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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
THAT FULL DINNER PAIL.

Relying foolishly upon the full din
ner pail to accomplish for them what
1t has so often accomplished for the
Republican party, the Democrats pro-
coed to pile extravaganza upon ex-
travagance and to make fiabby claims
of being at peace, even when we are
at war. says the Detroit Journal.
For the dinner pail has been filed
with munition money, which presently
must be supplanted by the true coin
age of protected American industry
after the war.
And while the dinner pail Is full,
observe with what inflated foods.
This administration promised the
worker a lower cost of living. But,
as matter of fact. to the worker
Democratic prosperity is false pros
perity. 1t is a mirage.
Every man with a dinner pail
knows that. unless his wages have
been increased 20 per cent. under
Democratic munition prosperity, he Is
poorer than he was four years ago.
For Wilson rents are from 20 to 40
per cent. higher; the Wilson meat,
the Wilson sugar and the Wilson wool
are 40 per cent higher, and the VIII
son steel and tin and household goods
are from 20 to 40 per cent. higher
The Wilson bread has advanced
faster than the Wilson wage, and the
Wilson taxes have risen higher than
the Wilson prosperity.
Democracy may have enriched the
munition manufacturer. but has II
enriched the worker, whose cost OF
living has increased faster than his
earnings?
Ii the Administration can re-eleci
itself on the ground that the worker
is obliged to move out of his home
into an inferior one. or has to double
ND In tenements and to take In board
ers to make up for his loss OF eco
nomic advantage under the present
increased cost OF living. then there Is
no reason why the Administration
should not be rs extravaganza I'm Ia
taxes as IL choosed-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
FROM HUGHES
SPEECHES.

what Is the Presidents pol
icy-does anyone know? Has
the Executive ever had policy
for more than six months ON
the Mexican question:
"If I am elected President
will see to 1t that American
rights in Mexico are respected"
"There Is no man who could
successfully present to an Amer
lean community the platform
that an American citizens
rights stop at the coast line"
"We will get through with
this old strife between capital
and labor. We are not lborers
and capitalists in this country.
We are fellow-citizens."
"AlI that the workingmen
want is square deal"
1--WE want the United States
efficiently managed. 1 want to
see men In office who believe
in prosperity"
1.-THE Republican Party stands
for prosperity produced by
sound American policies"
1--WE have removed from office
men of experience and substi-
tuted others to satisfy partisan
obligations. This must STOP"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
A PICTURE OF HUGHES.

The New York World, which once
was outspoken in it's admiration for
MIR. Hughes, now declares that the
people do not know where Hughes
stands, or what he stands for. This
Wilson organ had NO such criticism
TO make when Mr.. Hughes was gov
ernor. The World said on May II,
1910: He dictated NO nominations,
controlled no convention. traff1cked I'm
no patronage, made no bargains with
officehOlders. He has rewarded no
body for supporting him and punished
nobody for opposing him. What In
fiuence he has welded over public
opinion has come through his appeals
to the voters themselves" That is
the estimate of Mr.. Hughes given by
the World six years ago. 1t is
pretty fair letter of recommendation.
Could the World say as much for
President Wilson? Hardly, for the
president has done all of the things
from which the World absolved
Hughes. Kansas City Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
POINTS FROM
HUGHES SPEECHES

Reckless exUavagancs Of the
Democrats is an insult to the
American people.
Deserving Democrats Deserv-
ing In heavens name of what7
We have a splendid system of
government, on paper, but we
want that system vitalized.
The pork barrel bin brings a
blush of shame to the cheeks of
every American
/ am here because 1 have a
vision of what America needs.
An idle American will always
feel uncomfortable.
America will not hold her own
by high-sounding phrases.
Are we not nation great
enough to have sufficient fore
sight to protect our borders in
a sensible fashion by means of
sensible preparedness7
IL we state our rights In a firm
and determined manner 1t
should carry conviction There
should be no vacfIlation In con-
nection with that assertion
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The question habit grows. Yol
may ask a question Of any one. Why
should the dear old public escape
Here are a few from The New Yorh
Sun for the man In the street:
Do you approve Of the Rivers anc
Harbors Ioot7
Do you want four years moro Of watch
full waiting with the National
Guardsnen undergoing military
training in a tropical climate in mid.
summer?
Do you hold that the duty OF tire
United States is to serve humanity
and let its own citizens be killed
and outraged
Do you feel proud Of notes with MOTH
Ing behind them?
What do you think Of the Vera Cruz
adventure?
Would you like to have been an Amer
lean soldier at carrixaI?
De you love Carranza7
Do you believe in a financial regime
conducted largely in the interest Of
one section of the country?
Do you desire to cut the Philippines
loose in order that Japan may gobbIe
them?
Do you want four more years of
Daniels2
J Do you approve of wrecking the dipIo.
matte service to provide Jobs for
deserving Democratic
Are you In favor of inf1ation2
Do you believe in preparedness for
flood of cheap European wares as
soon as peace comes2
Have you noticed the significant in
crease Of imports in the past year,
despite the war;
How did fool free trade hit your line
of business before August, 19142
And your friends2
Were you all cheered up by the Un-
derwood tariff biII7
Do you think the doubling Of the
income tax 10 fair while miIIions'
worth Of competitive imports come
In free?
Where are you going to be when the
war babies die and business slips
back to the cold, hard, normal basis?
Can you conceive of any possible
good to you or to the country from
another Presidential term like the
, present one?
Will you perpetuate sectionaIism,
greed, ignorance, stupidity-generaI
ineptitude in Congress?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
GUARDSMEN PAY THE PRICE
OF WILSON'S AMUSEMENT.

Having condoned the repeated
murders of Americans by the
Carranzistas, and having abased
himself before Carranza, and
having aided in placing Carran-
Ia in power, what is Mr.. VIII
sons reWard7 and who pays it2
The reward IS that MIR. Wilson
has to place 10000 troops on
the border to partially prevent
the raids and murders that his
friend Mr.. Carranza will not or
cannot prevents and the pay
ment is made by the soldiers
who are slain and by the fam
lilies of the guardsmen who go
in want because their husbands
and fathers have been called to
the border to make good Mr..
Wilson's refusal to let the requ-
lar army administer such punish
ment to the bandits as to inspire
in them healthy fear.-From
the speech of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered at Lewis
ton, Maine, ia behalf of Charles
e Hughes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
HOME OF AVERAGE MAN.

But America Is not simply a
land for the man of special tai
ent or of distinguished aptitude.
This Is the home of the average
man. the ordinary man who Is
doing his best, whatever, by tai
ent or aptitude and In our large
Industrial occupations where
thousands are gathered together
in one service, we want a recog-
milton of human brotherhood In
providing for the welfare of
those who make the wealth of
this great country.
I'VE want workingmen to be
safeguarded from every injury
that can be prevented. We
want the health of the work
ingmen looked after; every
means provided which conduces
to- the proper standpoint of uv-
ing; every means provided for
proper recreation: appropriate
means for education, for voca-
donal training. In short the
workingman who is on the job
and expects to continue in that
job ought to feel that he is doing
something worth while for a
community that appreciates 1t
and gives him a fair chance to
lead q happy and decent life
From Mr.. Hughes speech at
Detroit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
The President himself has tried to

The President himself has tried to
appropriate for his own advantage
the sentiment of America first" The
Democrats have tried to make his sup
port an act of piety, by adopting
Thank God for Wilson," as a slogan
Mr.. Hughes, with rare courage, frank
ness and penetration, is exposing the
f1imsy foundation for the claims of
Wilsonian infallibility. He is laying
bare record of extravaganza. parti-
sanship. secdonalism, incompetence,
wrongheadedneSs, yaccillation and in
sincerity which destroys the attempt
to make joss out of the President.
The Democrats must come out of their
ecstadc trance and defend their stew
ardship- The President is to be put
on the stump We are to hear some
thing beside Delphic prose poems
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Mr. Wilson now virtually admits
that all his own ideas were wrong four
years ago. He has changed his mind
on every public question On some
of them he has changed twice or even
three times Even ff his friends could
satisfy the public at this time he is
exactly right, what assurance could be
given that he would be right a year
hencef
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
WILSON ADMITS HE
PRECIPITATED WAR

When Mr.. Wilson forgets him.
self he admits that we have
been at war; for example, on
May II, 1914, in an address over
the dead marines at the navy
yard in Brooklyn, he said that
the marines had been engaged
in "a war Of SERVICE" A war
of service to whom or to what?
Certainly not to the United
States; nor to Mexico; nor to
humanity at large Was It to
Mr.. WiIson7-From the speech
Of Col Theodore Roosevelt, de-
iivered at Lewiston, Maine, in
behalf of Charles e Hughes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The men and women who prefer a
man who does things to a man who
writes notes about them will vote
for Hughes Government by CORE
spondence takes too long to get any
where. but government by deeds Is
always on the job.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
QUESTION CRAZE
SEXES THE COP.
Democratic WORLD Long Had
Monopoly of This Idiocy But
Opposite Party Is Infected.
ISTRING OF INTERPRETATIONS
TO TEASE WILSON ID0LATERS

QUESTIONABLE No. Twill All the VIII
son Notes Be at His Notiffcation7
How Did Fool Free Trade Hit
Your Line Of Business Just Before
the Battles Began?-When the War
eabIes Die Will You Weep at the
FuneraI7
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
SACRIFICED coUNTRYs
HONOR AND INTEREST

Mr.. Wilson's defenders say he
has kept US out of war" AS
a matter of fact his policy in
Mexico has combined all the
evils of feeble peace with all the
evils of feeble war. He has Sc
cured none of the benefits of
war; but he has not avoided
war. He has sacrificed the hon.
or and the interests of the coun-
try; but he has not received the
thirty pieces of siIver-From
the speech of Col Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston,
Maine, in behalf Of Charles &.
Hughes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

While he was about it Senator
James Hamilton Lewis also might
have explained that the Rome that
was s'too proud to fight" died a rather
disastrous death.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Those who are concerned to know
what Mr.. Hughes would have done
had he been in Mr.. Wilson's place
may rest assured he would not have
done as Mr.. Wilson has. And that
Is answer enough.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The Democrats are finding out that
pork comes home to root out their
standing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
POLITICAL J0TTNCS

At that. however. from beginning
TO end this has been more OF you
kick me and I'll kiss you" administra-
ten.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

3 Vance McCormick says the Progress
sives are stampeding to Wilson. and
it's ten to one bet he wishes he
could believe 1t
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The Houston Post reasons that 1t
was easier for its own beloved De-
mocracy to endorse the Presidents
Mexican policy than to define it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

I'm all fairness" asks the Boston
Transcript. Shouldn't the expense OF
financing Carranza be borne by the
Democratic campaign committee?"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Democrats really haven't any OBJ
lection to big appropriations for army
and navy and internal improvements
They expect the Republicans to rustic
the revenue to foot the bills for the
next four years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Mr.. Hughes is not only going direct
to the public, but the public is going
direct to him. A genuine American
'1fty-fftyI
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16
RHPUBLIGA THRIFT IS !
SQUANDERED BY WILSON
Built Panama Canal Out of Cur
rent Revenues, Periodically
boarding Bonds in Treasury
Which Democrats Fitch
to Hide a Deficit.
CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY
IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

Senator Penrose Believes the Looted
Condition of the Treasury Will
Necessitate the Withholding of
Contracts for Battieships and De-
lay the Whole Scheme of Prepared
ness Nations Money Frittered
Away to Finance Hare-Brained and
III Advised Projects.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

President Wilson's alarm clock Is
ringing at o'clock these mornings.
He can reach out of bed and turn 1t
OF the morning of March 5.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Hughes says he would like six
months to investigate the Administra-
ton. but the Administration figures
he's doing very well as it is.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

ringing at o'clock these mornings.
He can reach out of bed and turn 1t
OF the morning of March 5.
Postmaster General Burieson Is too
foxy politician. to adopt for his de
partment the McAdoo rule forbidding
Treasury department employees parti-
cipating In politics. Mr.. Burieson re-
Allies that postmasters are entitled
to some exercise for the money.
There are no strings or mental res
ervations to the public pledges Of ad-
ministrative reform given by Charles
e. Hughes. His record as governor
OF New York guarantees the fulfill
ment OF every promise.
Democrats are now convinced that
Charles Evans Hughes is a warm pro-
position.
1t Is gratifying. indeed. to find that
Mr.. Wilson still stands on the suffrage
question where he stood at the begin,
ming of his administration. He has
changed on about everything else.-
Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
1t strikes one that instead of wildly
hustling for the State of Maine. Vance
Mccormick might do better work by
taking his wrecking crew to the West
to repair the Democratic bridges that
are being dynamited by Justice
Hughes. =.
According to the weeks latest work
of fiction
Book, the wage-earners Of the country
received during the Wilson Admins
tration $4,000. OOO.O 900 more than they
received under Taft. And all 1t cost
them to keep something In the dinner
pail was $4,000. OOO. 900 more.
tiers In Washington recently, the first
assistant pOstmaster-general lauded
the postal savings system. That must
have been bitter pill for Postmaster
General Burleson. who sat on the same
platform with his assistant. When the
postal savings bill was passed, Mr..
Burleson. then a Congressman from
Texas, voted against it. Every vote
cast against it was cast by Demo
crat- Not one Democratic Congress
man voted for it. Yet President Will
son says the Republican party has not
had new idea in thirty years. Whose
idea was it7
1t was the instinct of q lawyer for
Hughes to support his damning charg-
es against Wilson, by calling Wilson's
own secretary of state as a witness
to prove them.
Mr.. Hughes says there should be
firm dealing in Mexican affairs. May
be so; but we have had enough of
the firm of Wilson. Carranza & Co.
The impression is growing at the
White House that Mr.. Hughes is DELHI
erately unfriendly. Look out for notes.
IL those Democratic notifiers put Off
their notifying much longer they may
ind Mr.. Wilson in no mood to accept
u PnIMTS ERnM
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Yes, and the same policies that have
filled Judge Hughes and others with
"a deep sense of shame" have sent
many other Americans to their graves.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The President has changed his mind
about sending more troops to the Dor
der. thus running true to form.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

When Tom Taggart talks economy
to them. it is. time the Democrats
stopped their extravagance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

The Hughes smile Is beginning to
attract favorable attention.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

President Entertafns Five Progress
sives--Headline. Others he simply
amuSeS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Postmaster General Burieson Is too
foxy politician to adopt for his de
partment the McAdoo rule forbiddins
Treasury department employees part
cipating In politics. Mr.. Burieson re
Allies that pOstmasters are entitled
to some exercise for the money.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

Democratic papers chfde Hughes be-
cause he says he is 100 per cent. a
candidate" The Wilson papers nat
uraiiy prefer a fiftg-fifty candidate.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-16

First they said that Hughes was an
Iceberg. now they are saying that he
Is a mud-slinger- He cannot possibly
be both, and as matter OF fact, Is
neither The Democrats must feel in
a mighty bad way when they cry
out mud and treason"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-08-25
MEN TOO YOUNG AT FORTY
SAYS MODERN SCIENTIST

various sorts, or even if they become
wage earners continue to look upon
themselves as girls They put off
marriage because they want to prolong
their good times as far as possible,
and the result is the beginning of
married life with forty just around
the corner.
1T is a fallacy to say that men do
their best work after forty, for all
history will show you that d'Israeli
was right when he declared that the
history of heroes is the history of
youth. The result is that we have few
really heroic men today. We have
men who invent marvellous things;
but the man who does great deeds ev-
cry day-the typical hero-is absent,
and he will never come to the fore un-
til men shoulder their responsibilities
and answer the call of ambition while
they still have the fire and strength of
their early twenties."
Certain it is that if Napoleon had
continued to cling to the idea of be-
ing young man and not yet old
enough to give up good times and
shoulder responsibilities he would not
have been an Emperor at thirty-five;
while Wellington, the victor at Water
loo, was himself at that time but for
ty-siX, having reached the zenith of his
trlumphs and been made Major Gen
, eral before he was thirty-three.
General Grant was so in favor of
youth in the army that he believed no
man should even command when he
reached fifty, while the leaders Of the
French Revolution were all men in
their twenties or early thirties
At thirty-seven Pope Innocent III.
was supreme ruler over the great Cath
olic world, and among the authors of
both yesterday and today the years be-
tween thirty and forty we're the great
est in their creative power.
AT twenty Keats, the poet, died,
having written his world-famed "Endy-
mion," at twenty-three, and while By
ron was barely grown to manhood
English Bards and Scotch Review
ers" won him renown for caustic wit.
Give, the great Englishman, who
virtually laid the foundation for the
empire in India, was only twenty-six
when he made his daring dash on
Arcot and held it for IL weeks against
1000 natives and 100 French soldiers.
, his own force being reduced to 80
Englishmen and 100 Sepoys.
Benjamin Franklin brought out his
Poor Richard Almanac when he vas
only 26, while at 23 George Washing
ton was Commander in Chief of all the
virginia forces, with the task of de-
Tending a frontier $50 miles long,
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his great
work, Mature" at 80: and so turning
the pages of the history of war, litera-
ture or art the triumph of youth is
obvious. and, according to psycholo-
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-08-25
Philadelphia American)

u hlld0Clphih AAhSA iSAAiJ
Modern life has thrust middleage in
to the background, and is fast elimin-
ating even the phrase "old people"
The man and woman of 40 consider
that youth is their prerogative and the
best of life is still before them. In
fact, the average bridegroom of today
is the man of 40; in 20 per cent of the
recent marriages in the United States
the brides were more than 35 and the
active members of country clubs and
dancing classes alike must plead gull
ty to being two score or more.
But instead of praising this energy,
scientists now declare that it is all
wrong; that there will be no great he
roes, no great achievements and no
building of great race until men and
women cease dallying with youth and
take up their responsibilities early,
and that in the meantime crime and
wrongdoing of all kinds are traceable
to the dangerous youthfulness of the
man Of 40.
The records of any country, accord
ing to the experts in sociology, will
show that An Is veritable dangerous
age for both men and women, Great
as are the temptations of youth, they
say, the perils of middle-life are far
greater. The man of 40 has more
strength of win, more keenness of
brain and more financial power than
the young man, and, as result, when
he does turn to wrongdoing, he almost
inevitably succeeds. In fact, statistics
on crime themselves show that the
forgers, the embezzlers, murderers, the
correspondents in the majority of di-
vorce cases, and the promoters Of get
rich-quick schemes are nearly always
men in their early forties, and that the
woman criminal is seldom in her first
youth
Therefore, says science, a man
should strive to achieve business sue
cess in his early youth; he should
marry young and face the perils of 40
with his wife. his home and his grow
ing sons and daughters as a protec-
tion against its dangers.
The answer of the average man to
this is the cry that the high cost Of liv-
ing prevents mans supporting fam
lily until he is nearly 40. and that II
he studies for profession he often is
well over 80 before lac begins practice.
The sciologists, however, declare this
might be eliminated If both men and
girls did not cling so desperately to
youth.
Education" they say, lis prolonged
more every year. School, college, post
graduate studies; the taking up OF a
four-year course for profession, then
the serving of an apprenticeship at 1t
all these things bring man to thir-
ty still considered as a college lad On
the other hand, the women after leav-
ing school plunge into the gayeties OF