The Dolores star., 1903-07-17

| Inan those OF 1olOfaGo, Net we are NOT
saying anything against the ladies of
any either state or country. The editor
of this paper can personally say that
the assertions about the hired man on
the farms here i as dirty n lie as could
| be told of the situation, for we have
worked as hired man on seme of the
ranches and speak from personal ex-
pericnce, and were never treated better
by an employer.
Here is the article; read it for your
self and if you happen to know the
author, few punches on his smeller
might bring him to his senses:
IN COOL COLORADO"
An Iowa Boy Tells What Workingran
Finds There.
| Harry DeNotis, Mitchellyille young
man in Colorado, has been writing
| from Dolores suggestive namely some
good letters TO the Nitchellville Index.
From his last we take the following;
II would like to tell you something
about what working man finds in
| Colorado. / am not only going to give
| you my own experience but that of
hundreds of others that / have talked
to. We will say that a young man
comes west and goes to work on
| farm. We will not say that he is q
very COED young man, but he likes to
go to church Once in while, or to II
nice dance, and is somewhat civilized.
| The first thing he finds out when he
goes to work for Colorado farmer is
| that no matter how much room there
may be in the house he has TO sleep in
some outhouse or in the potato cellar,
and that there is never enough work
done, no matter. how hard he works or
how long he stays at it. If he gets a
| few minutes leisure there is nothing to
do but sit and get homesick. They
| may have few books at the house,
but they don't want him around, and
| he soon understands that he must be
either at work or in his kennel. If
there be any young women around
| they refuse to learn his name and
speak of him as ''that fellow or "pa's
hired mani and no matter how poor
they are, they are always much better
| than the man who works for them and
| who has better manners and more ed
ucation than they ever thought of
| The young man finds that people do
not speak when they meet in the road;
that they never visit; that farmers
neither borrow nor lend. Churches
are few and far apart and few go. II
"A young man goes to them the i'll man
ners and hypocritical appearance of
everything soon give him enough of
that. a nice country dance is all inn
| possibility. So let us say that the
young man quits farming and goes to
the city. If ne has an iron will and
can resist all kinds of temptations, he
may do well. If not the dance hall and
the saloon are waiting. None of the
Index readers ever saw a good descrip-
ton of Il western dance hall, and il |
wrote one it would not be printed. The
author of "Conquering the Wilderness
| speaks Of it as dance of death most
| horrible. ! once saw man 90 UP to
| the door OF a dance hall. He was beast
| ly drunk; he had voruited all over him
self; his nose needed cleaning; some one
| had struck him on the cheek and the
blood had run down and dried in clots,
yet one Of the girls went up to him, put
her arms around his neck, kissed him,
called him sweet names, and begged
him to dance with her. And yet these
places are patronized by three-fourths
of the working men in Colorado. A
lie.-ED. There is no other place to
go. Such, my friends, is the popula-
tisn of Colorado.
| "And now II word about those educa-
ted, manly cowboys, and those beauti-
full, refined cowgirls that you read
about in novels. / have seen lots of
them. The girls are the very essence
| of coarseness and the opposite ofa lady.
The cowboys would not know lady
from dance girl, and they all seem to
have come from some gutter in the city.
uou DelleNe hooseNelI was ever much
of q cowboy.
''The people who live in big houses
and wear fine clothes and pretend to be
somebody are mostly lot of newly
rich, and no better than the rest. Col
orado hospitality is fake pure and
simple"
Marked copies of this issue 20 to the
two papers that printed the above and
THE STAR hopes that both will endeav-
or to correct the wrong impression the
article conveys, for more dirty, un-
called-for, malicious lie would be hard
conceive. We understand that the
thing that wrote it was recently en-
nlOved at ono of the naarhv co u, ,x,;IIs