Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-05
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU?

0THERE goes Senator Harding
L said man some months ago.
''He looks more like Mckinley every
day"
Candidates. beware of looking like
William Mckinley.
Look like Nicolai Leninc or Georges
Clemenceau or Theodore Roosevelt or
whom you will. but do not look or be
like William Mckinley.
William Mckinley was the fine hower
of what may be called the later VIC
torian age of politics.
He was n sort of American MAZE
Queen Victoria, given to white carna
tions and pacific relations with his party
and with Congress.
He was the kind of man you would
wish your grandfather to be, as lovely
and obsolete as that other Victorian
thing, Tennyson's poetry.
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TT WAS an interesting experiment 10
i revive him and offer him to the
Of Senator Harding.
Mr. Harding did il because he had to
He comes from the state of Mckinley,
where the Mckinley tradition survives
and molds public men.
He looks like Mckinley.
Should we go back to the Mckinney
type of President. ,,,
The answer is that the three leading
candidates for President are Genera
Wood, Mr.. McAdoo and Mr.. Hoover.
Nothing mid Victorian or later VIC
torian there.
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r listen TO what q French observer
Lsays Of Germany, writing to one oi
the most conservative papers OF farlS
Germany is moving inevitably toward
catostroDhc because she can no Longer
feed more than 30, 200, 900 inhabitants
though she still counts 1000, 900.
She has lost nearly 100000 peas
ants and agricultural workers.
And the prospective loss of Slleslf
by plebiscite will deprive her of az,
OOO. 900 tons of coal annually.
Mr.. Hoover once estimated ina
| there were 10000 900 more people II
Germany than could now be employed
and fed. -,
His estimate and that of the French
| Journalist are not far apart.
The war wore out Europe ana lei
not enough to go around.
| The yictors took the lions share
of what was left and there was nothing
| for the losers to do but starve.
Before starving Germany will tr!
bolsheyism.
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DEFORE entering upon a moderf
d war it would be well to be mighty
sure that you can win and win easily
Look at the losers in the late war.
| Look at Germany with 2O,0OO,OO'
people left without the hope of living
Look at Austria: 100000 or 10,
600 900 people left without resources
smaller but with less hope for tn
future than Germany.
Look at Russia. demoralized an
ruined though having great natural re
sources she will get upon her fee
again.
off than the vanQuished.
No League Of Nations ought to b
reduired to make future war impossible
oni thorough and general knowledg
of the history Of this war.
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THE increased wages to miners, :
i per cent. amounts in the aggregat
to $500 900 900 year.
The coal operators will pass on tn
increased wages in the shape of rals
Of soft coal prices by 50 ton.
We use in this country one half bill
lion tons OF soft coal Il year.
At 50 a ton advance that makes
round billion of dollars to the con
sumers of the country.
But that is not all.
Before there could be an increas
OF wages there had to be a strike.
The operators were convinced that !
no other way could prices be raised ade
quately.
1t was good for the morale of tn
organization.