Semi-weekly herald., 1913-11-27
STAND UP, JUDGE LINDSEY.

The following editorial directed at
Judge Lindsey, although no name is
mentioned, is to the point. Ben Lind
sey has been one of the chief factors
in retarding the growth of Denver
and the state of Colorado the same as
a certain newspaper has retarded the
growth of Durango in the past. It's
time halt was called and we are
pleased to see this right-from-the
shoulder editorial in the News:
When that bluff old photographer,
Samuel Johnson, denounced patriot
ism as ''the last refuge of scoun-
drel" he had cause for his roughshod
anger. The patriots" of his time
were not up to a high moral stand
ard. Most of them were like the pol
iticians of our own time, hungry for
office and its emoluments and not
very careful how they secured them
so long as they had chance to revel
in the spoils. The official payroll was
the objective point, then as now.
But like most things else, there are
politicians and politicians. We have
one in mind who insists with strid-
ent strenuosity that he is patriot
before everything else. Yet for sew
eral years he has been tramping up
and down the country telling all who
care or pay to listen that Denver is
the one unclean, malodorus spot on
| the American continent. No good
could come out of it, according to this
| oracle. To those who knew the true
conditions in this splendid city of
homes and churches and schools, of
| clubs and societies all dedicated to
the moral uplift and the progress of
modern civilization, his asseverations
were amusing. To those ignorant of
them, they conveyed the intimation
that Denver was not proper place
to live or raise a family.
This steadily calumination of the
city and studied and sensational crit
| icism of some of it's leading citizens
finally affected Philadelphia news
paper to such an extent that it open
| ed its columns for a fund for de-
fense of an attack that was wholly
imaginary. Denver knew there was
no reason for this subscription be-
cause there was no local condition to
justify it. The Philadelphia news.
paper did not but still paraded before
the country the indictment that the
city was in the hands of an organized
conspiracy of beasts" thirsting fol-
the destruction of the itinerant Col
| iath of eastern cities.
The business men of Denver spend
thousands of dollars every year to
| attract tourists and residents here.
Clergymen of the acknowledged en-
inence of DR.. Coyle declare that Den
yer is IAN unusually clean and well
administered city" Withal, this poll
tician has made it his business to go
up and down the land insisting that
Denver is not fit place to live, all
the time with the money of Denver's
taxpayers jingling in his pockets.
That is not very generous recogni-
ton of a people who have done this
lecturihg and hectoring politician so
much honor. To injure your own city
and citizens for the sake of COM
mercial advertisement is of piece
with the kind of patriotism Sam John
sno had in mind when he gave his
historic statement to the world
We hope we have heard the last of
these assaults ON the honor and dig
nifty of Denver. We have had far too
many of them. 1t may be politics of
kind and selfish publicity, but it is
not patriotism at all. Denver is con-
ceded to be cleaner and more whole
some city in which to reside than
very many of its kind in population.
Let us have done with these sland-
ers against it once and for all.
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