The Delta independent., 1906-07-06

troubles encountered are minor ones.
For they are, when compared to our
sister town.
Much has been said about the cotton
wood trees shedding but they continue
to remove their garments and will not
blush until much later in the year. It
may then be expected to see a little
color. But they always were bold crea-
lures and persist in holding their heads
above everybody else.
Charley Adams, in the Montr use Press,
retaliates in quite plain language.
Hulaniski, formerly of the Western
Empire. says he was obliged to give up
his paper at Montrose on account of
failing health" and Mr.. Adams uses
his excuse to a mighty good turn. We
refrain from stating in what manner as
we have no "butt in" but will say that
Hulaniski, from his Ouray throne, has
little reason in throwing boquets at Mr.
Hopkins, which he does. Everyone is
content to let this latter gentleman rest
in peace but it sours on the stomach to
read of excuses in his behalf. Cut that
part out, Hulaniski.
The Montrose Enterprise imagines
itself divinely instituted organ to
throw hot shots into Theodore Roose-
welt and can scarcely go to press with
out printing few lines of bushwah in
this regard. Its last attempt was .
slur on his radical policies and an
equally emphatic puff Of William Jen-
nings Bryan and his Conservatism.
Just now it behooves Mr.. Bryan to be
ultraconservative. his remarkable sup
port coming from those quarters and as
it happens he is just keen enough to
realize the situation. Yes, much more
so than few of his i'll advised support
ems, like the Enterprise for instance.
Harry X. Thaw and Stanford White
just mix up of fashionable rotteness
and lewdness. Oh, it will come to the
surface every now and then, even II
there is dead-oodles of money to keep
| it beneath. ''Aristocracy" carries
more red flags than does mediocracy.
And when they float in the breeze the
stencil is appalling.
The Paonia Gazette thinks that Ted
dy Roosevelt would be nearly distracted
if he could but know that the Fruit
Grower, by Oliver, had said Of Upton
Sinclair that he was ''fake." When
it comes to supporting anything and
everything on the corporation clothes.
line, except the home telephone COM
pany, the Paonia man is right in line,
yes, strictly. It would be laughable to |
see Oliver eating some Of that "em-
balmed" beef dished up to the soldiers
of '9S and then afterward ever thinking
for moment that such work as had
been exposed could not be. Mr.. Oil
ver's venture" on conditions not being
as bad as they are is likened unto the
boy who told of his trip to Cuba during
the war and in truth was lying in q
hospital in New Jersey. He speaks
from afar and says of that which he
knoweth not. While Mr.. Oliver was
finishing his course Of ssstudies in the
schools Of Colorado, there were few
Of US who were baking under tropical
sun, laying in rotten trenches and drink
ing water filled with ten million germs
to the cup full. Incidentally we were
also trying to absorb enough Of the
contract of May 3rd" (embalmed beef
can stamp which would keep body and
soul together until we could get back to
the States" And therein lay our
first real lesson concerning the packing
houses Of America. The editor himself,
while on cook detail, probably opened
over thousand cans Of this vile gut
and saw men die and die and die and yet
| c0aild do nothing alsa hut onan mora