The silver lance., 1899-05-26
GOSSIP FROM DENVER
AND THE STATE CAPITOL.

| Denver people have another opportu-
nifty to witness those perverslons OF
| Justice that tend to make one suspi-
| cious of the legal machinery of our
| government The United States court
of appeals has just confirmed the sen
tence. of Charles ]. Kunsmiller, who
was convicted of making false reports
to the government while he was as
sistant cashier of the defunct German
National Bank of this city. He will
have to serve term of five years in
the penitentiary, while Reithmann and
Clinton, his superior officers, escaped
I punishment on a technicality. 1t is
understood that they admit that Kuns-
miller made the reports as he did at
their dictation.
| The anti-emblem bill has become
law, contrary to the general expecta-
! tion. 1t was introduced by Senator
| Harris. 1t is an act amending the cleo
tion laws by providing for ballot
upon which the party emblem does not
appear. Governor Thomas had de-
cided to veto this measure. but he
changed his opinion at the last min
ute. He signed the measure, although
he says that it is Objectionable to him.
He says: II signed the BILL deferring
my objections to the opinions of others.
and particularly the author Of the bill.
| There is one serious objection to the
bill as it is framed. 1t tends to destroy
the secrecy of the Australian ballot in
that it requires the voter to write the
name of his ticket on its face. This is
the only serious objection out of many
Others
As a result Of carelessness on the
part of clerk of the former State
Land Board the school fund may lose
10000 acres of land in Routt county or
| be compelled to choose in lieu thereof
| an equal acreage in some undesirable
locality, Register Ford of the United
States Land Office has received let
ter from Commissioner Binger Her
mann of the General Land Office at
| Washington, which instructed the reci-
pient to throw open for settlement all
| of the lands on which the eye of the
state rested. He will take such action
at once. The communication removes
the last vestige of hope that this i'm
mense tract of land will come into the
possession of the state. 1t states that
the Colorado Land Board has waived
its right to appeal from the former de-
| cisiOn of the commissioner. by failing
| to file with any United States land of
flee within the allotted thirty days a
revised list of indemnity lands to be
taken in exchange for the two school
section included within the bOun-
daries of the old Ute reservation. The
Land Board employed clerk to pre-
pare a revised list to take the place of
the one disapproved This new list
was completed more than a week ago.
but not filed in the United States Land
| Office. The time for appeal having
elapsed. Commissioner Herman or
dered the rights of the state forfeited
as to the specific tracts selected. In
these was included the best of the va
cant land in Routt county. and the set
tiers in that part of the state objected
strenuously to the exchange.
The Broadway Temple Association,
under whose auspices the late Myron
Reed preached for several years, Is
now listening to the sermons of rhe
Rev. DIR. Henry c. Myers, who former
ly preached in an independent pulpit
at Chicago. 1t is expected that DR..
Myers will be permanently engaged
here, unless his recent utterances about
marriage change the feeling of the
| Temple Association In a sermon de-
livered few sundays ago DIR. Myers
expressed views that favored of he
lief in free love, and in an interview
since made the following statement Oh
the subject:
IF had a daughter who wanted to
"
intended husband to phrenologist
and If he said they We're congenial
and compatible l would say, get mar
ried.' and if they wanted to live to-
gether unmarried by human law, l
would say. live together for they
would. if they We're properly matched,
be married by law of heaven more
binding and more powerful than if
priest had Joined them. If could reg
| ,Ia& l.xr 7 4 y,
all marriage and divorce laws. Here
we sit on Gods footstool and make
long lists of laws when we ought 10
throw them away and learn the first
sweet. noble laws of nature. The hui
man race will never be happy until
nature rules the world as it should.
Marriage and divorce laws are subsii-
tutes for imbecility. They are child
ish. foolish, absurd. The idea of say
ing to nature. that man and that
woman are man and wife when IA
ture knows that they are not. Natural
laws are complete and perfect No
flower that blows is without it's mate.
nor any bird that flies. Every man
has his affinity and every woman hers;
and if Il man is married by law to IL
woman who is not his affinity it is
wrong for them to live together Th ~
are not man and wife. crystal will
unite with another crystal and the eff
feet is beautiful. but a crystal will not
unite with either granite or sand
stone. I'd take all the little laws for
divorce in all the states and put them
| together into one general law, so that
every couple married when they ought
not to be married could be divorced
easily. Its too bad we have to have
the law at all. Shame on Moses. who
originated it,
suppose woman discovers her af-
finity and he has already married?"
DIR. Myers was asked.
''Then she should marry him any