Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 27, 1916, Page 6

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Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Willlams, circulation manager of The Bee hblbllul pany, being duly sworn, says that the Circula l'a?l tion for the month of September, 1916, was 64,507 dail ! s DWI , and 60,639 Sundsy. GHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. bed in my presence and sworn to before me Nis 8d day of October, 1918, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public, Subscribers leaving the city h-pn;ly should bave The Bee mailed to them. Ad- * dress will be changed as often as required. Chop suey is booming in price, Still, some people persist in flouting the horrors of war. For the sixth time we ask: Are you “wet” or “dry,” Senator Hitchcock? Why are you still dodging the question? ; _ Ambassador Gerard will rem‘nin at home un- til after election. His decision insures a direct hunch on the duration of the job. ~ Women teachers outnumber men teachers 10 to 1 in Nebraska schools, The educational field progresses steadily toward an Adamless Eden, Is it possible that an election is to pass here in Omaha without any proposition to issue bonds to be voted for on tife ballot? If so, wonder of - wonders! That's a good one, isnt it? Senator Hitch- cock's pretense that Wall street is afraid of him or forgetful of how he bolted the caucus to serve the Wall street vote! { | mm—————— But if this district is to be represented in by a congress who pays his debts, our present congressman will have to be retired. Do your voting November 7. democraty, don’t all speak at once! % —— With a harvest of farm products totalling 000,000 in Nebraska, the problem of ade- uate storage facilities for the money promises \g amusement during the long winter 1.0 | e— ign dealers who punctured the wheat ~and struck the bulls for a day revealed unsubstantial are the props of the specula- ¢ boom and how simple are the methods of a sown. . y L —— a state only fifty years old Nebraska has tolerably well. In fact, it compares favor- with older neighbors that possess the advan- tage or Mi?’ of prohibition—whichever way H — ‘Manipulators of food prices do not get very in the warring nations. Italy follows the ex- of Germany in throttling mercenaries who to enrich themselves at the expense of a defenseless public. | e——— Can it be possible that in resoluting in favor | of better safeguards for the deposit guaranty fund our bankers could have been taking a shot at Arthur Mullen, the new boss of the demo- cratic party in Nebraska | — For a second time the Episcopal convention declined to accede to requests for admitting women as delegates. The action, no doubt, arose from the growing conviction among laymen that church-women do much more than their share of " church work. Men naturally object to increas- |ing women's burdens to the limit of overwork. ' — The democratic campaign is being made upon the new conception of nationalism that timidity is the supreme virtue and vacillation the highest proof of directive intelligence. The people are asked to support a candidate whose course has I been_one of wavering, faltering and retrea as at no time taken a firm, determined stand American rights and American interests, at. were belied by deeds or by inac! 3 who permitted the destruction of American lives and American property in other lands without a serious attempt at their protec- tion, without an earnest effort toward reparation; who has established the principle. that Americans residing abroad are vagabonds who have no proper claim upon the power of their govern- ‘ment, who have no rights the administration is bound to respect; who has caused the American g to abandon its independence and to leg- b ~mder the compulsion of fear, In no in- stance has Woodrow Wilson displayed the qual- 7'}), of courage under circumstances that required courage. The banner of the democracy in this _year of 1916 should be a white flag and upon it ) :: emblazoned the inspiring watchword, e b this represent the w spirit" of America? Is the America of the future to be a meless creature that jumps at every shadow, d takes ufur behind a barricade of words ‘every alarm? Are we to become the China of » Occident, supine, without pride, without , and condemned by. the rest of the world? r does the old spirit of '76 and of '64, the spirit that holds rfl‘l above safety, still inspire and ontrol us? we to look upon courage and s and justice to all men as the chief of our government, or are we to pro- by our votes that fear and hesitation and ! they create are to be the new vir- ? Shall our emblem continue to or shall we erase these won and glory held, and leave to over us, a flag that or the first time in | ' THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1916. Democratic Pledges Worthless, From the time Mr. Wilson was inaugurated as president in 1913 until now the entire course of his administration has been a direct viola- tion or repydiation of the platform on which he was elected, and to which he pledged his solemn devotion. In no respect has this disregard for his pledge been more flagrant than in his neglect of Americans and American interests beyond the borders of the country. In the Baltimore plat- form the democrats declared: The constitutional rights of American citi- zens should protect them on our borders and go with them throughout the world, and every American citizen residing or having property in any foreign country is entitled to and must be given the full protection of the United States government, both for himself and prop- erty. How was this promise redeemed? Turn to Mexico, where Americans have been subjected to every manner of abuse while our president has waited and watched. Yet, in 1916, at St. Louis, the democratic convention put its candi- date on record in this language: We again declare the policy that the sac- red rights of American citizenship must be preserved at home and abroad. * * * The American government should protect Ameri- can citizens in their rights, not only at home, but abroad. This plank already has been repudiated by the president and his supporters. Notice has been formally served that Mr. Wilson will not invoke the powers of the United States to pro- tect Americans who have ventured abroad in furtherance of private enterprise. ~In this the Omaha World-Herald approvingly coincides. A democratic platform pledge means nothing, but the interpretation put on this by the demo- crats themselves is that any American who visits a foreign land for any purpose whatsoever does it at his own risk so long as Woodrow Wilson is in office, f Wheat and the Grain Gamblers. One of the common symptoms 'of an era of inflation is the development of the speculative fever, which is running its virulent course through the United States just now. The activity of the gamblers is noted in every direction, but particu- larly is it felt in foodstuffs and provisions, with wheat the center of attraction. The shortage in the wheat crop of the United States for the year, with the great demand for export, has sustained sensational advance in prices until a point has been reached at which buyers have turned sellers and a crash seems imminent, Manipulation of prices is 1hur¢‘eable with much of the advance in the price of wheat. The crop of the United States was far below the record of yield of 1915, but only slightly below!the seven- ‘year average; with the unsold wheat of last year's crop the yield of the present year afforded plenty for the domestic consumptive demand and left a generous amount for sale abroad, quite as much as was sent out of the country last year. The shortage, therefore, is not such as to warrant the extreme advance registered. Reckless buying by foreign governments has been a factor, and brok- ers, taking advantage of this, have pushed up prices, This in turn has encouraged the purely speculative activity, and bettors on the price of wheat have plunged to the limit. The exagger- atéd price of wheat does not rest on a corner, but on the foreign purchases, and with the news that British buyers have withdrawn from the market or turned sellers, the upward sweep of the cereal is likely to be checked. / Nebraska farmers have profited greatly by the situation, having sold their crop at almost dou- ble the price they got for it during the second year of President Wilson's term. The public is also feeling the effect of the great gamble in the rising price of flour and the dwindling weight of the loaf of bread. The end to this bubble can not be far off, “Drift to fi;au" Vanishing. The “drift to Wilson,” of which the democrats have been prating so loudly, is rapidly turning the other way, and is sure to leave him, as the poet hath it, “at night on the bleak shore alone.” Evidences of the recession multiply daily, till an expert checker is kept busy in tallying former | supporters of the president who are coming out for Hughes. One of the most notable of these is the Chicago Daily News, an independent news- paper of much influence, which gave Wilson great help in 1912, The News announces that it can abide no longer the president and his methods, and advises its readers to vote for Hughes that the country may again have a real head. Henry Cochems of Wisconsin, a power in the ranks of the progressives, has declared himself as being affirmatively for Hugles, in contrast to some of his associates who are negatively for Wilson. Similar reports of change in attitude of able men come from all over the country. It is an unmis- takeable sign of the drift away from Wilson. Thinking voters of the United States are tired of a policy of vacillation and weakness, of tempo- rizing and surrender, and want a president who at least knows his own mind, and has the ability and courage to meet problems as they are pre- sented. Another 100,000 soldiers are called for in Canada, in addition to 350,000 already sent across the Atlantic. The drain on the young life of the Dominion is surprising not only in number, but in the cheerful alacrity of the sacrifice. Tke loyal support and sacrifices of the colonies in this struggle demonstrates before the strength of British imperi “Omaha will stake a national hog show,” says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The event is three weeks .past, and the prizes awarded. Cleveland might catch up with the procession and some of the prize money by entering samples of its porcine stock for next fall's show. m——— No leader of organized labor has yet suc- ceeded in bartering the citizenship of members to a political party. The safety and influence of unionism rest in pursuing the charted course of indepéndence of political parties and maintaining absolute liberty of citizenship. e—— A purchase and shipment of German dyes for the federal treasury print shops has been ap- proved by the allied blockaders. The concession insures continuance of the fast colors of Ameri- can currency. Fast colors become an article of surpassing fleetness. — The boom in financing industrial enterprises approaches the high record following McKinley's election. The lessons of experience with infla- tion rarely bother brokerd. They are content with the commission and cheerily pass the worry to the investor. Letters of a Politician to His Sonrw 1V. My Dear Jack: Pz A It's just like you to ask if the tariff is an is- sue in this campaign. I can see the incitement to ask that question when you say your college chums who are democrats shy off when the tariff is mentioned and insist it is no longer worth talking about. That's pretty good evidence they feel they have here the hot end of the poker. 4 Don't you remember how the democrats used to proclaim in their platforms for a tariff-for rev- enue only—that a protective tariff was “uncon- stitutional”—yes, they called it “robbery”—and that the taxing power could be rightfully used only to collect the money needed to foot the bills of a government economically administered? They got themselves in a quagmire all right as they tfiscuvercd when they attempted to make 00d on this talk. Rather than abate a jot of the ?rec trade principle they voted, for example, all the protection off of sugar, though they knew free sugar was certain to destroy the whole sugar industry. For fear of consequences, how- ever, they provided for reduction on the install- ment plan, and before the final installment voted it back—in other words, they took refuge again in protection. In transforming other schedules they could not wholly resist the temptation to save a little “pork” for. themselves. While nearly every northern farm product—corn, wheat, cattle, hogs —was placed on the free list, protective duties were kept on whatever the southern planter grows. Why, they actually took the tariff off of potatoes raised in the north and put a duty on peanuts produced in the south. Don't forget, either, that the democrats al- ways decried a tariff commission because, as is quite obvious, a purely revenue tariff could be framed in a dark closet. So they unceremoni- ously ousted the nonpartisan tariff board estab- lished by the republicans and voted down the same suggestion several times when proposed as an amendment to the Underwood bill. Yet now they have taken it up and claim it for their own. But why a tariff commission unless to figure out what the measure of protection to different in- dustries should be? c The one thing our democratic tariff tinkering succeeded in accomplishing beyond quibble was to knock American industries “into a cockeg hat,” as it were. It opened the gates to a floos of tax-free, cheap-labor foreign-made goods to drive our American-made articles out of their home market and it opened the soup houses al- most at the same time. Never, since the days of Coxey's army—good old democratic days they were, too—were §o many able-bodied willing-to- work men hunting jobs as during the year or so after the Wilson-Underwood tariff-for-revenue law went into effect. Why, I remember distinctly 4 being in New York at that time and there, oppo- site Madison Square, stood a long line of hag- gard-looking men, women and children with several policemen to tell em to “move on’—the line headed into a vacated storerom on which big signs read in substance: “Free Bundle Room. Clothing for the needy here. Hours 8 to 6. Let us call for your castoff clothes.” And the line of poor shivering folks waiting to get something to cover their nakedness was as long when I again passed in the evening as it was_in the morning. That ‘showed the normal operation of the democratic tariff—what we were up against be- fore the European war stopped ocean franspor- tation, started the munition factories and nulli- fied our democratic free trade statute. It shows, also what we will be up against again whenever this war ends, if we have no protective tariff to keep our American labor from being dragged down to the wage level of the war-burdened old world, Is the u;ifi an issue in this campaign? It as- suredly is—for it is the issue of industrial pre- paredness. Our American industries were es- tablished and built up under republican policies and republican policies will have to save them now from the democratic bourbons of the south just as republican patriotism had to save the union fifty years ago from disruption by this same southern democracy. To use a phrase coined by another distin- guished democrat, “It is a condition and not a theory that confronts us.” If the United States is fiom[ to take care of itself when the fighting millions return to peaceful pursuits, it will need ractical republican leadership as typified by ughes in place of the theoretic bungling ex- anenling we have been having under Wilson. ondly your FATHER. (Concluding Letter Tomorrow.) Tragedy of Mad King Brooklyn Eagle. If ever there was a telling satire upon the divine right of kings or of hereditary rule, it is to be found in the history recalled by the death of Otto, the mad king of Bavaria. Bavaria is the home of a peaceful, industrious and contented people dragged under the heel of Prussia against its will in the consolidation of the German empire after the Franco-Prussian war, and dragged at the heel of Prussianism into the present war of frightfulness. ts capital, Munich, is one of the great world centers of the arts, and yet for the greater part of its almost 100 years as a kintdom. Bavaria has been nominally ruled b{ mad kings, That designation does not include Maximilian II, father of Otto; yet Maximilian, by far the best of his family who ever reached a throne, was not exactly a model monarch, according to our modern stand- ards. His people rose against him in the revoly- tionary storm that culminated in 1848, and made him drive Lola Montez, the dancer—who is buried in Greenwood cemetery under her own name of Gilbert—out of his p-{ace and kingdom. The Bavarians do not seem to have been both- ered about Lola's morals or her relations with their sovereign, but as she was a Catholic, they raised a storm about the ultramontane influence, and the charming woman had to go. That commonplace royal story pales, how- ever, beside that of Maximilian's’ son, Ludwig, who succeeded, and his friendship for Wagner. Ludwig was music mad, and aguut the only service he ever did to the world was his support of Wagner, and his making possible the Wagner theater at Bayreuth. Otto, the brother of Ludwig, who has just died suddenly, was unmistakably mad from his early youth, He got into the Franco-Prussian war on the staff of the Prussian crown prince, and one of the stories is that he ordered his troops to charge a stone wall, under the delusion that it was a detachment of French soldiers. His military career came to sudden end. He never wanted to succeed Ludwig on the throne, | and he never did succeed except in name. The powers of his position were exercised by his uncle, as regent, and in 1913, the uncle formally succeeded to the throne as Ludwig III, The mad king had been confined all his life with a giant keeper, armed with a revolver, and has been as pitiful an object as any patient in one of our asylums. He had a passion tPor musie, like his brother, and a phonograph was used in his confinement to keep him quiet. In his youth he was a friend of Jenny Lind, and, because she told him that Barnum did not love music, but was merely a showman, in his rages later he used to order Barnum to the tortures. As a poor, mad, Thought Nugget For the Day. Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind.-—Will- lam Lloyd Garrison. One Year Ago Today In the War. Italian won road to Moro by storm. Russian fleet bombarded Bulgarian port of Varna. Paris reported failure of German attacks at La Courtine. Teuton and Bulgarian armies ef- fected junction in bend of Danube. Lord Lansdowne told House of Commons Berbia could not hold out much longer. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The passenger and ticket office of the Union Pacific is to be removed temporarily to the fourth floor, pend- ing a change in the present offices on the second floor. These offices are to be entirely remodeled and thrown into communication with those on the south side of the building now occu- pied by the auditor and cashier. This will give the whole south half of the building to the passenger and ticket department, The Fred Krug brewery has re- ceived another Improvement which will be a source of income to the management, namely the process of artificially cooling the cellars of the brewery, in' which the beer is stored. Thé excavation for the work is now ready and the work will be finished during the present year. The mosquito netting which has been doing service in protecting the chandeliers of the county building from the summer insects has been re- moved and the hangings are being burnished to withstand the approach of winter. Big pleces of brown granite are new being put in the front of the new First National bank building. It is a mistake about George Gellen- beck, night watchman of The Bee, having purchased the paper. His high-stepping Is over the arrival of a twelve-pound daughter at his home in Omaha View. George Krug, manager of the cele- brated Anheuser-Busch Brewing com- pany, of 8t. Louis, Mo, is In the city with” a view.to establishing a mam- moth store house at this point for their beer. The structure on north Ninth street will be retained until the new building, to cost about $50,000, can be erected. This Day in History. 1776—The British troops appropri- ated Old South Meeting House, in Boston, as a riding school and stable. 1800—Benjamin F. Wade, United States senator from Ohio during the civil war period, born near Spring- field, Mass. Died at Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878, 1838—John D. Long, governor of Massachusetts, and secretary of the navy during the Spanish war, born at Buckfield, Me. Died at Hingham, Mass.,, August 28, 1916. 1870—Marshal Bazaine and the French army of 150,000 men sur- rendered to. the Germans at Mets, after a siege of seventy days. 1889—Marriage of the duke of Sparta (now king of Greece) and Princess Sophia of Prussia, sister of the present German emperor. 1891—The New York court of ap- peals’ decided the celebrated Tilden will case in favor of the natural heirs. 1904—The New York Subway was opened from city hall to West 145th street. 1905—Treaties between Norway and Sweden completing severance of union signed. 1912—General Felix Diaz, revo- lutionary leader, condemned to death by a court martial at Vera Cruz, The Day We Celebrate. John L. Kennedy, lawyer and former member of congress from this district, was born October 27, 1854, at Ayrshire, 8cotland. He came to this country at the age of 19 years, studied at Knox college and graduated in Jaw at the Iowa state university. He be- gan the practice of law In Omaha in 1882 and wa§ a member of the law firm of Kennedy & Martin. He was a member of the Fire and Police com- mission, being appointed by Governor Sheldon, J. Van Rensselaer, superintendent of the Union Pacific district of the Pacific Fruit Express company, with headquarters at Omaha, was born October 27, 1866, at Philadelphia, He started out as offige boy and ' mes- senger for the Lake Shore in 1883 and has steadily gone up the ladder with various railroads and express companies. John Richards, clerk in charge of government accounts at the auditor’s office of the Burlington, is 58 years old today. He was born in Crieff, Scotland, and came to this country in 1883, being with the Burlington as accountant continuously since November of that year, Alfred W. Gordon, head of the Gur- don-Lawless company, manufacturing tin cdns, is today celebrating his thir- ty-third birthday. He came here from Chicago, where he was born. Ways of Promoting Temperance. Omaha, Oct. 26.—To the Editor of The Bee: Instead of spending mil- lions of dollars to destroy an industry that is in itself legitimate, the prohi- bitionists should devote their energies and funds to the teaching of true temperance. With education and moral suasion taking the place of pro- hibition, the country would rapidly see the dawn of that brighter social day which all decent citizens are looking forward to. Bociety’s duty toward the intemper- ate is not to remove temptation from his path by prohibiting legislation and by so doing punish the majority of citizens who Have committed no crime; society’s duty is rather to teach moral suasion along the lines of true temper- ance; to fortify citizens with ideals which will enable them to resist evils; to provide fit homes, clean surround- ings and moral teachings. If you take away liquor without correcting other social evils the cause of temperance is retarded rather than advanced. H. SCHULZ, 1326 Bouth Ninth Street. Registration Was “With Reasonable Dispatch.” Omaha, Neb., Oct. 26.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: On October 23 you published a picture taken outside of my office in the court house, purport- ing to show a crowd of unregistered voters unable to get into the office on account of a large crowd. This statement and this picture are absolutely untrue so far as they give the impression that there was a crowd waiting to register sufficient to cause any congestion. This picture was a frame-up, engineered by opponents of the election commission law, who have never had any love for this office or my administration of the same. There was no crowd inside the office, and those presenting themselves to be registered were being taken care of with reasonable dispatch. Outside of the door the group of men shown in the picture were not waiting to regis- ter, but were marshalled according to a set plan and posed for this picture. Some of the leaders are standing in the foreground of the picture. Mr. L. D. Kavanaugh of my office, happened L to pass out of the room at the time this picture was taken and saw the prearranged plan. This picture was taken at 8:30 p. m. and from that time untll 9 o'clock, when the office closed, voters did not have to wait but a very few minutes to get their turn at the registration desk. The reason for the picture is un- doubtedly contained in your newspap- per statement that, ‘“congestion is caused by the fact that registration is held at the central office alone and not in the various voting precincts, as was the case before the new law was passed.” There s no doubt but that the individuals responsible for this picture would much prefer to have registration in the precincts under the old system, especially in the Third ward. HARLEY G. MOORHEAD, Election Commissioner. Yet He Didn’t Move Back to Kansas. Loomis, Neb., Oct. 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: Having received Prosper- ity league matter telling of the sad effects of prohibition in Kansas, I beg Oliver K. Dellecker is today 62 years old, He has been manufactur- ing cigars in Omaha for a quarter of & century. Sidney S. Kent is just 37 years old today. He is assistant cashier of the Merchants' National bank. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States, was born in New York Afty-eight years ago today. - Prof. Roscoe Pound, the new dean of the Harvard Law school, was horn at Lincoln, Neb., forty-six years ago today. Viola Allen, long a leading actress of the American stage, was born at Huntsville, Ala., forty-seven years nze today. Sylvanus (Vean) Gregg, pitcher of the Boston American league base ball team, was born at Chehalls, Wash,, twenty-nine years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders, Congratulations to Colonel Roose- velt, 58 years old today. Georgla. will observe today as “Frank Stanton day,” in honor of the poet. Charles B, speeches at Utica, and Rochester, N. Y. William H. Taft is scheduled to speak tonight at Clinton, Ia., In be- half of the republican national ticket. The entire breeding establishment belonging to Richard Crocker, with the single exception of the Derby Hughes is billed for Auburn, Geneva | winner, Orby, will be sold at auction today at Glencairn, Ireland. The American Iron and Steel In- stitute, made up of 1,600 leading iron and steel producers of the country, wil meet at St. Louis today for a two- day conference. Announcement has been made that suffering man, Otto II was a tragedy. As a ymbol of royal power and authority fie was a lolu. more savage than even Dean Swift could ave imagined. S a message from President Wilson will be relayed by amateur wireléss opera- tors to all parts of the country at 11 o'clock tonight. to say that a twenty-years’ residence in that state with my wife and grow- ing family thoroughly convinces me of its good results financially and morally. Also, if it isn't a good thing, why don’t Kansas jump back into the wet column? She's been trying it out long enough. J. A. McGUIRE. Wilson and the Progressives Again. Omaha, Oct. 26.—To the Editor of The Bee: One of the Metcalfe boys met me on the elevator this morning and expressed considerable surprise that T had not, as I informed him, Joined the Wilson Progressive league. He didn't seem to think .my reason, “Because I am a progressive,” was a good one, I hadn't heard of the league before and went and looked it up. I find that Omaha is represented among the vice presidents by such gterling progressives ag L. J. Quinby and T. H. Tibbles. Of course, neither Quinby or Tibbles were party to' such rank deception; neither of them. ever registered as a progressive, attended ! any progressive meetings or con- tributed a penny or a minute’s time to the movement. Both are Bryan democrats, have been for years and both before that were populists, and neither of them is ashamed of it. Quinby went to the state senate as a democrat and Tibbles is an editorial writer on the World-Herald. If the balance of the very slim list, Brother Wray of York,. «who is a natural Bryan democrat, with socialistic ten- dencies, succeeded in getting together, ' g of a like nature, and I am told it is, [ can’'t see where the progressive part :omes in. And now Mr. Wilson is begging democrats to vote for Hitchcock. [sn't that characteristically Wilson« jan? Votes, votes, votes. Is there anything Wilson will not trade for votes? What progressive measure was he ever for till it looked to be a vote-getter? He was pickéd and groomed for governor of New Jersey and president because he would stand, “like adamant,” against the “initia- tive, referendum, recall, government land municipal ownership, bank guar- | antees and other western fads.” The men who groomed him and talked with him made the common mistake of believing he meant what he said, He threw them down for the whole Bryan program just as soon as he had figured out that Bryan had the votes, Then he threw Bryan down just as soon as he figured that Bryan had lost the votes. He was adamant against national child labor laws and the whole progressive program as an un= warranted and unconstitutional in- terference with the authority of the states till he saw looming ahead an election in which progressive votes would come in handy, and then with characteristic precipitancy he jammed a child labor law through congress. Will progressives swallow the bait? Not many of them. Of course, pro- y gressives like Quinby and Tibbles will, but I mean men who belonged to the progressive party. The president's reversals and re-reversals on the pre- paredness i{ssue are too recent to need mention. On the whole, if & com- posite photograph of his various posi~ tions since he used to write what he really believed and belleves could be thrown on the screen, it would look very much like a brilliant pin wheel. But what's the use? Judge me'l grouch is against any degree of pre- paredness; he belongs with Wilson now, but Lord, help him and the rest of us if Wilson, overnight, should conclude that yotes are to be had by war. Ready or unready, we'd have war right off the bat. I'm afraid of war myself; that's why I don't want to provoke it by unreadiness nor risk it by following a man who will trade it, sight unseen, for a handful of votes. Think it over, progressives. H. W. MORROW. GRINS AND GROANS. “Bliggins always agrees with anything say."” “Yes. It's his way of Intimating that he doesn't consider your views sufficlently important to be worthy of an argument.” ~Washington Star. “Did Miss Sourgirl have her pohotgraphs taken yesterday?" [ “Yes, been, for she refused ito_have them and demanded another sit- | ting."—New York Times. HAVE CARDS PRINYED WITH “MRS.ANRONCHICK FLEISHENKOOGEL" ON THEM AND SEE \F SHE WILL ACCEPY THEM SRR, He—My love, honestly I wonder when God ‘made you how he had anything left for the other angels. She—What I love about you, Jack, is that you never flatte udge. “Ts it absolutely necessary that I speak to your father?"' asked the wooer after ;‘I:a €irl of his heart had promised to be 8. ““Why, of course. famlly, you know." “It isn't the head of the family I'm afraid of. It's the foot."—Philadelphta Ledger. He is the head of the Nieco—Katherine writes me that Mrs. Dasher has got the alimony. Aunt Selina—Dear! Dear! I'm afraid it will go hard with her. She is such a frall, nervous creature. -Boston Transcript. THE GOLFERS’ RECESSIONAL, F. G. Hartswick in Judge. Patron of golfers, known or old, Lord of our game from week to week, Beneath whose kindly hand we hold Dominion over spoon and cleek, Saint Andrew's shade, be with us yet, Lest we forget! Lest we forget! The arguing and fighting dies, And we are weary, worn of soul— stil stands thine ancient sacrifice, “high one"” at the nineteenth hole, Baint Andrew's shade, be with us yet, Lest we forget! Lest we forget! If, drunk with sight of par, we loose Wild tongues that all duffers scoff— Such boastings caddles use, Or lesser breeds that know not golf, Saint Andrew’s shade, be with us yet, Lest we forgot! Lest we forget! 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