The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-09-25

-dTLLIONs dollars will pour into California this
the grape crop" Railroad authorities say
ket in the east Instead of destroying their industry and
e into Sas Is bon %
has steadily increased and prices before
were high.-Oathe Criterion.
| And why should the grape market be good?
There active and always growing demand for grapes
for disng fruit brandy enormously called moonshine
whskey None of the fruits make better brandy and
none yield to dstillation readily There will always
be fine demand for grapes BROTHER long ap-
preciate good liquor Last the vineyard
from your region in Gunnison contracting
grapes for that purpose Yes grapes becoming
| an important staple
OUR learned and astute solicitor general, Mr. James
M Beck throws fit at the third party menace" He is
particularly shocked grieved La Foletes proposal
to let the people of this country decide whether not
they to limit the selfmade powers of the Supreme
court Let quote with few impairment interpoa-
tions of from Mr. Becks address: eff you per-
init to override the authority the high
court in the land Nobody vested" such authority
in the Supreme court but John Marshall who made the
first decision assuming such power. And pass laws
the combined opinion of the Supreme court" The
kick isn't against COMBINED opinion. 1t IS against
these ive-tofour decisions In which judges-pre-
sumably erudite their feows-dissent from the
opinion of the other FIVE Then you controvertng
the Constitution" The Constitution of the United
States not word about according Supreme
court the wide powers assumed. And sending cleo
tive despotism to Washington Whereat pause
inquire whether elective despotism' is whit
worse than appontive despotsm" Whether the for
tunes of the country safer in the hands
appointed for fe than they are the hands of
several hundred ELECTED officials may be recalled
at election time by the people who put them in office
And whether Ohio which for eleven has been
under the plan Mr. La proposes to place
before the people is going to the demnition
Also whether England which has through very
successfully for few centuries without any Suppeme
court to upset parliamentary rulings verge of
Communism because of its style of government If one
were " gauge the forensic ability of Republican speakers
by their ability to make msstatements Mr. Beck
without struggle He makes four in the short space
one paragraph-Brass Tacks, in Denver Express
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1T would be very interesting if one could hear Sem
ator La Toilette make address "Why Soldiers
Should Vote for Me'-From many papers that print
canned editorials.
| And it occurs to that the Senator could likely
make very effective address that topic He could
cite to the veterans that while they serving
scripted sentences in the army, lousy muddy paying
their dollar day stipend for tobacco and cigarettes that
had been donated by relatives and friends who really
cared for them, the ag-wavng crooks
stealing the country blind and trying to Jail like
Bob La Toilette who protested their crimes. He
compare the present condition of the soldiers
with those who lodged the draft and made up their
delinquency with copous blasts of hot about
ism He could show that these hot air artists, draft
dodgers and all their kind opposing Follette
candidacy and also shriekng against adjusted com
pensation for the soldiers Obi can think of many
things he could talk about which would interest the
ders and elicit their approval in thousands
may be too indoen to to the polls unless given the
stmulant of consideration of difference between
Robert La Follettes patriotism and exploters who
robbed the government and soldiers alike.
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IF there any doubt of the strength of the La
Toilette support it proven by the fact that today the
guns of both the Republicans and Democrats being
trained the Progressves Already efouts being
made in high political circles to fuse the Republican
and Democratic members of Congress of the heads
of the reactionary tickets Coolidge Davis The plan
might work but if it does, four hence there will
be doubt of the result Just the crooked demo-
Gratis and republicans and you have placed new
party infinitely stronger than the of the old
squarely the However, have real fear that
such piece of political harlotry will succeed This
Bryan Wheeler both superb Democrats, be elected
President Big Business is in for blamed good trim
result more certain The bosses would give Nc
Adoo either last time this We fully justified in
taking the bits in teeth managing
this time.
Il IN small town in Penr. a suburb of Pitts
burgh the ku kinx Klsa "o' hat its members
would march in the Defer Parade wearing hoods
and robes The committee charge of the event held
that masked men had place in patriotic demonstra
tion of citizens and denied the Kan participation
parade under the conditions outlined Whereupon the
committee served with notice that
were permitted to turn out in full regalia the
would be broken by violence a matter of precau
tion, and to peace. the parade called
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