Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-30
EDITORIAL DOPE.

The Herald win win its battle TO
protection of taxpayers in Durang
and La Plata county
Farmers are in hard luck putin,
up hay between showers. but most o
them are plugging away and gettinl
along very nicely.
Railroad situation looks brighter ey
cry day. Next year by this time We
may count on Southern Pacific trans
entering our city.
Hartman Is said to have surplanted
the Vandel 1ilts in management of the
New York Central lines. How ;he
mighty hsy, fallen.
ouray Plamdealor says a good Re
publican Is preferable to some of the
pin-headed Democrats appointed by
Governor Shafroth. Right you are.
flaindealer advises Ouray county
farmers to raise more Strawberries
and lay more eggs. Both command
fancy prices. The faithful hen Is ,,
wealth producer.
Isn't 1t amusing to note how some
Democratic paper commend the Heuey
graft prosecutions In San Francisco
While commencing and standing in
with grating at heme.
The forest reserve proposition is su
ing TO be winner in the long run
Regulations will soon be adjusted In
accord with demands of the general
people, but not in the interests OF pow
erfnl cliques and individuals who want
the earth
Jumping onto the Rio Grande man.
agement these days of rain, cloud
bursts and washouts shows mighty
poor taste. But some papers are never
consistent and they are not located
great distance from Durango.
He who laughs last laughs best will
be Illustrated when the morning graft
organ gets 1t in the neck.
President Taft has approved of an
order expelling seven West Point ca
dets for hazing Good for our presi.
dent.
San Juan section is getting along
very nicely considering the unruly
sslements and delay occasioned by long
Wiockades.
Aldermen will find it expensive pro
tecting grating newspaper. Its NAV
is capacious and once under way there
is no halfway stopping point.
Begins TO look as if Judge Lindsey
will not be able to secure space in
Everybody's Magazine for his famous
expose of Colorado politics in his
novel, "The Beast and the Jungle"
The editor of Everybody's Magazine
has been paying a visit to Denver,
making an investigation as to the
truth of the alleged Beast in the
Jungle" and is not convinced that the
judge writes as an unprejudiced per-
son. =,
<..escity authorities of Juarez, Mex
leo, have voted to appropriate 100000
for the purpose of entertaining Presi.
dents Taft and Diaz at n bull fight
when they meet in that city, Oct. 16.
The Denver Post is again finding
ils'i III CGI
tain legislation which 1t exerted every
influence to defeat last winter. Such
is the consistency of the average Den
yer red ink daily
The last report of the Woodmen Of
the World shows encouraging in
creases. The Woodmen of the World
are getting along in fine shape unde.
present management. There is no po-
litical grating permitted.
The Denver & Rio Grande is hav-
ing hard time of it this summer
with cloud bursts and washouts, and
the profits for June, July and August
will be wiped out in repairing damage
TO road beds and loss OF traffic. Sew
eral other roads have suffered, nota-
bly, the Colorado Southern. but the Rio
GTande has come in for the hardest
run of luck.
It's hard to get any lay Democrat
interested in the present staCe ad-
ministration It's only those holding
4 soft jobs who make any pretensa OF
sticking up for Shafroth and his com
bination. And the same is true in
connection with the administration 4
city affairs of Durango by partisan,
petty aldermanic membership. No
wonder the elements are at war and
cloud bursts and washouts are the
order of the day.
Poking fun at Senator Guggenheinl
may be pleasing pastime to some
OF the Democratic papers Throughout;
the state, but the fact remains that
Senator Guggenheim is the one who
Is called upon when something is de
sired al Washington. The senior sen
ator has given more attention and ac-
complished more for Colorado during
the past two years than any senator
Colorado has had during the same
length of time.
An item is being copied by Demo
cratic papers to the effect that a sni
Of clothes will cost $40 more by reasol
OF the new tariff There may bt
gullible people who believe this. bu