The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-02
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By c. T. RAWALT


last week both the and the Republican
the people Judge Logan announcing that
hereafter he would give Jail all convicted
booteggers OF course appearing in the News Champ
first and quite possibly copied by the Republican the
report may be untrue, there strong probability
that it is incorrect but if looks mighty strange
for those to be tickled the
when DR. Sullivan bootleg is coming next month
Personally hate to in Jail for either maxi
ing selling good whskey, but in Dr. Sullivans
we will strive grief and make indecent
display thereof even if he gets twenty years.
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| SUCH kicks the people making about Gov.
Sweet pardoning few convcts leads wonder what
they going to substitute in make for
the convics sentenced of prohibition.
Possibly might adopt hanging pro-
hib law and thus make additional penentiary and Jail
quarters unnecessary.
ONE passenger train running from St. Louis to New
York last week. hit and killed thirteen per-
The accidents took place at different points and
little later the engineer killed perhaps
to get away from the number thirteen Fourteen
trip is pretty high tolls. however.
THE whining of big business tools the farm
bloc in Congress makes very weary For all of four
decades have had every possible organiza
on conceivable for the promotion of special class
sation But now when the organization bids fair pro-
tect those who need protection, up goes shakes
the country Oh! such dangerous this 1t men
the very foundation government Possibly it does
Some of have steadily charged for years that
had been prostuted service of the in
terests and that sort of may be by
the farm bloc action Go to it. That what want to
see. Invisible and corrupt control of government de-
stroyed.
THE term radical" is word used by all standpat-
ters, both Democratic and Republican, when other
candidate beats their pet politician put up by the inter
ests of both old parties the people
latest state added to the radical" good
ribbed Minnesota which Harding 100000 majority
in 1920 and last week elected Magnus johnson, a
dirt farmer by 10000 both Republican and Demo-
cratic candidates at special election for u S. Senator
to succeed Knute Nelson, deceased The radical"
has significance when wheat is around 50 per bushe
and corn and other products high, but when they
in the deporable condition of prices radical
cuts figure everybody is radical If the pres
ent prices to the farmer continue there will be many
radical candidates elected in 1924 That the peo
pie will change their votes in like is
the most hopeful sign.-Center Post-Dispatch
SENATOR BRooKHART, progressive Republican u
s. Senator from Iowa. just back from Europe and when
interviewed that Russia has the most stable
ment in the world excepting the good old u s. A, and
that the farmers of that country raising
gardess of the reports to the contrary The big business
interests principally the oaning Jews of the world, do
not like Russas government because they cannot it
and the present government will not pay the debts
tracted by the former Gar. You it is personal in
terest and it is always selfish personal interests which
warp the better judgment of The people of the
United States whole, not concerned what kind of
government Russia has any than the kind of
government they the FIJI Islands, money
interests do because Russia is better exploiting than
the FIJI Islands.-Center Post-Dispatch
NEWS of President Harding's illness a shock
to the entire country. His trouble have
from eating infected crab and his first symp
toms of ptomaine poisoning At present he is
under the of six physicians in San Francisco and
they report him improving though entirely of
danger The complication that is feared is pneu-
monia with which he is threatened and their joint
gies being devoted to preventing that. AS go
reports that he is resting easily gaining
strength gradually but surely
SWEET, standing politically alone deprived by the
folly of the voting public of the support of sympathetic
legislature, is coming closer to keeping his prediction
pledges than president of the last decade
1t is the good he is doing that counts rather than the
things his critics say he is not accomplishing True the
politicians who control elections do him for
second term, because when he is in there pums
being handed out But the folk, and especially
the farmers of Colorado will something
say about t-Siebert Settler
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