The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-12-18


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MUCH argument is being indulged in by the papers
trying to tell why prohibition will us as
law. Prominent among the NOT given is the
most potent of all that the business supplying
the demand is immensely profitable The further fact
that prohibition enforcement agent acquire a COM
petence in two years is another good reason
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SAMUEL GOMPERS, the great Jewish labor leader is
dead He passed away his return trip from Mexico
last week. and his demise while not unexpected, has
cast genuine gloom labor circles and capital
stic sentiment is that really great conservative lead
er has been taken from He very old man and
has been feeble for years The pessimstic think his
place be filled, but in long life have
served that leaders crop up when needed and we
imagine even the Great Gompers place will be worthily
filled very
sAIIDA is all worked up the fact that in
spector for the State Board of Health has condemned
their water supply and posted notices at the depot
ing against the of city water The
Board of Health may be right in this matter but
shall always doubt it, The public health in Salida
not be good it is if her population using
water and inclined to think that they have
ample for objecting the report of State
Health Commissioner We wish sure that we
would get up against anything than Salida
water as beverage
THE Montrose Press tells about appearance there
of the from Cleveland Ohio who selling "high
class warranted have a kick stronger than
Missouri mule Our readers will recall that printed
story of his visit to How he came in touch with
Charley Adams is beyond We presume that of
the live wires his large list of customers here had
given him ustrious who appreciated
stimulating drink But how Charley got recommended
to bootlegger is quandry Mr.. Adams says he does
not know how customers he did get in Montrose
If he had betrayed interest in the proposition he
might have obtained quite interesting Charley
and his pastor. And, Charley would have been mean
enough to give them away In merely store
them in the archives of memory for should
necessity require publicity
DIR. A. s. PINTO, City Health Commissioner of
Omaha has given it his opinion that marriages which
fail produce baby in years should be annulled
With all due respect to the eminent Doctor, feel
like taking issue with his opinion. 1t is not the short
of babies that should excite the public mind today
much greater for worry is to be found in those
instances where it is found to send
for marriage license. preacher and the family
physician the day. Those families that fortu
nate enough to defer the responsibilities fatherhood
and motherhood until financially able give proper
and attention their rearing are
be commended rather than condemned The population
this old world of ours is increasing much rapidly
than is desirable In the beginning the Creative
of the Universe framed up three reducing sur
plus population. These pestence famine.
Medical science has reduced the pestlence
to minimum Means for the rapid transmission of in
tegence and products have largely eliminated the
ages of famine and scientifically conducted do
not destroy life in anything like the ratio the past
The result is that constantly menaced with an
overcrowded world The great public not going to
be impressed with the idea that increase popua-
tion is greatly to be desired We firmly believe that
If for the next ten years, the supply babies were
reduced fifty cent" we should sufficient
supply for all practical purposes those that were
produced would probably to being pronerv
cared for and educated Like the Irishman and the
gondoas it is far better nature take her course
FINANCIAL papers beginning to warn socalled
suckers" against speculation in fake stocks This
is evidently with the desire keep the
suckers" playing the Wall Street game investing in
board stocks bonds domestic foreign and the
securities offered freely by the kngpin gamblers
bunco of Wall Street "Call money ,the
real arbitrator of the stock market up from
per the other day. This deliber-
ately arranged out the poor fools who had
margined stock high figure and enable the gamblers
tion controlled the United States has for weeks
been printing propaganda calculated induce the gnor
ant public to throw their money into the Wall Street
game They knew when they did it they were acting as
bunco steerers to lead victims to their undong
few very few of the smaller papers warned the public
against hazarina their in this but their
voice feeble compared with that of the great
papers that advised them to against thing
graft When crook induces the victim lose his
money against. of the forms buncoe-
ing the police hasten the offender your Big
Brother, the Denver Post howls off about the
robbery and nvokes the aid of all the authorities m-
ncpa state and national to bring their associate bunco
steerers to justice. But when big business Wan Street
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