The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-23
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Washington, d. G.

Jan. %, 1912.
On the Pennsylvania DINING car
which runs from Harrisburg to
Washington, a lamb chop Zone
chop costs 35 cents. Additional
chops, Is cents extra. Why this
disparity between chop No. / and
chop No. 2.
By the way does anybody ever
call the bluff of the man by the
name of Wood, who signs notice
at the bottom of the menu card
asking for complaints?
Headline in newspaper: Hearst
Lauds Italy" In studying the
psychology of why Hearst lauds
Italy, we opine that there are
more Italians than there are Arabs
among Hearst's readers. Perhaps
it has something to do with circu-
Ilation.
A notable feature of the pro-
tgressive movement it the number
of men in it who are contributing
their money and their time for
mere love of the cause. Such men
for example, are Medill McCor-
mick, Louis d. Brandeis, William
Kent, Rudolph Spreckles, Clifford
and Amos Pinchot, Mr.. Leeds of
Richmond, Indiana, and a host of
others. Mr.. Mccormick, for ex-
ample, is devoting all his time
and is spending his own money as
well as contributing to the gen.
eral campaign expenses to help
secure LaFollette's nomination.
Mccormick is one of the heirs of
Joseph Medill, who founded the
Chicago Tribune. His wife is
Ruth Hanna, daughter of Mark
Hanna. The wealth brought to-
gether from these two sources is
being devoted by a queer species
of poetic justice to a political
cause which both Joseph Medill
and Mark Hanna would have re-
garded as ultra-radical and dan
gerous to "the business interests. /"
Young Leeds is spending the
money of the founder of the tin
plate trust, the Pinchot brothers
are scattering money which is the
unearned increment on early lum-
Der investments. Kent draws his
revenues from great tracts of land
in California and Montana taken
up by his father, one of those pio-
neer land grabbers. Spreckles is
the second generation of the sugar
trust, and Louis Brandeis built up
a huge practice as a corporation
lawyer and now is atoning for his
sins by spending seven-eighths of
his time and income in the service
of the people.
Tom Johnson used to say:
Business is against me; churches
are against me; the politicians are
against me; saloons are against
me; nobody is for me except the
people," That seems to be the way
it is with LaFollette.
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Senator Bourne of Oregon is
working his committee day and
might on parcels post hearings
There is hope for anything that
Bourne gets after. He Is the most
interchangeable worker In public
| life and his singleness of purpose
amounts almost to a monomonia.
Go to it, Jonathan! Nobody but
the people want parcels post!
In the search for a vice presi-
Dental candidate who would
adorn the ticket which is now
double headed by LaFollette and
Roosevelt, the name of Albert J.
Beveridge of Indiana is receiving
serious consideration. Considera-
ton has also been given to Gov
Hiram Johnson of California. Bev-
eridge received more favor in this
connection for the reason that he
is out of a job, while Johnson is
not. 1t would seem a pity to take
johnson away from the good work
he Is doing in California.
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1t is reported here that Richard
Sloan, former territorial governor