Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-02-07

will enjoy health, happiness and prosperity
.s.S.s
The Denver Times states that the half
Republicans in the house propose to discip-
line Representative Whinnery because he
formulated a report favorable to firing out
all the members fraudulently elected from
Arapahoe county. This is great Repub-
lican state where a man with courage of
honest convictions is ''disciplined'' by al
legged members of his own party because he
would not vote with the Democrates. The
element of the Republican party behind
such methods we'll be 'disciplined'' when
the next meeting of the Republican state
convention is held Carnation Republicans
of the stamp of speaker Stanford cannot be-
tray their party but once. He is helpless,
impotent jelly fish and hardly responsible
for what he does but the party cannot afford
even to extend sympathy in such cases.
.SaSaS
Some of the female writers on the Denver
papers might better be doing domestic work
than attempting to write interesting matter
While we believe that a woman has the
right to follow whatever vocation she desires.
yet we do not believe that they find con-
genial employment in dishing up politics to
the people. 1t is not a woman's place
The society page is more interesting where
edited by a woman but when they enter the
field of politics the stuff they write is dis
gusting. The other day my attention was
called to an article in which woman writer
maintained that women were fast occupying
the entire field in the political and literary
world and seemed to hasten the day when
women would not be recognized simply as
mothers and housewives. Whenever one
reads an article like that he is inclined to.
be pleased because the woman who wrote it
expressed ideas against being a mother, for
the world at large wants no such product
mothered by such woman. There is no
sweeter word in the world than mother
and the women who hates the name and hates
children-the he woman-should cling to
the ideas that motherhood is dishonorable-
it will be a good thing for the world to
have them cling to such ideas
Whenever a Colorado railroad man does
anything he does it, as the Swede would
say, ''lak hal" And when he does it in
this manner he does it like hal" or in
other words like Hal Ray, the mile-a-min-
ute, high pressure passenger agent of the
Rock Island line. Mr.. Ray was in Idaho
Springs late last week. We do not mean
by this that he was late for the Rock
Island is always on time, but he made his
call late in the week. He was accompan-
led by Wide Guage Walker, his travelling
passenger agent, who makes Idaho Springs
often and has made city full of friends
for himself and the Rock Island. 1t was
Mr.. Rays first trip to Idaho Springs and
he departed singing the glad song they all
sing when they see the beauties and bless
ings of the place. 1 am glad Mr.. Ray
came up. He is one of the best known
of the young railroad rustlers of the coun--
try. His acquaintance extends from one
end of the country to the other and he is a
man who combines with his experience a
long list of the kind of ideas that make
railroads prosperous. He was greatly in
terested in the tourist attractions offered bv
the glacier and the James Peak trip and
will be up to go over the ground a. soon as
the weather will permit. The Rock Island
has accomplished more for the tourist bus
iness of Colorado than any other line EN-
tering Denver from the east. 1t was the
first to realize that the tourist business from
the east to the land of gold and silver and
breezes from the snow line would become 4