The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-04-23

carries out the policy outlined therein
with wisdom and courage, he will sure
ly make a record for himself of which
he and his party may be proud. His
remarks on the subject of corporations
We're especially strong and to the
point. He is no anarchist, hostile TO
all corporations as such, and in favor
of taxing corporations higher than any
body else; but he indicates very plain
ly that corporations which have fran
chises must give the people the very
best service in return for the privileges
given 10 them, and that he as mayor
will be satisfied with nothing less, and
will take nothing less. This is the SEN
sible attitude, and one that will be ap-
proved by right-minded people every
/ where. We have seen the results of
crazy and unintelligent opposition to
property interests in Kansas and Ar
kansas and TeXas-and also in our
own state; and people are tired of the
demagogism which speaks of all cor
/ porations as If they We're incarnations
of the devil, when everybody knows
| that some of them have done more 10
help and to develop this state than
any other agency; but on the other
hand, 1t would be in the highest de-
gree unwise to allow the corporations
which enjoy franchises, like water
and gas and electric and tramwny
! companies, to perform their duties in
slipshod manner and not TO give in
I return for the privileges granted TO
them the best service possible. Mayor
| Wright has hit the golden mean in this
matter. His whole address, in fact.
shows that he regards the running of
n city as primarily n business propo-
sition, to be undertaken in very much
/ the same spirit as the running of a
large private business. This is the
spirit the people approve of, and pub
lie opinion is certainly with the new
mayor
rho newspnper man who was at
Shanghai in the early part of our late
unpleasantness with Spain seems to
from Manila TO Porto Rico. At any
rate, the ''ghost stories" which have
come from the latter island recently,
and which have been given an unfor-
tunate circulation by the Associated
Press, show that somebody with n
very vivid imagination is at work
There is another artist at Havana, and
at Manila there is n second-rate pur-
veyor of sensational fabrications Ev-
cry few days we are treated to horr-
BILE story of American soldiers NAL
treating poor natives; or horrible
frauds in the commissary department;
of natives in Porto Rico starving
by thousands, while the pampered
menials of the United States govern
ment live in palaces; of general feel
ing among the best people in Cuba
that the tyranny of General Wood
cannot longer be endured; ana so forth
and so on, ad nauseam. The worst of
it is, that so much of this sort of stuff
Is published in the news columns,
though much of it is marked special,
that numbers of people take it for
news, and accept the horrible stories
as facts. 1t is always harder to catch
a lie than to start one, so that it is
extremely difficult TO counteract the
bad effects of such fabrications.
The safest rule under the conditions
sees in newspaper correspondence
about our foreign possessions, except
the official reports from duly accredit-
ed officers of the government
1t does not yet appear whether the
state is to have revenue during the
next two years or not; and whether the
University and other state institutions
will have TO close their doors is vet to
be decided. The late Legislature may
have meant well; but if it did, it was
the most incompetent body of men
ever got together since Colorado be-
came state; and if it was not incom-
petent it was something worse: there
is no escape from the dilemma-it is
like the catch question as to whether
a man would rather be bigger fool
than he looks, or look n bigger fool
than he is; the answer in either case
being "How could you?'
A Kansas City paper has published
an interview with brother of Tom
Maloney, who lives in that place, but
| who has been out in Denver helping
Tom lately, in which he states that
| from this time on Colorado is a Repub-
lican state. Ones first impulse on
reading such statement from Ma
loney is one of alarm lest the portly
Tom shall be trying soon to break in
to the Republican ranks; but it is Just
possible that the Kansas City Maloney