Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-29

In other words, both houses had voted 6
partial report Of the conference commit
[ lions for the year; then there was a ight
! over the half-and-half. The half n6
half was retained and the appropriations
remained as they. had already beer
| agreed upon.
mo Reason to Fear"
| ''On the other hand. if the half and.
half had been abolished, the appropria-
lions would have remained the same, the
| taxes would have remained the same anG
it would have made no difference to any.
body in the world. The half-and- halt
has never existed as a precise matching
of dollars between the District revenues
and the federal revenues. In some years
\ the District has paid less than half, in
other years more than half. There is
however, not the slightest reason to
fear. whatever happens to the so-called
| half-and-half principle. that Congress
will desert the National Capital. The
| people of the United States would not
permit that. for they are proud of their
capital and want it to be the greatest
| city of its kind in the world.
THE people of the District of Columbia
should pay such taxes as the people of
other cities of like size in the United
States. No Washingtonian desires to
do less than this; no Washingtonian de-
sires to shirk his fair share. More than
this. no American wants any Washing
tonian to pay more. For that reason the
real basis of the adjustment should be
that the people here pay fair tax. such
as Is paid by the residents of cities of
similar size in the United States, and
whatever else is needed to keep up the
federal capital should come from the
United States Treasury"
Tells Why He Supports Wilson.
Hugh Gordon Miller of New York.
one of the original revolutionists who
broke away from the republican party
in 1912 to form the progressive party.
dashed the perkins check book fac
ton" of the bull moose. and told why
the loyal members of the progressive
He said, in part:
We approve the attitude of our Pres.
ident in his struggle for humanity at
home and abroad. With Thomas A.
Edison. we observe their wonderful
hindsight. but in common with the
other independent voters who are about
to render judgment we note their lack
OF foresight. We feel that no Ameri-
can President since Lincoln has had
to face such difficulties as he has. We
are incensed that at such time and
under such circumstances our erstwhile
leaders should call the President of
the United States a 'weakling' and a
coward These ambitious men, who
are now SO gifted with hindsight, when
what this nation and the whole world
needs is foresight, are unpatrfotic in
letting their partisan passion. zeal and
prejudice so carry them away at such
a critical time; a time when all Amer
leans should be standing shoulder to
shoulder and facing armored belligerent
and war-mad Europe with a solid front.
Says Roosevelt Is "on Rampage"
Their nominee has no program. even
yet, of his own. He has tried one
picayune issue after another. only to
drop 1t and try another. The only
leader on the other side who has an is
sue is Theodore Roosevelt. He is on
rampage and the issue he raises is one
of general belligerency and may lead
to war.
I'VE progressives may be without a
party for the time being, but we are
not without country. thanks to the
patience and perseverance Of the great
President. That is one great reason
why he grows stronger and his op-
ponent grows weaker every day.
II say we are at peace with all the
world and. comparatively considered in
conjunction with the real wars of the
day, we are at peace. As matter of
history there is nothing new about the
Mexican situation Hughes, and Roose-
Welt make SO much of except a good
chance of a fair and final understand
ing and settlement of our relations
with that distracted country without
armed Intervention, from which all our
Presidents have shrunk and from which
all good people must Of necessity
shrink.
Says President Is Leading.
. forward and not backward must be
the order of the universe. We cannot
stand still and we must mot move
backward. President Wilson Is lead
ing and moving forward and carrying
his party with him. The republican
party. in spite OF the lesson we
taught it in 1912, is still facing back
ward. Wilson is for humanity first and
property second, and Hughes. and the
republican party are still for property
first and humanity second.
Right here we might drive peg-or
more properly a post. This is the fun
damental difference today as it was in
1912 between the two great contending
forces, the forces of progress and reac-
ton, though we have today only two
parties in the field instead of three as In
1912 The lines. however. are drawn Just
as clearly. The line of cleavage Is un-
street and property first and pre-emi-
nently Wilson represents humanity. as
typihed In the United States. Our OPP
ponents illustrate the situation only too
well when they sneer at Wilson as the
President of humanity" as they ex-
press it. and mean thereby to make that
expression one Of ridicule and contempt.
On the other hand. We believe that un-
Willingly they declare the true issue of
this campaign. but pay to Woodrow
Wilson the greatest compliment that could
be paid to a man in the twentieth cen
fury. 1t Is the same tribute which CRATE