West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-08-31
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE
IN PRESENT CAMPAIGN


picting Roosevelt shooting the Moos,
through the brain saying as he pull.
the trigger: 1T hurts me worse thar
1t does you"
Thenceforward the Roosevelt wins
OF the Progressive party was maneu
vered into support of Mr.. Hughes. II
was thought to be propitious stroke
TO bring Mr. Roosevelt to table will
the candidate; and this happened-pri.
vately. OF course. like the previous
Roosevelt Bacon Root dinner. and yet
in the full glare OF the limelight
where all Roosevelt achievements take
place.
II was still better stroke, and a
bolder, that fetched George W. Perkins
TO subsequent feast with Mr.
Hughes-Perkins. the arch architect
OF the Harvester trust, now before
the court for a fragrant violation OF
the Sherman law; Perkins, whose Wig
orous prosecution Mr.. Roosevelt, as
President, had assured the writer
should take place Immediately; Per-
kins. who after the promised prosecu-
! tion had been secretly called OF in a
| confidential letter from Roosevelt to
Attorney General Bonaparte. became
the Roosevelt elt-Progressive cashier and
continued in this capacity until the
fateful day the Moose was tragically
sacrificed by It's noble ancestor.
All this may be news to Mr.. Hughes,
whose duties on the bench in recent
years have kept him from engaging
in politics. And yet IL is history
history so fresh in the minds of many
Republicans who would be glad to
vote for the candidate that they will
| expect him to explain his reasons for
dining with the slayer OF the symbolic
beast and fraternizing with the gem
tleman who deserves to be known la
conically as wall streets political
lightning rod"
1t is still early in the campaign, not
too late perhaps for MIR. Hughes, when
he reads this brief chronicle, to alb
solve himself and save his party from
the defeat 1t certainly would merit II
victory in November is to be won
through the cooperation OF the allied
promoters and defenders of monop-
oily.
Repeatedly have heen asked by my
Republican friends I'm North Dakota
and elsewhere what II Is that so dis
turbs the voters Of the country, caus-
ing tkey to make strange alliances"
and approve radical or "socialistic"
platforms. The answer involves little
difficulty
To my mind 1t is to be found in the
strong, persistent tendency toward alb
solutism in commerce, in finance, in
all Industrial affairs and in govern
mental administration itself.
1t is the natural reaction from ex-
treme and soulless methods on the
part of so-caIled big business"
1t is the inevitable expression OF the
popular mind against the successful!
efforts of combined capital to enslave
the producing classes, binding them
with the shackles OF perpetual indebt-
| edness in the form OF mountain of
interest bearing and dividend pToduc-
ing securities-securitie owned or
| controlled by the parasitic class Of
! non-producers.
IL is the protest of honest industry
against the crafty manipulation OF the
worlds wealth by a small fraction Of
men who have managed TO gain CON
troi OF all the avenues and instrumen-
talities of trade.
To this end the machinery of gov
ernments everywhere both republI.
can and monarchial. has bcon seized
and is being usep eithcr openly or
sedulously.
In Europe the eystem's program on
~ recently eliminated I'm the most ter.
iilic as well as ths most scnseless AMI
inexcusable war the world ass evor
known-a war whose cost already ap-
proximates close upon a hundred bill
lions OF dollars, represented by bondg
which even the rashest OF hnanciers
will not contend ever are to be paid
In truth the problem now sorely
perplexing European governments is
how even the interest charges upon
this enormous indebtedness, piled like
Ossa upon PelIon atop the resources
OF the affiliated nations. shall be met
And all this TO steady the tOttering
crowns on unworthy heads!
In the United States the new kind
Of slavery is still in It's infancy. Here
It is being capitalized under the Sc
ductivo guise Of prosperity" minus
any compassion whatever for the mil
lions who are doomed 70 bear the in
creasing burden forever. generation
after generation.
We're Mr. Hughes TO relate these
facts in his speeches and make his
platform of them, after November sth
there would be but one political party
In the United States-the Justice par
" with Charles Evans Hughes az its
indutiable prophet.
Instead, like his predecessor candi-
dates. he glldes smoothly over the un-
derlying causes BY saying that no one
class Of our citizens can prosper with
out the help Of all other classes.
This is true in substance. yet II does
not 60 to the vitals in pointing out
the cause or In Offering a remedy, In
deed A fa doobtfuf ~ AZ Ffo~t,co h..