Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-22


OF the country compete with an all
water rate from New York to San
Francisco-when all of Washington
was a seething railroad lobby, and
when Roosevelt was making the hgnt
OF his strenuous life for fair and de-
cent and equitable railroad rates for
the West (which the Panama canal
would force). MT. Teller and MT. Pat
terson and just twelve other senator's
In the entire United States senate.
voted against Roosevelt and the Pan
anna canal. Was this due to Teller's
long service az railroad attorney for
the Union Pacific, or not?
And now we come to Senator
Thomas McDougal Patterson. Here
Is a man Woo eats q corporation be-
fore breakfast every morning in his
papers Just TO give him an appetite to
devour three or four trusts before
dinner In the evening. Tom says in
his papers and in his speeches that
people who form corporations
ougbtn't 10 be permitted to live, and
when they form trusts they snould be
looking over his record we md that
by blackmail he forced himself in as
stakeholder Of The Denver Dry
Goods company; that he is half
owner OF the Patterson-Fox coal mine
al Marshall, Colo.-it is from this
mine that he gets the title of Foxy
Tom. He owns third interest in the
Monarch mine, and these two mines
practically control the Marshall dis
trict and are the most important
mines in the northern Colorado coal
trust. His snare of the profits of the
Northern Colorado Coal Trust
amounts TO many thousands of dollars
a year, every dollar OF which is fore
ed from the people OF Colorado by the
most brutal trust methods. He is al
so interested in the Albany hotel, the
Markham hotel and TIE News-Times
Publishing company. Quite promi-
neut corporation and trust man, isn't
he?
And AS tax dodger, Foxy Tom
stands pre-eminent in this cOmmun-
i,y Of tax dodgers. For example. on
the News-Times Publishing company
he has got his total taxes down to 81
100. and he swears that the cash val
$40. He paid, three years ago $780,
900 for the Times. He pays less
taxes ON his properties, pro rata val
ne than any corporation in the state
OF Colorado, less than the Tramway.
less than the Water company, less
tnan the Gas and Electric company,
less than the Telephone company, and
less than any railroad company. So
when he makes his address tomorrow
night to the assembled Democrats
and trust haters, let him not fail to
recite the facts above. They are true
and ne dare not deny them.
| And don't forget that this same Pat
terson, with the same corporation in
| terests. also voted against Mr.. Roose-
welt and the Panama canal. In this
vote he had the only opportunity pos
| sibiy he will ever have In his life of
really rendering the people splendid
service. and, as was to be expected
by tne people who really know him,
he voted against their interests with
out hesitation.
And now We come down to smiling,
complacent aud sanity Alva Adams.
the MARTYR. He is also a corporation
eater and trust buster-with his
mouth. He has been governor two
and one-half times, but during his
| terms we did not And the carcasses
of any corporations lying around tae
state house that were slain by Alva,
| the sanity, at least. we did not And
| any with his mark on them.
In passing II is interesting to note
that Alva is president OF the Pueblo
Savings bank. OF the Pueblo Hard
ware company. largely interested in
the Tomboys mines in the San Juan,
Interested in the International Trust
company of Denver, large stock.
nolder in his brother Frank Adams
Ice trust Of Denver, and with his
brother Billy, in the San Luis valley
ranches and cattle and sheep com.
panies. Quite nice bunch OF corpor-
| alton stun and trust stun to have In
| ones possession. isn't 1t?
And. while we really believe they
euchred him out Of the governorship.
and really believe that he was elect
ed to It, yet the people themselves
have not lost anything. Alva just lost
the job as governor, but the people
at large are not worrying very much
over Mr., Alva Adams troubles. nor
yours. nor mine
And, last, we come down now to
dear old Charlie Summertime Thomas
also an ex-governor. and the most
complacent man In the world, charm
ing In manner. possessed of hair
trigger tongue with perpetual motion
gearing, man who ran say more and
mean less than any Democrat in or
ou' Of the party in Colorado. And
when Charlie was governor the cor
porations were better taken care of
nan by any governor, with possibly
the exception Of Alva Adams. He is
corporation eater and a trust bust
er. too-Only in his dreams-but ie al
ways wakes up before he does them
any harm