New Britain herald., 1916-10-18

o. >ihShi lluNo as our oppoliSAA'N -"
have changed their cries in this cam
paign.
They are like the ''Hurla," the bird
Of perpetual motion that never lights
on land or sea but is always on he
wing.
AmCricaNiSn.
First they create an issue out OF
"AmGricaniSm. But as soon as they
see the people know that Woodrow
Wilson is doing today in our foreign
affairs exactly what Washington and
Adams and Jefferson and Lincoln and
Grant did under similar circumstances,
why, our republican friends hop to
another issue, change their hueS.
raise new cries and like the Huma
keep on the wing.
Mexico.
Then Mexico becomes their issue.
But as soon as they see the country
knows the Mexican situation is an in
heritancC from q republican admins
tratiOn, and that in his dealings with
Mexico Woodrow Wilson is pursuing
the same course that Abraham Lin
coin and President Taft pursued I'M
der similar circumstances,-W our
republican II lends hop again, change
their hues, raise new cries and like
the Huma keep on the wing.
Mobilization.
Then they fall to criticising the
Pershing expedition against Villa and
the mobilization of the troops on the
border. But as soon as they see that
the people remember President Taft's
mobilization order in 1912 and that
armed forces from the United states
invaded Spanish and Mexican terri
tory on ten different occasions for Of
lenses identical with that which Villa
committed against this country-Why
our republican friends hop again,
change their hues, raise new cries
and like the Huma keep on the wing
'"The Old Man of the Sea-
Then they dig up the "Old Man Of
the Seattle tariff, -"who sits on the
throne of our shoulders, all shams
and a hundred names besides." But
as soon as they see the people know
from bitter experience tariff gives
money with one hand while it takes it
away with the other, like the nimble
fingered "Minion of the Night" who
gave q Kansas widow money enough
to pay her mortgage, and, when the
widow got her receipt, took the money
away from the mortgage at the point
of q pistOl-why, then our republican
friends hop again, change their hues,
raise new cries, and like the Huna
keep on the wing.
and remember, my friends, seventy
five republicans voted for the eight
hour law in the House of Representa-
tives. If Mr.. Hughes was against 1t,
why didn't he spend twenty-five cents
and telegraph these republicans not
to vote for it? If Mr.. Hughes re-
pudiates these seventy-five republican
congressman, he ought to urge their
defeat in this election. Has anyone
been heard to do it? Under the rules
of the United States Senate the re-
publican members Of that body could
easily have defeated the eight hour
law if they DESIRED Has anyone
heard Mr.. Hughes condemn them for
not doing it, or urge their defeat at
this election? Oh no, but he does ask
you to defeat President Wilson for
favoring the eight hour law, and he
does ask you to elect seventy-five re-
publican congressman who voted for
the bill? How do you like such hy-
pocrisy? And though he talks a lot
about this bill, Mr.. Hughes has not
yet and never will say before election,
hat he will urge it's repeal if elect
ed.
Prophets Lose Their Peacock Feather.
Then COMPOUNDED and perplexed by
their prediction that the prosperity
never come they tried to make an
nf Io WIT
not last. Prophets must never go
wrong. They lose their peacock
feather by a single slip Confidence
and blind faith are their stock in
trade, and once this is injured the
business of prophecy goes up in
smoke. There isn't a single fact in
history against which a hypocritical
"if' can not be manufactured by an
ingenious mind or advanced by a can
tankerous tongue. If Newton had not
seen that apple fall from the tree. he
might not have discovered the laws of
and gravitation's mystery was solved
If it had not rained torrents on the
morning Of the conflict, Napo1eon
might have won the battle of Water
loo-but it rained and Napoleon lost
But why enumerate further? Facts
are the things that count in life, not
theories. And the fact remains thar
under a democratic president and a
democratic congress this country is
enjoying the greatest prosperity with
I'M is existence. All the hypothet-
ical Ifs" devised by ingenious minds
or uttered by cantankerous tongues
can not Danish their prosperity to tho
realms of wi h1c
ness Is here, the work is here, the
money is here and no prophecy of our
opponents can puff them away. Our
banks are stacked with money, our
mills are filed with orders, our farms
revel in prosperity as they never
revelled before. The things we raise,