The Washington times., 1920-04-02
Today
Fine Fight Coming.
Question for Mr.. Hoover.
Four Children Too Many.
And zone Juicy Melon"
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The next Presidential election
may be as interesting and compli-
Gated as anything in Europe Asia
or Africa.
There is little doubt that you
will see one Independent party
going it alone. There may also be
an Independent Democrat fighting
the regular Democrat, and an IN
dependent Republican giving an
imitation Of Theodore Roosevelt's
fight against Taft.
To these add the possibility OF
a prohibition candidate coming
out TO rebuke the vets, and wet
candidate, and you have an inter
esting program.
Mr.. Hoover having kindly said
that he would accept the Presi-
dency If the whole country felt
that it could not get along with
out him, is beginning to hear from
those that think they could do
without him very nicely.
One Republican authority wants
to know where he gets the money
that he is spending on his cam
paign. That is the popular ques-
ton now.
Senator Gronna says that
Hoover kept from the farmers two
thousand millions that they might
have got for their wheat.
Hiram Johnson wants to know
whether Hoover ever cast q vote
in America in his life. He might
also ask whether Hoover ever
voted in England.
New York has organized a
Hoover committee of the "for-
ward-looking" type that Hoover
says he admires. The commit
tee is Of the kind that looks for
ward to ending high income tax
and shifting the burden to the
shoulders of people Of small
means. That committee includes
a daughter of the distinguished
lawyer who wanted to know why
all the Irish didn't go back to
Ireland and stay there.
The ordinary American woman,
mother of children, and who wor-
ried about food and the lack of
white bread during the war, might
ask Mr.. Hoover: =
"Mr. Hoover, while you were tell
ing American mothers to econo-
mize on food for their children In
order TO- help BELGIAN children.
why did you allow tens Of thou
sands Of quarts OF the best oats
to be ted every day 10 race horses
used only as gambling machines?
Ell those horses had been turned
out to grass, the oats saved would
have fed hundreds Of thousands of
children every day. And you had
the power to stop it."
''Why did you allow your pros
porous horse-racing friends to con-
tinue their waste of food that chill
dren needed, while urging mothers
of children to economize"
II Mr.. Hoover cannot answer
that question satisfactorily-and
! he can't-he will lose the votes
of many American women to whom
facts mean more than platitudes.
The legislators that expelled five
men from the New York State law
making body because they were
Socialists were of course acting
from rich men, ignorant and fool
ish enough to imagine that you can
suppress dissatisfaction or thought
permanently. Young Theodore
Roosevelt knew better. He GER
tainly has no sympathy for Social
lists or Socialism. But he spent
hours trying to keep his fellow
Republicans from temporarily vot-
ing a party out of existence and
depriving tens of thousands of
citizens Of representation.
What do the prosperous ones
guilty of this stupidity hope and
expect that the Socialists will do?
They know what happened in Rus
sia, France and elsewhere when
free speech and free formation of
parties were forbidden.
Compare two pieces of news.
The Continental Oil Company
"cuts large and juicy melon for
stockholders" Sixty thousand
shares of new stock are handed
out to stockholders, each one re-
ceiving two new shares for each
old share. The stock will paw IL