The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-12-14
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By c. T. RAwALT


plant The other is that Fords proposal has defeated
Big Business from getting it, Now it is proposed that
the Government shall complete and the plant
Very good 1t will be better done than if handed out as
a gratutity crook with pull 1t is wonder
the shipping did demand it small addi
the bonus Mr. Harding is anxiousy trying to
give them.
JUST how long it will take to bust the world is in a
fair way of being tested out With everything the people
produce getting cheaper and everything they buy grow
ing dearer will know just how much misery peo
Pile will before they sufficiently classconscious
in their interests They did very we'll in the
last election and with things going as they now are will
do better next time.
THE authorities to be much puzzled as to how
circumvent the un-Amercan society called the Ku
Kux Klan. Always with desire to be helpful we sub
nit plan that will work. Namely: Declare perma
nent open wearing masks. Let them be
killed other game. Any man who shoots down
masked already in opinion fully protected un
der the law Certain it is that he may kill when his
domice place of business is invaded The wearing of
a mask itself outlaws the Just kill them as
promptly you and all will be WELL An enactment
specially permitting this form of sport would be advan
tageous In its absence rest the law that
MANS home is his Castle"
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WE observe that friend, John Barkhausen, has
nominated VIM Foley for Mayor of Denver. We had in
tended to make that suggestion ourseh week. but
overlooked it, Foley is the the Democrats should
He has enough brains and record that is clean
Besides he something better after while, i'm
agne and the he discharges the duties of Mayor of
Capital city exemply if he is worth considering
for something else We always ready to Denver
to experiment
ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY has decided
that the Armour and Morris packing companies may con-
solidate We thought We would expect to
safely deposit chicken in cage with hungry coyote
crooked merger to Harry Daugherty for
vention. However, these combinations danger
they Each brings nearer the day
when all monopolies will be publicly owned Note this
slogan: "A privately owned monopoly is intoerabe"
The American people will not always stand for intol-
erabe' things.
ALL the blowing being done by the D. & R. G. w.
officials about what they going do is not transport
ing any remarkable amount of products Perhaps (?)
they will spend steen millions the wreck they have
made in the distant future, but opinion is
that the road will be dsmembered and divided among
other systems that have not enjoyed the handicap of
being managed by hghwaymen We are not going to
forget very that the Grande and that not
long ago. of the best paying properties in the
west We not going to forget that the stockholders
robbed of their property the DID, true and tried
and special creatures of the Goulds put in
charge and the property systematically wrecked and
ruined. As managed today would be well or better
off with the gauge abandoned and string of mo-
tor trucks hauling freight over the road bed
a.4 fst r- rf., ,1if Is.
| OUR readers will recall that couple of weeks ago
called the Bro Meacham of the Salida Record
Sweet Governor Sweet, friend of labor; Bro
Meacham seeing possibility for rich occupying
that position Dodging behind every rock and brush
Bro Meacham agrees with most everything said
cept that he stiN arms the impossbity of rich man
being decent He quotes that old bible paragraph
about being easier drive camel through needle
than for rich to get to heaven We are not go
ing to be betrayed into bible discussion Perhaps Gov
Sweet rich go to heaven that to him to de
eide but he is rich do the square thing by his
fellow and he if could depend his doing
it. We heartily agree with both Bro Meacham and the AL
Journal that too many rich to the senate
but if have rich there exclusively let the
people pick which send The senate would be
greatly improved if it had about 100 Sweets and Fods
in opinion Being rich is necessarily being wrong
minded. We adhere view that Bro. Meacham is
wrong when he calls it paradoxca for Mr.. Sweet to he
honest friend of labor. 1t takes the exception,
know, to prove the rule,
| THE proceedings in the Daugherty impeachment
turning up mighty interesting facts regard
ing how much show laboring has when proceeded
| against by such Daugherty and his aid VIM. j.
Burns In being prepared for it developes that
Burns opportunity to investigate prospective
jurors being furnished in advance with copies Of the jury
Fist He returned it with such endorsements good
man. would convict Christ Another endorsement says
would ike defendent hung-far juror" Beaut
full have in the department of justice is it not!
And testimony introduced is contained in letters
passed between President Taft and his Attorney Gen
era Wickersham. The whole matter presented to
Harry Daugherty before he appointed Burns, and he
chose him knowing him to be jury fxer and crook