The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-09-11
THE SEARCHLlGHT.'

1He oedICHllSHl is the llLle u d ilollltl-
! ly published at Grayslake, Illinois, which
has under it's title on the first page,
'For the preservation of this form of
government. 1t is ably written and
independent and fearless in its editorials.
Of Tariff Legislation and the Wage
Garner it says:
about Is per cent of the total value of
makes the cost of living nigh is the con-
| due to increased wages and decreased
efficiency. If the prices at which the
products of this labor are sold be sub
stantially reduced, the manufacturer
must make less money or the worker
must take less money. 1t the worker
will not take less money, and the profit
line is reduced to point at which the
business is not profitable, both the capt.
tai and labor will go out of the business.
And of the direct primary:
! The old system of party organization
at least had, when properly administer
ed a responsibility back of it which the
primary lacks And without RESPONSE
bility there is neither duty nor fidelity.
The direct primary increases corruption
and lowers the political standards. But,
it is among the results which the ravages
OF hysterla has put upon US, and while it
probably can not be as readily safe
guarded and reformed as the old system
could have been, it is here, and must be
dealt with.
The Searchlight suggests an investiga-
ton to uncover the influences which led
to the Parce! Post law, and says:
No legislation could be devised that
will as surely and irresistibly take the re-
tail merchandising of the country out of
the hands of the many and place it in
the hands of the few, as has and will the
Parcel Post
The gain of over 20 per cent in the
revenue of the Chicago post office is at
tributed mainly to the parcel post, and
shows how the law is operating for the
benefit of the big mail order houses Of
that city, which are said to have been
largely instrumental in securing its pas
sage. The Searchlight says:
When the country merchant has been
reduced to the final salts that mail order
competition will make of him, and the
railroads are carrying the merchandise
OF the country in postal cars at no rev.
enue, instead of in freight and express
cars at good revenue, somebody will
wake up to the fact that valuable horse
has been stolen-and stolen by the very
people who will suffer most from its loss.
But then, Parcel Post was a great
triumph for the people-who own mail
order stock.
A correspondent takes the editor of
the SearchIight to task for printing an
article on Roosevelt by Geo. M. Harvey;
says that Col. Harvey and his friend Col.
Watterson have been convicted of pre-
varication, wiful and unprovoked, and
When all is said and done, it must be
admitted that Roosevelt is the greatest
president this nation has had since Lin
coin and that he is today America s.
aye, the world s-most prominent citi-
zen. When any other man, practically
with no political organization behind him,
can poll 1000, 600 votes, please let me
know.
In reply the editor defes his CORE
spondent to point to single statement
in the article reprinted in the Search
light which is not true, and concludes:
AS to Roosevelt's four million votes
they cost almost two dollars apiece, in
the average, if what we'll informed peo-
pie say is true. Almost anybody could
do that