The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-04-19


and party leaders. They smell the fowers-Durango
Democrat
CALIFORNIA rasin growers complaining that
their industry suffers seriously the importation of
booze from abroad Prohibition the rasin
great boost as their product is easily the best
teral for making quick, pure and palatabe whiskey
Vineyards planted and prosperity smiled in the
faces of the but the clandestine inn
porter and divides the profits 1t sure is bum world
THE esteemed News-Champ must have been worse
peeved last week than thought In printing the fact
that the auditors had completed checking the town books
he wrote it that the S150000O00 and
sfed with the bunder repeated it in the heading Half
the edition printed before the discovered
and change made to reflect the truth, S1500OO. but
frugal Henrietta did not reprint the spoiled ones,
he evidently sent 'em subscribers who he imagined
would not observe it, One of them did, Investigated and
brought his copy to this Office.
WE believe made mistake when we charged
occult powers with modifying c. E. Adams attitude
toward friend Charley Moynihan. 1t develops
this week that Mr. Moynhan aspires higher than
Congressional honors and that Adams papers will zeal
ously boost such aspirations We easily how this
might be Mr. Moynihan is the real big fellow in
Republican circles and Adams the real big editor
the p. garden 1t is we'll for the Republicans that
they together and perhaps better the Democrats
We shoot at bigger targets and missing perhaps
get the other.
q TAX EATERS making a great talk about the
$13500000 they going to spend good roads this
year in Colorado They will spend it all right, but
they call for another bond issue preserve what they
have built you will begin to understand what they
doing. Every dollar of those bonds must be paid with
toll of the people Recall that they passed provision
for tax levy property this year pay the in
terest and PRINCIPLE those S6,000,000 bonds you
voted two years ago, which be paid from
intangible which would you nothing The
truth is not IN the average tax when he asking
for bonds He is far unreliable than drug addict
FOR stealing rs cents worth of coal. which ne re-
turned after his capture Burton Quailes Negro,
ceved Is lases well laid from the public
tails the New York World reports was sentenced
in addition, to in the workhouse. This is not
record of colonial days 1t happened March g. 1929
in Wilmington Delaware Quailes defense that he
had to steal the coal without during the recent
cold SPELL The coal stolen from a the siding
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad This is the
venture to suggest of winning the respect Of
neighbors for law and order" If such punish
ment has to be applied let little of it fall the backs
of the profteers whose greed making coal luxury
poor families-Locomotive Engineers Journal
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WHAT do you people who think. think of the de-
cson of the Supreme Court that the minimum
for is unconstitutional? The has de-
cded that the people regulate the of great
public utilities because such regulation might reduce the
income of the too much Incomes of the rich
be protected and the Supreme Court will
their being safeguarded but scrub woman girl clerk,
a stenographer be thrown naked the employing
wolves. The Supreme Court says and must be re-
spected in its high decisions Still foolish people
believe in the fable of Sodom and Gomorrah. Others
still retain silly respect for the majesty of the
believe that the laws equally applied to the rich and
the poor. The constitution vaunted protector of the
rights of the people is violated with mpunity by
powerful and used judgernaut against the weak No
respect is held for the constitution by the
court than is held by the Illicit dister and bootegger
And the example of disregard is the Supreme Court
Judges
SHOWS HOW THE WIND BLOWS