Judge — November 27, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Steicuer, President Georce 1. Sunicnen, Seerctar Pererron Maxwett, & ’ James S. Metcare \. F. Rottauen Dramatic E. urer ni J. A. Waupros, 1 is not politics for the peuple toexpect great things from the Republican party. The very greatness of its victory im poses on itan obligation, greater than usual, to make good. In the next four years it must perform not only the task of cleaning up the mess left by its predecessors but it must set on foot measures of relief that are needed by all the people regardless of party You can’t be funny about taxes. You can’t even be satirical or sareastic. [t's almost impossible to keep from being statis tical. But even so frivolous a print as JupGe can’t help alluding to the deadly topic in connection with the amazing end of the recent contest. Lf folks don’t talk about taxes. there pretty. soon won't be anything left to tax. The Repub- lican party, having been so emphatically put in charge of things, has got to talk about taxes and think about taxes and act about taxes. wn THe plain fact is that the politicians have got to cut the outrageous cost of government, beginning with the over-manned institution headed at Washington and running down to the small school districts the country over. It happens that the politicians who have to accomplish this unpleasant task are Republicans. It is one of the responsibilties that go with success. If the Republicans go at it in clean-cut energetic and sincere fashion, this Government is likely to remain Republican for a long time to come. If they don’t. it means a strong boost for Socialism with nfiscation by Anarchy as not a remote substitute for confiscation by taxat We are bound to be heavily taxed for a long period as a result of the legitimate and illegitimate expenses of the war. No one expects miracles, least of all from politicians, but it is clearly up to the Republican party to go at the job of economy with an axe, pies Jepce removes his tile and salutes you. You saw your duty and you did it—did it with the thoroughness of a well-trained housekeeper. No one would ever suspect that you were novices in the fine art of electing presidents. Some of your male fellow-citizens hoped and some feared that the specious appeal to feminine sentiment might lead you wrong. but you have shown conclusively that Americanism is not confined to masculine breasts. To you especially, as well as to us all, the victors owe it to take the steps in international politics which will lead to making war difficult and ultimately impossible. It is not a thing to be accomplished by one man or perhaps in the lifetime of a man, but the result of the election carried with it an unwritten pledge to the mothers. wives and America that the effort should be made. sisters “ THE reelection of Senator Wadsworth of New York also removes one fear that was entertained with respect of the woman vote. This was that feminine spite was going to be in troduced as a new factor which would have to be reckoned with in elections. The effort to introduce it was made in this case. but it failed and failed in a way to recoil on the political futures of the women who invoked the malign influence. The t Wadsworth majority was a welcome assurance that in publi affairs women are going to be citizens first and feminine after- warels [+ pleasint to learn, through an investigation made by the Wall Street Journal, that the anti-tobacco move ment is skidding. This particular invasion of _ personal rights doesn’t seem to interest so many persons as its big brother, Prohibition. One good reason is that a very large clement which was not opposed to moderate use of mild alcoholic beverages was very strongly opposed to. the saloon and the evils it engendered. Mistakenly, Jupce. thinks. this element was willing to allow of the nullification of very fun damental American rights to achieve an end which might have been attained by less dangerous means. ‘The saloon has been practically abolished, but the American people may yet come to regret the way in which it was done. The method by which the Eighteenth Amendment was forced to adoption together with the injustice. the corruption and the disrespect of law which it has fostered may have consequences not good to contemplate when in calmer days we sit down and figure the profit and loss account of the prohibition movement A* amusing factor in the failur the tobacco cru- ** sade to gain headway is the difiiculty the former paid boosters of Prohibition find in getting salaried jobs in the ause of exterminating nicotine. Such of them as have not pund places as “revenooers” encounter a strange financial apathy when they try to stir up a money-producing revolt against the fragrant weed. Brother This and Sister That do not dig down into their pocketbooks as they did when the foe was The Demon Rum. The canny men who were in the n- cial cellar of the Anti-Saloon League scent no profits in organ izing anti-tobacco lobbies. There are some cigars so bad that their manufacturers ought to be put out of business and sent to jail but you can’t stir up a nation-wide indignation against them. It is good to hope that there is no immediate prospect of the rushing through of an anti-tobacco constitutional amendment On the other hand a movement to bring back the cost of good smoking materials to a reasonable basis would meet with wide support.