The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-22
HARTFORD, OHIO COUNTY, KY, FRIDAY, JANUARY g. Il

private capital avoids because of tn,
hopelessness of profits under exist
ing laws. A committee of a Cham
Der of Commerce reported the othel
day that since the opening of the Eu
ropean war there has at no tim,
been any lack of cargo room in the
South American trade. The financial
embarrassment of the South Amer.
lean countries, not the lack of ships
isthe trouble there. But II the gov.
lernment owned ships that were en-.
] gagged in the European trade, we
should directly invite contraband
TROUBLES far more serious than the
Inconvenience resulting from high
Atlantic freight rates. The Presi-
dent challenges the Republican Sen
ators who threaten obstruction "to
show their rights to stand in the
way of the release of American pro-
ducts to the rest of the world"
That is the way Mr.. Bryan used to
talk to the advocates of the gold
standard. Senator's who oppose the
shipping bill are not standing in the
way of the release of American
products. There are other and more
serious distractions. They are stand
ing in the way of an ill-judged adj
venture that would be more effective
than, any law now on the statute
books in discouraging the revival of
American shipping, and that is say
ing good deal.
The President is his own astrolo-
ger. Wallenstein and Louis XII. de-
pended upon professional talent, they
kept private astrologers. AS the
President interpreted at Indianapolis
the courses of the stars,as he reads
them he probably was not much
further wrong than the old-time as
trologers. TwO-thirds of the Dem
ocratic party is progressive. accord
ing to his apportionment, only one
third Of the Republican party. That
is about the most alarming state of
things that could be imagined alarm
ing for the President and for the
Democratic party. Mr.. Wilson him
self has told us about the new tenn
per of the public. There is evidence
of il In the election figures. by the
misresding of which the President
and his friends are trying to keep up
their courage. Mr.. Wilson was elect
ed because of conditions in 1912 that
no longer exist. The Progressives
have sped their arrow, missed the
target. and retired from the tourna-
ment. The Republican party is pref
ty rapidly becoming again the major
ity party. The visible tendencies to
accretion and reinforcement in favor
of that party will not be checked by
such speeches as that which the
President made at Indianapolis. In
the present condition of the public
mind the Republicans will not be
hurt by his charge that they have
not produced a new idea in thirty
years, or by his saying that they are
apt to think as their grandfathers
thought. We have made long trial
Of the ideas of the youngsters, and
we have had enough of them. Our
are the coming men in
this country. ,s.t'
There is one idea about which
Wilson win do well to take
serious thought, for it hes become
well rooted in this Republic, and
which strikes its roots deeper as the
is given for a careful
study of the composition. the capac-
Ity. and the aims of the Democratic
party. 1t is the idea, the belief, that
On the whole the people of the coun-
Try are better off, more prosperous, |
and have less cause for anxiety I'M
Ter Republican than under DEM
,cratic administration. If that be-
ief prevails in 1S16-but that would
be prophecy.