Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — PLAYING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE [ARTICLE]

PLAYING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE

Our Republican friends, in their efforts to discredit Wilson and his administration, tell the big business man that congress, in passing the Adamson law, surrendered to the transportation brotherhoods. They say the government gave the men everything they wanted, without investigation. These same friends, prompted by the same motive, come to the railroad men and say that the Adamson law is no good, that it doesn’t give the men anything; that it was the merest bunk.x Now, one or the other of these statements must be wrong. As a matter of fact, both of them are wrong. It is just another case of attempting to play both ends against the middle, which is about all Mr. Hughes and his followers have attempted thus far in the campaign.—lndiana Forum. According to foreign correspondents all nations are winning tremendous victories in Europe. But, then, it’s a poor correspondent who can’t magnify a scratch into a carnival of blood. Most people are always waiting for “the lightning to strike them,’’ and when a flash does come near them they shiver and jump like a dog having a nightmare. We want everybody to vote at this election. It’s your duty to vote. The public weal requires that you vote. Your own interests urge you to vote. Put your words, as well as your money, out at interest. A courteousword to your neighbor today may bring you two tomorrow. If you are* cheerful in the position you find yourself In today, tomorrow may find you in a better one and yet more cheerful. Scientists tell us the moon is increasing its speed. But, then, who cares? We’re not trying to keep up with the moon.