The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-05-14

borer-the developer OF our re-
sources and the grade builder. The
mining prospector and the agricul-
tural homeseeker. In fact. the re-
FORMER, with his burdensome laws,
mis- isms. and his declarations that
all men possessing q dollar are
thieves and liars has placed us
where we face financial embarrass-
ment and state dishonor.
Citizens. no one wants to return
10 the day when candidates for ali
parties were named in one room VI
one building in the state. Neither
does amy one desire TO return to
the time when governors control
led the police and fire departments
OF cities and when men could pur-
chase with private funds. seats in
our national congress. However. JUS.
as vigorously as we forever stamp
ed those evils from our midst We
should stamp out the present day
evils that have grown up in their
stead.
The sentiment that compels the
abolishment Of boss-controlled
convention can stop the use of
state money to purchase a seat in
the United states senate.
The sentiment that gave US more
direct selection of our officials can
compel those officials to spend more
of the public money on our educa-
tional institutions and less on po-
litical Ob-hOlders.
The sentiment that forced the
corporations out of politics can now
compel the agitating reformer to
stop his proposed enactment of
law which benefits no one and
which has driven capital and labor
both from our doors.
Yes, we have reformed, but wei
must now reform backwards. We
skidded past the conservative road
bed of progress into the swamp of
impractical theories.
machine controlled standpatter and
the unprincipled agitator, the for
mer Is more preferable. As al
rule he is SO situated financially
tht he does not have to rob the
state institutions of the money they
need in order to keep his relatives
out of tn poor house. neither does
he have to place such a burden OF
taxation on those industries al
ready established, that is prohibit
tive of others coming. in order to
maintain his political machine
through useless positions.
But COLORADO il not compelled
to endure either. The old line
standpatter is dead. Let's kill the
reform agitator. Throughout this
state from one end to the other
are men and women who are the
bone and sinew OF our common
wealth. People who have made
success out of trial and tribulation
in the personal battles of life. Peo
pie who are not elated over the tri-
umphant control of our political
fabric by the one-man-directed cor
porations and who. in their hearts,
despise and loaths the self appoint
ed critics of our men of wealth.
who made money out of a word-pic-
ture lies of a beast of political bur
den and a pen sketch falsehood .of
Jungle of political intrigues that
never existed.
These people are the people who
must assume control of our state
government; who must say that.
thou shalt not enact reform laws
that will depopulate our state and
stunt our industries. Thou shalt
not use two million of our three
million dollar income for useless
payrolIs while our boys and girls
stand outside our state institutions
OF learning, watching the tumble
weed and the coyote propagate in
side. Who shall say to both re-
former and standpatter, this state
government 10 for us and our child
rem. to be used for our social, ed
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