Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-15
PROSPERITY LEVER
REVERSED" Cannon
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il may mean to Mr.. Bryan. have had
are tired of ii. The administration seems
TO be good deal of a Jackson admins
tration without the frankness and cour-
age Of Jackson. While gathering the
spoils OF office and picking up contriDu-
tons from chautauquas on the side, they
are preaching new freedom and legislat-
ing old-fashioned free trade and new
tangled currency law.
They are praying. How long. . LORD
how long as they read the Presidents
essays on new freedom and Mr. Bryan
chautauqua eulogies on the new peace
while business halts at home and anarchy
is encouraged in a neighboring repubiic
by the great power which has
warned the rest Of the world to keep us
hands off this continent.
Meanwhile all kinds of property. ex-
cept the high cost of living, have de-
preciated and still the sermon continues
calling the people to repentance DO
you wonder that the people get tired OF
these exhortations from the White house
and the State Department when they
see and feel the result of the reversal
OF the lever on the policies that once pro-
duced prosperity?
why, my friend, Secretary Redfeld is
still going about the country giving out
threats to investigate and prosecute any
manufacturer who reduces wages or re-
duces his force of employees Well, IL
ic means business ne mas plenty u Hin-
terfal to work on right now. and Con-
gress had better give the Department or
Justice a few additional millions to pay
the expenses of these prosecutions, for
Mr.. McReynolds will need as many law
yers as there are privates in the army to
look after this new business.
IF the boys here want to organize
a get-together club to meet In Wash
ington. or New York. or Indianapolis,
to give you newspaper men some
I'M To n-rttn Il FOL
to mend their own fences at home
have no objection, but it will not
help the republicans of the country to get
together. for they are already all together
at the mourners' bench convicted of their
past folly. They now are united to fight
the common enemy regardless of all lead
ers and all isms. regardless of the basis
Of representation. presidential primaries,
referendum and recall, social justice
and all other literary phrases.
Says Anarchy Is Encouraged.
They are not caring three whoops
what these gentlemen here do. or what
you write about their doings. The people
are watching the corners TO see how they
are going to make the turn and weather
the storm
The fact is. the old democratic rheu-
matism is here. and there is not a manu-
featuring community anywhere in this
country that has not already felt It, Mr..
Redheld can go to his own state of New
York. the President S state of New Jersey,
TO any Of the New England states, or to
the west, and find just such cases as he
Is threatening to prosecute; for mills are
running on half time and with reduced
force simply because they cannot run as
they did last year and every year since
the Dingley tariff was enacted in 1897.
Not a Calamity Howler.
mo. I am not calamity bowler, and
have no i'll will toward the present ad-
ministration. ! am just kicking against
the conditions produced by the demo-
cratic effort to carry out their policies,
and If you want to know how many other
people are kicking just go out through
the country and take few notes.
But how about changing the basis of
representation In the republican ma
tional convention
why. l was ready to vote for the
Quay resolution in 1900, and my friends
made a strenuous fight for the same
resolution in 1908. We were beaten by
the men who now advocate it. Such a
vented the quarrel in 1912: but / don't
believe there will be any trouble in
1915. whether the change Is made or
not, because there is no republican ad-
delegates. Still, If our friends who
have seen the light which was obscured
to them in 1900 and 1908 want to ex-
press their repentance in new rule on
representation i have no sort of objec-
ton.
IF. however. they undertake to make
a platform in 1914 to be binding on the
convention that will nominate the next
President Of the United States, / think
1t will be loves labor lost. The men
who nominate the next President will
make the platform on which he is to
stand and which will be the issue in
the campaign. And judging from
present sentiment as / hear it express
ed. the republicans will be satisfied
with simple platform promising re-
turn 10 protection and prosperity"