Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-01-27
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/ There is nothing very subversive in
the action Of the house committee on
The revision Of the laws in deciding
that the singular verb and not the
plural 10 correct In connection with
the United States. That committee
will for itself hereafter say the-United
States are. It appears that the COM
mittee had . long and exciting dis
cussion on this great question. and at
last decided that this country is ma
ton and not An alliance. It seems to
have been aided to this conclusion by
some research made by e1-Secretary
John w. Foster.
This is not q very proud discovery.
The are has been a. rare In the past
twenty years in this country in con-
Junction with the name United States
as the spelling Puerto Rico for Porto
Rico has been since the war Of 1888.
Nearly everybody used the are in this
connection In the early days Of the
government. It Is employed In the
CONSTITUTION and It's amendments. AL
most all the presidents for the first
half century Of the government en-
ployed the are. Even Washington
did this. and he was u good deal of q
Nationalist. Federalists as ell as
Democrats did It, except Hamilton.
VINO was pretty sane on most points,
took the logical position in this mat
ter. too, and generally used the is.
There has been no excuse what
ever for the use OF the army in
this relation at any time In the past
third Of century. The result Of the
war proved that this government is a
nation and not a collection of semi
Independent nations. which have the
federal authority for its agent,
and which are under no OBJ
litigation to obey that authority when
ever they feel that 1t would be desir-
able or convenient for them to refuse
to obey. In the beginning there was
a good deal Of doubt as to whether 1t
would be prudent to insist strongly on
the Capitalization principle. but these
scupies gradually lost their force
throughout large part Of the coun-
try. and they disappeared entirely at
the close Of the war OF 1861-65. The
alliance conception for this govern
ment had no reason for existence at
any time In the past thirty-seven
years. Appomattox proved that the
United States is nation and not o
league.-Globe-De Democrat.
Pagosa is growing and improving
substantially.
What will 1t cost Durango to try
for artesian water?
4 Hespers is figuring on good deal
The Herald circulation is gaining
steadily. both daily and semi-weekly-
Durango needs more telephone con-
nection with outlying towns.
Otis stansbury has gone down to
ps~seuf tue new uuiiuInXS RI iYnAciO.
About hve hundred men are employ.
ed in smelling and coal mining at Du-
range.
Pueblo Is said to have a monthly
pay roll OF three-quarters of million
dollars.
The Denver papers have not had q
suspect In the Fridborn case for sew
eral days.
Durango is getting to be quite a
type writer town, nearly all kinds
being represented.
The Denver Post loses six Of its
ablest writer's. and It will do well II
II nils their places.
It is more humane to give an animal
to some one who will feed 1t than to
turn It out to starve.
Pennington. like Durango Ia report
ed to be suffering a house famine.
Durango has lots Of lumber.
Colorado people can learn something
about water enterprises by visiting
California. where all the water is saw
cd and used
\ The person or persons guilty of
beating the widow woman's calves to
Heath near Durango. have not yet
been detected.
Any land under water or which can
Ne irrigated will be big paving prop
eition this year-at least this is the
onsensus Of opinion.
The suburb OF Durango which will
Ter artesian water will get the
deam OF the play against real estate
1es. Watch for It.
Fhe many who are interested In the
d territory Of the southwest will fnd
u article Of Prof. Lakes elsewhere