Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1920 — YES, KICK DEMOCRATS OUT [ARTICLE]

YES, KICK DEMOCRATS OUT

“Too Much Money" Is Circulating About and "Prices Too High." Tippecanoe County Democrat:’ Prosperity is so general that many people want no more of it. They are actually tired of it. These 50-oent dollars under Democratic rule nowadays, are, buying so many things for 'people who never in their lives before could buy them, that they want the old 100-cent dollar which was so scarce under Republican rule that but few in any neighborhood could afford a luxury.

Croakers and extreme partisans sit down and, like wise men, say: “Oh, it’s the war that made these good times." Well, England was In the war. wasn’t And neither England nor the United States was invaded,’ but didn’t old Uncle Sam put as much money into the war besides billions he loaned the allies? Ana Isn’t England today In financial straits for the first time since the Bank of England was fqunded? Isn’t her money below par and her laboring men getting but one-half the wages of the laborers of this country? And didn’t England lose hundreds of thousands of her laborers on the fields of battle, which Should make her. labor market so scarce that labor in that country should be. even higher than In this country? The average person falls to reflect that the financial laws enacted by this country by a Democratic congress and President Wilson is the secret of good old United States being able to carry rhe financial burdens of the world upon ’her back while yet distributing among our own people such an abundance of ready cash as inio living American has ever before witnessed.

Take the laboring man who wants to the Democrats —he growls because pork chops and porter-house steaks are high, and yet the chances are that a meal taken him will disclose either one or both meats upon his table and purchased with this same miserable, good-for-nothing, 50-cent dollar. A good live bet would be that under the fine, handsome, 100-cent Republican dollar this same laborer was accustomed to but a juicy part of the neck, and that but once a day. And them there are his children’s shoes —they are t,oo expensive and the Democrats are to blame, and yet he has sufficient of these ornery 50-cent Democrat dollars to walk proudly into a shoe store and fit out his children in such a fashion as they only observed in the really rich people’s children in the days of that dandy old 100-cent Republican dollar.

Then there is the laborer right in this good old burg who has purchased a family automobile out of his wages of “from $5 to $8 per day and he, too, thoroughly despises President Wilson because of the prices of gasoline and tires are higher. Shucks!

This same laborer under national Republican rule ooukto’t command enough wages to create a saving to buy a wheel barrow —and when his family went riding they walked. Then there is the laborer who scoffs at this Democratic 50-cent dollar because some Republican politician, wanting his vote, tells

him in apparent sincerity that the price of clothing has been put up by the wicked Democrats, and yet more laborers are today wearing tailor-made clothes than ever before in their lives and they plank down enough of those 50-cent dollars to pay spot cash for them and then have enough left to buy their wives a fine up-to-date coat tft take the (place of the old frayed shawl she wore in the glorious days of the 100-cent Republican dollar. Then here comes the laborer who is just itching for election day to roll around so he can vote the Democrats out of power and all because they have not had enough sense to keep the price of furmiiture down, and yet he has just come from a furniture store" and purchased a new outfit for' the first time ip 25 years and paid for it in cash same 50-cent Democratic dollars. Oh, yes! He is mad —mad all the way through—back for him and hie family to the good old 100cent Republican dollar times and perhaps to his three-legged stool and wobbly dinner table. - Well, it might be a blamed good thing for the next generation if he simply went back, only his children are 'becoming so accustomed to luxuries under President Wilson’s administration that ’ poor.

poor things, they would miss them so. Ah, me! Ah, me! ’Tis not only the laborer —now take the retail merchant. Gee, but he is sore at the Democrats. He is so sore that he will never soar any more, sir! He will look you squarely in the eye and tell you that the Democrats should be defeated because he can not for the life of him obtain merchandise enough to meet the demand. With a snarl he will tell you that he not now sell just any old thing and instead of booking it On six months’ time and then losing part or all of the account, he growls that now everybody pays cash. Yes, sir. The retail merchant certainly has a kick coming against the Wilson administration and when election day rolls around he is going right down to the booth and vote a straight Republican ticket so he can go back to the good old Republican days when his profits were smaller and he was forced to keep a small army of bockkeepers to keep track of his customers’ accounts who bought on credit. Now, there is the railroad mam -—you bear ihfm kick that he has had enough of It—well we will all believe'* him, for the poor, mistreated fellow surely has, By alt means 'he should certainly despise the 50-cent dollar and if there is anywhere in this country a single (or married, either) railroad man who is not thoroughly justified in never, never again voting a Democratic ticket, then I Should like to see the color of his hair. But what,about the farmer? Ah, there is the fellow who should simply snort with anger whenever he hears the ugly, nasty, despicable word, “Democrat”! Yes, sir! Under Republican rule the farmer’s prayer was: “God save us,” but it remained for the Wilson administration to save them by adding to their wealth twice and thrice fold. The farmer, in his distressing desire to beat ’ the Democrats this, fall should shove his income tax receipt into the ballot box—but stay—hadn’t he best keep it as a souvenir of the 50-cent Democratic dollar times? If the Republicans win he not soon again have enough money to come within the requirements of the income tax law. Ah, yes! The poor, down-trod-den farmer has a grievance against the wicked Democrats who maoe him rich, rich! Take for example, Henry Marshall, who owns newspapers in this community—didn’t he recently sell a farm for SBT,OOO in 50-cent Democratic dollars and'wouldn’t he have jumped at an offer of $40,000 for this same farm under McKinley’s, Roosevelt’s or Taft’s administrations? And isn’t he just seething .with indignation agaimet President Wilson’s administration? Why, he simply thinks it appalling to even hint at continuing such an administration in power. Then there is “Bill” Robinson,"

his “Comment’’ editor, who clips most of his “comments” from encyclopedias and his editorials from the Philadelphia Ledger—now “Bill” is just crazy to defeat the Democrats, although he is now enjoying the greatest prosperity of his sweet young life. Now he wears kid gloves and no socks, green vest and tight pants and instead of smoking a corn-cob pipe as in the old Republican days at Fowler, he now luxurates in box upon box of pure Egyptian cigarettes daily. These Democratic days are vastly different for “BHy’ than those days if lean plucking at dear old Wheatfield. Every voter in every walk of life is ‘enjoying so mudh prosperity at this time that the proper thing to do to make dead certain sure that he will not be bothered with it again soon is to vote against the derned Democrats this fall. *