South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-07
THAT FOOLS PARADISE.


After all we may well take the charitable view and
allow Mr. Hughes and his little echoes to rave on in
their FOOLS paradise" We must remember that the
sudden transportation republican soup houses
and republican bread Ines'-due 10 the system
the republicans gave usto democratic prosperity with
more men employed better pay than ever before in
the history of nation liable the head of
any 100 percent republican candidate"
we must bear in mind that when gamblers in
the Wall street gambling pit longer be secretly
place. physical possession the United States treas
ury while they declare money panic and use this
treasury with which business of the country
and make millions for themselves when this condition
has suddenly changed and the people control their own
treasury and make panics impossible shall marvel
that Mr. Hughes should with alarm the discom-
fort OF the who pouring millions into his cam
paign and decide that the people have all gone
mad in a desire TO govern themselves?
Sen. Reed of Missouri who was chairman the
committee investigating the notorious and infamous
a1uhal lobby which employed to debauch national
legislators and secure the enactment laws the
suppression Of the hundred millions of people de-
scribed the situation most graphically in speech
which ne said:
Well perhaps we do dwell in FOOLS par
adise But in the laboring who, jobless
and his family in want groped in the desert
OF republican hard times during the Roosevelt
panic. and the Taft stringeney is quite
content 10 enter that fools paradise.
THE man whose wages have been increased
every year under the Wilson administration.
who is better able educate his children. to
buy shoes for feet that were once bare. and
TO substitute good clothes for the rags Of
poverty least enjoying a bit OF terrestrial
paradise even though Candidate Hughes may
call the paradise fool
The farmer who is receiving better price
for mis- crops than ever before paid in all the
history of the world may be farming in
fools paradise he IS getting the money
lifting the mortgage on his homestead
The president o. "a bankrupt railroad VIII
finds earnings increased twenty-seven percent
and transportation business running beyond his
capacity may be operating his road in "A fools
paradise but he is getting his company out of
debt
The small merchant who for years has been
struggling beneath a burden Of debt TO whole
sale houses may be doing business in "a fools
paradise. but he is moving from the debtor to
20 the creditor class.
The banker who has lain awake onishts
lest panic should convuse the world bring
him ruin. now realizing that the democratic
party has made II SO ne can az the till Of
government-controled bank transform his
good commercial paper into ready cash and
meet all emergencies may sleep and dream
the dreams OF paradise and wake content even
though Candidate Hughes tells him that his
dream the dream OF a fool.
II this be fools paradise may we dwell
forever
The answer is quite complete Not a panic in his
tory has been Wall panic. and this includes
the depression 1s13-l4 which began under Taft and
never abated until the democratic amendments 20 the
Aldrich- vreeand law clipped its wings and subsidized
9ny when the federal reserve bank law into eff
feet and those wings of completely. Now they
are gone 1t is painful Of course TO wall St. and It's
p0uucal imD0-but what s'.. do We care"