Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-02-17
{. 0. P. MUST CO SOME ID
 SAVE COUNTRY FROM BOW-WOWS
(By B. F. Fly)

cling salesmen off the road,
 order all the big factories to
 cease running night and day,
 and begin raiding the banks of the country, if they want
 10 make good their boast that
 because of President Will sons policies the whole coun-
 try is going to the very old
 devil, for the frank manner
 in which travelling salesmen
 declare that they are doing
 a better business than ever
 before, the fact that nearly
 every factory in the United
 States is working overtime,
 and the further fact that ev-
 cry bank in the country has
 more money than it ever had
 before completely refutes the
 calamity howls set up by the
 Republican party in it's plat
 form adopted in the New
 York convention yesterday
 It used to be a regular four-year rick for the Republicans to shut down
 all the factories in the populated | eastern states prior to every presi | dential election in order to frighten | the working classes into the belief | that if the Democrats were success I full the factories would remain closed. It worked well in those days, and the same disreputable scheme may be | tried again. But if they contemplate time, for the average workingman has
 become pretty we'll convinced that their prosperity and success is depen-
 dent almost wholly upon the success of Democratic principles.
 The keynote speech delivered by Elihu Root in the New York state con- vention was so rotten that it smells | unto high Heaven. Let any fair mind ed man read 1t carefully and he will became disgusted. His attack upon President Wilson because the latter didn't declare war on Germany be- D0fr ic too absurd to give it a second thought. His attack upon the presidents Mex ican policy is worthy of consid- eration whatever, when it is remem- oered that this same Elihu Root was n Taft's cabinet when the policy pur- sued by President Wilson was first adopted and carried out for the last two years of the Taft administration. His attack upon the Democratic party for having passed the tariff bill un-
 der which we are now operating is wholly without juslulcation, TOT the
 aw is bringing in many millions more than 1t was ever contemplated it would. The idea that after the Euro pean war ends our country will be flooded with cheap goods from Eur
 )pe" is too silly for child to believe, tor it now looks like there won't be men enough left in that country to
 <eep one little factory going to supply their own wants, let alone glutting the American market with their pro- ducts.
 Julian F. Weir, San Diego manager of the Blake, Moffit & Towne con- pany, who makes regular trips to Yuma, says that this last trip, both here and all over Southern Califor- ma, was the most successful trip of nls long business career He sells all kinds of paper and beaver bags. which means that all the merchants. and all the merchants, and all the newspapers of every town in his dis -r1ct are requiring more material than ever before. His business is good index to all other hnes, for if mer chants need paper bags and wrapping paper 1t means that they are doing business, and as long as the Demo crats continue in power, with Wood row Wilson as their chosen leader. he people will continue to do a thriv- ing business.
 Therefore, I repeat, that if the Re )ubl1cans want to defeat Wilson they . had better use stronger arguments ! than those advanced by Elihu Root ln his keynote speech to the Repub- icans of the state of New York. Bun com has long since been discounted oy the voters of the country. They want the actual facts, and the average voter is just about as capable of judging conditions as MT Root, who III during his long career as a Repub- | lican leader has been regarded as the spokesman and narcOnaI mouth nio0o ]