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The Commoner
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Let the People Elect
virt' 4-n aolfnf rlolofrntoH fn
Sit the United States in the League of
represent i""?. " a1,m1i,i i1A mario for thftlr '
S' by Popular vote in live districts so that
election W l,u . ,,r-v will ho ronrosoniod
'SVMrrhsi-
sre-nr to vote for war without special instrucr '
'PI! from the people at an election called, for
fij ' W. J. BRYAN.'
that purpose.
A TRANSIENT ISSUE ,
fiovernor Coolidge's boom will have to have
. ..t,0toni!ii foundation than a nolice-
S U .- !.. Ti- MnNAn vt f VI ! rt M 4- f l
man's strike in one my. " u.
. ... unnoneo Tinhndv defends the noliceinen. .
'where does Governor CooRdge stand on the,,
permanent issues? -
THE BIG BUSINESS CANDIDATE
rri,0 Tinnnis republicans are booming Governor''
i Loffden. They are not mentioning the fact that
.!,. t thn riiline snirit in the Pullman company.
flhey may regard that as a guarantee that big
business will be safe unuer nis protection ..;,
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NOT ENCOURAGING : ., : .ir
The 1919 election returns are not encourage
ing. Gains in New Jersey due to wet support'-
do not offset losses in Kentucky, Oklahoma,
New York and Massachusetts
. ' TIDE ROLL OF HONOR
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List of States That Have Ratified tha
, National Woman Suffrage Con
stitutional Amendment
1 WISCONSIN, June 10, 1919.
2 ILLINOIS, Juno 10, 1919.
3 MICHIGAN, Juno 10, 1919.
4 -KANSAS, June 16, 1919.
6 NEW YQRK, June 16, 1919.
7 PENNSYLVANIA, June 24,' 1919: '
8 MASSACHUSETTS, June 25, 1919.
9 TEXAS, June 28, 1919. ,
10 IOWA, July 2, 1919.
11 MISSOURI, July 3, 1919.
12 ARKANSAS, July 28, 1919.
13 MONTANA, July 30, 1919.
14 NEBRASKA, August 2, 1919.
15 MINNESOTA, Sept. 8, 1919.
16 NEW HAMPSHIRE, Sept. 10, 1919.
17 UTAH, Sept. 30, 1919.
18 CALIFORNIA, Nov. 1, 1919.
19 MAINE, Nov. 5, 1919.
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THE MILITARY CANDIDATE
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Pnnm.nl TOrnnfl ooomo tn a Vir nifna 'ft
UU1C1IU IIUUU ObUUlO lU M wiw vvrvw yiM,,
roniihllnnnq whn think t.h times dfTrnivrirL h. sol
dier president, but the number 'of tliftge vVhp,"'!
favor militarism will be less next year tijan his,
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ARMISTICE DAY?;
President
November
'ft' ?M'0j i. -f
t Wilson's message ?,c'ommem)orf atitfg
11. Armistice Dayidflbwsi ' .h'lr "
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"To My Fellow CoUntvymSnt "A -year ago
today our enemies laid do wtf heir darns' 'in'ac
cordane'e with ah armistice 'which rendered tbein.
impotent to renew5 hostilities and gavef to the ' v
world an assured opportunity to reconstruct' '
its shattered order and to work out in peacVn"'
new and juster set of international relations.
The soldiers and the people of our European ;
allies had fought for' more than' four yea'Ty'to'"
uphold the barrier of civilization against' y the
aggressions of armed force. We oursele-Had' ''
been in the conflict something more than a year
and a half. With 'splendid forgetfulnes'S f '
mere personal concerns we remodeled our in
dustries, concentrated our. financial resources, '
increased our agricultural output, and assempled':
a.great array, so that at last our power'va's a"
decisive factor in victory. We were a'ble'to"
bring the vast resources, material and ittbr"aV''
of a great and free people to the assistance of
our associates in Europe, who had suffered IVrtd'
sacrificed without limit in the cause for wlifch '
we fought. . --;. i -rf;
, "ut of this victory there arose new possi
bilities of political freedom and-economic "-cori-'-'
cert The war showed us the strength oF great'1
natiohs acting together for high purposes' ''and
tne victory of arms fbrtells the enduring cOn-''
quests which can be made in peace -when nations'
act justly and in furtherance of the common in
terests of men. To us in America, the reflec
tions of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn
pnue of those heroes who died in the country's
E ' and wiUl Srattude' for the victory both
n?Ui?e o the tllinS for which it has freed1 lis,
Anfoi use of the-, opportunity it has given '
SiVm , t0 show her sympathy with peace 'and'
justice in the councils of nations. -
Th toi , -r 'WOADROW WILSON."
ne te House, ldvembW 10, 1919.
ln.HSti,peopl0 would.be a little more enthus
asuc about pushing American trade abroad, if.
itlSen ho wiu be the cllief -beneficiaries "of
itv fnl i", inclined t0 use this as an bpportun
arVcJn 10lding UP Prices this country, They
phnf il g abroad in a market that must have
can UfeofCer at hien prices, and because they
at horn e prices abroad they demand them
PaiKnneiIal Leonard Wood's presidential cam
Pranlr w Sd to be.under the . management ofs
Taff ,; Hitehcock, the gentleman who put Mr.
Palen 08a iu 1908- Hiring Hitchcock for cam-datP-c,
anager does not .".always insure a cahdl
for iL cess'but'heralwaysdoes get a run .
4Ul ms money. " . ,
The- former chancellor of the Gorman empire, '
in seeking to rid himself of the blame for the
crushing of his country, before the, tribunal,
credited to find out why honorable peace could
not .have been made before the nation was beat
en to its knees, says that the heads of the army
and ,navy were quite sure that they could handle
America if she resented the submarine warfare
to ,the extent of entering the war. Once upon
a time ,the kaiser said he wouldn't stand any
nonsense from the United States. These little
revelations of. German psychology go far to
wards -explaining why the fatherland is in no
position to frighten anybody any. more.
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Nebraska republicans sought to sidestep the
fact that the promise of- the governor that the
statO machinery" at his command would relieve .
thepeople-' front' extortionate prices hadi. failed
to 'produce results by having a legislative com
mittee appointed to find out if there is any
necessity for new laws' to produce-that result.
In rview' of the disposition of the state adminis
tration to insist that most of the trouble was
due-'to the fact that any one state acting alone
was impotent, this proposition does not contain
anything to cheer up the thousands who are
still-buying limousines for the food monopolists.
jPubjic sentiment is cutting very little figure
in the! fight between the steel mill owners and
thir workers. The reason is that public sentl-t
meht is not taking sides. In no other Industry
in the country has there been such gross profit
eering as this one. Born and nurtured under
a ".protective tariff that made making money
in .it just as hard work as removing candy from
an infant's digits, its owners reaped vast profits,
anTkept their men contented for most of the
time by giving them large wages. 4
' The' striking coal miners have been roundly
abused because they have suggested a thirty
hour work week, six;hours a day. and five days
a week. Most of the critics, however, have
neglected to mention that this was asked be
cause in the past the operators, in order to cur
tail production and keep up prices, have not
furnished them that much work It is worth
while to remember this when distributing lie
blame for the situation that existed following
the strike. -
Several alarmists among the religious work
rhf the country-are declaring that unless the
cTurch fills ?t meet the challenge -of today is
anteea to cuit u rPirenerate men who will
or agrees tc , dc , is to generate 1r
that they fft' capital they had in-
85 ?6 '"That was two months; ago, and we
vested. TbntaaSny announcement of republi
haye yet to note any ami themselves as
can state omdto.votoeWS head that.
JE&d VlsoTUtrnents of these Lin,
coin gnoc.ers.
The C5al Strike!
.
It Iu impoesiblo that the coal utrlko shduld
suooood. A few thousand mlno owners and
soino hair million cohI minors aro trying to eottlo
their dispute by depriving a hundred million
people of coal at the bogtnnlns of winter,
rooplo are not going to froozo whllo tho strlko
la going on, and some way will bo found to
supply -coal. But that Ib only a temporary set-'
tloment. The real trouble Is that wo have no
machinery for tho settlement of Industrial dlf
putos beforo they reach tho strlko and lockout
stago. Wo now havu machinery for settling In
ternational disputes before a resort to war, and
it Is only a question of tlmo when the samo
kind of machinery will be provldod for the in
vestigation of all industrial disputes before a
resort to a strlko or lockout.
W. J. BRYAN.
WINELESS DINNERS
It was only six years ago that Sccrotary of
State William J. Bryan shocked "high social
circles" by giving a wineless dlnnor to members
of the diplomatic corps in Washington.
Eight foreign ambassadors and their wlvos
sat down to tho dinner. vAttorwards, when
mercilessly lampooned by the newspapers and
other self-appointed censors of public morals,
Mr. Bryan made a public statement In which
ho said:
I thought 'it proper to explain to our
guests the reason for our failure to cdnform
to what seems to .have been customary In
this matter. Believing that the issue should
be met frankly in tho beginning, I told
them when we sat down to tho tablo that
Mrs Bryan and myself had been tee-totalors
from' our youth as were our parents before
us and had never, sorved liquor on our
table; that when tho president was kind
enough to tender me the portfolio of state,
1 asked him whether our failure to servo' '
wine, , would beany embarrassment to the
administration, and that he generously left
the matter to our discretion. . . 'niX
remancs were , appjauaeu oy tne company' ,
and wo, never spent a 'more enjoyable ee'r
ning. The custom is established so far as .
we are concernod,
That was a bravo and self-rwpoctlng position
for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan to take, but the signi
ficant thing about it all Js that "wineless din
ners" hayo now become America's habit. Only
six years -have passed since the world laughod
at Mr. Bryan, but he-set 2n example which all
true Americans follow today, some willingly,"-1
some unwillingly! Watchman-Examiner.
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