Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progressive Party News. ** [Advertisment] JL

WHAT THE EDITORS ARE THINKING.

Blythe Sees Roosevelt Cains. Samuel G. Blythe, political reporter of the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, in a review of the situation to date touching on the Presidential race, gives his conclusions as follows: 1. Those persons in the East and elsewhere who think Theodore Roosevelt has lost any great portion of his popularity in this wide territory are misinformed. “2. Those persons who are expecting the Progressive movement to subside and the former republicans in it to stick to the old party and vote with it in November are in error, judging from conditions as I find them the closing days of Aug ust.

“3. Those persons who think the farmers, the workingmen, the skilled shop Laborers, the factory men, the railroad men, the traveling men, the small business men, the store keepers and their clerks do not intend to vote for Roosevelt and Johnson in large numbers—in amazingly large numbers—have no knowledge of what the mass of the people have in mind.

“4. Those Taft men who hope 'that any considerable number of conservative Democrats will vote for Taft and in a w r ay offset the loss to the Republican party through the defection to Roosevelt, have no substantial basis for that hope. “5. Those Wilson men who ate convinced that a large number of the old time Republicans will vote for Wilson in order to make the protest against Roosevelt most effective are right,

“6. Those people who contend that this is a fight between Roosevelt and Wilson, with Taft out of it all this time, have an adequate conception of the circumstances. Harlan John M. Harlan is a large man with a loud voice, a loud face, a loud manner. If he looks as he ■used to in the nineties, when he would occasionally run for mayor in Chicago on a reform ticket, he is a fine figure on the stump. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he is still a fine figure of a man. But after admittiing this we have made our very last admission. What his function is, why he is kept on the stump by President TafCs managers, we are at a loss to conceive. One trouble with Mr. Ilarlan is that what he says does as if he believed it. Perhaps he does believe it, but the gift of sounding sincere is not his. Take this latest about Mr. Roosevelt —' Roosevelt is a beaten man, and he knows it: that is what is making him so grouchy and nervous.” A small instance, you may say, but it will serve. Mr. Roosevelt is not nervous. He is not grouchy. We do not know whether he expects to be elected but of course he thinks liis chances are better than when he started his campaign. This happens to every -candidate. Trying to win makes him believe he may win. The people he meets tell him encouraging things. Mr. Harlan makes us tired. He looks so much like a strong speaker of home truths. "Yet the best he can do is to travel aiiout the country talking shopworn slop. Rather a pity, considering his origin and his earlier career.—New York Globe.

The Immigrant. Over a million immigrants enter our ports every year. Uncle Sam counts tlheir money at Ellis Island to see if they have $25, looks them over for disease, pushes open his door, pushes them through, and bids them fend for themselves. Dumb, ignorant, poor and strange, great land of whose language, customs, license they can comprehend nothing except that it is not like the place which was described them by steamship agents and the steamship companies, they herd totogether like frightened cattle and make the slums because the slums are cheap to make. There are a million of these immigrants a year. They are the parents of millions of Americans as yet unborn. They are a problem pregnant and portentous.

What has the Republican platform to say on this problem? Nothing. It does, indeed, suggest “the enactment of appropriate laws to give relief from the constantly increasing evil of induced or undesirable immigration which is inimical to the progress and welfare of the people of the United States.” But as what is to be done with the million a year who do come and have been coming, no words at all. What has the Democratic platform to say on this problem? Nothing