Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04

THE EVEN ING
mel, nearing completion. is marvel
Of engineering achievement.
Many of those going to Colorado
to mine remained to raise cattle and
to till the soil. When mining began
the cattle industry grew to large pro.
portions. 1t fiourished for Is years.
until the ranges had been broken up
by the laying out of hon1esteads.
Colorado Is the thirty-eighth Of our
galaxy of States. The act for State
hood having passed Congress the pre-
vious year, a constitution was adopted
by vote Of the people in July, 1875.
On the first day of the following
month President Grant proclaimed
the new State. John L. Routt was
elected governor.
Beginning as a Territory with
IS, 900 people, today the State has
more than 100000 Only the thirty
third among the States in population,
according to the 1920 census, she was
fifteenth in the value Of mineral prod
ucts and eighth in rank as coal
producer.
Although Started under difficulties
ana ANNOUNCEMENTS, her agricultural
activities now are of the utmost i'm
portance. Wherever dry farming was
possible the plucky settler resorted to
irrigation 1t Is now widespread; in
1920 nearly 3,350,000 acres, an in
crease of 20 per cent in a decade,
were being titled by the irrigation
methods.
Rural Population Increased.
I'm the same 10-year period the per-
centage of rural total population in
creased by rs per cent In 1920 the
rural population was SIS per cent of
the total. Colorado was one of three
States in the Union showing the rural
districts growing faster than the
suburban. This is a striking tribute
to her agricultural possibilities She
Is seventh In area, and has ample
room for expansion along these lines.
Already manufacturing has reached
good sized proportions, S243,826 900
being Invested in such enterprises in
1919.
'Colomdo's wealth increased 20 per
cent in the decade ending 1922, when
it was $3,2S5 per capita. This figure
was larger than for States such as
Massachusetts, and Michigan and a
little smaller than in States such as
New York and Illinois.
That religious influences, which
have played and always will play so
large part in our national life, were
uppermost in the minds of the found
ers of Colorado is evidenced by the
State motto selected. 1t is Nil since
numine.' which, being translated,
means Nothing without divine will.
"A newspaper was started by VIII
liam II. Byers in 1859 and has con-
tinued to this day. From the begin.
ming the people have demanded en-
lightenment.
Always Progressive.
Colorado always has been progress
sive. She stands out like beacon in
the history of woman suffrage Her
constitution was the first State con-
stitution to take notice of it. The con-
stitutional convention of 1876, al
though favorable, failed to grant the
franchise to women solely for fear it
might defeat the entire document at
the polls. However. provision was
made for submitting the question to
referendum. And in 1898 equal suf-
frage was carried by a substantial
majority, and the State became the
second to permit women to vote. She
has been called the proving ground of
woman suffrage Thirty women have
sat in her legislative halls. Others
have acted as treasurers or auditors
in more than rs cities or towns. Since
1649 the State superintendent of pub
lie instruction has been a woman.
Miss Pattie Field, vice consul in Am
sterdam. the only one of her sex to
hold such a position, comes from Colo.
RADIO. The women of the State have
had considerable part in the estab-
lishment of forward-looking govern
mental instruments.
ITO the majesty of her scenery
Colorado adds the wonderful healing
balm of her climate. Within her
boundaries our Government maintains
2 national parks, Is nationals forests
and 2 national monuments. To the
dover given by God her citizens have
added the riches that come from intel
ligent industry.
States SeifsGoverning.
This celebration is exceedingly ap-
propriate at this time. The Nation is
inclined to disregard altogether too
much both the functions and the
duties of the States. They are much
more than subdivisions of the Federal
Government. They are also endowed
with sovereignty in their own right.
OF course, one of their chief glories
lies in the fact that they are ell par.
takers Of the American spirit, all
part of the American Nation. but a
great deal of the strength Of the Fed
eral Government lies in the fact that
the States have the power to func-
ton locally and independently, sub
ject only to the restrictions which
they themselves have invoked by
adopting the National Constitution.
This fiftieth anniversary is in cele-
bration of that principle It was so
years ago that Colorado put off the
garb Of territory almost exclusively
under the dominion of the National
Government and put on the robes of
q sovereign American State. The
great progress that it has made in
these years has been In no small part
due to the application of the principle
of local self-government. OF all the
wealth and eminence that this State
has achieved this is it's chief treasure
1t ought to be maintained undimin-
fshed and guarded with jealous care
through all the years to come"
PRESIDENT LEAVES