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men, both of high character, and liked by their friends and all who know them, and that neither of them has any radical in- clinations, it finds it “of the best augury for the future of this nation that there is no taint of radicalism in either plat- form.” No American, it whether he be engaged in big business or small, whether he be a toiler for wages or a man following a profession, need fear that in the coming four years the founda- tions of credit may be disturbed. says, That was rather a disquieting recom- mendation, and really matches pretty well the picture in the Hearst paper, Preda- tory Wealth, a very ample figure dressed in dollar-mark clothes, with the Demo- cratic Donkey on one knee and the Re- publican Elephant on the other, feeding them both out of dollar-marked nursing bottles. What has the Times got against calism that it should stigmatize any flavor of it as a taint? Let us find comfort in considering that there will be plenty of it’ in the country, even if the platforms and the candidates have not much. Radicalism means change. We had cnormous char rid, and they will go right along without help from the government. We shall be busy for the s.and probably much longer, Radi- have es in the w next four yea in digesting changes now in process. We need less a President to point the way for us than one to operate our govern- mental machinery. Governor Cox is really good at that, and has proved it. enator Harding may not be bad, but he is not practiced in executive office. That is one difference between them, but the xreat difference is that they represent dif- ferent purposes, ard especi: about the League of Nations. If that is to be the issue of the campaign, and apparently it will, how can there be a division except with Republicans against it and Demo- crats for it? lutely Republican opposition to the Treaty Cox is for the Treaty, and always has been, and the e to the covenant would be quite proper and quite harmless, Harding represents abso- ing he would have done papers‘ represent Brother Bryan as disconsolate because he could not get a dry plank into the platform and because he considers Governor Cox a wet candidate. The Wets, he thinks, put -LIFE- him over. Unele bitl fine ora- torical display at the and showed much feeling, and seemed at times made a convention to be enjoying himself very much, and one is sorry that he is not better pleased. Some of his desires were entitled to more got. newspaper is credit than they His plea for a government said to more merit than was recognized at the convention. There printed during the war, and people who worked at war jobs in Washington say have was such a paper was useful because it told accurately, and without the embellishments of any correspondent, what the government was doing. And of course Mr or a change in the Constitution that will enable a mere majority of Bryan's hope the Senate to ratify a treaty is neither unreasonable nor untimely But neither the government- newspaper nor the Senate-Treaty plank were necessary to the effectiveness of the Democratic platform. A for Prohibition, it has not much to siderable danger from the Extra Drys Prohibition, putting over the Eighteenth Amendment, did a very great job. It fear from the Wets, but is in con- G LOST HIS VOICE BY WHOSE CANDIDATE LOST, HIS E VOCAL BRINGS TH RESTORE FXERTIONS FAMILY 155 knocked the liquor trade endwise and closed the saloons. It did it in what was probably the only way in which it could be done. It was a big, wholesale job. Only a small minority of the people want Only aloons back, and only a few that work undone. a few of them want the favor a trade. a modification as will permit the revival of the old-time liquor The most that is wanted is such milder drinks, and there is no great hurry about that. It is better that we should try out and see Un- beer the present system thoroughly what it docs and what comes of it der present laws, in and some states wine may be made at home for domestic con It is not much make imption trouble to od beer. In tates where that is lawful, people need drink habit, culti- pretty not cuffer fr though the ny other, is liable te w hy excessive water ing. water-drinking like vation Brother sryan is a wonderful man, and wonderful record of has a instigation, exposition, peror: n and explosion, but he need not think that Ure world is going to stay remade on a plan got up by him It never will Shifting political st business. How think of these as our political leaders? pherds is a stra long will it take us to two strangers from Ohio CDP Swat 1900 AT THE PARROT CONVENTION, JENK3, ALONG TO HELP MIM ANIMITY WITH A LITTLE COLF comicbooks.com