Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1919 — ARRAIGNMENT OF ADMINISTRATION [ARTICLE]

ARRAIGNMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

GEORGE CREEL’S BROTHER IS SOME LITTLE WRITER IN HIS OWN WAY. (From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) To the Editor: The administra tion proposes to eliminate illiteracy. Most praiseworthy. But where is the joker? A southern congressman announced as his policy: “Every time they get a ham out of the pork barrel I mean to get a whole hog.” Who gets the benefit of the legislation? Compare Washington’s share with that of North Carolina. There is a difference of 100 years in the age. North Carolina had shipping ports and railroads when this state was an unknown wilderness. Our total value of farms, $637,000,000. North Carolina, $537,000,000. Native white illiterates: Washington, 1.284 ; North Carolina, 131,992. Percentage of illiterates in native-born whites of voting age: Washington, 2.4; North Carolina, 21.3. Percent age of Washington, .3; North Carolina, 12.3. Expenditure per capita for schools: Washington, $68.33; North Carolina, $12.31. See the joker yet? Here’s another: Mr. Kitchin, of North Carolina, represents 15,254 voters. John F. Miller represents 77,121. Just why should one voter in- North Carolina have as much influence in congress as five Seattle voters? Probably the world could jjpt be made safe for democracy ctherwiso! if shows up as a component part of a general scheme. In Everybody’s for February, 19. 7, is an with the president by George Creel. Commenting on his recommendation to congress of a corrupt practices act, the president says that it was not aimed at the republicans but only seems so because, since 1890 that party has had the largest campaign funds. It is. to giggle! If Mark Hanna was guilty of a hundredfold more than the democrats ever charged, he was still a cheap piker beside the present administration. Seven hundred million dollars’ increase in wages under government control, 25 per cent increase ir. freight and passenger rates an,d $800,000,000 Jeiiciency to be paid out of the public taxes. How about the “cost plus 10 per cent.” Could Boss Tweed or D'ck Croker, both deserving democrats, have conce ved as smooth a scheme for buying votes? They don’t need any campaign funds. The people pay. Look at the appropriations for national highways: Alabama, $5,750,000; Arkansas, $4,500,000; Kentucky $5,000,000; Mississippi, $5,000,000; Missouri, $9,000,000; North Carolina, $6,000,000; Tennessee, $6,000,000; Texas, $16,000,000; Virginia, $5,000,000, and Wasington, $3,000,000 The last congress created 270,026 new offices at •an annual cost of $158,296,659. How many of them do you think were filled by republicans? Then they passed the Overman bill, the sole purpose of which was to wipe out the entire civil service system And put all appointments under the control of the president. ■ The interview quotar begins with the announcement that President Wilson does and will consider himself “the political’ leader and lawmaker of the nation.” Sounds familiar, somehow. Where did I hear something like it? “There shall be no law but my law, no will but my will, and there shall be nothing done in the world without the sanction of Germany’s ruler.” The board of health should have warned us that megalomania is acutely infectious and always fatal. The funeral of William the Damned was announced November 11, 1918. There will be

another just two yearn __ T H. B. CREEL. Seabeck, Wash., May 14. 1 • (The writer of the above is a brother of George Creel, late publicity agent of the administration.)