The newspaper., October 13, 1905, Image 4

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U. S. Department of Agriculture
VVEATHKR BUREAU
Voluntary Observers' Meteorological Record
For the week ending Thursday,
Oct. 12, 1905.
TEMPERATURE palpitation
Date in inches
Maxi- Mini- Mean *
linin'. mum t
6 ... 76 ... 40 58
7 73... 41 57
8 72 ... -50 61
9 58 .... 26 42
10 56 ....23 38.5
11 ...65 ....28 46.5
12.... 73 .. ■ 33 53
Bum. ]
Mean
SUMMARY
Mean Temperature f 50 6-7.
Maximum Temperature 76.
Date Oct. 6.
Minimum Temperature 23.
Date Oct. 10.
Total precipitation inches .0
Clear 6. Partly cloudy 1. Cloudy 0.
Killing Frost 9-10-11.
Thunder storms 0.
Prevailing wind, southwest.
Remarks—The low temperature on the nights
of 9 and 10 after a clear day is without a pre
cedent.
J. M. Underwood.
Voluntary Observer.
On Wednesday of last week
Mrs. Arvilla D. Meeker, the wife
of Nathan C. Meeker, founder of
Greeley, this state, passed away
at the home of her son in New
York. She had reached the ad
vanced age of 90 years.
Tiie trust has absorbed the
Denver packing piants and hence
forth will pay what they like for
stock and we suppose charge
what they wish for meat. It is a
nice business where you can dic
tate both as to the price you pay
and the price for which you sell.
Now it appears that the failed
Alamosa bank will pay about
twenty-five cents on the dollar.
A cheerful outlook for a cold
winter. The worst that can
happen to the dishonest banker
under the law is to be placed in a
warm well-kept penitentiary and
cared)for at the expense of the
people, part of whom he has
grossly wronged.
Things look pretty bad for the
g. o. p party management in the
matter of taking insurance com
pany money for campaign pur
poses. Indications are that the
President is badly wrought up
over the matter and it is believed
that he was deceived by his party
managers in the matter. He may
soon take up Mr. Bryan’s cry and
tell the National Committee to
put it back.
A very interesting discussion
is now going on in the Hotchkiss
Times between the editor of that
paper and a representative of W.
N. White & Co., New York City.
The subject under discussion
being whether the eastern com
mission houses do the square
thing by the fruit raisers. Some
state secrets are liable to leak out
soon that will advise the gentle
orchardist' how he is frequently
done up. In the long run we be
lieve that it will pay the grower
to sell his product through local
men or associations whom they
know. These have an interest in
retaining your respect and confi
dence.
There is every’ reason to believe
that it is the Piesident’s intention
to crowd rate regulation to the
front in the next session of con
gress to the exclusion of all other
pending questions. For this he
will be vigorously criticised by
those who desire to spread the
session over a dozen subjects and
accomplish nothing, but those
who seek results will uphold his
idea. That he will have the fight
of his life goes without saying
but if he wins it will be the great
est victory for the people ever
won in congress and if he loses
it will blaze the way to future
action that will be as much to his
real credit as a victory now.
More strength to his arm.
EDITORIAL TEMPTATION.
At times a subject arises that
offers such superb opportunity
for securing political advantage
that it constitutes severe tempta
tion to ai vocate something that
one knows to be wrong. Such a
question is the tariff question as
it relates to beet sugar. Just at
present Colorado is raising a lot
of beets. Some of our farmers
here at home would deplore any
step that the government might
take that would close down the
industry of making beet sugar.
Yet that is precisely what is
threatened and will without doubt
occur in the near future.
Philippine sugar can be pro
duced for 30c per hundred in the
islands It can be sent by ocean
freight to this country so cheap
that experts declare it can be re
fined and sold for less than $2.00
per hundred. That would mean
the destruction of beet sugar pro
duction.
Feeling sure that the tariff will
sooner or later be adjusted
in this particular to conform to
the ideas of the sugar magnates
we were tempted to take up the
popular cry and inveigh against
tariff reduction, same as Senator
Patterson and all the other
Colorado free traders.
But after an effort we have
concluded to adhere to lines that
a life time has taught us are
right, and now desire to offer an
argument why the tariff ought to
come off, that is, if it will reduce
the price of sugar.
The theory of government that
we have formed is that it should
conduce to “the greatest good to
the greatest number.” livery
family in Colorado uses sugar.
Only a few families produce
sugar and they only indirectly
The labor is impoited Russians at
a rule and the factories are in the
hands of the trust same as the re
fineries. Therefore it follows
that if the Philippine sugar will be
cheaper to the consumer, Colorado
as a whole, will be benefited by
shutting down the manufacture of
beet sugar.
The beet raising farmer will not
suffer as he thinks he will. This
year it has been demonstrated
that sugar beets are worth more
for hog feed than they are at the
sugar factory. Colorado should
produce many thousands of hogs
annually that are now shipped in
from Kansas and Nebraska.
They are always a ready sale.
We will not have to import labor
to raise them. They will market
the sugar beet right on the farm
where it is raised. Colorado will
not lose nearly so much as the
papers try to make us think. The
principle of a tariff is wrong, and
we will lose half our power for
argument against the high pro
tection ideas of the republicans
if we now join with them and talk
for a retention of the tariff on
raw sugar. You cannot make
sugar, raw or refined, any too free
to suit us.
TOO MUCH PUBLICITY.
If the persons that arc respon
sible for the release of Antone
Woode from the Colorado peni
tentiary have any control of the
actions of their protege, they
would do well to suggest to him
that the long suffering Colorado
public has no desire to hear his
opinions or his comments upon
persons or things.
The best thing young Woode
can do is to make himself as in
conspicuous as possible, but he
has already developed a letter
writing habit that indicates a dis
position toward posing and a de
sire for publicity that are an af
front to the public and should be
a matter of serious concern to his
friends.
The desire for notoriety and
the desire to assume an attitude
before the public are traits that
are characteristic of many great
criminals and that are the cause
of many great crimes.
If Antone Woode is to be ex
ploited as the subject of sensa
tional newspaper articles, and if
he is allowed to believe that it
makes the slightest difference to
the people of Colorado what he
thinks or does not think upon
any subject whatever, the chances
are that before his career is termi
nated, ther; will be abundant
reasons to wish that he had been
left in the penitentiary at Canon
City.
The best that any one could
wish for Antone Woode is that
his name should never again be
brought to the notice of the peo
ple of Colorado. That would
probably be an evidence that he
was living an honest life, and had
justified the clemency that had
been shown him.
Antone the Silent is endurable,
but Antone the Letter Writer is
far worse than Antone the Con
vict.— Pueblo Chieftain.
OUTRAGEOUS CORRUPTION.
Referring to "life insurance
abuses’’ the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, a republican paper,
says:
Every dollar of life insurance
profits improperly turned into the
pockets of individuals, or secretly
placed to influence selfish legis
lation, is a species of outrageous
corruption, a robbery of the many
for the rapacious tew. The time
to apply the remedy is at the
moment of detection, and no one
has a right to complain if the
cure is stern in its nature.
That being true what will the
Globe Democrat say with respect
to the suggestion that the re
publican national committee "put
it back?”
The insurance inquiry disclosed
that one insurance company has
contributed $150,000 to the re
publican national campaign
fund during the last three
presidential campaigns. This
money belonged to the policy
holders, and was contributed with
out their consent. According to
the Globe-Democrat, these con
tributions to the republican
campaign fund amount to "a
species of outrageous corruption,
a robbery of many for the rapa
cious few.” Of course, putting it
back would be a cute "stern in its
nature" but, in the language of
the Globe-Democrat “the time to
apply the remedy is at the
moment of detection.” One
remedy is to provide publicity for
all contributions to political funds,
and the prohibition of such con
tributions by corporations. Bui
"at the moment of detection” the
first remedy is put it back."—
Commoner
HIS HANDS ARE CLEAN.
When we have the spectacle of
two United States senators con
victed of illegal practices that
constituted a gross but probably
not uncommon betrayal of their
oaths of office, and a third hope
lessly smirched by Equitable
revelations, with a lot more big
men dwelling under the grave and
growing suspicion that they re
gard public and semi-public office
as a means of private graft rather
than of patriotic service, it is
worth while to be able to point to
our busy young president and say,
with swelling chest, “well, he may
blunder occasionally—l admit
that he docs; but, by heaven! his
hands are clean!”—Frank Putnam
in National Magazine for October.
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the factories are also making new grades cheaper than
ever before.
Uncle Peter the Jeweler can supply yon with anything
made in Watches, Clocks or Jewelry. A good assort
ment of first-class watches anil jewelry always on hand
First-class repairing ami everything guaranteed as to
quality. P. C. CURTIS
The Reliable Jeweler
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