Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-02-24
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bad better hxs ahead - their oss
sgsine-s interests ~ tAss STATE
Ta.re ls oaly ose c.emens a. shi-
siate wiliInU aud ready b. f.-rns-i
tt.e mones - bay the Qoseruorshlp
~ aesy tae constitution and laws 4
ll.e state. 80 eSeTrlsie she popular v ill
o. the polls. aad ahat element j. the
large euTporatIaH- of the state. cor
pofatiaus thai aFe owned largely ~
the east
Co.oF0do has been most generous
IN dcalinE with corporations.
h. fact this state has gwen eorpo.
rafiaus mpre freedom and greater
eense than any other state IN the
anon. aud the natural disposition
oi The Colorado people y b. be gen
erpgs ~ita all corparati0ns and iDdl
rldpais that operate upon a iarC
business scale ia the state
4 Bat Colorado Is not a sink hole ui
corporation corruption sach A. Rhod
lslaad -. IN which state the s1reei
railway company If Providence owns
aud operates both political parties.
just as the street railway company
ut Denver IS attempting e. do n
! Coloradl.
Colorado is naf a boss ridden cor
pomti0n state such a. Fenusylyania
is, m which stale Legislators art
bought and sold tho same n wheat
and iron are bought and sold Ia the
open market
The dauntle-s spirit Of the people
af this state will never stand for cor.
1 poration corruption or corporation
government of the state. and If the
CRIME of buying the goveruship il
carried To iruition 30 percent Of the
people OF Colorado will arise in their
might and demand that all corpora
tious shall be placed under the strict
est possible regulations, aud that the
people OF the state. aud not the cor
porations shall rule the state.
Neither will they stop to diserimi-
nate between the degrees of culpa-
bllity for the crime of buying the
governorship, for 1T will be a move
all along the line TO place rings in
the snouts of all corporation hoas
that the pasture of good government
and the rule OF the people may for
ever hereafter be projected from their
depredatlons.
As often happens in human affairs,
it is quite likely that the corpora
tions that deserve the most punis h.
ment will get the least, but the one
corporation that is doing more than
all others to steal the governorship
is the Tramway company of Denver,
and that company is more or less
protected from the wrath Of the peo-
pile of the state by the charter of the
city of Denver.
1t is marvelously strange that
capable men at the head of other
large corporations of Colorado can
not see that they are raj sing thun-
dercloud of public vengence over
their heads, which will break with
full fury the moment the deed is ac
complished, and which will never
stay its destructive force until every
corporation in Colorado is hedged
about by the strictest possible public
control, and that these capable man
ayers of these large corporations are
doing all of this and are really being
made rank suckers of by the Denver
Tramway company, which alone has
anything to gain by the stealing of
the governorship, and which alone
of all the great corporations is pro
tected from public vengeance by the
charter of the city of Denver.
A governor that it can control is
of inestimable value to the Denver
Iramway company at the present
| time
/ All of it's valuable franchises ex-
pire within the next four years.
Under the constitutional amend
ment, known as the Rush bill, adopt
ed two years ago, the granting of
new franchises in the city of Denver
must be submitted to the vote of the
people and certain percentage Of
the gross receipts must be paid into
city treasury.
To corporation that doubles its
capital stock and its bonded indebt-
! edness every five wears, at the ex-