The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-14

women will be sold by the square
foot.
Republican harmony has blisters, |
not from shaking hands, but from
shaking fists.
No, the country is not going back
ward as long as the Republican par
ty is at the throttle.
SIS
There is enough advice at large in
the country to supply a population
of twice 9O,O0O,0O0.
Talk about degeneration, Hiram
Maxim, inventor of explosives, has
taken to writing poetry.
If you are willing to live on prom
ises and soup vote for the party that
says the tariff is a "robber."
SIS
One good road through a county
is worth more than forty moss-back
politicians. Hurrah for good roads!
SIS
Equal rights to all, and special
privileges to none" is a mighty good
gospel but it is blame poorly prac-
ticed.
We have a mighty poor opinion of
the man whose tombstone is the only
thing that speaks well of him after
death.
The editor wrote "hobble-skirt,"
the printer made it read horrible
skirt" and the proof-reader let it go
that way.
More business and less politics
would be one of the greatest bless
! ings that could possibly happen to
! this country.
We know lots of folks who put
up a terrible hue and cry about the
hereafter who don't live for anything
decent here now.
SIS
When you hear a fellow growing
about high prices ask him if they
were low enough to suit him under
Cleveland's administration.
SIS
The question now arises, can John
DIS charity trust give it back to the
people as fast as the Standard Oil
company can take it from them?
If Old Miss Democracy don't order
one of these hobble skirts and wear
it it will be because she can't appre-
ciate the eternal fitness of things.
S
One legislative district in Vermont
went Democratic last Tuesday for the
first time in fifty-two years, which
4 we should say, is about often enough
SIS
If you are worried because it cost
so much more to live now than it
did twenty years ago, just remember
how much better it is to live now-a-
days
It's mighty hard to get it ham
mered into the heads of some peo-
pie that facts in business count a
blame sight more than feelings in
meeting.
When did you ever hear a Dem
ocratic politician pointing with
PRIDE to the record made by the last
national Democratic administration?
Don't all speak at once.
SIS
A certain eminent divine says that
social unrest is the most hopeful
sign of the time. 1t may be for fu-
ture generations but is develish poor
consolation for the present.
SIS
The mind that hobbies along in
the same old beaten path all the time
will never stump its big toe against
a new idea nor stagger head fore
most into a lake of thought.
SIS
Every time the clock ticks you are
that much nearer the grave. And
yet men knowing this will persist in
remaining in a party that is headed
for destruction just because my
daddy was the same before me-"
Listen at this from Joe Bailey:
The Democratic party has served
the Republic more worthily and more
effectually in defeat than the Repub-
licans have served it in victory"
That being the case, what in
thunder do they want to get in for?
The foundation of a Republic is
that the people rule. And this APP
plies to town, county, state and ma
ton, Now, Brother, if your party
don't stand for local self-government
then you are not for a Republic.
Home rule is what Jackson of Tyler
Hill stands for.
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The capstone and foundation OF
this country is the farmer and yet
the Dems who claim to love him SC
, dearly are attempting to foster upon
the nation a tariff policy that would
knock the farmer higher than kite
= God pity the farmer when Demo
. cracy is in the saddle.