The Washington herald., 1914-05-24
P. D. @. INTERVIEWS

but 1t was q great thing for washing
said he would get even with me, and I
guess he has"
Senator. how do you stand on woman
suffrageT was suddenly asked.
Trousers first and then the BALLOT
Have you favored Interference In Mex.
lean affairs thus far?'
IT learned at an early age not to in
terfere in q dog fight"
Senator. 1t IL reported from Ann Ar.
bor that when you are home you put on
overalls and an old straw hat and HE
thee forth into the eornfeld to make the
horny-handed sons Of toll think you are
also a deliver"
Its thirty years since hoed a hill Of
corn" he replied. II raise a few Early
Rose potatoes in my garden. but have
| no cornfeld. You must be about
through
There's a few more to come Senator
s. ith. you were at Jackson, In your
State. one day last August"
I'm. I guess 1 was"
"a prominent church member hinted to
you that q contribution of SO to the
African heather fund would be a goot
thing
Il don't recall the circumstance"
Senator did you round on him and re-
ply that so would buy considerable bread
for the widows Of that town."
No. sir"
Didn't you say that IL the heather Of
Africa couldn't be saved with the re-
lieion they had. you didn't care a darn?'
NO such words
Didn't you say that you didn't be-
lieve taht Noah had an Ark?''
Never"
Senator Smith, one of the men who
worked tooth and toe-nail for your elec-
ton was afterwards made superint.nd-
ent Of Sunday school 1t has been
hinted-"
Yes. 1 know" he interrupted. 'T op.
posed a certain Senator's scheme to re-
peal the pure food law. and he vowed
to get even with me. He owns a rasp-
berry factory. and makes the jam out
of apple peelings."
DO you believe in big business?" wa.
asked.
1T does not take any longer to buy an
elephant than 1t does to buy a calf"
Did you say in a speech at Detroit a
few months ago that If people would
eat more raw turnips there would be less
bowling about the high cost of Ifvine,-
'No. sir! What / said was that we
should return to the pumpkin pies that
our mothers used to make. 1 have
hunted in vain all over Washington for
the kind"
Are you drafting bill to bar out all
immigrants who cannot read or write"
Lands. no, It's a bill to bar out any
immigrant who has a lame back and
cannot use a snowshovel or q lawn
mower
Senator, We now come to the income
tax What do you think OF It as busi-
ness move"
It's great"
And the moral side?''
As to false swearing and perjury
lust so.'
There will be heaps and heaps Of it.
1t really amounts to a bribe to perjure
ones self
And what effect will that have on the
moral status of the nation?"
1T must lower it
''Then-then-"
Well. IL II leads to horse stealing, rob-
berry and murder-if IL increases those
criTes. We must manage somehow to
stand II. The fact is that as a nation
We have been living on a too high
moral plane, and can afford to sacrifice
some of it, case Of lying has been a
rare thing with US. and a case of per-
jury much rarer."
Then if YOU were John d. or Hetty
Green you would
Il should do just as they have.
sometimes think the high cost Of living
is due to our high moral elevation. At
any rate, quote me as saying that the
income tax is fine thing-very fine. I
voted for it because / know a minister
whose income is "a, 900 and 50 cents a year
and i wanted him to pay the tax on that
half dollar and help bear the burdens
Of the land Of the free
THE P. d. Q. MAN.