A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES PUBLIC OPINION MLTESSIR. I'm a salesman, ueen out on tne old firing line for fifteen years now. 'What did you say you did? Oh, a newspaper man? I knew a newspaper man...
...We, do not know who put the dough in Doheny or who put the sin in Sinclair ar who was responsible for the fan of Pall, but one thing is certain...
...We punished two bottles in here in the smoker last night, and I got a bit of a head this morning...
...Must meet an awful lot of interesting people...
...I am not kicking about what tbe government does with my money after it gets it...
...But I'll bet if they ever got down "Washington Jhey'd be as bad as the rest of them, ""y're jealous, that's all...
...Who is the gink without a flaw?— HOOVER...
...Everything's done on a big scale now...
...Edentown, Carlisle, England...
...Honesty my eye...
...Who is tbe man who feeds the World?— HOOVER...
...In one burst of illumination after another, it shoots fire-flares into the workshop behind the splendid facade of Alexander Hamilton's public structure, showing us the great fathers of the republic in their shirt sleeves, planning, caucusing, cutting, fitting, compromising, and deciding...
...Too bad he drank...
...Harry organized tbe Continental Trading Company...
...Mean to say we W°~dB't grab off everything in sight, if we was on ™* Inside like Hays and Sinclair and those fellows...
...Neither am I in favor of the private ownership oi* natural resources and basic industries which piles.up mountains of unearned wealth on the one side and) creates bottomless pits of undeserved misery on tbsjj other...
...Drunk most all the ante, I should say...
...a smart kid like that...
...Don't see how he did his stuff at all...
...Andy Mellon received a liberty bond bundle of $80...
...Fuller wanted a book consisting of selections from the record, no doubt "judicious" selections intended to wipe out the bloody smear that bulks large irl the whole record...
...The whole record Is a damning indictment of the "New England conscience...
...They were interested in cheap cotton from the slave plantations...
...Why that gang would take the gold crowns off their dead mother's teeth...
...Chicago wheat king and philanthropist...
...Hoover...
...He's radical about things like sthat...
...You patronize our advertisers, of coarse, bat let 'esn knaw it...
...1 got some with me right now...
...But I always make it a point to take a coupla grains of aspirin before I go to bed, and I don't feel as bad as most the next morning...
...Of course, I am not in |avor of dividing up...
...They were men of wealth and generally hired their labor In Che North and worked slaves In the South...
...And, say, ain't it bell to be gainfully occupied when those not gainfully occupied cop all tbe gains...
...Makes me kind of nervous to read...
...Why I know a lot of dumb bunnies who are working for twenty-five and thirty dollars a week (I do a lot of installment stuff, you see) who are swelling around as though they were old John D. himself...
...Would ya like a shot of it...
...The whole scheme of workers education throughout the country is financed by the three movements together with a small subsidy which is received from tbe government...
...I'll be, right back...
...Well, I feel better now...
...This is the only thing that affects the boasted "New England conscience...
...The surest tray to close a sale these days is to slip a tough nrosvect some real good Scotch, f r example...
...Polished bankers, merchants and capital-.sts and their legal vassals complain that :he nasty notoriety won for the state by Governor Fuller, Judge Thayer, A. Lawrence Lowell, Judge Grant and the other executioners "hurts business...
...How was that $280,-' 000 profit Harry Sinclair made out of himself to ap-1 pear on tbe books of the Republican campaign com-" mittee in such a manner as not to 'connect Harry, government and Teapot Dome...
...Get around a lot, doncha...
...I can hook almost any one of them on a proposition that runs as high as five hundred dollars, with five bucks down...
...Take another snifter, brother...
...During the period of eelctions the trade unions and : ^operatives cooperate with tbe party in : electoral struggles and...
...Seems like ya can't get anything but that white mule out here...
...However, he had the decency to forward a $25,000 check to Will Hays, just to express appreci-^ ation of the latter's confidence in his honesty and integrity...
...The thing is, you can't change human na-tw PeoPle are people, and they are going to get all ~"3r can in this good little old world while the get-™* » good...
...It's the real stuff, straight from the boat...
...A less honorable man than Patten might have knocked down that twenty-five grand...
...So Will divided Harry's good will offering in neat packages containing ten," twenty-five and fifty thousand dollars worth of liberty bonds, and mailed them to a number of leading citizens, well known for their devotion to law, order and constiuted government...
...I brought it up to the boss to sample and be bought some...
...And I guess we're getting it, for don't we gainfully occupied ones occupy aft such gove rnmental positions as policemen, jailers, letter carriers, prison guards, janitors and cuspidor jugglers...
...on each bill you pay...
...None of that cut stuff with the ether in it that gives ya the old katzenjammer...
...The preference of John Adams for titles, aristocratic ceremony...
...McAfoter Coleman...
...They got no respect for our constitution...
...Excuse me a minute, I'll be right back...
...It opens the doors of private homes, reporting table talk and gossip, describing the 'Intellectual climate' of the time...
...You don't mappen to know him do ya, a Hearst man named Murphy...
...man, doesn't that have a kick...
...The party holds itself responsible for a certain proportion of its funds to be devoted to workers education...
...The most humane thing your government can do is tc liberate Bujor at once, and make suitable restitution for tbe suffering inflicted on him.'* W. F. Walker is chairman of tbe local and M. Davison is seeretary-treesTHE HIGH COST Of GOVERNMENT . 1 AM a taxpayer...
...Although o' course he fives me the stuff for our customers...
...I get my commission an«»-how...
...He was what We'd call a 'sticker' for fair...
...The echoes of this state murder are still heard from abroad...
...Now, to fully realize bow tbe first cost of government has soared clear out of sight of us little sov-j ereigns, it is necessary to add that tbe $250,000 liberty, bonds hard-boiled Harry Sinclair donated to Win Hays represented only the deficit of tbe campaign which made Gamaliel Harding tbe first gentleman of this great democracy...
...Our rates are modest, our circulation large—and when you secure advertisers for us yon do them a favor and ua a favor and roe, aerta, the movement...
...wwtHY not advertise hi THE NSW " LEADER...
...Morris told me, that it was necessary tc make Mr...
...But now complications arose...
...Some of those who invested in the textile corporations also had Investments ta southern cotton plantations...
...Excuse me a minute, ril be right back...
...S. with its sundry sub-divisions' takes about 600 shekels out of my sweat-etained...
...I can't see how they get away with it...
...Besides, the good books says: "The meek shall in* herit the earth" and those who have owned the earth have always owned the governments of tbe earth...
...I think a man in my line oughta take an interest in public affairs—find out what the people are thinking about, and all that...
...To get the advantages of tbe workers educational movement one must show a card of membership in one of the three organizations...
...Residents with some education recall what Emerson said of this class when slavery agitation began to affect their incomes...
...Up an' down your nose...
...But they put him over, ffldn't they...
...A $25JDO0 package was sent to James A. Patten...
...Albert and Charles Bonl, Inc., $4), which makes accessible 'one of the most charming and illuminating documents in the political literature of the period...
...Witt* this...
...All I can find out from history is that govern* ments have always belonged to tbe people who owned the productive wealth of that particular time and age...
...Watching the conduct of Daniel Webster who was secretly on the payroll of Massachusetts capitalists, and John C. Calhoun, the pro-slfcery Senator from South Carolina, Emerson said that cotton thread bound both of them together...
...O Adams, Adams, what a wretch art thou...
...But I don't...
...I wish some "of the folks out this way could see the Tammany bunch behind Al Smith when they go to work on an election in New York...
...The local study classes are continually developing men with special ability to serve the working class in found for tbe member who displays this ability...
...I'm kicking about the high cost of getting the government in the first place...
...Though I must say I haven't bumped into any one lately that's been all het up about this oil stuff They're a lot nore excited where ta park their cars and the rotten lipuoi they're getting...
...Well,' where there's a Will, there's a way...
...But between you and I, Mr...
...B. HO WITT...
...They must a had that fish In the icebox since the first Pullman was invented...
...I hid away a pint ¦ of it the other night, when I was stuck in Pekin, Illinois (a hell of a tank town, that is) and it was all the boys could do to stop me from going out and ¦testing the night police one in the nose...
...Real goods, too...
...Including Benjamin Franklin, his son, William, the poet, Fr^neau, J. Hector St...
...aw~ to look on, a,,..height, side of thing*"" There's too many of these snarling reds around, making gloomy talk about corruption and all...
...They nave always been, and continue to be, if great consequence and use to us, vnd a very necessary link in the chain of jovernment...
...For example, on the "executive board of the party there are two representatives of the central executive of the trade unions and two : from the cooperatives, while the party I has two representatives on each execu-| tlve of the other organizations...
...But I do make it a point to look over the headlines...
...The aristocratic Ideal of the old English gentry was typical of this phase of agricultural history which continued well into the nineteenth century...
...Finally Fuller's admirers think of placing him in charge of a broker in order to sell him as a presidential candidate...
...New York...
...The food they serve on these Pullmans is certainly awful...
...Sdre enough, they may not meet all their payments, but it's up to the house to worry about that...
...the cautious suggestion of a throne for Wash tagton and his reference to Washington'.' messages as "His Most Gracious Speech' Invoked in Maclay a profund contempt for the Vice-President...
...One wag declared after reading this bilge, that it Is unfortunate that the rock did not land on the Pilgrims...
...You say you didn't know that Murphy man...
...Emerson had in mind not only the politics of the two men but the profits of the textile manufacturers...
...Its members feel that accusing fingers 'are pointing to them from all over the world and they try to Justify themselves to themselves by appealing to the Pullers, Lowells and Orsbta -of, three hundred years ago...
...He was one smart speaker...
...that is, of power, democracy will remain forever the game of tbe House of Have...
...So this Is the ruling clique of New England up to date excepting the men, women and children penned in its textile shambles who continue to endure tbe measureless'exactions of the slave drivers...
...Carroll expressed the opinion that the people were enlightened and Adams replied that information and knowledge were not sources of obedience that "ignorance was a much better source...
...Book Review By James Oneal WTHEN the "Fathers" accomplished the Job of going into business for themselves their representatives met ta Congress and with Alexander Hamilton as chief architect they proceeded to their task.' Prom the frontier region of Pennsylvania came William Mac lay and from the commercial city of Philadelphia came Robert Morris, both to represent the state in the United States Senate...
...Said you didn't know this Murphy fellow...
...Who is the boy who stopt thea Hun, And put tbe Banshees on the run, And wiped the spots from off the sun?— HOOVER...
...Not that the Democrats are any better, in my estimation .than the Republicans...
...But, however that may be, tbe fact remains that unless a way is found to bring about a more equal distribution of wealth...
...I can take it or have it, as they say...
...The three movements maintain workers educational classes' throughout the country which are directed by a Central Educational Commission in Brussels...
...Through their cooperation in the political field the Belgian working class has been able to establish the 8-hour law throughout the country with a few minor exceptions...
...William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum crown prince, $10,*' 000...
...In each city and town the three organizations maintain local educational boards which direct and supervise the educational work of the classes and the local boards are affiliated with the central organization ta Brussels...
...Hold the bottle till I get back...
...The Wisest guy time ever saw?— r HOOVER...
...And that's how governments of tbe people, by tbe people and for the people are made nowadays...
...Say, speaking of Washington, what's all this noise about oil scandals and the like of that...
...There are sidelights on the tricks and deals ta Congress, glimpses of powdered wigs and fine ladies, the gatherings at the President's receptions, the social life and opinions of the gentlemen leaders, their attitude toward the mob and thelt constant association of virtue with wealth, that give the reader an excellent close-up view of the period...
...So cheer up If we're here long enough to see Hairyj Sinclair in Jail in company with Will Hays ws nay se democracy yet...
...EXCHANGE WANTED Editor, The New Leader: , Would a reader of your paper be willing to send me his copy week by week ta exchange for the English "New Leader...
...This speaker at our convention J»W that this Socialist, Commoonist outfit is holler-mg their heads off about corruption and unemploy-¦»at and so on...
...Who Is our only hope today?—v HOOVER...
...A new edition with an admirable introduction by Charles A. Beard has now appeared, (The Journal of William Maclay, 1789-1791...
...Enlightening both God and Son?— HOOVER...
...as having an immediate xinnection with the gentlemen on the jne side, and the laborer on the other...
...this oily mess has left Hays ta a haze and a certain g-r-e-a-t detective knows that all is not bright that Burns...
...cldent...
...Coolidge, •hen he started out, was just about as unpromising a line as any salesman ever carried...
...It's our job to show the world how to do the mass production stuff...
...I feel like I had ptomaine or something...
...Patten didn't like the smell of the bundle or suspected trouble germs, so presented the package to the Evanstoh, hospital...
...WORKERS EDUCATION IN BELGIUM l^RANS LONGVILLE, head teacher in the workers residential school ta Brussels, is in the United States making a study of workers adult education and also of economic conditions...
...In his report to the Massachusetts Legislature Attorney General Reading recommended the publication of the entire record-of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial-Governor Fuller objected...
...Maclay never felt comfortable in this environment, the last record he made ta his .journal expressing his aversion to It...
...And say, don't it beat all, bow these coal operators can be so liberal with their money in things that do not concern their miners...
...I knew a newspaper man once, a fellow named Murphy, worked for Hearst on the Coast...
...Ya can't tell me they're sore about ""•Way the big boys get theirs...
...Somebody ought to find a way of cutting down tbe first cost of government...
...Coolidge should be so dumb as to tip their Witts by passing around dirty oil money...
...Within the past few months the Boston papers have from time to time carried advertisements and articles in defense of New England...
...Most newspaper men do drink though, don't they...
...Boulder, Col., Local Demands Bujor Freedom Boulder, Colorado.—The Boulder Socialist local has sent a letter .to the Roumanian minister ta Washington demanding bis government release from prison Mlhai J. Bujor, the Socialist leader, whose story was told ta Tbe New Leader and American Appeal two weeks ago...
...Then Harvard was a seminary of the northern and southern cotton masters and in Lowell it finds a faithful devotee of tbe capitalism which today is the master of New England...
...And man...
...I've sat in on some pretty slick campaigns, but I'm here to say that not since they sold the country on the war has there ever been a wholesale selling campaign put over as neat as that...
...One-third of its annual income from dues is 3et aside for this purpose...
...by employing the poor, by affording them comfort and assistance in .heir sickness and misfortunes...
...That body transacted its business for several years in secret and were it not for Maclay, homespun democrat, much that was done would be shrouded ta obscurity...
...By this and yesterday's papers," he wrote, "France seems travailing in the birth of freedom...
...hoping they'll be bejtter off after the divvy « made...
...Tbe life...
...Now if I should walk into the front office back home with just a touch of liquor on my breath, the boss would give me the air...
...Well, here goes...
...So far so good...
...This appears to run through ill the history of farmers ta this country and it is a fact that must be taken nto account by all who think that all 1 ,'armers may some time become an effective ally of the workers of the city...
...Adams Vice-President to keep him quiet...
...perhaps also the'rapidity with which federal judges issue injunctions against these starving miners...
...I am one of tb* 27,660,000 gainfully occupied free men who bold A 4% stake in tbe total capital resources of tbe country, which by all rules, entitles us to a four per cent, ownership in our government...
...And there was a Will Will Hays...
...He sure did rip into these reds and anarchists and Italian football makers who are running around the country tryin' to get the workers all roused up, just when they were solid on this prosperity proposition...
...Anyway, all the above enumerated pillars of law, order and constituted government obligingly cashed Harry Sinclair's bonds and forwarded tbe cash to Win Hays, one time postmaster general of the TJ...
...Took him out of the 'cat and dog' class, and made an A Number One surefire offer out of him...
...Must be an interesting life, newspapers...
...our old friend Samuel Instill, $5,000...
...A study of New Jersey agriculture from 1640 to 1880 by Carl Raymond Woodward (The Development of Agriculture in New Jersey, New Brunswick: NeW Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station) is thorough and its value is enhanced by the many interesting illustrations of agricultural almanacs and Journals and the pm traits of men associated with the development of agriculture...
...Maclay wrote in his journal: "I began now to think of what Mr...
...I think he was on tbe Frisco Examiner about fifteen years ago...
...He kept a journal for three years which was brought out by a kinsman in 1890 but has long been out of print...
...He records an Interesting incident Langdon, Carroll, Adams and Maclay engaged in conversation regarding the government...
...Adams expressed doubt "if out new government does well...
...If it turned out satisfactory "I shall be more surprised than ever I was in my life," he added...
...What the hell if the boys did get away with some big money ? You gotta think big these days...
...However, I am not an irate taxpayer...
...And who the red flag braved and furled?— HOOVER...
...Comrade Longville will be present at tbe national convention of the Socialist Party in April and will convey the greetings of the Belgian working class...
...Or once In awhile there ought to be a fire sale or' a bankruptcy sale, or damaged government sale, so as to give a poor man a chance to buy a little government for himself...
...It is almost impossible to separate one organization from the other in any important work...
...Of course, Andy don't need the money...
...As I left the Hall," reads the final entry, "I gave it a look with that kind of satisfaction which a man feels on leaving a place where he bas been ill at ease, being full satisfied that many a culprit has served two years at the wheelbarrow without feeling half tbe pain and mortification that I experienced in my honorable station...
...It might have been ten, twenty or tblRp- JjlTllon dollars, but whatever the sum was, it was osntnbuted by an insignificant minority of perhaps one-half of one-millionth per cent...
...The law is meeting with some protests on the part of the employment clases, but it is not likely that they will be able to break it down...
...However, it is interesting to ab-ierve that the farmer turned to organl-i -.ation when prices "Were unsatisfactory ind neglected it when they were satisfactory...
...I wish I knew how to bring the cost of government within the reach of us little fellows Who, after all, constitute the overwhelming majority at tbe country...
...Not that I get lit up like that very often...
...The Mississippi to its course?— HOOVER...
...New England's Conscience | TPPER class Boston Is a little bit peeved because of the black name Massachusetts won all over tbe wprld because of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...I got it from a friend of mine who got it straight from the steward of the Berengaria...
...And if I take a coupla grains of aspirin before I go to bed, I wake up next morning with my head .as clear as a bell...
...We, tbe undersigned, are 'criminals' of this type...
...The Socialist Party, the cooperatives and the trade unions maintain their autonomy ta their respective fields but there is intimate cooperation in all their work...
...I'm too old a guy to be fooled on this cut stuff...
...It bas become known," says tbe petition to Minister George Gretslano, "that your government bas incarcerated for tbe sole crime of being a Socialist Mlhal H_ Bujor...
...I s'pose you get down' to Washington, meet the big guns there...
...Yon-see, federal judges are appointed by tbe federal government and it wouldn't be human nature if these judges were not grateful to the men who bought the government which appointed them...
...They're i°t sore because they didn't get a chance at the big money...
...He is eoe of tbe three richest men of the country, which ex-, plains the hundred thousand starving miners in the vicinity of tbe Mellon mines around Pittsburgh sad...
...Too bad he drank...
...He, too, smelled a rat and returned it with personal check of $50,000 enclosed just to show Witt-Hays that he appreciated tbe confidence bestowed upon him...
...Important strike the resources of the other organizations, in-chiding literature, finances, and speakers, are brought to the aid of tbe strikers...
...Is typical of the mind of upper class Boston...
...The Central Educational Commission In Brussels maintains two monthly publications, one in French and the other in Flemish...
...Each of Hamilton's measures for drawing the support of the moneyed classes to support of the government filled Maclay with disgust and the funding Scheme, which taxed $40,000,000 eut of the pockets of the masses and placed it in the pockets ol speculators, enraged him...
...A good smart guy all rtjnt Had lots ef stuff, but boy, how he drank' Too bad...
...Its heirs in modern Boston banks and industries have the same "New England conscience...
...That fish was sure poison...
...I simply ain't in it Harry Sinclair is...
...jeans per year and annum...
...This whole Pontics game is just swopping one bunch of crooks *°r another, the way I look at it...
...Every man jack of "JWa would do the same thing If he had the same You an' me, for example...
...And now what is a fast-moving little lad like Hays doing but getting nailed with the goods on him...
...It was this Will Hays and his outfit did that, all rjgnt...
...A FEW years ago a history of northern agriculture appeared and several monographs had been written on this phase of economic history...
...Royalty, nobility, and vile pageantry, by which a few of the human race lord It over and tread on the necks of their fellow-mortals, seem likely tc be demolished with their kindred Bastlle which is said to be laid in ashes...
...The two men represented two opposing interests, one the agrarians of the interior of the state and the other the commercial aristocracy of Philadelphia...
...You woulda thought he coulda hid up those bonds " a lot safer place than peddlin' them around free, wide and easy for any snooping Democrat to stick W» nose into...
...A bunch o' down-and-outers, who want to split up all the jack in the |*unt*y...
...make special financial contributions to the party campaign chest...
...Maclay came to the Senate with confidence ta his colleague, Morris, and it is instructive to observe how that confidence turned to suspicion and culminated in a positive dislike of the Philadelphia Senator...
...Then Harry swapped the three millions for liberty bonds, of which a quarter of a million went to Will Hays to pay tbe deficit of tbe Republican campaign committee...
...I'll have one with ya and then ya'll have to excuse me for a minute...
...John Crevecoeur and otters...
...This deficit was incurred in electing tbe governments which gave Teapot Dome to Harry Sinclair, made Will Hays postmaster general and Albert Fall secretary of tbe interior...
...He was a smart kid...
...THOS...
...That's what the speaker said...
...In an Interview with a New Leader representative Comrade Longville gave an interesting account of the intimate cooperation in Belgium between tbe Socialist Party, the cooperative movement and the trade unions...
...Contact of each organisation with the others is maintained by represent* -1 tloh of each In the central committee 1 of the others...
...The author quotes from an editorial ta the New American Magazine of January, 1758, which aptly expresses the colonial view...
...Directly and,indirectly tbe gov...
...the light, the truth, the way?— HOOVER...
...Every day I'm reading in tbe paper about tbe sale of government to millionaires and billionaires, but never to a poor devil of a sovereign dub like my self...
...If the unions are involved in an...
...Now as I was saying, it's surprising to me that a.bunch that is wise enough to put over prosperity ¦ad Mr...
...y which they are fitted for various offices under the civil jurisdiction: \hey :arry a respect with them, and are of especial service ta keeping the meaner people to their duty: and being generally men of substance, they are of wonderful advantage to the neighborhood they iwell ta...
...Now as I was sayin' about these oil scandals...
...Then it is notorious that Boston bankers had considerable deposits of slave owners ta their vaults...
...And when it comes to tbe ownership of tbe productive wealth (capital) of our times, we little folks are simply not in it, for, according to all" data on hand, the 27,660,000 working people of the land of the free, etc., constiuting 63 per cent of tb* gainfully occupied, control 4.0 (four per cent) of our total, capital resources, while 821,150 or 0.T (one seventh of one per cent) of the not gainfully occupied owned 49 per cent of our capital resources...
...ernment of tbe TJ...
...I sometimes see a copy of the "Times", but it's unsatisfying to anyone who wants to know the truth...
...Who saved the Southern peon-slaves From hunger and pellagran graves, And spread the bull o'er all the waves?— HOOVER...
...It was this upper class crowd that opposed, all anti-slavery agitation...
...The Continental bought oil from Harry, sold it to' Harry, and thereby made three million bucks for Harry...
...Among the good patriots whom Will Hays honors* with liberty bond bundles were also a number of prominent Chicago citizens, to-wit: E. M. Rosenthal, vice president of Rothschild *' Co., $28,000...
...Her throes and pangs oi labor are violent...
...Oh, yes, newspaper man...
...Goodnight...
...It won't coat you a cent to say that to every merchant from whom you make a purchase—and It will help yoor newspaper become an even more powerful force for the movement...
...Anyhow he was a smart kid...
...8., now guardian of tbe purity of tbe film industry...
...The psychology of the old world squire-1 u-chy finds expression in .this .stated nent and It was typical of the atu-ude of the old American aristocracy, rhe work is largely devoted to the technical evolution of agriculture and farmer organizations devoted to the improvement of agriculture...
...Though of course * wouldn't say anything against our government, or ¦"ythlng like that...
...I am a hundred per cent American...
...But this reversion back to tbe days of tbe saints who pierced Quaker's tongues and whipped women at the cart-tail because they differed slightly with tbe Mathers and others of the Puritan oligarchy...
...One large advertisement in the Transcript declared hi bold letters, "New England, established by tbe Pilgrims, was founded on a rock...
...The political Ideas ind activities of New Jersey farmers, do idt come within the scope of the monograph...
...Very often farming was mostly an experimental recreation for these gentlemen...
...The early agricultural societies Jarre generally organized by "gentlemen" farmers, both ta the North and in the South, and not by what we today call the "dirt farmers...
...0 We cannot resist quoting a paragraph of the Introduction: "Through the burning glare of its spotlight stalk, amble, or drift all the distinguished personalities of the age, from George Washington to Fisher Ames...
...And by the way, speaking of selling, that was sure one grand job the Republicans done when they put their prosperity canvass across...
...How much that campaign really cost I don't?fcnow...
...I ain't much of a newspaper reader myself...
...There are about 200 winter classes maintained with regular courses and nearly two thousand lecturers serve these classes...
...Who is the strong, unfearing cuss Who stood between us and the Russ, And means to save us all or bus'?— HOOVER...
...J. Ogden Ar-mour, dead, $10,000 and George F. Gets, coal op-' erator, $10,000...
...The Yeomanry of Farmers are the boast if our nation," says the writer...
...Ye gods, with what indignation do I review the late attempt of some creatures among us to revive the vile machinery...
...And etiouette...
...In return for* these precious packages, tbe recipient was to mail bis Check;' covering tbe amount of the bonds, to Will Hays, said amount to appear as a free will offering on tbe books -of Will...
...Or maybe that wasn't his paper...
...Not that 1 would say anything against the President of the United States...
...I got that line off a speaker from the National Securities League, who gave us a swell spiel at our last convention...
...I'll bet that fish I ate last night was poisoned...
...In modern parlance, Adams had a tendency to "spill the beans.' In the middle of September, 1789, newspapers arrived from Europe giving the first accounts of the French Revolution and Maclay turned to his journal to record his impressions...
...Maclay frequently writes him down in his journal as "Bonny Johnny Adams...
...America ain't what it used to be, full of small-time farmers -and all...
...Glowing through its pages are the emotions that called into life the popular party led to victory by Thomas Jefferson in 1800...
...Covinston I La II...
...Maclay expressed the feelings and senti-aments of a fighting minority of homespun democrats in Congress but the old colonial aristocracy had its majority and jammed through its measures to the distress of the minority...
...Rawley Warner, $4,000...
...Who penned the floods up at their source?— HOOVER...
...God give her a happy delivery...
...Who will we see, when earth-life's done, If we a golden harp have won...
...Threaten the incomes of Boston's usurers and parasites and one immediately learns that they are after all human, but the itch for profits and dividends appears to be the only thing human about this class...
...And they're trying to make an issue °wt«f this oil stuff, so they can run around hollering •bout honesty...
...Edward T. Carey, $8,000...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 14
