Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
From Colorado.

have insured a good crop. Here in
Denver, Kansas has many ardent
friends A gentleman who has re-
sided here over twenty years says he
has no doubt but that in a few years
all Kansas and eastern Colorado up
to the foot hills, will produce good |
crops without irrigation. This gen
tleman, and other "old settlers" m
form me that the climate is gradually
changing here. Years ago there was
little or no rain here during the sum
mer months, and It was dry and mild
through the winter. Now it rains
considerably. There is more moist |
ure in the air, and the winters are be-
coming damper and cooler
The building boom still continues.
A prominent citizen remarked to me
to-day that an assessor had told him
that buildings were now being erect
ed at an average rate of fifteen per
day in this city. The Daily Replsb-
Ijca11 a few days ago said that among
other reasons why Denver was des-
tined to be the greatest city between
Chicago and San Francisco were the
following: The expenditure in the
city of large sums of money in the
erection of buildings, cable lines,
sewers, viaducts, bridges and manu-
featuring establishments, there beng
now over $12OOO,OOO engaged for
these contemplated improvements;
the return to Denver of people
who have gone to California, Pueblo,
Salt Lake, Ogden and other points
for investment, and are more con
WINGED than ever that Denver is to
be the great inland city.
I have recently noticed an account
of how a friend of Henry George
died an d wi1led Mr.. George a certain
sum of money to aid him in clrcuIat-
ing his books and other writings, and
how a Judge Bird, of Pennsylvania,
has set the will aside on the ground
that ''the Court cannot aid in the els
tributlon of literature which denoun-
ces as a robbery-as a crime-an i'm
mense proportion of the Judicial de-
termination of the higher courts"
How unjust and shallow is such a
decision! On the same grounds, if an
admirer of Charles Sumner or VIM.
Ilovd Garrison or the author of
Uncle Toms Cabin" had made a
will leaving property to be expended
in circulating the writings Of these
persons showing that slavery is
wrong, such will could have been SET
aside Courts had hundreds of times
decided that according to the funda-
mental law of the land, one man
could buy and sell another man, and
could own him body and soul. The
''higher courts decided that "a negro
had no rights a white man was bound
to respect" The Abolshionistsw wrote
) books denouncing these decisions az
wrong, and asserting that property
in human flesh was robbery q
crime. Suppose an admirer of these
abolltiOnists had made will appro
priating a part of his estate to the
s, work of disseminating these anti
slavery books, how would judg,
have been regarded who would hav,
decided that the will should be SCI
aside because former courts had hello
that slavery was right and slaves
were property. To-day such decis
ions would be laughed at, and tn,
E judges rendering them would be re
garded as bigoted, and narrow mind
, ed men wholly unfit to sit upon tn,
judicial bench. am not deeipl,
> of Henry George, and yet I do no
] doubt that Mr.. George is an able
cultured and honest man. This de
cision of Judge Bird strikes not Only
; at Georges land theory" but at th,
. liberty of the press and of free speech
t and lays down a precedent for othe
narrow, bigOted judges to set aside
wills OF men who would aid, by be
quests, any legitimate cause near anC
t dear to them. IF this decision o
t Birds is right, and can staad. then /
s he is a Protestant he can set aside tn
will of a Catholic, or if a Catholic b,
may annul and render void the las
I will and testament OF Protestant,
/ Jew. a Unitarian. a SpiritualIsl, o
e of any other person from whom hl
may differ in either politics or relig
ion. The decision is contrary to tn
+ spirit Of the constitution and of tn,
a laws and customs of a free country.
n The Denver Graphic. weekl7
: newspaper OF this city, last weeI
- cai6s SIX onezta hoe 0OvoT-,1oI Al