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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
CURIOSITY SHOP

1t was John c. Calhoun who in a speech
delivered May 27 1886. coined the phrase
cohesive power of public plunder," saying:
"A power has risen up In the Government
greater than the people themselves, consist
ing of many and various and powerful in
terests combined into one mass and held to-
gether by the cohesive power of the vast
surplus in the banks"
That other well-knOwn phrase, to die in
the last ditch" originated with William Of
Orange, who, on being asked by Buckingham
whether he did not realize the inevitable ruin
hanging over the Commonwealth, replied:
There Is one certain means by which
can be sure never TO see my country's ruin.
viii die in the last ditch"
DORIS rebellion took place in Rhode Island
in ls43, the bone Of contention being a de-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Roll of the Thunderbolt

THE history of representative government
! is the history of the gradual assumption
Of power on the part Of the people. The French
Revolution, which Victor Hugo called "the
most profound thing in all history" would
never have left its imprint upon the social
and political soul of mankind had it not been
for the current of life and action supplied by
the people, They made real the teachings of
the French materialists of the 18th century.
Rousseau and Diderot and Voltaire, and the
entire coterie of philosophers and thinkers
Of that period, would have remained dead
letters had it not been for the dynamic power
which the revolution supplied for the realiza-
ton of their ideas. Their thoughts were but
the rustling murmur OF new day. The
power supplied by the people was thunder
bolt that has since rolled around the earth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

CtHIPwAYS at League Island will enable
- the Philadelphia Navy Yard to demon
strate absolutely its superiority over every
other yard in the country All things that
go into the building of ships are centralized
in this city. Private shipyards along the
Delaware testify to the unexcelled adyan-
tages here offered When next Congress is
asked for an appropriation the Philadelphia
delegation win be armed with so formidable
an array of facts that opposition 10 support
of the local yard will he swept away. A be-
ginning has been made. nothing more but
1t is a beginning that is a promise of far
greater things 10 come
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Mems Patience is in Their Pockets

TT Is a mania of Congress to play with dy-
1namte. The American people will never
he content with war taxes in time of pro-
found peace, in year when nature has been
magnifcently prodigal and bumper crops are
the rule. Millions which were formerly got
from the customs houses We're being taken
directly from the pockets of citizens before
the European war broke out. Now 1t is pro-
posed TO secure millions more from excise
taxes From being the most prolific source
of revenue the tariff is rapidly being made TO
assume a minor role in national finance
Direct imports are taking the place of in
direct levies. American history and American
temperament are against this procedure The
Administration is preparing to drive itself
into an inextrcabe labyrinth OF unpopu-
iartty
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
THE IDEALIST
Did you ever tell white lie"?

Did you ever tell a white lie?
After you had told it, did you feel anv
less mean, small and disposed TO Green
snake like into the nearest hole than when
you had told real substantial one?
1t is curious how we grease our con-
sciences in the white lie" habit / sat in
a mans office when his messenger presented
visitors card After quick glance he
returned It to the boy with the trite in
stTuctions to tell him I'm out"
This fellow forthwith established his repu-
tation for wilful inaccuracies among Two
people, the boy and myself: perhaps in it,
self not serious handicap to his standing.
but just as a drop OF anilne dye will tint
a hogshead OF water this mans LACY Of re-
spect for pure truth will gradually permeate
his entire environment. This is as ineyitabis
as the law OF graVitation is inevitable.
Doubtless the mental process is: "Weu
don't want to see this visitor and don't
want 10 insult him by telling him So Hence.
! abstain from making him angry by leading
him TO believe l am not in my office"
Did you ever a sin marching alonaq
Never! Always It is found In the company
OF its own bone and marrow. The thief
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Open Markets Are Checks and Balances

THE open markets recently established
i in New York city may be made perIna-
nent, though there IS some opposition from
the middlemen, and there is complaint
from other quarters that the market
privileges have been abused by vendors who
are not farmers. So far as the abuse ~
privileges is concerned, the remedy lies in a
system OF careful regulation, and as for the
middlemen their just profits cannot be at all
endangered by any number NJ open markets
On the consumers side, only compare
tive few Of the housewives Of a large COM
munity can utilize open markets 1t is
question Of convenience and Cagfare. and the
corner grocery is not menaced beyond the
limits Of reason.
open markets, the parcel post and similar
short cuts which reduce several transactions
10 one transaction between one seller and
one buyer, will never apply TO a very large
proportion of the business Of marketing pro-
duce, but they Will be exceedingly valuable
in restricting the middleman to such profits
as will compensate him for the service which
he actually performs. They will serve both
the producer and the consumer as an alter
native when the middleman becomes too
exacting tollmaster They are checks and
balances.
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A Prayer

God of the warning nations,
God of the ways of peace,
Hark 10 the pleas of women
And bid the warfare cease!
Hark TO the prayers of children,
Their small hands lifted up.
And from the world forever
Remove this bitter cup!
In years of peaceful living
Thy servants have forgot
The grief that follows carnage,
And now. their blood grown hot,
They challenge each the other,
And with no needing for
The necklaced arms of loved ones
They clatter forth to war.
oh, God, remove this madness,
And make Thy servants sane
Remove the fields of carnage,
Where wounded and where slain
Are trampled to CORY remnants!
our God, OF war and peace,
Remove from men their blindness
And bid the warfare cease!
A wife stands all forsaken
And peers into the storm,
Above the smoke of battle
She marks the vultuTes swarm.
No loved one hears her pleading
And 10 her succor files
Beside where she stands weeping
A baby starVes and dies.
God, lift the burden from them
Who bear the burden most!
God, touch the hearts OF rulerst
God, turn each warning host
From ways that lead to slaughter
Back TO the paths OF peacsl
God, hear the plants Of women
And bid the warning cease!
Judd Mortimer Lewis, in Houston r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Praise From Sir Hubert

From the Boston Transcript. "'71
George w. Childs himself might have ISSUED
the order under which, with the beginning Of
this week, an EVENING LEDGER flashed upon
the Philadelphia public-and the community at
large. 1t was liberal move to extend In thess
hours of retrenchment the expense of publca-
tion. A false idea prevails that In war clrcu-
lations" there is great profit. Circulation In
itself is of no value. 1t is only as it commands
respect and thus advertising patronage that |!
is even self-supporting.
Thus the expansion OF the PUBLIC LEDGER at
this time Is purely for the advantage of Its
readers, though let us hope In the long run Its
publishers. too, may reap their reward.
The infant marches like a veteran 1t Is
edited by distinct organization" which we
may be sure in this does not mean that
please-everybody policy-"support" lin the
morning, Opposition in the evening-to
"catch them coming and going"
A newspaper without history is happy
as the proverbial Country" For the years Of
its existence the PUBLIC LEpGER's has been
most brief 1t was conceived a Thoroughbred
and thoroughbred it has remained in spite OF
the temptations of mongrelization-by voting
contests, money prizes, tango teaching, etc.
etc
Its history is the personality of a few clean
minded, pubc-spirited individuals with trus
sense OF what enterprise" really is. Never
has 1t been nearer its best than today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

sired change in the old Constitution, which
dated back to Charles ii. Rival factions
were formed-the Suffrage" and the Law
and Order parties Each elected set of
State officials and each sought to gain con-
troll of the State Government. Thomas w.
Dorr was chosen Governor by the Suffrage
party and attempted to seize the Govern
ment, but was sentenced to imprisonment
for life, being pardoned subsequently.
Cold slaw, a dish essentially American in
its popularity, is said to have been Invented
by the early Dutch settlers, who called 1t
kool-slaa.
John Bulls sister Peg is really Scotland
a poor girl raised on porridge and water ana
quartered in a garret exposed to the north
wind. In Arbuthnot's satrical History of
Europe" she is represented as madly In love
with Jack-John Calvin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

tion in one Of his poems. The fly, however,
Jared somewhat better in general esteem
until science and education changed the atti-
tude Fifteen or twenty years ago children
in kindergartens sang liltingly of "the fly in
babys milk" Selected by Professor Quiller-
Couch for THE oxford Book of English
Verse" is an excellent poem Of William
odys, beginning
Busy, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as L:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip 1t up.
But the fly is now our enemy, and the rat
is more knowingly dreaded than ever before.
There is safety in fear.
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"They Who Offer Carrion for Meat -

DhNROSE organs. whose moral perspective
u is so blunt that it might as we'll not exist,
ara attempting to persuade their readers that
the EVENING LEDGER has become Democratic.
Was there ever candidate who hid so
closely behind the party emblem as Mr.. Pen
rose2 "I am a Republican" he says, and all
the little satellites solemnly echo ''TTe is
Republican" Apparently Republlcanism is a
cane without which the senior Senator could
not hobble twenty yards. Yet he is not
Republican. His organization was denomi-
mated by that true Republican, Senator Root,
- criminal conspiracy" a masquerade. 1t is
= trim garment in which this ooterie of poll
tic,ans have wrapped Penroseism, a pretty
dress. Tear It aside and stencil of corrup-
ton deadens the atmosphere. There are the
trembling limbs of graft, the tricky fingers
the dripping revenue from rum, the long
Capitol scandal the vicious debauchery of
voters, the indescrtbable alliances with vice,
the whole composite body of social parasites
and hangers-on, combined in a vast con-
spiracy of loot
II that is Republicanism, then America is
done with Repubhcanism; and the world is
done with iti and decent men and women are
done with it. But It isn't. Not bit of it.
On the contrary. the vital principles of the
party that saved the Union, first from dis
solution and then from economic calamity,
still live. They are the principles that thou
sands Of men want TO vote for, but VIII not
vote for If at the same time they must be put
on record as approving as immoral set of
political Adventures ever gathered to-
gether on the public highways or in the back
rooms Of corner dens.
This nation will have Republcansm with
out the fraud that Penroseism attaches to it
,,-tn
That is a patent, obvious fact Men who
imagine that the destinies Of this nation will
ever again be entrusted TO statesmen who
cannot stand daylight eternally mistaken.
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No Quarter to Political Plunderers

OUT in Kansas City the friends of good
" government are quoting what Hugh
OBrien, a former Mayor OF Boston, said in
an official message after his reelection in
1886;
n political parties put inscriptions men
10 the front, they ought to be voted down.
# political parties make combinations with
men whose morality and Integrity are ques-
tionable. such combinations should be dis
couraRed and discountenanced by every
good citizen. If no quarter is given to men
who have no moral principle behind them,
who connect themselves with leading
parties merely for plunder, they should be
stamped out and then the business OF the
country will be conducted, like any other
large corporation. on business principles
These words apply TO all combinations for
punder in municipal. State or national poll
tics They point TO the responsibility of
every American citizen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Enmeshed in a Definition

THE most brazen of all the anti-morality
4 organs in Pennsylvania said this morning:
Facing defeat in their various districts,
the pitiful appeal of Congressman Let Us
Have Pork" has changed to the insistent
demand I'VE Must Have Pork!" 1t is q
tough outlook for mushroom statesmen
whose only stock in trade is a faxed prayer
and trunkful of broken promises.
Pork or no pork was the question before
the United States Senate yesterday. BY
some strange freak of fortune, Mr.. Penrose
happened to be in his seat. Putting himself
in class with mushroom statesmen whose
only stock in trade is a faxed prayer and a
trunkful of broken promises" he voted for
the pork.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public On,.
ion on Subjects Important to Ci,v.
State and Nation.

To the Editor Of the Bverino Ledger:
In reading your efficient newspaper I Ana :.
article entitled, British Diplomat Critlc,.a
Wilson on the Mexican Policy" The Rrt'.
Ambassador, Sir Lionel Garden, was noth,sn :
but warm partisan of the Huerta resiravs
At one time was a Huerta sympathizer nn,n
after he committed murder-the kjliins y,
Francisco I. Madero. VI
Sir Lionel Garden cannot by any ms.n.
compare with tho great President Wilson. ~.
troops were oEdered from Vera Cruz. Ivhs.
Because the President knew that he %sI W.
leaving the situation to an honorable and sd,
Gated man. Sir Loners statement Is apsIns,
senior Carranza, because he ordered that he (sIs
LloneD should leave the republic for bens s'', !.
Huerta partisan. So let me explain in a "a.
words, that Sir Lionel contradlcts himself Nv
saying that Carranza has no sort of Govern.
ment.
He must know that II Senior Carranza hs,
no sort Of government he would not have toI
Sir Lionel to leave the republic.
]. R.-MEXICAN CITIZEN
Philadelphia, September 21 1914
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FIGHT TO THE FINISH
!e Editor Of the Evening Ledner.

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
SRA campaign is on in this Commonwealth
which is being watched throughout the Length
and breadth of our land. It is fight to !
finish between the discredited old machine and
the forces which must prevail IL the old keystone
State Is to be lifted into the place It must
occupy if we as Pennsylvanians are to stand
erect as men worth while.
The issue is Penrose as the embodiment Of
practices which longer have any proner
place in our political and industrial life. Thess
are the days for the valiant on both sides Of
the ocean, and the call of duty Is just as clear
as IL 1t were ITO arms instead of to the ballot
box. When the EVENING LEDGER enlists In this
campaign. aggressively opposing this blight on
our national iife It, in my judgment, performs
a great public duty and makes a contribution to
the cause of good government second to none
DAVID J. PEARSALI.
Mauch Chunk. Pa. tx 1914
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Mt Pleasant, Pa, September IA, 1914
PENRosEIsM NOT REPUBLICANIsM

To the Editor Of the Evonino Ledger:
Sir-I am a reader of the EVENING LEDGER
and like your paper, but ] am Republican.
AS I believe that is your policy. l cannot
how you consistently support Palmer
and Republican platform at the same time,
He does not stand for Republican principles
and, therefore, should not be supported by any
Republican. JOSEPH RICHARD.
Satlngton, Pa. September 49, 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
This is Too Punny

We labored hard to pen pun,
An hour passed, and it was done;
We nearly died of sheer surprise;
We pinched oursef and rubbed our eyes;
For, we looked on it in pride
And as we said nearly died
We found we'd made a double hit
(Of wisdom. infamy wi)
For then we saw, and not till then.
We'd penned pun that punned a Penn.
A lot of fuss over little thing, perhaps
but it occurred to us that William Penn
looks rather inky compared to the rest OF
the City Hall tower.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
A Fall Time Singer

Golden punkins gleamin' bright
Yander in de patch.
Never seed a purifier sight
Laying in a batch.
Trouble dis ways fraid to steer
Come right in an have a cheer"
Dixie Lands de land fo' me,
No whar else Use boun'.
Possums roamin' roun' so free.
Nuff to make darky grin
Bring yo' folks an call ag'in."
Jacksonville Times Union.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
GIVE HONEST POLITICS A CHANCE

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-I have read for many years and hav.
appreciated deeply the splendid work which
the PUBLIC LEDGER has done toward the puri.
flcation of Pennsylvania politics. Another
great opportunity has arisen for 1t and the
EVENING LEDGER to continue this service 10 the
advantage of both State and nation. l refer 10
the opportunity of defeating Mr.. Penrose for
reelection to the United States Senate. .
WILLIAM I. HULL
SWarthmore Pa. Sentember Il 1914
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Silence Not Golden

From the Chambersburg CPa.) Valley Spirit.
strange, weird silence falls upon the lips
of the Republican candidates when the name
of Penrose is mentioned.
Not one of them has far dared to declare
himself either for or against the machine ina!
seeks to continue its corrupt management OF
this State for its own advantage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Welcomes Evening Ledger

From the Jewish Exponent,
The EVENING LEDGER is a welcome addition
to the ranks of Philadelphia newspaperdom
There is better paper in the United states
than the PUBLIC LEDGER, and few as good. II
the evening edition keeps up the fine traduon
that the PUBLIC LEDGER has established u
will be a notent force for good.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
New Hose Must Be Got.

NNHE fire underwriters have sustained Di-
i rector Porter's charge that large part
of the hose owned by the city is unfit for use
1t would be idle now to quarrel about who
is responsible for the situation. The thing
of Importance is the fact itself. 1t must be
remedied not next year. but this year. There
is no other matter which so urgently requires
the attention of CnunnIls-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
A Bitter Dose

Petrograd and Jaroslaw,
Budapest and Crecy,
Kaiser Wilhelm, General Pau
Drive me nearly crazy.
But the worst Is yet to come,
Tasting rather pill-y,
Reading like prescriptions all
Take some Przmysl-y" Choose your
Take some Przymsl-y' own
Take some Prmzsyl-y" Spelling.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
One Bad Turn

Brown iwhose new cook is worse than the
last)-It was you who recommended that
new cook to my wife wasn't II?
Jones with diffidence)-Yes, old man.
Brown (vengefully)-Then, must ask you
to come home to dinner with me tonight
London Sketch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
wEsTMORELAND AGAINST PENROsE

To the Editor OF the EUenn0 Ledger:
Sr-As independent Republican, interested
in raising my party to higher standard OF
citizenship, 1 am glad that you are opposing
Penroseism. You deserve the gratitude Of the
good citizens of Pennsylvania. Our county was
strongly anti-Penrose at the last primary, and
the sentiment against him continues to increase
E. z. ZUCK
MI Pleasant. Pa. September IA. 1914.
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Casualties

From Allied sources we learn that 4,356,711
Germans were killed, 11,699,326 were wound
ed and 900467 were taken prisoners in the
last four days of fighting.
From German sources we learn that the
total German loss to date was IL slightly
killed, 43 seriously dead and 66 compre
hensively wounded.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

becomes a murderer; the dr1inkard ,,s..
liar; the liar becomes a coward. 0'nes
Benedict Arnold did the most conv..,.
thing; IL took too much COURAGE to A. deisnt IN
fnconvenient thing. And that's exsotis tas
situation with the teller of the "yhifs 4, tns
THE IDEA rssr99 rss9
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

Regular steamship service from PhiladeI-
phia 10 the Pacific is a good sign. Shipping
goods from so fine a port as this to New
York to be loaded on vessels was a kind of
extravaganza which sound business could not
long endure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
The Natural Sequence

1t now behooves all good exchange editors
to dig up the Ingoldsby Legends and reprin
THE Jackdaw of Rheims"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
What's In a Name /?

Were giving pastor a new drawing
room carpet the occasion of his jubilee.
Show me something that looks nice but
isn't too expensive"
Here is the very thing, madame-real
Kidderminster."-Lon Punch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Heartburn, Probably

From the Ekton (Md.) Democrat.
Fire of unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the contents of Clarence II. krauss
night last week."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Fowl PLAY

why have you given your hen such an
outlandish name as Footpad, Jinks?"
Because she's laying for me-"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

The Mayor has done his duty in the matter
Of the Municipal Court grab. Councils will
have another chance this afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
Huh 4!

Mary had a little lamb,
And then l heard her holler:
What does that waiter think | am?
He charged me half dollar!"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Love and Sunshine Company.
Wholesale and Retail Christians
Distributors of Joy and Goodwill.
In Essentials, Unity; in non Essentials,
Liberty; in all things, Charity.
The Church with the Royal Welcome.
A Villainous Joke

Who is the Villa of Europe?
Which of the embattled emperors is the
friend OF the Euro-peon?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

Mr.. Roosevelt says that Mr. Pinehot will
not retire, but what does Mr.. Roosevelt know
about it? man is not addicted to coffee if
he has never been able to get a first eup
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

There is no question about what MIR. Pen
rose stands for. The record shows that
through his Organization he has stood for
anything
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Altruisn1

Teacher-Johnny, you have been writing
your own excuses.
JOHNNY know, mum; it takes all pas
time to think of his own.-New York Sun,
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Domestic Discord

MY husband used to call me his lovely
Lutte"
And now?'
Now he picks on me"-Lousvle Courier.
Journal.