The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-07-07
Cry you Are the
Man of the Hour
Forty Fits to the Square
Inch Then

A correspondent from Pinson writes
as follows:
/ was id conversation with a Young.
man recently, and we were DISCUSSING
present conditions from different an
giles He remarked that for the last
seven or eight years he had received
from four to six dollars a day for
saw mill work, and was paid every
Saturday. said men in all walks of
life had received enormous wages.
asked him what he was getting today.
He took a chew. of hillside and Stun
bled as if he would fall and replied
IN a low voice that he was getting 80
cents day but didn't run regular. |
said, DO you get your pay every
week like you used to ?" He replied,
mo, we have to take it in trade at
the store" This young man stated
conditions as they exist all over the
country. They were led to the ballot
box received people, blind-folded and
made to believe they. were to pass
into land of paradise, where trials
and troubles would cease to exist, but
today they see their peril and four
years of the darkest pages history
Will ever know, but alas, too late!
If Woodrow Wilson were still presi-
dent, and everything go to pieces as
it has under this administration, it
would be dangerous for Democrat to
be caught on the public highway. The
Radicals would growl, murmur and
grumble, plead starvation, run mad
and have forty fits to, the square inch.
We all know the Republican party
ie a party of, criticism and easy for
them to find fault of every move a
democrat makes, let it be good or
bad. They criticise for partisan pur-
poses, as it was proven for the past
several years. When they were max
ing six dollars a day under the late
admin mstration, they were never salts.
fed one moment and were continually
criticising our president, and were
camoring for change, and the ex-
pected happened and they are today
walking up and down the streets,
loafng with downward look upon
their face, and have no job and no
prospect of. one, and yet have the
cheek to say it is all right, Mr.. Hard
ing; we had rather loaf under your
regime than to reap prosperity under
Woodrow Wilson We have this brand
of Citizenship dotted here and there
all over the country.
Listen! Mr.. Republican Farmer,
when you were selling your farm pro-
ducts right at your door for enormous
prices, you were continually gruInb-
ling and were not satisfied, couldn't
sleep at night until you succeeded III
helping to put a man in the White
House that said one dollar was enough
for bushel of wheat, that you often
remarked cost you over two dollars to
raise. Now you can't sell it at any
price but you cry aloud that it is al
right, Mr.. Harding, you are the man
of the hour and old Wilson amt no
body.
Even the ladies that love everything
in sight were caught cursing Mr.. Viii
son when they were getting seventy
five cents dozen for eggs and two
or three dollars each for their worn
out chickens. Now they are being
offered ony a smile and promises, bu-
it is all for the best, Mr.. President,
we love you and long for the hou
when we can throw our arms about
you and rise up and call you blessed,
for you are the friend of humanity,
for half loaf is sweeter under you,
administration than an entire baker,.
under Woodrow Wilson.
Didn't they cuss and grumble durin2
the past eight years? They she
enough tears to wash away the mour-
tains, and prayed for the people t.
come to the rescue of humanity aTl
civilization and the German elemen@
and the colored brother, heard the
pitiful cry and came to their" rescuH
and said "We will put new song n
your mouth and new president in
the White House," Indeed they have
put new song in their mouth al
are going up and down the line VIII
tling to keep up courage and Lori
only knows what kind Of tune the
carry. No doubt they are the mo =
critical and serious bunch of humc -
ity that ever trod American SOIL II
we could only read their minds. -
al the thoughts passing through
therein it would make a history tho+
would astonish the world and wou''
fill Carnegie's library with a line of
dope that would shake civilization.
They are passing through a seri"-1s
age, and are sick and heart broke
but they had rather die than think e
the PROSPEROUS davs of our late preei-
dent, and are trying to forget it but
they can't.