The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-07-14
MEDITATIONS OF UNCLE JOSH

The way the Warnes law brings the
poor millionaire bosses of the G. o. P.
into the taxpaying fold ought to do
the farmer and small home owner a
world of good. Just think of the
millionaire Hanna making a return of
S16,075. Reports show that his con-
tributions to the Republican Publicity
| bureau make that sum very insignifi-
cant. Mr.. Hanna's horses must be
very decrepit creatures to be worth
$50 per head and that fine head of
dairy cattle that he brags so much
about and which is one of the best
in the state, worth only $50 per head.
Not many farmers would have the
nerve to come up and say their best
cattle that would bring from 500 up
were only worth $50 per head when
they see little yearlings sell at sales
all over country from $50 to $50 per
head.
A wooden man could see when the
commission gets $4,500,000 worth Of
property ON the duplicate against him
why he hires A. p. V. and lot OF
other camp followers all over Ohio
to howl and rave about the commits
sion and misrepresent its work to the
people. Hanna and his crowd expect
to get the common people to be the
cat to rake their chestnuts out Of the
fire, but the dear people have seen the
writing on the wall They know that
Babylon is fallen and that If it is re-
built the laborer must pay for the
building.
1t is a well known fact that every
time you make millionaire you make
million paupers. The millionaire
was rare creature at the beginning
of the Republican rule. Under it they
have grown like the green bay tree.
Not a stone did the G.. o. P. hosses
leave unturned to help them grow
high tariff, trusts, combines, special
privileges and graft became such a
yoke that laborer, farmer and all the
common people cried out in their
affliction. They found a way to get
rid OF the yoke. Wilson was the
Moses that led them out the wilder
ness.
The G.. o. p. Pharoahs are calling
and trying to enslave them as of old.
Do they expect the laboring man to
give up his rights and protection, or
the taxpayer to let the CRATER get
into the public funds so that the crop
of millionaires will increase? No!
that time is past. The laborer in the
factory has learned that the boss
! cares no more for him than he does
for the rats that play under the floor
unless the law compels him to. He
knows that a prompt settlement oi
+ damage claims due to injuries is bet
4 ter than years of lawing and then gel
: nothing.
Knox county's Republican Boss Is
no less a wolf because of his Sleeps
clothing and his beating is so harst
that the wolf howl is easily distin
tinguished. The Boss is very muct
vexed about the court house janitor
Purdy has been efficient and has prov
en- that he could do the work better
7 than the multitude of janitors under
the G. o. p. regime.
Candidate Willis tried to make hi
at the park Saturday, but something
was wrong, for his audience was ;
good bit like congregation at 1
II country church on stormy night
= Even the Old Guard was conspicuou
q by its absence.
q The Ohio farmers don't seem to fal
v for Foraker the way editors write hin
Il up Joe feels bad about 1t too, and
v he gets to Washington he will tr
a to stop farm papers out of politics
The truth seems to hurt.