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HOKill OX CAMUDATKX.
(By Charles U. Prlscoll.)
Now, whal'8 a poor fellow to do?
1 nut It mi colit, nor. to you;
Can a ninn who's respected
At ull (tot elected
While thoy'ro raising this cry
this hue?
and
What apeak I ulioul, do yon nsk?
Why, havo you been asleop every
day? A man can't thin fall
Kiss a baby at all,
For the mothers tit oneo tell hlni
unyi
Tills here polio germ la around
And the doctors, whoso wits uro un
bound. Say a candidate's kls
lllKht send baby to bliss
And they'll biioII' our campaign,
I'll ho hound! -
LEAST KAI'E AT HOME.
Sieve l-'arlub, living In the went
part of town, broke bin lliuli Wednes
day evenliiK. Mr. l'nrish hurt been
In bad hoallli Tor several months, lie
wart sdinilliiK by his bed anil In turn
lni; around, (;uve his limb n twist,
breaking It above the knee. The
MmTlllton (Ark.) Democrat.
ASKIXti TOO .Ml'OI.
"Whin's that Ihlni;, doc "
"That's the mcdlclue-ball I brought
you."
"Then I'm nl'riild thero Is no hope
for mo.'
"Why not "
"I never can swnllow that."
e e e
"Now Sllns." said the speaker, "I
want you to be present when 1 de
liver this speech."
"Yassuh."
"I want you to start the laughing
and applause. Every time I take a
drink of water you npplaud and when
1 wlpo my forehead with my hand
kerchief, you laugh."
"You better switch dem signals,
boss. It's a heap mo' liable to make
mo laugh to see you slaudin' up dar
deliborately takln' a drink o' water."
A genius Is a man
almost every thing but
lug"
who can do
make n llv-
u ;iit.
t NOTU'K The paiiy who took n
lawn mower from the home of Mr.
J. Ackworth during Hie week of July
Fourth, can save himself trouble by
reluming tile same. The Orwell
(O.) XcwH-l.titlcr.
e
II Mill I.I CK.
"Hallo NewwHil'l. why so somber?"
"Sjiy. old man, I've made a pain
ful discovery. My wife can't slug."
'"Painful? Wii.v, man, you are to
be congratulated."
"Alan, no! You bee she thinks
she can."
Candid hostess ion seeing her
nephew's rinauicc for the first time)
--- "I never should have known you
from your photograph. Iteggle lold
me ou were so pretty."
Ilei;gic'i fiancee "No. I'm not
pretty, so I have to trv to he nice,
and it's such a bote. Have ou ever
tried?"
A king in t la
in the pack.
hand Is worth threi
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cir
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tl Mr t'unuov.
m ii.l.'ril of innsii'."
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other man
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'-'lier.
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WOMEN
THE mother who declaims, " I did jiot raise my loy to be
a soldier, but did raise lii.'ii to protect an 'American
woman wherever she may he,'' and makes that her reason
for support hi; .Mr. Hughes and opposing the president is
giving voire to wliat appeals to lier and many others as a
noble and patriotic sentiment. The reference, of course,
is to the unfortunate Americans who have been killed in
.Mexico, and perhaps to the victims of the Lusitania.
It w t i-iii- tli.-it nil Hint lii'i's sliimlil wish their sous to bo
chivalrous enough to lay down their lives to protect any!'1'""1". t.iu8cl or 1''0P'.V of wur, or the frenzied shoutings
woman, whether of America
niurditrous assault, in their presence, but when' we extend
that sentiment to mean that sous by thousands upon thou
sands should go to war and kill other thousands upon1
thousands, such application of the sentiment oPehivah'y
cannot be defended in reason or logic.
'The .Mexican trouble is a fair illustration. "When the
revolutionists rose against JIuerta the administration at
Washington tried to induce all Americans to leave that
country, and offered every aid to get them out, of that
stricken land back under the American flag. But many
refused and still persist in remaining in the field of danger.
They remained because they preferred to risk their
lives and Ihose of their families rather than the loss of
property. 'They had their choice and made it. Their de
mand was, "Bring the flag to us," when to do so would
have probably cost more lives than there are Americans
in Mexico. ' v '
The theory that if tin American, man or woman, is
killed in it .foreign country by people of that country at
war among themselves, it means the two countries should
engage in a war that might mean I lie killing and maiming
of hundreds of thousands, is neither motherly, fatherly or
civilized.
I t would be a war of vengeance, which is precisely what
the Austrian and (ierman emperors thrust upon the world
when Francis Joseph insisted upon punishing the Serbian
people because the Austrian archduke and his wife were
slain by the anarchists. Francis Joseph refused to send
or exchange notes with the Serbian government. He de
manded submission, and the brilliancy of his patriotism is
now reflected from a million graves, and be fearfully
awaits the hour when his devastated lands will tremble
with t he march of coii(iiering armies.
Jt doubtless sounds what, we call patriotic, and pro
vokes unthinking applause, for a mother to willingly
offer to give the lives of her sons. in a war of vengeance or
reprisal, but the lives of the sons belong to them. They are
not in 'any sense the mother's to offer in that kind of a
sacrifice.
Suppose Mr. Hughes should be elected. Is there am
one wlio believes the mothers of this land will saw "Mr.
Hughes, (luring the last administration some American
women were killed in Mexico who were strangers to us,
and with whose killing perhaps not one-tenth of one per
cent of the Mexican pie had any sympathy, but never
theless we want, you to take half a million of our sous, the
best and bravest, ami send them down as an army to Mex
ico jo Tight with sons of Mexican mothers, to slay and
maim each other till one side or the other can kill no
more."
History tells us that once two great nations went, to war
because of an affront offered to the concubine of a king.
The honor of the king was satisfied at the expense of the
lives of hundreds of thousands of his. subjects, and be
afterwards cut off his concubine's head. The poor dupes
went to battle and death for king and country.
Jt is the sentiment still alive today, that the pcop'e
hhoutd go to war whenever their rulers desire, which has
come down front the days of feudal despotism, that is re
sponsible for this noisy patriotism that talks of war 'p
though it were sitting down to a game of bridge or a pink
tea. '
All are not deluded. Some women as well as men are
pervaded with a blood-lust and would find real pleasure
in the game played with human pawns. But .thank heaven,
they are but' few and have ever been in the minority, and
had they not been, the earth would still be peopled by bar
barians.
Who believes the people
happy over the war precipitated by their rulers? What
must be sentiments of the mothers of those lands whose
million sons have gone, never
We are all taught to believe human life is the most
precious gift of (iod. Whv.
an opporl unit v to sacrifice
avenge one, be it woman or
Can we believe that anv
bandits of Mexico arc calling
of the sous of America to come
in the deserts of Mexico in revenge for their death !
War with Mexico would
wreaked upon the innocent
of eoiitiuest. And we know
onlv of liritain. Spain, (iermanv, .Japan, lint of our conn
try as well, that wars undertaken as punitive have ended as
wars of conquest.
Human svuipathv and righteous horror have been the
excuse, spoliation the real motive, and robbery the end.
The missionary and adventurer has been encouraged to
go to their death to afford the strong nation an opportunity
to steal an empire in territory or commerce. And when it
was over the mothers could count their dead, and perhaps
revel in the glory of their death, while the rulers of em
pires and commerce counted their gains and the political
leaders rode to power on a wave of blood.
Mot. lid's there arc, and many of them, as brave as the
ora vest, who in tile hour ol direst peril would hare their
own breasts to the sword of the invader to preserve this
.count rv as a heritage for their children and their children's
Childii ii. but it hiav wc'l lie doubted if such as thev would
:ecr think !' sending the children of this nation to grap
ple in a blood-lilinded M niggle with the children of an
other nation to avenge the killing of any number of peo
ple, except that their killing was the act of the nation,
meaning to make war upon us.
The mothers of this laud know there are higher mis-
AND WAR
or anv other eountrv, from
of (lerinanv and Austria are
to return ?
then, should patriots prav for
a hundred thousand lives to
child !
of the murdered victims of the
from the grave for thousands
down and find their graves
be either a war of punishment
more than the guilty, or a war
from lessons ot historv, not
sions for their sons than that of soldiers in a war of revenge
which would lay the saber and torch upon the innocent as
well as the guilty. J'etter far enlist them in the .army of
peace to eliminate poverty, disease, vjee and crime in our
own land.
We have recently read of the noble ariiiy of physicians
and nurses who, at the risk of their lives, have been
battling with the dread disease that was epidemic among
the children of New York, and some gave up their lives.
They were noble martyrs in a noble war, all the more glor
ious because they were not
of blood-mad politicians.
The great mass of men have little enough reason to
withstand appeals to passion, which often masquerades
as patriotism. It is to be hoped that our women's love of
their children will tortiry their reason, now that tiiey share
in the responsibilities of citizenship, on the side of human
ity and peace, as against barbarism and war. And remem
ber that
"I'eace hath her victories none the less renowned than
those of war."
Through a typographical error, the name of Mrs. Han
lev appeared as Mrs. Hanbv in a communication printed in
the Mail Tribune Monday, doing an injustice to the latter,
who is not opposing the re-election of the president.
Position of Parties Reversed
(From tho Chicago I'ublle.)
One sharp ring nolo Is heard
throughout the president's speech of
acceptance; it Is the noto of confi
dence of aggressiveness, of purpose
From the close of the civil war to the
beginning of the present administra
tion the democratic party has been n
party of Irresolution. Sound princi
ples it had, but it lacked the courage
of Its conviction. ' Dominated largely
by the southern wing, the despair of
defeat crept in and spread through
out Its ranks, until it sank into a
morbid condition in which brilliant
men momentarily raised aloft the
torch of democracy, only to see it ex
tinguished for lack of support. It
was unable at any point to meet its
opponent who endeared to the coun
try by Its conduct of a successful war.
and emboldened by the leadership of
masterful men who were net nfraid
to prostitute public office for private
gain, had only to say "Boo!" to see it
slink from the field. It was merely
a party of opposition. It was opposed
to everything the republicans favored
but had no plans of its own. It op
posed the protective tariff, but was
afraid' to declare for free' trade. It
was made . up ;of such a mixture of
liberals and torles that it could- nut
stand four square upon any proposi
tion. e
Today the position of the two par
ties is reversed. The republicans,
confronted with the fruits of their
own mistaken policies, rent with in
ternecine strife of leaders for control,
and unable to determine whether to
cling to exploded doctrines of tho
past, or take up new, they have lost
the power of initiative, and now frit
ter away their energy in carping crit
Two Men and
(From tho New York World)
The republican national committee
has given wide circulation to an edl -
torial which appeared in the World
when Mr. Hughes retired from the (nury intellectual ability,
governorship of New York to becomo The great difference between Mr.
an associate Justice of the United i Hughes and Mr. Wilson in this re
States supreme court: spect is thai Mr, Hughes failed in
"lie dictated no nominations, con -
trolled no convention,, trafficked in
no patronage, made no bargains with:
office-holders or office-seekers. Ho.,
lias rewarded nobody for supporting
him and punished nobody for oppos -
iug him. What influence ho has
wielded over public opinion has como
through his appeals to the voters
themselves."
The World would not w ithdraw
ono word or syllabic o( that editorial.
It is a precise statement of fact as
applied to Mr. Hughe's record as
governor of New York. It can all bo Wilson has taken counsel of demo
sald with far greater emphasis of crats. Ilut Mr. Hughes succeeded III
Mr. Wilson's record as president of disrupting his party, and in the re
tlie United States. 'action the state turned to Tammany
Mr. Wilson has dictated no uoml-or relief from republican faction
nations. He has controlled no con-! attain. Mr. Wilson welded his party
rentions. He has made no bargains into a great instrument of govern-
with office-holders and ol fire-seekers. : ment, and thp two democratic con
He has rewarded nobody for support- greases under his administration
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impelled by the trumpet and
icism ot tholr opponents, while unable
to advance uny constructive plan of
their own. The democrats, on the
other hand, thanks to the indomitable
will of President Wilson, and his sin'
glenens of purpose, have pulled theiu
eslves together or, more strictly
speaking, have been pulled together
and "have entered upon a construc
tive program that has astonished the
nation. The work accomplished,
read, as the president says, more like
the promises or a platform than the
achievements ot a party.
Tho sins of omission nnd commis
sion of the democratic party during
the past three years are palpable
enough; but when one considers its
short-comings in the past, and re
flects upon the nerveless, drifting,
purposeless republican party as an al
ternative, there can be no hesitation
as to choice on the part of real dem
ocrats. So great, indeed, lias been
the change wrought in the democrat
ic party by the president that divine
fitness alone requires his re-election-(liven
four years more, and it is with
in the possibilities that the president
will succeed in making tho democrat
ic party democratic: For be it re
peated, as it has often been said be
fore, there is no use for two tory par
ties in tills country: and since the
stand-pat republicans have swallowed
up the reactionary progressives, a
home should be iurnislied for the pro
gressives. Small politicians may eirp
and haggle over the course of the ad
ministration; but until a constructive
program is presented, with assurances
that It will be carried through, the
mass cf the people will continue their
faith in the man who has done bo
much In the past, and who promises
erer more in the future.
Their Methods
.ins hiin. He has punished nobody
for opposing him. His influence has
Iconic through his appeals to public
opinion and through his extraordi-
. the practical application of that
policy to the leadership of his party,
Mr. Wilson has succeeded In actual
achievement beyond any other prcsl-
dent.
1 Mr. Hughes, w hen he was governor
of New York, could not make his
. party work under such an impersonal
system. He mado the samo kiud of
J concessions to party necessity that
i Mr. Wilson has made that is, he
I appointed republicans to office as Mr,
Wllsou has appointed democrats, and
took counsel of republicans as Mr.
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country.
Mr Hughes" lack of tact, his Intol
erance, his inability to get along with
men and to harmonize their contact
ing opinions, led to a deadlock of
government in New York. After
nearly four years at Albany, all he
had to show for his leadership was
the now discredited public-service
act, the race-track gambling law and
the' statute making adultery a misde
meanor. Mr. Hughes was governor
of New York longer than Mr. Wilson
has beeu president of the United
States. Compare the Wilson achieve
ments with the Hughes achievements
and you have the measure of the two
men as leaders and administrators.
Mr. Wilson is perhaps the ablest
leader of modern democracy in any
country In the world, llo probably
has a firmer understanding of the
science and art of government than
any other man now living. Ills states
manship iB intuitive in Its breadth
uud vision and Imagination.
Mr. Hughes is painfully deficient
In all these faculties. His mind Is
highly powerful and well disciplined,
but it moves in a narrow groove. The
pettiness, the fault-finding, the sec
tional bigotry and tho rasping intol
erance of Mr. Hughes' campaign
speeches are not accidental. In his
case the stylo is emphatically the
nun. To the contract lawyer trifles
aro of vast Importance, and Mr.
IliiSheB is essentially a contract law
yer, both professionally and politi
cally.
Mr. Hughes' mind is essentially de
structive. Mr. Wilson's mind Is es
sentially constructive. Mr. Hughes
can tenr down. Mr. Wilson can build
up. Four years of Charles K. Hughes
in the White House would leave
popular government In the nation
where It was when Mr. Hiighos moved
out of Albany and Tammany pre
pared to move in.
WAIT TIM. TIIKV (iltOW I P.
Triplets were born recently to Mr.
and Mrs. Howard at Valley View.
Madison County, and they have been
named Toney, Oney and- Zoney.
The Paris (Ky.) Democrat.
portniisly over1 the question of
mnlhmiood it used to nipnn
mien Hgony nnd sacrifice, tlmt B
ono could easily overlook the
pleasure and honor of children
In the home but "Mother's
Friend' has. chanced the
views of thousands of women
from that of distress to a
pleasant anticipation of the
happiness of being a mother.
Bv external uppllrnllon "Mother!
Friend" asit nature (n the won
fterful transformation of the physical
avKtetn In ense and comfort, fiet
"Mother's Friend" at any drnKit.
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