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Vo! 18 NO. 14 M'KINLEY'S WAR COST LESS BLOODSHED THAN WILSON'S PEACE By Theodore Roosvelt. Under President McKinley we had a war with Spain. Under President Wilson we are assured that we have had "peace" with Mexico. These are the words. Now for the deeds. During the war with Spain fewer Americans were killed by the Spaniards than have been killed by Mexicans during the present "peace" with Mexico. Let me repent this. A greater number of Americans have been killed by Mexicans during these years, when we are officially informed that we have been at peace with them, than were killed by the Spaniards during our entire war with Spain. Moreover when the war with Spain was through, it was through. But peace still continues to rage as fariously as ever in Mexico. Nor is this all. The instant effect of the outcome of the war with Spain was to put a stop to the deadful butchery and starvation in Cuba and the Philippines, and the entry of both Cuba and the Philippines on a career of eighteen years of peace and prosperity such as they had never known before in all their checked history. But during these three years of Mr. Wilson's "peace," the Mexicans themselves have been butchered by their own bandits steadily and without intermission; and Mexican women and children have died by thousands—probably by scores of thousands—of starvation, and of the diseases incident to starvation. In other words, Mr. McKinley's war ceit less peace; and it reflected high honor on the American people; whereas Mr. Wilson's peace has been one of shame and dishonor for the American people, and one of ruin and bloodshed for the Mexicans. A PICTURE OF HUGHES The New York World, which once was outspoken in its admiration for Mr. Hughes, now declares that the people do not know where Hughes stands, or what he stands for. This Wilson organ had no such criticism to make when Mr. Hughes was governor. The World said on May 17, 1910: "He dictated no nominations, controlled no convention, trafficked in no patronage, made no bargains with officeholders. He has rewarded nobody for supporting him and punished nobody for opposing him. What influence he has welded over public opinion has come through his appeals to the voters themselves." That is the estimate of Mr. Hughes given by the World six years ago. It is a pretty fair letter of recommendation. Could the World say as much for President Wilson? Hardly, for the president has done all of the things from which the World absolved Hughes.—Kansas City Journal. GUARDSMEN PAY THE PRICE OF WILSON'S ABASEMENT. Having condoned the repeated murders of Americans by the Carranzistas, and having abased himself before Carranza, and having aided in placing Carranza in power, what is Mr. Wilson's reward? and who pays it? The reward is that Mr. Wilson has to place 150,000 troops on the border to partially prevent the raids and murders that his friend Mr. Carranza will not or cannot prevent; and the payment is made by the soldiers who are slain and by the families of the guardmen who go in want because their husbands and fathers have been called to the border to make good Mr. Wilson's refusal to let the regular army administer such punishment to the bandits as to inspire in them a healthy fear—From t. Joseph of Col. Theodore Roebuck, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. The President himself has tried to appropriate for his own advantage the sentiment of "America first." The Democrats have tried to make his support an act of plebty, by adopting "Thank God for Wilson," as a slogan. Mr. Hughes, with rare courage, frankness and penetration, is exposing the flimsy foundation for the claims of Wilsonian infallibility. He is laying bare a record of extravagance, partisanship, sectionalism, incompetence, wrongdoing, vacillation and insincerity which destroys the attempt to make a loss out of the President. The Democrats must come out of their ecstatic france and defend their stewardship. The President is to be put on the stump. We are to hear something beside Delphic prose poems.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY SEPT. 16, 1916. Mr. Wilson now virtually admits that all his own ideas were wrong four years ago. He has changed his mind on every public question. On some of them he has changed twice or even three times. Even if his friends could satisfy the public at this time he is exactly right, what assurance could he given that he would be right at your hope? Political Jottings. The Houston Post reasons that it was easier for its own beloved Democracy to endorse the President's Mexican policy than to define it. While he was about it Senator James Hamilton Lewis also might have explained that the Rome that was "too proud to fight" died a rather disastrous death. "In all fatness," asks the Boston Transcript, "shouldn't the expense of financing Carranza be borne by the Democratic campaign committee?" Democrats really haven't any objection to big appropriations for angry and navy and internal improvements. They expect the Republicans to rustle the revenue to foot the bills for the next four years. Hughes says he would like six months to investigate the Administration, but the Administration figures he's doing very well as it is. Yes, and the same policies that have filled Judge Hughes and others with "a deep sense of shame," have sent many other Americans to their graves. The President has changed his mind about sending more troops to the border, thus running true to form. When Tom Taggart talks economy to them, it is time the Democrats stopped their extravagance. The Hughes smile is beginning to attract favorable attention. President Enttainns Five Progressives—Headline. Others he simply amuses. Democratic papers chide Hughes because he says he is "100 per cent, a candidate." The Wilson papers naturally prefer a fifty-fifty candidate. The President says he has no interest in any political party, "except as an instrument of achievement." If that's it, then how did he happen to select such a poor instrument as the Democratic party? Carranza isn't a candidate for President of the United States, but he did more for American preparedness in three weeks than Woodrow Wilson did in three years. Another thing you never hear of since the Democrats reduced the cost of living is the "baker's dozez" Mr. Hughes is criticized for his frequent use of the word "Now." Exidently his timelateness is worrying the watchful waiters who put things off until tomorrow. Families living in rural districts where mail service has been curtailed will be interested in knowing that Postmaster General Burleson has sept Secretary McAdoo a check for $5,200,000, representing surplus postal revenues. Mr. Gardner should not quote what Mr. Wilson said while president of Princeton. His utterances are outlawed by himself in seven days. That man Hughes is causing the Democratic newspapers an endless amount of worry. Apparently they will never be satisfied until he turns the management of his campaign over to them. Mr. Hughes' speeches are giving poor satisfaction to the Democratic press, which proves they are very good speeches, indeed. Secretary Baker is developing an agility in changing his mind that must encircle him to his discoverer. Mr. Wilson's Administration must confess itself incompetent in one respect or the other. It either has appropriated for an unneeded navy or it has neglected a needed navy. It can select its fault to suit itself. In one respect or the other it must be wrong. "I believe in efficiency in politics just as much as in anything else," says Mr. Hughes. Efficiency is an excellent watch-word, and its use in the campaign is merely a forerunner of its use in the White House when he gets there. First they said that Hughes was an iceberg, now they are saying that he is a mud-slipper. He cannot possibly be both, and as a matter of fact, is neither. The Democrats must feel in a mighty bad way when they cry out "mud and treason." "The Christian Sabbath" Which is it? The first day of the week commonly called Sunday or the "Seventh day" of the week commonly called Saturday. Monday night Sept. 18, 1916, 7:30 o clock at the 2nd Baptist Church. Pastor E. Arlington, Wilson and Eld. M. G. Nunes, will debate the issues. Masters of Ceremonies- Prof. F. J Gordan and Eld. W. S. North. Door-keepers P. B. Hayes and L. J. Moore. We have on our desk a splendid article on what the race should do but as the writer forgot to sign his name we can't print the article written by "Fear Cat." Among the things Mr. Bear Cat says is this, that it is time for people to stand up for principle and think out of a definite policy and stand by it; he says that other races have learned that to appeal to our emotions gets our moral support as well as our daughters. He also says that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should have an election occasionally. He also refers to President Grimes of the Fair Association as having the dope on emotion. He says get a few red necks and hill billies who love the negro enough to get the coin and have a parade with two wagons and a band and loud mouth negro speaker and a great big ignorant white man to stand at the entrance of the dance hall at a negro fair owned by white people and the president of the alumni association leading away and saving come on. We presume that "Bear Cat" means to give his disapproval to the Negro fair as conducted by Grimes and others. We have often thought and think now that the negroes of Muskogee are a set of cowards to stand by year after year and see the people defrauded and have the news go throughout the State that we had a negro fair when in fact we have had nothing of the kind but only a big picnic conducted in such a way that no one could be proud of it and in our opinion it is simply a scheme of a designing whitenem to rob the ignorant negro. We were surprised to see some of our leading negroes taking an active part in the farce if this thing is repeated next year it will be because the leading negroes of the town, ministers of the Gospel and all professional men included, are willing to it and they make themselves responsible to the people who live in other counties when they lose their money through false pretense of the negroes who live here. Perlying to a number of inquiries from over the State we desire to say that it was the preacher S. M. Twine who had the trouble with Mr. Gray and who was sent to the hospital in Kansas City for repairs and not Lawyer W. H. Twine. We thank our friends who were much interested in our welfare and desire to add that there are six boys who will look after the old man and for that reason if no other, every cuss inclined to fight will keep out of our line of fire. We are feeling pretty well, thank you. THE MISSION DAY SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION AT 604 S. THIRD ST. This school was organized six years ago and it is gratifying to say that it has increased in attentance every year. Several pupils who came from the public schools and were behind or dull in their studies have been greatly helped so that they could return to their respective class and make good. It is gratifying to say that both parents and teachers declare that the foundation that the children receive at this school enable them to stand up on their feet and do good work in the public schools. Rev. A. C. Roker, the principal of this school is energize He and on the alert. He keeps abreast with time and although he does not make a loud noise, yet he is doing good effective work. He deserves a hearty co-operation that he may do better work for God and humanity. President Wilson in his acceptance speech may reply to Mr. Hughes' charges, but he will not answer them. That is an entirely different matter. It is reported from Washington that the Administration will ignore most of Mr. Hughes' charges. That is very much the easiest way for it to answer them. Governor Hughes announces in one of his speeches that he is a constructionist. But we are willing to admit that so far as Democratic policies are concerned he is a destructionist. Tammany leader Charles F. Murphy announces that we will retire after the campaign. It is believed that many other more or less distinguished Democrats will follow his example. PRECIPITATED WAR When Mr. Wilson forgets him, self the admits that we have been at war; for example, on May 11, 1914, in an address over the dead marines at the navy yard in Brooklyn, he said that the marines had been engaged in "a war of service." A war of service to whom or to what? Certainly not to the United States; nor to Mexico; nor to humanity at large. Was it to Mr. Wilson?—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lowiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Ulland Valley R. R. "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1910 2-TRAINS DAILY-2 Muskogee & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskogee, & EASTBOUND Train] For Ft. Smith and points beyond Smith and points beyond Psuth, Ka and Tulsa Ark City and Tulsa WESTBOUND Tulsa, Ark. City and Wienta. Lia and Pa vhuska Ft. Smith and point beyond Train) From Ft. Smith and points beyond FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 308 or 495 Muskogee, RISCO LINES Change of time on the Frisco Line Effective Sunday, April 3 Governor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m. Muskogee City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minute whole train, sleeping car, chair car and o through. Sleeper ready for occupancy at arrangement of schedules affords Afternoon Service to Oklahoma Leave Muskogee 1:50 p.m. Arrive Sapulpa 5:15 p.m. Leave Sapulpa 6:50 p.m. Arrive Oklahoma City 10:20 p.m. or car is operated on this train Sapulpa to O complete schedules and additional information, see C. O. Jackson, Division Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. R. H. Genera Musko Midland Valley R. R. "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 2.TRAINS DAILY-2 Between Muskogee & Tulsa. Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith EASTBOUND RISCO LINES Change of time on the Frisco Lines The Governor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m., arrive Oklahoma City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minutes earlier. The whole train, sleeping car, chair car and coaches will run through. Sleeper ready for occupancy at 9:30 p.m. A re-arrangement of schedules affords A parlor car is operated on this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. For complete schedules and additional information, see Frisco Agent. the Price is right, if its bought of T. Milers 212 N. 2nd Money to Loan Oppo Phone 3741 Open Even Sunday MOVED Dr. J. C. PUTNAM, Chicago Dentist Moved to Fite Rowsey uilding Cor. Okemulgee and Secoud Sts. T. Milers Money to Loan Oppo MOVED Dr. J. C. PUTNAM, Chicago Dentist Moved to Fite Rowsey uilding Cor. Okemulgee and Secoud Sts. IMPROVED PASSENGER SERVICE ON M., O. & G. Effective Sunday, May 21st, the M. O. & G. Ry, established sleeping car service between Joplin, Miami, Wagoner, Muskogee, Henryetta, and Oklahoma City, on trains 3 and 4. Train No. 3 leaves Joplin at 4:15 P. M.; Muskogee at 9:30 P. M., arriving at Oklahoma City at 6:55 A. M., the entire train running through to Oklahoma City, via Dustin and the Ft. S. & W. R. R. Northbound train leaves Oklahoma City at 11:00 P. M., reaching Muskogee at 7:30 A. M., and Joplin at 1:00 P. M. Parlor cars have been placed in service between Muskogee and Oklahoma City on trains 5 and 8, leaving Muskogee at 9:30 A. M., arriving at Oklahoma City at 5:35 P. M., and leaving Oklahoma City at 9:30 A. M., arriving at Muskogee at 4:50 P. M. Luncheon is served enroute, and the convenient daylight service gives passengers a view of the bustling Henryetta-Dewar Kusma smelting district—the plants being in full view from the car windows. Handsome brick depots have just been completed and occupied by the M. O. & G. Ry, at Deware and Kusma Rock ballast is being installed as fast as possible, and the road-bed is being put in good condition. --- --- Suites 20-207 PRICE $1.00 A YEAR VALLEY R. R. AVER ROUTE" THE CARD Y. MARCH 5th, 1916 DAILY-2 Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith DUND th and points beyond 7:45 a.m. ond ..... 6:20 p. m ..... 10; 40 a. m ..... 6:15 p. m. DUND nicata ..... 8:00 a. m. beyond ..... 5:10 p. m. th and points beyond 7:30 p. m. INFORMATION Muskegee, Okla. Change time the 5 Lines day, April 30th Muskegee 11:45 p.m., arrive twenty-five minutes earlier. car, chair car and coaches will for occupancy at 9:30 p.m. edules affords to Oklahoma City ee ..... 1:50 p. m. 5:15 p. m. 6:50 p. m. na City 10:20 p. m. bus train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. national information, see Frisco Agent. R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskegee, Okla. ilers Open Evening Until 6 Sunday 10 to 4 PUTNAM, Dentist Rowsey uilding and Secoud Sts. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Negro Democrats have a hard row to hoe when all of us can vote and that we will do in Nov- ember. Holy rollers on the north side of town, the Seven Day Adven- tists on the south side and the regulars between them. They should have the devil on the jump. They say Oklahoma had a big place in the Kansas City parade and Muskogee was 'IT.' John D. Epps is the colored lawyer at Eufaula, a bright, able young man who should have the support of the people. Every citizen regardless of color, race or creed, can vote next November. The men who attempt the disfranchising act will catch H- Opposit of Kress PROMBITIONIST ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE TO MR ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE FOR SERVICES TO MR PROMBITIONIST FOR SERVICES PATENT MEDICINE MEGR DRY-TERMITORY "Three Wise Men of Cotham went to sea in a bowl, and if the bowl had been stronger, my song would have been longer." The Director is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskegue. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be independent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h —1 to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. The Republican party is the ship and all else the sea. The Oklahoma Negro is sure of that from bitter experience. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. For Congress Second District Harry Ward. For Sheriff—F. J. Bays. For County Attorney—H. C. Whipperman. For County Judge—Myron White. For County Treasurer—A . A. Coupland. For County Assessor—J. W. Hubbard. For County Clerk—W. S. Harsha. For Court Clerk—Dr. J. M. Coon. For County Superintendent Miss Alice M. Robertson. For County Surveyor—M. A Earl. For County Weigher—F. T Swift. Commissioners. No. 1.—John L. Cooper, Ft. Gibson. No. 2—J. C. Rhodes, Webber Falls. No. 3—Irvin Blanchard, Hawkell. State Representatives. John Lieber. O. E. Cramer. Geo. Leopold. The Republican convention held at Oklahoma City on the 12th was a hummer. The Republicans from all parts of the State were there in large numbers and full of enthusiasm and the indications are that the campaign will be vigorously fought and a victory won. Mr. Fairbanks addressed the convention and at night delivered another address to an overflow audience. After hip an overflow audience. After the adjournment of the convention the leading Colored men from the different counties of the State held a caucus and appointed a committee to present certain resolutions to the State Committee. The Committee was composed of Hon. G. W. F. Sawner of Chandler, Okla. Editor Dungee of Oklahoma City and Rev. Eucanan of Guthrie, Okla. The committee presented the resolutions and were promised answer within ten days. At this time we will not print the resolutions but shall await the action of the committee. It is sufficient to say the result will effect in the matter of voting. The Republicans of this county have a splendid chance to win a victory if campaign is conducted on sane and sensible lines. The blunder made at the recent convention has lost votes for some candidates whom it is claimed were responsible for the blunder. We don't believe any candidate could be that stupid but still could be mistaken and we would rather think the error belongs elsewhere. A party to succeed must play the game according to the rules and each and every supporter should be given a square deal, the bickerings and enmity of former campaigns must be forgotten. A vigorous fight in this county will surprise the politicians of the opposite party. Dr. C. C. Buttram who graduated in medicine five or six years ago and who has been engaged in the teaching profession since the day of graduation from medical college, passed the Oklahoma State Board medical examination and will engage in the practise of his profession. He is at present principal of the Claremore High School. The doctor is one of the leading men of the race in this state and our people are proud of his success. The nominee for congress in this district, Mr. Henry Ward, is an aggressive Republican and with a party仑 can win. We want to see an aggressive campaign and suggest to the congressional committee that every school district in every county be thoroughly tested. USE OF WHISKEY INCREASES 12,000,000 GALLONS IN AYEAR JOSEPH DEBAR, PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS' ASSOCIATION, QUOTES INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT TO PROVE IT REFUTES THE PROHIBITIONISTS' CLAIMS Figures For Period Ending Last June 30. Do Not Include Vast Amount of Alcohol Purchased In U.S. By the Allies—Return of Prosperity Results in More Withdrawals of Liquor Joseph Debar, of Cincinnati, Ohio, president of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association, makes the following announcement: Prohibitionists have recently been attempting to show in the newspapers a decrease in the consumption of liquors. To this end gambled statements have been sent to the press, purporting to show that this same decrease was due to Prohibition. As a matter of fact, the Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, shows an increase of whis- ties withdrawn from bond of more than twelve million gallons over the fiscal year 1915. The following are the official figures: Withdrawals from bond for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, .....124,155,178 gallons Withdrawals from bond for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, 136,226,328 gallons Deducting one of these figures from the other shows an increase in 1916 of 12,071,350 gallons Panics Affect Whiskey. Under financial depression of any kind, whiskey, like any other commodity, is directly affected. The following are the figures of withdrawals from bond beginning with the year 1965 to 1913 inclusive: 1965 ..... 115,994,857 gallons 1966 ..... 122,617,943 gallons 1967 ..... 134,621,066 gallons 1968 ..... 119,703,594 gallons 1969 ..... 114,693,578 gallons 1970 ..... 126,384,726 gallons 1971 ..... 132,658,026 gallons 1972 ..... 133,259,117 gallons 1973 ..... 140,239,424 gallons It will be noted that in the Fall of 1907, a great financial panic swept through the United States and withdrawals dropped from 134,031,066 gallons in 1907 to 114,625,578 gallons in 1909. Upon the outbreak of prosperity, beginning in 1910, withdrawals rose to 128,344,726 and steadily increased in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 to 140,289, 424 gallons in 1913. The outbreak of the European war in August, 1914, caused widespread financial depression in the United States and withdrawals dropped to 183,269,752 gallons and fell to 124, 155,178 gallons in 1915. With the return of prosperity in 1916, withdrawals have again risen to 136,226,528. The figures for the months intervening between June 30, 1916, up to the present time, indicate a further increase. They Can't Fool U. S. It is useless for our Prohibition friends to fill columns of newspapers with intricate statements intended to obscure the facts in the face of these official returns from the Internal Revenue Department of the United States. These figures do not include and have no connection with the many million gallons of alcohol purchased in this country by the Allies to be used in the manufacture of smokeless powder abroad. Alcohol and spirits manufactured here and exported pay no final revenue tax. Nor do these figures include denatured alcohol made here and used in this country for smokeless powder. Denatured alcohol pays no internal revenue tax. CHARLES W. FAIRBANK ```markdown ``` Governor Hughes' visit to Detroit opened the presidential campaign of 1916 and if we may forecast the events that are to follow by the omens of Monday we would prognosticate an intensely warm, vivid and humanly interesting period in the next few months. Hughes says the country can't be saved by letting it drift. That's where he and W. Wilson differ. Setting aside the ausepices of meteorological conditions in this provision of the future—although they are approved by numerous professional augurs and by a host of commonalty as well—we base this prophecy on the characteristics of the candidate whose too brief stay with us has been enjoyed by all with whom he came into contact. Washington reports that a new apology has been sent to First Chief Carranza. Looks like a habit. The misguided individuals who have been expecting Charles E. Hughes would prove to be a cold proposition and therefore easy to beat are in for a shock that will make them think they have been hit by an uninculated trolley wire. There is nothing cold about Mr. Hughes, Detroit has learned. He is about as intensely human a piece of humanity as ever captured the hearts of a crowd, and the more people in the United States he meets between now and November the more votes will be cast for him. As a campaigner he is a revelation. He likes his fellow beings, and they like him because they see he likes them. Mr. Bryan is mistaken when he says Hughes is "vitriolic." The candidate is merely applying the acid test. A messenger of President Wilson found out that Colorado women were for the administration. No messenger, of course, can be biased for making good. And what his personality begins his remarkable powers of intellect and utterance finish. He drives his points home with tremendous force. What he says sticks. There are thousands of Americans today who can retell every step in the arguments he made eight years ago on the Bryan trust policy, yet in 1808 Mr. Hughes was not especially a prominent figure and there was no particular reason why his address more than others should have remained clearly in the memory except the gift of the man to send his own thoughts so deep into the brains of others. They are clear in his own mind first, undoubtedly. He knows precisely what he wants to say because he has reasoned it out before he speaks it out. Probably that has something to do with the ease with which he conveys his meaning. But it is a very rare quality he possesses in his ability to master subjects so thoroughly as to make the most abstruse simple to himself and his hearers. It is a quality eminently desirable in a political candidate; it is infinitely more to be desired in the president of a great country like the United States. Political opponents are beginning to find that why Mr. Hughes kept silence so long wasn't because he had lost his tongue. Another encouraging feature about our new navy is that when it is completed, Mr. Daniels will not be Secretary of it. Having discovered that the Democrats don't like what he is saying, Mr. Hughes doubtless is convinced that he is on the right track. Detroit's impression of Charles E. Hughes is all favorable. The thousands of people who have studied him at close range are convinced that if he is elected president next November he will be a great president, one of the greatest this nation has known, worthy to stand in history with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a custodian of the public's fate to whom that fate may confidently be intrusted. If that conviction is shared by the people of other states whom he is still to meet, the outcome of his swing around the great American circle cannot fail to be propitious for him.—Detroit Free Press. TAKES "WET" GOODS TO "DRY" MEETING Says the New York World: When Jacob Vander Clock, of Clifton, N. J., is arranged there today on a charge of running an automobile at night with no tall light, he will be asked to explain why he had a keg of beer in his car while he was on his way to a Prohibition meeting in Passaic, when he was held up Tuesday night. JOHN WAGNER & JOHN WAGNER Vander Clock is well known as a Prohibitionist and when he was stopped by Policeman Duhly in Lake View he said he was on his way to the Prohibition meeting. Duhly says he saw the keeg of beer. Vander Clock gave cash ball at the station house. PROHIBITION PUTS A CRIMP IN CANADA Returned Tourists Declare That Thousands of Houses Are Vacant In Calgary and Lethbridge Prohibition has not proved beneficial to Canada, in the opinion of many persons who have paid recond visits to that county. The following little story is from the Butte (Mont.) Post: "Canada is a dull place, with little business, Prohibition in force and thousands of houses vacant in Calgary and Lethbridge, according to A. C. McNell, s24 West Quartz street, who returned with his family from a motor trip to Calgary, where they were the guests of Mrs. McNell's father, Mr. Pasco, who is well known in Butte. He said that the roads and crops are good in Canada, but otherwise conditions are very quiet." Not once has President Wilson squarely placed before the American people the question which Abraham Lincoln put before the American people in 1860; what is our duty? Not once has he appealed to moral idealism, to the stern enthusiasm of strong men for the right. On the contrary, he has employed every elocutionary device to full to sleep our sense of duty, to make us content with words instead of deeds, to make our moral idealism and enthusiasm evaporate in empty phrases instead of being reduced to concrete action.—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Telling Tariff Points Let these telling points on tariff and protection in the speech by Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate for President, delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed permanently in your mind and memory during the remainder of the campaign: We are desirous of having strong and sure the foundations of our national greatness in this pursuit of competition among the nations which is sure to follow the cessation of the present struggle. I presume that the Republican party as the national party, according to the constitution of the United States, within the national sphere, shall proceed wherever it is practicable, to build up and foster and encourage American enterprise, and open the doors wide for honest American achievement. Then came the Underwood tariff bill itself. What was the result? Enterprise halted and there was a contraction of trade throughout the land, and America, instead of going ahead, stopped. That is what happened. Three hundred thousand were unemployed in the City of New York. There was not a city in this land where the jobless man anxious and able to work did not walk the street. They were fed by our charitable organizations, which were taxed to the utmost limit to provide for those for whom American enterprise could no longer make provision. It was a sad spectacle. Americans have not forgotten it. It is not forgotten here or anywhere. It cannot be forgotten. It is too recent. If you are going to have the basis for prosperity in this country; if you are going to protect the American wage scale; if you are going to have American enterprise able to meet the competition which will follow the ending of this war, you must have an honestly devised, wisely-framed tariff law to protect American industry. No, the Democratic party will not be saved by the European war. If you would know what our condition will be when the war ends, 'think of what our condition was before that war began, if you think these nations are so impoverished that they cannot again turn to work. Those millions of men now fighting are better able to work than ever before in their lives. * * * Their factories are there; their plants are there; they know themselves better than ever before. They are better disciplined, more alert, keener, stronger, better physically than ever before, in the main, and they are ready to turn great national energies into the pursuits of peace to pay their war bills, to produce up to the limit, to send their goods throughout the world. I propose that we shall study this out, applying a principle that we be have in, and secure intelligently and honestly adequate protection to American industries in every part of this land. WHY HUGHES IS NEEDED IN THIS TREMENDOUS CRISIS. Against Mr. Wilson's combination of grace in elocation with futility in action; against his record of words unbacked by deeds or betrayed by deeds, we set Mr. Hughes' rugged and uncompromising straightforwardness of character and action in every office he has held. We put the man who thinks and speaks directly, and whose words have always been made good, against the man whose adroit and facile elocation is used to conceal his plans or his want of plans. The next four years may well be years of tremendous national strain. Which of the two men do you, the American people, wish at the helm during those four years; the man who has been actually tried and found wanting, or the man whose whole career in public office is a guarantee of his power and good faith? But one answer is possible; and it must be given by the American people throughout the United States.—From speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. ALLEGED GIRL BOOTLEGGER ESCAPES IN "DRY" KANSAS She and a Mile of 15 Who Was Caught Among "Joyriders," Try away, "His Said, With Jail Matron's $10- Last Saloon In State Is Razed WOULD BAN SOFT DRINKS AND CENSOR NEWSPAPERS Kansas Society of Killjoys Start New Movement to Restrict American Right to Free Speech and Dictate Editorial Policies of the Dailies Although Kansas has no saloons, it appears that Kansas citizens get it. Nor it they want it. Men bootleggers are said to be comparatively common in Kansas, but those of the immelbene gender are somewhat rare. The Wichita female relates: Pauline Stellickor, aged 15, and Eliza Foulkeir, 17, grew tired of being 'birds in a gilded cage' last night and when Mrs. O. J. Raymond, 32, Fannie avenue, their custodian, had her back turned they took French leave. The girls were county prisoners awaiting trial in the courts and that they might avoid the baneful influence of jail life, Mrs. E. E. Lyons, county matron, secured them board and lodging at the home of Mrs. Raymond. They escaped from Mrs. Raymond last night and it is believed that they are masquerading some place in male attire. Mrs. Raymond noticed several times during Saturday evening that the girls were restless. They whispered to each other often and made a visit to the rear yard several times. Mrs. Raymond was called to the home of a neighbor for a few minutes about 10 WOULD BAN S AND CENSOR Kansas Society of Killjoys Sta American Right to Free Editorial Policies Kansas killjoys are ever on the alert to prohibit the things which make life worth the living. The latest movements afoot are efforts to banish the soft drink and censor the news reports. Says the Topeka (Kas.) Capital: The Shawnee county W. C. T. U. yesterday unanimously resolved to take steps to have newspaper reporters prohibited from reporting sensational court trials in the daily papers of this state; to add a number of soft drinks to the black list, and to thank Gov. Arthur Capper for his "vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition and anticigarette laws." How the censorship of the press was to be accomplished the resolution did not state. Mrs. L. F. Sherman, chairman of the resolution committee, said, however, that the intention was to secure the passage of a law by the legislature forbidding papers to UNION LABOR MEN DOWN PROHIBITION New York Convention Reports That "Dry" Cause Is a Blow to American Liberty All over the nation, labor men, realizing that prohibition menaces their jobs, are taking a determined stand against it. This is from the Glen's Falls (N. Y.) Times: "During the second annual convention of the Trades Union Liberty League in the City Hall auditorium yesterday the delegates discussed several questions opposing the prohibition of the sale of liquor. The league is made up of labor unions more or less affected by the liquor industry and is organized to oppose the Prohibition movement. John Sullivan, secretary of the League, submitted a report treating on the different bills for Prohibition. One clause of the report reads: "We consider prohibition in any form a menace to society and good government, also a blow against temperance and the rights and liberties of American citizenship." o clock. When she returned the girls were gone and so was $10 of her money. In a building of the rear of the yard Mrs. Raymond found the clothing, shoes and stockings belonging to both girls. That accomplices supplied them with a change of female clothing or that they donned male attire to prevent recognition, is believed. The Stollicker girl has seen a prisoner since she was captured in a joyriding party with men much older than herself, by officer H. B. Straight, several weeks ago. Edna Faulkner was arrested on complaint of her father who asserts that she sold liquor and indulged in other delinquencies. The girl bootlegger seems to have replaced the saloon. If one will note this from the St. Joseph (Mo.) Journal: "The last indication in Central Kansas that a saloon ever existed in the state was destroyed last week when a frame building occupied by a saloon 40 years ago was wrecked at Russell. The paint applied in recent years had been worn off, disclosing a large sign "saloon," which could be read several blocks away. The sign had been read by thousands of tourists, and it fooled many of them. SOFT DRINKS FOR NEWSPAPERS art New Movement to Restrict free Speech and Dictate s of the Dailies publish certain kinds of court news. She said she supposed a newspaper censor would have to be appointed to enforce this law and see to it that no "objectionable" matter reached the news columns. The first step will be to try to induce newspaper owners to scelerize this class of news of their own free will. The W. C. T. U. also hopes to have minors barred from "court rooms during "sensational" trials. It was also resolved to wage war on soft drinks. For the immediate future the union will content itself with frowning upon the practice of selling the thirst quenchers. If this does not produce results, Mrs. Sherman thought an effort would be made to obtain a law forbidding the sale of the drinks. The W. C. T. U. went on record as "being opposed to any movement to repeal the laws providing for movie censorship." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION SOME GAY IT IS. [Sioux City (Ia.) Journal.] Champagne for courtesy; whisky for medicine; beer for—go long with you; this is a dry state! PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] Willie—Paw, what is a reformer? Paw—A reformer is a party who wants everybody to be better than he is, my son. ANOTHER LIE NAILED. We don't believe this stuff about "As goes Maine, so goes the Union." Were it true the Union would have gone dry 40 years ago. THOSE PESKY REFORMERS [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] If most of the Reformers would wait long enough to correct their own faults they wouldn't have any time to correct the faults of others. Give a hurricane the assistance of a first-class tidal wave and it can do almost as much damage to the United States navy as Josephus can. POINTS FROM HUGHES' SPEECHES Reckless extravagance of the Democrats is an insult to the American people. Deserving Democrats! Deserving in heaven's name of what? We have a splendid system of government, on paper, but we want that system vitalized. The pork barrel bill brings a blush of shame to the cheeks of every American. I am here because I have a vision of what America needs. An idle American will always feel uncomfortable. America will not hold her own by high-sounding phrases. Are we not a nation great enough to have sufficient foresight to protect our borders in a sensible fashion by means of sensible preparedness? If we state our rights in a firm and determined manner it should carry conviction. They should be no vacillation in confection, with that assertion. TRUTH ABOUT PROHIBITION LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE TELLS OF SPOKANE'S SAD PLIGHT "TONS OF LIQUOR" J. F. Howard Says Washington City Has Suffered Financially While Women Have Drunk Themselves to Death With Adulterated Liquors, and Law-abiding Citizens Have Been Branded As Criminals The truth about Prohibition in Spokane, Wash., has been brought to light and J. H. Howard, legislative candidate, is the man responsible. Standing squarely against Prohibition he has described the havee wrought in his home town by sumptuary legislation. The Spokane Chronicle has the following to say of Mr. Howard's statements: "A dark picture of the horrors of Prohibition in Spokane is painted by J. F. Howard, of Kiesling, aspirant for the Republican nomination for state representative in the Third district, in campaign literature that he is sending out, addressed to the voters. "It's time you were waking up and investigating the deportable and disgusting state of affairs that prohibition has wrought on your city," says his circular. "Tons of liquor are rolling into Spokane and thousands upon thousands of dollars are rolling out. A number of men have been murdered in the streets of your city. Homes have been entered and women outraged. Women have drunk themselves to death in Spokane hotels with poisons and adulterated liquor. "A number of former law-abiding citizens are being branded daily in police court as criminals. Your money is being used by the police department to wind and dine stool pigeons, thanks to a community that is lawed, inspected and taxed to death. "The state of Washington is millions upon millions of dollars in debt; you have the interest and principal to pay on this great debt, regardless of whether your family have bread to eat or not. We don't want any more laws. Every new law means thousands of dollars out of the people's pocket. Small Boys; Blackberry Wine; "Jags"; Hospital Under national prohibition citizens would be entitled to manufacture all the home-made wine they desired. Blackberry wine would be much in favor, for blackberries are plentiful. The Tacoma News describes the results of some blackberry wine on children of "dry" Washington state, as follows: An 11-year-old boy, together with several "guests," are at a hospital under the care of a physician today as a result of drinking too much blackberry wine yesterday afternoon, while the parents of one of the boys had gone shopping. The wine was two years old and is said to have had a wonderful "kick." The youngster broke up the chicken house and killed the rabbite of the boy who was treating, and then fell in a stupor in a potato patch. QUESTION CRAZE SEIZES THE G.O.P. Democratic WORLD Long Had Monopoly of This Idiocy But Opposite Party Is Infected. STRING OF INTERROGATIONS TO FEASE WILSON IDOLATERS Questionnaire No. 1—Will All the Wilson Notes Be at His Notification? —How Did Fool Free Trade Hit Your Line of Business Just Before the Battles Began?—When the War Babies Die Will You Weep at the Funeral? The question habit grows. You may ask a question of any one. Why should the dear old public escape? Here are a few from The New York Sun for the man in the street: Do you approve of the Rivers and Harbors loot? Do you want four years more of watchful waiting with the National Guardsmen undergoing military training in a tropical climate in mid-summer? Do you hold that the duty of the United States is to serve humanity and let its own citizens be killed and outraged? Do you feel proud of notes with nothing behind them? What do you think of the Vera Cruz adventure? Would you like to have been an American soldier at Carrizal? Do you love Carranza? Do you believe in a financial regime conducted largely in the interest of one section of the country? Do you desire to cut the Philippines loose in order that Japan may gobble them? Do you want four more years of Daniels? Do you approve of wrecking the diplomatic service to provide jobs for deserving Democrat? Do you believe in preparedness for a flood of cheap European wares as soon as peace comes? Have you noticed the significant increase of imports in the past year, despite the war? How did fool free trade hit your line of business before August, 1914? And your friends? Were you all cheered up by the Underwood tariff bill? Do you think the doubling of the income tax is fair while millions' worth of competitive imports come in free? Where are you going to be when the war babies die and business slips back to the cold, hard, normal basis? Can you conceive of any possible good to you or to the country from another Presidential term like the present one? Will you perpetuate sectionalism, greed, ignorance, stupidity—general inptitude in Congress? ATTRACTS BUSINESS MEN. Mr. Hughes has not tried to scare anybody, but has merely portrayed the errors of the present Administration and set forth certain principles on which the affairs of the country should be managed in the future. There is a political logic in this portrayal, the culmination of which in the mind of the voter is expressed by the frequent remark: "He is the kind of man we want to steer us through." This has been said by many a business man. The qualities seen in Mr. Hughes are poise, a strong, sane mind, sincerity and a willingness to sacrifice life, physical or political, to the good of the country. Nor is there any question as to the quality of nerve to meet the emergencies of the four years beginning March 4, 1917. HOME OF AVERAGE MAN. "But America is not simply a land for the man of special talent or of distinguished aptitude. This is the home of the average man, the ordinary man who is doing his best, whatever, by talent or aptitude and in our large industrial occupations where thousands are gathered together in one service, we want a recognition of human brotherhood in providing for the welfare of those who make the wealth of this great country. "We want workingmen to be safeguarded from every injury that can be prevented. We want the health of the workingmen looked after; every means provided which conduces to the proper standpoint of living; every means provided for proper recreation; appropriate means for education, for vocational training. In short the workingman who is on the job and expects to continue in that job ought to feel that he is doing something worth while for a community that appreciates it and gives him a fair chance to lead a happy and decent life.—From Mr. Hughes' speech at Detroit. FARMERS SIZE UP HUGHES AS "PRETTY GCOD ELOW" Fargo, N. D.—Charles, E. Hughes campaigned for the first time among the sturdy farmers of the eastern part of North Dakota and left behind him the reputation of being a "pretty good fellow." He was forced to undergo a critical scrutiny before the verdict was given. Mr. Hughes preached the doctrine of government efficiency, Americanism, tariff as protection to the farmers and preparedness, and in each instance won applause, despite the fact that the farmers are not the strongest advocates of the last named issue. They cheered for preparedness the loudest when Mr. Hughes told them that it meant not militarism, but ability to uphold national honor. As they cheered for Mr. Hughes, one broad-shouldered old farmer said "it's because there's something about him that makes you believe he's telling the truth." DENIES ASSAILING MR. HUGHES. Percy Mackaye Writes He Never Saw "Authors' Letter" With His Name Appended. Percy Mackaye, playwright, whose name appeared as one of the signers of the so-called "authors' letter," published in the newspapers last week, knew nothing about the matter until after publication, according to a statement given out yesterday at Republican national headquarters. The letter attested Charles E. Hughes' criticism of President Wilson as "nonconstructive" and propounded ten questions for Mr. Hughes to answer. In a letter to Mr. Hughes Mr. Mackaye said:— "My attention has just been called to an open letter addressed to you, printed in the New York Herald of August 2, signed by a number of professional writers, among whom my name is included. I beg to send you this word, to say that I did not sign the letter and never saw or heard of the letter until it was shown to me in print." It was stated at Republican headquarters that neither Mr. Hughes nor any of his staff had seen the letter except as it appeared in the newspapers. "What is the President's policy—does anyone know? Has the Executive ever had a policy for more than six months on the Mexican question?" "If I am elected President I will see to it that American rights in Mexico are respected." "There is no man who could successfully present to an American community the platform that an American citizen's rights stop at the coast line." "We will get through with this old strife between capital and labor. We are not laborers and capitalists in this country. We are fellow-citizens." "All that the workingmen want is a square deal." "We want the United States efficiently managed. I want to see men in office who believe in prosperity." "The Republican Party stands for a prosperity produced by sound american policies." "We have removed from office men of experience and substituted others to satisfy partisan obligations. This must stop." THAT FULL DINNER PAIL. Relying foolishly upon the full dinner pail to accomplish for them what it has so often accomplished for the Republican party, the Democrats proceed to pile extravagance upon extravagance and to make flobby claims of being at peace, even when we are at war, says the Detroit Journal. For the dinner pail has been filled with munition money, which presently must be supplanted by the true coinage of protected American industry after the war. And while the dinner pail is full, observe with what inflated foods. This administration promised the worker a lower cost of living. But, as a matter of fact, to the worker Democratic prosperity is a false prosperity. It is a mirage. Every man with a dinner pall knows that, unless his wages have been increased 20 per cent, under Democratic munition prosperity, he is poorer than he was four years ago. For Wilson rents are from 20 to 40 per cent, higher; the Wilson meat, the Wilson sugar and the Wilson wool are 40 per cent, higher, and the Wilson steel and tin and household goods are from 20 to 40 per cent, higher. The Wilson bread has advanced faster than the Wilson wage, and the Wilson taxes have risen higher than the Wilson prosperity. Democracy may have enriched the munition manufacturer, but has it enriched the worker, whose cost of living has increased faster than his earnings? If the Administration can re-elect itself on the ground that the worker is obliged to move out of his home into an inferior one, or has to double up in tenements and to take in boarders make up for his loss of economic advantage under the present incarnated cost of living, then there is no reason why the Administration REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS SQUANDERED BY WILSON Built Panama Canal Out of Current Revenues, Patriotically Hoarding Bonds in Treasury Which Democrats Filch to Hide a Deficit. CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Senator Penrose Believes the Looted Condition of the Treasury Will Neccessitate the Withhelding of Contracts for Battleships and Delay the Whole Scheme of Preparedness — Nation's Money Fettered Away to Finance Hare-Drained and III Advised Projects. William R. Willeox, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, has received from Senator Penrose a brief but positive summing up of the extravagances of the Wilson Administration during the possession of Congress just about to close. The Senator says: When the country realizes what this Congress has done in the way of appropriations it will be diminished. Already, it has been shown that over a billion, seven or eight hundred million dollars have been appropriated—more money than was ever appropriated in any one year in the history of the American government. The total will reach nearly two billion dollars before the end of this carnival of debitcheery in public expenditures is reached, because no account has been taken of the twenty-five millions for the Danish islands, the thirty millions which the government will probably have to return as a result of the five per cent Valeote allowed, on appropriations brought across the seas in Norway, in bottoms, and other matters which are likely to come up. "It is valuable to evident that this bill which is ever cited to being in some two hundred million dollars will abolished fail to meet even the requirements for the fixed and certainly not unrestricted projects authorized by the present Congress." "It is honored condemned that these projects are to be dismixed by the issuance of Paterson Cust bond. The American people will regard such a proceeding as a very queer one because the issuing of bonds by the Cleveland Administration largely helped to bring about the downfall of the Democratic party in 1896. A bond issue has ever since been viewed with abhorrence by the Democracy; now we find the party leaders compelled by reason of their extinguishment and inefficiency, to resort to it. "To defray the expenses of a nitrate plant and of a shipping board and many other needless projects by the issuing of Panama bonds will be in the last analysis equivalent to paying for them by bond issues. These bonds are lying in the treasury unissued as the result of the thrift and economy and wise administration of the Republican party. "Only about $150,000,000 of bonds were put out in the construction of the Panama Canal. The balance of the cost of that stipulants unforming was paid out of current revenues; and now, to advance the novel doctrine that those bonds which represent the theft of preceding years shall be issued for these impossibly projects is, to my mind, propitious. In fact, it was expressly provided in the Spooner Act that Panama Canal bonds should not be issued for any other purpose than that of the construction of the Canal, and the intentions theory that they can be issued now to repay the treasury and that then the money can be squinted by the party in power to finance doubtful projects and to make good a deloitte will not alter the fact that such a deloitte exists. "No amount of resisting on the part of the Chairman of the Committee on Finance will alter the fact that outside of preparedness there has been at least $200,000,000 of whose appropriations and expenditures by the present Congress. That condition of the treasury will absolutely necessitate the withholding of contracts for battleships and delay the whole scheme of preparedness. "The figures of the Secretary of the Treasury may be juggled at they may, but when the Secretary is up against the house fact of not having money to pay for these projects he will then find that figures will not make a surplus in the treasury." SACRIFICED COUNTRY'S HONOR AND INTEREST Mr. Wilson's defenders say he "than kept us out of war." As a matter of fact his policy in Mexico has combined all the skills of female peace with all the skills of female war. He has secured none of the benefits of war; but he has not avoided war. He has sacrificed the honor and the interest of the country; but he has not received the thirty pieces of silver—From the remeach of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. But it is expected there are really some, found for the opinion that President Wilson may carry Texas over November. If these indications are believed in their full worth, some believe will soon be going out to that state; this will sweep on until the disputed and Ambiguous are also enforced in the Democratic column. Many Hill Democrats willing and ready to speak for Wilson are careful that their money shall not say anything on his side. President Wilson says he is utterly undiluted as to his re-election. Problems that explain a good many things, nobody has heretofore been able to understand. "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" For Cassius "read "Congress." The union seems to be that the deputy governor national chairman is claiming more than he will get, but not any more than he will need. As further evidence that he is warm-hearted and intensely human, Mr. Hughes likes a people. No man is going to be elected—or relected—to high office by votes gained from States' rights declarations this into the game. The States' rights question was settled some fifty years ago to the evident satisfaction of a considerable majority—Kansas City Star. "Aggregate preparedness is not militarism. It is the essential assurance of security. It is a necessary safeguard of peace." Candidate Hughes has left mashing to be said on this ultimatum. He has snuffed out counter argument at the very outset. Americans a nation of asks the New York Sun, and be very harsh to answer the offensive—and, anyway, we clean a democratic president only every once in a while. Charles E. Hughes cannot get so far away from Washington that the men in charge of the charter of government threw off not real the jolting of his critics in hilt, the Democratic leaders at the digital city show symptoms of seg delinquency from the way in which the excluded of the Supreme court has shaken them up. Mr. Hobbs is permitting the only proper method which he first to take the hardwood out of the way so that the path to righteous and propitious government may be made clear. THE NEUTRALITY OF PONTIUS PILATE. But it is soon as the need for deeds foresees, Mr. Wilson forgot to admit that "the principle he held over" "the principly announced that we should be "neutral in that as well as in name, in thought as well as in action," between the small, weak, thin,簿簿 nibbon and the large, strong nation which was robbing it of its sovereignty and independence. Such neutrality has been compared to the unrational of Pontius Pilate. This is unjust to Pontius Pilate, who at least gently urged modification on the wrongdoer.—From the speech of Col. Theorel Roeweitt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of "Charles E. Hughes." The President gets up early during his hot spell, and there are some who think he may have to continue the previous until November if that man kindly continues to be so undignified. Pittsburgh dispatch. WILSON'S IGNOBLE, UNSUC CESSFUL LITTLE WARS. President Wilson tok Vera Cruz in 1914, as we were officially informed at the time, to get a salute for the flag, and to prevent the shipment of arms into Mexico. He did not get his salute. He did not prevent the shipment of arms. But several hundred "then" were killed or wounded; and then he brought the army home without achieving either object. President Wilson sent an army into Mexico in 1916, as we were informed at the time, to get Villa "dead or alive." They did not get him dead. They did not get him alive. Again several hundred were Killed and wounded. Again President Wilson is bringing the army home without achieving his object. Of course it is a mere play upon words to say that these were not "wars." They were wars, and nothing else; ignoble, pointless, unsuccessful little wars; but wars. They cost millions of dollars and hundreds of lives, unlucky to no purpose; they accomplished nothing; but they were wars.—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lowington, Maine, in 1917. Charles E. Hughes. President Wilson explicitly shows that the Carranzistas, not once but repeatedly, made attacks on American towns, and killed American citizens, and mutilated them in September, 1915. Yet on October 19th, 1915, less than a month later, this same President Wilson, through his same Secretary of State, formally announced to Carranzza's agent that it was his "pleasure" to take the opportunity "of extending recognition to the de facto government of Mexico, of which General Vernstino Carranzza is the chief executive." President Wilson thus recognized the government which his own Secretary of State declares, had been less than a month previously engaged in repeated assaults upon Americans, and in the invasion of American soil, the government at whose head was General Carranzza, who, less than two months previously, on August 2nd, 1915, had contemptuously refused to pay any need to any representations of President Wilson on behalf of mediation, saying that "under no consideration would I permit interference in the internal affairs of Mexico." President Wilson did not merely kiss the hand that slapped him in the face. He kissed that hand when it was red with the blood of American men, women and children, who had been murdered and mutilated with, as President Wilson, through his Secretary of State, says, "ruthless brutality."—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewison, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. (N. Y.) SUN STROKES. Roger Sullivan steps aside.—Newspaper headline. Students of Democratic politics know what a thin line divides stepping aside and sidestepping. The Democrats seem to realize, to their dismay, that if they can't persuade Mr. Hughes to change from plaintiff to defendant the case is lost. The President "will not take the stump," but "will accept invitations to speak at different places."—Chairman Vance McCormick is as Machiavellian as a musketeer. It is not what Wilson has kept us out of but what he's got us into that counts at present. VILLA AIDED BY WILSON'S FAVOR AND BACKING. In March last, Villa made a raid into American territory. He was a bandit leader whose career of successful infamy had been greatly aided by Mr. Wilson's favor and backing. He was at the head of Mexican soldiers, whose arms and munitions had been supplied to them in consequence of Mr. Wilson's reversing Mr. Taft's policy and lifting the embargo against arms and munitions into Mexico. They attacked Columbus, New Mexico, and killed a number of civilians and a number of United States troops. On the next day the president issued an announcement that adequate forces would be sent in pursuit of Villa "with the single object of capturing him." On April 5th, the announcement was made from the White House that the troops would remain in Mexico until Villa was captured. It was furthermore announced in the press despatches from Washington that he was to be taken "dead or alive." Fine words! Only—they meant nothing. He is not dead. He has not been taken alive—From speech of Col. Theodore Roosovelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. --- Mr. Wilson during the past few days has become such a life-long opponent of the pork barrel that he is almost sorry now he didn't veto some of those bills. Secretary McAdoo warns Treasury employees against too much political activity, and if they don't disobey the order they are likely to be bounced. This Administration has displayed no more feeling of responsibility for the American women who have been raped, and for the American men, women and children who have been killed in Mexico, than a farmer shows for the rats killed by his dogs when the hay is taken from a barn. And now the American people are asked to sanction this policy in the name of peace, righteousness and humanity!—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. HUGHES' SPEECHES Reckless extravagance of the Democrats is an insult to the American people. Deserving Democrats! Deserving in heaven's name of what? We have a splendid system of government, on paper, but we want that system vitalized. The pork barrel bill brings a blush of shine to the cheeks of every American. I am here because I have a vision of what America needs. An idle American will always feel uncomfortable. America will not hold her own by high-sounding phrases. are we not a nation great enough to have sufficient fore-sight to protect our borders in a sensible fashion by means of sensible preparedness? If we state our rights in a firm and determined manner it should carry conviction. They should be no vacillation in connection with that assertion. TRUTH ABOUT PROHIBITION GIGSLATIVE CANDIDATE TELLS OF SPOKANE'S SAD PLIGHT "TONS OF LIQUOR" J. F. Howard Says Washington City Has Suffered Financially While Woman Have Drunk Themselves to Death With Adulterated Liquors.and Lavabiding Citizens Have Been Branded As Criminals The truth about Prohibition in Spokane, Wash., has been brought to light and J. H. Howard, legislative candidate, is the man responsible. Standing squarely against Prohibition he has described the havoc wrought in his home town by sumptuery legislation. The Spokane Chronicle has the following to say of Mr. Howard's statements: "A dark picture of the horrors of Prohibition in Spokane is painted by J. F. Howard, of Kiesling, aspirant for the Republican nomination for state representative in the Third district, in campaign literature that he is sending out, addressed to the voters. "It's time you were waking up and investigating the depratable and disguising state of affairs that prohibition has wrought on your city," says his circular. "Tons of liquor are rolling into Spokane and thousands upon thousands of dollars are rolling out. A number of men have been murdered in the streets of your city. Homes have been entered and women outraged. Women have drunk themselves to death in Spokane hotels with poisons and adulterated liquor. "A number of former law-abiding citizens are being branded daily in police court as criminals. Your money is being used by the police department to wind and dine, stool pigeons, thanks to a community that is lawed, inspected and taxed to death. "The state of Washington is millions upon millions of dollars in debt; you have the interest and principal to pay on this great debt, regardless of whether your family have bread to eat or not. We don't want any more laws. Every new law means thousands of dollars out of the people's pocket. Small Boys; Blackberry Wine; "Jags"; Hospital Under national prohibition citizens would be entitled to manufacture all the home-made wine they desired. Blackberry wine would be much in favor, for blackberries are plentiful. The Tacoma News describes the results of some blackberry wine on children of "dry" Washington state, as follows: An 11-year-old boy, together with several "guests," are at a hospital under the care of a physician today as a result of drinking too much blackberry wine yesterday afternoon, while the parents of one of the boys, had gone shopping. The wine was two years old and is said to have had a wonderful "kick." The youngster broke up the chicken house and killed the rabbits of the boy who was treating, and then fell in a stupor in a potato patch. QUESTION CRAZE SEIZES THE G.O.P. Democratic WORLD Long Had Monopoly of This Idiocy But Opposite Party Is Infected. STRING OF INTERROGATIONS TO FEASE WILSON IDOLATERS Questionnaire No. 1—Will All the Wilson Notes Be at His Notification? —How Did Fool Free Trade Hit Your Line of Business Just Before the Battles Began?—When the War Babies Die Will You Weep at the Funeral? The question habit grows. You may ask a question of any one. Why should the dear old public escape? Here are a few from The New York Sun for the man in the street: Do you approve of the Rivers and Harbors loot? Do you want your years more of watchful waiting with the National Guardsmen undergoing military training in a tropical climate in mid-summer? Do you hold that the duty of the United States is to serve humanity and let its own citizens be killed and outraged? Do you feel proud of notes with nothing behind them? What do you think of the Vera Cruz adventure? Would you like to have been an American soldier at Carrizal? Do you love Carranza? Do you believe in a financial regime conducted largely in the interest of one section of the country? Do you desire to cut the Philippines loose in order that Japan may gobble them? Do you want four more years of Daniels? Do you believe in preparedness for a flood of cheap European wares as soon as peace comes? Have you noticed the significant increase of imports in the past year, despite the war? How did fool free trade hit your line of business before August, 1914? And your friends? Were you all cheered up by the Underwood tariff bill? Do you think the doubling of the income tax is fair while millions worth of competitive imports come in free? Where are you going to be when the war babies die and business slips back to the cold, hard, normal basis? Can you conceive of any possible good to you or to the country from another Presidential term like the present one? Will you perpetuate sectionalism, greed, ignorance, stupidity—general ineptitude in Congress? ATTRACTS BUSINESS MEN Mr. Hughes has not tried to scare anybody, but has merely portrayed the errors of the present Administration and set forth certain principles on which the affairs of the country should be managed in the future: There is a political logic in this portrayal, the culmination of which in the mind of the voter is expressed by the frequent remark: "He is the kind of man we want to steer us through." This has been said by many a business man. The qualities seen in Mr. Hughes are polite, a strong, sane mind, sincerity and a willingness to sacrifice life, physical or political, to the good of the country. Nor is there any question as to the quality of nerve to meet the emergencies of the four years beginning March 4, 1917. HOME OF AVERAGE MAN. "But America is not simply a land for the man of special talent or of distinguished aptitude. This is the home of the average man, the ordinary man who is doing his best, whatever, by talent or aptitude and in our large industrial occupations where thousands are gathered together in one service, we want a recognition of human brotherhood in providing for the welfare of those who make the wealth of this great country. "We want workingmen to be safeguarded from every injury that can be prevented. We want the health of the workingmen looked after; every means provided which conduces to the proper standpoint of living; every means provided for proper recreation; appropriate means for education, for vocational training. In short the workingman who is on the job and expects to continue in that job ought to feel that he is doing something worth while for a community that appreciates it and gives him a fair chance to lead a happy and decent life.—From Mr. Hughes' speech at Detroit. FARMERS SIZE UP HUGHES AS "PREITY GOOD LLOW" Fargo, N. D.-Charles E. Hughes campaigned for the first time among the sturdy farmers of the eastern part of North Dakota and left behind him the reputation of being a "pretty good fellow." He was forced to undergo a critical scrutiny before the verdict was given. Mr. Hughes preached the doctrines of government efficiency. Americanism, tariff, as protection to the farmers, and preparedness, and in each instance won applause, despite the fact that the farmers are not the strongest advocates of the last named issue. They cheered for preparedness the loudest when Mr. Hughes told them that it meant not militarism, but ability to uphold national honor. As they cheered for Mr. Hughes, one broad-shouldered old farmer said "it's because there's something about him that makes you believe he's telling the truth." DENIES ASSAILING MR. HUGHES. Percy Mackaye Writes He Never Saw "Authors' Letter" With His Name Appended. Percy Mackaye, playwright, whose name appeared as one of the signers of the so-called "authors' letter," published in the newspapers last week, knew nothing about the matter until after publication, according to a statement given out yesterday at Republican national headquarters. The letter attacked Charles E. Hughes' criticism of President Wilson as "non-constructive" and propounded ten questions for Mr. Hughes to answer. In a letter to Mr. Hughes Mr. Mackaye said:— "My attention has just been called to an open letter addressed to you, printed in the New York Herald of August 2, signed by a number of professional writers, among whom my name is included. I beg to send you this word, to say that I did not sign the letter and never saw or heard of the letter until it was shown to me in print." It was stated at Republican headquarters that neither Mr. Hughes nor any of his staff had seen the letter except as it appeared in the newspapers. "What is the President's policy—does anyone know? Has the Executive ever had a policy for more than six months on the Mexican question?" "There is no man who could successfully present to an American community the platform that an American citizen's rights stop at the coast line." "We will get through with this old strife between capital and labor. We are not laborers and capitalists in this country. We are fellow-citizens." "All that the workingmen want is a square deal." "We want the United States efficiently managed. I want to see men in office who believe in prosperity." "The Republican Party stands for a prosperity produced by sound American policies." "We have removed from office men of experience and substituted others to satisfy partisan obligations. This must stop." THAT FULL DINNER PAIL. Relying foolishly upon the full dinner pail to accomplish for them what it has so often accomplished for the Republican party, the Democrats proceed to pile extravagance upon extravagance and to make flabby claims of being at peace, even when we are at war, says the Detroit Journal. For the dinner pail has been filled with munition money, which presently must be supplanted by the true coinage of protected American industry after the war. And while the dinner pail is full, observe with what inflated foods. This administration promised the worker a lower cost of living. But, as a matter of fact, to the worker Democratic prosperity is a false prosperity. It is a mirage. Every man with a dinner pall knows that, unless his wages have been increased 20 per cent. under Democratic munition prosperity, he is poorer than he was four years ago. For Wilson rents are from 20 to 40 per cent; higher; the Wilson meat, the Wilson sugar and the Wilson wool are 40 per cent. higher, and the Wilson steel and tin and household goods are from 20 to 40 per cent. higher. The Wilson bread has advanced faster than the Wilson wage, and the Wilson taxes have risen higher than the Wilson prosperity. Democracy may have enriched the munition manufacturer, but has it enriched the worker, whose cost of living has increased faster than his earnings? "That kin life—surrend bring us no we let capi men, any inte way to get we applying pres tinue in that years, democ ure, and we up our form If the Administration can re-elect itself on the ground that the worker is obliged to move out of his home into an inferior one, or has to double up in tenements and to take in boarders to make up for his loss of economic advantage under the present incensed cost of living, then there is no reason why the Administration