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Evening star., 1914-10-08
The Cabinet and the Stump.

The members Of the cabinet who
speak well are preparing to take the
stump. 1t is proper employment for
them, and the democracy should bene-
fit from their appeals. They know the
record from having helped to make it,
and they are thoroughly qualified to
explain 1t.
1t is unnecessary to say that Mr..
Bryan is the chief Of these. Indeed, he
is the chief of stumpers taking the
whole party together. AS Mr.. Wilson
is the democracy's best writer in office,
Mr.. Bryan il easily it's best speaker in
or out OF ONCE. He draws the largest
crowds, and entertains them the most
satisfactorily.
And here again is illustrated the
wisdom exhibited by Mr.. Wilson in
He not only by the act gave an ex-
preston Of gratitude to a man who
had rendered him a supreme service,
party the active interest of one with
special and very high gifts for. cam
paign work. Mr.. Bryan is a past mas
ter of the art Of keeping the pool
stirred.
He will drop now into his natural
gait and get into his longest stride.
He will be at his best. Diplomacy Is
somewhat out Of his line. and routine
office duties must irk him. His train
ing has been of a very different kind.
and of such kind as to mold him.
But in Secretary Daniels and Secre-
tary Lane MIR. Bryan has two asso-
ciates who will do their part on the
stump. Mr.. Daniels. 1t is true. is q re-
cent recruit to the ranks Of the SPELL
binders. He has been helping his party
for years with his pen through the
medium of a newspaper. and in that
way he developed into a national fig
ure. But his change from the pen to
the tongue, though sudden. was sue
cessfully made, and he now is reck-
oned among his party's effective speak
ers. His assignments will take him
into territory considered doubtful. and
thus he is complirnented.
Secretary Lane is an old hand at the
bellows-not SO we'll known in the east
as in the west, but rated in the west
as a strong man before an audience
assembled to hear a discourse about
politics.
Mr.. Wilson himself will not appear.
except in this way by proxy. and by
letter He has already written a few,
and has others in mind. Practically.
he is the issue. He is fully entitled
to say, though 1t would not be good
politics, "The party? 1t is l." He
the democracy with its con-
sent. and really at its solicitation. Not
since jackson has any democratic ma
tional leader been SO completely the
master of the situation. BY compari-
son, Mr.. Cleveland looks like a be-
logged and helpless amateur.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
Interest in the War.
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

From the Cincinnati TimeS-Sta
At present the American people evil
IDENTIFY have passed beyond the stage in
which they are chiefly concerned with
the shifting of the onus for bringing
about the cataStrophs that Ia - racks Eu1
the war as a fact and inherently Of
more interest than its causes. Its hor-
ror and it's devastation, human and
material, are accepted as the nat
ural concomitants of warfare. What
the ordinary American citizen wants
to know now is-who is going to
win? He discusses possible reinforce
ments. the comparative effectiveness of
French and German artillery or the
Russian advance with the sang froid
with which he would dilate upon the
efficacy of the squeeze play, Ty Cobb's 8
batting average or the prowess of Mat
tvs right wing" The average Amer
lean is not thus revealing hard-heart-
edness. But he appreciates that the
biggest league that ever was organized
is playing the ultimate game of all
humanity, and he is interested.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
The Senate and the War Tsx.

The differences over the war tax
measure are to be fought out in the
open Senate. That is proper proce-
dure, and a welcome announcement
Again the Senate becomes "the refuge
of the minority" Amendments to the
measure will be in order, and discus
sion of the whole subject permissible
But can the matter be satisfactorily
disposed of in a week? MT Simmons,
who will have charge, thinks SO. At
any rate. his plans are on that basis
and it is stated that, II necessary to
carry them out, night sessions will be
held.
The House practically gave no con-
sideration to the measure. 1t was
framed in secret, and passed under
gag rule. A few hours were allowed
the republicans for protest, but not a
minute for debate. In that manner
the business was passed up to the
Senate: and now that the Senate has
taken it in hand. haste should not be
the policy. Night sessions will decide
nothing but the physical strength Of
members.
A great deal of interest has been
aroused throughout the country. Every
needs money. That is to say, the reve-
nues are. running behind, and must
continue to do so at least while the
war lasts.
What the conditions will be at the
close of the war who may say? If
the struggle is prolonged, Europe may
he exhausted and her recovery be
SLOW And we shall not reach normal
again until she in some measure does
recover. In many business lines we
connect with her. She takes many of
our products and we many of hers.
Until she is in shape again to buy Of
US and sell to US in large measure We
shall heed revenue from new sources.
and, as Mr.. Lewis of Illinois has sug
gested. maybe in a larger amount
than we are now providing for.
Taxes are never pleasant, but are
particularly unpleasant when levied
in times of business depression and
suspension. Through no fault of our
own, we are caught in a trap. We
have a bountiful yield from the earth,
but no markets for our surplus. If
foreign markets were encourag ging.
those of our manufacturing plants
which have been idle awaiting the
development of our new domestic
policies might start up again. But the
war hangs like pail over all, and 1t
is not in our power to lift the pail.
Let us have the additional revenue
since it is necessary. but let the things
put under tribute be carefully selected
And senator's are aware from the con-
tents of their mails that much remains
to be done to make the war measure
as it now stands safe and acceptable
to the country.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

the base ball world this season by it's
phenomenal rise since the first Of July
from last place in the National League
to first. 1t is doubtless the sentimental
favorite Of the country. however the
betting may favor the Athletics. Its
chances are somewhat weakened by the
loss of a valuable player just on the
eve of the games through an accident.
Yet there is by no means certainty
that the Athletics. 80 experienced in
these nerve-trying encounters, will
win. Public interest has apparently
waned in no degree in these annual
struggles for American base ball SUI
premacy. and with fair weather in the
two cities the games will probably be
witnessed by enormous nultitudes.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
The French and Belgian Fighting

Today.s news indicates that the Ger
man eounter-attack against the allied
left in France, which has been charac-
terized by terrific fighting for the last
two or three days with results encour-
aging to the Germans, has been check
ed. Later dispatches must disclose
whether this check is merely tempo
rary, or the German offensive move
ment in this section has spent itself.
Success or failure depends upon the
comparative rapidity and strength with
which the combatants are reinforced.
1t is reported from London this morn
ing that the first Canadian contingent of
81 600 men has arrived in British waters
and probably these forces will be i'm
mediateiy dispatched to the fighting
zone in France. They constitute a corps
the addition of which cannot fail to be
of value on the battle front.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
When the Wrath Fell.

Nobody paid attention
To the man who gathered wealth.
Nobody paused to mention
That his course was that of stealth.
Till he offered some donations
For the help of human kind,
Then the fierce denunciations
Sadly shook his peace Of mind.
They said his coin was tainted
And his motives dark and deep,
Till the picture that they painted
Caused him tears and loss Of sleep.
Nobody ever raped him
While he boarded day by day.
But, good gracious! How they slappe
him
When he gave the stuff away!
Evening star., 1914-10-08
The Defeat Of Statecraft.
he Pittsburgh Dispatch.

That European diplomacy has always
been free from any control OF justice or
Christianity is beyond serious dispute.
Frederick the Great Is reported to have
declared When he Is about to conclude
a treaty with soma foreign power. If
sovereign remembers that he is a Chris
tian he is lost" The records Of dtplo-
macy from before his time up to the
most recent dates attest the truth OF
the assertion, whether Frederick said 1t
twentieth century the great diplomatists
of Europe might beware of stupidity
and actual illogicality. Yet was there
ever anything more completely governed
by the lack OF reason and Intelligence
than the present contest?
Evening star., 1914-10-08
Breach Closed!
From the New York Evening Post.

Now that President Wilson has made
peace with Col. Harvey. and there
seems a prospect that arbitration Will
yet reconcile the White House and
Henry Watterson. no one need despair
of the early conclusion OF hostilities in
Europe. No feud was appar rently more
destined to be lasting than this one be-
tween Col. Harvey and the President.
That it has ended is another striking
sign of the steadily growing harmony
OF the democratic party under the
schoolmaster's leadership
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Less conscientious countries would
not hesitate to make a determined in
terest in horse-racing such as is mani
fest in America a means of providing
liberal revenue.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

EFIn order to avoid delays on account Of
mot be addressed to any individual counected
with the Office. but simply to THE STAR, or 10
the Editorial or Business Department according
TO tenor purpose.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
Break Up the Loafers.

From the Raleigh News and Observer.
The loafer and the idler 10 a source
Of danger to any community Where
these are found in numbers there may
we look for an increase of crime and
disorder. They form an undesira biz
class of citizens of whom any place
would be glad to be rid.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

1t is indisputabie that the command
ment Thou shalt not kilr' is as bind
ing on nations as on individuals. But
there is no nation at present quite big
and powerful enough to undertake the
responsibility of policing the earth.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Berlin warns Americans not to talk
English. as the sound of it fnfuriates
the populace. Evidently this American
accent of ours is not so distinctive as
British philologists have intimated.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Reference to a President as q "school-
master in politics. does not necessarily
imply that Congress will be expected to
exercise the supervisory functions of
board of education.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Since his call at the White House
Editor Harvey may again feel q certain
satisfaction in the recognition that has
been accorded him as the original Wood
row Wilson man.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Monticello as a presidential residence
might constitute an agreeable remind
er that "Jeffersonian simplicity" did
not by any means confine itself to the
bare necessities of existence
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Times have changed for both Belgium
and France since the late King Leopold
found nothing much to do with his
time except to amuse himself in Paris
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Col Roosevelt keeps scattering him.
self over 50 much territory as to make
the problem of reorganizing the pro-
gressive party rather difficult.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

The prohibition party would be
formidable political organization If it
could claim credit for all the prohibi-
ton victories.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

After Mr.. Rockefeller's donation of
large sum to investigate the causes OF
poverty no one will be 30 inconsiderate
as to suggest the cost Of gasoline as
one Of them.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Announcements by both Mr.. Glynn
and Mr.. Whitman show that stalwart
self esteem which is essential to sue
cess in public life.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Sometimes 1t is not SO much what
was said as who said 1t that provokes
the libel suit.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Rustem Bey's departure was for the
best An atmosphere Of complete neu-
trality could never be congenia1 to a
man of his temperament.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Discreet Mexican strategists will en-
deavor to conduct >any engagements SO
as to keep the fighting as far as pos
sible from the Texas border.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
Doing Without Necessities.

From the Providence Bulletin.
Perhaps we can do without Paris
modes as we'll as we can dispense with
Wall street quotations.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Tie Evening Star. with the Sunday morning
edition. is delivered by carriers within the city
st - cents per month; daily only. e csnts per
may he sent by mail, telephone Main 2440.
Collection is made by carrier at the end Of each
month.
Evening star., 1914-10-08

The Hague will postpone its peace dis
cussions during the accumulation Of a
large amount Of brand-new subject mat.
tor
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Payable IN advance-by mail POSTAGE prepaid:
Daily. Sunday included. one mouth, 60 cests.
Daily Sunday excepted, one month, 20 cents.
Saturday Star, 81 year: Sunday Star - 20 year.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
The zve.i.E Star xswspspsr csnpa.y

New York once: Tribune Building.
Chicago Once: First National Bank Du11dfnR.
European Once: Regent st.. Londsu England.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
The Appraising Instinct.

What a lovely sunset" exclaimed the
young woman.
Yes" replied the business young man.
ITS first-rate sunset. I'll bet II you
went to a store and tried to buy a good
painting of a sunset like that you
couldn't get It for less than $3.50"
Evening star., 1914-10-08
Does She?
All Earthly Wishes FULFILLED.

philadelphia il a very quiet town.
isn't it?" said the young woman from
the west.
II suppose it is rather quiet" replied
Miss Cayenne. 1T ought to be. With the
Liberty Bell and the base ball pennant
in its possession what reason has the
town for making fussT'
Evening star., 1914-10-08

Entered second-class mall matter at thA cost
once at Washington. D. c.
Evening star., 1914-10-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Psychological Moment.

The Psychological Moment.
How did you come to vote the pro-
hihition ticket"
"They' appealed to me at the psyche
logical moment" replied Col. Stil1weN.
They made up convivial party the
night before election and the next morn
ing's headache was such that I was
willing to do anything in my power to
show my hatred for the demon rum"
Does She?
The woman of the present day
Whose mind with suffrage cares Is
fraught
Throws her old jewelry away
And decks herself with gems Of
thought.
"Sufferin' in silence Is admirable" said
Uncle Eben. But de chicken dat won't
squawk when he's bein' lifted ofrn de
roost carries 1t to an extreme"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07
TERMS:
Iaikin, Mar.


Everybody talhin' war-just you come
with me
Where the redcheeked apples shine on
the winesap tree.
Just come out TO take the mile
That leads TO country day,
And let them fuss and fight and bile,
Well hear what Gods things say
Everybody talkin' warts time to
lend an ear
To something sweet and beautiful and
ripe with sun and cheer.
Just come out and let them rant,
And Well go glory stirred
So far from all their fuss and cant
And hear the mockin' bird
time TO slip
Down where the good green country
sings on many warbling lip.
Down where there IS no bloody strife,
No hate ana dread ana tears,
But everything 50 glad CT life
That it dances and it cheers.
Everybody talkin' war-an6 what good
does It do?
Just come with me where violets peep
and skies are bendin' blue
Just come out to grass and tree
And bahbling brook and stream,
Where God things dwell in all the
glee
OF romance and of dream.
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07
PEOPLES DINER NEEDED

dubuque Times.JournaL]
If you're thinking of travelling west
Of Chicago. better tote lunch from
home unless you like to pay sky-high
prices In the dining car.
For the poor, suffering railroads are
going to give the jackscrew another
twist underneath the price of "eats."
Ten cents extra for a nibble Of bread
The dollar dinner to be $1.25.
mo profit in the dining car" they
say. No wonder-most travellers can't
afford to eat there.
If. instead of so much fuss, pomp and
show you could get plain food neatly
served at not more than three to five
times the home cost. don't you sup
pose there'd be profit in serving it +?
There's profit in the well-managed
cheap lunch rooms in the cities. Why?
Because folks can afford to eat in
them.
Give the hungry passengers some
think like that on the trains and the
diners would do a smashing business.
But the higher the prices the less the
patronage.
Some day a railroad genius will
plan to feed the day coaches instead
of the PulImans and then you'll ZEE
a revolution.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07
VICE FEARS THE WOMEN.
dubuque Times Journal


Everywhere the story is the same.
Wherever there is a business Of vice
which used to be hand in glove with
man ruled politics. the exploiters of
women are scared and in retreat since
mothers got the ballot.
Some OF these newer citizens in pet
ticoats may not know all the fine
points about the currency and tariff
or how to load a law with jokers so
III viii look fine to the reformers and
still do the practical men" no harm.
But every sous mother from Port
land Me-, to Portland. Ore and from
the Canadian line down to the raw edge
OF Mexico knows thar the way to pro-
tect childhood and to make possible
more wholesale homes isn't TO let the
conditions of vice be determined by
those who reap the profits of vice.
This is SO clear to their vision that
they don't stop to argue it at all; they
just pick up their political rolling pins
and start out and clean up the town.
Now it may all be true that you can't
abolish sin in a day. But our en-
franchised and militant mothers are
showing that. when there's a will 10 do
It, there's always a way to stop part
nership with organized debauchery.
And that's no small gain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07

ments. It looks as tho within few
days we shall take the war as We do
our breakfasts, with appetite but not
ravenously.
Perhaps 1t Is just as we'll that we do
not make the war prominent over other
things. We have an election coming on
and the baseball championships to dis
pose Of, and the flowing hair Of foot
ball begins to flutter and the corn to
worry over and the second half of the
taxes is coming due and there is lot
of chores around home that somebody
must do. While it seems a shame to
refuse our advise and assistance to the
various strategy boards of the coun-
tries at war and while possibly the
generals and commanders will miss US
we can't neglect our own businesses
entirely to conduct a war across the
water. Seems like we shall have to
let them fight it out themselves.
And when one comes 10 consider it
with Kitchener and the Kaiser and the
vast variety of lighting men afforded
by the call 70 arms they are fairly well
fixed to carry the war on alone If the
storebox strategists leave off LONG
enough to help get the thrashins over
and the fall blowing done and bear
hand at other activities where help is
needed at home. OF course pitching
bundles isn't as exciting as conducting
a war but it has its advantages.
But if Emperor Wilhelm or any
other of the leaders and kings and
primes and potentates knsw as much
public places the war would be over
in thirty minutes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07
DON'T WORRY.

Don't worry over the American tour
lists abroad. The United States Is be-
hlnd them with ios illimita bic credit
and with very active desire TO care
for them. The money has gone that
VIII relieve them of their pressing diff
culties. American gold is hurrying 20
the assistance of stranded Americans,
millions Of 1t, enough and 70 spare and
there is more where that came from.
Trouble and suspense and the crav-
ing for home and friends will remain
among them but their necessities are
being cared for. They will have money
to live on and TO come home on when
the opportunity arrives for them TO
sail Delay there will be and extra ex-
pease. But they are safe, as safe as
the strength ana cash and effort OF
the greatest nation Oh the face OF the
earth can make them.
Don; worry. Nothing rs TO be gained
thereby Take the assurance that their
interests have beer taken over by their
own country for rhat /, is worth and
be patient Understand that they are
in civilized countries and their citi-
zenship will be respected That their
lives and their property are in no
danger except as life and property is
endangered everywhere but the Ar1eri-
can citizen is safer today in Europe
than the citizens Of the countries OF
that continent.
Don't worry. Wait. The folks will
be home before long with story that
they will never finish telling.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-07
uaLM usua pus 1slu 1VSU aa3 o. s1gees II
this acquired knowledge TO do more ef-
BASEBALL AND NEWSPAPER

BASEBALL AND NEW5PAt16ak6
dubuque Times-Journall
The Philadelphia American League
baseball club is just now giving IN
exhibition OF how to kill the goose tina,
lays the golden egg. For the past
couple OF years two Of the Philadelphia
newspapers have been operating bull
letin boards by which the progress OF
the baseball games are given play by
play. The owners of the ball club OBJ
ject to this on the grounds that the
bulletin boards serve to keep people
away from the games. The baseball
magnates ordered the newspapers to
cease operating the bulletin boards and
upon their refusal to do SO the repre-
sentatives of the newspapers were
barred from the ball park. The mat
ter was taken up with the Sports Writ
ers' Association in behalf of the men,
bers who were barred from the park
with the result that the owners Of the
Philadelphia ball club have been told
to make amends. President Ban John
son. OF the American league. has also
been informed OF the stand Of the Phil
adelphia club.
1t should not be necessary for the
sports writer's to have to take action
in. this matter. The owners of the
newspapers they represent should act
for them. Baseball owes its existence
solely to the publicity given it by the
newspapers Of the country and when
the owners OF baseball club deny
newspaper men the right to attend the
games it becomes the duty OF their
employers to show the magnates where
they get their bread and butter.
Big fortunes have been made by base
ball magnates from a small beginning
because the newspapers have done
their advertising gratis. II the news
papers of the country would cease for
a period of a week to report the base
ball games the attendance at the ball
parks wouldn't be heavy enough to pay
the salary of the bat boy. Newspaper
publicity has been the backbone Of
baseball and no complaint has been
made because of the additional ex-
pense the newspapers are put to an
nually, but whenever some chesty
baseball magnate. who started with a
shoestring and made a fortune out of
baseball thru the publicity his business
received without cost, undertakes to
tell a newspaper how to run its bust
ness. we rather fear there will be
such an outburst of disapproval al
over the country I,at baseball mag
mates will be lucky if they escape
with mere ceasure