The Glenwood post., 1907-03-30

L beI1eVe that a man VINO won hight
for his community is unpatriotic -
Then Mr.. Holmes sat down after he
had unburdened himself of this won.
derful bit of information( ~. 1.-The
government has got started wrong and
she has got to be put right. Just
when Henry is going to call special
ship of state in the other direction he
neglected to say.
A Misapprehension
Mr.. Sloss. told of meeting of
stockmen in Denver the past week and
said some of the best legal minds in
the state had declared the grazing tax
Illegal. Mr.. Light then stated that
some who had applied fol grazing
permits and had sent the fee had beeu
notified to hold the fee until further
orders and cited j N Ashby as one
case. Mr.. French explained that that
advice was invariably given when the
fee was forwarded to him. He said
he was not allowed to collect the fee
and when it was sent to him he re-
turned it, advising the applicants to
hold it until their applications were
approved, when the money should be
forwarded to Washington. MI. Light
was apparently honestly of the opin
ion that this advice to hold the money
was a sign of weakening on the part
of the government but such opinion
could not be justified for moment
after hearing Mr.. French explana
ton.
Rosenberg Deprscates Falsehoods
Theodore Rosenberg secured the
floor and told the stockmen that he
was certain the department of agri-
culture could not collect the grazing
tax since there was never any au-
thorization by congress for il 10 do so.
He told them, however, of numerous
false statements and misrepresenta-
tions made by the Avalanche and said
when the cattlemen went before the
president or Mr.. Pinchot with their
grievances, they would be met by
these false statements told ostensibly
in their behalf and all the rest of
their arguments would fall to the
ground. He said the stockmen could
lutely honest fight and they could not
afford to say OF have said for them
at variance with the truth.
He called attention to the recent Ava
anche item to the effect that the re
cent additions to the Holy Cross re-
serve were made to protect the source
of water supply for Glenwood s water
system when everyone knew that the
source of supply was in the White
River reserve and nowhere near the
Holy Cross reserve He said such
ignorance and stupidity was lnexcus-
able and only served to thwart any
good which otherwise might be done.
Fun Over Resolutions
AZ lhls tIlIlS lbc SSNlClal was III
structed to read the resolutions which
had been handed in by C. II. Harris,
chairman of resolutions committee
which had been appointed before the
meeting convened. The resolutions
which came from Glenwood were read
and consisted of general attack Oh
the leasing system and the grazing
tax. At the instance of w. H. Har-
ris and gentleman from Glenwood
whose bluff to the people had been
called, resolutions of denunciation
against w, S. Copeland, edito of the
Aspen Times, and A. J. Dickson, ed
tor of the Glenwood Post, had been
prepared. Copeland was severely crit
icised for his vote while delegate
National Livestock association, and
Mr.. Dickson was denounced because
he was not willing to stultify himself
by challenging the impossible.
Mr., Copeland presence was suffi
cient to save him from roasting by
resolution as the paper was not pre-
sented, although he was handed a
bunch of verbal criticism to make up
for the absence of the typewriter
document. Mr. Copeland, however,
was equal to the emergency and ably
defended himself.
MIR. Dickson is not as handsome as
is the Aspen editor and his presence
was not 90 effective. The intimidat
ing screed against him was read at
the same time as was another con l.
cerning Fl. j. Holmes which fairly
bubbled over with praise of Mr.
Holmes for his good work for the as
sociation. But Mr. Holmes does not
accept boquets as legal tender for ser
vices and saw to it that at the tail
end Of this commendation there was
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