Gunnison news-champion., 1907-04-12
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% lass Uss& oseT the prs~pert- 20
s~ssaa4 an sPprepTsais,a tsss the
p's~s-s' cosossao se9,-i.ius Il az.
sssi fcr . npsaAl ssna-5i ~ thai ,.,sui
later. ko~excr. the .si.Ai.oa dsrk ep
cd stsea the ball ga unto the sruaie
and the I,aaiy News II FRIDAY had
grave doubts os its PASSING. and ~
the eourse ai al article d..cu.-in.
the general situation. used the-c
woEi.
We had hoped ti.a, favorable a.
ti1n having Teen secured an the
house. the senate wosald gran, the
fasor ct passang the ball bst %
seems ~e have nai vet become saih
eiently strong On this side of tke q
vide or that We are no; Yet sSfhcseui
" united There - . de,ermlna-
tIon On the part Of certain eIemsut
to down all such measures. Iast a.
there has been heretofore
The two sentences of the aboec
pointed paragraph suggest separaie
treatment Ia the FIRST 1t is said
that the western slope - either not
sufficiently y strong or nod sufficiently y
united to- get what ia Justice be
longs To- u The last ,lause dis
closes the meat an the cocuanut
Lack of gHihcati0n D. what has been
the undoing of that great section of
Colorado lviug south 1f the Arkau
sas river and west uf the Coniinon
tai divide. and 1t always will con
tinue to he this way 80 long as We
are unable To- see bevond our noses
Cur policy has heretofore been
thai II uue county came before the
Colorado legislature for an appr0-
priaiiun tor a state InstItu-
tiln. every other county ou the slopc
took a sudden notion that IT ought
to bait in with proposition for thc
same. II one county had a candi
date for an office. the politicians
from each bailiwick took the great
est delight IN using their best ener
gies b. Kill him of IN the convention
The Press has always argued
against suicidal policy ON the part
of the western aud southern portions
OF Colorado. We have many times
pointed out the inevitable end that
could only come from the continu
ance or promotion of such methods
No county can assume the position
that it 10 supreme and does not need
TO solicit. and cultivate, if you plesse
the friendship Of its neisAl,ors
This very thing wss found out I'm Q
ago by tie greater cosntie~ on the
sssaern slope and northern part 4
the state.
Due Of the most striking evidences
OF this feeling Of iealo~sy between
the count'e~ on this side Of the range
Was the tight made apon Gunnison
lev yesra ago. She was the oriRi-
nal towR in western Colorado to ask
the Legislature for y ~cbool-in 1881,
when she embraced the whole terri
tory west of her to the Utah line.
Senator A. N. Stevenson, her repre
sentative, introduced = bill TO estab-
lish normal school there. 1t fail.
ed Of passage, but fifteen years later
was re~usc citated. What was the re-
suit. A soon as Montrose. Delta.
Mesa and Garfield counties saw what
Gannisoa wanted. they put in like
bills and each put up good sized
scrap frr itself, always with the idea
foremost that If they could not knock
the pI"n they would do everything
IN their power to keep the other fel-
low from Setiing anything
Finally. however, the |. pi,latnre
reco xnlzed the ustice of the claim
OF Gunnison and passed a bill es-
tsbllshing the school there. The
citizens of that county gave beau
tiful tra,t oi inrty acres for the site
and with the appropriation of $500
granted in the first place, some 500
trees We're set out under the direc-
ton oi an expert from the state ar-
ricultural college and preliminary
drlreways were graded. Two wears
later the Legislature passed another
bill appropriating $4,000 to start
the school and maintain it for two
years, the Gannlson people Offering
building free for that period. Sen
ator Clayton representing the Gree
ley normal, and a powerful lobby
from that institution. including Pres
idcnt Snyder. had used every IN
fluence 10 defeat the measure. bpt
without success Then they went
before Governor Peabody and IN
duced the executive to veto it
In the present session the Gunni-
son representatives went before the
legislature asking an apnropriatio,