Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-04-24

icy the other day, AMI Hadlcy is fO'
the Colonel. This is sune solace
The Colonel has been picking up
some good punches OF instructed d.
legates in various parts Of the coun-
try the past week, and it was not
due to the ''unpopularity off Lori
merism" either.
Congressman Mckinley is now az
cusing the Colonel Of Trying to wreck
the Republican party. On the other
hand, it strikes US that the friends OF
the fat man aretrying TO encourase
the party 10 commit suicide.
We see it stated that our friend
Polite Elvins has been given the job
OF rounding up the delegates at the
Ste Genevieve convention for Pres;
dent TAFT. That explains to some eX-
tent recent occurranCeS IN this cOun
ty. Polite may be good at engineer
ing movements of this kind, bat he
ought to keep in mind the political
icebergs that abound in November.
Uncle Sam is proposing TO build a
sovernment-owned railroad in Alaska
for the purpose of giving TRANSPORTS
tion to the great coal fields in tina,
territory. This should he looked i'll
to and stopped at once. the idea is
TOO altogether socialisfic and inter-
feres with the rights of private cap
italism to exploit these natural It
courses for its own profit and enrich
ment.
TO our way of looking at it, th3
loss of Mrs. John Jat:Ob AstOr, Who
was widowed by the sinking Of the
steamship Titanic, is no greater or
more to be deplored than the loss
and sorrow OF the humblest woman
who has suffered widow nCod from the
same occurrannce. Yet the daily pa
pers play Mrs. Astors loss and Srie
up under big, black headlines, ana
she never did anything more note
worthy than marry a mu,timiliion2ir'. +.
Here ar few figures that ought
to be eye-openerS on the Republics!
presidential situation In the recent
Illinois primaries, Roosevelt received!
80 ,62G votes and Taft l2- ,91S. Roose-
vets lead over Taft was f29,64H,
Clark. who was given the hishe3t
number Of votes of the Democrat
candidates, got I'll. 81 Roosevelt.
therefore beat Clark 1o,hl1 votes. bu,
Clark beat Taft SS,S3l. tiow do tAeN.
figures strike our insistcbt Taftites?
We notice that our national law
makers are rushing to lcck the sta
Die door after the horM has been st0
len in the matter OF the great Tltan;@
rtastrophy here is iu be an in
rrsligation and immediate remedial
action to prevent another Sucn al
awful occurrance which may not ha,-
pc, in hundred years. After the
shin sank anG carried Gown with j.
something like 1.60o souls. it wa
ioupd that it had been arranged L.
carry life boats enough to have say
ed ever, soul on board, but it wa@
inronvenent to carry 50 many boats
and they might never be needed. Whe
they were needed they We're not Their
aud all this human freight paid 10.
this culpable mismara2clocnt With it,
lig, The hack of lie boats on ship
that ply on the ocean ald great iakfs
i, due tC the same causes mat every
little while StartleS the public with
some coal mine or burning building
holocaust. Where the lack Oh reason
able and necessary precautions Tor
escape in time of danger have been
Neglected TO satisfy commercial greed
it is the policy of eve" taking chanc"
with human lives to save few dol
lars and swell dividends that is res
,,,nsible for nearly all oi these great
t.agedies. And 1t is not until after
,rcv have happened and added &
mountain to the burden OF humaE
grief and sorrow that rf'icialdom gets
lu,sy to discover how ,hc might haN'
brcn prevented What we need IN
orr urblic servants Who have She
tho responsibility of the regulations
,l,at are intended to oDVert these ca
tastrophos is activity on their part
before not after the tragedy mas o'-
CURED