South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 288, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 14 October 1916 — Page 4

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OCTOBER 11, 1916.

RIPLEY'S RAILROAD.

i:. P. Ripley, on- of the bitterest leaders .-nlnst the brother hoods' light fr tho t-ight-hou law, whu announced that his ruilro.nl would not obey the la. i--? jin-sikni of the ant:i railro..l. Despite the f.i t that SJ.COO.'". is charged to loss due to storms, fires :irwl Moods in its territory, the S-inta Fe railr:;td. in its olücj 1 statt nu nt of exper.se for the fiscal year or. dine June C". 1MI. annoum:iM that the net earnings of the road shew an increase of $S. 4 37,-98 over the preceding yt-ar. Mr. i:iplcy sUn-j the statement. I'nouKh said.

southern "carpet-bagsers" ts thv ?outh did, under Johnson, and Grant, and even Hayes and Arthur. Why, the republican r-irty, ,y making Factionalism an Issue, is openly proclaiming it.self a sectional party, the party of he north. While It appears to be very solicitous of Mexico, and northern Investments down there, and the women of Mexico, and to favor intervention, and possiblf annexation, the southland which we already have, we suppose, can ro to the very demnition bow wows for all the republican party will care, if it is returned to power. It hau a fine record, the republican partv has, from

which to talk about the sectionalism of democracy. The

crimes aeainht the nronertv Interest?, and the women i son

. - m m - m and children of Mexico, are as a Sunday school picnic compared with the crimes which the agents of the republican party, heaped upon the south following the rebellion. Sectionalism! Or is it that the republicans bavins? lost their foothold with the laboring men of the country', the laboring men having become wise; do they see even the colored vote slipping from them too? The old sectional prejudice might be excusable, to remain in the colored man's veins, since hia whole past centers around it, but no white man of the north or o: the south with an ounce of patriotism in hU blood, or intelligence above his ears, will ever again tolerate that issue founded upon that old score.

Wilson s Defeat Would be Blow At "Americanism

i;- t'ynm TVvmMHl Ilraljr. To the Editor of The News-Times I venture to ubrait to you certain reasons why true Americanism requires the re-election of-Pres't Wil-

FOR AMERICA AND ALL OF M ERICA. If Candidate Hu-hes and the republican party, in their narrow provir ciulism, wish to revi e the sectionalIsm of Civil war days, as a campaign issue, for the democratic party to step forth as an "All of America" party, i-s but a natural luenco. Pres't Wilson hit the nail square upon the head, when, in his Indianapolis speech, he took Mr. Hushes and the party supporting him severely to task, denouncing "the man who revives the issue of sectionalism in this country, as unworthy the confidence of the nation. They prove their own provincialism by doing so. There are other parts of the United States, both north and south, to be considered, us well a the province of Wall st. The "bloody shut" was a pet banner of the republican party for some- four decades following the war, but with the beginning of the present century since the somUi proved its fealty to the Union so etriciently in the Spanish-American war, and in the Philippines, the .general disposition, both north and vouth, to forget the lines of the great rebellion, and work together again as one common country'- The gray has reuned w th the I 1 ue at C.ett sbur'-. and the l lue with the gray at Vicks.urg and Mission Kidgo. The men who fought have shaken hands oer the grave of the past, and the United States once declared "r'.united in patriotism and sentiment" by no less a republican than Pres't William McKinley, was supposed to h on "the fair road toward working together in harmony, and without prejudice." We hae grave doubts if Pres't McKinley in the race for the white house, in 101'. would tolerate for an instant th kind of sectional campaign Mr. Hughes and the republican party is putting up. To add emphasis to the president's way of putting it, he might have added that it s contemptible and curlike. We make this application, not alone to Mr. Hughes, who is absent, or to National Chairman Wilcox, who spreads the sectionalism pjospel from New York, but we make it to the republican party, it managers, its candidates, and its press right here at home. In the stress of the campaign, they have merely followed their leaders into' the category of drop-tailed, whimpering yaller-dogs. It is the blackest of c-.w-ardi. o. in the face of an absence of issues, to attempt to revive in the impulsiveness of a community, an issue now fifty years dead, stirring up n old ft rife. And it is being made an i.-sue locally as well as nationally. Prom local repuMUan headquarters, under the unquestioned sanction of the republican county committee, thi.s regardless of ihe drunken idiocy that coins it.s words, there now issues every little while, a republican competitor for its equally provincial republican contemporary, and in its latest outpouring, sectionalism was its principal top"' ?. "Rob" Ingersoll seems to be its patron stain t, in the introduction of the issue, and then it winds up with a display advertisement, associating Pres't Wilson Nwth the Vallandingham, the Iee, the "Raider" Morgan, and the Jeff. Iavis, of Civil -ar times, an advertisement lit only to have emitted from the ery depths of hell. We have said the daily republican organ Is equally provincial on this point, it too, in its desperation, has beer; peeking to make an issue of sectionalism, but we refer to the direct organ of the local republican machine more particularly only, for the reason that it unquestionably Fpeaks designedly, while the other is a mere rejection of the proverbial cnipty-headedncss of Mr. Hughe. And we w-ant to ask Mr. Shepard J. Crumpacker, republican nominee for joint senator, and Messrs. liven, t'.idy iiJ Lie er, who would be republican state representatives, and John V. Divine, eager to hv our next prosecuting attorney, ditto. Nelson I-. Jones, candidate for treasurer, and so on down the lit, if this is the kind of issue they h'U'o to be elected on? If not. why do they spend tiir money to disseminate that kind of go.pl? It is as cur-lik of them as it is of the man who wntes it. or the some frcta which he draws his inspiration, whether it be the Oliver bar, Cllens Falls lv Oyster I'av. Th democratic- p.irt i- for. r.ot only America first, bat for all of America. That has l-.in the policy of Pn-s't WiNor, J rhaps, aow any other president since lira-o!n, who was mphati'-aily that. Though the old south is lari,. ly d" ra"cratic, and the president received a majority of his elector. al ite from beyond the old line, one thing at leat. the north h.ts noi :t jet had to grüüiu t K.u Jvlax Klaji tj protect iUtlf ujaiast

NOW ITS JOHN G. YEAGLEY AND LADIES. Now the Honorable John G. Yeagley, addressing the ladies at the organization of the local Hughes alliance yesterday, has locked arms with Claudine R. Nicely, in defen d of the "Hughes special" as financed by the wives of New York mlllionarles. sent hither to prepare the minds of womankind to raise their boys to be soldiers, and to be ready to go Into Mexico, if Hughes is elected, and there shed their blood to protect their husbands' loot. Again we say, that is what it amount to in reality, though not in pretense. Rut the Honorable John G. is long on protecting loot. He used to be a chronic lobbyist about the state house at Indianapolis, in behalf of the public utilities, largely financed by Wall St., interests, which he represents; as counsel, but that was before Indiana passed its anti-lobby law, requiring lobbyists to register and disclose the source of their employment and since then he has kept away. Evidently he doesn't like to work so much in the open. We can understand Mr. Yeagley being deeply concerned in the success of Mr. Hughes, and the "special train investment of the wives of his indirect, though none the less, long distance clients. For the system of interlocking directorates has not been wholly eliminated. The strings on the local gas and electric companies, clients of Mr. Yeagley's, that extend into Wall st., and there interlock with investments here, ther?, and everywhere, including Mexico, readily proclaims the source of his inspiration. And speaking of the local ga company, Just a word to the ladies of the Hughes alliance, on one thing, which perhaps, if they are not too gold-plated, will serve to alleviate their "scorn." In addressing you yesterday, and referring to recent News-Times comment on the,Hughes special," Mr. Yeagley used these words: "I urge you wotnen to scornscorn is about as far as a woman will go. -any man. be be editor or be he tramp, who will stoop to take advantage of hi position to besirlrch a woman who is houestly trying to do Ler duty O her country." Very well, John, but there is one man in South Bend, "be he editor or be he tramp," who doesn't always "take advantage of his position" nnyhow. He didn't do it when he. declined to negotiate for a proffered bribe from you, when you v anted to get The News-Times to take a position with you in behalf of the gas company, in the recent municipal gas tight. You remember the day. how you entered ye editor's sanctum, stated your side of the case, wanted to know If we couldn't Velp you to mould public opinion to your way of thinking, and perhaps help influence the city administration thereby, to accept your terms. You also remember, though you may deny it, how repeatedly in the course of the conversation, ye editor, or "tramp," was repeatedly reminded that you would be willing to "pay" him, to "make it right" with him, that you would like to have him state his "price," and that you would be glad to see that he was "compensated." You may also ren.emher, though you will no doubt deny it, how it seemingly went over his head, how through shame that he sho':l. he so approached, he pretended not to hear you, b'-t finally under extreme pressure, you were answered that you would get a square deal, in keeping with the Justice of your position, but for you please to accept it on that basis. And you were semi-supported in your position too, possibly intluencing public opinion to that extent, and maybe encouraging the city administration to agree to the settlement that was finally reached. We do not say 4hat this was an attempt to bribe, that amounts to any crime. It doesn't. It was legitimate public utility methods, we suppose, but it was an attempt to thwart the editorial opinion of this paper, and to misappropriate the services of a servant of the publishers of this paper, after a manner which, had it been accepted, vould. in newspaper ethics, at least, have deserved tht "scorn," not only of women, but of all mankind. It isn't up to von, Mr. Yeagley, to talk to the editor of this paper about what "any man, bo he editor or be he tramp." may do in the way of stocping to "take advantage of his position to besmirch" anything. "Scorn" is a thing that can affectively be applied to lawyers as well as editors and tramps, when they "take advartag of their position to besmirch'' or even insult. As to respecting womanhood, that particular editor yields nothing to you, and will even go farther than you dare, and say that he has enough confider.ee In woman, to believe that she should have the ballot just as soon as she can get it honestly, and knows how to use it intelligently, by wi'y of the head. Di.ferent, however, while she still permits herself to be misguided by way of her husbani's pocketbook, or her own selfishness, into thinking that her own enrichment at the expense, or by the blood of others, is any particular "duty to her country." The editor of this paper may be a mere "wage slave." rather than a purloiner of large fees from, and disseminator of "bou'-rhten inHuenc-" for. large financial interests that even mould his patriotism and partisanship, and he may have to "tramp" Instead of riding in a Cadillac, thus wise deserving the "scorn" of the "silkpetticoats." but never mind. He'll try to worry along.

Maximilien Hari'.en's paper has been suppresed again. Why doesn't he get tut of Germany and come oer here to print it? A big, brave, honest German writer like him is sadly needed in German-American Jouriulüio.

1 The defeat of the president would indicate to the Germans and their friends a repudiation of the policies for -which he has contended, which are, chiefly, (a) the right of this country' to sell arms and munitions to any purchaser, and (b) the right of Americans to travel on neutral ships without being subject to underwater assassination. 2 The defeat of the president would give unbounded joy to every traitorous and disloyal hyphenate in the country. To show the estimate these place upon Hughes' feeble protestations it is only necessary to point out that these hyphenates, who undoubtedly reflect the prevalent opinion in Germany and in some sections of Ireland, are supporting Hughes even though his principal American advocate is Theodore Itoosevelt. who includes the hyphenate tint in his bitter denunciations of everything except Roosevelt. These hyphenates argue that no matter what Roosevelt says or does Hughes is a safe man to vote for from their point of view. Why? A Triumph for ltxscelt. T, The defeat of the president would be a triumph for the man who to gratify his personal dislike for one president (Taft) called a great party Into being, and to gratify his personal dislike for another president (Wilson) did his best to destroy that party. In both instances the progressive party was made to revolve about Itoosevelt and Itoosevelt alone. Thus does the apostle of the square deal, and the indomitable ego. live up to his disinterested preaching. 4 The defeat of the president would mean the substitution of different methods for the solving of questions which with patient care and wise determination have been, or are being, brought to a satisfactory settlement by diplomacy. There is but one other method of settlement war. Do we want that? 5 The defeat of the president would put into office a man who, as a lawyer, has followed this timeworn maxim: "When you have no case resort to abuse!" Neither Hughes nor Itoosevelt nor any of the republicans have said what they would have done or what they will do. Glittering generalities in which they deal mean nothing. They can only negotiate or fight. This country should not resort to fighting until everything else in reason has been tried. What would th? republicans have tried before fighting? What will they try? 1-iwy to Criticize. It Is easy for a man to say what he would have done after the crisis is over. He has had the benefit of the success or failure of the other man then. It is easy for Mr. Roosevelt to declare, two years after, what the country' should have done when Helgium was invaded, but his present declaration differs widely from his contemporary deliverance upon the subject. Why? Shall we give aid and comfort to the disloyal hyphenate, by substituting a man who does not put forth a single constructive idea for one who has done more to uphold American honor and dignity, to protect American citizens, to promote the welfare and prosperity of the country, and to cause it to stand high in the opinion of all the world, than any president since Lincoln's day, not even excepting that megalomaniac party wrecker and fire eater? There are many reasons which every one knows connected with the internal administration of our affairs which might be added to these why Americans should vote for Wilson. Hut the republicans have not the magnanimity to refer to these. Their campaign is one of personal abuse and detraction "the knocking birds!" The president is not perfect. He would be quick to repudiate any contention to that end. He has made mistakes, and a part of his greatness is his willingness to acknowledge them; but on the whole he is the biggest American and more than that one of the biggest men in the world in generations. He stands for America tirst, but also and equally bravely and nobly for all mankind.

Political Notes

COXGIUlS IHIMOCIIATTC. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. Frank H. Poremus, chairman of the democrats congressional campaign committee, told Chairman McCormick today the next congress uill be democratic by a large majority. "Two weeks apro," he said, "I estimated that the democrats would organize the next house by approximately 30 majority. Reports from various doubtful districts since then indicate this figure may be exceeded. "Careful polls in the IWroit factories and the farming district of Michigan show a tremendous sentiment amorifj republicans for Pres't Wilson. The state will land in the Wilson column. "Pres't Wilson will be re-elected and the people are not going to tie his hands with a congress not in sympathy with him."

SI IK HAS Dim.VTTi: IlITASOXS. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. Miss A. Evelyn Newman of New York, one of the most prominent of social workers, delegate to the Interna, tional Congress of Women. the Hague, 1916, member managing board of the Women's Peace party t?t .New York, college wcaeiu teach.

THE MELTING POT

Conducted by Stuart H. Canroll

Till: I1TVITI'LNTLUY. The penitentiary's a larpre and thriving institution Constructed for the purposes of human retribution. When some misguided brother breaks a statute or convention The judge arranges for his long-, methodical detention Pehind a wall of stone the state has cautiously erected Because its people can't behave as well as is expected. The peniteniary's a place where victims of detection Can spend their time in serious and prolitful reflection On better methods to avoid the court's inquiring function. Performing future, crimes with greater caution, skill and unction; A dozen folks defy pursuit and mystify the trailers For every one who pines behind the lattice of the jailers. The penitentiary's an undesirable location. ' It's not what one would term a well-selected destination. Put as 'or the society, some folks pretend to scorn it Who, if they had their just deserts, would be ther.i to adorn it. So let us not indulge in disrespectful elocution About the worthy inmates of this worthy institution. A, B. B.

SOMi: CTGATtS! "My husband is ho grncrous; J.at vuvk Mils his hirth l iy; I put lilm twenty-live eJrars lie ue tliem all away! Vic. o AGAIN THE II. C. L. "Oh, Jawn, isn't this beautiful weather, with all the leaves fallinn and " "And the leaves are the only things that are falling", responded the grouchy hubby, "Everything else is going up." o SHZ DAISY' TO 3LYJZIE. "You think you're for each oUer made, Wliat makes you think so, iKHiey?" AVcll, I'm in debt and mast liuve aid, While he has lots of money." J. C. SCISSORED FROM SOMEWHERE. "I don't think I deserve zero on this examination paper", said the pupil. "I don't either, John", responded teacher, "but that is as low a.3 I could give you." The best newspaper poem of the week, suggested by H. M., is from

the Buffalo Evening News. The title is rxmxG MoniKR. Mind when I 'sc a little chap Jit about a cliair arm hih, Used t' climb in mother's lap Kvery eenln mighty nigh; Alius illcl me her "best beau Motlicr Hl, an laug tied, ail dad Used t' frown an fluster so Intend in like he's awful nxid! Used t liko t stroke her head Lake a yotiiijrun allu.s doeo 'Lovin tier" I allu said Puppy love," slie said it was; Jist tlie same, there many a teur Quivered on Iter lips when &he Hccni mc vhisper in licr ear, hcs the sweetest girl for nie." Sweetest girl of alL I swan! Mebbe now it's out o place, One of my years tnkJu' on Showln' sich a childish trace Clijusin' to her memory yctr IxMvgin' for Iier love again Meblie letter just forget Thinis I said to motiier then. But I can't! Tliere's times that I lVel I'm just a wanderer Iiookin' low an lookin' Idgh Jlst with hopes o fintlin' her; AVant to Itear Iter voioo an tlcn Plead with lier t' not forget Tell lier I'm a boy again. An' tlwi same opinion yet!

er and organier for constructive peace among hundreds of young art students, announces: "For two definite reasons I am for Pres't Wilson. First, as regards his position on permanent, constructive peace and second, on labor. "He seeks continually to bring about the constructive principle of friendship between opposing forces and that is the greatest thing any man can do. "I believe that Pres't Wilson has the vision of real internationalism, more than any other man in high places. He Ik.n a big and fine spirit a vision big enough to grasp the broad aspects of complex situations and a will to stand uncompromisingly for fair settlement. "He is endeavoring to put loth international peace and labor on the same great basis of cooperation and arbitration and that is, to my mind, the only possible way of securing la-sting peace in either international or internal affairs. "He stands for the democracy of labor, as I see it, as opposed to the vested rights and is working constructively to bring the. two great forces together in a spirit of willingness to talk flings out. Until that is accomplished, I can see no peace at home."

WITH OTHER EDITORS THAN OURS

HOW IiABOK WILL VOTE. (Chicago Iay Rook.) "Democrats say Wilson will get the labor vote becaus. of his legislative record. Republicans say labor never votes solidly, and that it will split up for Wilson, Hughes or P.enson. That's one of the problems of the election will labor see that organized capital is back of Hughes, and then ret back of Wilson? Or will labor split three ways while capital is voting one way? And spending its money one way, too. Reports from New York say the Hughes campaign fund will make the Hanna-McKinley fund of 156 look like a piker."

TIIITY ARi: IXU HUGHKS. (St. Louis Republican.) Where in the length and breadth of the land is there a beneficiary of special privilege who is not against Wilson and for Hughes? Where is there a man who has profited by the "iniquities" of Schedule K. who is not against Wilson and for Hughes? Where is there a believer in the divine right of Wall street to rule the finances of the nation who is not against Wilson and for Hughes? Where is there a tariff lobbyist In semi-retirement, chewing the cud of hope who Is not against Wilson and for Hughes? Where Is there a railroad lobbyist who is not against Wilson and for Hughes? Where Is there a friend of monopoly, the real old-crusted sort, who has proved his faith by his works, who is not against Wilson and for Hughes?

IN ltlLYLITY. "Every man has his price." "Dead wrong! Only a few

them have it, but most of them are trying to get it." Judge.

BITS OF INFORMATION IS: Pennsylvania will plant black cherry trees In the state reserves to provide food for birds. Mrs. M. J. Crocker, 87 years old, is learning lace making in a Los Angeles school. M. B. Van Houten recently walked from Los Angeles to Chicago to cure his rheumatism. Three deposits of coal in Hayti have been investigated by French engineers and efforts will be made to develop them. A German scientist contends that linoleum on the floor of a house kills bacteria that may be brought in on shoes, because of the linseed oil it contains. With a view to improving the quality of Philippine tobacco the insular government has put in force a lawrequiring the inspection of all that Is exported. A hare will dart in the path of a giant locomotive at night and run at the rate of sixty miles an hour in the full glare of the headlight and finally drop exhausted. In a Pennsylvania town it was proposed to have Sunday baseball. The burgess declined to license unhss the people approved, so boxes were placed In the churches on Sunday. The result was 909 favored and 200 opposed. A witness in the supreme court at Bangor, Me., was asked by a lawyer what he had at a certain time on his farm in the way of personal property. "Well, I had a cow,-a calf and rny wife," was the reply. William Heyien.s 106 years old, of Pittsburgh, celebrated his birthday by walking from his home, a distance of a mile and a half, then back home. At the time of the Civil war Mr. Heydens tried to enlist but his age was against him, as he was then 50 years old. He cast his first vote In 8 32 for Jackson. Clyde Perkins, Barnard, Mo., postmaster, is only 21 years old, yet weighs 413 pound:. He had to make a trip to St. Joe for a rpeclal office chair. He tried to drive a small automobile and got so wedged behind the stering wheel that he had to stop the engine and call for help to pry him loose.

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