious credence tp the
report. But we remetpber that
Huehes gavp put a very itnpor-i
tapt piece of information short
ly after he was nominated for
president of the United States,
and when called on by president '
Wilson for the foots-had no :
(acts in Kivv.
A Man as Promised
With Every Still
On the 21st inst the sheriff and
deputy Tony Barter surprised
Tom Webb in his dugout still in
tbe canons southeat of Lamport,
land haled the gentleman and his
still into county court on the
,22nd, where the judge assessed
him up 2300.00 and trimmings,
Not being endowed with the
ready cash, he was given the al
ternative of languishing it out
in jail. Ho far the sheriff has
made good on bringing the man
when he brought the still.
A Historical Sketch
Of the Ku Klux Klan
The Mystery That Attracted
And so people, aliy-V attract
ed by the mysterious, wanted to
join the kq kl'ux. Tha klan at
thifl time- was composed of men
Of Sterling character and habits,
and undesirables could not easily
get in.
On the brow of the ridge run
ning along the outskirts of Pu
lesku, in a dilapidated old bouse,
long deserted, the Pulaska klan
h.M it a v-eitfluH VK—-'-'-’hi’ 1
Brat dt r.,
Riding the Goat
SHk. „ the candidate
si >P"hsked many questions, some
>a “rious and grave, bqt most of
them absurd to tbe last degree
This was after be w M led. *r ound
the room several minutes blind
foWed. bum/ping his Shins
-.ejecta placed in his way un d
many other annoying pranks
played on him. If hie answers
to the questions of bis torment
ers were satis factory, the obli-.
gations of secrecy, already ad
ministered, were exacted the
second time. I'hen the grand
cyclops commanded —"place him
befo e tbo royal alter, and adorn
bis h> id with tho royal crown.’ ’
The roysl alter was a large
looking glass, and the royal
crown -.v.-is a huge hat with enor
mous (jep.ey ears.
In this headgear ihe candidate
was plip.sd before the mirror,
and greeted to repeat the
couple j
"O wad some power the giftie
gie us
To see oursol’n as libers see us.”
As the last words fell from his
• lips the Grand Turk removed
the bandages, and the candidate
beheld his owu image iq the
mirror. To Increase the discom
fort and ehßgrln, the removal of
the bandage wag the signal to
the Klan for indulgence in the
most uproarous and boisterous
mirth. The Grand Cyclops
would relax the rigor of his rule
and the decorum hitherto ruain-
tained"w6uld disapper, while tije
deti-fang with shouts and peals
of (Slighter. And worse thap al|
as tbe candidate looked about
him he found himself supropnijed
by mendress'-d in hideous g.j-bp
and masked so that he could not
repognige one of them.
Mystery, Curiosity, Growth
No one was more surprised
than the original Klan members
when they learned that tbe fame
of the organization had outgrown
tbe narrow limits of Bulaski and
that other n-ar-tiy villages want
$1.50 Per Year.
ed to establish chapter* Bream
ually it extended Id nuy paste
of the of tbe south, During the
autumn and winter of 1860 hs
growth of the Klan wae -nyp
rapid. It spread over e wide
extent ot territory. A straager
visiting la tne town would he
initiated and immediately ask
permission to establish a den la
his own community. Alwaye
the grand eyelopa of the Pulaski
den was virtually the rater ef the
order but as the mesa* of com
munication here so Bleeder hie
authority was ueaeily more fan
cy then fact.
Watch for next week’s issue.
A Letter from Texas
Petetahast. tat,
Vac. 12. IMA.
Mr. S. M. Koakei,
Springfield, (Jolo.
Kind Kriend:— -• * -
Enclose i herewith pfasee Sad
cherji to pay tot another yaar’e
subscription to the Deesoerat-
Herald.
I see you rather agderea tea
co-operative marketing of farm
products. It’s all right, hose,
just stay with ’em.
Aa to tbe ku kiux, well, there
are lots of them ia thin neck of
the woods and the very beet men
we have in the country, too.
Nuff eed.
g«wwi so n* gad Bam etna—
ty.
»*— - -"fi
J- r. Mine,
The Democrat-Herald
And the Co. Printing
The Republican last weak tried
to give the impresstsa that the
Democrat Herald had made a
pretty good thing out of the
county printing.
J-ast summer when we bed the
county semi-financial statement
to get out. we asked tbd Jupub
lican what they would do 'it for
on their machine, and they gave
us the price of 35 cents aa Inch,
set solid.
As we were getting ealy to
cents an inch leadtd, had as
the leading would have keen
worth tbe difference la pries, wn
would have paid out Are c «*ta
on the inch more then ,wn wav*
getting; and the samu with th»
commissioner r —l sitings and
all other mattes going bat on*
time—by having the Republican
fa (he work—of setting it up.
In thi. coua'itamt mr wwkirr
stated befojgp* la them pbg
•on wigt thn.pria.toi- shoal* mo*
receive what the lens w to
ghould, have fog hinwopb. as in
rthc case of the oiasM %
As are happen tg know that
tbe Republican bolds fcfto mtme
v.ewqfthg w tt« r , their little
squib qf | M t week wee both out
at hori«Qoy and 111 timod.
, A* before, thoufcn. untir
thnt delnqent tax link gJwdowa,
to a negative quantity. It would
be all right for all parties con
cerned to take some sacrifice, bat
no reason why the printer should
any more then why others rhttitd.
Art Alberti send a the Demo
crat - Herald to bi« brother
Charles, Cambridge. Neb r„ a* a
Oirfetmai ffiff. *’* •