Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Here’s hoping Russia will “come back’’ with a rush. Our food reformers are doing about everything, it seems, except reform'. Everybody talks peace, everybody wants peace, and nobody expects peace. Go to it! The United States is now making its own dye stuffs. Germany, however, seeks to spell it d-i-e. Mexico, at last, is making a rec'ord. There hasn’t been a new revolution for over forty-eight hours. Just now, however, we’re, wondering what scheme the income tax collectors will evolve for rounding up the head waiters. Crop prospects are not so -bad, it seems, and the speculators are taking prompt advantage by hogging everything they can get their clutches on. The poor man will pay. Vice-President Marshall suggests sending some of the windy senators to France with the aviation corps. He had thought of recommending another place, but his satanic majesty objects. Notwithstanding the back yards and vacant lots produced millions of dollars’ worth of food stuffs, old H. C. L. still 'perches on the top rung of the ladder and hands out sardonic grins. Latest reports from hell are to the effect that the devil refuses admission to price boosters and food hogs on the ground that their presence would contaminate .the other inhabitants. Never mind all of this bombastic piffle about “what We are fighting for.’’ Our country is at war and the main thing right now is to get in shape to fight. Piffle and wind won’t win battles.