The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-03-15
TO A sTRIKEBREAKER

When tomorrow appears and your labors begun,
And say yourself, Il m truthful and JUST
So today with myself I'll be honest-I must?
CAN you gaze undismayed in the face of a child
Whose fathers striker, and with heart undefled
Say to that child ''Tis a game-a kind OF a
Pm doing all rght-Tve your dear daddy's place?
CAN you boldly speak out when you old fellow,
Who's SCARED by hard labor but has turned yellow
And loudly proclaim ITO all men Pm friend
For that is right I'd starve to the end'?
CAN you walk like man down the home city street.
With shoulders erect when old friends you meet,
And say to yourself, Eve for shame
If some women starving, I'm not to blame?
CAN you fold up your when time to go
Unto Him who will share all troubles and woe
And pray to the Father, Thy mercies need
But the strikers family don't bother to feed"?
1T may be you can, since all honor you've sold
And bartered your manhood for a mere bit of gold;
But in cheating strikers you're cheating yourself,
For there'll come day when you'll be the shelf.
Mrs Guess is resident of Hammond Ind. and the
wife of railroad striker her husband being member
of the International Brotherhood Of Fmen and Oilers
QUITE change has taken place in Leadville since
the raid made by federal prohibition officers
places commonly called "hooch" joints called
soft drink parlors 1t pays raid place and then
Durango Democrat sft
THE United States is to be called in to helm France
collect her indemnities from Germany We should at
least be permitted garnshee proceedings against
Germany to collect what France before going
into action.-Buena Vista Democrat.
THE chief difference between Governor Sweets Code
and the Lambert political 'ip4lop" the
governors plan will quarter million annually to
the taxpayers and the Lambert bill will additional
expense and complications Durango Democrat.
GOVERNOR SWEET is not only ready to do some
thing for the taxpayers but he has told the egs
lature what that something is However, the Republi-
majority determined that relief come to
The npder Dor,n cratic
Democrat.
REPUBLICANS in the legislature are making up a
mighty fine program for the democrats to campaign
in 1924 We have calling attention to what
they kept Gov Sweet from doing his first term and
miss if the people do give him second
term and legislature in sympathy with his views
MEEKER and Gunnison high schools, at the time
lects questions for debate Resolved: That Colorado
stute for the general property tax The question of
publican
And then to prove how very little Mr. SiIls knows
about the matter Gunnson the debate for the at
frmative The fact is that the Affirmative has all the
best OF the question If the argument is conducted by
pie who have given real study the question If Carl
ton really has any faith in his we here
by challenge him to write his argument in whatever
he desires fill in his paper will write
our argument for the affirmative in reply in just half
the he providing he column or more
of eight point type. We will reprint his argument and
we will hold a voting contest who wins the argument
Are you game?
THE Department of Labor under the spur of the
Railroad Unions has just determined that hundreds Of
aliens have been smuggled into the country to act
strike breakers for the railroads One Miller
retary Of the Connecticut Open Shop Association has
been arrested for going Europe arranging with
boat officers to transport aliens who prohibited
from coming to this country to sign up sailors and
then desert their ship at it arrives they
taken in tow by the railroad agents to their
shops to work strebreakers Many arrests are being
made and President W. G. Bresser, of the New Jersey
Central road has been writing frantic to Presi-
dent Harding and other hgherups stop arrestng and
deporting their obtained much trouble and
expense If the Unions had committed this oense the
President would call extra session of Congress
more drastic laws for their punishment but he will
doubtless lie awake nights in Florida trying to figure
out some way to whtewash the railroads
IN his account of the proceedings Of the last Com.
mssioners' meeting Henrietta dig at the Clerk
of the County Court just why, say but prob
ably from his natural disposition be insulting and
farther because it gave opportunity for him to "e
little" and still get away with the subject matter He
"Also the clerk of the county request
of obtaining larger salary than the now paid OF
$3.50 month This request however was not allowed
by the commissioners" 1t is truly gratifying to know
that the Board is becoming economical 1t was differ
ent two years when request for s1lO or Sis per
month rewarded with $3.50 However, it is lust as
we'll to state the truth about Mrs McDougars request
for raise She gets 500 instead of the $3.50 which
Pismire Lake makes his tvpe for bo