Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-02-19
the want Of food and a physicians

But has not this wonder working
man eyes to see the tragic scenes all
around him? Has he not ears TO hear
the s~ickening tale of the impoverished
homes of the American workingmeni
Is it possible that he sees prosperity
everywhere-that the world is all sun
shine for everybody
THE BREAD LINE BACK AGAIN.
See the bread lines in the city
Growing longer day by day;
Not witt tramps. not with panhandlers.
But with men who earned good pay.
Men despairing, wan and weary.
With a hopeless look they gaze
At each others careworn faces
As In Grover Cleveland days.
See the strong men seeking shelter
From the icy blasts at night,
Where the city gives free lodging
And a crust or so to bite.
They are toilers up against it,
Who earned bread by honest toll:
Now the mills and shops are silent
As In Grover Cleveland days.
Business Confidence.
President Wilson says that he sees
that
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busines takes in is the oxygen of the
public confidence, and il you nave not
got that your business Is essentially par
alyzed and ~asphyxiated.
Was business ever more completely
paralyzed and completely a~sphyxiated
than now?
This Is a right vision. but a wrong
time. There has been no oxygen
-
public confidence-in this country since
the president turned ON the gas March
4. 1913. Business is in n state OF
coma. and resuscitation will come
when a Republican president turns off
the gas March 4. 1917.
The New York Times said editorially
With money so easy and accessible how
Is 1t possible that industry is so prostrat-
ed? Why are dollars ever more idle
than men when there is such a surplus
Of both, each under urgent need to earn
a living7
The explanation is very simple in.
deed. There is absolutely no oxygen
In the country, no public confidence"
because the conditions are such as to
preclude the possibility of confidence
In any prudent man.
The New York Evening Post said
editorially:
But mere speechifying will not make
the wheels turn or the tall chimneys
smoke.
That is true; we must have some
thing more than the coruscation of a
mentality intoxicated with theories, in
ebriated with sentiment, tortured with
ambition, and drunk with a power that
Is purely the product of sixteen years
of ''watchful waiting" and hungry
longing5sixteen years of wandering in
the wilderness of political want, six
teen years of hungering and thirsting
for official pap and pottage, places of
profit, the purchase price of patriotism.
Do you think this language too
harsh, too severe? Read the presidents
threats uttered on Jan. s, 1915, at In
~dianapolis, and answer me:
If any group of men should dare to
break the solidarity of the Democratic
team for any purpose or from any mo-
tive theirs will be a most undesirable no.
toriety and a responsibility that will bring
deep bitterness to them.
For ANY purpose or from ANY
motive" Mark his words! When was
such a malediction ever uttered by any
president of the United States-yes. by
any king or potentate within a hundre..
years. He would rule us, though more
than 93 per cent of ours people a
read. as Diaz ruled Mexico, where 90
per cent of the people cannot read.
And he says that he would have ruled
Mexico. If ruled at all, as we had been
ruled until he assembled the throne.