The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-04-22

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The New York Evening puts rather neatly:
Socialist party has been expelled into tens Of thou
sands of votes for the next Legislature.
The federal supreme appears be a legal pur-
gator where corporation sins be washed away And
nasmuch corporations have SOULS salvation for this
world entirely sufficient
The who doubts whether organization of farmers
and workers political power worth while really
doubts whether by the people is worth while For
other under heaven whereby rule of the
majority is possible
At the presidential primary in Kanabec county, Mimi,
follows: Johnson, 149 Wood So; Lowden
Yet in the state convention the delegates from that
county voted for Wood What politicians have
for the voice of the people
Some people get terribly worked up the dire
need pefecting organizations shoot down the reds
if they get troublesome but do not bit about
trying the conditions which create "reds" in
this nation of ours-Grand Junction Sentinel
Scarcely than a fortnight passes between the
the sold at the stockyards and the beef is
cooked the kitchen yet those who control the move
Of the its products for those two weeks
get for their time and trouble than did the farmer
for keeping the year before the steer was born and
two years thereafter-Kansas City Star.
John F. Jelke, oleomargarne magnate convicted in
butter has fought for five against the sentence to
Leavenworth And having reached the end of his
string pardoned by the president Why deprive us
single solitary example of millionaire hav-
for his antsoca activity thousands OF
poor crooks do?
"A certain naturalist who maintains that hear
only that to which attuned tells how once
ct hidden in a basement window."-Youh's Companion.
There is in government situation analogous to this
peculiarly of the naturalist For do we not observe that
opf1x he
loudest complaints of the poor while they respond in
stantly to the softest chrp of the rich?
Unless the merchants carefully get facts
they exist claptap catch phrases, like 100 per
cent Amercanism" "class hatred and "cass strife,
radicals" radicalism will be sufficient to keep the
retail merchants of the combination OF the
farmers labor retail merchant Their interests are
common even though the retail merchant is primarily de-
pendent upon both labor and agriculture The retail mer-
chant labor and agriculture are so close together that
they can we'll afford get together common eco
nomic program.-Kalispell (MontJ Bee.
New precedents to be used the National Nonpar-
tsan League Farmers being made in Congress and
State Legislatures The five Socialist mem
hers of the York Legislature have been kicked out
because they party which does not propose to
run suit the Democrats and Republi-
don't get in head that the capitalists who
run New afraid Of the Socialists; for in thirty
wears the Socialists carried single state The
Nonpartsan League promises to carry several
this fall election and the capitalists hate as bad
Socialists order to make precedent to throw out
the Nonparsans later Don't think the capitalists don't
know they up to. 1t would be too raw to throw
out the without percedent.-MonteEuma journal
Those military gentlemen who vexng the breezes
with vocal protesatfons about the l. w. W. and United
interfering with recruiting should take no
tice that real trouble is that the young men who
were drafted Europe we'll fed military life
Also their advice other young who escaped the
draft to avoid service both irksoc and destructive
of opportunity They point the fact that they
compelled lampoon congress and humate themselves
to secure the soldiers bonus batantly promised when
big business urging them to and fight for world
democracy" which being interpreted into plain English
meant saving Mr. Morgan and his associates from loss on
some very big European loans They look at the infu-
ences which urge enlistment and they disrust their
motives They rather lean to the idea that the army is
the purpose of having trained soldiery to
labor they distinctly disapprove OF being
in the ranks for that purpose.
That decision of Federal Judge Lewis in Pueblo last
week whereby the prevented from bring
ing prosecutions proteers ourageously nn-
fortunate that leaves the sting of bitterness in the
heart of every and who would like to feel
that Amercanism fair play and that under the law
the common who their living from day to day
equal rights with those who swollen fortunes