Show v WHY Will NOT A NEW W STATE Steamboat Pilot The repeal of the law creating th the e railroad commission is only anoter another h er evidence that the people of th the e eastern slope are not in sympathy y with we of the western slope W N We e find it in in many things road expenditures expenditures expo n development development r railroad rate rates s and and in the selection of sta state e officers officer s At the present time every executive e officer of the state is from the di district district dis dis- s' s east of the mountains New political political subdivisions seem t to tobe be in order just now and they ar are e justified where it appears so conclusively conclusively u as in this instance that th e two main divisions of Colorado ar are out of sympathy with each other The people of that portion o of Colorado lying west of the Rock Rocky mountains should immediately stara start star a movement for the formation of anew a anew new state with the Rocky mountains mountain as the dividing line liner It is more ev evident evident evi- evi dent all the time that our eastern easier slope friends through their shortsightedness shortsightedness short short- sightedness are indifferent to ou our welfare and through their preponderance preponderance erance of vot voters are a constant hind hind- rance to those things that would develop the western slope We have for years paid our share shar for the educational institutions o of Colorado all located with the exception exception ex ex- of a small school at t Gunni- Gunni Gunnison son son son-on ron the eastern side of the range The eastern slope refuses to lend it Its credit toward breaking down th the barrier of the great range and undertaking undertaking un un- a great development project project project pro pro- that would enrich all of Colo Colo- rado It not only defeated th the measure last Nove November but now I is abolishing the commission that tha might have been of benefit in th the future If It we are to bo bo bp shut off ort from th the eastern slope commercially let us b be I shut off oft politically We are for a anew anew I new state west vest of the range an and while at the start It would not havas have hav I as many people It has the resources resource and the potentialities that will wUl in a short time enable It to outstrip th the eastern half of Color Colorado do The eastern slope should Interpose no objection to this laudable move mova for self seU determination and working out our own destiny All of their activities activities activities ac ac- legislative economical an and political indicate that we are or of o small consideration In their scheme schem of things |