The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-09-10

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A farmer contributes this week
and does a good job of it, too.
Pigs Can't Vote
An old darkey is said to have made
the following wise crack after listen
ing to a tall story: "You know I can't
read and 1 can't write and all 1 know
is what folks tell me, and if they don't
tell me what's so, 1 don't know any
thing" A good many people only
know what is going on from reading
the newspapers. Well, if they read
enough, they know a great deal. Read
the news as it appears in the papers
gives one a liberal education in many
ways.
Take the condition of the country
for instance, and who is not interested
in knowing about that? Its political
and financial problems of late are of
interest to most of US. Well, what do
we really know about it from what we
read in the papers? In 1882 we read
the Democratic platform. That suited
lot of people. We read that it suited
Mr.. Roosevelt and he was elected to
carry it out and said he would. That
is what we knew, because we read it
in the papers.
Next, we read there was to be a
war on the depression and it was to be
banished forthwith. Well, has anybody
heard of any victory over the depres-
sion? There were many generals ap-
pointed (who never commanded any
thing before), many aides (who never
aided anyone before), to direct the
large army which was assembled, but
they do not seem to have met the
enemy. They were always putting the
saddle on the wrong horse and getting
thrown off. 1t would seem they
couldn't win a dog fight even if they
owned both dogs. They have partially
succeeded by various tactics in taking
farming, business, and banking under
their control, but what that has to do
with licking the depression we have
not found out. Their army strategy
seems to be conferred in trying to find
the depression; if found, they might
drag it before a Senate Committee
and, when thus cornered and sur
rounded by the Army, make faces at
it and call it names.
Well, so far nothing we have read
about has happened. President Roose-
welt did not carry out the platform.
Everything has been different from
what we read it was going to be.
Debts and taxes are rising like dust
clouds; the unemployed are still I'M
employed, except those in the Wash
ington army. Now do we know what
we have read about the State of the
Nation, or are we in the same position
that the colored man was, even if we
can read and write?
We read more. We read that the
President is laughing and having a
fine time. Well, maybe there is a joke
somewhere, the President is enjoying
the proceedings so much. At least
he is having a fine time, so much so
that his reception room rings with
hearty laughter. 1t may be like the
American joke the Englishman did
not quite grasp. He heard that a man
by the name of Strange had bought
lot in the cemetery and put up large
monument without anything on the
monument. When his friends asked
if he did not intend to have his name
engraved on it and proper epitaph,
he said, Certainly not; do not want
anything on it, because when people
go by and see nothing on it they will
say, That's Strange! The English
man undertook to tell the story, but
forgot the mans name and said that
the man put up monument without
anything on it so that when people
went by and looked at it they would
say, "Isn't that funny!"
1t would be strange if the President
did not get some fun out of the whole
performance, but we just don't see
how he gets so much, with the serious
prospects confronting the country
increased unemployment, increased
taxes, unrest and uncertainty growing
everything different from what we
expected when he was elected.
Of course, it is not his fault if he
does not know how to straighten
everything out the way it should be.
1t is the fault of congress. There is
where the brains of the country are
located, and perhaps being able to
get this wise government body to let
him try anything is where the fun
comes in. If what he does works, he