The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-08-27

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last or casual remark .nto my priva-
cy? Aeronefs will fall into the rural
silo. drag ropes will rip up barbed
wire. and Pyramus and Thisbe in their
Arradian wooing may be smothered
under falling gas bags or torn asunder
by dragging anchors inserted in their
tluttering hearts. shudder. your hon
ors. at what may happen when the air
is populous with flying jiggers. pop
popping about. raining ballast and
wine bottles and bacon rinds and stale
bananas and hot coffee and soft boiled
eggs and lobster a la Newburg on a
lost and undonc republic. and when I
shudder persons of ordinary sensitive
ness fly into fragments with the shiv-
ers. for | am no light and habitual
shudderer.
Il have spoken in my weak way of
what might make landholder un-
willing to have his air used as ii high
way. But he doesn't have to give a
reason-he can show his deed and tell
the whole world to so toto the cap.
tain's office and settle. Your honors.
adjure you to cling to your unbroken
preccdents 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 foolishness
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. II is SanderOus to say
that we have hornswoggled-to coin
n 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 method and begin to extract
nitrogen. but that is another nara
tive. The point is that we've got those
rights. We have what nobody ever
had bcfore-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 us in the
name of the law of landownership. ON
which every government in all the
world is founded
They say we seek to cnslave travel
ers. This absurdity applies as forcibly
to surface rights or mines If the trav-
eler can't pay our scale let him 20 by
public highways or by boat or rai!--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 nnds. We shall
grant licenses or not. as we please.
We may demand title to all patents on
airship inventions before allowing
them to be used. thus applying the
rules YOU and your predecessors have
so wisely laid down. lie who owns
land owns to the sky" How beautiful
the principle: What a stimulus to en-
terprise it olfcrs-in cornering space!
Our getting of these rights may be q
horse on Mr.. Shayne. but the rules Of
the ganie-and what 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. lis unusual. though your
points seem well taken
you're on" calculated Craighead.
"You're on: In fact. to speak gram
marianly. You're on. your honor;
you're honest..'
A bailiff interrupted by handing a
note to the astOnished court.
'Mr. Craighead." said Justice Nc
Fadden. 1T 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 1
recognized you as a member of this
bar. Have W" not metz"
"Your honor" said Craighead. stud
led language under me-"
"Langragc!' roared the Justice
when"
II was your teacher in English
and drawing" replied Craighead. lin
Schlosscrs billiard parors - English
and drawing. with incidental instruc-
ton in the use of the globes: also dry
nursing. the massc and the follow"
Remove him from the bar. Mr..
Bailiff!' Numbered the court. Take
hin: 10 Jail"
"Stung-in the same old aching
spot!' cried Craighead. still the
great uncaIlcd: But know We. proud
judges. | have been expelled from
worse places than this. What harm
have l done ye? Filley, get me out of
this" -,
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