Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

WHICH, the arllStS say, is SymD0llcal or
the dawn of new day. The design
fits the times. The American goddess
OF liberty has been having hard time
of it for the past three years and the
new day which these new coins typify
is about to dawn. The goddess is not
the only one who is looking for that
rising sun of prolonged Republican
day in power.
A Massachusetts, free trader takes the
trouble OF writing to the newspapers
to say that he will vote for Wilson. We
cannot decide who wasted the more
energy-the man who wrote the letter
or the editors who printed it.
The demonstration against Mexico
will serve one useful purpose for the
Democratic administration-all the big
appropriations can be charged up
against it.
1t is scarcely to be expected that
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo will
agree with anybody else as to the con-
dition of the Treasury at any particular
time, but he certainly ought to be able
to agree with himself. On June 80,
1915, he issued statement saying that
the excess of ordinary expenditures
over receipts for the fiscal year ending
on that date was $35, 1864, ,3S1 Sc. A year
later he issued a statement which in
cluded statistics for the same period,
but saying that the excess of disburse-
ments for the year ending June 80,
1915, was $42, ,S67, 1873. If any Demo-
crat is in doubt as to these two con-
flicting statements having been issued,
let him write 10 the Secretary of the
Treasury and get the statements for
June 80, 1915 and 1916, both of which
give figures for 1915, but differing as
above stated. What would Secretary
McAdoo do to a National Bank whose
statements covering identically the
same period of time varied as much as
that?
When Vance Mccormick gets his
campaign movies in operation we shall
look to see "The Wobblings of Wood
row" featured alongside of "The Perils
of Pauline" and the Limitations of Imo-
gene" and the Lamentations of Lydia
Immediately upon receiving news of
the nomination of Hughes and Fair
banks, Guy Bell, editor of the Irvine,
KY, Sun, worked up a Republican
meeting and had a Hughes-Fairbanks
club organized within sc hours after
the Convention adjourned. If that is
the pace they follow in Kentucky, we
can tell where the Kentucky vote will
be cast in November.
Whenever you see a Democratic
newspaper publishing statistics show
ing how much better business is in any
line at the present time as compared
with last year or as compared with
1914, sit down Immediately and write
him letter asking him to publish COM
parative statistics showing business
conditions under tire Democratic tariff
law, before the war began, as compared
with the corresponding period under
the Republican tariff law. You may
not get the editor to publish the statis-
tics, but you will give him something to
feel ashamed of.
In preparation for a possible war
with Mexico, the government has pur-
chased long line of commodities which
the publicity agents of the Wilson ad-
ministration have been denying the
title of "war orders" when sold to
Europe. Blankets, for instance, are
not munitions of war" when swelling
our export trade, but they suddenly
become munitions when we need them
for our own soldiers on the way to the
border.
The itinerant peddler is destroyer
of local business enterprises. He pays
no taxes, he pays no rent, hires no help
buys no clothing or lumber or hard
ware, or jewelry of the local merchants.
He employees no local attorney patron
ICES no local dentist, contributes to nc