The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-09-08

for the open theatres on Sunday, for
Sunday baseball and for the desecra-
ton OF the Sabbath in general. 1t
is hard to see how any one who be-
lieyes in the Christian religion can
think for an instant of voting for
men who are morally so thoroughly
depraved as to stand for the
measures advocated by both of these
mon.
David ]. Lewis, the other Candi-
date, is a man who was raised poor
and is poor today. Mr.. Lewis was
raised among the mountains of West
ern MARYLAND. His early life was
passed as a coal miner, not of the
striking kind that We have of this
day, but of that sturdy kind who
work and produce. While working
through the long hours of the day,
Mr.. Lewis conceived the idea Of do
ing something greater than mining
all his days, so he began in an num-
BILE way to study law at night.
Though small in statue and not OF
the strongest, Mr.. Lewis preserved,
working by day and studying by
nIEIIL, uulll Ht W
to the bar. His friends and neigh
bors soon perceived the idea that
there was something in the man and
it was not long before wee David
as he is Familiarity termed by his
friends and neighbors, was called to
represent his county in the Leglsla-
ture of Maryland. In that body Mr..
Lewis championed the cause OF those
who were not represented then ana
not represented now, by the men who
are generally selected by the politi-
cal organizations for the purpose of
representing capital and wealth.
Later Mr.. Lewis went to The United
States House of Representatives and
it was there that he erected for him
self that monument which will ever
stand as an honor to his own name
and an honor to the District and to
the State from which he was sent to
Congress, that is the Parcels Post.
No piece of legislation which has
been passed by the National Con-
gress for the last twenty-five years
has ever been so great a benefit to
the millions of American\ people as
the Parcels Post Small politicians
Lewis's fame by saying that he was
not the author or originator of the
Parcels Post. Let us agree with
them, if they want us to. and say
that he was not, but no one can say
successfully that David j. Lewis is
not the man who framed the law un-
der which the Parcels Post was fin
ally organized, and the man who
fought that law through to sue
cessful finish. If the people of Dor
chester county and the people of the
State, who have been benefited by
this law appreciate, as they should
do, what has been done for them,
they will not only nominate, but will
elect Mr.. Lewis of The United
States Senate There is no man,
woman or child throughout the
length and breadth of The United
States that has not been benefited in
some way, or at some time by the
Parcels Post, and | believe it is a
just due which the people of this
State owe to Mr.. Lewis, to send him
to the Higher House of Congress
where he can do more for the people
of his native State and for the peo-
pie of his Country. Patrick Henry
has said that there is no path by
which we can be guided, except the
light of experience, and the Bible
many years before that, declared and
is still declaring, by their fruits ye
shall know them" Let the people
of Dorchester County and the people
of Maryland, examine the fruits of
these three candidates and deter
mine by the quality of the fruits
what they will do at the polls.
j. WATSON THOMPSON,
Cambridge, Md, Sept. 9Th, 1922.