The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-09-28
EVEN Thk PRESIDENT 0F0RCED 10 COMPROMISE WITH
THESE FAMATlCAt LOBBYISTS so WAR
MEASURES WILL NOT BE HELD UP
DRYsABUNDAN7LY sUPPL|EOW|TH MONEY
Men Of Wealth Donate Literally Because is Rare Sport to See
SoIons and Executives Made and Unmade at Their
Command, Says N. L. Mencken in the N. Y. Mail
it was put in charge of $40 900

moment it was put in charge of $40, 900
men it began to make progress.
Today, If my agents do not lie. 1t
had hirelings of even larger honoraria
Such men as DR.. William H. Ander-
son, the superintendent here in New
York, are clever. | know Anderson
very we'll, and once lent him a pair OF
cuffs when both of us were poor He
has an alert mind; he is farseeng and
prudent: he judges men accurately;
he knows that seven-eights of them
are asses and poltroons; he moves
quietly and swiftly.
One may wonder, sweating over
such problems in the hot weather, why
rich men should put up their jealously-
guarded l.. s. d., so painfully wrung
from the widow and orphan, for such
an enterprise. Ask another: Why do
they keep race-horses and yachts?
Why does Carnegie promote peace
conferences? Why did the late Pier
pont Morgan go in for old masters
Because, friends, it is good sport Be-
cause 1t is pleasant to make the other
fellow jump.
Because II Is earessing to the soul
TO get something that is hard to get, to
win against opposition, to see ones
ideas prevail. Because der Willie EUR
Macht is In all OF Gods creatures. the
high and the low. the rich and the
virtuous-and these moral sportsmen
are Gods creatures, too.
How IL Is Worked.
In brief, they put up the money be-
cause the gladiators who serve them
know how to provide good show,
just as the gladiators OF Nero knew
how. Here a legislator. presuming to
disobey orders. Is placarded in his dis
trict as bribed by the brewers, and so
disgraced and disposed of. Here a
newspaper is bludgeoned and brought
to time. There a congressman Is put
TO the torture. There a distiller is
ruined.
Beyond q governor Is bounced out OF
office, or recreapt sheriff, or a Judge
! who remembers the constitution More,
the show never ends. Aster prohibit
ton comes enforcement After en-
forcenent there Is a slackening.
Then comes raids, spying. shouting,
grand iurtes. dehunciations, failing
roughh0pse the sweet evidences
OF democracy swallowing It's tail. Good
sport for the backsrsi. Good jobs FOR
the e3perts! ~,
The Anu.Saloon' League Superintend
.snt IN Virginia. once prohibition was
adopted down there, was made chief
Of the booze ssadarnsrie-a fat job
plenty OF wopk, endless publicity
money pouring In. the moral sports de
lighted!
/ They weep oVor the drunkard; they
still gable abost temperance and urge
little girls OF six or seven TO sign the
pledge. The Anti-Saloon League
bravo OF the 1917 model wastes nc
time upon s.ch sentimentalities.
He is not a reformer. but a bruiser
He doesn't look TO the remote effect
but to the immediate effect. He Is no
trying to save this or that poor boot
from rum, but TO give his rich hacker.
an exhilarating run for their money
They don't want to see converts; they
want to see dead, wounded and pris
oners. Hence the enormous perfection
, OF his machinery of offense
No Tears For Him.
One doesn't hear OF him squeezfn,
tears before Sunday-schools and moth
ers' MEETINGS; one hears of him knock
ing in heads IN the Hobbies of legisla
lures and laying about him vigorousl,
where the battle RACES fiercest. an,
, bringing his club down upon the caput
Of judges, prosecuting officers an
police.
He is no evangelist: he is cor
queror. And. c0nqueror like, he begin
a 10 show taste for power and glor
for their own sake. and to conduct him
, self with the high assurance of on
! who can not be noored, or even. 70
that matter. flouted
!. How far will lie 90? | shudder I
a put my guess cl Iape~. lie will x
just as far as Ia caa Get in safety
!. and l sec no danger - him in the nea
future. In two-thirds OF the states h
. has the legislatures trembling wit
= fear-even In some OF the states tia
!, resist prohibition itself.
= He makes and unmakes governor
a He appoints judges, especially in tn
country districts. He has prosecutin
officers under his thumb. He has
clear majority in both Senate an
/, House. He has a great body OF ne
A federal law, much of Ii astounding
sumptuary. The marks OF his teet
are on the gatepost or the Whit
House. He is gathering In the new
J. papers one by one. He makes. no
+ and then. an actual and honest co..
a vert II will take some hard, bar