South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 309, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 4 November 1916 — Page 6
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NOVEMBER 4, 1916.
OH, YES! WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR! ONE PESKY WAR AFTER ANOTHER.
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cf Mexico recognize flec tion to the presidency by munlcr jut alnnit as much us th- of the tritcd State do. The excuse for dragging: Sec'y Baker into the Involted tlie republican pre dopo story regarding the secretary' address. In which he win sah! to liave likened Washington io Villa and the continental army to Mcxitiiix iKitulltM. It rt ferro I tx the same nvisstateil. mipiotcil incident, recently misappropriated hy that nltra-iwirtisan committee of tj,ree I loyd O. Jellim, .Oaremx Stout and Ivan I i:hvards. wlio K-uketl hy secn other uhra-repabücan niemlerM of Harry O. Perkins camp, l'nitel Spanish War Veterans took it uioii itcniclvoM to demand the courtmartial of Soe'y linker, in the name of the nun p. uch men, resorting to Mich lies, mlappnpriathi an organisation of such sort for j,hlitical effect, are a di.CTiee t the uniform that they wore as Spanish war veterans. They are no K-ttcr than Villa themclx, and John Harlan vtith them, the only diffcrentx? !cin that they are only partisan ba milts, rather than of the semi -military order just a diffcivnce of veaiMn-s ami not In state of heart or mind. Trikc never likened Villa to Wa "dilution, or compared tiielr fol lowers, save in .a 01 liictr purposer Pt;ldlns frcvdom from a iolUial anl an economic lxndat:e. In this he was riht and eiery reinihllcxui with an ounee of rifflitly informed brains in his head, or a similar weight of principle or patriotism in his heart, knows t!iat the secretary was ritht. -Mr. Harlan in this, merely joined with the local trio, in tle chenKst klml of politiml iettlfoggery akin to police court shystry, and ought to. If half the son of his father that Mayor CJajlor of Mishawaka tried to make him out to be, lc ashamed of his own red face. Hut anyhow, we know now tlvat wo have been at war, constant war, almost from tho moment that Irest Wilson onl into ofiioe. livery time anyNxly is killed under Wilson's administration it was war. We supiose it was war at Calumet and at Ludlow where striking miners wore shot down by militia, Init of course not so at Ijowell. for I he riots at Ixmcll vert" put down under Ircs't T;ift. N'eithor was it war when Taft sent the federal troojus to in raso and to Ilrowitsvilh- just when Wilson mmhIs them to Columbus and (denn Springs. At one ioint, however, there was some merit to Mr. Harlan's arguxnen. It pertains to the hcnH" of Vera Cruz. Tlie affaJr at Vera Cruz simply must le csvlkxl v-ar, else the mothers, and siuers, and maybe wives of the marines who lot their lies tlero, art to le deprivetl of the glorious priWUvo of rememlicring tluir loveil ones a,s hiving bled and died at war. Jloally, we wort11 captiwttcd by that Idea ami alnwt deikled to vote for Iluhe: it had :oich aj imirtaut tn;rint on that ioint. Of courxe. Wilstui didn't kel ns out of war. livery exit l'it is a war in tle piping tieies. ll.il(tl) .-Ts. Hug Ik's, Harlan, etc., haven't taken any pirt in them, cxtvpt vith their mouths. cI- they might not have luul occasion to vKk us, and tell us 1kw owartUy, and dishonorable we are. that mre have iKt Urn killed around Mexico than then have Inni. War extra! War extra! Six hundred Indexes w-re kilkxl on (lie- Heirt liabrieora ranch by Vill.us's men lat wivk, sa a dispatch. It is Indioved by Ilcar-t tlutt war N-twmi the Cnitttl States and Mexico is inevitable. lli" elt t"lls us tlie renunly he would prorilo for sirk Mexico, tints: "We must ronton. our neichlMtr republic t its pnHr gtvernors, jut as was done in Odu." Wall st. will pleas fumUli rev il list of "proiH'r gxvi"rnor". Mr. Harlan s.. he i. Iru.hiiu; up on his Spanish, und N'ginulng U pnniouiuv Villa, "Veoah," as he a ntici .(. an early intervention in .Mexk. aiul would like to le able to coiivT4 in the MexU-iin tongue, though we iloiilii very nnult if he means to -cot cloo enough to onvers in tlut :ugu -,vi:fi any Mexicans. Aiburcdlv not! Hughes inter enti uldut
mean war. Hughes Is for pea. All he would have to lo would be to say he hal intervene!, ami all the Inherited igiioranx-e of centuries would vanisli from the Land of the Aztec anil the Cacti, ieace Mould forthwith iTCvaJl peace with Wall St., he means of course, anil all would lie well with the ship.
NEW VOICE IN COMMUNITY CRIES OUT AGAINST "PETTY VICES." Wi: AUi:.;hAI to see it. Keally w admire tlie khl. We always ndmk; n youngster In knee iwvnts, full of ambition, hopeful: trying to jdant himself siife Into the future, and I mat! nine; tliat Im is already a full-grown man, letennined to Io wonderful things, anI, of cours always from altruistic mot! ves. ItefcreiKv is nvule to Johnny Devinc's candidaey for proseutr. It Is "An OpiHirtunity." Tlie organ of Mr. PcWnc's jvirty says so, and wo note Johnny ha.s had the "sayinj;" reprodu(i"d as a csunalgii doiinicifl, thus embracing that "opjKrt unity." It proves Ids wisdom. Opportunity never knocks at a man's hr but oiKV," and the republican rgan might never stand the young man up in the -ornr again, and after "looking him over," say such nice things alxmt him, were he to have let the "opportunity" pass. Hut the ,opiortunit.v" more clearly defined, is what strikes us the more impressive: "opportunity" for a wider publicity to Johnny's platform, ortanlstical " montione!. And the frankness of the child. He svks "tlu piosxn tor's otlice. not for the salary," and why should he? Hacked by a wealthy patent, full blast lxhlnd his cainpaln, ven coming over from Chicago to a1 as his manager, it is plain that he lHsn't nol the Hilary. lUsldes his father-in-law Is no jMiupcr. There isn't a glljost of a show of his ever ntxsling that salary. Ami neither Is it for tho oflit's .olitical aiHx-tx, but for the clean and firm puios f conducting it on a busiii"ss hais as Is meant by the statutes," a line of altruism, ldom exclled, never qua!ed. Hut why Ik so secretive alsmt it? Who can he Ik driving at? Is he promising rc forma tion from f()ner republkaii administrations of that oJli? We know of none, and have mvr heard, ven from republicans, of any unokanlliuS"s r unlMisimssHke methiMls iinployd in the prosecutions oMm-o, siiu the republicans were last ousted. Nevr a hint of Kraft, or "fear or favor to any Krson or faction," lias biHn wafted to the breeze, even from the columns of the opposition press, lo these last six years, in criticism of lroseeutor MontKrnry's administration and we were just wondering if friend Devine means to promise that tills policy is to Ik continued. Hut wait. Tlie lad lclkvs that "l prose n tor tliat would enforce the law would wis out all the IH tty viiv in' the suntr," and he intends to that nd, "to enfoixv the law as it is on the s(atu(s vvhenvr tlu evidenv" of such ietty vi-s "is prcscnttsl" to him. It's n man's job, Sonny, to wiie out all the "petty vkes" with such a one fell swoop, but when accosted with v ideiK-v of the "j; renter vice", what are you going to do a'ont it? Are you going to give attention only to the "petty vices" and let the greater vices" slide? If this announcement presages a "rcfon.j prosecutor," lHThaps we who lH"litve in reforms, hal Is'tter is giving a little attention to s-opes. Ilxactly where dov the dividing line lH"twn "iMtty" vices, like spitting on the sidewalk, voting the deniocrutic ticket. Umbing the lKan-ioIo, etc., and I1k "grandvr" vliss, like ikxlglng the automobile lhvnse Lw, -onduetiug a bawdy house, keeping saloons oen Sundays burglarizing homes, plekiockctry, hlghwaymanship, murder, tc, come in? A matter of conscience, wx suppose. Hut lcfore (killing with that sint, one thcr one. We refer to the assurance, gonerjusly affordoil us that the repblk"3in nominee has iiscovered that he "did not nuike the law." He merely fels "Ixninil by cnsieiHx ami duty to cnfortv" it "under all reasonable circunstan,es." What is a "reasonable circumstames"?" It souniLs smething lik tluit supreme court decision in tin StamLird OH ca.e onstruing the Sherman anti-trust law as not tliseouiitcnanciiig a "reasonable'' moiinoly, of course, not of the Danbury hatters variety. Herliaps now we can püss up who made the law altogetlK'r. Ami tlius, here we are, all mixed. up. We liave lsn wanting to say something nke about our young friend, and nre trying our I.-! to still. When that pronunc.lamento l!rst apearvd in our republican conteniMu-ary, we wxrt still hopeful tlvat it was only the aforesidd txmtemiKTary9 bunglesome way of doing things, but now that he appropriates it, wx; are afraid the last straw has flown. Timber for a "reform prsecutor?" liosh! John V. Ievlne has alxut as much of the spine essential to tlo making of a "rtf(rm pnvsxmtor" as an angkwxrm has. Montgomery for us. He has the unsavory virtue of facing a tlemo--rat, to te sure, but he lias conducted his otlkv so well, and without any trunilcted reform pn-UMitions, that the icple of St. Joseph ouiity liave tlir"e times elected him and an going t elet him again. Evidently ts, the republicans are mightily afraid of It, the organ tliat is bsting IHvino being so confounded narrow in its partisanship, or bro.ul in its i olitical fars that it wont even carry Mr. Montgoniory's nHssige as an alvertls'nient, a ftar tliat smingly xtends all the way down the tfc'mocnUle line. John IHMine, candltlato for "reform pro. x"iitor!" Huh! Who evr hcjirxl f John I H vi in thinking of such a thing as enforcing tlu law lefore. "Knforiing the law is one tiling whi"h he has always Ixxmi in favor f everything els but." No. olitk don't chang: a man Ivj'ond his c;mulgii utteratHx, s quick as ail tkJUm
VHY I AM FOR'LS0i I By David Lubin Founder of the International Institute of Agriculture and Father of the Rural Credits Movement in America.
President Wilson is a? wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove. His is the keen edge of wisdom. He sees things in an intuitive way
P r e a i dent Wilson is an ideal leader. T t was a p r e k t vüion that he saw in his New Freedom! He conceives the chief function of the President a a the head of a ereat machine shop, and all the time he is working to pet he maximum eificiency from the machine.
He sees from the top to the bottom of things, ne brings a elean mind to discussion a remarkably well-trained mind. He can inhibit the extraneous, focus his attention on the discussion at hnd. and, withal, he is as humble as a laborer. He want3 to help, and his sympathies are as broad as any I have ever known. He is a good business man. And he U fearless! I fail to find any hing or anybody he is afraid of
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THE MEL TING POT Conducted by Stuart H. Qirroll
If Sound Business is to Prosper We Need Pres t Wilson
NEW YOKK, Nov. 3. W. O. ihompson, secretary of one of the .-ise.-t industrial corporations in .ew York, is out for Pres't Wilson in a statement made public today. Mr. Thompson is arbitrator between the employes and Hart, .- haifner Marx, clothing manufacturers, and was one of three arbitrators, with Justice Ixuis D. IJrandeis and Hamilton Holt, under the protocol governing relations between manufacturers and employes in the garment trades of New York city. Mr. Thompson said: "if sound business is to prosper, not only in this country but in the field of world business, and if we arc to do our part in the general healing of the wounds of the great war, then Wilson's policies must be continued. "Pres't Wilson's handling of our affairs has entitled him to the gratitude of the country. "lie has had the unusual broadmindedness to see and appreciate the problems and conditions of all sec-
j tions of the country. He has been
alive to the interests of legitimate business as he has been to the legitimate aspirations of labor. He has been aware of the rightful claims of the farmer as he has been of the rightful claims of the railways. In no field has he taken a dogmatic and oppressive stand, but everywhere he has sought constructive, forward things. "We know that under the most trying conditions the world has ever seen, this country is now more genuinely prosperous, clearer minded, and more ethically alive than ever before within the memory of man. This country, by reason of the peculiar quality of Wilson's administration is preparing itself to render the Kreatest service to mankind as a whole that a neutral nation has ever been able to render in a great worldstruggle. "Pres't Wilson ha.s never changed a policy except on occasions where conditions justified his action. lie has been big enough to change as conditions necessitated change. From this standpoint alone, he has been of incalculable service to every interest of the country including business, which has been especially benefited because of this policy."
OHLIQUi: IT1XIJXTS. Our sane and sober citizens, unniffltsi and serene. Decry the worthy fellow with a poorly balanced bean. They say: "Our ordinary beads in ordinary hats Are better than this txlfry with its colony of tats. It's easy to discover that his chimes are out of tune; Iis acts are as irrational as those of any loon." Hut still, the wheels of progress on this sad and solemn sphere Are often turned by those whose intellects are out of gear; To whom the most exclusive doors are resolutely shut; Of whom the people freely say; "That guy? Oh, he's a nut!!'; Concerning whose Intelligence the haughty public prints Give out the most insidious and penetrating hirts. So when you meet a fellow man whose summit's out of plumb. Whose stock of rationality is dubious and bum. Do not significantly tap your strictly normal skull, Which after ill may shield a mind whose faultlessness is dull; The lad w'to studies history may freely ascertain What wonders are accomplished by the slightly slanted brain. A. B.
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The usefulness of the button-hook increases day by day. Last night we observed a young lady fixing a Ford with one. ON HISTORY'S IWCHIS SIDi: IVY si i) i-:: Villa, so the press dispatches aver, i growing a big black beard. Lives of great men all remind us That we, tx, should not be sheared; And, like Charley Hughes and Villa, Cultivate a !;ishy ticard.
FAMOUS SLOGANS. For November S. "I told you so.
Knights of the Pen. "Here's a man wants to join this uplift literary club who hasn't done anything more helpful to the community than raising pigs." "Heil pass on that. He's making his living by his pen." Baltimore American. OUlt FAVOKITH DISflKS. Since living is so 1; loo min high In this old dark anil drab age; Should you ask me my favorite, I Would say corn beef and cabbage! i). i:. a. The best poem of the week, sug
gested by 11. C. is from Life and written by Clinton Scollard. The title is: A THANKSGIVING WISH. My wants, I consider, are simple. Though rhyme I like bettor than prose. And though I may dote on a dimple That goes with a setting of rose. My tastes they have ever been stable And today I should love lost to x lew Dear Mabel across a small table With just 'iiough turkey for two! Of course there would be some addenda. And that would le such as she'd wish; And I would be willing to spend a Hound sum to reach turkeythrough fish. The whole thing would seem like a fable, Too fair and too pood to l true, With Mabel across a small table, And just enough turkey for two! Forsooth, there'll Ik era use for thanksgiving! Tlie fates, each and all, I should bless; The joy I should take in more living Is something I cannot express; For I should forget the loud balni
Of life if I only could viewDear Mabel across a small table With just "nough turkey for two!
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undi:rfi:i;ding and ovi;iu:atINfl. (Duluth, Minn., Herald.) Germany, of course, is on a short allowance of food, particularly as to meats. John D. Barry' w-rites the San Francisco Bulletin that in Berlin he heard a German doctor say: "As a result of the underfeeding of the people they are not only looking better, but they are also feeling better. If the underfeeding keeps up Indefinitely, the business of the doctors will be seriously threatened." Few starve to death In this country. Many die from disease caused by insufficient nourishment, but that's a different story. Thousands are sick, and majiy more thousands are always under par physically, because they eat too much particularly too much meat. When a sedentary man eats like a day laborer he is slowly poisoning himself. He is literally digging Ids grave with his teeth. Maybe it would be possible for Americans t6 learn something useful to the pocketbook no less than to health from the experience of Germany under the blockade. Or would it be necessary' to have one of those appallingly disastrous wars the "preparedness" fanatics like to picture?
SAYS HUGHES AT BEST IS BUT "HOPE IN A FOG" NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Samuel Hopkins Adams, the well known author, has declared himself for I'res't Wilson, after waiting in vain for Mr. Hughes to answer the questions which Mr. Adams and 35 other famous authors put to the republican candidate early in the campaign. He does this on the ground that there is nothing positive in the Hughes campaign and that the republican candidate, at the best represents "a hope in a fog". He says: "The democratic campaign is built upon Pres't Wilson. The republican campaign is built upon Pres't Wilson. Mr. Hughes hardly figures in either. There is no basis upon which to figure him. Pres't Wilson represents achievement. One may aeree or disagree with Pres't Wilson. Everyone knows where he stands. One can hardly agree or disagree with Mr. Hughes. Nobody knows where he stands. He affords no basis for support or opposition except as he professes to disagree with the Wilson policies and urges the voter to agree with him in his disagreement. In this case two negatives do not make a positive. There is nothing positive in the Hughes campaign. It is destructive, not constructive. "Therefore a. an independent oter I shall vote for Pres't Wilson because I wish to vote Positively, not negatively: Constructively, not destructively; In the light, not in thr dark; For a confidence, not for a hope. "So wishing, and wishing also to vote effectively, I must vote for Woodrow Wilson."
A PltOITCSSION. (Trenton, N. J., Gazette.) In his address recently before the National Farm school, near Philadelphia, former Pres't Taft took occasion to urge the necessity of more "of our population turning to the cultivation of the soil. He brought out one phase of the case which is too often overlooked, by even those who have a desire for farming, namely, that it is not a usiness which may be conducted in any nit or miss fashion, but, on the contrary, one that requires much study, much accurate knowledge of n pcientific nature, and ag much devotion of time and attention as is required in any other codling when success is to be won. In other words farming is a profession and deserves to be listed among the skilled professions. The words come at this time with an appropriate fitness in view of the fact that through the east where industries are humming, there has been such a rush of laborers to shops and factories that the dearth of farm help has become serious. In many quarters they are not to be had at any price. It it evident that our agriculture is not well organized, yet it is a thing upon which the prosperity of the country depends fundamentally. Any admonitions which tend to drive this fact home, make for national prosperity and contentment.
CO-OPIIHATION. (Peoria. 111.. Star.) The writer has been fortunate enough, twice within a week, to be present at' dinners given by employers to their employes. The first was a well-known insurance nan. and the second a leading mercantile concern. The term "fortunate" Is used advisedly for the reason that at .each gathering there was written so plainly that all might read the lesson of the value of co-cperation. The reason these two -enterprises have ueeeeded beyond tbd ordinary
was plainly evident to overcome. It was plainly evident that from the highest to the lowest everyone was actuated by a sincere and earnest desire to "make things go." There was no suggestion of distrust and suspicion. Employer and employe alike were actuated by one aim to make the business of which they are all a component part as great a success as possible. And the reward for success is quite as available to the lowest man in the scale as to the head of the firm. This is the philosophy of business capitalizing human interest and endeavor. And it is a lesson the value of which should be apparent to every employer in the United Suites. It will pay him big dividends in happiness and contentment as well as in financial returns.
DIU IT TOWARD WILSON. WASHINGTON Like many independent newspapers in the east, the Washington Post acknowledges the overwhelming drift of public sentiment to Pres't Wilson. It says today editorially: "When Ohio gives signs of going to Wilson by a heavy plurality, it is not surprising that the republicans are worried. "When New York wavers in its support of its own son and every estimate concedes that Wilson is gaining, there is good reason for the republican leaders to redouble their 11th hour activities. "When Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, West Virginia, NewJersey, and Montana are giving more comfort to the democrats than to the republicans, and when Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Nevada are practically fixed in the Wilson column, the trepidation of Mr. Hughes' managers can be well understood. The history of previous elections does not disclose any case in which the last week of a campaign upset .ill that has gone before, or even materially altered the trend of public opinion. "The palpable drift toward Mr. Wilson is the outsanding feature of the late campaign."
OHIO SAITELY DIIMOCItATIC. NEW YOHK Ohio is safely democratic, according to reports received by the Woodrow Wilson National Electrical club. Predictions as to Wilson's majority run from 25,0 00 to 100,000. Ohio has the largest state membership in this organization and i daily increasing its representation. The Wilson Electrical club, though organized but two months ago. has a membership of 7.000 divided among 4 5 states. An effective argument with voters in the electrical industry has been the support given Pres't Wilson by Thomas A. Edison. The inventor's picturesque phrase that "Wilson foresight is safer than Hughes hindsight," has influenced many, judging from the thousands of letters received.
Amos Pinchot Reveals a Surrender by Roosevelt to Wall Street Interests NEW YOKK. Nov. .. A surrender by Roosevelt in 1912 to tHe influences of Wall street quite as ignominious as his Tennessee Coal and iron surrender to Morgan in 1907 is expossl for the nrst time to the public in an open letter addressed today to the colonel by his former supporter and progressive leader. Amos H. E. Pinchot. The New York lawyer, brother of Gifford Pinchot. makes the startling accusation and supports it with a wealth of detail written from first hand knowledge that Koosevelt in collusion with George W. Perkins suppressed an anti-trust plank drafted by the progressive resolutions committee, adopted by the progressive convention and actually released to the press. It was recalled. Mr. lnm hot Ays, because the only alternative left to Roosevelt was to "drive out of the progressive party the check books of the trust barons." MK. PI NC HOT LETTE IL. Mr. Pinchofs letter follows in full: "New York. Nov. l, 1516. "Col. Theodore Itoosevelt, Oyster Bay. N. Y. "Sir: "In your Academy of .Music speech at nrooklyr October 2Sth, you charged the president with negligence, cowardice and hypocrisy because 'he allowed three and a half years to go by without making any preparation for war.' You said, "Mr. Wilson's delay and vacillation about preparedness has cost us seven years in time and billions of dollars in money.' And you spoke c; him with contempt because he did not begin building up the navy a.s soon as he became president. "When Mr. Wilson became president you. Colonel Uoosevelt, were not for building up the navy. On the contrary, you were a pacifist: You were running for the presidency on an out-and-out pacifist platform. Have you forgotten as well as repudiated your platform of 1912? " 'PEACE AND NATIONAL DEFENCE' was the title of that ten-line section in the progressive platform dealing with national defense. In those ten lines it announced a clear and unequivocal pasifirn worthy of Tolstoi. It denounced war as 'barbaric.' It deplored its Kurvivai in civilization. It pledged the party to settle International dispute by peaceful means. It cut your for-battleshlp program of IPOS in two almost as pacific as your one battleship program of 190.'. and 190S and it provided that the two-attleship program that remained should only continue until an international agreement for the limitation of naval forces could be recured. It did not mentioi. the army, or the tcat defense. It was a pacifist platform from A. to Z. And it was your own platform, tne platform which you ran on and constantly referred to as your contract with the people. APPROVED ENTIRE CONTRACT. . "This platform omitted nothing you urged; contained nothing to which you objected. For instance, tne resolutions committee on August 6th, 1912, adopted a section calling for the prosecution of industrial monopolies under a strengthened and simplified Sherman law; the convention itself adopted this section on August 7th, by unanimous vote; a.fter it had thus become an integral part of our platform, you and Mr. George W. Perkins secretly sent a reque-st to the press associations to cut this anti-trust SMCtlcn from their reports of the platform on the ground that it was read and voted on by mistake! "Later, you and Mr. Perkins caused the platform to be printed and distributed throughout the country without that section an arrogant piece of political bossism! "YOU 1LVD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN LEAVING THE AXTI -TRUfST SECTION IN THE PLATFORM OR DRIVING OUT OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY THE Cll iXKJJUUKH OF THE TRUST BARONS, who were at that time under lire from congress and the courts! "The only importance of this incident now is to show that whatever remained as the progressive platform of 1912. after you and Mr. Perkins got through with it, remained only with your consent and knowledge. "True, as you have recently boasted, in 1908 a few months before you left the white house. you sent a message to congress brlrtllng with militarism and risking for an enlarged four-battleship program. But you must have known that there was no earthly chance of congress carrying out this belated eleventh-hour recommendation. Throughout your administration you were certainly militaristic enough in your messages, if not in your accomplishments; so much so inde-ed that VonBernhardi, the great Prussian general, who said that war waa a biological necessity as well as a Christian virtue, praised you enthusiastically for your words! "Now, is it too much to suggest that you should pau.e long enough from your unscionable abuse of the president of the United States to tell the public why you ran for the presidency in 1912 on a pacifist plaiform? SOME QUESTIONS FOR T. K. "You claim that you were a thorough-going militarist in 190. Why, in 1912, when you were out to beat the party that you belonged to in 1908, did you repudiate your preparedness convictions of 1908 and bocome a little-navy man, an apostle of international disarmament In short, a pacifist? "And now, in 1916, why have you, as tho reversal of your beliefs were rythmically arranged in four-year periods, why have you returned to your pre-progressive republican convictions? Why, my dear colonel, this weak and regrettable vacillation? "Why, too, do you condemn the- president for being against war and for settling international disputes by peaceful means? It Is 'exactly and precisely' what you recommenced In 1912. Between the president's course in handling the Mexican and German crises by negotiation instead of arms and your own platform in 1912, is there anything other than the traditional difference between tweedledum and tweedledee? "No doubt you can reconcile all the matters! No doubt you will! No one underestimates your strength in reconciling the irreconcilable. But still a question: What will be your position on military' affairs in the fnture? Will you be for the abolition or the glorification of war, or armies and of navies? Will you te calling other people paeifitM. or claiming that you are the only ral, the only firm, unswerving paotfijrt? Will you run fr the presidency in 1920. on a platform of Chinafioation or Prussianism or both?" AdvL
DISHASi; LS A mSGRACIl (Houston, Tex.. Post.) The discovery' ot tne Houston foundation that laziaesa is a "disease and not a disgrace," is certainly something icw under the sun. Just at Ulis time the whole world is awakening to the faxt that disease is the most disgraceful thing in life. It is the one thing that man is entirely responsible for anl in whose ill effects all humanity shares. If the human family would live decent, wholesome lives as the maker planned them to do, and take the care of the body that common sense dictates, there would be no disease. It was intended that all should die of old age not of malaria and typhoid and whooping cough and scarlet fever and auto-acci dents and tuberculosis. Disease, whatever the name by which it i3 known, is evidence that the laws of right living have been violated, and surely the violation of these laws is one of the most disgraceful things that man can be guilty of. To see that the people of Houston do obey these laws of health is the main purpose of the Houston foundation. And when it sshall succeed in that the expenditure of the people's money in its support will be justified.
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