Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Back up the President tilt the kaiser backs down. Wanted—s2,OtSO,ooo,ooo. Offered $3,035,226. Sad. Good! . . Yes, gisteij all men' are alike in one respect. They are just mere men. Every woman has a mind, but the man who can fathom it« has never been born, - - . ■■■■■; • It’s no disgrace to stub your toe. The disgrace lies ’..in not getting up and making a fresh start. If the government don’t seize the summer’s crops the thieving speculators, will. Time to act, gentlemen! Forget it, sonny. When you get to the trench Os you won't have any time left for making love to the pretty French lassies. : . Pershing has made quite a hit in England and France:. Here’s hoping his next score will be at the expense of the enemy. / Don't grieve because you let a good thing slip by when you failed to buy Liberty bonds. Another opportunity will be along soon. Judging from his action-. Mayor Thompson of Chicago has no desire to become President. He pre-; fers to sputter in the halo of the 1 kaiser.

Tiring of ever recurring attempts to gouge, the secretary of the navy ordered the coal, oil and steel men to make immediate deliveries to the government at a price to be -fixed- by the President. Good! Npw kick the food hog. “As the onlv man of prominence in Chicago- who did not buy a Liberty bond, Mayor Thompson should receive the iron cross from the kaiser. ’’---Chicago Daily News. Dead wrong, brother. Thompson is ‘not a prominent man. He is not. even any kind of a man. Washington dispatches advise us that a certain United States senator offered a bribe of $5,000 if his son were exempted from the draft. The party to whom the offer was made promptly communicated the fact te the attorney-gen-eral of the United States. We are watching for the next act in the drama -of “senatorial dignity.” Will it come? » ’ Those valien t you ng Willies who defiied the government and refused to register are now whining for mercy. They are awaking to the painful fact that the government was not bluffing, and that in refusing to register they signed their own jail sentence. They find no sympathy from the rest of the people, and when they have completed their terms behind the bars and are then taken by the nape, of the neck and kicked into the trenches, loyal Americans will approve with a grin from ear to ear. The government asked a loan of the people of $2,000,000,000 for war purposes. The people responded by promptly offering considerably over $3,000,000,000, and this tremendous sum was subscribed in all "walks of life, from the millionaire down to the laboring man with

nothing but his weekly pay from which to draw. Even young working girls and the little Boy Scouts dug down when Uncle Sam asked for help. It significant that our first loan of the war is also the greates" loan in the history- of the world. and' more than 1 50 -per ■: cent over rl.-2 -a: .kaiser should worry!