The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26

ness men of Denver favor a wide
open, or at most a discreetly regu
lated town. in the interest of the
saloon keeper, and the gambler, and
business; and didn't fifty of them
once sign published petition asking
old Governor Waite to rescind his
famous order which for one brief
period actually did close them all
up? Don't we know that the city
of New Orleans, and the state of
Louisiana stood for the Louisiana
Lottery until 1t became stencil in
the nostrils of the nation, just be-
cause it paid the taxes of New Or
leans and owned the legislature?
And isn't it a fact that the good
people of many of the light house
towns along our New England coast
once actually and strenuously op-
posed the erection of those light
houses, solely because they were 60
ing to destroy the business of salvage
in wrecked vessels and deprive them
of the plunder they obtained from
the bodies Of both the living and the
dead? Well 1 guess yes.
And so, it seems, it is with US.
We are all tarred with the same
stick, and whether high tariff repub-
licans or free trading democrats,
whether farmers or merchants, or
real estate speculators, we are all
directly or indirectly interested in
this new but sturdy infant industry
and are therefore apparently ready
and willing to go back on all politi
cal principles we have been so loudly
protesting for the greater share of
our lives. If republicans, we are
willing and anxious to prove our
party set of national liars. If
democrats, we are equally willing
and anxious to prove our party set
of nationial hypocrites.
But suppose, now, that we are not
simply republicans or democrats, but
conscientious honorable men with
just few moral principles and some
general political convictions inheri-
ted from our forefathers who once
fought for The liberties we enjoy.
Suppose that we are farmers and
grow sugar beets, or are in business,
or deal in city lots and outside lands
and are thus all of us directly or in
directly interested in the manufact-
ure of sugar. Suppose that instead
of the ten years time estimated by
Mr.. Patterson in which time these
poor people may be able to seriously
compete with us and our sugar
trust, that they could do it tomor-
row, with the one cent duty on raw
sugar taken off their product. Do
we, as sensible men. believe that
would ruin our business and shut
down all our factories? And if it
did, is it not true that we built
bitches and reservoirs, and grew mil
lions of dollars worth of other crops,
and sent our children to school, and
educated them, and got rich, and
filled the banks with our money be-
fore we ever saw beet sugar or grew
a sugar beet? Then how should we
and how must we, if we are honest
to ourselves and the world, look at
this question? Let us see.
We took this people and their
country in a war. not of their max
ing, against despotic government,
and because of its tyranny and the
misgovernment of its citizens. We
went to war as a government of re-
publican institutions, professedly
in the name Of liberty, and in the
interest of humanity-so we said.
And these people taking US at our
word actually assisted us in this war.
Then when the common enemy had
been defeated they asked US for their