The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-09-20
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By c. T. RAWALT

By C. 7. RAWALT
SOME readers will observe that no bids for
the construction of the Mofat Tunnel received.
say NO bids because the that called bid
not 1t distinctly stated that the loss exceeding
tain amount should be borne jointly contractor
and the Tunnel Commission. How about those lovely
Inmates which carefully made bulletned be-
fore the public to get them to mortgages them
selves vauless when brought the attention of
responsible contractors. They know and know blamed
well that no man lives who tell how much it will
cost to dig tunnel single mile into wall of stone
Most any contractor will gamble piece of the
tract He will set price for 100 feet, possibly
era hundred feet but he that formations change
he knows that difficulties develop materially change
the cost foot In the Gunnson tunnel will be re-
called that they hit flow of water heavy
.the workmen out for quite time The water at last
ran down and resolved itself into little brook of
good clear water Suppose that water had been boiling
hot and little heavier flow? The tunnel might have
been prohibited thereby Now it is proposed build the
Moat bore the cost plus plan That insures expen
ve construction and multplies the danger graft In
cidentally that is the only way it possibly be built
Once more want to record with the assertion
that for dollar ESTIMATED necessary here
ofore, three dollars will be expended the blamed hole
is ever completed.
Governor walton Of oklaoma When Re %ent
to the Ku Klux Kan His is no tbe
Kanrdden of the Union, and it required man of fixed
zation entrenched this was After months during
Wn1ch military of the
the governor appears to be winning his fight KIan
has agreed & to drop its masks at all of its public gather
inated--Grand Junction Sentinel.
The Sentinel sure speaks mouthful when it says
that tearing the masks off Ku Klux other cowardy
scoundres largely eliminates mob violence Make an
open season masked you have eliminated Ku
Kux Also you have removed much that present ter
rorizes and menaces institutions this nation
can control it's citizens by plain regular en-
forcement officers or in the an
archy Governor Walton setting fine pace for other
Governors to follow.
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SWALLOWING the juice of chewing tobacco is said
to be good snake bite cure-Ex
POSSIBLY so, but will never like it as well as
the old fashioned remedy
ELSEWHERE we reprint from the Saida Mail a very
interesting letter from priest who has spending
some time in France 1t is very clear that Reverend
gentleman WAS partizan of France 1t is equally clear
that he sees things in light since his
imagine he has quite accurately set the
exist. Only part strikes as a little slly The
Rev. depores the loss of general morality in Europe
the war He may note the thing in this country
that he extolls highly. War has posttuted all that
was good in many 1t has impaired greater or less
extent the morals of every single always
does that 1t will take two hundred years peace to
overcome the evil tendencies born of this war Yet
when strive and exhort against they labeled
paccsts and disloyal by scoundrels who for
what they make out of it. You cannot conduct a
general educational campaign for the commission of
crime and then call off the results at will
THE NORTH FORK TIMES expresses the hope that
before of opinion derogatory Ku
kux we should determine whether the item which
1t forth is found in Jewish Catholic publication
What we wish Tom Blackwell would do is tell us what
the ell difference it makes 1t does require any
special intelligence the necessity denouncing
any contemplate coward who commits his crimes behind
mask The Kluxers claim to be in opposition to Jews
Catholics and Negroes Any member of either class
would be superior in every their Ku perse-
cutors We have not drop of blood of either of
in VEINS but what have is dedicated defense
of any man set of who the victims hooded
mobs We cannot imagine Tom Blackwell hiding his red
head in pillow slip when he has grievance to settle
McADOO AND THE RAILROADS
WILLIAM e. McADOO is evidently getting tired of
the continual nagging about administration of the
railroads during portion of the period He has
written letter to Senator Couzens of Michigan which
he charges the railroad executives with maintaining