The newspaper., October 06, 1905, Image 4

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U. S. Department of Agriculture
WEATHER BUREAU
Voluntary Observers* Meteorological Record
For the week ending Thursday,
Oct. 5, 1905.
TEMPERATURE p r( . clpltntl(m
Date —: —- in inches
Maxi* Mini- I Mean *
mum mum ! t
29.... 73... 41 1 57
30 60. ...39 ! 49.5 45....
1 06 ....32 49
2 76 36 54
3 69 ....38 53.5
4 76 ....41 58.5
5.... 78 ... 40 55
Bum. 7T — ,
Mean j
SUMMARY
Mean Temperature t 49.
Maximum Temperature 78.
Date Oct. 5.
Minimum Temperature 32.
Date Oct. 1.
Total precipitation inches .45
Clear f>. Partly cloudy 0. Cloudy 1.
Thunder storms 0.
Prevailing wind, southwest.
Remarks—Next week we will give a summary
of the summer months.
J. M. Underwood.
Voluntary Observer.
Pat Crowe has been captured
again. This time it looks as if it
were true.
Indications are that conces
sions granted American insurance
companies in European countries
will be withdrawn as a result of
the expose of their disgraceful
manipulation of policy holder’s
money.
The "lapses” in Equitable in
surance amounted to £85,000,000
during the first six months of this
year. A lapse is where men
throw up their policies and refuse
to pay any more. And all they
have paid is lost to them.
The metaliferous miners of the
country, largely from Colorado
have donated a magnificent new
building to the State School of
Mines. The corner stone was
laid with impressive ceremonies
this week. One Simon Guggen
heim acted as agent for the
m iners in making the presentation.
It is difficult to understand why
the Denver Republican is print
ing so much good stuff denounc
ing the State Board of Equaliza
tion for reducing railroad assess
ments. Either they have had an
attack of virtue or else the rail
roads forgot to send them the
customary check.
A western farmer came to the
pastor of his congregation and
asked that his name be taken off
the church list. “What is the
trouble, Brother Jones?” asked
the surprised pastor. “I supposed
you were a faithful follower of
the Lamb.” “Well 1 sorter be
lieved that myself, but there is no
use talking, a man can’t serve the
Lord when he has to milk four
cows in fly time. After the first
heavy frost I’ll try this church
business again, but just now I
either have to sell the cows, give
up the church, or be a durned
hypocrite.—Lake City Phono
graph.
The railroads of the state are
claiming before the state board
of equalization that they are as
sessed beyond their due and that
they pay most of the taxes in
some counties. That they pay a
large percentage in some of the
counties is true, but it is also true
that they are the most valuable
assets in such counties. The gov
ernment census bureau in its
latest bulletin fixes the value of
the railroad property at, in round
numbers, $198,000,000. The Colo
rado assessment is practically
850,000,000, or 25 per cent. The
truth is that the county assessors
generally figure the valuations of
real and personal property at 40
per cent, and the railroad taxes
in the state are at least $10,000,-
000 under what they should be.—
Denver Republican.
NO REMEDY WHATEVER.
The very first thing the next
Legislature shouid do is to rule
the lobbyists off the floor. If it
is neccessary for our lawmakers
to have an advisory board well
supplied with an entertainment
fund, let the voters select its
members, not those who are in
terested in defeating needed
legislation. Lobbyists are a pest,
and it is a discredit to the state
that they are permitted to enjoy
the privileges of the floor of the
Assembly.—Colorado City Iris.
At the first thought this appears
the proper thing to do but on ex
amination it will be found to be
no remedy whatever, absolutely
impossible of enforcement and
wrong in principle.
To begin with it is well to con
sider what a lobbyist is. As a
matter of fact lobbying is legit
imate in many cases. The people
have the right to meet and dis
cuss proposed legislation with
their representatives. They
ought to be permitted so to do.
We are well aware of the abuse
of the lobbying prerogative, but
the abuse is one that can not be
stopped. If a man or woman is
interested in proposed legislation
they will manage to see the rep
resentatives and senators in
whose hands the fate of the
measure lies. If they cannot see
them in the state house they will
seek them in their hotels and
other resorts. To effectually
stop lobbying would be wrong.
Take a measure that interests the
people of a locality. They desire
to present argument Jo those
members who are not so well
posted on the question. Who is
there that would desire to pro
hibit them from so doing?
Again take the case of a measure
like the Dungan-Alexander rail
road bill in the last session. The
railroads desired to present to the
members their reasons for wish
ing the bill defeated. Personally
we wanted it to pass, but all
parties in interest had the right
to a hearing. It is only when
corrupt means are used that the
people have the right to censure
the lobbyist.
And we stand ready to admit
that corruption generally shows
its head whenever the proposed
measure is of great importance.
Still there is no remedy that is
effective except an incorruptible
legislature. Corrupt proposal.-,
are as certain as fate, but a man
who cannot turn down a prop
osition to sell out his con
stituency will be found by
the lobbyist no matter how
high a fence you build around
the state house.
Another remedy that would
be effective and salutary, as well
as cheap, would be to have a
vigilance committee go to the
state house on the occasion of
just such infamies as were per
petrated there last winter, and
hang about one dozen corruption
ists together with their (dis)
Honorable associates out of the
capitol windows. The sight of a
couple of dozen swinging corpses
of men who spend the winter de
bauching a legislature would be
the greatest purifier that could be
imagined. It is a remedy that
was invoked in San Francisco,
and worked wonders in the way
of correcting abuses.
VVe unhesitatingly recommend
it as reliable and cheap.
YOUR OWN FOLKS NOTICE.
The following from the Pueblo
Chieftain, shows that the work of
the g. o. p. literary bureau is far
from satisfactory. Just why news
paper editors will permit an as
suming party directorate to dic
tate their editorial columns is a
puzzle to this editor. There is
not an editor in the state that
turns out such rot as the bureau
that at present is editing most of
our republican exchanges. Good
editorial work has some reference
to local conditions. Something
that may constitute a real issue
in one part of the state is of nc
earthly interest in another:
It is always unpleasant to see
an otherwise good looking edi
torial page disfigured with the
ready made editorials sent out
from the corporation thought
foundry in Denver. A newspaper
that prints such matter not only
deceives its readers but it soon
loses the confidence and respect
of all. Better two lines of honest
and sincere opinion than a col
umn of hand-me-down sweat-shop
“guff.”—Pueblo Chieftain.
COLORADO'S DISGRACE
Under the above heading, the
Grand County Advocate( Rep.)
says:
“Did you ever stop to think of
the disgrace and reproach that
lies in the oft repeated remark:
•No use, the gang have fixed the
slate and it goes’. This govern
ment was founded on the belief
that if the people coHld be free
and each a sharer in deciding
what men should hold office, and
what laws should be passed—the
people would uphold the same
with their lives. For the past
week Denver has been crowded
with men who preserved the
Union, but how many of them
would fall in line with the pres
ent policy that the affairs of the
state is being conducted? Look
over the disreputable gang of
grafters and shysters that now
control the stale. The Advocate
has lived in Colorado for the past
twenty-five years, but in all that
time has never witnessed such
barefaced acts of outlawry. The
citizens of Colorado have about as
much to do with the way the state
is conducted as the peasants of
Russia have to do with the 'W hite
Czar.’ This will have to stop
sometime, and why is not the
present just as good time as any?
Let’s shake this tyranny off and
make Colorado an American
stater It would drive the graf
ters out of business and put the
people in power. It was ten
years ago that •Blood-to-thc-
Bridles’ Waite put a crimp into
the present gang, and at this
time it looks as it the dose should
be repeated. There is no use of
giving them another trial, the
time is ripe to organize and down
the entire outfit, it can be done.
Again we say, let’s make Colorado
a Union state.”
THE REAL REASON.
Mr. McCall says that lie thanks
God that by contributing to the
republican party he helped to
save the country from Free Silver.
If the testimony proves anything
it proves that the insurance
magnates were more afraid ol
criminal prosecution than they
were of Free Silver. They knew
they were guilty of fraud, brib
ery of Legislatures, corruption
of politics and misuse of trust
funds and they felt safer under a
republican administration. —Com-
moner.
SHOULD BE RAISED.
As a matter of plain justice the
Sate Board of Equalization ought
to increase the assessed valuation
of the Colorado railroads at least
$10,000,000.
Even with this increase of 20
per cent the railroad assessment
would still be on a lower basis of
valuation than private property
throughout the state. —Denver
Republican.
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the factories are also making new grades cheaper than
ever before.
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made in Watches, Clocks or Jewelry. A good assort
ment of first-class watches and jewelry always on hand
First-class repairing and everything guaranteed as to
quality. F*. G. CURTIS
The Reliable Jeweler
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