Weekly journal-miner., 1913-12-31

asking for any new political nostrum.
 "The doctrine of the new freedom, whatever that may mean to the president, and the new peace policy, whatever it may mean to MT Bryan' have had a rheumatic effect on the people and they are tired ot IT. The administration seems to be good deal of Jackson admlnistra-
 ion without the frankness and cour- 1ge of Jackson. While gathering the spells of office and picking up con ,ributions from chautauquas on the side, they are preaching new free dom and legislating old-fashioned
 free trade and new-fangled currency law.
 "They are praying, How long, U
 Lord, how long, as they read the
 residents essays on new freedom
 nd MT. Bryan's chautauqua eu-
 ogies on the new peace while busi-
 less halts at home and anarchy IS encouraged in a neighboring repub-
 c by the one great power which | las warned the rest ot the world to
 keep its hands off this continent.
 Meanwhile, all kinds of property,
 except the high cost of living, have lepreciated, and still the sermon continues calling the people to re-
 oentance. Do you wonder that the | people get tired of these exhorta- tions from the White House and the
 State Department when they see and feel the result of the reversal
 of the lever and the policies that
 )nce produced prosperity?
 Secretary Redheld IS still going
 lbout the country giving out threats | 10 investigate and prosecute any . manufacturer who reduces wages or
 -educes his force of employees. Well, he means business he has plenty . of material to work on right now, and congress had better give the Department of Justice few addi- ? tional millions to pay the expenses r 1f these prosecutions, for MT. Me ? Reynolds will need as many law ' yers as there are privates m the y army to look after this new bus;- | Iness
 | If the boys here want to organ ze a get-together club to meet in e Washington, or New York, or ln- 2 Annapolis, to give you newspaper t nen something to write about and, 'f incidentally. to mend their own y fences at home, l have no obJec- 1T ion, but it will not help the Re 't )ublicans of the country to get to- " gether, for they are already all to- D, gether at the mourners' bench con [, ,icted of their past folly. They now s. ire united to fight the common enc s. ny regardless of all leaders and al l- sms, regardless of the basis of rep
 -esentation, presidential primaries IT. eferendum and recall, social justice
 md all other literary phrases. I'd "They are not caring three n. xhoops what these gentlemen her' ie 10. The people are watching thu ir ,orners to see how they are goin; S. make the turn and weather tn y | storm.
 re "The fact is, the old Democrat s- rheumatism is here, and there IS no he ela manufacturing community any d where in this country that has no iy .lready felt it. MT. Redheld cal al 90 to his own state of New Yort be he presidents state of New Jersey
 any of the New England states 2C pr to the west, and find just sue ve .ases as he is threatening to prose ed ute; for mills are running on hall CT inc and with reduced force simpl oi because they cannot run as the he lid last year and every year sine IT. he Dingley tariff was enacted ! n- 1897.
 il Il am not a calamity howler, an n- have no i'll will toward the preser ok administration. am kickin his gainst the conditions produced , Ik he Democratic eHort to carry ot ter heir policies, and ii you wan. all now how many other people al ire ticking just go out through ch Iet country and take a few notes"