The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-10
Editorial Comment

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IS Editorial Comment IS
Bryan butts, Wilson tuts.
watchful waiting maketh woeful
wanting.
Candidate Hughes doesn't talk like
a tut-tutter.
Hughes is hammerins and the Demo
Gratis are yammering.
The Wilson Administration STANDS
for taxes, and more taxes.
The Hughes trail will be cold by
the time the Democrats strike 1t.
AS a party leader, would it be fair
to refer 70 J. Ham Lewis as J. PORK
! Lewis?
Bryan says Mr.. Hughes talks aren't
judicial. No. The people can under
stand 'em perfectly.
Can the folks on the Democratic
band wagon continue to play by the
Presidents notes?
Hughes says the country can't be
saved by letting 1t drift. That's where
he and W. Wilson differ.
| Washington reports that new apol-
ogy has been sent to First Chief Car
rama. Looks like a habit
Mr.. Bryan is mistaken when he says
Hughes is "vitriolic." The candidate
is merely applying the acid test.
A messenger of President Wilson
found out that Colorado women were
| for the administration. No messenger,
of course, can be blamed for making
good.
Political opponents are beginning to
find that why Mr.. Hughes kept silence
SO long wasn't because he had lost
his tongue.
Another encouraging feature about
our new navy Is. that when 1t Is com
, pleted, Mr.. Daniels will not be secre
tary Of 1t.
If the Democratic leader who ad
vocates putting dyes on the free list
to encourage the industry were a sur
geon his method of setting a broken
limb would be to amputate the pa
TENTS leg at the neck.
Optimism Ia what makes the Demo
cratic party, which has fooled some
of the people only three times in fifty
years, and has never yet fooled all
OF the people some of the time, think
that it can now fool all of the people
all of the time.
President Wilson hasn't been able
to figure out yet whether he is going
to be ON the stump or up one.
If the paper shortage becomes much
more serious the first thing we know
the machinery of the State Depart
ment will be coming to an abrupt stop
Then, too, according to the Demo
cratic campaign book that among the
more important enactments of the
Wilson Administration may be men
toned Magma Charta and the Ten
Commandments.
Secretary Redfield converses glibly
in terms of billions until it comes
time to make a campaign contribu
ton when it is disclosed that all
he really knows about mathematics
is $500.
Everything has gone up under vii
son except the price Of dead Ameri
cans.
Senator Jimham Lewis has pur
chased new volume of Unfamiliar
Quotations" and expects to be able
any day now to give US the classical
derivation of 'pitiless publicity" and
"strict accountability" in the origina.
Babylonan.
Add famous sayings of history: u
will surrender on this line II 1t takes
all summer!"
The Democratic revenue bill, al
completed, is regarded as so perfect
that the chances are that the tax
payers of New York, Massachusetts
and Illinois will be able to build 5000
more miles of good roads in Alabama
next year.
Mr.. Hughes is talking to the wo
mon of the land In the homely Ian
guage of the Preside and we expec
to witness an impressive rallying o
the sex on the first ironing day ate
the first wash day in November.
Motto of the McAdoo shipping law
! "The sun never rises on the American
flag"
A Democrats idea of an ideal watch
dog Of the Treasury is a Pommeran
ian.
Mr.. Wilson is now busily engaged
working the other side Of the suffrag'
street.
The campaign agents who two year
| ago were busily engaged thanking Coz
for Woodrow Wilson seem to be tax