Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1916 — PROFESSOR OF HINDSIGHT. [ARTICLE]

PROFESSOR OF HINDSIGHT.

Mr. Hughes’ looking backward habit is getting downright laughable. So long as the country was threatened with a "disastrous railroad strike, he held liis peace or talked about the tariff. Not a single constructive suggestion did he make during that anxious time. But the moment the strike is averted, through the leadership of President Wilson and the quick action of congress, Mr. Hughes breaks forth in denunciation of the way industrial peace was preserved and platitudinous piffle about “standing for arbitration” when there was no way of compelling anyone to arbitrate. Small wonder the Nashville audience giggled when the Republican candidate aired this latest bit of post-mortem wisdom. Still, one must be fair to Mr. Hughes. He isn’t getting any nearer the White House by carping at the President, but he is making another sort of place for himself. When the campaign is over, some enterprising university ought to annex Justice Hughes as professor of hindsight to teach “history as it ought to have was.” He would shine in that job. —Chicago Journal.