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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05

have H. doubt that the disturbances in Mexico during the last lew
years have been due in a greater or less degree to N effort OF the part
Ct ambitious, cunning men to force intervention and possibly annexation
to the United States. The exploitcrs OF public utilities and Of the min
eral resources OF or negfbors have undoubtedly thought that they
would gain much if they could force intervention by the United States
There are soldiers OF fortune in Mexico who would undoubtedly welcome
such a contingency.
ing mor difficult the solution Of the problem. Intervention in Mexico
is Of course, OF a matter t o be considered lightly; for intervention means
war, and wal means the obstruction OF human lives and the expenditure
of hundreds OF millions OF dollars. 1t means, furthermore, the response
bMty of the government Of O00O(DO people for a indefinite period. We
are now engaged in governing 100000 aliens Is the result of the Span
ish- American war-war which could very probably have been avcrtd if
we could have exercised a little more patience, patriotism and self
csrant.
If OUR spectators in Mexico suffer pecuniary loss as the result OF re-
curing revolutions that is a matter ior future consideration, when stable
government and peace are fully established in that country. It is not
warrant for shedding the blood OF Americans. To sacrifice the life OF
one soldier for all of the dollars investors or spectators have venturcd
IN Mexico would be the suprenncst criminal folly Without a deliberate
ahront o the part of the Mexican government. whether it exists de jure
or de factO, is no good ground o which w c would be justified in sending
our armies beyond the Rio Grande.
President Wilson is dealing with the situation IS best he can. We
may OF entirely agree that his curse is better than that of his ditin-
euished predecessor nevertheless we should endeavor to uphold his hands.
There should be no difference of opinion IS to that. BY doing so we
shall make his task a comparatively easy one.
1t is o an hour for either little politics or sensational journalism.
The c1anor Of the jngocs should not be allowed to drown the voice Of
RATIONAL deliberate craftsmanship. 1t is a pretty safe rule when w e como
TO deal with grave international problems to put III faith i'll he prcsi-
dent Oft the United States and follow where he may lead. He speaks for
the country when we come to deal with international affairs. The pres1-
dent of the United States is a safer guide than sensahonaIsts and the
soldiers OF fortune who come to the surface whenever international con-
troversics arise.
Mr. Fairbanks delivered the above address before the Republican
record.
BY his friends You may know him. And there are Pcnrosc, Smoot
Root, G"lhnscr, Cannon, Mann, Lodge, etc. Also Plat.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05

How would you like to sit down at your desk, II yer or DC
counts, and absorb the knowledge that anywhere from one to five
hundred people we're indebted to you in sums from SO cents to $500?
And how would you like to lee those good people day by day
without their eve thinking OF offering you the small amount due you?
And how would you like to see these same good people paying
And wouldn't you just revel in the knowledge that all of these
small amounts combined, if suddenly collected up, would swell your
bank account to the tune of $500 O $1,000?
When you reach the point where you can appreciate the grim
hunaor of such a condition, and keep right N smiling, you will have
qualified yourself for the life OF a country editor.
And when you reach that point you will wonder why in
bazes you lever thought of tie editor when paying your other
bills, and you will just push the breeze until you reach his shop and
hand him that little mite you owe him.
Here's hoping you soon qualfy-for you know, brother, that many
Titles make a much, and in the editorial purse there is always room TO:
more.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05

interest in how the ordinary mar lives. In these few short years the
farmer, through the Rural Credits act, the Market act, the Warehouse
act, the Smith act,t the Cotton Futures act, the Grain Trades act,
has had an unequaned amount done for him. The 1aboring nan in such
measures as the Seamars act and the other labor clauses of the CLAYTON
act, has been recognized as eve before. We have a income tax and
steps have been taken toward a Federal Inheritance act. The appoint
dent love.
Can any Progressive say that he expects such original and funda-
mental steps from Mr.. Hughes?
"Mr. Hughes is a moraist, but without imagination and with a mar
o point o. view. He deserves the deacon vOte, and perhaps his refusal
discuss anything makes him deserve the hWhenated vote but O what
possible ground could he claim the Progressive vote?"
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
A FlRST-CLASS JACKASS

Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. O. Icary are thoroughly dissatisfied with
President Wilson. But their reasonsd differ. FIR. OIcary sas the presi-
dent sides with Great rritain; Coli mel Roosevelt says he has laid down.
to Great Britain. The president disposed of Mr. OIeary by telling him
he did not want his vote or the vote OF any other dEbya1 American.
Colonel Roosevelt remains to be disposed Of lie declared Saturday in
u public address, that ii he, Roosevelt, had been president at the time OF
the Lustania outrage, he would have seized every German ship informed
in a American port SO! And what would have followed? German
submarines would have rctahatcd by sinking American ships, naval in
GUIDED. Our navy would have bee entirely unpreparcd to deal with the
situation, which VAS ne that for a Ear staggered yer Great Eritafn's
situation With ii navy drawn into the middle, war would have re-
suited. 1t would not be ovcr nj Gradually, as a measure OF sell
defense, made necessary by such Grass foohshness, w e would have been
forced into formal alignment with the Entente President Wilson did
not lose his head. lie began NAL ing the diplomatic record straight, so
that at the close OF the war Germ NY will be dealt with just IS w c dealt
with Great Britain III the Naba:a claims following the close OF the
Civil war.
Presidents Lincoln and Wills n faced conditions and not theories.
They acted on discreet lines rahcr than INDUCED in dangerous bombast.
Colonel Roosevelt seems to want Hughes and war. lie will get
neither. The conviction is GROWN o N the public that the colonel is II
large mouth surrounded by teeth. Also, to make the popular idea o
clear, he is braying jackass-St ckton Mai.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
WHY SHOULD HUGHES RECEIVE THE PROGRESSIVE VOTE

Richard Yelling of New Yoru has addressed the New York World
as follows:
81 was n of the original Pro ressives and have from the first been
an officer OF the Mems League fr Woman Suffrage.
81 have frequently criticised T. esident Wilson. was opposed to his
Interpretation Of neutrality and vas among the signcrs of the message
to France. A long experience in the middle wct-frOm which have
lately rcurncd-has convinced m &c that in that parto Of the country, at n
rate. the people are 20 strongly opposed to III taking part in the var
that the president was interprctn the national wishes in the stand he
took.
"n domestic matters the president has made such a remarkable n
strucivc record that it seems to mt Progressives are almost bound to
support him. The Republicans ca hardly make much of issue of our
attitude toward the European var when they have the McIcmore resoIu-
ton staring them in the face.
"Mr. Hughes says nothing alb cut the Federal Reserve act and what
it has accomplished FOL this country, or the Rural Credits act. or the ICY
Child Labor act Or any of The remarkable series Of constructive measures
and yet those are the things which the Progressive party was created to
bring about. The Progressives we're in favor of a Federal Trade commits
sion and now W e have me. The Progressivcs are supposed % take an
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
CONSISTENCY

Senator Iittmans attitude o n wOman's suffrage has been absolutely
consistent; it cannot be honestly criticised an dino one is attempting to
do it except those who have taker up the fight OF the so-Caned WOmanS
party for the purpose of cxpcdieny. Sam Platt who, SO far as known,
has never heretofore turned over his hand in the interest OF suffrage. Is
now Of Iittmans chief critics: he is doing that in an effort to cap
turca certain vote, but has anyone yer heard OF Congressman Roberts,
who is seeking reelection the Republican ticket, crnicisng Senator
rntmans record on suffrage? And he is II position to know after having
served in Congress- with him Tor four wears.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
THE EAST

news item appeared in the appeal yesterday stating tlat Peter Me-
kmlcy. Il Nevada boy and a graduate of the state university, had located
way back II Maine and had accepted a professorship N the university of
that state But how different is his invasion OF the east when lined up in
the light of the invasion Of Nevada by a clique Of women OF the east
Mckinley has @ back there to difusc the knowledge he a taught in
the west while those eastern women are coming ut here to instruct
us in something we are past masters Of and of something they have not
yet been taught the rudiments.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
DOES THIS INCLUDE ROBERTS, TOO?

Throughout Mineral county the Republican candidates, Elatt, Roberts,
Moran and Mckay, who have delivered dozens of speeches and have been
cordially received by hundreds OF citizens, have found the unmnstakeahle
indications of a great victory awaiting them o n the day the ballots are
cast. THEIR DENUNCIATlON OF THE PITTMAN LAND BILL:
Their plea for a n eglthour day that will be permanent, universal and de-
ciGvc; for the federal suffrage amendment; the protective tariff, and
ing applause-Cason City News, Plat organ.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05
THEIR NEW SLOGAN

Candidates T1att and Roberts, who are attempting the impossible feat
Of riding together with horses running in opposite directions, have adopt
ed as their campaign slogan, 1--WE SLEEP TOGETIIER"
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-05

BY his friends you may know him. And there are Pen
Root, Galinger, Cannon, Mann, Lodge, etc. Also Platt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
JUST AS WELL. PERHAPS

DERHAPs it is just as well, from a
Republican party standpoint,
if Democratic House and Sem
ate have been elected. that Justice
Hughes lost to President Wilson. A
dtepGHl!@2n President "i.f ~ hands
tied would have been helpless. yet
much OF the odium that will fall upon
the government during the readjust-
ment period at the end of the war
would have been shouldered upon him
by Congress. He could have put into
operation none CT the great construc-
tive principles for which he and his
party stand. At best he could have
been little more than a negative Presi-
dent-blocking the law-making bod
les when he could not agree with
them. and accomplishing very little on
his own account.
The Presidency under such condi-
tions could not have appealed to Jus
tice Hughes and it certainly would
have initiated against the success of
the Republican party in 1920.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
Colored Labor Condition

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I would be very glad or grateful to
you for a small space in the columns
of your paper. I am a negro. I have
been in this State for about twenty
years, coming and going and have al
ways found a kind and respectable peo-
pie, l mean white people, and indeed it
does seem hard for the negro who means
to do the tight to be scorned and look
ed upon as the class that is in our city
o-day. If the State of Pennsylvania can
hardly manage her own bad people. how
can its Commonwealth manage the
trash of a dozen other States. 1t is in
deed a hard thing to stand in the
streets and look at my dusky brothers
that have come here from bad lands
and to look at the black deeds they
have committed. Since June it is dam
gerous to be out on the streets at night
and l sincerely hope that when the law
shall be dealt out to those who have
done so badly, that they may get it's
fullest measure. 1 really am sorry that
l have the negro blood in my veins that
] have, since they have done so badly
and I hope for the sake of humanity
that they can be some way fixed to stop
the flooding of labor in our city. l re-
main for the betterment OF my race.
REV. w. r. MARTIN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
way Snyder did in Schuylllill and
Beidleman in Dauphin.

Governor Brumbaugh has received
numerous replies to his kilograms con-
graduating every man elected to the
Legislature and many of them, come
from Democrats who appreciate the
spirit which inspired the message.
M. Clyde Kelly, apparently de-
reated for Congress despite machina-
tions of Democrats and others in the
Mckeesport district, is preparing to
yell fraud and contest.
-Schuylkiil county returns show
that for Congress. r. d. Heaton, Re-
publican, present member. defeated r.
Z. Lee, Democrat, by 1900, the vote
heing: Heaton. Washington 1850, Re-
publican 17,011, total 1871; Lee,
t1.2S1. For State senator: Snyder,
Republican, defeated Graham, Demo-
crat, by 6,iS6, the vote being: Snyder,
1857; Graham, 11,321. In the fight
for State Legislature the Republicans
maintained their present standing. the
Democratic party capturing but one
man. out of the five to be elected.
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: Criminal prosecutions in both
the Federal and county courts will be
instituted against the election officers
OF certain divisions in South Philadel-
phia wards as the result of confer
ence held yesterday between the eX-
ecutive committee of the Democratic
city committee and the committees
counsel. John O'Donnell. former regis
tration commissioner, presided at the
conference, and City Chairman Edgar
w. Lank introduced the resolution to
start criminal proceedings. Charges
were made by Dem ocratic work ers
that in divisions in some of the down
town wards Democratic watchers were
interfered with and illegal assistance
was forced on voters who had an
bounced their intention of voting the
Democratic ticket. In all divisions
where such charges have been made
the city committee will go before the
special election court and ask for a
recount
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
GOODBYE, BOOZE."

TINE only really decisive result Of
Tuesdays elections was the
frightful wallop the 'drys"
landed on the solar plexus of old John
Barieycorn. Twenty-four States have
gone dry, and among them the in
dustrial State of Michigan, while the
big wet aiorities of Missouri a few
years back were cut to pieces. with
the State almost ready to tumble into
the prohibition column.
The liquor element never fought
harder than it did in Michigan. 1t
poured a fund estimated at a million
dollars into the campaign there. but
the people turned booze out by big
matorities.
With half the States of the union
dry" the handwriting is plain on the
wall - national prohibition will be
a big issue in the United States in the
next eight years. probably much SOON
er. 1t may even come about, as
Governor Hanly recently predicted,
that in 1920 both the Republican
and Democratic parties will have
dry planks in their national plat
forms-and then, goodbye. booze"
Eight of ten men you meet say "it's
coming sure; liquors day is almost
over" and seven of the ten would vote
for national prohibition, though they
may be opposed to State prohibition
or local option on the ground that
either, or both, are ineffective or COM
promising with evil. Take a national
vote on the question and the nation
would be dry tomorrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
The Pessimist

He sat down by the wayside,
To all who came along
He raised his voice OF sorrow
And sang his dismal song
Its intent never varied.
For, though long did he sing.
Until the people mobbed him
1t was the same old thing.
I'm tired of all the war talk.
of ants and of pros,
Of trenches by siege taken,
OF how the east front goes;
I'm weary of the Grecians,
And IL they'll join the war;
While problem of the U-boats
My system gives jar.
I'm tired of cost of living,
OF little loaves of bread,
And when there comes coal question
l wish that j were dead.
I'm worn out with the campaign,
| OF fuss that speakers bring;
HI no more read the papers
I'm tired of everything."
Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
GERMANY MILLING

TINE League to Enforce Peace,
fathered by former President
Taft, yet may become a factor
in settling up differences and preserv-
ing the equilibrium of the nations af-
ter the great war.
England already has announced its
Willingness TO enter into some such
agreement with the United States, and
row comes this encouraging express
sion from the German Chancellor:
Germany is at all times ready to
join q league OF nations; yes, even
TO place itself at the head of such
a league. TO keep in check the dis
turbers of the peace.
II President Taft brings about any
such league Of nations he will go
down in history as the foremost man
of his time. even though no more than
a tenth of the Leagues purposes are
ever attained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
PAJANIAS ARE SLIPPING

WE read in the Philadelphia Bull
wv letin that "pajamas are slip
ping down in point of sales"
Evidently the reporter meant to be
facetious. We read further that
"nighties'' are coming into favor again.
At all events, the department stores
are having big run on them.
The Bulletin thinks that pajamas
are passing. May be so. and again
perhaps ''nightie" is simply coming
into winter favor after the manner of
that of the unknown poet" who sang:
81 wear my pink pajamas in the sum-
mer when it's hot;
I wear my flannel 'nightie' in the
winter when it's not
The days-or nights-when the fan
mel "nightie" shall be comfort to the
body and a Joy to the soul are at hand.
So maybe "pajamas'' are merely 60
ing South for the winter-so to speak
but II ever they do go out entirely it
will be because. as the Bulletin man
says. they slip down. If you, dear
wearer. ever started from bed in a
great hurry about a. m. you know
what we mean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
HARRISBURG ENGINEER WRITES
ON PUBLIC SERVICE RELATIONS
TN a carefully-written article in the

TN carefully-written article in the
| Electrical World, showing the re-
suits of an exhaustive study and
discriminating investigation of the
relations between public utilities and
public service commissions or their
equivalents, Samuel w. Fleming, Jr.,
of the firm of Farley Gannett, Con-
sulting Engineer, of Harrisburg, ex-
plains the sliding scale system of re-
turns and rates as evolved in certain
public service corporations. The
article received editorial mention by
the magazine in which it appeared.
The following extracts indicate the
trend of the writer's thought.
"A conscientious executive feels re-
sponsible both to the community he
serves and to the company that en-
ploys him, but his work and initiative
should not result in benefit merely to
the community. This attitude, per-
maps, Is not as public-spirited as it
should be, but it is a natural and per-
fectly human attitude
"A bonus system for utilities has
been suggested and partially tried.
Broadly 1t means sharing the
economies resulting from able man
agement between the company and
the community under the supervision
of public service commissions There
has been a recent decision in a West
ern state permitting a company to
capitalize the favorable location of it's
power plant at the mouth of a coal
mine to the extent of sharing this
advantage with the community. If
thus encouraged to effect economies
by building large power plants where
coal is cheapest other companies will
be able to offer lower rates to con-
sumers and return higher dividends
to stockholders. If there had been
no recognition of the claim to capital
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
Cost of Living in Canada
IBuffalo Express.l

The contention of some Democratic
newspapers that the restoration of the
Republican tariff would have raised the
cost of living in Northern States by
cutting off the importation of food
stuffs from Canada is negatived by this
fact; The cost of living is as high in
Canada as 1t is in this country. 1t
costs as much to live in Toronto as 1t
does in Buffalo. as much in rural On
tario as 1t does in rural New York or
rural New England.
When the Laurier government went
to the people of Canada on the reci-
procity issue in 1911 the principal argu-
ment in favor of a reciprocal trade
agreement with the United States was
that it would reduce the cost of living
in Canada to the level then obtaining
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
By BRIGGS

ize plant location, there would be little
incentive for others in that State to
take similar step, involving large
investments in new power plant equip
ment.
Several bonus methods have been
worked out in Great Britain, prin-
cipally for gas companies. For ex-
ample, standard price for gas and
standard rate of return are establish
ed, and as the price of gas is reduced
there is allowed a corresponding in
crease in rate of return to the stock
holders.
1t has also been suggested that
regulating bodies rate companies
periodically according to merit, and
then grant them higher or lower in
comes, depending on the rates and
service offered. Each property man
ager is thus in competition with the
records of previous years of his own
property as we'll as the present and
past records of other companies of the
same character. Consumers and
stockholders alike have real inter-
est in the ability of the management
to make good. Inefficiency means
lower dividends to the stockholder
and no benefits to the consumer.
Efficiency means higher dividends and
lower rates.
Mr.. Fleming works out a hypotheti-
cal table for an electric company
which shows that under a no-bonus
system the average rate per kilowatt-
hour decreases from three cents at
the start to 2.95 in the first six months
and to 2.5 in the tenth year, while the
returns on the investment remain at
6 per cent. over the entire period.
Under the bonus system, on the other
hand, the rates decrease from three
to 2.25 cents in the same period of
time and the returns increase from
6 to rs per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge f. A. Bregy was dined by
friends in Philadelphia, in honor of
completing thirty years on the bench.
Bishop l.. l.. Kinsolving, of Bra
zil, will visit in Philadelphia this
n onth.
=. F.. Longmore, prominent in
Milton affairs, is the new head of
county Endeavorers.
John p. CARRIER, superintendent
of Philadelphia schools, has started
to probe the cost of school lunches in
Philadelphia.
w. r. Nicholson. Philadelphia
banker, viii be given a dinner to-
night at the New city club in honor
of his work for that organization.
Superintendent Davidson, of
Pittsburgh schools, is getting after
pupils who do scrawling writing.