The Washington herald., 1916-02-13

an almost indefinite stretch of nothing
but space and atmosphere. McAndrews
said nothing about how Mortified he had
been until time for the parry TO begiI
the return journey. Then he quietly but
firmly issued this ultimatum:
I'm not going over that rail again"
Not going over it?'' repeated the others
in concert Why it's the only way there
is to get back!"
Very we'll" replied McAndrews, i'm
passiveIy. Then I'll stay here"
"Oh Jim, now don't talk nonsense" be-
gan one of his friends. Listen 20 rea-
son You don't want TO spend the rest
cf your life here at this dam do your
Certainly not" admitted McAndrews
Il don want to live here a minute.
hate the place. But I'm not going back
over that trail" And he said Il in q
determined manner that carried convic-
ton
But If you don't go back over the
trail you'H have to stay here"
Then I'm in for It Right here I'll
stay"
His friends took another tack and be-
gan to chide and upbraid him. calling
him a coward, a fraid cat, and pretty
much everything mean that they could
! think Of. But It availed nothing. Nc
Andrews had his mind all made up. He
was positively NOT going back over
that trail.
After a long parley and a search for
couple OF old guides, It was discovered
that there was another trail which was
little used, and was longer and more
periIous IL anything than the trRn Nc
Andrews had covered.
Different.
McAndrews was willing to take the
chance
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IT will at least be different Anyway.
I'm not going back over that same trail )"
And another thing he added, ''f
II ever get back to Chicago alive, I'm
never again going to even look out Of
high window. I've got enough looking
from dizzy heights right now TO last me
all the rest OF my life"
Representative Warren Worth Bailey,
Of Johnstown, Pa, is a person with def
mite views about things. When he favorx
or opposes a proposition he does so with
much eanestness and intenseness. For
example, he has long been strongly in
favor OF an adoption OF Henry Georges
single tax ideas, and Is equally strong
in his opposition to the Presidents pro-
gram for naval and military prepared
ness.
One night Bailey sat in the lobby Of
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talking gravely about the good things in
store for this nation Just as soon as
single tax comes to be generally applied
throughout the country.
Congressman Dorsey W. Shackleford,
of Missouri, was sitting close by. "OId
Shack" as he is called, has a sense OF
humor, though he doesn't look II.
Il would like to ask you Just one Ques-
tion," said he to Bailey. and Bailey bade
him go ahead. He was fairly certain
that he could refute any argument he
might have against the single tax doc
trine.
What want to know" propounded
Shackleford, rs this: Why is It that
there was never a single case OF appendi-
| citis in this country until after Henry
George began TO talk his single tax? Just
answer me that"
Just as an example of the way public
opinion often gets steered far from the
facts: Suppose that almost anybody
were asked to compare Uncle Joe Can
non and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in
regard to swearing ability. People think
Of Cannon as a man who employs ordi-
nary language only as a carrier or back
ground for profanity, and Lodge as q
person so scholarly that he never uses
word which would not adorn a large,
learned book weighing eight or nine
pounds. That, say, is the popular con-
ceptiOn. The facts are that Uncle Joe
Cannon has one or two little cuss words
Of one syllable each that he slips in on
occa sion, and that about lets him out
Lodge, on the other hand, would be a