The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-24
The Cherry
{" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Such goings on as the sugar lob
bies have kicked up, with the help Of
the senate lobby Investigators, have
not been seen in many moon. II
there is any person who has seen to
the bottom of the sticky mess that
person is very much incognito.
What will be the outcome of it all
is matter for guessing. Probably
the investigators are wondering about
that. Perhaps some of them wish
they didn't have to worry about it.
One of the interesting phases of
the show-up thus far is that which re-
lates to the number of persons who
have sought to make it appear that
they had easy access to the president
and helped him to form his opinions.
Really, it is surprising to find out
how many persons were willing to
have somebdy believe they were able
to shape presidential views. If there
is anything that is more surprising
it is to find out how many business
men were eager to fall for such
stories and to spend money on the
basis thereof.
An amazing number of bright
young men evidently got mixed up in
sugar, on one side or the other-and
number of them have been exceed
lngly busy fishing up alibis in the
last couple Of weeks It's all very
amusing.
Still, little bird keeps whispering
that the senate committee hasn't yet
got to the bottom of the sugar lobby
business, and still another little bird
keeps whispering that they never will
get there. Remember the old adage,
you can't indict nation? And to
indict two nations is even more diff
fcult
There's smell of insincerity about
lot that is going on politically. The
reason for that undoubtedly is politics.
Elections are in the offng and every
single politician has at least one eve
on the impending campaign
Perhaps, all things considered it is
surprising that democracy grinds out
50 much that is good, considering all
the temptations there are to be fool
ish, and considering all the foolish
persons that get elected to Offices
Considering, too, the fact that every
thing about our collective life is vast
iy more complicated than ever before
and that so much of it is really under
stood by only slender minority, the
rest merely guessing, or not bother
ing even to guess, for many reasons.
That's one reason why a lot of
hokum is mistaken for wisdom by so
many.
Come to think of it, there has been
a great deal of fooling in these last
few months. William B. Shearer
fooled goodly number of people and
did 1t so well that he got some really
important money for it.
j. Ramsay Macdonald fooled
great many people and got himself
glad-handed all over the place. Sew
eral of his followers are now in the
United States trying to push the joke
along-and probably expecting to get
paid for their time.
Senator Borah has fooled lot of
people, but whether he fooled the drys
or the vets worst seems to be unde-
cided at the moment.
Abraham Lincoln was most assur
edly correct when he asservated that
some of the people can be fooled all
of the time and all of them some of
the time 1t may turn out that he
also was entirely correct when he said
that all of the people cannot be fool
ed all of the time.
What lot of politicians are going
to hit the tall timber when that day
arrives!
IT there IS any group that is really
ludlcrous in our collective life and
that fools itself as well as some 9TH
ers, it is that group that likes to
stand away, far out front, leading the
world to salvation and peace.
Some of these have been saving
that Coolidge and Mellon caused the
stock market to go bang They saw
also that Irving Fisher helped in the
scheme. But Coolidge seems to be
their main target.
Now if it finally turns out that
these three pulled off that monumen-
tai stunt, well, gentlemen, Machiae-
velli, Disraeli, Cagliostro, Caesar. Ma
poleon, Cicero, Shakespeare, Bis