Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-30

There are constantly increasing evi-
dsnoes that the goldbuss are becoming
greatly alarmed over the growth Of the
silver sentiment Of tho country. The
presidents letters and the speech-making
tour of cabinet officer show the fright
In administration and Wall Street circles.
In our eastern exchanges We find the ear
marks Of literary bureau which furnish
Is copy for weekly papers. To this agen-
cy is due the attention given TO the finan-
cial question by many Of the weekly pa
pers Of the east. Further evidence Of
the existence Of organized effort to stem
the tide Of free silver il shown by the
multitude Of pamphlets which the oapi-
talists have issued 10 try to answer the
convincing arguments Of Coins Finan-
cial School" Nevertheless. constantly
increasing number Of people are OF the
opinion that much Of tho business de-
preston is due 10 . lack Of circulating
medium, and that the demonstration OF
silver is the prime cause Of the scarcity
Of money. The same augmenting crowd
of citizens believe TINT the low price Of
silver is due TO its degradation by con-
gress and not TO an over-production Of
the white metal The facts arc that the
proportion Of silver produced as COM
pared with the amount Of the gold out
put is not as great as it was before the
demonstration Of silver. And day by
day more and more people are becoming
convinced that II gold had suffered the
same unfriendly treatment that silver
has, it would have been a commodity as
silver now largely il. The restoration of
silver to its old place in the finances Of
the nation is demanded in the interests
of honesty and Justice, and the people
are going to SEQ that it gets there.
The first heavy rain Of the season
fell last night. The rain fell oopiously
all night, thoroughly soaking the earth.
Great benefit will result to the cattle in
terests as tho range grass is quite short.
-Wadsworth Post, g. A. r. had ar
ranged an interesting program for to-day
but it was badly spoiled by the rain and
tbreatheniug weather. However, few
carriage loads Of veterans and friends
visited the cemetary and decorated the
graves of the soldiers sleeping there.
This afternoon Hon. d. McCaIkil of
Pueblo will deliver an address at the N.
E. church.
Tho following from an exchange will
be read with interest In some portions of
Otero county: "Many complaints have
been made lately Of muddy roads caused
by irrigation. Farmers and others
should bear in mind that road overseers
are empowered by statute to have per-
sons arrested and fined for allowing
waste water to flow over the county
roads. There is no excuse for flooding
public highways and road overseers are
direlect of their duty who do not enforce
obeyance Of the law"
In q recent issue the Enterprise
spoke Of the splendid fruit prospects
which Jss. Graham has before him. The
Catlin Fruit Grower takes us to task for
failure to say that Mr.. Graham was q res
ident Of Catlin. The fact is that all of
the splendid country between Nepesta
and La Junta is known the state over as
the Rocky Ford region, and it did not re-
ally occur to us to indicate in Just what
portion Of tho garden Of Colorado Broth
or Graham lived. But to make amends
we will now say that he lives near Catlin
and is one OF our original and most sue.
cessful fruit growers. The experiments
and labor Of such mon as Mr.. Graham
make it possible for us to offer proof of
tho capacity Of the valley for horticul-
ture.