New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-07
BY THEODORE NJ. KNAPPEN

~REEIEY Coll Aug 6-"Ni Sine Numine reads the
motto OF the State OF Colorado read 1t IN the
reproduction of the seal on the floor OF the vesoue
the new Weld County courthouse. ;,
But shades of Horace Greeley! Nobody knew what meant
Something about nothing and God some one ventured ne
was Mortified asked whether it had anything to do with the
old saying mo Sunday west OF Chicago and no Zoo west
canvass of the county officers was irutless until one
appealed dictionary which declared that the Colorado motto
means: Nothing without God"
Mining Colorado may have been goddess community in its
early DAYS Greeley and cranky $50 the wd WEST
hough from the first The New England conscience was
dominant from the beginning in the settlement sponsored by
Horace Greeley Doubtless that conscience feels that mas a
the reward righteousness God has certainly been with Greeley
And course to-day in the great world crisis Greeley right
and righteous.
Prosperity the second and third generations has not spoiled
the sons and daughters of Civil War generation emgran lhe
fathers and grandaher demonstrated that ve character ana
asere morality the chief products OF the rocky New
hill farms They have demonstrated that those qualities need not
prosperity The older generations OF the reeey STOCK
fought with nothing but courage and ia ne anu
rich region can be- Greeley may be taken the type OF the sue
cessfu Western irrigation community This child OF the dreams OF
the oldme editor is barring the Mormon seeeh 'e Po
of American irrigation. VIZ,
When Horace Greeley advised the young to go West and
then in company with Meeker concentrated that advice IN an
Injunction join the Greeley colony which promoted through
the columns Of The Tribune without profit to any and with salaries
to few he little suspected that he was atherng new era IN m
West Yet fact that Of the experience and practice OF the
Greeley rrgaonists who did not know lateral from sue
when they arrived from the East 1870 has grown up the "oe
great BODY of irrigation Jurisprudence and custom
When the Greeley caks arrived Governor Eaton expressed
wonder how they going get enough 10 i've on ee
wears later he was wondering where they would ever find market
for their products. " y .h
1t in these critical years OF the worlds food supply that the
irrigated lands shine and wind drouh and Hood elsewhere
contribute to German advantage but the lands OF rainfall at Will
Welding with minimum of agricultural risk in proportion TO e
on them are the old reabes of the armies OF the
soldiers the commssary President wilson mas haPpy s
the farmers as co0peators in this And in Greeley and
Weld County the tenacious patriotism of the founders dominates
Necan and Ruanans and Germans and all other strange De
that have met this agricultural paradise Greeley true 10 It's
ered;tv takes itself seriously 1t fighting this war with Sa
ton ditch and canal with tractor and handweeaer VIII" PoH'oe
wheat cattle corral sheep fold and highland horses
Greeley grows quantities and OF sugar oeetS
untd acres grows alfalfa and wheat barley and rye Dut
the chief qorv of Greeley the potato There have been years
hen the Greeley did live up to Its reputation out s
i worthy OF its Its beet factory may not give
he West so much weetenng in other but the freight cars
will have to be modified the extent OF looo or oo 10 ais
tribute the lbers to the tables OF America
The whole State Of Colorado stands with Greeley nat means
something bio The Colorado OF the mountain parks may De
the enlv Colorado the tourist and the Colorado OF the mines
and ee NAV be the only Colorado for the Eastern investor
hit the Colorado this the hungry masses the Coorado
b. rodce 100000 worth of the foods OF tan orchard and
ange-he Colorado that feeds itself and has an abundant surplus
for less fortunate states and countries ~,
greeley showed the way for Greeley Union Colony and
the nv showed the way Colorado It's the OF efficiency
od r,anaoement and conservation. It's the way TO win the
d side Of the war It's the way that has Just completed truly
beautiful county capital Greeley at cost OF nearly nan o
that structure OF marble steel and bronze simple plaque sums
I'D the Greeley way: =. n,,,,o,or ri. Lo,,.
cost Of courthouse and furniture, S4l4302OS The above
has been raised by direct taxation No further leVe TO be
made Ma bond issues. No interest to pay.
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