The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-06-28

THE farmer the only business man" who does
not set the price what he produces Still have to
and plead with him to get him to help himself 1t
is peculiar situation and when read the statement
that two million left the farms last because farm
ing did not pay amazement is still greater why the
balance do organize. There three open
quit farming organize make application enter
the poor house.-Center Post-Dispatch.
LATEST reports would indicate that Mayor Staple
has committed the blunder of his young life
In giving the Auditorium for the Of the Ku Klux
Klan he has deliberately insuted every and
of in the state The organization is foul and
clean from rind to Its announced purpose is In
visible Government" repugnant to every principle of
Americanism The Mayors recognition of the unAmer
cowardy, hooded and masked band of outlaws
outrageous act He is said to be reconsdeng his action
We hope he concludes rescind and bar the coardy
bunch of assassins from the Auditorium We ought
have steady and unbrokcn open Ku Klux.
There is why masked should not be shot
on sight. The man who masks his face to commit his
crimes should be promptly killed unburied for
to feed
FOR the benefit of some of our contemporaries who
seem to think that the Candle is not prohib-
Zionist, he must necessarily be drunkard The truth
the editor drunk in his life, owned a
bottle OF whskey or spent thin dime for white mule
Our kick is the peculiar it put over and
the enforcement and of the Today
whskey is of the leading industries of the United
States million employed rum-runners,
steamships hips tug boats autos and burros
smuggling vast stores every day. majority of our en-
forcement off ials have been fakes frauds MANY
localities make pretense to enforcement other
places deputy constable will insist searching YOU
every few minutes without We believe the
liquor business should be controlled, not by few
fanatics, either wet dry. And have no use
for the professional reformer don't believe you can
successfully egslae prohibition religion morality into
the average man.-Creede Candle.
There is nothing quite clear the fact that if the
next National conventions this fall one
of them would be compelled Henry Ford or
negectng that opportunity prepare through
slaughter house to open grave wave of in
creasng volume is sweeping the country has deter
mined to run Henry Ford for President All independent
movements heretofore nothing compared to this
one President Harding quoted saying that he finds
the western people quite in accord with views Never
was so mistaken if he correctly quoted Western
people listen to him respectfully but they more
vr1le forceful who thinks more SINGER
ely for their interests The Democrats far show no in
tent to give them such and the result is that the
great industrial centers and the producing
looking favorably Henry Whether the tide
VIII turn in year rise still higher the problem No
man can tell which will be the politicians are
thinking and considering they have thought for the
last half century They defeated Bryan in 1896 or rather
counted him out, by the corrupt use of monev
the world ever 1t is very doubtful that sort of
program could beat Ford The against the money
power is five times strong then 1t is very in
teresting to live and observe just We reay hone
we Will be alive in 1925 We help in the 1924
campaign Politics is the most interesting game we have
ever sat IN ana we sure want to play one hand