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Snlta BaUdlag. LOS ANGELES (Loca Ahng-hayj-aU) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tba AwoctatM Pmhbj la malmd-alr "titled ta a UN far nnhtiraltna af all aawa nrtlw ar aM athrrwia rrrdltrd ta this papar and alaa The dirge of the cannon has ceased at last, And No Man's Land Is claimed; The Mantle of Terror aside is cast And men no more are maimed; And out of the shadow of rlorlous death A phantom army comes; All silent, they march, and their bated breath Is low, like their muffled dram. How deep is the roar of thunder; How red is the blaze of the sky! All heaven is rended asunder; An army is mounting on high! Oh, they come from the waste ter-rains of chance With a smile agleam through fhs grime, With their proud souls singing the of France And their glad hearts heating tha time. Their names will be graved on the scroll of years.

For they are themartyr band; Their, memory drifts in a tide of tears Which floods the heart of the land. How deep is the Woeful River! Ah, wide, too wide to span? No, not for the cheerful giver "Who, dies for his fellow-man! Blow "taps" for the dead on a bugle of gold; Their work for the day is o'er; Like those who fought in the days of old, They shall rest hut live yet more. March on, grand host to a Palace of Fame. To dwell with the living dead; The world will remember your deed and name Wherever a song is sped. How soulful the solemn singing! i How low the breath of a sigh! When each with praises Is ringing For those who are mounting on high! tvhat secciutt.

VV Hiram Johnson promised an eastern audience that he would not bolt If the cards fell against him In Chicago. But are the promises of Hiram Rood at the mint? SUGAR-COATED PATRIOTS. No, dearie. It isn't strange that the Senators from Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina 6htuld oppose the planned embargo on the exportation of American su-gar. They may be patriots, but they are for the southern sugar planter first.

MAY SLIP OUT. The man who sayt the prohibition amendment or Its enforcement will not be mentioned In the national convention at Chicago may know what he Is talking about, bnt there are many delegates who will at least have it at their tongue's end. A MONO THE GLOOMS. Really there is no reason why a reformer should be a Joy-killer, but most of them seem to rather glory In the psrt They are kindred of those who find their chief satisfaction in bearing bad tidings. And there are a lot of them In the world, at that.

PEN POINTS. BT THE STAFF. Why not teach plumbing and hair-cutting to the public schools? A MUFFLED LAI. With" bran selling at $3 a sack, when It used to be 80 cents, and wheat and corn going at the rate of almost cents a pound, some of our highly respected hens are going Viiftirrv Ttint, anv fhav fannnt afford tn Ex-Seoretarv McAdoo says he is out of politic. Quit yer klddln'.

lnv arm at 40 cents a dozen and we hardly blame them. Is this the day that the Lever Act is neid constitutional or SECOVD FIDDLE. It begins to look as if the great prob A friend of ours married th moonshiner's daughter. He loved her still. lem berore the Chicago convention win not be naming the Chief, but exhuming some respectable person willing to assume the nomination for the Vice-Presidency.

Is second fiddle so bad as that? It is not thus in a symphony orchestra where great harmonies are provided. Nobody has yet pronosed a J)onm for the taxpayer. Nobody loves a taxpayer. Something to worry no wooden-legged man has ever been electrocuted. SEVEN POINTS FOR SALVATION.

WHEN Moses drafted a symposium of thought, action and belief for the direction of the tribe of Israel ho boiled it down to ten fundamental points. When President Wilson outlined a course for tho frea peoples of the world he increased the number to fourteen, causing Clemenceau to make the sententious comment, "Fourteen; it is too many. God had but ten." Bearing in mind that a few rules observed are better than many broken, the American people will find that the policies necessary to adopt to reduce the high cost of living and put an end to intolerable industrial conditions can be reduced to seven fundamentals, which are as follows: (I.) Increase production. (2.) Reduce consumption. (3.) Improve transportation.

(4.) Avoid (5.) Limit taxation. (6.) Punish profiteers and curtail excessive profit. (7.) Slow down expansion. INCREASE PRODUCTION The United States is now the richest country in the world and, despite our multimillionaires, it is the country in which wealth is the most equally distributed. But, for the last twelve months, the American people have devoted more attention to wasting and consuming their substance than to making new wealth and new food supplies.

Con-aumption has outdutanced production, and if the productive machinery is not speeded up.we are surely riding to a fall. Why is production lagging? By, reason of two conditions, one physical and the other psychological. There is a lack of workers to till the soil, and many of those we have are no longer actuated by a desire to work. Affluence has given birth to idleness. The rich are shirking; the poor are striking, and the middle classes are suffering a gradual but certain impoverishment Although our opinion as to the cause may vary, thi is an actual statement of conditions.

We have experienced a blowout, and the car is limping because no one will volunteer to get out and change the tire. Work is the remedy. We mut work with our dollars, with our brains and with our hands. Whenever a strike is called production lag and consumption get farther ahead. Whenever a mill or factory closes, dollars that ought to go to fill pay envelopes are loafing.

Whenever agricultural land lies fallow the price of foodstuffs in the industrial centers soars higher. More hands and dollars must be set to work producing food, clothing and habitation. We are now making too many touring cars and not enough trucks and wheelbarrow. DECREASE CONSUMPTION. We are consuming too many luxuries and nonessentials.

There is a greater demand for spats than for brogans. We are on the verge of becoming a nation of joyriders. This year we are living on saving; next year we will be living on credits, and after that beware of the deluge. IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION. The railroads of the country are in a deplorable condition.

Many of the employees are shirking. The restriction which Congress ha thrown about earnings and operation have discouraged investor. Government interference has made the future of railroading uncertain; and men with a genius for management and experience in solving transportation problems have turned their talents to other lines. Ten years ago investors were seeking railroad securities; now those securities go begging. There is nothing to be hoped for through government operation.

That nostrum was tried and only made conditions worse. Uncertainty a to the future of railroading is a serious deterrent to production. The farmer will not plant until he is assured that cars and service will be available to carry the crop to market. Industries cannot operate without material, and a manufacturer will not continue to produce articles that must lie in warehouses until they are no longer marketable. The incentive of profit in railroading has disappeared and the roads are crippled.

Every class is suffering in consequence from a lack of adequate transportation. There can be ho free barter and exchange until it is possible to move products cheaply and swiftly from production points to the places of greatest consumption. Successful operation of the railroads is necessary to profitable industry. Present restrictions must be modified and the policy of harassing the railroads must give way to one of encouragement AVOID EXTRAVAGANCE. The same economic laws govern peoples that apply to individuals.

Those who continue to waste more than they produce pass quickly from affluence to misery. Individual deposits in the savings banks of the country have been shrinking this year at the rate. of $250,000,000 a month. Every sack has a bottom. As a people we are wasting more than we are earning.

It is a hopeless task to attempt to fill a barrel through the bunghole when both heads have been caved in. Failure of the government to curb profiteering during the war period and its adoption of the "cost-plus" plan of production led to the harvesting of a bumper crop of newly-rich. They are the reckless spenders who buy for the very pleasure of buying. They float hilariously across the country on a golden stream. The twentieth-century girl of a certain type no longer care for the man who spends his money on the installment plan.

Judging by the fashion pages, the peacock ha become the national bird. In high society circles movies? the evening gown that is not worth its weight in gold is poor indeed. LIMIT TAXATION. Government in the United States costs five times as much as it did before the war. One stock argument for the Eighteenth Amendment wa that the abolishment of the liquor traffic would empty the jails and fortify the public security to a point that the cost of government could be cut in half.

Without entering into the merit of the "wet" issue, it must be apparent that the liquor traffic was blamed for a vast number of things for which it was not responsible. It will take something a great deal stronger than the Eighteenth Amendment to curb the voracious appetites of the departmental leeches that infest our State and national governments. It was the intent of the founders of the republic that the people should support the government, but not that the Federal and State governments should support a half million parasites to devour the substance of the people. Neither the State government of California nor the Federal government of the United States has made a success of government by restriction and commission. Palmer will not get far with his crusade against the high cost of living while the government of which he i a part waste enough every year to feed for ten weeks the entire population of the country, even at the present high prices of food.

Over $6,000,000,000 must be withdrawn from private business this year and paid to the Federal government in taxes. Much of that money is derived from surtaxes on profits and incomes. The government taxes the producer, the manufacturer, the wholesaler, the jobber and the retailer. It is but natural that each of these adds the tax to the price of the articles he handles; and by the time it has passed through these four hands the consumer finds the four taxes added in a lump to the legitimate price. PUNISH PROFITEERS AND CURTAIL EXCESSIVE PROFITS.

There is no justification for the high retail prices of many necessities. Profiteering is widespread in management, in material and in, labor. There are many instances of greedy dealers and speculators and manufacturers who are holding back goods and manipulating markets in order to reap an exorbitant profit from the extremities of the people. Ten fair merchants and manufacturers suffer for every guilty one who goes unpunished. Profiteering is widespread in the ranks of organized labor.

The closed-shop idea was first germinated in the brain of a profiteer. It places an arbitrary limitation on the number of persons who shall work in a given industry, thus restricting the amount of labor for the purpote of increasing the wages of those employed. During the last three years that policy has been followed to a point where the profiteering feature is plainly visible. The wages in some mechanical industries have been trebled or quadrupled they are wholly out of line with the average wage paid to labor in general. The walking delegates are the profiteers and the buying public is the victim.

Excessive profits can be curbed by Federal legislation; and they should be, at least until the time arrives when industry returns to its normal state. The price of sugar has become a national scandal. The administration seems to have been more concerned about what the sugar planter of Louisiana should receive for the crop than what price the people, should pay for sugar. This is but glaring instance. There are many others.

A government that knowingly permit excessive profit under existing laws is as guilty as the profiteer who exacts them. SLOW DOWN AND PRACTICE MODERATION. There has been too much hysterical haste on the part of individuals to carry out all contemplated enterprises at once. or this reason a great volume of available labor is employed in what may be termed nonessential enterprises. During the war the government placed a limit on private undertakings.

It established the rule that the essential things must be done first It is necessary that more individuals should put these restrictions voluntarily into practice. There must be more individual restraint more waiting until the necessary things are done. It is a good rule to put off until tomorrow the unessential thing that might be done today. By following that maxim, labor and material will be released for those projects which have for their purpose increasing the amount of food and clothes, facilitating transportation and providing more habitations. Some -of the' aspirants for that Chicaeo nomination are dark houses, all right in fact they are so dark that nobody can see 'em.

I was greatly Interested in aa advertisement fn Friday's Times, signed by the Guaranty TmBt Company of New York, which told of Belgium's remarkable recovery from the war. Maybe you recall how people used to prophesy that it would take a hundred years for Belgium to get over the war. Well that advertisement tald Belgium's exports to Holland, France, Italy and Germany are greater than her Imports, she is fast approaching a trade balance with England and soon the advantage there will be on her side, and her commerce, industry and finance are virtually restored to pre-war stability. And what worked that miracle? The answer is simple: Belgium is at work. I spent most of May, 1919, in Bel-glum and then wrote an article predicting that Belgium would be the first of the European nations In the-war to recover.

Not that I am any prophet but anyone with halt eye could see It Belgium1 was at work then. The government 'was busted. The soldiers hadn't been paid for months. They were demobilized, but still wearing their uniforms because they could buy no other clothes. They weren't expecting, any bonus.

They had to use cows to pull plows and carts because the Germans had left them nothing which looked like a horse. But the Belgians were at work: Their refugee children had been brought back from England and Southern France (Belgium Is blessed with children, both countless and sturdy) and In every field and every shop I passed the people were at work. So many potatoes had been raised since the Germans had been driven back and in territory they had not reached that they were not one-fourth as expensive as they are in Lcs Angeles now. In a restaurant close to the union station in Antwerp one could get a four-course dinner, with a small bottle of beer or wine thrown in, for two francs fifty centimes, or fifty cents in their money, and listen to a pretty good orchestra while one Up on the main drag was another restaurant which set a five-franc dinner big enough for two men like me, and I've always been considered a pretty talented table-flnlsher. There were the other kind, too, of course.

There was one close to the Hotel Antolne where one could spend fifty francs and get less food, but generally prices were not high. In the best and finest hotel in Ghent a splendid table d'hote dinner was served for six francs. Tn all those towns, on the streets like popcorn venders here, were fried-potato merchants, who sold a big cornucopia made of a full sheet of newspaper-full to the top of the best fried potatoes I've met for fifty centimes, one dime. The reason then, as row, was that Belgium was at work. Of course, Belgium never, suffered one-twentieth of whnt France did, and has proportionately three times as many children.

But Belgium suffered a lot at that a lot morn than even the United State did. And her after-war problems might he almost as big as ours if It wasn't for that one impressive fact all Belgium is at work. a Gen. Rodolfo Herrero says that Carranza committed suicide. Many a man nearlng final defeat and loss of power and prestige has contemplated suicide and not a few have committed it, but very few in history have shown such determination about it and made such a success of it as did Carranza.

Every day we read of people who attempted suicide and failed, but Carranza took absolutely no chances. He didn't fool with a revolver, so often known to miss fire, but used a rifle. The dispatches say five rifle bullets were found in him and there may have been more. The indications are that Mr. Carranr.a first shot himself through the heart.

Then, Just to make sure, he put a millet or two through his head. Then probably he held converse with himself. "I have failed in many things heretofore," he probably said. "What if I have failed In This, as one might say. is my funeral, Rnd I want to do the thing up right.

I guess I'll plunk myself a couple tt times through the lungs." Some people are scoffing at Gen. Herrero's statement but that appears to be unjust The best proof that Carranza killed himself is the thoroughness with which he did it a a a My neighborhood grocer is very patient with me and does his best to enlighten me, but the other day he gave it up. I began by inquiring the price of bacon. When I learned it and compared it with my bank balance I decided to buy something else. He explained then that the bacon prices are made in Chicago, by the pork packers there, and it costs a lot to transport bacon all the way from Chicago.

I suggested that it might be a good idea if we te bacon' smoked by California packers and he smiled pityingly at my ignorance. That bacon, he In-formed me, mnst be sent to Cht-cngo to keep the poor people back in Illinois from going baeonlese. Then I Inquired why vegetables were bo high and he explained that the are responsible. So I decided to buy something netther Japs nor pork packers control. I decided to buy oranges.

To rnf surprise I found that California oranges are Just as cheap here as I fonnd the same grade selling during a recent trip to the Middle West I asked him to explain that to me, too, but he was too busy. He was busy convincing two other customers of the advantage to the neighborhood of the sonlng law which would keep hny other grocers from coming in and competing with him. A man who wrote his wife a letter containing "six damns and several hells" contested her suit for divorce in Judge Taft's court last week, but was unsuccessful. That's the way It gw. Woman after woman gets- a divorce on the ground that her husband doesnt care a cuss for her.

yet when a man comes alone who proves he cares a lot of cusses It doesn't heln him a bit THE LANCER. Mrnr. MYSTERY. The Hearst reporter who wrote the story about the J5.000.000 Wall street fund to bring about the nomination of McAdoo informed the Senate committee that he got the story from a national committeeman. But the committeemen deny having seen reporter and both McAdoo and Wall Street deny there Is a McAdoo loan.

The story is as authentic as most of the Hearst political sensations. Nobody seems to be getting 15,000.000 worth of anything out of It not even Hearst Adolfo de la Huerta has been named as President Interim of Mexico. He may be all right but there Is a hoodoo about the namo in the republic. I certainly should not advocate I think it would be madness to do so that we should undertake a mandate in that country." Such is the real Armenian problem. If this country accepted the mandate it would necessitate a huge loan from Uncle Sam to Armenia (phew!) and the dispatching of an expeditionary force of not less than 50,000 men to conquer the territory which is to be included within the new Armenian boundaries.

Arme nia's credit is very poor worse than that. And the whole expense of the campaign would fall upon the American people. It would mean fighting, and hard fighting, for perhaps two or three years. The expeditionary force would need to be maintained there indefinitely in order to keep the Turkish populations to the east In check. Just as Great Britain has to keep up a standing army In India.

We would be in a position where, in case trouble started, our hides would be closest to the fire. When a country like Great Britain, with Its traditional lust for empire, flinches from such a mandate it is certainly a wise policy for this country to go slow in spending lives or lending money. The Armenian problem is one Immediately affecting the European states. It is a old as European civilization Itself. President Wilson may be willing to play the part of a Sir Galahad, to embark upon a crusade that would have appealed to a Coeur de Lion; but the American people have problems upon their own continent that demand their first attention.

It is stretching our altruism a bit far to call upon us to police in perpetuity the boundary line between Europe and Asia and to guard highways of commerce that so frequently become highways of war. Most of all, it would be the height' of folly for this country to accept a mandate under a League of which it is not a member, to pledge itself to obey decrees when it has had no part in their making. America is not yet idealistic enough to bear the burdens of the League without sharing any of the benefits. "No cross over the mosoues" is the cry in Constantinople. They ara still enamored of the crescent but It has gotten the Turks nowhere.

Why not try the cross? One of the funny things abont the census is the wonderful increase in the population of Va. They must have counted the oyster shells on the road to Virginia Beach. THE ANDIT COP. An Omaha policeman Is found to have been the leader of a band of highwaymen. He would hold up some citizen and then remove his disguise and run around the block to come to his victim's relief.

Sometimes he would be bo hot on his own trail that his feet would show blisters. Now he probably wants a reward for pinching himself. But it Is a great system. If all the detectives were crooks and bunko men It would be to handy in furnishing clues to themselves. A detective simply has to have a clue or go out of business, and when he commits the crime himself he can leave Just the sort of a clue he likes best Nevertheless, for the sake of society we hope the fad doesn't spread.

The Mikado of Japan is reported as being mentally and physically broken. But China shows no die-position to declare a day of fasting and mourning on that account Palmer has it figured out that he will win that nomro-Hon. Possibly this is as nearly correct as his boast that he was going to put all of the profiteers in Jail. Mayor Snyder says that some of the local dance halls are rendezvous for undesirable characters. And anybody who goes about these places knows that he is speaking the truth.

Gee whiz, but ain't 'Cephus Daniels getting hot in that naval Inquiry? If the lolly North Carolina editorial tar had shown so much activity during the war he might have accomplished more. THAT ARMENIAN "TOUCH." 1 Excepting perhaps a few idealists who never consider practical questions of public safety and are always advocating sacrifices, provided they are not the ones to be sacrificed, thoughtful persons will be wholly in accord with the recommendation of the Forefgn Relations Committee of the Senate that the United States shall not accept a mandate for Armenia at this time nor lend the Armenians any of our money. President Wilson set forth in his message that it was our duty to help a struggling Christian people to establish a republic within the historical boundaries of Armsnia. He would keep us perpetually In quest of a Holy Grail, putting ourselves under the dominion of a League of which we are not a member. But there are some who regard the acceptance of a mandate which lias been categorically declined by Great Britain, France and Italy in the light of pulling someone else's chestnuts from the fire.

Assuming obligations under a League of Nations without enjoying any of the benefits of the League binding one's self to a labor of love which i certain to be unrequited is a bit too altruistic for a practical people. The President is prone at times to disregard the ancient admonition, "Consider what the end may be." Accepting a mandate for Armenia means a great deal more than helping a young republic to establish itself. Casting one's eye over the new map of Europe and Asia it becomes instantly apparent that the Armenian republic has been so constituted that it stands as a buffer between the peoples of the two continents. It is the highway along which an invading army would pass; and the country guarding that highway would have to stand ready to call out Its fire department whenever a blaze started anywhere in Europe. In announcing to the British House of Commons in April the action of the Council of the League in calling upon America to accept the Armenian mandate, Lloyd George gave some first-hand information in regard to the Armenian situation that it would be well for American readers to assimilate.

He spoke in part as follows: Armenia presents a problem of overwhelming difficulty, arising from the fact that there is no Armenian population in vast territories that we would have liked to allocate to Armenia and which there are historical grounds for allocating to Armenia. If you gave them to Armenia, who could enforce the decrees? Prance could not take It on. Britain could not undertake It Italy could not take it. Our responsibilities are too overwhelming. We consulted our military advisers and they made quite clear to us that they would have involved a very strong and well-equipped military force.

No state with the best will in the world could possibly pledge iU honor to undertake the conquest because that is what it means, of these territories in order to hand them over to the Armenians. The Armenian delegates gave us a very sanguine estimate of what their own force could muster. We had to submit that naturally, to expert examination, and. although I have no doubt that the Armenians can defend their own republic, it is idle to expect that an undisciplined force with no military traditions should bo able to capture strong fortresses, in a mountainous country, full of defiles, spargPly populated, from a foe which has military experience. Continuing, the Premier Indulged In a few flowery platitudes concerning the idealism of the American people and said that the Council had decided to ask the United States, through President Wilson, to accept the Armenian mandate.

Enlarging on this theme, he called attention to the fact that the holder of the mandate for Armenia would naturally be expected to underwrite the new Armenian loan (estlnmted at and that the United States was the only country to condition financially to do so. Ia other words, "Let Sam do it" Against this policy not a dissenting voice was raised. Speakl" for the opposition, Mr. Asqulth said: "Deep and heartfelt as my sympathy is wItn Armenian canse. Fcrrnors booze.

It doth appear that one group of sharpers In Chicago have cleaned up over by selling Lake Michigan flavored with prune juice and paprika at $3000 a barret It was supposed to be pure rye whisky when the sales were made, and few of the purchasers have been in position to make legal complaint A rubber bag or container filled with real whisky and fastened inside the bunghole of the barrel enabled the swindlers to satisfy the tests of the purchasers when the stuff was sampled. When the country is full of people who are eager to pay up to $5000 a barrel for booze there will always be some who strive to supply the demand or profit by it through fraud. The fact that the victim seldom squeals makes the pursuit of the dishonest dollars more alluring. It Is safer than highway robbery. RIPPLING RHYMES.

Nine hundred million dollars Is the extent of the deficit from the conduct of the railroads of the coun- mnn That 4a tflA BY THE SEA. usual result when the government i embarks In he conduct of a private J-enterprise-that requires something besides a long list of high-priced I officials. I vjw.nl tr Mams Ohln monajrer HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS. The Chicago Housing Corporation, which is formed of a number of capitalists of the Windy City, is building two thousand homes for workers to help get some of the of the Jimmy Cox Presidential campaign, says more money was spent in the recent primary campaign in that State by the Republicans than he ever saw before. Wonder If the wad was any bigger than Eddie handled for Cox In the last gubernatorial campalga? Tn efvine his reasons for the high price of sugar Herbert Hoover places the trouble at the door of President Wilson, who failed to au I'm at La Jolla, by the sea; the view is something fine, with large blue billows rolling free five thousand miles of brine.

The grand old ocean is my lawn, it slops against my door; no dandelions grow thereon to nake my spirit soreA The water booms Into the caves, reminding me of this; I do not have to mow the waves; and such a thought Is bliss. I see the billows, high and dark, the endless surge and swell; I see the seals and hear them bark as thongh they'd things to sell. And I could eit and watch the sea oni thousand years or two, and every hour 'twould bring to me some message strange and new. It's saying, as it sighs and raves, and murmurs, moans and pleads, "Tou do not have to mow my waves or. from me dig the weeds." The salt sea sloshes round my coop, and sharks come up and play, and I sit out upon the stoop and smile the livelong day.

I've always had a lawn to mow, and weeds to dig at night; no sandbars on the ocean grow to mar my chaste delight WALT MASON. Chairman Cummings of the Democratic National Committee Is about the onlT man in publlo life with nerve enough to apologlie for the Wilson administration. Cnmmings Is from Connecticut the land of the wooden nutmeg, where they are pastmasters to the art of bunk. thorize the Sugar Equalization Board 1 to purchase the raw Cuban crop at cents a pound. If Hoover keeps I tollers out of the tenements.

The houes an sold for $4000 each on payments of ly $3S a month, which also takes care of The Interest and provides Are, health, life and accident Insurance for the head of the house. Of course, it takes quite a while for a man to acquire a substantial interest in the home, bat he can call it his own the moment he mores in. and if he has a steady Job he can finally pay out on as easy a basis aa paying rent The company does not expect to make any profit, and the revenues will be used to extend the home-buDdlng program. The houses are sold only ta heads of families who are regularly cm-ployed and who indicate an interest in keeping them up. There's somebody waiting to move in as fast as home is fin Ished.

The program will help relieve the housing problem of a big city and the p'sn Is extending to other communities. It locks like a good investment, even if the promoters get no dividends. It helps for a more tiibttatitiaJt Mtizenshlp and stabilizes industry. These are good for America. on his name will be scratched from the Wilson visiting list The testimony taken before the Senate committee shows how, under the Presidential primary, it is made absolutely necessary tor either a candidate or hU friends to spend a large amount of money If he is ta make any headway in a canvass.

Politics Is a very practical proposition and results are not secured by singing lullabies to the moon. To organize in forty-eight State costs a mint of money and every cent of expenditure may be.