Middletown transcript., 1920-06-26
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HARVEY'S WEEKLY

MOULD any of our readers get
~ from time to time just and &C.
curste survey of the leading national
questions Of the hour, both domestic
and foreign, let them by all means read
Col. Harvey's Weekly. They will find
therein fearless discussions Of our
polity and government by singularly
well informed writer with a vision, a
trained thinker who knows how to pre-.
sent in clear, logical fashion those great
principles Of Americanism whose pres
ervation and vindication is arousing
every real patriot in the land.
Col. Harvey believes that the people
yet appreciate and prize the constitu-
tional forms Of government handed
down to them by the fathers at cost Of
many sacrifices, and much blood and
treasure. He also believes that they
still venerate as the palladium of their
liberties that great instrument, the
Constitution Of the United States, and
are resolved to keep it unpolluted by
the fingers of idle dreamers seeking to
substitute for that sane compendium Of
practical wisdom (whose product is the
splendid thing men style American
ism'D the insane vagaries of hodge
podge 'internationalism' that would
finally entail the loss Of those liberties
and precipitate upon all the land wild
chaos of disunion and anarchy.
These editorial essays and criticisms
are honest, fearless, fair, all couched,
moreover, in strong idiomatic English,
SO clear and spicy that their mere
perusal as specimens of fine diction is a
pleasure quite apart from their worthy
purpose, their pungent thought, their
original, incisive view that
''-most invectively pierceth
through
The body of the Country,
City, Court"
and above all, their ardent patriotism.
Partisan the Colonel's critiques GER
tainly are not, for he is a free lance and
speaks his sometimes caustic, but al
ways fair, opinion, caring little whether
it hit friend or foe so long as it is true
Although just now, because of the
manifold sins Of omission and commits
sion Of this Administration and its
Leader, he most often raps Democratic
knuckles, yet upon proper occasion he
does as much for sinners on the other
side Of the political fence. This habit
of keeping always an unruffled judicial
temper gives his words all the more
weight with candid readers
His bold and biting quill is fast COM
ing to be feared by all the political fools
and knaves in the country. To the first
it awards the stocks or the pilIory, to
the second, a gibbet and sufficient
hemp. So his would be critics are
growing more wary, for they have dis
covered in him an adept at scalping.
Indeed, once upon time he performed
upon certain ignoble presidential fluke
Of his own creation the same sharp
surgery Apollo practiced upon Marsyas,
hayed him, or to put it in the racier
vernacular, ''skinned him alive"
Then when in a mood more facetious
than severe Colonel Harvey, who may
be styled our American Junius, amuses
his readers by impaling upon his sharp
pen point choice specimens Of the num-
erous political insects that annoy the
public with their conceited buzzing-
and the Colonel has accumulated
samples enough, both small and great
to form quite a collection Of these
ephemeridae, a sort of hortus siccus in
the insect way.
Again we say, if any one wishes to
be instructed and entertained upon the
great and burning questions now agi-
tating every patriotic American, both
as to our home polity and likewise as to
our foreign relations, let such be sure
to read Harvey's Weekly, for it is a
journal in every way unique, and one
that stands in class by itself.