The Holly chieftain., 1914-07-03
AS ornERs SEE Us


erisis that ~ eoafronted any state siaes
the Civil war. The trouble that brought
on the Civil var was OF q dissimilar ma
ture, for 10 ststs, north or south, even
At the height of the slavery controversy.
showed itself 90 utterly incompetent
in the MANAGEMENT Of its owa sfsirs.
Colorado has bees Q turbulent state for
the pest thirty years; it has been honey.
combed with graft. principally due to
combinations between politicians and un.
ion s9itstors; ssd il has been the scene Of
more uaioa asd strikers outraEes than
asy other state. The cuImination SCENE
now to have bees reached in the rebellion
Of the unioaists end the Intellectual and in.
competsat s4orts Of the legislature to re.
store order.
For over twsaty years Colorado has
been the mecca Of the asitstors and the
faddists. With Governor Wsite the state
started on down.trade course that has
BROUGHT il to such extremity thst Il 10
being ssriously suggested that Colorado
be turned back into territory. Federal
troops sre now maintaining what order
exists in the coal camps, and the leEisla.
ture adjourned in the face of Q request
from the president that it take definite
action toward establishing peace and re.
storing order.
When Waite went into Office he seemed
to have tried (succeeded) to put every.
body who would not work ON the payroll.
He encouraged every sort Of fad and
reform" that the asitators proposed,
and it was through his sympathetic tol.
.erancs that the Western Federation Of
Miners was orssnized and tained the
strength with which il has since been able
to terrorize with armed and sustained
violence the Centennial state At recurrent
intervals Of between Eve and ten years.
Il was he who, with the idea Of winning
the votes Of women. introduced suffrage;
aud with excellent judgment the women
voted against him when be sought re.
election.
Since his time there have been men in
Office who tried, and tried hard, to do
their duty. But the sraftina politicians
were too securely entrenched, they were
too actively supported by the labor un.
ionites who were left practically free to
carry out their designs, for even an hon.
est administration to do much effective
work in cleaning up the state.
No better Illustration to show how de.
moralized the state is. aud has been for .
long time, could be brought forward than
the manner in which certain newspapers
have thrived. One Of the leading news.
papers Vi Denver has, without any Great
regard for secrecy, bisckmailed its way
to afluence. and frequently in the midst
Of q campaign it has, while scarcely
troubling itself to five reason, switched
from one side to the other.
So debauched has the state been by fads
and political Innovations that practically
all Of the Socialistic nostrums-such as
recall Of judges. initiative and referendum
have been instituted. The state con.
stitution has been amended. patched and
crossed out until it is almost impossible
to tell what the constitution prescribes.
At one time Denver was under two forms
Of municipal Sovernmend.
And the misfortunes have been brought
upon Colorado by the faddists. the aEi.
tators and the criminal unionites, who
have been left largely to do - they please,
although during the Cripple Greek strike
they found more than match for them in
General Sherman Bell, who had them
deported bodily, and so restored order.
But men Of Bells mettle seem now to be
lacking, and federal troops have been
called in to maintain order in the helpless
state. Los Angeles Times.