Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-02

ton of the white metal, hat many Col
, orado people have come really to be-
lieve that Colorado is the only state CT
consequence in the Ua!tei States, and
that in fact the financial legislation of
the civilized earth ought to be modelled
and directed according to the one Colo
rado idea, the free coinage of silver on
a par with gold.
1t has beer customary from time i'm
memorial among savage peoples to
awaken their gods from supposed SUM
Der by beating tom-toms before their
shrines, and Elijah, the prophet, took
advantage of this custom to mockingly
ADVISE the priests of Baal to call louder
on their idol to burn up the sacrifice
upon Carmel, because peradventure he
might be asleep or on a journey.
They did so, even to cutting themselves
with knives in their frenzy. So the
priests of free coinage in the Colorado
editorial rooms do continually cry, and
figuratively cut themselves with knives
until the blood metaphorically runs
down their backs in their efforts to
make the gods of silver heed their cries.
The population of Ephesus excited
by the crafty articles of a gang of sill
~versmiths, rushed with one accord into
the theater, and for two long mortal
hours, cast dust into the air, and cried
| continually 'Erlnt iS Dinno nf tho
E~phesians," until the city clerk showed
up to bring them to their senses. In a
similar n the entire population Of
Colorado seems to have gone wild over
the silver question in this day and gen.
GRAFTON, melted thereto by a crafty
gang of silversmiths in the state capital
until their breath is gone, and from
sheer exhaustion they quit and fall to
wondering what they have been making
all this turmoil for anyway.
In view of the fact, and the generally
wild, hare Drained character of Colo
RADIO editorial work, where silver is in
volved. and the tendency of the average
Colorado mind to go lusting after
strange gods, it is not at all strange
that there should be a move in the cap
ital of the state to get up a Mexican
bull fight, n of the most cruel sports
known to civilized man. Such things
aret to be expected of the Spaniard, as the
Spanish temperament is cast in a cruel,
blood-thirsty mould. When the SPAN
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nothing was thought of corraling I'M
%suspecting and confiding natives by the
so and the 100, and cutting off their
heads. Historians have estimated that
3,OOo,0OO of the native population have
been b%utchered by the Spaniards. But
thanks to a watchful Providence and
the women of Denver, this wretched
bull fighting business has been given
its q%uietus. The women served notice
on the bull fight management that they
did not propose to have any such goings
on. 1T the men of the town had no self
respect and decent gumption about
them, the women had, and the women
served their notice bright and early on
the men to quit right then and there, or
there would be trouble. And gentle
reader, you may depend upon it, there
was no more talk of bull fighting in
Denver.
What Denver needs is a Woman's
board of trade. They have a Chamber
of Commerce in the capital of the Cen
tennial state, but the motto of thar
chamber seems to be ''manana, mana
ma por la manana." 1t takes the women
to get things strightened out, and to put
things into action, and the fact that
Denver's womanhood has been stirred
to choke off this wretched bull fighting
business, leads n to hope that they
will take up other measures of needed
local reform, and teach Colorado
men how to behave themselves. A fine
spectacle this to present to the nation,
with General Wood shutting off bull
lighting in the province of Santiago, to
see it set up as one of the Lares and
Penates of the Centennial state. o
Temporal! O mores! ubinam gentium
Sumus.