The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-12-08
TROY, N. Y.

above water: money was drawn out by
the million, and it was next to impossible
to realize on the assets. l have learned
since my return that the New York
banks were all ready to send money
enough to Denver to enable them to go
easily through the trouble, but when the
great silver meeting was held there, and
all the foolish speeches made, the New
York people changed their minds, and
let Denver get along as best it could
This meeting was a very unfortunate
thing for the city, as it appeared to us
that most of the people were not at ALI
in sympathy with the sentiments ex-
pressed: they had too much sense: all
but one of the daily papers in Denver
were also sensible, but the mischief
was done. The speech OF that old goose,
Gov. Waite, has hurt, and will continue
to do damage TO Colorado interests for
long time to come: he and the brass
lunged howlers who assisted him. was
amused to find in front of store on
prominent street, an enlarged copy of the
cartoon which appeared in the PhiladeE
phia Press, representing the Governor
riding in blood up to his horses bride;
and in the corner of this picture, another
small one of four jackasses standing in
Wild Asses of Colorado" Just now the
people of Colorado are about putting the
finishing touches to their folly, by form
ing league to boycott any one who
buys goods not manufactured in the
State; they think this work will damage
the East, but it will react terribly on
them sooner or later The street signs
in Denver were by far the most complete
we had ever seen anywhere: on each
street corner is placed post just at the
curb intersection, on which are two
arms, one pointing up each street, and
on them are painted in large letters the
name of the street, while underneath are
small signs with the names of all the
business firms occupying the stores for
half way up the block. they were OK
ceedingly convenient One of the Den
yer papers stated that the wild ranting of
the silverites and populists had already
had its effect, for Colorado town which
| formerly borrowed money easily, asked
a Cleveland, Ohio, firm to sell some
bonds for them, and were told in reply
that it would be useless to offer the
bonds for sale, as no one would buy any
| Colorado securities; would not even
make offers; they did not know what the
Legislature might do in the future. The
| bankruptcy laws of Colorado are very
bad, for they allow man who has, for
instance, claim of $25 against a mer-
chant, the opportunity of getting a
| Judgment, and selling out as much of the
stock as he chooses to get his $25, re-
| gardless of the cost of the goods. The
only safety merchants have is to make
an assignment, then they may be able to
| compel decent terms. We knew of a
case where man who had a stock of
| $4,000 worth of curiosities, pictures,
books, etc., and owed very little, had to
| assign to save his stock from Eeing scat
tered in this way: good National bank
ruptcy law is badly needed, even in the
East. Denver is so far from other cities
| that in years to come, when the country
gets more settled, it should be a very
| large community, but for some years to
come it will be lucky if it holds its own.
( A ride of a night and day over the
| Union Pacific railroad brought us to
Omaha. All day we travelled through
| the wheat and corn fields of Nebraska,
everything looking beautifully green, and
| a refreshing change from the bare bills
and plains we had just left; evidently7in
Eastern Nebraska there had been plenty
of rain. Kansas looked the same, but as
soon as we crossed the Mississippi all the
way to New York we found everything
parched with drought. The corn looked
so small and lifeless, while that 0of Ne
braska and kansas. was green, tall and
vigorous; it seemed as if we saw corn
enough in these two States to supply the
world. Planted by machinery, in such
regular rows, it resembled an army with
bayonets; thousands upon thousands OF
acres. Great numbers of trees have been
planted on these rolling prairies, and
hardly knew spot in Kansas, visited'in
1870; the bare prairie of that compare
lively recent period, had disappeared
under a sea of corn, while elumps and
groves of trees, once very rare, appeared
on all sides. A. g. SHERRY.