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It Is a Good Thing For This I
Country to Have at Least
One Man and One Set of
Newspapers Not Afraid
to I'ell the Truth.
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The Archbold-Standard Oil Penrose-Foraker Revelations Made by
W R. Hearst in Hearst’s Magazine Have Been Most Valuable
to the Citizens of This Country.
There is ;i good Italian saying “Give Light, and the People Will
Find the Way. '
The light that the people need is inlorination, FACTS, insight
into their governineiit and espeeia lit into 1 hat which is hidden.
While facts arc hidden, the people can not find their way. If
it were not for the newspapers that are truthful, and for a few men
that do not fear the truth or those that hate it. there would be little
light for the people, and little hope of finding the path in the maze of
graft, corruption, monopoly, bribery ami dishonest control of gov
ernment through which this nation is wandering.
Our readers certainly appreciate the value of publicity and the
value of 1 ruth telling. They have built up the Hearst newspapers,
and tin Hearst magazines they constitute the millions of circula
tion, the gigantic family of readers from which W. IE Hearst gets
the power to scat ter truth, and to frighten rascals.
The polities ot this country and the prospect of good govern
ment owe a great debt Io that revelation of Standard Oil activity,
bribery ami shameless corruption, managed by John I). Archbold,
and shared by Penrose, Foraker, Sibley and others supposed to be
working for the people.
Foraker has been driven out of public life. Penrose will soon
be out of public life. Archbold, when he understands what the
people think of him either through criminal proceedings or other
wise- will cease Ins activities, his cheek distribution, his insolent
attempts to interfere with elections, his shameless corruption of the
people’s oflieials.
Even the newspapers naturally dishonest the .socalled “con |
s native newspapers that belong to Archbold, just as Foraker i
and Penrose belong to him. have been compelled through very shame
to publish the facts with which Hearst has supplied them. As they
will be compelled to publish the further facts with which he has
supplied them. )
In his recent cable from Europe W. R Hearst advised Penrose,
Archbold and Ihe ot hers to tell Ihe whole I rut h promising t hat 11E
would do it if they did not.
Mr. Hearst has “given the people light.” He has shown them j
which ot their officials were rotten and dishonest. He has pointed i
out and convicted the Trust managers, guilty of wholesale bribery;
he has rendered a great service to this country through his news
papers and his magazines, ami the people know it.
Mr. Hearst’s work has been of especial value because his revela
tions have been absolutely non-partisan. Democrat, liepublican,
Progressive, or what not, has made no difference to him. The truth
as fast as possible has been given to the public.
And through the Hearst publications the public has learned that
dishonesty in this country is no party. IT MANAGES AND BIT'S
EVERY PARTY.
Mr. Howe, in Vermont, reminding the people that railroads and
other corporations rule and cheat by paying in taxes less than half
what individual citizens pay. describes part of our system admirablv
as follows:
Now. ladies ami g. ntb :n. n. Is that a square deal? Was that law
enact-al by th.- R.-pubiiean party" No. no. Was It enacted by the Dem
ocratic party.’ No, no. Was It enacted by any political party? Nd,
no Whom was it emu ted by ’ It was enacted by the crooked politi
clans who are centre '«■>! by the <-<» porations. Was It enacted in the
daytime? Oh. no Was it enacted on cold water? Oh, no; they had
better stuff than that. Hoc long have we been living undei that law?
Twenty-six years
That is a good description of ihe way things arc managed in
th is count ry. I lit gra 11. Ihe d ishoiiost v. amlt he monopoly are not
I), •uoei.i.lic. they .- mu I.' -public; qi THEY AR E F.N( 1.1 SI VEI, Y
AND ESSENTIALLY I’I.ITOCRATIi'.
Men like Archbold supp'} tlo- money, the funds for corruption
Men like Foraker. I’cnr. and Sibley take this monev and use it
some of it being distributed “in th.- right places” ami some of it
being carefully kept.
llumlreds of tliousauds ;nd mlll i. os have thiis been tlisf rilmted
by the corporations that rob th.- people through monopoly.
But there promises to coni, an eml. or at least a moderation, in
this system thanks to “the light “ -.riven by the publications rliat
\V. R Hearst emit rois.
There is not a mile of territory in the I’nited States that does
not know ihe name and the work of Ibarst and his publications
This causes envy among some editors. But it need cause no envv.
They may have the same standing, and the same power for
good, if they w ill de\ clop Ihe ability to discover the 1 ruth AN 1 > THE
HONESTY TO TELL I 1 ’
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\MAN who is a metliodie i l,
careful, business-like per on,
trained to business accuracy,
complains bitterly that he can not
make his wife keep books.
He makes her a generous allow
ance. anil he holds that it is his
right that she should make an ac
counting to him showing where
every penny went, and because she
i ■ fuses to do this there is endless
bickering and quarrelling between
Hie two.
Theoretically, I agree with the
husband. Personally. I side with
the wife. For myself. I had rather
do a day's washing than add up a
e damn of figures, and it lias always
seemed to me that when money is
spent it is just as muc h gone
whether you bought ice cream soda
or coined beef and cabbage with it.
However, 1 am quite aware that
this Is no proper way to view the
subject, and I am sure that those
who look over their account books
where every item of expenditure is
rigorously set down, and see how
tin y w isted a quarter for cigars
here, and fifteen cents for drinks
there, and a nickel for chocolate
c i 'ants in another place, and a dol
lar and a half for a neck fixing
somewhere else, must get a day of
judgment jolt that is good for their
souls and makes for economy. < < r
t duly we never realize how much
money we fool away until our ex
travagances rise up from our little
ac count book and confront us
it Makes For Thrift.
I’ndoubtedly the account book
makes for thrift and judicious man
agement. One of the first tilings
that they teach girls In the school
of domestic science is the necessity
for having a houselndd budget in
which tin 1 expenses of running t
family are proportioned and a cer
tain per cent of the income set
apart for rent, ano food, and cloth
ing. and sickness, and amusements,
and so on.
It is easy to see how much better
and more Intelligently a woman can
manage a household who goes about
it in this systematic manner, and
whose accurately kept books show
her just where she stands, titan
she can if she adopts the hit-or
miss style of family financiering.
where 1 it's always a feist or a fam
ine and the first of the month in
variably finds het appalled at the
size of the bills.
It is frequently -aid that if any
i business man conducted hts affairs
FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1912.
Uy DOROTHY DIX
in as slap-dash a m inner as his
wife does hers le would land in the
bankruptcy coin: irsidi- of a year.
Doubtless this is trip It is one of
the greatest Injustices done women
that girls ate rar ly trained to busi
ness methods m cv, i given any
money to handle, so that w hen they
conic to.- pend their husband's earn
ings they do not know how to do it
to the la st advantage.
Nor do they take kindly to being
taught business methods when their
husbands try to instruct them, as in
the ease of the man < red at the be
ginning of this artit le. (>n the con
trary. when a husband tries to in
duce' his wife to I. ■ p books she is
apt to accuse hr i of penuriousness
in the matter of money.
The- wife is wrong in this. Inas
much as marriage I- a partnership
in which the hush; nd supplies the'
money for running the home, and
the woman does the active work of
making the home, it is nothing
more than fair that tin wife should
keep a record of the funds that pass
through her hands and be able to
give an account of her stewardship.
Ho has a perfect right to know how
his money is used and whether it
is wasted or not.
Partners in business who are
managing different ends of an en
terprise look ovi r each other's ac
e mats, and there is no reason w hy
a wife should fee! miffed if her
husband wants to take a peek at
her expense book and find out how
she' is conducting her department.
If every married woman would
k ep an accurate account of every
e nt that she sp. nt mi the family
anil not only permit her husband
to see it. but force him to audit her
bool s .-very month, it would not
only bo .1 good thing economically,
but it would !»’ an eye opener to
tb.e man and stop the eternal growl
about woman's extravagance.
The average' man always ac ts as
if his wif, spent all the money on
herself. You would think, to hear
him talk, that she ate all the food
and monopolized till the light and
licit of the house, and it would put
a quietus on him if he was forced
to read, item by item, of pecks of
potatoes and pounds of coffee and
sugar, and dozens of eggs, and beef
steaks. and mutton chops, and tripe
and mions, and see with Ills own
• cis that it was for these neeessl
ti, s for the family ami not on her
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own adornment that his money was
spent.
While a husband has the right,
however, to demand an accounting
from his wife for the money’ she
spends on the* household, it is an in
vasion of her personal liberty, and
an impertinent interference, for
him to even ask to know what she
did with her own allowance. That
is hers to do with as she pleases,
and he lacks something of being a
gentleman if he presumes to keep
any espionage over her in the mat
ter.
That most wives have no personal
allowance, and never a penny that
they may do with as they like, is
only too true, and it does mote than
any other one tiling to account for
the restlessness and discontent
among married women. To a grown
up woman it is as much gall and •
wormwood to be financially depend
ent as it would be to a man, and it
is the smouldering bitterness en
gendered by this state of affairs
that makes many a marriage a fail
ure.
Is Entitled to a Wage.
The woman who gives her whole
life to a man. who bears his chil
dren. who makes him a home, who
spends ounce of her strength
and vitality in serving him and fur
thering his interests, and who gives
him a labor that he could not buy
for money, feels that she is, at leasi.
entitled to such wages as a cook
or nurse maid might get, and to
spend that much money without
giving any more account of it to
her husband than a cook or a nurse
maid to whom he pays an equal
amount would give him. But she
rarely gets even that paltry sunt to
do w ith as she pleases, and thig is
what makes the financial situation
so often acute between husband
ami wife.
The man who insists upon his
wife keeping household accounts
is right. She will be a better and
a more careful manager for doing
it, and it is but just that he should
know how his partner is managing
her side of the business. But the
wife has a right to a private allow -
ance of her own, to do with abso
lutely as she likes, and it is her
privilege to do with this as she sees
tit. Her husband has no more right
to demand an accounting of tills
money than lie lias of any strange
woman's income.' She has earned
it over and over again, and it is
hers.
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
The Education of the Voter
V. T.
No. i6.-—The President Not an Individual
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With Arbitrary Power, But the Representa
tive of the People by Whom He Is Paid.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
X T’OV have read the reports of
Y the conventions.
The proceedings consisted
; of prayers, excitement, hisses, yells
; and the buzz of the political ma-
I chine.
You might assume that a body of
! men, representative of all the pep
; pie, gathered together to nominate
. a man capable of filling what is
; doubtless the greatest office on
; earth, would realize the responsi
: bility that rests upon themselves.
; You might expect a certain feeling
; of awe and solemnity. You might
; expect that an act so fraught with
: importance would be taken with the
I guidance of prayer, but without the
: disturbance of excitement, hisses
i and cat-calls.
You might.
What is a president called upon
to do?
To begin with, he is the repre
sentative of all the people—the
head of the nation.
I-resident’s Power
> Comes From People.
His power comes directly from
i the people, and their welfare is as
i sumed to be the prime object of his
’ consideration.
Only a natural-born citizen may
i aspire to this office. He must be
i at least 35 years of age and 14 years
> a resident of the United States.
The president’s term of office is
[ four years. He is eligible for re
| election. So far as the constitu-
I tion is concerned, a president may
> be re-elected once, or twice, or
I many times. Up to date, no man
[ has ever filled the office for more ,
! than two terms, and it seems quite
unlikely that this precedent will be
broken.
The president is commander-in
j chief of the army and navy of the
( United States and of the states'
j militia when called into Federal
i service.
He is empowered to grant re
prieves and pardons for offenses
committed against the United
States, but his power does not ex
tend to cases of impeachment.
With a two-thirds vote of the
senate he may make treaties with
foreign powers, thus extending his
influence on behalf of the nation
to the world at large.
He appoints ambassadors to for
eign nations. In fact, there come
within his appointing power, with
confirmation of the senate, about
8,000 offices.
He may convene tlie houses of
congress in extra sessions, and he
may adjourn them to a elate not
beyond the next regular session.
From members of his cabinet he
may require written opinions upon
their departments. He receives am
bassadors and foreign ministers.
All bills passed by congress are
brought before him for Ms signa
ture or his veto.
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First Foundling Asylum
By THE REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY
1' T was 173 years ago—July, 1739
that the big-hearted old sea
captain. Thomas Coram, suc
ceeded in getting through the pa
pers for the incorporation of the
"Foundling Hospital of London,"
the first home for friendless little
children that was ever known
among the English speaking people
of the earth.
From the beginning of human
down to quite modern times the
lot of the little child, especially if
it happened to be a girl child with
out legal parentage, was a most
forlorn one. full of all that was cal
culated to touch til" Heart and cad
forth lite sorrow and pity of man
i kind.
But it seems that the compas
sion was not forthcoming, and the
little unfortunates, friendless and
neglected, had to get along as best
they could, save as they were now
and then assisted by some private
individual.
For the idea of the sacredness of
childhood —a thought that is so
masterful in the present time—the
people of antiquity had but a trif
ling regard.
Many of tile greatest thinkers of
Greece and Rome, the foremost
moulders of the public opinion and
sentiment of tiieir day. had no ten
derness iti their souls for child
hood as such. Its innocence, its
helplessness, made but a weak ap
peal to their sympathy and love.
The child that was b u-n into the
THE home: paper
These, the principal duties of
president, are clearly set forth fn
the constitution. The office makes
of him a world figure. He takes his
place beside kings and potentates
of whatever name.
He is not an individual with ar
bitrary power. He is the represen
tative of millions of individuals,
with powers that are especially de
signed and bestowed to secure for
every one whom he represents the
full blessings of citizenship.
You have only to picture this man
as a representative of one hundred
millions of people doing business
with congress, with the nine de
partments of our national activity,
through the members of his cabi
net; meeting the representatives of
every nation on earth,’commanding
army and navy, allotting thousands
of positions to office-holders, ap
pointing proper representatives to
foreign nations, and without speci
fying further the activities of his
office you can appreciate the pro
priety of a convention opening with
prayer.
But it is doubtful if you can see
the fitness of cat-calls, yells, hisses
and the rumble of any kind of a
roller, steam or otherwise.
For all that is demanded of him,
the president of the United States
receives a salary and he gets a
reputation. The salary is fixed at
seventy-five thousand dollars per
annum. The reputation is largely,
though not wholly, of his own mak
ing. Yet no position so open to pub
lic scrutiny* can be so influenced by
conditions that the man himself
does not shine through. He may be
assisted in his endeavors or he may
bo thwarted, but his stand on ques
tions, great or small, allows him to
show the people, without doubt or
uncertainty, what sort of stuff he
is made of.
Just What You
Should Decide.
When the parties have held their
conventions, and the two or three
or more nominees are submitted to
the people, you decide, or you should
decide, just this question: What
man, among them, best measures
up to the requirements?
Then you elect that man, or you
should elect him. In the course of
time he appears once again in pub
lic, on the 4th of March, when the
chief justice of the United States
administers the oath of office, which
says:
"I do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the office of
president of the United States, and
will, to the best of my ability, pre
serve. protect and defend the con
stitution of the United States.”
The inauguration is a more sol
emn occasion than the conventions.
The seriousness of the business to
be done stares the man In the face.
And a new period of our history,
four years later, stares you. as one
of its citizens, in the face.
world without a legal father and
mother, or that was born below a
certain mental and physical stand
ard, or that chanced to be a girl,
was in danger of being exposed—
cast out into the fields to die of
hunger or to be devoured by the
wild beasts.
The men who built the Parthenon
and the Pantheon, who created' civ
ilization and carried it to the utter
most parts of the then known
world, were at heart little better
than barbarians, as is evidenced by
their attitude of cold-blooded In
difference to the appeals of help
less childhood.
When the Carpenter’s Son came
the little ones began to look up.
There was at last One to "bless"
them, to take pity on their weak
ness and to see in their purity, in
nocence and helplessness the sacred
obligation which was not to be ig
nored. Hence, the beautiful words,
"Suffer the little ones to come unto
Me. and forbid them not."
But the progress was slow, and It
was not until the fifteenth century
that the work of saving the little
children from destruction was fair
ly and systematically begun.
In Italy. France. Belgium. Aus
tria, the spirit of the new humanity
began to show itself in the shape
of the larger kindness to waifs, but
it was not until Captain Coram
founded his hospital for friendless
children that they were taken in
hand in away that was at once
humane and scientific.