The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-12
BY EDGAR lLIFF.

There is a good deal of stuff and
nonsense talked about high cost OF
living hard times" depressed bust
ness and the tyranny of capitalists. y
Things do sort of get out Of whack
and business seems to be "off its
feed once in while, but that there
is the widespread misery, ruin and
despair that the bowling dervishes in
political vaudeville would have us be-
lieve cannot be proved at all. There
is always hardship somewhere. There
is poverty forever-it is one OF the
eternal things guaranteed by Scrip
ture. There is forever a necessity for
labor, patience and economy.
Men must work and women weep
While the harbor-bar goes moaning"
Hard Times Somewhere.
1t is raining some place every hour
OF the day and night, and there are
hard times" somewhere all the time.
But the imagination plays us false. A
dozen croakers can stir up a. whole
town A few miscreants can wreck
a bank. A fool can scare a whole vii
lage into cholera or set the Oldest in
habitant crazy over mad dog" The
main trouble in this world is that the
bad, the crooked and the wrong side
of anything is more contagious than
the good, the straight and truthful
side
The disease spreads through befud-
died brains which nature never guar
anteed. Men who earn more than
last year begin to croak Merchants
whose books show a gain put on long
faces and talk about the ruin that
stares us in the face Debts are put
off, purchases deferred, women put
upon short domestic rations, children
lectured, vacations stopped and every
body gets the monetary measles. And
then come the cries, IT'S the trusts"
Its the privileged classes" Its the
tariff" IT'S the capitals who is grind
ing the American people ito slaves"
Put Shoulder to Wheel.
What contemplate scrapegoat for
our own pusillanimity!
If everybody would stop this non
sense and put his shoulder to the
wheel the car Of progress would run
with fewer creaking wheels and with
less danger of an open switch. 1t has
been sidetracked several times by the
great American scarecrow screaming
under the plumage of the eagle. If we
all get on the main lines and give the
car push it will go lippity-cut. It's
a good deal better for a man to give
his wife a dollar now and then than
it is to throw away good money on
delegates to high sounding
Observation-Disclosures who toll about
as much as the lilies of the field.
Have Individual Ideas.
We all have our own individual
opinions as to what would cure our
ills and bring the other fellow to his
senses, but let's not talk politics until
after supper and then do it in the
serenity of good, solacing cigar. Let's
not tie up to patent nostrums in any
thing. There is nothing new in states
1t is the same old rule of
twelve inches to foot, sixteen ounces
to pound, four quarts to gallon
and four pecks to bushel. Quackery
and humbug do not last long any
Common sense is the basis
Of society and rules in the end, cost
what it may. You may fifty apply this
to the political cattle drivers There
would be a blamed sight more acct
dents if the horses didn't have more
sense than the drivers.
People Doctored to Death.
Many sick man has been doctored
20 death. On many a tombstone
should be carved the words: Talked
% DEATH The monetary and com
nercial condition of the country is
often the sick man, and often is the
invalid ready to flop down on our
hands from the doctoring and clamor-
ng at the bedside. The doctors of
finance would have killed the golden
goose long ago if it hadn't had a cast
ron constitution. Our prosperity has
been in spite of quack nostrums and
AXE money doctors.
Goodness, how time flies! Twenty
hree years ago this pen reported the
chicago silver convention. Governor
Waite of Colorado, made speech and
'aid 1T is better, infinitely better, !
'ather than our liberties should be de-
;troyed by the tyranny that is OPP
pressing mankind all over the world, |
hat we should wade through seas of
olood-yes, blood up to our horses |
,ridles" There was tremendous ap-
clause. The reporters slid down in
heir seats to cover their laughing |
aces. It's your everyday chronicler |