Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-14
A Modern Moses Crusading

It's a parlous time for the predatory
baron, with the Denver Post and Vol
plane Hoggatt on the warpath. Cannot
you just see the poor old baron, bur
dened with his bags OF ill-gotten gold,
hiking it out OF the state, turning with
pleading eyes to the upright, honest,
scourging, wrong hating Hoggatt, he of
considerable fame? In other lands, and
the always right, always honest, always
the friend of the people even tho its
owners must dwell in fearsome poverty
the Denver PostY My, how he runs
before their righteous wrath, how he
shrinks in the light of that halo that
scintilates about Hoggatt's honest head!
But the poor old burdened baron need
expect no quarter from the honest Hog
gatt--not a quarter, nor a dime. With
his scourging whip, the Post herd-law,
he'll drive the baron into limbo. OF
course, now, Hoggatt can be a good TEL
low when he wishes, it's only when the
poor victims OF a benighted intelligence
are being robbed and mauled and skinned
and cheated that the ardent, honest Hog
gatt. must rise and be Moses to lead
them from their dire predcament. Hon
est Uoppatt proved he can be a good fel'
low when he was register OF the state
land board. Didn't he show he was
whole souled, big hearted sort OF pub
lie savior by selling land speculators
MANY hundreds of acres OF school lands,
at S2.35 an acre cheaper than the small
farmer could buy themY He did. Don't
let them tell you that Volpiane can De
generous when he tries.
But back to the predatory cattle baron
he who is to be run out OF the state
bv Volplane and his bosses, the owners
Of the Post and the Great Divide. IL
must have been an oversight on vol
plane's part his forgetting to mention
that the SEATTLE barons" Of Colorado are
farmers of Colorado, that the average
herd in the state is less than fifty head.
Volplane, in his great fight for others,
evidently overlooked mentioning that the
big cattle owner is practically thing
of the past in this part OF the country.
But then, it's the way with great cru
saders, they Just can't think OF every
thing. And Volplane is going to run
those cattle barons out OF the state,
even il they are all farmers, community
assets, men who have helped build the
state to its present place OF greatness
men who add their share each year to
the 10000 900 industry that is a foun-
dation for the states prosperity. You
see. when Honest Hoggatt gets to cruz
sading, little things like states pros
peritv don't count for n blooming thing.
WHY should Honest 11oggatt worry about
prices of meat when he has driven all
the stockgrowers-a Of whom he in
sists. avenging crusader that he is, are
terrible cattle barons and tools OF the
packers trust-out of the statef why
should Honest Hoggatt bibblc about
what happens TO the agricultural inter
est. Honest Hoggatt has moved from
one community to another many times
before, and who says he cannot do so
again. after he has played the shifting
Moses and-let the railroads out OF their
mire of legal necessities that compel
them to assume some responsibility for
livestock killed and injured; and made
it necessary that the small farmers who,
strange as IL may seem, also are stock
growers. in eastern Colorado, shall con-
tribute to the Golfers Of the big land
Neutrality-suspicious. friends Of the Honest
Hoggatt when he was state land regis
teri
There are scores of reasons why every
voter should consider it n personal priv
ilege as well as duty to vote against
amendment No. 9 on the ballot at the
November election-"A Bill For an Act
in Relation to the Running of Stock at
Large" And to thousands of voters as
weighty n reason as any is the fact that
it was conceived and is backed by n
Denver newspaper notorious for its
schemes-and opposed by every organiza-