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KICKING Ther Hound Doc. +"

Kicking Thelr ''Hound Oog."
1t has been charged that the
American people like to be hum
buged. Judging by the fact that
so many of them are so often
skinned" in all kinds of financial
social, political and religious
schemes, the indictment is true. A
shrewd, well-dressed young fellow.
with few magazines under his
arms. claiming to be trying to work
his way through college, can pass
through town and get forty-eight,
sixty-nine and ninety-four cents at
the front door of almost every
home in the town. The frenzied fl
nancier can swoop down upon al
most any community and, by offer
ing feasible plan for making two
dollars in the place of one, get
thousands of the real, good, hard
cash of the people, and abscond ,leav-
ing the people waiting for the two
dollars, which never come. The po-
litical pie" counter artist can ex-
hibit a few pies" before a hungry
public. and Immediately 1.-The dear
people" will give the said artist any
office that he wants. hoping that a
piece of the delicious pastry" may
be handed their way. Any sort OF
a fellow with his hair trimmed like
patriarch, ministerial cut to his
coat, and tears In his voice, can
soon gather band of loyal follow
ers about himself
But the American people are get
ting tired of being April-fooled by
such professionals. They will not
stand for being humbuged SO much
any longer. They have had their
hound dog" kicked just about as
much as they are willing to allow.
The feeling is very prevalent that
the time has fully come for Uncle
Sam and his family to get out of
the pastry" business and get down
to the business of making and en-
forcing laws for the benefit and
the protection of all the people.
THE dear people" are becoming
real citizens, eschewing political
humbugry and bossism. Nothing
illustrates that fact better than the
election of Woodrow Wilson to the
Presidency of the United States, land
the policies which he is now minis
tering from that office. If further
proof of that fact Is desired, take
the protest which has gone up in
Maryland over the appointment of
a red light district" ward heller
TO high civil office.
THE dear people" have become
The PEOPLE. They are beginning
to ge. ,heir eyes open and to sac
that it is not such an honorable dis
tinction 20 be humbuged by the
Honorable Royal Ruler of the par
ty: that there Is no glory in having
their hound dog ,soundly kicked
year after year by the politicar'pie"
dispenser and his lieutenants. They
now sea several things very clearly:
First. That they have been. and
stu are, very much "bossed." They
though; that they had been exercis-
Ing The full rights of free citizen
ship. They find that they have SIM
ply been serving their political mas
ters. Instead of going to the polls
as free men, they find that they
have been marching to the voting
pre"in all to the tune of the party
whip.
Second. That they have been
made a eats paw" by their politi-
cal bosses. They thought that they
had been electing men to high Of
flee in the municipality, the county,
the state and the national govern
ment. to get for them what would
be to the best interest of all con-
cerued; but they find, instead, that
they have been electing men to high
office who were after the ''plums"
for themselves. They are tired of
oeIng thus used.
Third. That they have been, and
still are being, abused right in their
party caucus. They now know that
their party bosses, in order to
strengthen their own grip on civil
affairs, and through the public Off
ces control all public patronage, take
good care to slate enough men
whom they can manipulate on the
ticket so as to hold the balance of
power in any legislative or execu-
tive contest. Such party leaders
make great display of putting up
certain good and substantial citi-
zens whose lives are beyond re-
proach, and whom everybody knows
could not be bought at any price nor
snapped in a deal for any considera-
ton. But those same leaders take
care to have a majority of the 9TH
er kind, the kind that they can
control, elected on every ticket.
Fourth. That they have been
imposed upon in the matter of law
enforcement because of these very
conditions. Men who care every
thing for the plum" of office and
little or nothing for righteous SER
vice to the people, are given high
official rank, because they can be
controlled. Just recently a Mayor
of Maryland town, has had his
cabinet together in counsel, to pro-
test against having the lid" shut
down in his town on Sunday. Think
of THE highest official In
community, elected and sworn to
enforce the laws Of his municipality,
meeting in official capacity to pro-
test against the enforcement of