The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
Sly Shots at the Solons.
By THE OBSERVER.

Senator Thomas followed Horace
Greeley's advice all the way from
Georgia to the Rocky Mountains, and
see what he became.
While a lot OF others followed the
same advice, and put their extra
earnings into other luxuries than pol
itics. There was enough money to
go around, out in the West. IL men
only worked hard enough for it. But
only a few came to Congress.
Senator Borah was once a Jay
hawker-that stands for a man who
flouts the colors of the University
of Kansas in the faces of other uni
versity standard-bearers in the West
and. while he was West to begin
with, went still farther West. See
what he became.
The ladies are coming into their
own, so suffrage amendmenteers in
sist at the Capitol. and as a dainty
little May basket the Democratic par
ty will leave at the door of Amer
ican womanhood a gift emitting the
women to work for the ratification
of the amendment by the legislatures
OF thirty-six States.
After all. the gift is something like
the washing machine Lazy Dick, of
our village, bought for his wife one
Christmas with money he had won
on wash-mOney borrowed from his
better half. But in the end the wom-
en- will make it count, we hope, as
Dicks wife did.
The dry campaign Is going on with
so much fervor that even New York
is taking to it with some eclat. Twill
be a crime there, first thing you
know, to be seen in the company
Of that much-tabooed gent, Al K.
Hall
Wonder how a real dry regime
would hit the Senators and members
Of the Lower House who have to
have theirs regularly and who of late
have been the object of some sharp
scrutiny and distressing comment at
the hands of their colleagues?
We once covered a legislature
where a leading figure earned fame
because he could and would address
the Berean brotherhood on Christ
ian characteristics and Service for
Christ" and then straightway would
hasten to a fellow members room
where poker game was going and
booze and chewing tobacco were to
be had, and the air was laden with
curses and indecent stories. And in
that room he did everything that
any other attendant did-and often
"hiked" them.
But the hypocrites who really play
their game so well that 1t smacks
OF genius are few and far between
in politics-at least. no greater in
number than they are in other walks
OF life.
There are signs of unrest at Vance
McCormick's Offices, and indications
are that something is to pop forth
from the political cocoon ere long.
It'll bear watching.
A year ago Arthur Capper indicated
that he could, with safety make
a Senatorial race in Kansas on the
issue that we should not have sent
men across the water to fight. He
was for defensive but never offensive
warfare. Wonder IL he still thinks
he was right?
There was a war resolution pro-
viding for this mild waging Of a fight
against the Huns introduced when
the flesh-and-blood war resolution
was put through. 1t received no
more than one vote, we recall.
Buying bonds beats bag-snatching
by Bill-ouch. wouldn't 1t hurt IL that
Judas of all humanity, Wilhelm, won
this war? Think of that-and buy
bonds briskly.
Masons of N. ]. Cut German Out.
Trenton. N. J.. April 1S.-The grand
lodge Of Masons of this State today
voted to abolish the German ritual in
all New Jersey lodges. Hereafter all
work must be done in English.