The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-15

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because your family grows too large
| for the little vine covered cottage in the
| sive party has been accomplished and
| that it Is now time to turn the country
| over to the very men he condemned.
! If the mission of the progressive party
| has been accomplished, then to the
democratic party belongs the honor,
for what has been written 1t has writ
ten; what has been done, it has done.
Fairness, however, compels the state
ment that the nomination of Mr..
Hughes fulfilled the promise to recall
| the judiciary. The evangelist has pro-
nounced the benediction and adjourned
| the camp meeting sine dec. The high
way is again to be narrowed to a
squirrel track under the control of
| the same men against whom and whose
methods quarters of the Amer
| lean voters solemnly protested four
years ago. If proof be needed, look
around you anywhere. If they are not
upon the ticket or in control OF the
party machinery, it Is the exception,
not the rule.
In accordance with custom, the great
political parties have nominated can
didates and endeavored to present to
the people what they are pleased to
call the issues of this campaign. These,
in ordinary years, would be accepted
as the issues. But this is an abnormal
year. You cannot interest bridegroom
in the tariff nor a widow in the cof-
fin trust Civilization Is turning cor
ner and the people are more inter-
ested in getting around 1t safely than
they are in the Character OF the load.
The American people this year nave
made their own issue. Those that the
parties present may be only side Is
sues. If the side issues square with
the main issue, we'll and good. II not,
the people will settle the main issue
first, the side issues afterward. true,
we can mourn more sincerely IL we
be named in the will but whether a
legatee or not the thing to do nrst
ia TO bury the corpse, then to read the
will
THRIVE ON OFFICE
So multiform are the thoughts and
interests of this people that here and
there may be found men interested
primarily in the side issues. Chief
among them are those republicans who
can live. but who do not thrive, out
of office. They have become so &C
customed to listening to their prophets
that they really believe, in the face
of the records of 1873, n, 81 and 1907,
that prosperity depends upon repub-
lican rule The present prosperity OF
the people is therefore the result OF
the war and in spite of democratic
rule although the war business Is a
negligible part of the business OF this
country. So they tender to the voter
a side issue phrased somewhat as fol-
lows: Temporary prosperity Is not es-
sentially permanent. You may die to-
morrow. Prepare to meet your God"
This cry comes from those whose
speeches fairly ooze with protestations
OF their faith in the brotherhood OF men.
But in the midst of their apostrophes
to the flag as the emblem OF liberty,
fraternity and equality, the far-reashing
hand of temporary prosperity clutches
them by the throat and chokes them Into
scmi-insensibility while the spectre OF a
one-legged or a one-armed remnant OF
the European conflict blood brother
under God, keeping himself from starva-
ton by selling some article In America,
rises before them
Straightway, this brotherhood OF men
is absorbed into the fatherhood OF SELF.
with a shudder these men realize how
true it is that temporary prosperity is
not permanent. Thank God for His
trustees who guard the squirrel track
for having discovered this for as before
it was too late. What must we do to
be saved? Trust the republican sooth-
saver to answer that the entrails have
disclosed that common prudence dictates
raising tariff duties so as to prevent the
dumping of pauper-made, cripple-m4de
and orphan-made goods upon our mar
ket to the detriment OF the American
working man and that while doing this
we should go out and pre-empt the mar
kets OF the world. How, II 1t be neces-
sary to protect our working men, we
can capture against these pauper-crip-
ple-orphan-made goods the markets of
the world where they may freely enter,
eludes the understanding of every intel
lect save those who blindly worship the
Baal Of Protection.
But the democratic party Is a grow
ing-a progressive party. Part of its
duty is to quiet the fears OF the timid.
II proposes that the social and eco
nomic Justice Of the tariff towards the
workingman shall have practical in
stead of a theoretical test It valves
it's ancient views as to- tariff COM
mission, now that the tariff has been
lowered and wealth has been made to
bear it's fair proportion of the burdens
Of government, and it proposes to as
certain the real purchasing difference
between the wage here and abroad, and
to put that difference into the tariff
schedule, if needed. which I doubt, and
that the difference shall go into the pay
envelope and not into dividends. What
the republicans used to fool. we shall use
to cheer. the weary heart OF labor.
PANICS NOT DREADED
Who now wants to hear about the
banking and currency system of THU
country? The honest business man nc
longer breads panic nor doubts that