The Delta independent., 1910-04-08
THOUGHTS OF THINKERS.

w. E. Miner.-I believe we are in
for an era of high prices for all
kinds of live stock. l have been
over Nebraska and other central
states quite extensively and l never
saw hogs and cattle SO scarce.
Empty feed lots are to be seen in
every direction, where formerly
thousands of stock were on feed
Addison Bennett.-Pinchot takes
himself entirely too seriously. He
seems to think that he is bigger
man than old Grant, as certain
Texan once said, and many eastern
PEOPLE may agree with him. But
we of the West know that he is an
enemy to the people of our sec
ton and the trust he had created
OF government resources was the
greatest bar ~ the growth of the
West that was ever conceived.
And the law for this trust was not
on the statute books, but
creature of the mind of Pinchot.
Leslie NJ. Shaw.-It is one thing
10 earn money and another to save
It. can pick out thirty farmers
in my own county who have accu-
mulated more than thirty business
men in the country. There are
Individual men, it is true, with
greater possessions than any far
mer but there are so few that the
outstripped by the most successful
thirty farmers. The next thirty
'armers will have twice as much as
The next thirty business men. Let
the farmers exalt their own occupa-
ion. 1t is honorable There is
lothing dishonorable in hard work
There is no aristocracy except the
aristocracy of industry.
w. T. Foster Most people are
fearing the results when the earth
passes through the tail of the comet
but that is not the danger point
The gases of the comets tail four
teen million miles from the comet
are exceedingly light as compared
with our atmosphere. and therefore
cannot penetrate to the earth. but
the solid body of the comet will
PASS very close to the earth's orbit
about eight days after 1t will have
passed the point OF crossing. and as
see 1t. the poisonous gases that
may be thrown of from the comet
will follow the earth along the path
Of the earth's orbit. cannot say
that these gases will reach the
earth. but IL they do. it will be along
the path mentioned. and may cause
some strange diseases during the
spring and summer
J. o. Terrell.-The trouble with
many of our laws is that they do
not help. but hinder. BY keeping
the manufacturer away they lessen
the farmers profits but our natural
resources are so great that he can
probably survive the loss. The Sc
rious point is that it teaches him
bad morlas. One great fundamental
truth should guide all legislation.
1t is while grass grows and water
runs we should have the same laws
for all classes of men. No logic can
evade this sublime declaration. 1t
Is unanswerable because 1t Is right
1t was right in the morning of the
world. 1t was right when Mary's
son walked beneath the bending
palms of Palestine. 1t is right today
When we turn from 1t. we begin to
pass laws to please the majority and
to injure the minority. We begin to
quote that pernicious phrase about
giving the greatest good to the
greatest number. We begin to for
get that statesmanship in every age
has found its noblest duty in the
protection of the few from the rapa-
city of the many. Once started on
this line we know not where to stop.
Sometimes we endeavor to pass laws
that will permit us to do things
which they forbid In others. Some
times we realize that such laws
might be unconstitutional and then
we pass them to apply to all but
only enforce them against others.
or this condition it can only be
said that 1t sears the conscience of
any people who permit It's existence.
Potato Changes.
Observations made on great
number of potato varieties show