The Washington herald., 1920-09-19
81 was In my wife's garden"
says Mr.. Bangs, land am a semi
demi hired man"

they are not talking are those strange i'.k'
who. after taking steadily about the 6eau''-
Of bolshevism for eighteen hours "a'.
write breathlesSly 10 the daily uowspa9'
more talk on the iuiquitous suppression V'
the freedom Of speech.
.Is there any cure for II: dou't know
that there is. although recent Jend'nrf
the United States would seem to indies.
the possibility Of a solution. II the cons.
,,,ioD Of the United States Is the pr"l~
instrument for the regulation Of human 30
,euuerance Of one kind. ] don -" WLN .
should not regulate intempersnce Of auothei
sort. / personally believe that uuregn.a'"''
,,,eech has brought more misery INTO Toe
world than rum. ! have often thought 'Aa'
Nr BRYAN. high as is his personal charsc-
90. Is as much addicted TO the inten1eTsucf
- ,,nrds aud can get as gloviously drunk on
,,.rorariops as any dpsomaniac in the psy
,o,stbic ward at Bellevue ever got on Mar
49, cocktails. l have seen people fairly
s:-,.o,obipg over a brew Of verb.age fresh
g., the White House distillerles Of Ne
,,,rian thought, and so utterly intoxicated By
,.r-o phrases as to be incapable Of dIs,n-
~u.shipg between the purely visionary and
II
r,,c,bIic and we lived under truly democratic
institutions and men were supposed TO b
orI. rro,c.ly TO regulate their own conduct.
sud The government was the servant ot The
,,rcnIo and not q sort Of moral wet nurs".
sronld not have thought it possible n do au'
,l.i,, N regulate the ovcrproductioD Of Word
l,,, the last few years have given me- Lo.
.,s with the urecedents already cstHhish,.
sce no reason to despair of a constitutions.
,r,..,drDppt by which verbal intemper1..ru
hall be regulated by Congress and the in
obristipC limit Of words shall be established
br law for the great good of a suffering
people.
Where do stand politically Why.
am for Harding and Coolidge. Of course
7 sunpose il is rpactionary, but really I don't
,b;nk the form Of government We are living
unGer today is half as good the one that
- established by the founders of the rc-
,,rblic. held intact by Lincoln. preserved by
Grant and Mckinley and successfully per
nerusted by Roosevelt. ] don't see Whist
America gains by smashing sutocracy in
Eurone merely TO set up another in tie
United States. and the only way out Of our
present predicament. it seems to me, is 70
restore d
and conscience We need competent minds.
not mediocrities, TO deal With the complex
problems that lie ahead of US; minds that
IRE fluent rather than concurrent; minds
that are executive rather than merely sus-
certive cabinet should be something more
than a board of registration, and l cannot
see how VIC are going 10 get anything OF the
sort unless we return the Republican party
to power. l understand that Mr.. Cox Is a
very estimsble gentleman, but be stsnds
upon 8 platform which indorses unreservedly
every act Of the present administration, and
,very vote cast for him will be heralded as
nv indo-ss--~n+ .L~-eof-it will be an in
dorsement Of Daniels and Baker, Of the
wild extravagsnccS of McAdoo, Of the
shameless waste of the public moneys. OF
the shilly shallying policies toward Mexico,
of our unwarrsuted interference IN matters
European with which we have no concern,
and of all the fatuous ineptitudes in domes-
tic and international matters which have
filled the country with unrest at home and
turned the laurels won by our boys abroad
into weedy sort of hay. am reaC C,ionary
enoagh to prefer a Washington to a com
bination of Don Quixote and Malvolio. and
/ propose to vote for candidates who will
bring US closer to the ideals of the one
rather than for the protagonists of apology
for the other.
THE state of humor" 1t is the most
fourishing state in the Union. 1t very sci 70
dom happens that any period has more than
one really humorous humorist at the same
time, but We have many. The people who
deny us the saving grace of humor csnuo,
see the wood for the trees"
And what do you think Of free verse;,
Mr.. Bangs rose from his chair.
Il sm sorry, madam" he said but Il
you want that question answered YOU vii
have to send some brutal male reporter Ter,
to ask it. l cannot express my opinion o.
free verse in the presence Of ladies'"