The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-04-06
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT

it is the party of progress business and good govern
ment" Also because The conservative business admin
straon of Gov Shoup has been of such benefit during
trying times" Mr. Mcdonald before betrayed the
fact that he humorist If the republican party has
been progressive, then the devil is saint If business
has been than under this administration do
not rcall it for period of fifty years If it good gov
ernment to bring of the nation the
port of those who trying destroy labor and the
producing class the people do not appreciate the fact
But the real laugh in when Gov Shoups activities
discussed Scarcely republican be found de-
fend the doings of his We that the Post
should at send for Jesse and hire him write
political funny column for the paper without soul but
with two gals.
THE world seems to be of joint. We just
starting the widespread coal strike the world
has ever known. half million have discontinued
work They demand certain definite number of hours
day and minimum of five days per week to
living in They insist that five days week and six hours
day shall be the limit of time reduction Does
reasonable does it not? Most of kicking because
have to work long hours and many days. The
coal miners asking for increased hours of labor and
more days per week. Of you did not know what
their real demands The harlot press the kept
the prosttuted press the that pimps for
Big Business has made their demands into demand for
shorter hours, less days and pay That utterance
lie. The publishers who printed it knew it
lie They placed it before their readers in the form they
did because they could their better tn at
way. They simply legion in numbers and can ap
proach and debauch the minds of millions of people,
only few Part of that is your own fault You upport
the papers which you know edited by crooks and
and neglect your friends Big Business depends
you to be in this respect aid their judgment is
perfectly If used sense, (speaking
from the accepted term the be successful
is to join in with the flag Pin your ape!
show in front and have embroidered your shirt
tail that if pants get torn by contact with
boring mans boot, you would display your coors both
fore and aft That is of safety first Forget that
human rights exist forget that the fathers fought free
from foreign despots forget that Lincoln declared
that the nation could not exist half slave and half
forget that Golden Rule exists forget that Chris
lived and died. forget that decent mother bore you
and be the human jackal that capialistc system de-
mands Gnaw at the bones left behind by the boss Grim
nal who slaughters your brethren and fill cowardy
belly with the eavngs of the kings of beasts Thus shall
prosper with the other crooks and degeneates And
here and want to call attention the fact that
from President Harding who refuses to compel the coal
barons to keep their signed pledge and promise to both
the coal miners and the government Mr. Shoup who fo
ters strife by delegating Pat Hamrock the Ludlow
butcher, the power of life and death people,
through all the ramcaons of corrupt and
corrupt officials the public is cruced to satisfy
the demands of the robber coal barons. To this
country from another edition of the French Revolution
the Russian revolt other catastrohy it is
that of vision should displace politically the repre-
sentaves of the that 1t is the psyche
logical moment when a combination of the real citizens
the men who toll in the shops and the who pro-
duce from the land should unite unhorse and retire
the corrupt representatives OF privilege and
in power Dethrone wealth a governmental power and
elevate to its place who respect the of that
wealth Exercise the privileges the fathers bequeathed
you. Vote Elect men, not tools. Be not lead like
dumb animals. Reason. That is what God gave you
brains for If he had intended you be cattle he would
have furnished you with horns and tail instead of in
tegence.
THE Saturday Evening Post in its issue of April 1st,
out with comprehensive statement of the Coal
Strike which is the best defense of the Miners have
yet read 1t fatty contradcts evry single argument
brought forward by the and clearly forth
all the controversy Above ALL it gives enough of the
history of the coal industry show just what robbers
the coal barons and in fact prints that will
very far to public sentiment in the miners
favor The publication of such article in the Saturday
Evening Post is distinct surprise to most every liberal
in the country They have generally been credited
with being the Big Business side and this story goes
far to establish them independent and fair to ALL 1t
is genuine pleasure to print this acknowledgment and
like draught of fresh water in desert to find this
really paper the side of decency and in oppo
siton to brigandage by the coal octopus
FROM the Manatee River Journal Florida, CLEAN
the fact that Editor Thorndke and wife of Kssimmee
Florida of Loveland this state have just lost
daughter Very many of the editorial boys will remember
the Thondkes and deeply sympahze with them in their
loss The writer recalls vvidy meeting them
wood Springs editorial association meeting about
1902 and also becoming acquainted with the child whose
loss they
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