La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
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Notes Trend Of Events.

How laboring men can vote the
democratic ticket is a conundruni,
unless it is stupidity. The writer
spent his early life on farm, and,
like other farm lads, had to get up
at s o'clock in the morning and
milk half 4 dozen cows before
breakfast. Occasionally he was
required to teach calf to drink
milk from a bucket. Sometimes
the calf learned readily and after a
trial or two would drink without
the aid of finger, but sometimes
found a thickheaded and stub
born one that seemed to reason
things thusly: 81 have always
sucked, and that is the best and
only way TO my mind OF taking
nourishment. My father, my
grandfather and my great grand
father sucked and will suck or
starye +" Now there was only one
way to deal with a brute of this
kind, and that was TO get astride
his neck, catch him by the nose
and slip one finger in his mouth
and with tine other hand force his
head down into the bucket of milk.
In this manner the life of the calf
was saved.
Eight years ago times were
good, factories were running and
ever, body was at work. We were
living under the Mckinley tariff,
but democratic false prophets were
abroad in the land and by their
sophis,rics, made the laboring man
believe he needed a change, and
he got it, with Grover Cleveland
for president and democratic
congress to back him. The Nc
Kinley bill was repealed and the
Wilson bill took its place. What
was the resultl Our manufacture
ing enterprises kept closing down
one after another, business was
paralyzed, and three million men
were idle. That meant one-fourth OF
our voting population OF wage
earners.
In 1897 William Mckinley was
inaugurated president and he i'm
mediately called an extra session
Of congress and the Dingley bill
was passed. How quickly the
scene changed. Our factories
opened, business revived, every
body that wanted work got it, and
wages have advanced steadily. In
the railroad service alone there are
one hundred and fifty thousand
more men at work.
Colorado being a new state and
largely a mining, manufacturing,
farming and stock raising state,
has large per cent OF her popula-
ton in the laboring classes. Like
herd OF young cattle we were
stampeded into the democratic
camp. We have shared in the
great wave OF prosperity, and have
been forced to drink the benefits
that have come to our farmers and
stock raisers, and to our manufac-
turing establishments, smelling
works and mines. In Otero country
nearly two million dollars have
been invested in our big beet sugar
works, giving work to an army of
one thousand men, which means
the distribution OF some s25, 1000
daily, besides the IS, 900 or SIo,-
900 per day that is paid out to our
farmers for beets- Who wants to
return to the dark davs Of 80, ga,
'e5 and 'o61
If it were not for the vast army
of pie-eating Office seekers, who
care only for their own personal
gains and who are seeking to blind
the eyes and befogle and mislead
the unwary voter by false issues,
there would be but one ticket in
the field, for certainly everybody
wants our present prosperity to
continue. so'
The citizens Of ColoradD are an
enlightened and enterprising class
of people. who read and think and