The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-09-13
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT

THERE shall be wars and of wars and earth
quakes in divers places the shall be dakened Taken
from the Bible in Revelations and all of which
going through at the present time Still there
that viii scof at the idea of the nearing of the end OF
the world to make way for world under the right
conditions We do not say this is fact, but all the
you one and all?5I P B, in Denver Democrat.
The above from the talented l. p B. in the Denver
Democrat sounds like Advent propaganda The quotation
from the scriptures while very and to the point is
not to be taken too seriously In that peculiar book the
Bible, may find about anything that be written
nearly subject We reminded of the who
being disciplined for using tobacco retorted that he
clearly within Biblical authority in SO doing and when
closely pressed for the passage that gave him permis
sion to SO indulge quoted the paragraph which reads
And he that is filthy let him be filthy still" There
many scriptura porents of disaster and calamity pro-
phesy in the book and it strange indeed if
of them did not true The end of this world
to many every day and occasionally the late
earthquake, descends terrible and takes it's toll
in thousands This old world has many changes in
its form and will doubtless many more Ignatius
Donney makes it pretty clear his that there
was once the lost continent of Atlantis 1t is hard
read the work without agreeing with the talented author
If so it doubtless produced the flood described the
Bible Noahs food At least It could easily have
So 1t would not be bit strange if about
to the point when the cooling of the earthly ball
to again modify the arrangement of land and water
Without question continents have before new
arisen to take their place. Great buckles
formed in the ears and the waters rushed
to the low places 1t is very easy understand
how such would be Divine ordering
by the superstous of those ages now if Europe
were to sink below the level and a continent
spring from the Pacific who is there say that five
Thousand years thereafter books written about this
period would be found descantng on the anger of
the Ruler of the Universe the the times
and his summary visitation of dspleasure by de-
struction of the offenders?
FRIEND has handed a pamphlet discussing
State and Municipal Ownership 1t is written by Henry
Swift Ives whom most newspaper know the real
publicity agent and propaganda superintendent of Big
Business. This particular essay is written Insu-
rance Trust and draws fantastic picture of the
hideous dangers of Socialism" 1t is assumed that
everything that protects the people from rapacity
socalistc, If this would be splendid rea-
why should all be socialists truth is that
while the doctrine of defense may advocated by
socialists resist robbery without changing his
politics One does not lot whether his particular
bandit is democrat, republican socialist What
trouble him is that he is being robbed the political
affaton of the crook is the victims troub
les Mr.. Ives descants on the huge of money
in the Golfers of the Trust He wonders how
the people could borrow money if the insurance opus
had not acquired it. We might that il the nsur
thieves the robbers gang and
about steen other hghwaymen had been permitted
take the entire product of labor and production for all
these it is barely possible that people would
not have to- borrow much money Mr. that
The Life Insurance Companies nine per the
railroads. This may account for the efficiency of the
stealing department of of railroads Mr. Ives
story SO we'll written and transparent reader
that we really wish might print it entire With
trembling he recites that Sixteen adopt
ed experimental life and accident and seven
of them have prohibited further exploitation of the
earners by compelling employers take "compensa
ton insurance in the department exclusion
OF the insurance wolves. Horrble To build wolf
tight fence around the workers they safe and
sound Socialism, shrieks Mr. Ives. Maybe 1t is but if
so we are going to have a whole lot more of it.