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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-12-07

THE gubernatorial contest being settled, the
Denver politicians turning their attention to the
mayoralty which will take place in that city
May. We see that candidates have already been
mentioned for and them is that of Wayne
c. Williams This calls attention item of state
politics also involving Williams Many considered that
after the phenomenal campaign and election of William
E. Sweet Governor of Colorado that he would be
the logical candidate for the United States Senate
succeed Senator Phpps. But the political complexion
of both the Colorado House and Senate indicates that
Gernore Sweet will not be able to carry out his
full program he originally planned and that he will
probably be candidate to succeed himself governor
and if candidate for the u S. senate it will be in
1926 Senator Nicholson This the
ddacy for u S. senate in 1924 free for other aspiring
Democrats. And here the Western Slope have
heard this Wayne c. Williams mentioned can
ddate who could defeat Phpps should he be candidate
O succeed himself
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FAITH

IN debate the provisions of bonding contract at
recent ditch meeting of the speakers that
the question seemed hinge in the perpetuitv
of government, and this the evident
approval of the audience However, it was not plainly
stated where in the opinion of the speaker lack of
faith existed although the could easily
drawn that those opposing the provisions of
the ones short faith 1t would ITO man up a
tree that the gentlemen who hold the bonds and
in county and demand that these obligations
shall be paid in commodity of weight
ness, might be considered little short faith.
faith unbounded they might contract read
SHALL BE PAID IN LEGAL TENDER MONEY OF THE
UNITED STATES-Frank c. Gibbs in Nucla Indeepndent
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found those qualities in Associate
Justice White, and appointed him
Chief Justice
But there were others who possessed
these qualities and we must look for
other reasons moving the President to
designate one who had been a life
long Democrat and who had been
soldier in the Confederate Army.
The Sherman antitrust law was in
voked in the Northern Securities case.
There was division of the court of
five to four. Justice White was one
of the Dissenting judges who insisted
that the court should do what Con-
gress had refused to do and write in
the act Unreasonable" restraint of
trade, thereby emasculating the law
and changing it from "rule of ac-
tion" to a mere declaration, depend
ing for it's force upon the conviction
or bias Of the particular judge before
whom the case should come. The five
outvoted the four, and the law was
sustained in its integrity. The court
upheld the Constitution which pro
vides that the executive, legislative
and judicial departments of the gov
ernment shall be separate, and that
the Congress Of the United States was
the Legislative body, and that duty
had not been transferred to the
courts
When President Taft came to con-
slider the appointment of man to
succeed Justice Fuller as Chief JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court, he had every reason to believe
that Justice White would do his best
to write into the Sherman antitrust
law words which would weaken, if it
did not destroy, the law; that Justice
White was committed to the policy of
judicial Legislation and sought so to
change the law as enancted by Con-
gress as to remove the menace from
combinations and trusts in their
ruthless work of destroying competi-
tors and thereby reap a rich harvest
from the destruction of individual
effort.
President Taft appointed Justice
White Chief Justice.
The Sherman antitrust law came
before the United States Supreme
court in 1911 in the cases against the
Standard Oil Company and the Amer
ican Tobacco Company.
1t was my good fortune to hear the
American Tobacco Company case ar
gued. Chief Justice White, as re-
call the incident, asked Assistant At
torney-General MacReynolds (who has
since filled the office of Attorney
General of the United States and is
now one of the justices of the Su-
preme Court whether he would write
into the law unreasonable" restraint
of trade. Mr.. MacReynolds replied
that he would neither add to, or take
from the law as passed by Congress.
The opinion in these two cases was
rendered by Chief Justice White,
and he wrote into the law the "rule
of reason" which is another name for
unreasonable" restraint of trade
which he endeavored to write into
the law in his dissenting opinions in
the Northern Securities case. The
opinions in the Standard Oil and
American Tobacco cases are vigorous.
able and denunciatory of the methods
used by these trusts. They paint al
vivid picture of the ruthless destruc-
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GOOD WARM ONE
Associated Fruit Company Issues Timely r. r. Bulletin


Delta Independent
ITO Growers:
you have had demonstration for the past ten
weeks what it be located and depend
ing the D. & R. G. w. railroad.
"Some of you who have been here twenty years have
had similar experiences each some
not bad the latter being when the railroads were
under Government control This year the Rio Grande has
abi and broad casting the information that other
railroads having difficulties with the probable
that misery company growers and shippers
should be happy and contented because conditions
less serious elsewhere.
I'VE advised the average movement from the
Third Division is 30 per day This includes Montrose
and Delta counties The Government report shows Wen
atche and Yakama districts moving 1000 per
week If could swap railroads for three four days.
would be in the clear.
'The Denver Post of a recent issue states the Rio
Grande has applied the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion for permission to spend s260oo0oo0O.
after a murder singing generally follows
"The writer has before him letter from one of the
Rio Grande officials who writes:
"While the slight losses of fruit and vegetables on
Third Division be regretted understanding
that the sses have been directly due to lack of storage
facilities and to market conditions rather than
shortage and the losses actually sustained nsign
cant compared with the extreme shortage of and
the highly perishable nature of the commodities
Mote the words slight insignificant. As if the three
thousand of potatoes left ground and the
thousands of boxes Of fruit with the expense of
ing packing material and labor added Of little
sequence people, of whom lost their entire
years labo- and have to draw
other year With Individuals and corporations with such
attitude largely responsible for such
the Ku Klux Klan
Some of the settlers have gone others preparing
go, many wosid like and Inclined to be-
heve the brighte, they the quicker they went
"The writer rnows this is not in line with the spirit
of the west but |. from who has listened to
propaganda from ths railroads for twenty years. such
broad gauge MARSHALL Pass various cutos baest
ing new equipment surveys shortening distance
and has been kidding himself that some day we would
have railroad We still have the privilege of riding in
the converted g~age slepeer called parlor
car for 1 remember ssventyfve cents trip of 1876
miles in addition regular five six cents per mhle
John D. never had rsmunerative investment con-
sdering of this ola An illustration. that's
Travellers from other states amazed Colorado
people to stand anythin..
81. Yours very truly.
THE ASSOCIATED FRUIT CO."
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tonishment and disappointment of
their closest friends, who believed
them to be immune from such infiu-
ences
Judges who actually take bribes or
who actually sell judgments are rare
specimens. There are many on the
bench-and by far the larger portion
who bring to the performance of
their godlike duties, keen intellects,
intense application, learning, courte-
sy, courage and integrity. These men
do not mind intelligent criticism.
They recognize that the good judge
must bear some of the odium of the
bad; that when the judicial robe is
treated as too sacred to permit the
average man to use his intellect in
appraising what the robe covers, the
robe may sometimes be used for pur-
poses that arouse criticism.
The judge who attempts to force
jurors to decide questions of fact, of
which they are the sole judges, in ac-
cordance with his views, is himself
guilty of contempt Of court-for the
jury is as much part of the court as
is the judge. Jurors are not respon-
sible to the court for the exercise of
their honest Judgment on facts SUBJ
mitted to them and when the judge
invades their sphere and attempts to
control the exercise of their con.
science, he deserves the censure of all
w-abiding citizens. OF course there
Is no machinery provided for the pun.
Ishment Of the Judge when he shows
contempt for that portion Of the
court represented by the jury, but he
is morally as guilty as those the court
Furnishes for contempt of that part of
the court represented by the judge.
1t is well to begin the study OF
Judges years before they are ap-
pointed or elected. If an X-ray could
be. taken of the process utilized by
those who control the appointment of
Federal judges, the student of public
affairs would learn something of the
care and scrutiny exercised to make
certain that the views on public ques-
tions entertained by the man under
consideration are In harmony with
those who control the appointment.
A most careful analysis is made of all
that the prospective judge has writ
ten or said: his speeches, briefs and
4 L.
bench) are carefully scrutinized for
the purpose of ascertaining not only
his character, reputation, capacity
and fitness, but also whether he puts
the emphasis on property rights or
personal rights.
Appointing Senator White
During the administration of Pres
| ident Taft, vacancy occurred on the
United States Supreme Court bench,
by reason of the death Of Chief JUS
tice Fuller. The opportunity was pre-
sented to President Taft to name the
man who would sit at the head of the
court which exercises more power
than any court in the world.
President Taft determined that the
man designated by him for this ex-
alted position must be man Of un-
blemished character against whom no
breath of scandal had ever blown;
that he must have pre-eminent abil-
| ity; be vigorous thinker whose train
ing and capacity would command the
respect and esteem of the world. He
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tion of competitors and the denial
of the right of others to do business.
But with all the harsh and denuncia-
tory language, the judgment of the
court destroyed the certainty and eff
ficiency of the law, gave the trust
immunity for the past and made it
clear that the only thing trusts and
Illegal combinations need do is to
"study judges" and see to it that the
judge before whom Sherman anti
trust law cases come are "safe and
sane"
Why Justice Harlan Dissented
Justice Harlan wrote the opinion of
the court in the Northern Securities
case in which the court construed"
the law as enacted by Congress, and
refused to 'legislate" under camou-
f1age of interpretation" He wrote
most vigorous dissenting opinions in
the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases,
in one of which, among other things,
he said:
This court is asked to do that
which it has distinctly declared it
could not and would not do. and has
now done what it then said it could
not constitutionallyi do-It has, by
mere interpretation, modified the
act Of Congress, and deprived It OF
practical value as a defensive meas
ure against the evils to he remedfed-
The court intends to decide that its
deliberate judgment, Is years ago,
was not in accordance with the rule
of reason / have the authority of
this court for saying that such a
course of proceeding on its part
would be judicial legislation"
Congress has recently provided for
an increase in the number of Federal
judges, and the President will have
the appointment of more than 20.
That the Department Of Justice
prefers taking its special cases before
Judges who have been recently ap-
pointed by. the same power that
named the Attorney-G y-Genernl, is fair
inference from the fact that the At
torney-General made his application
for injunction in the recent strike
troubles before Judge Wilkinson. Of
Chicago. Judge Wilkinson had until
recently been officially connected
with the Department of Justice, and
those who pass on and recommend for
appointment as judges, had every
opportunity to study Mr.. Williamson
1t was their duty to do so before he
was appointed judge, and there is rea-
son to believe that they were satisfied
that the Department of Justice could
draw a correct conclusion as to the
way he would view questions raised
in the application for injunction.
Evidently the Attorney General made
no mistake in his study of Judge
Wilkinson, for the judge granted an
injunction so broad and far-reaching,
that many thoughtful men stood
amazed at the lengths to which mat
ters had gone
Open Session Would Help
In appointing the new judges au-
thorized by Congress, the President
will exert an influence on the life of
the nation more far-reaching than
any law enacted during his admins
tration. Federal judges are appoint
ed for life, and the people have prac-
tically no voice in selecting these i'm
portant officials. Although these men
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d. & II. G. TO BLAME

DESPAIRING of getting with which to
his hogs to the market and being out of feed Elliott
Wden is this week undertaking the task of butchering
dressing and packing eighty hogs which he has fatened
and prepared for the market 1t may be the profit
able way we'll the only way of the difficulty,
the pork and other products be needed the
local market-Mancos Times,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-12-07

THIS great government has again requested the
Times to do free advertising for them. And again
the Times has refused We always failed get free post
age.-North Fork Times.
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ADMINISTRATIONS INJUNCTION
FOLLY

The wickedness of the administra.
tion's course in securing an iniunc-
ton against the shop men is match
ed only by its folly, declared Con
gresham Huddleston.
"The present administration is de-
tinitely and clearly aligned with the
railroad executives for the purpose
of driving the strikers back into the
shops" he said. ''The administra.
tion's entire course dealing with the
coal and railroad strikes has constit-
tuted series of blunders of which
this is the most stupid
"The injunction is unprecedented
in the history of American jurispru.
dence; it goes to extremes hitherto
unheard of. That there is no war.
rant for it either in federal law OF
the constitution is obvious. 1t is
merely the intervention of the strong
arm without law and without reason
By the administration lawlessness
more harm has been done to Ameri.
can institutions than any series Of
private crimes could do A lawless
people are bad enough, a lawless ad-
ministration is infinitely worse.
1T is impossible that the mer
against whom such perverted legal
action is taken should continue to
have the same respect for their gov
ernment as formerly The admins
tration has run mad in its effort to
save the Wall street fnanciers.
1T is by such tyrannic proceed
ings that men are provoked to rebel
lion The situation calls for calm
ness on the part of the advisers of
the working people, but it does not
call upon them to surrender. On the
other hand, the situation demands
that all patriotic elements use all of
their influence upon the president to
induce him to hold to moderate and
constitutional methods
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Va ~ ER Ea Rs
ARTHUR BRISBANE SAYS:

ARTHUR BRISBANE SAYS:
'In twelve months the Pennsyl-
vania railroad has carried 152,OO0O00
passengers without killing one of
them. A fine record. The railroad
is praised, deserves it. But the rail
road managers we'll know that the
safety is not due to officials sitting
in revolving chairs or to fnanciers,
sitting beside tickers, that run and
own the railroad.
The fact that 152,0O0,000 Ameri-
cans travelled without the loss of life
on one railroad in one year means
THAT THE WORKMEN ON THE
RAILROAD ARE GOOD WORK
MEN.
Engineers understand their busi-
ness, switchmen, signalmen, those
that walk the tracks looking for loose
spikes or rails, telegraphers and all
the others are faithful men.
They deserve praise, and the own
ers of the railroads should be careful
how they annoy them, setting up ar
tifcial outside repair shops to dodge
union wages, and careful how they
introduce incompetent "scabs" tc
take the place of these good men
One hundred and ffty-two million
passengers and not one of them kill
ed in one year means GOOD WORK
MANSHIP and such workmanship
should be we'll paid"
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If You Liue In a Cottage

There's the simple little furniture for the small cot
tage apartment. Three, four five Each is
furnished with the that perfect appointment
throughout Every piece is distinctive, yet each is in
keeping with the whole scheme. There's the living
with it's threepece suite upholstered in tapestry and
the dining room furnished in the beautiful Queen Anne
Period the kitchen gem of spotess beauty, and the bed
The advantages of buying furniture this way
manifold Let us talk it over with you.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
HIGH PRICE COAL ALIBI

After five months idleness 100000
anthracite coal miners won their
strike.
The agreement extends the agree
ment that expired April 1st last to
August 81st next year
Before the agreement was reached
the coal owners made plea for a
public mandate" on whether they
should accept the agreement. The
coal owners wired mayors of cities,
and to editors and commercial bodies:
1--WE shall greatly appreciate tele-
gram from you stating whether your
community favors conceding the de-
mand (of the miners) in view of the
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wheel or wipe a joint.

Wneel OF wipe u JOINT
The petition will inf1ame great
deal of passion and arouse much ami
mostly. 1t will convince many of the
strikers that the government has
| finally assumed the role of strike
breaker, and that unless they fight
to a finish they will have lost every
thing for which organized labor has
contended. 1t will arouse labor
unions everywhere to active support
of the shopmen."
And here is what the Washington
News has to say of the injunction:
The attorney general asks that
anarchy take the place of order with
in the ranks of the strikers. The
court says it shall be done.
''For that is what this means. Any
person who has ever had the slight
est contact with industrial warfare
knows that the most difficult job con-
fronting any striking organization is
| the maintenance of good order within
the organization That is where the
test of leadership comes in. 1t is
leadership that prevents violence.
"And now by the word of federal
judge all leadership is taken out of a
strike which already contains suffi-
cient of national disaster"
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UNFAIR TO BREWERY WORK
The label trades department of the
American Federation of Labor is
lending assistance to the local unions
of brewery workers in Milwaukee and
Waukesha, Wis, in their efforts to
adjust differences with the Pabst,
Schlitz, Miller and Gettlemen con-
Germs, of Milwaukee, and the Fox
Head Spring Beverage. Company, of
Waukesha, Wis, which have declared
for the "open shop" These COM
panies are extensive shippers of bev-
erages and malt syrups and their
products are sold in practically every
section of the United States. Local
unions and central bodies can be of
great assistance to the brewery work
ers by giving publicity to the anti
union attitude of these firms.
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ms aa ga nz YES
WHAT I'VE" DID

Mooseheart-In his Labor Day
message, Secretary of Labor Davis
said:
Despite the pressure of tremen-
dous mass of unemployed, despite the
efforts of few reactionary employ
ers who selfshly sought to take ad-
vantage of the distress of labor and
the nation, we have kept the gen
eral wages of labor up"
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existing emergency. "

The purpose of the coal owners
was to have an alibi against their
high prices the coming winter. They
want to be in position where they
could say: "You told us to sign,'
when they begin their profteering.
The coal owners will be asked
however, to show how they can JUS
tify increases in the price of coal
when they are paying the same wage
rate as last year and have freight
reduction of 10 per cent over last
year
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, 1922

Entered at the Postof6ce at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY

This is what the New York World
has to say of the Daugherty injunc-
ton:
"The presidents injunction, even if
it is made permanent, will not turn a
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LOW WAGES AND BUSINESS

The following excerpts from a
three column editorial by William
Randolph Hearst in the Chicago Her
aid Examiner, should cause those
business men, who are so ready to
condemn the workers who strike in
protest against the reduction of liv-
ing wages, to sit up and do little
thinking. 1t says;
In addition to the injury which a
reduction of wages infiicts upon labor
and through labor upon production,
there is The general injury upon all
business which a reduction in pur-
chasing power of the mass of the
community inevitably involves.
Is it possible that we business men
do not realize that great part OF
the general prosperity of the war
period and the immediate postwar
period was due to high wages and
the general distribution of those
wages in purchases-fo the working
man generally spends nearly all that
he earns?
When wages were high the work
ing man and his family bought freely,
the shops prospered, the stocks were
exhausted, the factories were over
whelmed with orders, and the fullest
market prevailed for raw material
furnished by the farm and the mine.
Do you, fellow business man, who
owns store, fail to realize that the
hand which reduces wages dips into
your till to deprive you of proper
tionate part of your patronage and
your profits?
Do you, fellow business man, who
run a factory, fail to realize that
your orders come from those shops,
and are dependent in turn upon the
patronage and prosperity of those
shops?
Do you, fellow farmers and fellow
miners, fail to realize that the de-
mand for your products depends upon
the demands from the factories, and
that these factories depend upon the
orders from the shops, and that the
orders from the shops depend upon
the prosperity and patronage of
these shops, which are in turn de-
pendent upon the prosperity of the
wage earners, the greatest individ-
ual element in the whole nation?
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ARTHUR BRISBANE SAYS: