The Washington times., 1920-05-01

In DssoIate Space.
A Queer CANDIDATE
Nobody Financing Him.
Switzerland, CIear-Headed.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
tCopyrisht. isse.)


had eaten. as they supposed. their
last meal-choosing ham and eggs
with coffee. as. for mysterious rea-
SONS, condemned Americans usual
ly do.
Each was dressed In a nice new
black suit for the electric chair,
one leg OF the trousers slit from
the knee down TO permit applica-
! ton OF the wet electrode to the
Dcalf OF the leg. One OF the four
10 a half idiot and went along to
help kill. as he would have gone
long TO help save. At the last
bur they were reprieved. They
fhay 90 TO prison for life or again
have a last meal Of ham and eggs
md put on the black suit
What would have happened to
Them, after each left the electric
chair and the black suit with the
plit trousers lee. shot into mys-
lertous eternity by mysterious
Electricity?
Would they have gone into other
bodies. with skulls better shaped.
10 do better work? Would they
have remained in the grave wait
ng for Gabriel to blow his trum-
pet and call them up TO another
y1al? Or would they meet like
Thomas Bailey Aldrich's two dead
men that come to mind whenever
bou read Of electrocuuons?
|omevhere-in desolate soind-swept
spaoe--
In Twilight-land - No-man's
Ldnd--
700 harrying shapes met face to
And bade each other stand.
And Vho are 'you?" cried one,
Ggdpe,
Shaddsring in the cleaning
light,
kno,o not" said the second shape,
II only died last night"
Could you. to return to Sir Oliver
Lodge and ouija, imagine anything
more gruesome than q spirit with
y split trouser leg and the top of
ke head shaved?
6en with too much money, dis
liking johnson because they don't
own him, ask: WHO is financing
him?"
The interesting thing about
johnson, the thing that makes him
Intensely unpopular, is the fact
that NOBODY is financing him.
At the primaries in Illinois his
name did not appear on the ballot,
but $1,000 citizens took the trou-
bic to write in his name, each on
Shis own ballot. NOBODY gave one
dollar or two dollars apiece to
those SO 900 Americans.
You can't sell a horse if the
FARMER knows that it is impossible
to put a bride on its head. You
can't hand Presidential candidate
to organized capital il it suspects,
as is does in Johnson's case, it
won't be able to put a bride on
him.
Is it craftsmanship for Govern
ment to collect money it needs
Through profteering channels?
1t is shown that the great woolen
company made a profit of some
thing like one hundred and fifty
per cent. 1t had left about thirty
five per cent for it's stockholders,
after the Government had taken
its share.
Is such a system of raising
revenue healthy? What would you
think if the Mayor allowed pick
pockets to roam up and down the
)eity, stealing, and then hand sew
ehty-five per cent of the stealings
10 the city treasury? You would
say some better way should be
found of meeting expenses.
Uncle Sam says: "Steal what
you can and divide with me-" Is
that good thing for industrial
stability?
To pay soldiers a bonus, you
must get the money. 1t is sug-
gested now that an extra tax be
|put on tobacco. The mass of the
population, including soldiers,
would pay the tax-for the man
with a hundred million dollars
can't possibly smoke a million dol
lars worth Of cigarettes. That's
the helpful suggestion: "Put The
taxes where it won't hurt the big
Fellow"
Another suggestion, one that has
Earnest support, is that some way
be found to avoid giving money TO
Ithe soldiers at all
There was loud applause in the
United States Chamber of Com
merce when a resolution denounced
the bonus for all the soldiers and
Suggested instead generous treat
ment for all disabled and sick"
How would it do to give each of
|the very sick prayer book, to cost
mot more than thirty-five cents,
land give thanks TO the others?
Clear-headed Switzerland has
developed a plan that Mr.. Rosen-
baum, Chicago, student of foreign
corporations, says will take many
american corporations and good