French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-16

All men are porn eQuaI, out the Op-
portunitv is denied to many a good
friend so far as looking over the world
is concerned. For the mutual benef:
of Hustler readers whose home duties
prevented them from packing their
grips and "being off" to that region
recommended by Horace Greedy to
young men. Horace may have been
right Or he may have been wrong-no
doubt his advice was good for some,
out which would have proved bad for
others. "
There are epochs in the lives of all
of us, to which we may look back and
June, 1916. for more reasons than one
may be reckoned as an epochal pc
riod. Not alone because this writer
packed his grip and boarded the
Southern's Carolina Special, by way
of Knoxville and Louisville to st.
Louis as an initial point. Things
were happening down on the great
Mississippi river, in the city of ST.
Louis, as we'll as in the great Chicago
up on Lake Michigan. Our good
friend, John B. Sumner and many
other men were on their way to the
windy city and conversation with any
of them was sufficient to let n know
that these boys were hot under the
collar. Murdoch of Kansas, Hiram
johnson of California, Parker of Lou
isiana, as we'll as friend John B. and
many other Tennessee and Kentucky
Moosers, well knew before they got
there that Perkins and Teddy had sold
them out, lock, stock and barrel, II
you will excuse the expression. They
They made no secret in saying so. but
declared they had money enough to
foot their own bills and We're going to
be on the ground and see the stunt
gotten of, and now we can all look
back and see that the stunt was per
formed in cockalorum style. In 1912.
Theodore and the Moosers did the
work for Woodrow and in June, 1916,
the G. o. P. crowd again did the work
for our same woodrow. Let the
whole country rejoice and be glad for
the good work unwittingly done by
these two crowds Of political wire
pullers. It was by reason eff th"Ir
so doing that eight years Of pe3ee,
prosperity and happiness, has hee1
and will be enjoyed by one hundred
million of free American peo'.le
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June 1916, "a easy, pleasant and was
~righteously done, following the double
triggered action Of the Chicago boys.
Mr.. Editor. it is a hundred times
more delightful to take note of q
Southerner's trip to the great West,
in the good old yea 1916. since we
lave learned that the South and West
have united and given Us that great
man, woodrow Wilson, for President
without the aid Of Wall street, Tam
many Hall, Illinois and other great
centers of mammon Worshippers. Let
the South and West get together for
their interests are Identical. It is,
high time that the few money kings
and great commercial interests should
no longer control the political affairs
of forty-eight great American States
and 1916 will go down in history as a
great event in the governmental do
ings of the United States.
st. Louis was not only the place of
the great Democratic National Con-
VentiOn, in June, 1916, for the great
Evangelist Billy Sunday, gave the
Democrats to understand that he could
breath worked-over oxygen as that
crowd of tough customers, as he term
ed them. He said he was as fond of
good fresh aid as any Democrat, but if
they could stand carboniferous and mi
crobeous Mississippi River elements.
Sunday and the Lord would see if
they could do the same. His congre-
cations were immense.
If you start from New Orleans you
must go up the river 1900 miles to
reach st. Louis. If you come down
from st. Paul you must travel 720
miles. Twenty miles above the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi run together and
200 miles below, the Ohio, which is
our French Broad, runs into the great
father of waters. This city claims
100000 population, fronts for
miles on the river, is 8 miles wide |
and is so we'll above high water mark
that there is no danger of being food
ed. Purified water from the muddy
Mississippi is what the people drink.
They have over 400 miles of pipe lines,
costing over $40, 900, 900, over 400
miles of paved streets. $50 miles of
railway, libraries with more
than 100000 volumes; $50 Protestant
and so Catholic churches, 20 public
parks covering $500 acres of ground,
amphitheater seating 10000 specta-
tors. In the way OF people, they have
as many German, Irish, English, Ita1-
and Jews as native population and
there are 20 lines of railroad, either
crossing the city Or centering. at the