The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-04-15

that he did not think much of what
members of Congress thought about
public questions, and said further that
81 would a grea deal rather know
what the men on the trains and by the
wayside and in the shops and on the
farm are thinking about and yearning
for than hear any of the vociferous
pr CARNATIONS of policy which it is so
easy to near and SO easy to read by
pickihg Up scrap of printed paper"
We know what the people are talk
ing ahCGt and thinking about on the
trains, the men who actually run the
trains, who till the soil, and who work
in the shops, mines, and factories. We
live among them. We are out among
them at every opportunity. We see
them overy day by the score. They
are all talking peace and progressive
legislation. They don't want war.
They don't give a tinker's darn about
c1lete, risque. globe-trotters travelling
on armed British merchantmen, and
neither do they care who ticks the
Kaiser or whether the French regain
Alsace-L or Italy gets a slice
of Austria Hungary. They are per-
fectly willing to allow those foreign
ers to fight it out and want US to at
tend to our own business. Yes, bust
ness such as passing genuine rural
credits legislation, federal aid to
roads, the immigration bill, the defeat
OF the House rider which attempts to
murder parcel post, and other similar
leGi:le lion. That's what the men on
the trains, the families around the
hear II stone. and the men in the fac
tories and fields are talking about in
so far as they are talking about nat
ional and governmental questions and
problems. They have their class or
CARNATIONS which have repeatedly
adopted resolutions and sent legisla-
tive agents and representatives to
Washington to petition Congress and
urge the president to back these all
important propositions to them and
the country its peace and prosperity.
And now for a suggestion. Let every
reader of this article sit down and
write President Wilson, Washington,
d. c., few lines. He says he wants
to know, that he would rather know
what you farmers, you railroad engi-
reers, conductors, brakemen and en-
ginemen are thinking about than any
thing else. 1t is your duty to let him
know. He wants to know. Suppose
you write him, and when you write
him state your idea of what Congress
ought to do. and what ne ought to do,
whether fool around over these trivial
international rights OF our alleged
citizens to travel on armed merchant
men, or get down to business and pass
genuine rural credits, road. immigra-
ton. parcel post, and other legislation.
Write and when you write, suggest
that you hope in view of what he has
said at the Gridiron Club about want
ing to know what the folks think, the
plain country folks, suggest that you
don't want a perfunctOry reply from
Mr.. Joseph Patrick Tumultv to the
effect that you letter has been receiv-
ed and he (Tumulty) has been direct
ed. under general standing directions,
to acknowledge the receipt of the
same, Tell him you want him, the
president, to write you and to say that
he has read your expressions of opin-
ion and what you say and that you
want his and not Mr.. Tumulty's sigma
ture to hand to your future genera
tons as legacy from one president
that wanted to know what the plain
folks in the field, factory and mine
thought. And when you write friend
or relative suggest that that friend or
relative write the president and write
some other friend or relative to write
him. Start chain of letters that
will let him know sure enough what
the folks think and want Whv
shouldn't you; he's your president,
your servant, if you please? Let US
knock the spots off the big interests
that are whispering in his ear "what
the people think"