Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-10-26

pagn this Rank and file voters are not talking and
political generals and colonies and captains and drum majors
are wholly at sea. You make any absurd claim pre-
diction wish and your neighbour who knows about
the situation and probable outcome than do you cannot
cessully dispute YOU
You know of democrats who will vote for Hughes and
OF republicans who will vote for Wilson and of pogrcssives
who will vote for both Republicans admit Wilson
n nca ms PATTY ana democrats admit HUGHES is superior to the
can see no further than the full dinner pail which they carry
have struck permanent democratic prosperity You hear men
of different parties say Wilson has kept us out war despite
forced TO admit as announced in the Sunday papers that
are technically at with Mexico now 10 say nothing
with our Mexican neighbours
We have played at long Mcxicans and Germans
while ne With equal persistence claimed he enjoyed said vea
e We have becoss e poc %G acto s
ana actresses in some States In the words of the immortal
and women merely players Or perhaps more exact
DuBaras about the time said he world but
Nobody believes for example the reckless charge of Pres
ident Wilson that the election of Hughes would war;
r1tion begin to mouth the words morsel Of truth
mean the country will go to the eternal bowwows but for the
time being republicans play this will and the is
with T Gmino o storm 1 clouds in the background
voters OF this country are thinking for themselves
and regarding with plying gances the political play
Democrats do not forget that 50 conspicuous leader of
traton because of its alleged hypocrisy and the trend Of the
course of the government at Washington toward Yet
whom Roosevelt taught in 1912 against the
publican party because corrupt have not forgotten that
fact when he tries to lead them back into the fold in 1916
The men and women of America are not blind. Much
They realize the extent TO witch they are being asked to pv
that the other fellow is the deep villain who moment ago
the hero Of the political drama versa principally
We believe the and women of this great nation ca-
plant their feet in this unparalleled presidential campaign in
an unparalleled stuaton both national and International
The first and al-peVading question for all Americans is
this are we keeping the American flag the heights
which carried by the fathers in the Revolutionary per
iod and in the Civil war? Are forcing the world
ME the protecting folds Of the Stars and Stripes to-day
Men and women are answering this question for them
selves IN the nner chambers of their hearts They
welt insisted that the American flag must stand the emblem
OF true American sovereignty for Americans not only
own soil but on the highways Of the seas.
Men and women are asking themselves the the
head OF the political parties of to-day standing for the
sure prosperity Of an abiding nature as did No Tepub
can and Randall democrat and host Of al-seeing statesmen
Now more than before, Americans warned
stand for the carrying out of the trade-ahome policy
well as in the nation at large. We beholdng world
wide object lesson Of the advantages of this policy in
When the European began the entente allies believed
As the war has progressed however the world has seem the
Germans keeping their vast supply of money at home and
certainty that much Of it would back The Ger
mans trading at home and Lincoln is alleged to have
said result of this protection they have the goods and
the too whereas if they had bought abroad they would
simple have the goods and the other fellow have the
money.
Men and women are thinking Of their rights peace
well Of their rights Americans If say the
has right raise your wages men and women
realizing that in effect you also saying the government
has right to lower If insist that the govern
ment has the right to take from another person
give TO it also has the right to take money from
give another still less avoraby situated than YOU
The passenger engineers who thought they helping
the freight engineers by threatening strike and thus push
ing the force b through Congress- have already begun to
protest because they find in doing theY led the govern
met to vote for reduced pay for themselves and also
the poorypad railroad employees through higher prices Of
their necessities to help pay the increase the Wepaid
gmeers and other trannen That is question which reaches
far beyond political parties.
This issue involves of the fundamental PRINCIPLES Of
democratic government When surrender to the gov
erment the right to establish what each shall earn
and receive for commodity have sell whether Ia
Dor or farm products shop products be
egn citizens That principle and that surrender Of nda-
mental right the whether the action of the govern
ment would raise values lower values. That means u
mate socialism,
Never before were many national and international
questions involving the individual rights Americans com
bned in campaign in that of 1916 reference to
Of them at
When the mariner is in danger of losing his bearings at