Show T T state govern government menu ment vs territorial rial vassalage in a fortnight the qualified electors of colorado will be called upon to vote upon tho the most important quest question loh that can claim the attention of a free people shall colorado remain a mere depend dependency e ncy the football foot ball of congress s a refuge for broken down politicians of the eastern states or rather in her pride of place assert her independence her right to govern herself don the habiliments of statehood and move forward in the grand march of free freo commonwealths on a career of unexampled prosperity in the second century of american freedom the solution of this problem is in our own hand hands and it is on account of its gravity and importance and for the reason that before taking a definite position in the matter we desired fully fairly and exhaustively to consider the question that the tho chieftain Chi glain clain did not at an earlier day espouse the cause of the state we have now examined the question critically in nil jill its bearin bearings gd we have listened to every argument that has been advanced both for and against the constitution and the tho state and we are now prepared in the light of reason and aa as our firm deliberate conviction to declare that the time lias has come when it ia Is incumbent upon every citizen of colorado who has the welfare of the house houte of his adoption at heart tp labor zealously for the ad mission admission of the centennial state by the adoption of the constitution ution wo we gain much in every way wo we will have an ati influence in the halls of congress congressi which as long as we remain in our territorial condition of vassalage wo we never can expect to exert the voice of a territory goes unheeded but the voice of a soverign state challe chalie challenges and enforces the respect of the national legislature the prayer of the mendicant although he may prostrate himself most humbly before his superior is seldom heard and if leard heard at all a mere morsel of bread is Js sparingly doled out to the suffer suffering ing fog beggar but when a peer demands othis of his peers thatto chatto that to which he is justly entitled with cheerful alacrity the tho demand is at once acknowledged to be reasonable and ia is therefore granted whoever who ever over heard of congress donating any portion of the public do domain main maln to a helpless territory who ever heard of congress granting one of her dependencies five per cent or any other per cent j of the money derived from frold the bale eale of public agricultural lands who ever of Con congress gres authorizing authorising autho rising the issuers iss ue V 0 any mere territory of any agricultural college the tho py proceeds 0 coeds of the sale saie of which may be esq used in erecting colleges and ana other institutions of learning of all these benefits as a territory we are arc deprived if colorado is admitted as a state under the present enabling act eisho she at once by the munificence of congress becomes the owner of more than six hundred and forty thousand acres of land worth say at least one million dollars shall we refuse this gift oft shall we in the interest of 0 f land grabbers oppose the adoption of the constitution until all the available ianda lands are entered and then be called upon by a direct onerous taxation to raise money with which to erect our public buildings support our schools and for other state purposes we sincerely hope that the people the intelligent masses will not turn a deafen deaf ear arto to reason and commit so suicidal an act it must ba be apparent to any one who is not a demagogue of the first water that the value of the land lands alone salone given to the state will many times overpay the slight alight increased expense iuca incident to state government today to day in our territorial condition there ia Is no prescribed limit gither either to the public debtor to taxation the territorial legislature may a up appropriate ro r ate a million illion of dollars for t the e purpose of orect erecting ing public buildings may a authorize counties and to towns ne to incur bonded indebtedness without limit until today to day many communities in this fair commonwealth are groaning under the burden of taxation which Is the ro result sult gult of the unlimited uncontrolled power of the territorial ture shall wei wai we by our v vote ote be An instrumental in continuing this deplorable state of things adopt the constitution and ail all these man afeld evils are at an end wise and just in its provi provisions eow pow it prescribes the limit of taxation lt It r says mys to the legislature thus far ehalt thou go and no farther it circumscribes wo tho state delski debt 7 s counties cities and towns from voting bonded aid to railroads it provides for br the permanent location of the capital of the state by a direct vote of the people it declares that until the seat of government and not before bedore AD 1881 1581 shall be permanently manent ly located the general assembly shall make no appropriations or expenditures for capitol grounds or building buildings it reduces the per diem them of members of the legi legislature sla gla from six to four dollar dollars it prohibits the general assembly from holding longer sieb ries sessions sious than forty days and then only once in two years in brief every page of the 00 constitution breathes the spirit of economy justice and reform at this hour the eyes of thousands in the old states are turned anxiously towards colorado they are waiting for the verdict to be bere returned by our people on the first day of july having been bom boin under and enjoyed joyed eri ori the blessings of a state government they are loth to seek a new home in a territory WI with th them the idea of statehood carrie carrle cannies carries s with it the idea of seir self gov ern ment protection to life an and d property permanence and stability and the idea of a territory carries with it the idea that property and life are insecure that everything ia Is in an unsettled and chaotic condition whether this impression is true or false is not material it has its effect abroad it impels capital it creates by reas reason renson on of the supposed insecurity an e exorbitantly high rate of interest and thereby seriously interferes with the material growth and prosperity of the country it ia Is in jn our P power 0 1 ver 1 by the adoption of the con con t i t ution to reduce the rate of interest by inducing capitalists from abroad to loan their money here that resident money lender lenders who live off the interest of their accumulated wealth should oppose tb the eState state movement Is to be expected for full well they know that the days day of bf colorado will be numbered when the state ia Is admitted and capital per consequence bence flows into our coffers cherto hitherto well nigh rusted for want oluse of use ube may godspeed god speed that day day dav pueblo col chief chieftain tain juno june 22 |