Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-05-24
THURSDAY. MAY "a, 1894

The suburbs OF Rocky Ford are one
continuous garden and orchard and look
splendidly. Faithful work has kept
down weeds and the outlook is most
hopeful.
Gov. Waite's latest folly is the at
tempted removal of the penitentiary
them are unreasonable, and the real reas-
on for their removal seems to be the gov
ernor's irresistible impulse to be in a
row, if things do not go just exactly ac-
cording to his personal views.
Not an American-born citizen took
part with the rioters in Cleveland. 1t
was the riff-raff OF the foreign element
which has created all the trouble in that
city recently. These people want no
laws, no government and no God. We're
got too much of such population and one
of the urgent demands of the times is re-
striction Of emigration.
"A splendid rain visited the valley
Tuesday night and Wednesday, doing an
immense amount of good, starting the
range grass and saving formers much
labor in irrigation. This rain, together
with the full bitches, almost insnres the
crops of this season, except OF course, the
risk from hail. But as lighting never
.. 4kes twice in the same place we may
expect to be free from disaster from hail.
The report gained general circuln-
ton few weeks since that the practice
OF depositing letters on mail cars was to
been mistake as the postoffice depart
ment has sent to all railway mail service
employees a circular calling attention to
the postal regulation requiring postal
clerks to accept all prepaid mail matter
offered them ut their cars, and to forward
it to its destination.
There was not the most perfect har-
mony in the Republican Central Com
mittee meeting last week. Our news
paper friend, Il. B. Wilson, was named
as candidate for a position on the COM
mittee, but the motion was antagonized
by several. The Watermelon of the next
day let it be understood that his repub-
licanism was of a Simon-pure character,
and intimated that some OF his opponents
scratcheda ticket. We trust
that the brethern will not attempt to i'm
itate the Denver lack OF harmony. (By
way of parenthesis We will add that the
man who scratches an unworthy nominee
does both his party and his country
real favor.)
The indications are that Coxeyism is
dying out. The romance OF feeding an
army is quite agreeable for few days
but the novelty soons wears off. Coxey's
short imprisonment for an offence for
which he should never have been con-
victed) has not even the merit of martyr
dom to commend it to other leaders.
The attempt'to substitute petitions in
boots" for ballots in influencing legisla-
ton is not in harmony with American
institutions. The great bulk. of the
of this country are intel
ligent and lawabiding and will bear the
ills they have until they can be thrown
off in a lawful manner. Revolutions are
a necessity in monaTchies, under some
but in the United States,
where every man exercises ruling power
through the elective franchise, there is no
place for revolutions except by means OF
the ballot box.
In hard times like the present, says
the Trinidad News, the farmers with all
their complaining, are far better off than
any other class OF workingmen. The
Cleveland administration has not and
will not cause the sun to cease shining,
or prevent the showers of heaven from
falling, OF the old earth from producing
the harvests she has been accustomed to
bring forth. In other periods of disaster
the man who owned his farm clear OF all
or had so little indebted
ness as not to embarass him, easily made
q good living for himself and family right
along; and more than that. he usually
was making some money all the time.
The sale of his farm products, some colts
or cattle or sheep, was constantly bring
ing him some income. No one could dis
charge him; no lack of work could cut off
his food supply; no sheriff ever sold him
out. He might not be getting ahead as
fast as he would like to, but he made a
living. He could be happy all the day
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