The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1921-07-21


And what shall it profit if he gain 1o11 sub
scribers if he has to pay s125 apiece for them Par
ticulary in this county where expenses high that
the ony in the county two dollars thirty
nine and seven tenths cents to produce"
We shall always think grave mistake was made
when Frank Medina let out prohibition commits
sioner for Colorado Frank had uncanny ability
to locate whiskey and if there real necessity for
letting him out their next best bet would have been the
appointment of Denver Hotel bell boy They can
always find it.
1t is deep joy to to note that the tariff bill
reduces the tax poker chips 10 cent 1t is
in the of decreasing the high cost of living that will
be appreciated by all housewives and other gamblers We
this term adviseably dwh direct reference to
the fact that the housewife is day the great
gambler have. She continually bets her husbands
pay check with the grocery and meat market that she
will be able feed the family another week IN spite of
their joint efforts starve them to DEATH and far
she has most of the bets
may be necessary off the soldiers their
bonus bill on account of the drain it would or
treasury, but it that the railroad bonuses
draining it much and the President does not
to feel fear of the country going broke by their de-
In the campaign the President and his advisers
promised to pay the soldiers bonus and they did not
promise pay to the railroads. Switching favores
after election is going to hard feelings and
invoke bitter thoughts and words If President Harding
he will have better reputation
keeping his word than his predecessor.
The papers announce that The D. & R. G. will issue
about S12,000,OO0 stock We safely prophesy
very little of it will be bought by those owned
the first stock recently repudated and lost by the orgi
nal holders The d. & R. G.is sample of the way rail-
road properties have been looted by manpulaors Let
the bankers and keep the engraved rail-
road stocks Put surplus money in thing solid
like Government bonds and do not get scared when the
banking syndicate hammer down the market price. Re-
call that deprecated Lberty produce the interest
regularly and are paid at maturity, not repudated.
;~a;.o+;,. A. ~ ,,.r oro Mt
going tamely submit the ruthless hand of big bust
which denies them tring interest in the vast
made by the stayat-h profteers while they
making the world safe for Big Business The
Reputation of the p. platform and the campaign
pledges of the spell-bnders who advocated Mr. Hard
ings election is setting ill the stomachs of the
who unwse enough to believe the pledges would
be kept Never before it common to utterly for
get and ignore a campaign promise But the party
strings becoming loosen with every default 1t is
becoming less and less credit to to claim alleg
either of the old parties Soon Independent
organization will snatch the steering wheel from the
present reckless drivers of both.
There be a determination the part of the
present congress make the tariff bill under
sideraton the complete help the high class prof.
that has ben eoffered to the public Its pro-
visions make the Payne-Aldrich bill like bill in
the interest of the people Evidently the milonaires
chat furnished the Harding chest have demanded
their pound of hesh and demanded that it be provided
during the next two years. evidently fearing that the
people the congressional election and
retire half of the Republicans in Congress,
and put Democrats in their places Some of the Republic
Congrssmen have declared that the rate has been
made high many items that instead of providing a
the law would be complete stone wall against
imporatons in that class and that it further would
allow American manufacturers extortionate profits Of
will do that That is the that the most
lobby that infested has been
active past few months while hearings only at
by those interested in higher prices The people
did any representatives the hearings
of the committee Manatee River Journal Fla.
The Grand juno ton Sentinel, quite a little the best
editorial paper that this desk speaks follows
"a New York court has recently allowed the widow of
Horace Dodge, millionaire auto manufacturer 100000
per year household expenses. Most of the in
Mesa county will wonder how woman to
spend such of money in single year; they
would think equal their ability rid of that
much cash in a life time There is something wrong in
the affairs this country when any accumulate
a sum of money which will enable the widow to squan-
100000 every year. And yet the esteemed Sentinel
favorably the suggestion of
of New York economists who recently gave
opinion that the only curb the monstrous
accumulation wealth in hands that earned it not.
to fix an income would confscate every dollar
in excess certain fixed which he thought hoult
be 100000 year. This considerable space
to that suggestion, and have Mr. Walkers word fol
it that he reads the Empire Why the hestancy to al
least discuss methods for making impossible such dan
gerous accumulation of wealth? Today every dollai
produced from goes directly into the hands
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