The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-01-11
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
BY c T. RAWALT

THE revolving testimony being taken in Lous
touching the Ku Klux butchery of couple of cit
would to settle it that the Invisible Empire
should be destroyed and branch This country does
require bunch of hooded criminals protect in
the matter of law enforcement The who approaches
any task masked. is mighty good man to kill on sight
The laws do compel the citizen to submit to
outrage arrest detention by masked miscreans
Killing masked assauter should be a for lauda-
ton
WE wish had better Gradually be-
coming convinced that too dense for this or
else the majority of editorial brethren badly
grounded questions The simply TEEN
with articles denunciatory of tax exempt securities
Really believe the editors think they advocating
remedial in seeking to place taxation these
bits of paper. Now education has been rank fail
else the following brief statement touching taxa
ton is All from taxation must eventually
get back the point where it is taken FROM the
ducer There just three original of wealth,
the land, the and the mines From these must
directly indirectly dollar of wealth. and every
dollar of Wise idiots talk about taxing wealth.
You cannot do it. You make wealth act tax col
ector, but wealth never did and never will pay taxes
itself Legislators talk of taxing railroads Rot and pfle
Every dollar they rather hand to the differ
ent tax collectors they had first take away directly
indirectly, from producer You may study till dooms
day and will never be able to gansay that. Now
about those exempt securities that present
couding the real questions The nation, state some
other subdivision of the country, issues million dollars
worth OF ponds that exempt from taxation The
erest rate is lower than it would be otherwise The
pie eventually have pay both the principal
est Low interest is to their advantage it not? Then
again the bonds must be bought. Men of buy
those bonds carrying the low of interest because they
tax exempt Is the money wasted? Not entirely. If
it road bonds that being sold of the of
it is wasted by the highwaymen who handle the money
But then Sits around and gets into the hands of
aborers supply garage mechanics and bootleggers
In event it reaches places where is taxed
nc m 8 use as
tax collector. The who bought the tax exempt
curity paid his taxes so much he when he
bought the low interest bond Had the bond drawn higher
interest he might have been taxed directly
portion of it, that part he could Of Now some
of who declaming against these securities
please enghten this old editor Tell u.s. in kindly way
if just how to be congenitally idiotic
and unable to where there is merit in
someone Then show how parasite. who produces
nothing, pay for that anything ese
without first separating real producer from it, Now for
the love of Mike take it easy Don't all speak at
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GRADUALLY is is becoming clear that the so-caed
Fascist of Italy is really the organization
of those classes that exploit labor Their first fore
most efforts being put forth destroy the coopera
tive industries built by Italian aborng people such
point that they becoming really effective improv
ing the condition of the people They, the
government have carried their crusade burn
cooperative factories and In other they
nave assaulted mobbed tortured and murdered the nd
vdua cooperator Perhaps they think they destroy
the idea of economic reform by crucxion of the pro-
moters but they will find again that the Blood
the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church" In Italy
all other countries economic reforms be recognized
Perhaps this country backward than others
particular. But here have yet decided to
get rid of the economic reformer the
sination and Italy giving example of what
result from the application of that theory In North
Dakota, this country in big is demonstrating what
be done to the public interest by State
ownership of fundamental industries Widely separated
they will give the whole world additional knowledge And
someday somewhere. the brotherhood of and the
Fatherhood of God will be and established
Many will have died, sacrificed But the ul-
innate result will have been progress.
THE selection of chaplain for the Colorado house
OF representatives caused greater comoton than the
election of speaker. The job of offering half dozen
words of prayer each morning for five dollars per diem
is plum of more actual monetary member
ship in the law making body The practice of praying in
such bodies is public recognition the claims of the
Christian Bibe but far having any weight or in
uence upon the law makers might just well be dis
pensed with altogether Prayer prevented crook
ed legislature from doing crooked acts-Grand Junction
Sentinel. ~
IN the Twelfth General Assembly we believe Mead
hammond and the writer made the real ATTEMPT to
put stop to insulting Deity with purchased petitions
The effort did not succeed Too deeply the idea graft