The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-07-03
FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS POORLY

COLORADO SPRINGS business are discussing
with for the convenience of tourists who
desire to fish COMMITTEES of business men is now 10Y at at
proposition submitted to the Chamber of Commerce at
It ntimated that it is business policy to ad
vertise Colorado the"fsherman's paradise when in
in whole week in any stream in the state The Fish
and Game & winch seems TO & pc USED nea as
for the past 25 years. while the fish in the streams
1t is about time that the office of Fish and Game
warden be taken from under the cloak of the state civil
be operated for the benefit @ of the whole people,
When towns are compelled to build Lakes AXE and and stock ts
promised in advertising, it is time for taxpay
to get on their thinking caps and devise way to
correct the present evil in state law-Deta Tribune
We somewhat loss understand this item.
Tho state has just built of the finest of hatchenes at
Cedaredge and certainly Delta county has right to
complain of what the department is doing for them.
Most anyone things that should be done here,
there and everywhere but to mind the Fish and Game
Department functions about we'll any of the
States different enterprises If city individual
desires establish fishing preserves for either them
selves their friends for profit we know of no law
that prevents dscourages it. thought
that if we owned some places we know of we should
impound water and establish place for lake fish
ing for the benefit of friends than anything
else. But have known the general fishing to be
better than right in all the streams acquaint
ed with The talk that tourists catch fish is
surprising n many cases they do how in
Others they strike the lean days But it is the
rule that all make rood catches if they fishermen
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SINGLING out California the state which out.
distances al other states combined in the number of
prosecutions intensity of the antradical drive,
the Civil Liberties Union charges that scores of
in the prisons of California today convicted solely
the testimony of professional witnesses, paid ten
dollars day each by the prosecution to testify that
the l. w. w. teaches violence One of the witnesses
the report alleges confessed in that he deserted
the naval and military forces of the United States
IL times and confined in government insane
asylum This witness appeared at trials expert
against the l. w. w. The other witnesses also
charged with being selfconfessed criminals "On the
testimony of these characters the report adds, mem
bers of the w. W. charged only with the of be-
longing to that organization sent to San Quent
in and Folsom prisons from to ID years Copies of the
report may be obtained by addressing the American Civil
One of the greatest organizations have in the
United States today is this "Civ Liberties Union whose
activities have done to correct the persecution
of people for expressing their convictions in perfectly
lawful than all other forces combined Pudded
by this organization, hundreds and thousands of
whose only ofense expression of opinion, and who
for that expression thrown in jas have been
leased by Governors and Presidents The other day
reported that the Federal prisons had
been released and they working those convict
ed by the patriotic crooks of the states The above
shows to what extent testimony bought and perjury
reorted to in order the incarceration
How going to get the body and the
public support and obey the law when it Infamous
ly administered
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