The Holly chieftain., 1920-10-28
Western Slope Citizens Appear
to Colorado for Fair Play

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When Tom De7ine the Pueblo attorney for the C. r.
L., strsnuousy opposed the endorsement of the Tri
Tunnel Amendment sefore the Republican State Platform
Committee he did no: represent the interests of Pueblo
Or Colorado. nor those of the C. r. l. alone, but he
represented chiefly the special interests Of his Millionaire
New Yor; masters. United Railroad Trust America
Wieu ToIn Deyne inspired the ad against the tunnels
thar tas TO fill from one-quarter to one whole page in
the money provide for this tremendous expenditure
was ultimately to come from New York City and from
this same United Railroad Trust.
Why does the United Railroad Trust oppose the Tri
Tunnel Amendment? The answer is simple. The Rail
road Trust has direct ranscontineta line raversng
Colorado: they have us cornered they want to keep US
icornered They want to build Salt Lake, Omaha, Kansas
City and other middle and far eastern and western cities
and their states because they have their transcontnenta
lines already established there and because these
beng remote from the point of production of the
raw materials all tonnage must be hauled there and back
The itroad Trust wants to destroy Colorado Its cities
and communities because these communities are close to
the point of productoA and therefore permit the
twoway cross country tonnage graft The Railroad Trust
is opposing the TrTunne Amendment because it
that through this tunnel construction unlimited
coal power and natural resource thereby made available
the raw product will be finished at the point of prouc
tion and the Railroad Trust will be forever denied the
two-way freight toll They know that through independ
rnsconnental railroad competition freight for
all Colorado will be reduced onehird and that they will
not he able to rob us longer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope the people of Colorado to know that the
widely published and expensive ad of the United Railroad
particulars:
Mr. Devine and his Millionaire masters deliberately
sought to misead the people of Colorado by representing
that the Tunnel Amendment was Denver scheme for
the building of the Moffat Tunnel alone when they
that the bill Itself provided that the three tunnels must
be built conemporaneously that at the outset the total
funds had to be apportoned to the three tunnels accord
ing to the estimated cost of each that there can be no
until the particular tunnel has been completed that
Northwestern and Colorado each has repre-
sentation the Railroad Commission, and that
tunnel can be built unless all three tunnels are built.
Tom Devine and his Millionaire New York masters
sought to msead the people by representing that there
was not enough tonnage in Mddewesern and in South
western Colorado to enable sufficient charge against
the railroads provide sinking fund with which pay
of the principal and interest the tunnel bonds when
they know that today there is tremendous and heavily
congested tonnage both in Middlewestern and South
Colorado that saving to the railroads
in the of the tunnels will easily provide sinking
fund sufficiently large to take of all interests and
of the southwestern tunnel miles from the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad when they knew that both the
East and West portals of the Cumbres Pass Tunnel as
fixed by the Denver & Rio Grande engineers and the
Railroad Commission surveyors are each within one
hlf mile distant from the roadbel the Rio Grande Rail-
road as located.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
ern Slope want Mr.. Tom Devine and his Millionaire New
York masters to know the enormity of the injury they
are seeking to do to the people OF the State of Colorado
in blocking this constructive The larger
ton of the workable coal of the Western Slope belongs
the School Fund. North and South Dakota Min
nesota, well the manufacturing the East
Slope Of Colorado in special need Of the bituninous
anthracite and semianthracie coal of the Western slope
The royalty to the School Fund from stimulated develop
up TO many millions We beg Mr.. Deyine to inform his
multibillionaire New York masters that in their fight
against this constructive they exerting her
colossal financial might to lessen and narrow the oppor
tunties of Colorado's school children.
The undersigned citizens and residents OF the West
Slope want Tom Devine and his multibillionare New
York to know that nearly all of the twenty-five
billion feet of standing timber in Colorado is upon the
West Slope and that in fighting this constructive
they lessenng the opportunity of the East Slope
citizen to build and to own his home.
The undersigned citizens and residents of West
AlOnp want
York masters know that when they block the building
Of these three tunnels they also people fro& de-
veloping the lands of the West Slope prevent the build
Ing reservoirs that they making possible for the
people of California to prior and vested right
In the waters of the Colorado River which Off
from the Colorado water shed; and that result OF
this policy they will for all times irrigation
of large portion of the Western Slope and force much
of that vast fertile empire to remain perpetual non
irrigated non-productive desert We want them know
that when they block the development of the West Slope
they for all time the main burden OF
maintaining the State Government upon the East Slope
taxpayer.
undersigned citizens and residents Of the West
Slope Tom Devne and his multi Millionaire New
know that they putting the jobbers
of Pueblo in a unenvabe light For the merchants
people Southwestern Colorado have given the job
bers Pueblo trade for years. and while they have
required during all this time to lift product
of field and many hundred feet In the air and lower
tho of have a 10