Delta chief., 1884-06-18
interviewing.

the matter?"
"Well, sir don't like to talk about tit
has a tendency to make hard feelings between
neighbors; and l am not one to do such
things. Yet feel the subject will break out
some time and trouble will be the result"
81 can not understand the drift of your
conversation. What is it about?"
"Well, you will learn of it soon enough,
but not from me. But you've seen people try
to play the hog, have you not? and all the
balance of community remain perfectly s-
lent concerning it, and yet you hear the
'Umph land 'D-n it, Curse the luck
| Did you ever etc., etc. whenever the mat
ter is brought directly home to them, and
through respect for the good condition of So
cety and the peace and dignity of the State,
they silently submit to miserable nconven-
| ience."
"Come, friend, tell me what you are driv-
ing at. cannot listen with much comfort to
| your digressions when am entirely ignorant
of the subject in hand''
"Well-and yet it is far from well. it is
miserable and bad-you know how it is re-
specting public enterprises, etc., particularly
COHtTuCts Llduc WltH Guy Ut u OF
with combination of a half and half indi-
vidual and an incorporated institution. This
| combination business takes the cake for a
| proper adjustment-the divisions are seldom
equally made. Some one claims more Of the
profits, and gets it, too, by just simply taking
it, and they finally wear themselves into
habit of giving to him, or rather telling him
to help himself out of the treasury of the
concern. Until some new member comes in
| that has not become accustomed to such
| glect of duty to his own interests as to quiet
! ly submit to such proceedings, and opens up
the subject by strong objections, and finally
condemns the person afflicted with this kind
of kleptomana, as well as turns his wrath
upon the person who submits to such hydro
phobial policy"
'Say, hold on, please enlghten me-all
this is strange to me-
''If you'll listen to me maybe you'll drop
on an item or two which will explain. As
said before, will not break the custom of the
community by quietly submitting, because |
regard those associate with too highly to
make break in the queer harmony of our
people. Let churches fall out and clash and
destroy all manner of good feeling between
neighbors. Let politicians wrangle over tech
nicalities and separate families on subjects
that seems to possess no other claim than ar
gument, discussion and enmity Let prohib.
! itionists catch on strongly to the public senti-
ment and use its shaded policy of justice in
carrying out measures to control the imbecile
element of mankind rather than make an at
| tempt to destroy the manufacture of intoxi-
eating drinks and fluids. Yes, l say, let
banks bust-bye the bye, what an exemplary
pauper Grant is. 1t will soon become fash
ionable to become pauper, and the tramp
question will undoubtedly assume a different
phase now, and l should not wonder that
| it will assume political shape and possibly
seek out Grant in his deplorable condition,
with some $3.50 n year, and ask him to be.
come their leader. The idea-the leader of
the Pauper Element. But that Is nothing to
us now. If it should happen | should get as
badly busted up as Grant is would make an
effort in that direction. Yes, I'll tell you,
notwithstanding although, but" - getting
back to where he changed the water into the
other potato row-"it is most d-d aggra-
Ndtinp. NOW just looh W WdS taiih-
| ing to you some one has shut the water off,
and there is not enough for a grasshopper to
get DRINK. ] am going to see about it right
now. Shoot me for skunk if / don't raise
a smell about it. Look at those peas, carrots,
cabbage, everything"
| "Well ] am looking, and see they are do
ing very well, and / must say that never
saw such fine prospect for the number of
acres put in in Colorado, nor anywhere else.
| your subject matter, which has finally result
| ed in an ebullition of feeling that for d time
almost destroyed your past good resolves re-
specting this great annoyance. Now, my ad-
vice is to positively claim all that is yours in
equal division as to rights and privileges, in
proportion to the amount Of water that flows
IN tine ditch, and no more. That is fair and
Just. But don't play the pig business and
take all the water simply because the ditch is
not carrying It's full amount"
"Well stranger, / am in no humor for a
| lecture from tenderfoot to-day, and when
think we can't handle the water in this ditch
so as to get along l'Il send for you. But un-
| til that time wish you would mind your own
business. 1t is n little singular how all out
siders know how to run the water business.
But ] would just like to know who shut that
! water off"
| All persons having stock in or using water
from the Cushman ditch, are requested to
send their full name, address, and amount of
| stock slbscribed tn Jas A. uaycraft acting