Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-09-23
shudderer,

sludderer.
II have spoken in my weak way of
what might make landholder I'M
willing to have his air used as a high
way. But he doesn't have to give a
reason-he can show his deed and tell
the whole world to 60 toto the cap
tain's office and settle. Your honors.
adjure you to cling to your unbroken
precedents and uphold property, on
which society Is based. 10 say that
we do not own these strips of land.
but only rights in the air. is fOoishness
of the damphest sort. The landowner
may sell the surface and keep the
minerals or sell the mineral rights
down to China and keep the surface.
Our grantors owned and sold these
rights to us. 1t Is slanderOus to say
that we have hornswoggled-to coin
phrase-the farmers by promising
cheap nitrates by the Craighead meth
cd. 1t is my intention to take few
moments some day to perfect the
Craighead meth bod and begin to extract
nitrogen. but that Is another MARIA
tive. The point is that we've got those
rights. We have what nobody ever
had befOre-the proof that defendants
pass over our lands. because they have
to. Nobody else ever had lands hem
ming in everybody. We have. This
makes our proof simply pie, and we
call upon you to protect lis in the
name Of the law Of landownership. on
which every government in all the
world is founded.
'"They say we seek to enslave travel.
ers This absurdity applies as forcibly
to surface rights or mines. If the tray
eler can't pay our scale let him 90 by
public highways or. by boat or rail-or
stay at home We anticipate that
rights to air navigation will become
more and more valuable. We expect
to charge whatever the situation
makes possible. This is as moral as
increasing rent for lands. We shall.
grant licenses or not. as we please
We may demand title to all patents on
airshp inventions before allowing
them to be used. thus applying the
rules you and your predecessors have
so wisely laid down. He who owns
land owns to the sky! How beautiful
the principle! What stimulus to en-
terprise it Offers-in cornering space!
Our getting Of these rights may be
horse on Mr.. Shaync, but the rules Of
the gane-and what a game it is. your
honors!-give us the pot The costs
constitute the kitty"
Justice McFadden tapped on the
desk. and Craighead paused.
"Your language. Mr.. Craighead."
said he. ''is unusual. though your
points seem we'll taken"
you're on!' calculated Craighead
you're on: In fact. to speak gram
marianly. You're on. your honor;
you're honest""
A baiiff interrupted by handing a
note to the astonished court.
mfr. Craighead." said Justice Nc
Fadden. lit is suggested that you are
not licensed practitioner at this bar
or at any other. This extraordinary
address of yours leads the court to
doubt. What Is the fact? thought l
recognized you as member Of this
bar. Have we not met"'
"Your honor" said Craighead. stud
led language under me-"
"Language! roared the justice.
"When?"
~ was your teacher in English
and drawing" replied Craighead. lin
Schlosser's billiard parlors = English
and drawing. with incidental instruc-
ton in the use Of the globes; also dry
nursing, the masse and the follow"
Remove him from the bar, Mr..
Bailiff!" thundered the court. Take
hin, to jail"'
'Stung-in the same old aching
spot!" cried Craighead. Still the
great uncalled. But know We. proud
judges. have been expelled from
worse places than this! What harm
have done ye? Filley, get me out Of
this"
(To be continuedt