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 WILLARD LIGHT 
 
 OF 
 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
 
 *' Ani we know that all things work together for good 
 to them that love God, to them who are the called according 
 to His ^urj^ose. " — Romans vIII-28. 
 
 PRICE oV ,Mi9^ajLji OMiiJ, .»>ime: 
 
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 C6j>yHsk^f 1912 by the Author ' 
 
Explanatory Proem 
 
 This book is a deliberate attack upon the utterly false, viciously 
 unjust and deadly dangerous systems represented by ex-judge and twenty- 
 seventh President, William Howard Taft; ex-President and emperor at 
 large Theodore Roosevelt; ex-Convict and again financial king of Wall 
 Street, Chas. W. Morse; seeking to hinder these three and gradually de- 
 stroy the principles they stand for, thereby helping about ninety million 
 people who are sadly in need of assistance. 
 
 I am not trying to start a revolution but hoping and praying to be 
 able to do my part toward forestalling one which is surely coming if 
 things go on as they have been running, and conditions are not rapidly 
 changed in favor of the toilers who produce the wealth of the Nation. 
 It has long been patent to me ithat not more than one-tenth of our people 
 are hopeful, happy or prosiperous. 
 
 This life story is drawn from the heartaches and headaches of thirty- 
 three years experience in ithe battle for bread; composed under a driving 
 impulse; compiled without loss of any time from employimemt and prac- 
 tically without the aid of books. I ipossess no books to speak of and had 
 no time to visit libraries. The writer 'has only a very common school ed- 
 ucation and has done little reading since he enlisted for life in the Grand 
 Army of Workers. Therefore any statement lierein which does not square 
 with facts is an error of memory or judgment and not made with inten- 
 tion to mislead. 
 
 Pamphlet published on individual responsibility and at personal ex- 
 pense without asking financial aid, literary assistance or helpful advice of 
 anybody on earth. I feel that I have a backer in this undertaking who 
 does not strike a partnership with selfish money grubbers, and to that 
 belief I shall cling. Something seems to tell me that any man who really 
 desires to help the plain people must not only come from their ranks 
 but must remain with them. Whenever he associates with the idle rich, 
 professional politicians and lets them pay his expenses he immediately 
 becomes one of them in spirit, and loses all power to faithfully and ef- 
 fectively serve common folks. 
 
 I am asking my personal friends to take up the first small edition on 
 condition that if the story is not worth the price they return it and re- 
 ceive back their dimes. That's what I call the square deal. Furthermore, 
 I request true friends who are quick and not dead to study my dreams 
 and see if they can trace any direct connection between these celestial 
 visions and the practical solution of our vexing temporal problems. I 
 want such friends to help me decide if I am what president Taft calls 
 a neurotic, incapable of self-government, or whether I am being called 
 to undertake a high mission for mankind, 
 
 "In the Union of all who Love, 
 For the Service of all who suffer." 
 
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 If none cX o^y .real, friends car. see these things as I seem to see them, 
 and asK .for t^hf .rdtiifij ol ttieir ."dimes, I will endeavor to unhitch my 
 Pegassus from the stars and hook him up to a coal wagon. 
 
 The millionaire owner of The Tribune and The Express is begging 
 the toilers, including the women, to give him one dollar for a membership 
 card in his new party; before sending this large sum to this plutocrat 
 please send one dime to the author who risked his lasit bit of cash to re- 
 tain copyright and keep this story out of the clutches of predatory politi- 
 cians. 
 
 If any legal voter in California wishing to read my booklet cannot 
 spare the dime, will send me name and address on postal card I will en- 
 deavor to furnish free copies to all such as long as my ability will per- 
 mit. I am not attempting to make money but trying to do good. 
 
 I sincerely hope this story will be read in every home in our glorious 
 Golden State before November 5th, 1912. 
 
 Yours for Humanity, Peace and Prosperity, Here and Now; Hereafter. 
 Thenceforward and Forever. 
 
 WILLARD LIGHT. 
 
 4832 Arlington Street, 
 
 Los Angeles, California. 
 
 To Theodore Roosevelt 
 
 Twice President of the United States of America 
 
 "Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; 
 
 Think of yourself ^s "He" instead of "I." 
 Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man is you. 
 
 And strive to make your estimate ring true. 
 The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink. 
 
 Love's chaiin grow stronger iby one mighty link, 
 When you with "He" as substitute for "I" 
 
 Have stood aside and watched yourself go by." 
 
Light on the Roosevelt Movement 
 
 (A Philippic Political Sermon) 
 
 Los Angeles, California, September 16th, 1912. 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: — 
 
 I rise to a question of personal privilege and beg to make a few re- 
 marks on my individual responsibility. I am ONE of the PLAIN COM- 
 MON PEOPLE; VERY PLAIN; MIGHTY COMMON; perhaps just about 
 an AVERAGE CITIZEN. I am not a Chautauqua lecturer at so much per, 
 nor a space writer fnr revenue only; but with what material and ability 
 I have picked up I wish to undertake to interpose a strenuous objection 
 to the schemes of the POLITICAL MONGRELS who are now presuming 
 to do MOST OF OUR THINKING and ALL OF OUR TALKING. 
 
 Fellow Citizens 
 
 That means EVERYBODY in our Golden State by the Sundown Sea; 
 may it soon be the same throughout every State in our Union. 
 
 In the olden days when I was a boy, "On the Banks of the Wabash 
 Far Away," the "Tall Sycamore" and other old-fashioned campaign speak- 
 ers used to begin addressing their audiences with this greeting: "LADIES 
 and GENTLEMEN and FELLOW CITIZENS." I often wondered what 
 sort of people came under the THIRD heading, who could not be properly 
 classified under the FIRST or SECOND. Recent political developments 
 have shown us that large numbers of FELLOW CITIZENS cannot be 
 rated as LADIES nor yet as GENTLEMEN. 
 
 They seem to be some new species; evidently produced by crossing 
 a DISGUSTED DONKEY with a SICK ELEPHANT and by some strange 
 freak of denature they show a strain of the RAPACIOUS TIGER. A 
 SORT OF ZEBRAIZED HYBRID WITH NO PRIDE OF ANCESTRY AND 
 NO HOPE OF POSTERITY. 
 
 The Fifth Party and the Third Term 
 
 This Nation wants no FIFTH PARTY at this time and no THIRD 
 TERMER AT ANY TIME. Any man who continues to throw oil on the 
 furiously blazing fagots under the political cauldron is not a PATRIOT 
 but a TRAITOR to his country. 
 
 We are SURFEITED with politics and weary of PROFESSIONAL 
 POLITICIANS; men with LE:ATHER LUNGS and MEGAPHONE 
 MOUTHS eternally preaching the salvation of the people, saving the gov- 
 ernment every four years, continually feeding and fattening at the public 
 trough, while we work and wait and wonder, suffer, sweat and strive to 
 save our families from starvation under the EVER INCREASING COST 
 OF LIVING, AND THE VASTLY DISPROPORTIONATE INCREASE IN 
 WAGES. 
 
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Our deaf ears have been unstopped and our blind eyes opened and 
 with a clear vision we now see that politics has been the greatest bunco 
 game with which a patient public ever was gold-bricked again and again 
 and yet again. FOR ABOUT FIFTY YEARS WE HAVE BEEN SIMPLY 
 CHANGING BOSSES. AND NOW WE ARE ASKED TO TRADE ALL 
 OUR LITTLE BOSSES FOR ON^E GRE.VT BOSS. AUTOCRATIC AND 
 SUPREME. THE MOST EGOTISTICAL AND DESPOTIC CHARACTER 
 THAT A FREE AND ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE EVER PRODUCED, DE- 
 VELOPED AND TOLERATED. 
 
 I dissent. I HAVE NO DESIRE TO LIVE IN A REPUBLIC AND 
 SERVE UNDER ANY KING BUT THE "LORD GOD OF HOSTS. WHO 
 MUST BE WITH US YET. LEST WE FORGET." 
 
 Roosevelt Families 
 
 The old adage, "THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE RULES 
 THE WORLD," needs a new translation and a different application; mil- 
 lions of just and upright women do not propose to rock any more cradles 
 until victory crowns their heroic efforts to make this old earth a better 
 and a safer place in which to rear their chieldren. 
 
 Scripture says, "THE SEED OF THE WOMAN SHALL BRUISE THE 
 HEAD OF THE SERPENT"; the sons and daughters of the present gen- 
 eration give LITTLE PROMISE of ever BRUISING the head of the ter- 
 rible serpent; they seem too much inclined to BASK IN HIS SMILE and 
 make a PET OF HIM. When the MOTHERS and WOULD BE MOTHERS 
 of our land grasp the right weapon I believe they will KILL THE DEADLY 
 SERPENT and SLAV THE GREAT RED DRAGON THAT IS DEVOUR- 
 ING HUMAN KIND. That is the CHIEF REASON why powerful influ- 
 ences for evil are strenuously at work trying to keep the SWORD OF 
 DAMOCLES out of the fair clean hands of women. 
 
 WHAT A SPECTACLE! Men high in the councils of Nations dog- 
 gedly opposing and persistently withholding the right of suffrage from 
 intellectual, educated, refined, Christian women and yet granting it 
 FREELY to the very LOWEST TYPES of the MALE SPECIES. Perhaps 
 these men have been reading, "THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS 
 DEADLIER THAN THE MALE." Kipling is right in ONE INSTANCE. 
 They are vastly deadlier than the male when their OFFSPRING IS IX 
 DANGER. 
 
 The women of the world are weary of passing through the valley ami 
 the shadow in travail bringing forth noble virile sons to be shot down on 
 the battlefield and shoveled into trenches, while their handsome virtuous 
 daughters go into sweat shops to struggle for a scant existence, until 
 crushed in spirit and broken on the wheel of our industrial bondage, they 
 lose ALL HOPE and fall into the still more PITIFUL CONDITION OF 
 SO-CALLED WHITE SLAVERY. TRACE THE D1RE(^T CONNECTION. 
 BECAUSE THE SONS GO TO THE WARS AND PREPARATION FOR 
 WAR THE DAUGHTERS MUST GO INTO THE SWEAT SHOPS; BOTH 
 CONDITIONS ARE UNNECESSARY. 
 
 FOR THE PRIVILEGE, PROTECTION AND POWER OF THE BAL- 
 LOT WOMANKIND IS TODAY STORMING AT THE VERY GATES OF 
 HELL, AND IT SHALL NOT LONG PREVAIL AGAINST HER. 
 
Equal Suffrage 
 
 Whether you like it or not it's coming. Those well meaning women 
 who do not desire the hallot as a right, nor wish to take it as a privilege 
 must accept it i,s a solemn duty and a grave responsibility. I have always 
 believed it will be a power for good and a long step forward. Heaven 
 bless the mothers of our land and all good women everywhere. On them 
 rests our ONLY HOPE for the perpetuity of the race and the upbuilding 
 of all institutions for good. They are more intuitive and more spiritual 
 than men. YOU CAN'T FOOL MANY OF THEM MUCH OF THE TIME. 
 When they are granted universal suffrage the great majority of them will 
 always be found on the RIGHT SIDE of every important question and 
 then we will succeed in our determined effort to purify politics. 
 
 The Bull Moose party has made a great bid for your votes, but one 
 of your foremost leaders has called attention to the fact that while Mr. 
 Roosevelt was seven years in the White House he was not so much inter- 
 ested in your cause. She says she is tiired of playing wet nurse to politi- 
 cal parties who desert her as soon as they are able to walk alone. 
 
 Theodore The First is always yelling about the square deal, and I 
 beg the dear sisters of my beloved adopted State to give him the squarest 
 kind of a deal. I pray you to remember him on Nov. 5th as he remem- 
 bered your cause when he was President. May the Great Teacher forgive 
 me for suggesting a transposition of the Golden Rule, but when I think 
 of how we have treated our womankind it seems to me that for many 
 years to come they should read that glorious precept after this fashion: 
 AS MEN HAVE DONE UNTO US, DO WE EVEN SO TO THEM. 
 
 A Grave Crisis 
 
 That this Nation is fast approaching a critical and momentous con- 
 juncture in its history is no longer the EMPTY PHRASE of a PAID 
 political orator. It is known of all men who have HEARING EARS; 
 SEEING EYES; RECEPTIVE BREASTS; RESPONSIVE HEARTS; 
 QUICKENED CONSCIENCES and SOULS IN TUNE WITH THE INFIN- 
 ITE. 
 
 All such people believe that a NEW DISPENSATION is dawning over 
 the whole world and that this MOST FAVORED REALM should be the 
 VERSY FIRST to catch this FRESH SPIRIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS and 
 practically apply it to all the temporal affairs of life. 
 
 As governments are instituted among men to PROTECT the weak; 
 RESTRAIN the strong; ENCOURAGE and UPHOLD the RIGHT; PUN- 
 ISH and CRUSH out the WRONG; administer JUSTICE and EQUAL 
 RIGHTS TO ALL and SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE, UNDER THE 
 CONSTITUTION AND THE LAW, we should here bring to full fruition 
 a political plan wherein the humblest citizen would have a vote bearing 
 directly on all our State and National affairs, AND DEVELOP A CIVIL- 
 IZATION IN WHICH THE POOREST MEMBER WOULD NOT GO 
 HUNGRY, COLD OR NAKED. 
 
 Our STARRY EMBLEM would then reflect OLD GLORY in FACT as 
 well as NAME; its brightness would shine as a beacon light unto the 
 feet of our stumbling brothers in all lands WHEREVER DISPERSED 
 ON THE FACE OF THE GLOBE. 
 
THAT OUR BELOVED REPUBLIC WILL RIGHT HERSELF, NOT 
 WITH ROOSEVELT'S DICTATORSHIP, BUT UNDER DIVINE GUID- 
 ANCE, come safely through the storm and work out her manifest destiny 
 by EVOLUTION and not REVOLUTION I have ALWAYS BELIEVED; 
 AND I HAVE PREACHED THIS DOCTRINE WITH AN ABIDING FAITH 
 FOR LO THESE MANY YEARS. 
 
 FOR A LONG TIME I HAVE JUST SEEMED TO FEEL THAT THE 
 NEW SPIRIT OF TRUTH WILL BEGIN TO ASSUME TANGIBLE FORM 
 ABOUT 1915, AND REIGN IN FULL POWER OVER THIS NATION 
 ABOUT 1920. 
 
 WHEN THE APPOINTED DAY DRAWETH NIGH, THE WOMB OF 
 TIME WILL BE BIG WITH FATE AND THE MAN OF THE HOUR 
 SHALL APPEAR. 
 
 Tilden-Hayes Election 
 
 I CAN REMEMBER HEARING MEN TALK OF TAKING THEIR 
 GUNS AND GOING TO WASHINGTON TO SEAT TILDEN. I once heard 
 a story of how a committee of men waited upon Mr. Tilden, some of whom 
 had just come through four weary years of the bloodiest civil war the 
 world had ever seen, and informed him they were ready to enlist for 
 FOUR Y^EARS MORE. Mr. Tilden asked to be excused and went into a" 
 room alone for about thirty minutes, when he returned and said: "GEN- 
 TLEMEN, LET MR. HAYES HAVE THE PRESIDENCY." 
 
 I know nothing of the history of the Sage of Gramercy Park but if 
 this story is true we should reverence the memory of Samuel J. Tilden. 
 The story teller said Mr. Tilden went into a room ALONE but I do not 
 think he was ENTIRELY ALONE. 
 
 "SPEAK TO HIM, THOU, AND HE HEARS. 
 
 AND SPIRIT AND SPIRIT MAY MEET; 
 CLOSER IS HE THAN BREATHING, 
 
 AND NEARER THAN HANDS AND FEET." 
 
 Roosevelt-Taft Imbroglio 
 
 Suppose the coming election should reproduce the Tilden-Hayes situ- 
 ation, and such a result is certainly not improbable nor impossible. Can 
 any one imagine Mr. Roosevelt saying resignedly, "LET MR. TAFT, OR 
 MR. WILSON HAVE THE PRESIDENCY"? 
 
 Don't take a chance on it for I sincerely fear he would NOT "FOR- 
 BAD TO WADE THROUGH SLAUGHTER TO A THRONE, AND SHUT 
 THE GATES OF MERCY ON MANKIND." 
 
 "A FIELD OF THE DEAD RUSHES RED ON MY SIGHT. 
 
 AND THE CLANS OF CULLODEN ARE SCATTERED IN FLIGHT." 
 
 The Bea^s and the Bull Moose 
 
 WE HAVE SEEN THE BEASTS. We heard the trumpeting of the 
 ROGUE ELEPHANT at Chicago rumbling a steam roller. We saw the 
 TAMMANY TIGER at Baltimore seeking whom he might devour. WE 
 iNTEND TO SLAY THESE BEASTS. But we do not propose to rally 
 under the RED FLAG nor the RF,I) BANDANA B.ANNER OF CAPTAIN 
 liOOSEVELT AND WAGE THIS BATTLE IN SUCH MAD HASTE AND 
 
PTTRIOUS FASHION THAT WE MAY LOSE IT, OR PULL DOWN THE 
 TEMPLE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS AND PERISH IN THE RUINS. 
 
 Let us first corral this BAD Bull Moose according to a plan laid down 
 by ARISTOPHANES of ATHENS for the treatment of POLITICAL DEM- 
 AGOGUES WHEN GREECE WAS IN THE DAYS OF HER GOLDEN 
 GLORY. 
 
 "Close around him, and confound Mm, the confounder of us all; 
 Pelt him, pummel him, and maul him; rummage, ransack, overhaul him; 
 Overbear him and outbawl him; bear him down and bring him under, 
 BELLOWING LIKE A BURST OF THUNDER." 
 
 If the literary sharps who prowl around the libraries and spend all 
 their time writing stuff, AT SO MUCH PER COLUMN, for busy folks to 
 read can find anything more appropriately applicable to the Bull Moose 
 and present day political conditions than the above quotation I would be 
 pleased to see it. I dug it up out of an OLD SCHOOL READER and from 
 the same book I cull this remarkable paragraph: 
 
 "SOON AFTER THE DEATH OF ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, AT THE 
 REQUEST OF THE MOST EMINENT CITIZENS, WHO WERE GLAD 
 TO SEEK REFUGE FROM ANARCHY AND CIVIL WAR IN A MILI- 
 TARY DESPOTISM, TOOK THE GOVERNMENT INTO HIS OWN 
 HANDS, AND WITH THIS EVENT, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 28TH 
 YEAR BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA, THE HISTORY OF THE RO- 
 MAN REPUBLIC ENDS." 
 
 CITIZENS! BRETHREN! COMRADES IN THE GREAT CON- 
 FLICT! THERE IS MUCH WORK TO BE DONE IF HISTORY DOES 
 NOT REPEAT ITSELF WITH ROOSEVELT IN THE ROLE OF OCTA- 
 VIUS. 
 
 The Bull Moose and the Common Herd 
 
 If GEESE is the plural of GOOSE then the followers of the Big Bull 
 deserve to be classified as MEESE. Look at the men of great wealth 
 supporting the Roosevelt movement! I quote their names from Literary 
 Digest of July 6th: Gifford Pinchot, Amos Pinchot, Chas. R. Crane, 
 William Flinn, Geo. W. Perkins, Frank A. Munsey, Daniel Hanna, Senator 
 Bourne, Oscar L. Straus, Alexander H. Revell and Medill McCormick. 
 
 The reputed wealth of any ONE of these men, Geo. W. Perkins for 
 example, STAGGERS THE IMAGINATION of men like me who work 
 year in and year out for a few dollars a day, practice extreme economy, 
 live very plainly, dress poorly, deny ourselves all recreations, amusements 
 and little luxuries that in the estimation of the average person makes 
 life worth living, and yet under existing conditions cannot get enough 
 ahead to ever take a short vacation from the nerve-racking strain. 
 
 I made a slight effort to get SOME IDEA of the AGGREGATE 
 WEALTH of the ELEVEN MEN named above, but found I could neither 
 take the time nor stand the expense necessary to ascertain any reliable 
 information whatever on this subject. Perhaps it is all for the best that 
 I could not obtain this knowledge because the TOTAL FIGURES would 
 no doubt be so APPALLING, the SHOCK might have proved FATAL to 
 me and then the world would have lost this story. 
 
Here in Los Angeles we know the chief backer of the rampage of the 
 MAD Bull Moose RAMPANT is the millionaire owner of the Tribune, and 
 the Express, which papers the Times calls the "Felon's Friend" and fre- 
 quently refers to their editor as E. Toopious Earl, whom they openly and 
 repeatedly charge with having accumulated a part of his vast fortune by 
 withholding rebates properly belonging to fruit shippers. Then Brother 
 Earl comes back at Neighbor Otis, the millionaire owner of the Times, 
 who is President Taft's principal sponsor on this Coast, refers to his great 
 journal as the "Slimes" and calls the editor-in-chief a man with a mercen- 
 ary mind and an atrophied conscience; the concensus of opinion seems 
 to be that both are correct in their estimation of each other. 
 
 Think of the multi-millionaires and plutocrats who are gathering 
 under the Roosevelt "BANNER OF STRANGE DEVICE," spending their 
 money lavishly to arouse the COMMON HERD to hearken to the CALL 
 of this ROGUE Bull Moose, FOLLOW HIM into the primeval political 
 wilderness and be saved from the RULE OF PLUTOCRACY. What a 
 spectacle! They are wolves in sheeps' clothing seeking to use this 
 FRENZIED FANATIC AS A STALKING HORSE with which to capture 
 the POWER of the real progressive spirit now working in the hearts of 
 the people, betray it to the use of their own selfish aims and ambitions 
 and AGAIN SAVE predatory plutocracy from the gathering wrath of the 
 people. A part of our press and people have fallen into the procession 
 behind the BIG BELLOW and have become subservient tools of this 
 NOISY LEADER and the RICH PLOTTERS who are supporting his move- 
 ment. Those who are furnishing the enormous sums to finance Mr. 
 Roosevelt's present campaign are the same kind of fellows that handled 
 him in the panic of 1907, LOCKED UP OUR REAL MONEY and gave us 
 worthless scrip with which to transact our business. If he is not a PARTY 
 to their SCHEMES and cannot SEE them he is lacking in that VIRILE 
 INTELLIGENCE, KEEN INTUITION and QUICK PERCEPTION to read 
 secret motives in the minds of those who surround him that ALL TRULY 
 GREAT MEN have had, and which quality his SUCCESSOR ALSO SO 
 PITIFULLY LACKS. 
 
 MAY ALMIGHTY GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM AND MERCY 
 KEEP US FROM BEING SAVED BY THIS MOVEMENT AS NOW MAN- 
 AGED AND CONTROLLED BY THESE MEN. 
 
 Out of the Jungle 
 
 Let us pick up Mr. Roosevelt when he came out of the jungle the 
 LAST time. I do not venture a guess as to when Teddy Bear came out 
 the FIRST time for there seems to be a great deal of tlie JUNGLE-MAN 
 in him yet. 
 
 Life in the White House having been too tame tor Jiini, as soon as he 
 turned over the affairs of state to his successor he hearkened to the call 
 of the wild, took Kermit witli the kofhik and Ills biggest gun and departed 
 into the wilderness. 
 
 After spending a year slaughtering everything that lived and moved 
 i..nd had its being covered wilii hide, hair or reatluMs, he sliowed up in 
 the land of the Lotus and tlie FIRST I'haroahs. 
 
In Egypt 
 
 Raised a sandstorm along the Nile which came very near developing 
 into a simoon and starting a revolution. Let my favorite poet tell you 
 about his visit to the Sphinx: 
 
 "I know all about the Sphinx; 
 
 I know even what she thinks; 
 
 Staring with her stony eyes . 
 
 Up forever at the skies; 
 
 For last night I dreamed that she 
 
 Told ME all the mystery; 
 
 How for aeons mute she sat. 
 
 SHE WAS JUST CUT OUT FOR THAT." 
 
 And if we again elect Mr. Roosevelt President he will come just as 
 near to solving our perplexing political problems, as those lines of our 
 beloved Hoosier poet come to explaining the riddle of the Sphinx. 
 
 At Rome 
 
 Insulted the College of Cardinals and rebuked the Pope. Gave need- 
 less, unwonted and unwarranted offense to the broad-minded, kindly-man- 
 nered, tender-hearted, gentle-souled, grand old gentleman, who for the 
 time being represents the head of the great Roman Catholic Church, and 
 who sent by Bishop Conaty his felicitations and blessings to all the people 
 of our city whether Catholics, Protestants, Jews or Gentiles. 
 
 At Chri^iana 
 
 Accepted PEACE PRIZE and in reply delivered an address in favor 
 of UNIVERSAL PEACE. Day or two later reviewed German military 
 maneuvers with Kaiser Wilhelm and whooped for WAR. 
 
 And here I digress to say, in Arizona in the Spring of 1911 when 
 cornered by Governor Sloan and others, expressed himself as AGAINST 
 recall of Judges and in California the very next day argued in FAVOR 
 of it. 
 
 At the Hague 
 
 Wanted to rock Wilhelmina's baby but she declined this HIGH 
 HONOR. This gracious woman IS A QUEEN; SHE'S TRYING TO RAISE 
 BABIES; not so many. as Roosevelt advocates perhaps but endeavoring 
 to leave at least ONE REPLICA as a living monument to the memory of 
 herself and consort when they have entered into rest. Prince Henry 
 don't count for much since the LITTLE TYRANT and GREATER PRIN- 
 CESS Juliana Wilhelmina of Orange came. 
 
 "AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD TH EM."— Isaiah XI:6. I 
 prophesy that the BEAUTIFUL KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS 
 is soon to be the SEAT OF A PERFECTED PARLIAMENT OF MAN; 
 the JUDGMENT BAR OF THE HIGH COURT OF NATIONS, whose jur- 
 isdiction will be the WHOLE EARTH and the inhabitants thereof, EVEN 
 UNTO ITS UTTERMOST PARTS. THIS TRIBUNAL endowed with a 
 WORLD POLICE POWER to bring offenders to trial and enforce its de- 
 cisions. This power derived from the ALLIED NATIONS CONTRIBUT- 
 ING QUOTAS ACCORDINGLY AS GOD HAS PROSPERED THEIR PEO- 
 PLE. 
 
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THE STRONG AND THE WEAK SHALL DWELL IN PEACE TO- 
 GETHER, AND THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST SHALL GUIDE THEM. 
 
 AND THAT ALL THIS SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE DAYS OF 
 HOLLAND'S BELOVED QUEEN WILHELMINA AND HER MOST HUM- 
 BLE SERVANT. 
 
 Catching "Die Wacht Am Rhein" Asleep 
 
 "A ROAR LIKE THUNDER STRIKES THE EAR, 
 
 LIKE CLANG OF ARMS OR BREAKERS NEAR; 
 
 ON TO THE RHINE, THE GERMAN RHINE! 
 
 WHO SHIELDS THEE, MY BELOVED RHINE"? 
 The FIRST PERSON in history to subject Kaiser Wilhelm to great 
 discomfiture, keep him standing at ATTENTION and SWEATING in a 
 heavy uniform for nearly one hour, because the GREATER Emperor was 
 late in keeping his appointment. 
 
 Almost MOVED THE WORLD to laughter by lecturing before Kaiser 
 Wilhelm and the eminent professors of the University of Berlin, Germa- 
 ny's great seat of learning, on the "WORLD MOVEMENT." Reviewed 
 everything in the history of the human race from the GENESIS OF 
 ADAM to the REVELATIONS OF ROOSEVELT; drew the deduction that 
 the only way civilized nations had ever progressed in the past was by 
 military prowess and superior strength of arms over heathen hordes; 
 left the INFERENCE CLEAR AND PLAIN that the only way civilization 
 could hope to go forward in the future would be by ROOSEVELT AND 
 WAR. 
 
 If I can ever get enough ahead to enable me to take a vacation and 
 spend some time in one of Brother Carnegie's libraries I firmly intend 
 to undertake to answer this GREAT LECTURE of the GREATEST MAN. 
 My views are diametrically opposed to, and my conclusions the antithesis 
 of his. I shall endeavor to prove that the only way the great SO-CALLED 
 CIVILIZED Nations of the Earth can expect to move onward and upward 
 is, not by carrying a chip on their shoulders and a WAR CLUB, THE BIG 
 STICK, in their hands, prepared to swat their neighbors over the head 
 at the DROP OF A HAT IN THE RING; but by holding out in the LEFT 
 HAND THE OLIVE BRANCH OF UNIVERSAL PEACE, while extending 
 the RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP UNTO ALL NATIONS. PEOPLE, 
 KINDRED AND TONGUES, AND CARRYING THE SWORD OF BUNKER 
 HILL IN ITS SHEATH. 
 
 At Napoleon's Tomb 
 
 Condescended to meditate a few seconds by the mortal dust of the 
 most tremendous personality that had ever lived till Roosevelt came. 
 Did he dwell on the return from Elba, or did he see Moscow in flames, 
 endless plains of vast white snows, under which TWO HUNDRED THOU- 
 SAND VETFR.\NS OF THE OLD GUARD. THE FLOWER OF FRANCE, 
 WERE ASLEEP FOREVER? Did he contemplate this OTHER Emperor 
 in the height of his career writing the CONCORDAT, or consider him in 
 the gloom of defeat, ASICING ASYLUM OF HIS BITTEREST ENEMIES? 
 Did he study his reflections at St. Helena? Did ho recall the night in 
 May, 1821, when a terrific storm sweeping the South Atlantic shook that 
 
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lonely island to its very center, and while Nature's Artillery was booming 
 and crashing against its rocky sides the "MAN OF MARENGO PASSED 
 THE WALLS OP HIS PRISON." 
 
 AS HE LIVED, SO HE DIED. "HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAP- 
 TIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY: HE THAT KILLETH WITH 
 THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD. HERE IS THE 
 PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS."— Rev. XIILIO. 
 
 The world's GREATEST SOLDIER, who loved to hear the PUNY 
 POPPING of the musketry of men, PASSED OUT AMID THE FLASH, 
 ROLL AND THUNDER OF THE GUNS OF GOD. 
 
 "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; 
 
 He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; 
 
 He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; 
 
 HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 
 
 In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, 
 
 With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; 
 
 As He died to make men holy, let us LIVE to make men free, 
 
 WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON." 
 
 May the Spirit of Julia Ward Howe forgive me for changing ONE 
 IMPORTANT WORD of the GREATEST BATTLE HYMN IN THE 
 WORLD? I do it believing that if this noble soul was with us again she 
 would answer the call of the Twentieth Century and write us a GREATER 
 PEACE HYMN, THAT WOULD RING ROUND THE GLOBE ON GOLD- 
 EN BELLS, PEALING FORTH GLORIOUS CHIMES, HARMONIZING 
 WITH THE ANGELS' ANTHEM THAT WOKE THE SHEPHERDS ON 
 JUDEA'S HILLS NINETEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 
 
 "FEAR NOT: FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF 
 GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR UNTO YOU 
 IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOUR, WHICH IS 
 CHRIST THE LORD. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON 
 EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN."— Luke 11:10.11.14. 
 
 In England 
 
 Buried King Edward; instructed King George how to hold the REINS 
 in the beginning of his REIGN; criticized Parliament and pointed out 
 THEIR MISTAKES IN EGYPT. 
 
 Let Uncle Walt Mason, the warbler of the Sunflower State, tell you 
 about Edward's funeral. I can't make out if he COUNTED THEODORE 
 THE FIRST as one of the nine- POTENTATES, but I think he at least 
 had him in mind; note FOURTH line. 
 
 "Nine monarchs followed in the gloom 
 
 When Edward journeyed to the tomb; 
 
 Nine monarchs walked, as in a dream — 
 
 ENOUGH TO MAKE A BASEBALL TEAM— 
 
 And cast upon King Edward's bier 
 
 The futile tribute of a tear. 
 
 Nine monarchs, in their brave array. 
 
 Are bending over Edward's clay. 
 
 And does the silent Sovereign care, 
 
 Or does he know that they are there? 
 
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And can the tears of monarchs nine 
 
 Make those dim eyes of Edward's shine? 
 
 And if they give their nine commands. 
 
 Can they bring life to those cold hands? 
 
 Can all their ARMIES AND THEIR SHIPS 
 
 Bring laughter to those dead white lips? 
 
 Can their nine crowns and scepters nine 
 
 Bring to the dead the life divine? 
 
 NINE PAUPERS AT A PAUPER'S GRAVE, 
 
 WHO CLAW THEIR RAGS AND WEEP AND RAVE, 
 
 CAN DO AS MUCH TO HELP THE DEAD 
 
 AS THOSE NINE KINGS AT EDWARD'S BED." 
 IF ROOSEVELT COULD NOT RAISE EDWARD, OUR BROTHER. THEN 
 THE FATE OF THIS GREAT PACIFICATOR MUST REST WITH THE 
 LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS. 
 
 Homeward Bound 
 
 And when there were no more WORLDS TO CONQUER he came 
 home; turned down Peace for War; took the part of a ward heeler in a 
 state political fight and GOT LICKED; then his guiding star of destiny 
 CEASED TO SHINE BRIGHTLY IN THE EAST, GREW DIMMER, BE- 
 GAN TO FADE AND WANE, SINK AND SET IN THE WEST. 
 
 In May, 1910, we saw TWO COMETS; Halley's approaching the Earth 
 and UNCLE SAM'S COMET blazing his way through the Capitols of 
 Europe and heading for America; BOTH FIERY BODIES THREATEN- 
 ING THE WORLD WITH A GREAT CONFLAGRATION. I distinctly 
 remember the night we were due to pass through the TAIL of Halley's. 
 Some scientists had advanced the theory and opinion that the gases would 
 be fatal to human life. I retired with serene confidence and arose in 
 good health; SUN SHINING; BIRDS SINGING; ROLLING RIGHT 
 ALONG ON TIME. 
 
 Morning paper printed funny cartoon showing ASTRONOMERS AND 
 WISE MEN wearing fools' caps and looking everywhere for that TAIL. 
 Some of the DEEPEST THINKERS propounded the very learned solution 
 that it WAVED TO ONE SIDE. 
 
 Unscientific but devout people think Deity had something to do with 
 passing His comet by our globe with entire safety to the children of His 
 creation. ALL SUCH FOLKS NOW LOOK TO THE SAME MYSTERI- 
 OUS POWER WHICH SAVED US THEN TO BRUSH THE HEAD OF 
 COMET ROOSEVELT TO ONE SIDE AND SAVE US AGAIN. 
 
 Deifying Roosevelt 
 
 We are prone to be a MONEY MAD, SPEED CRAZY. PLEASURE 
 FRENZIED, HERO WORSHIPING NATION. And we have grown dan- 
 gerously careless in choosing our heroes. We have been praying to 
 Roosevelt to save us from our iniquities and forgetting God. and now the 
 day of RECKONING and CHASTENING for both the IDOL and his WOR- 
 SHIPERS is at hand. 
 
 These people have taken for their slogan the Eighth Commandment, 
 "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." They seem (o have forgotten the other 
 
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NINE, MOST ESPECIALLY THE 1st AND 2nd, and at the very start to 
 be the biggest political violators of their OWN MOTTO in our history. 
 If I can understand anything about politics it seems to me the Republican 
 organization in our lovely California, where the sun shines clear; flowers 
 oloom bright; birds sing sweetly day and NIGHT; fruit ripens the whole 
 j-ear round and the FATHER ALMIGHTY SEEMS ALWAYS SO NEAR, 
 inorally belongs to Big Bill Taft and his stand pat bunch; but the MEESE 
 SPECIES under the local leadership of Too Much Johnson propose to 
 TAKE this well-oiled machinery away from the Fat Boy; not STEAL it 
 of course but just TAKE it like snatching candy from a baby. Then in 
 some States where they are strong enough they will play the same slick 
 trick on our Democratic brethren and in yet other States they will TAKP 
 anything they can get in any way they can get their hands on it. 
 
 I'm just waiting to see what Jehovah will do to such creatures who 
 take His commandments in VAIN, appropriate them to their OWN USES 
 and at the same time VIOLATE them with IMPUNITY. I beg to call the 
 attention to these misguided beings, to the TENTH Commandment: 
 "THOU SHALT NOT COVET ANYTHING THAT IS THY NEIGHBOR'S." 
 
 The Hundred Days 
 
 Napoleon escaped from Elba March 20th, 1815; met the Iron Duke al 
 Waterloo June 22nd and ABDICATED his ABDICATION: ACTUAL TIME 
 NINETY-FOUR DAYS. 
 
 On Sunday, August 4th, Colonel Roosevelt left his keepers and spon- 
 sors in New York to OUT-LOOK for themselves and started for HIS LAST 
 CONVENTION at Chicago; received there by his worshipers singing; 
 "WE WILL FOLLOW WHEREVER HE LEADS." Just as the OLD 
 GUARD of the MAN OF DESTINY" greeted the return of the LITTLE 
 CORPORAL and followed him to CRUSHING AND EVERLASTING DE- 
 FEAT. 
 
 Practically complete returns will be in when the cold gray dawn 
 breaks over Oyster Bay November 6th; TIME EXACTLY NINETY^-FOUR 
 DAYS and the result in each case will be precisely the same. NEVER 
 AGAIN the return from Elba but ALWAYS the retreat from Moscow. 
 THE RED BANDANA FURLED AND FROZEN. SAGAMORE HILL an- 
 other ST. HELENA; a distrusted, discredited, DEE-serted and lonely man 
 gazing out over the ocean and saying with Napoleon; "THE MORE I 
 STUDY THE WORLD, THE MORE AM I CONVINCED OF THE INABIL- 
 ITY OF BRUTE FORCE TO CREATE ANYTHING DURABLE." 
 
 The people will RECALL the RECALL of HIS JUDICIAL DECISION 
 not to try for a THIRD TERM. I firmly believe this, predicating my the- 
 orem on the hypothesis that ROOSEVELT like NAPOLEON tried to 
 CHEAT HIS OWN CONSCIENCE when he changed his attitude, and that 
 Is something no man can successfully do WHEN THE FATE OF A NA- 
 TION HANGS IN THE BALANCE. 
 
 Trying to Save Roosevelt 
 
 Brother Roosevelt; THREE TIMES I have tried to save you from 
 your fate but you seem to be beyond my reach and now you must try tr 
 save yourself. 
 
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In the Spring of 1910 when you were returning from abroad, I under- 
 stood Mr. Carnegie and others HAD, or WOULD approach you with a 
 proposition to head a commission to sound other Nations on Arbitration, 
 Reduction of Armaments and Peace; endeavoring to work out a plan to 
 stop spending all our money for Battleships and Blood, an^ try to save 
 some for Butter and Bread. 
 
 I FELT that you were going to make a MISTAKE in New York and 
 I wanted to send you a wireless when you were on the ocean but Rev. 
 Chas. E. Beals, Field Secretary of American Peace Society, 30 North La 
 Salle St., Chicago, restrained me in a brotherly sort of way; he said I 
 was in an overw^rought condition of nerves and that you got so much mail 
 and so many telegrams you would not likely even read my message much 
 less give it any attention. I wanted you to keep out of mob politics and 
 join us in Peace work. It seemed to me that a PSYCHOLOGICAL PERI- 
 OD OF TIME VITAL to this Nation and the whole World was passing us 
 UNHEEDED. In a strange vision I saw a High Court of Nations estab- 
 lished; a Parliament of Man perfected; and the Hand of Destiny with the 
 Finger of Fate pointed straight at you as the Man of the Hour. 
 
 I was not the only WISE MAN in the Union. Dr. E. Stanton Hodgin, 
 Pastor of the Unitarian Church here in Los Angeles must have had about 
 the same vision for one year later he preached a sermon on this theme 
 and used practically some of the SAME PHRASES I HAD WRITTEN; 
 he said you deserved much credit for many things you had done but that 
 you failed to answer the call of humanity in the psychological hour and 
 made your life a monumental failure. 
 
 LISTEN! Dr. Hodgin further said the great work you could and 
 should have led will be accomplished anyway but it will be delayed. 
 
 LOOK! I saw our ten million dollar battleships which war lords and 
 military experts like you say must go to the scrap heap CHANGED into 
 RELIEF and RESCUE ships; floating hospitals; a new race of men trod 
 their decks; spiritual beings; NOT HUMAN SWINE; noble captains 
 created in the image of the Great Captain; cruising the seas; flying the 
 Flag of the Red Cross; carrying the wireless attuned to catch the call 
 of humanity from a Galveston tidal wave; a San Francisco earthquake; 
 another in Italy. FULL SPEED AHEAD UNDER FORCED DRAFT; 
 BAND PLAYING "RESCUE THE PERISHING, CARE FOR THE DYING. 
 JESUS IS MERCIFUL, JESUS WILL SAVE." TITANIC SINKING! GO- 
 ING DOWN BY THE HEAD WITH HER BAND PLAYING "NEARER, 
 MY GOD! TO THEE." 
 
 STOP! MINE EYES HAVE SEEN STILL GRANDER VISIONS BUT 
 THE WORLD IS NOT YET PREPARED TO RECEIVE THEM. 
 
 Again, when my morning paper indicated that you would throw your 
 hat into the ring within the next few days, I banged my fist on the break- 
 fast table in regular Roosevelt style, nearly upset my coffee and scared 
 my wife by saying; "Alice I'm going to send Roosevelt a message; La 
 Follette is the logical leader of the progressive wing and Taft of the stand 
 pat bunch; it's up to Roosevelt to keep out of this light; stay at Oyster 
 Bay and keep still." 
 
 I FELT just what would happen to you. I saw a No. 11 foot standing 
 firmly on that hat and a fat man knocking you over the ropes with the 
 same steam roller wallop you taught him how to land and not according 
 
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to Marquis of Queensbury rules. My wife looked at me in a frightened 
 sort of way and I cooled down and RESTRAINED MYSELF, and said. 
 "It's no use Alice, I am one of the least known of our hundred million 
 citizens and I cannot hope to influence Mr. Roosevelt." 
 
 I was at Minneapolis in '92 and saw the Plumed Knight go down to 
 defeat before the legion of federal office holders and hand picked delegates 
 there in the interest of the man who inherited Grandfather's Hat, and I 
 thought we were due to see the same thing at Chicago. I told everybody 
 I heard talking politics that Taft's team would oil up the steam roller you 
 built and operated in '08 and run it over you. Political wise-acres said 
 They COULDN'T DO IT. I stuck to my text and said they WILL DO IT. 
 THEY DID. And don't you remember the Cleveland snowstorm in No- 
 vember, '92? YOU'LL SEE ONE LIKE UNTO IT NEXT NOVEMBER. 
 ONLY HEAVIER AND DEEPER. 
 
 And yet again LASTLY; when your misguided friend, Mr. Earl of the 
 Los Angeles Tribune, and Express began taking straw votes for you, 
 holding you up as a martyr crucified in Chicago, and printing cartoons 
 and comments that looked to me more like TREASON than POLITICS, 
 I got deeply interested in YOUR FATE ONCE MORE. I heard ninety-nine 
 out of every hundred saying you got JUST WHAT WAS COMING TO 
 YOU, so I wrote up a fervent appeal to Mr. Earl and the Press and People 
 of the Nation to drop the NEW PARTY MOVEMENT AT THIS TIME. 
 Never had written anything for the Press in my life but I rushed around 
 and offered my article to the Examiner on the evening of July 3rd. Man- 
 aging Editor Eldridge said: "Tei'se and well written but unavailable." 
 Tendered to Herald morning of July 4th; Managing Editor Campbell said; 
 "Good political article but we are keeping out of politics." For political 
 reasons it could only be submitted to one other paper here, the littLe 
 Record down on WALL St., OUR Wall St., not being like YOURS. It was 
 written in spread-eagle style to fit 4th of July ONLY and it was then too 
 late for that issue of Record and too long for their limited space. Man- 
 aging Editor Murdock encouraged me to rewrite it, cut it down and bring 
 it in. Told him I would endeavor to do so on my return; went out on 
 regular run but before I got back you had issued call for your convention 
 and no HELP ON EARTH could save you from your inevitable fate. It 
 will take an experience and a vision like that of Saul on the Damascus 
 road to ever convince you of the error of your ways. The ape and tiger 
 must be crushed out of you by the application of a spiritual Big Stick in 
 the hands of Jehovah before you will ever again be of any REAL SER- 
 VICE to mankind. I am now trying to use every honorable means I pos- 
 sess and all power I may receive to SAVE THE PEOPLE and you must 
 now try to SAVE YOURSELF from their JUDGMENT. 
 
 I predict EDITOR EARL will be the DR. BURCHARD of your cam- 
 paign. If I can feel the throb of the public pulse I prognosticate some of 
 the counts and comments against you about as follows: Standard Oil 
 case — NOT PROVEN; La Follette— double crossed; President Taft— 
 politically assassinated; G. O. P.— morally murdered; TRUE PROGRESS- 
 IVEISM— BADLY BETRAYED; verdict, RETIREMENT FROM ALL PUB- 
 LIC SERVICE FOR REMAINDER OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE AND ELI- 
 GIBLE TO FULL MEMBERSHIP IN THE INFAMOUS ANANIAS CLUB 
 WHICH YOU YOURSELF FOUNDED. 
 
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YOU STAND ON THE REAR OF A LUXURIOUS SPECIAL TRAIN- 
 PAID FOR BY MULTI-MILLIONAIRES, BATTLING FOR ROOSEVELT. 
 WE STAND ON THE HEIGHT OF MEGIDDO, AND WE BATTLE FOR 
 THE LORD. 
 
 Armageddom 
 
 I have long felt that the Armageddon of the Apocalypse is NEAR AT 
 HAND. I never did believe that St. John intended to convey to our 
 minds the impression that this would be a PHYSICAL AND MATERIAL 
 conflict in which the Nations would destroy each other on the battlefield; 
 but that it would be a MORAL AND SPIRITUAL struggle in which right- 
 eousness WILL TRIUMPH, and the reign of evil and worldly things 
 WILL PASS FOREVER FROM THE EARTH. 
 
 However, if the World develops a few more Roosevelts it may yet be 
 necessary to translate this part of Revelations LITERALLY instead of 
 ALLEGORICALLY. 
 
 "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS, WORKING MIRA- 
 CLES, WHICH GO FORTH UNTO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND 
 OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF 
 THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALM IGHTV."— Rev. XVI:14. 
 
 It seems to me Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Beveridge and others I could name 
 were not overcome with political morality and civic virtue until they lost 
 their jobs. I cling to the "faith of the fathers" and trust in the God of 
 Nations; I cannot believe He will permit Mr. Roosevelt and his followers 
 to grab His banner from the clean hands of the lion-hearted men who 
 have borne it aloft, been fighting on His side for civil righteousness in 
 both old parties when it was not so popular, NO VICTORY IN SIGHT, and 
 to now assume leadership of His victorious army and CLAIM ALL THE 
 CREDIT. 
 
 Now, Colonel Roosevelt, I propose to carry my contest against you, 
 not to the committee on credentials, nor to the floor of the convention, 
 but to the Supreme Court of last resort. In the abdication edict of the 
 Dowager Empress of China I find these wonderful words: "THE WHOLE 
 EMPIRE IS SEETHING LIKE A BOILING CAULDRON AND OUR SUB- 
 JECTS ARE PLUNGED IN MISERY; FROM THE HEARTS OF THE 
 PEOPLE THE WILL OF HEAVEN IS DISCERN ABLE." And yet I meet 
 folks every day who think that yellow, brown, black or red people don't 
 know anything and have no souls or spirits; MY DEDUCTION IS THAT 
 RELATIONSHIP TO DIVINITY DOES NOT DEPEND UPON THE 
 COLOR OF OUR SKINS. 
 
 I will agree in advance to accept the verdict of November 5th, for or 
 against you, as the Will of Our Father which art in heaven reflected from 
 the hearts of the children of His creation. Will you do the same? The 
 result may be instructive and beneficial to us both; and I hope accc^ptable 
 to Him who taught us to say: "THY KINGDOM COME; THY WILL BE 
 DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN." "WE STAND AT ARMAGED- 
 DON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD." 
 
 My "Confession of Faith" 
 
 1 speak with authority from experience; long ago I worshiped an idol 
 made of clay; she was taken from me. Defeated in all worldly ambitions, 
 
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home destroyed, health gone, spirit crushed, nerves shattered, financially 
 ruined, with a broken and contrite heart I began earnestly seeking atfer 
 God and mayhap I have found Him. Health has returned, hope revived 
 and in a small way prospects are bright; appears as though I would be 
 permitted to enjoy a little home in lovely Los Angeles, and look forward 
 with confidence to a peaceful, contented, comfortable and USEFUL old 
 age in which I SHALL NOT WANT FOR THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. 
 And now I try to keep my will submissive to the Divine will and listen 
 closely to THAT STILL SMALL VOICE which is always saying: "BE 
 CAREFUL HOW YOU WORSHIP HUMANS AND THEIR INSTITU- 
 TIONS OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THERE IS ONE GREATER THAN 
 ALL THESE. REMEMBER THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY 
 YOUTH AND HE WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE IN THINE AGE." 
 
 I once heard Gypsy Smith sing: "WHERE HE LEADS ME I WILL 
 FOLLOW, FOLLOW ALL THE WAY"; and I said in my heart, Gypsy 
 has found Him. 
 
 And I try to bear ever in mind some thought like this: 
 
 "I'LL GO WHERE YOU WANT ME TO GO DEAR LORD 
 
 OVER MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN OR SEA; 
 I'LL DO WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO DEAR GOD 
 
 AND I'LL BE WHAT YOU WANT ME TO BE." 
 
 Sacrilege and Blasphemy 
 
 1 have heard a few religious people complain of President Taft's com- 
 paring our system of government to heaven under a just God; he being 
 the head of the Nation his crude figure of speech makes him the imper- 
 sonator of a just God in all our temporal affairs. 
 
 In '96 when Mr. Bryan with far better taste, and more appropriate 
 applications drew some figures of speech from the Scriptures, they car- 
 tooned him as the Wild Man of Borneo standing on a Bible, Cross in one 
 pocket. Crown of Thorns in the other, and labeled him the Sacrilegious 
 and Blasphemous Candidate, hoping to prejudice church people against 
 him. 
 
 Under Mark Hanna's management the same get rich quick aristocracy 
 and predatory plutocracy now massed solidly behind Big Bill and the Bull 
 Moose, spent NINE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to defeat Mr. Bryan. Does 
 any sane man think that these people spent their gold for the love of 
 humanity and to keep laboring folks from injuring themselves by voting 
 for the Boy Orator, and finding their dinner pails empty? Don't every 
 thinking person believe they charged us TEN for ONE for this service, 
 and collected back from the workers NINETY MILLIONS WITH SHY- 
 LOCK'S INTEREST ADDED? 
 
 They hired Robert G. IngersoU to make six speeches in Illinois to 
 help put that State in Brother McKinley's column; they must have paid 
 him more than THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER for Mr. IngersoU was not 
 a cheap lecturer. He delivered a grand political oration; flowery rhetoric 
 and empty euphony. We were reading it on the train and when we came 
 to where he paid Abraham Lincoln a GLOWING TRIBUTE, a dear old 
 grandmother who was traveling SECOND CLASS looked over her specta- 
 cles, and said in a high-keyed cracked voice, "IN 1860 INGERSOLL 
 SPOKE FOR DOUGLAS." 
 
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This may have been the same old lady who once got into a personal 
 argument with Colonel Ingersoll about religion, and when he challenged 
 her to tell him just ONE THING that religion had done for the people, 
 she matched her ready repartee against his sharp satire and won, when 
 she replied: "IT KEPT ROBERT G. INGERSOLL FROM BEING GOV- 
 ERNOR OF ILLINOIS." 
 
 When this great agnostic changed his politics, took figures of speech 
 from the BOOK OF BOOKS, which according to his views contains the 
 "MISTAKES OF MOSES," and almost got religious, and nearly made a 
 "CONFESSION OF FAITH" in order to help defeat Mr. Bryan, the car- 
 toonists failed to see these fine opportunities; SEEMS TO MAKE A 
 GREAT DIFFERENCE WHOSE OX IS GORED. 
 
 If Bob Ingersoll is taking any interest in the present campaign, I be- 
 lieve he is on the side with Douglas again, and for Bryan's party THIS 
 TIME, because he NOW KNOWS, that while in the flesh he made VAST- 
 LY GREATER MISTAKES THAN MOSES EVER DID. In memoriam of 
 Brother Ingersoll I quote from his oration over his brother's grave: 
 
 "LIFE IS A NARROW^ VALE BETWEEN THE COLD AND BARREN 
 PEAKS OF TWO ETERNITIES. WE STRIVE IN VAIN TO LOOK BE- 
 YOND THE HEIGHTS. WE CRY ALOUD, AND THE ONLY ANSWER 
 IS THE ECHO OF OUR WAILING CRY. FROM THE VOICELESS LIPS 
 OF THE UNREPLYING DEAD THERE COMES NO WORD: BUT IN 
 THE NIGHT OF DEATH HOPE SEES A STAR AND LISTENING LOVE 
 
 CAN HEAR THE RUSTLE OF A WING." 
 
 No Cross — No Crown 
 
 Ever since '96 I have believed William Jennings Bryan to be one of 
 the very first of our prominent men to clearly see the true connection 
 between sincere Christianity and honest politics. For just SIXTEEN 
 YEARS I have held to that ONE OPINION; THAT'S MY SIXTEEN TO 
 ONE DOCTRINE; I note that since the Baltimore convention numbers 
 of people have accepted it in good faith. Some of our standard publica- 
 tions are now saying: "WE LIKED THE BOY ORATOR OF '96 BUT 
 WE ADMIRE THE FIGHTING STATESMAN OP 1912." 
 
 He has made many mistakes and suffered for them just like the rest 
 of us are paying for our blunders, but I always thought he had a warm 
 heart in the right place. He tried to arouse us but he was one cycle 
 ahead of time, and we were joined to our idols and refused to forsake 
 them. We seem to have WRITTEN IT ON THE WALL Street of our 
 Nation that he shall never be President, but he is becoming reconciled 
 to his fate. He says: "They used to call me the Boy Orator of the Platte, 
 but now my grandchildren are growing up around me and I have outlived 
 that title, AND THERE ARE GREATER THINGS THAN BEING PRESI- 
 DENT." 
 
 Yes Brother Bryan there ARE BETTER THINGS; spiritual affairs 
 always have been and ever will be more important and vastly greater 
 than temporal matters. Cling to the "Prince of Peace"; stand up for the 
 Cross of Calvary and its real meaning to humanity; stick to your figure 
 of speech of '96; this Nation IS worshiping a CROSS OF GOLD, and a 
 part of the people are seeking to CRUCIFY THE MAJORITY OF MAN- 
 
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KIND THEREON, while they roll by in their 1912 model modern Jugger- 
 nauts, and laugh and jeer at the multitude scampering to get out of the 
 way of these DEATH DEALING DEMONS. 
 
 EVERY DAY these monster engines of destruction driven at reckless 
 and unlawful speed by profligate young millionaires are maiming and 
 killing DOZENS of the poor and oppressed, while at the SAME TIME 
 crushing all moral and spiritual life out of HUNDREDS of the rich and 
 idle. 
 
 FIGHT ON BROTHER BRYAN! You may never be President but 
 your name will shine brightly on the pages of our history with those of 
 Patrick Henry, Wendell Phillips, Henry Clay and many others who were 
 never Presidents, when they who have maligned you, cartooned, lam- 
 pooned and harpooned you are gone and forgotten, and all record of them 
 sunken into the black morass of utter oblivion. 
 FIGHT ON! 
 
 "FOR THE RIGHT THAT WANTS ASSISTANCE; 
 
 'GAINST THE WRONG THAT NEEDS RESISTANCE; 
 
 FOR THE FUTURE IN THE DISTANCE, 
 
 AND THE GOOD THAT YOU CAN DO." 
 
 Comments Abroad and at Home 
 
 Consider the unfavorable cartoons and comments of the foreign press ; 
 pointing out to what a low level politics in America has fallen and draw- 
 ing the conclusion that our Republic is a failure. Can we find fault with 
 our alien critics when they see a President and an ex-President who were 
 ONCE BOSOM FRIENDS now chasing each other from stump to stump 
 and shouting, "Liar!" "You're another!" "You're a bigger one!" "Stop 
 thief!" "Surrender your loot!" "Oh! thou Lorimer!" muck-raking, slinging 
 mud and hurling billingsgate; appealing to the passions and prejudices 
 of the mob? This Jeffries-Johnson Presidential political exhibition that 
 has disgraced us before the Nations of the Earth should ALONE be suffi- 
 cient reason why Big Bill Taft and Bull Moose Ted deserve to be forever 
 retired to private life. Occasionally a friend of Mr. Roosevelt's says to 
 me, don't the primaries prove that the PEOPLE want Roosevelt in their 
 White House again and I say they do NOT; from 'my viewpoint and analy- 
 sis they ONLY PROVE THAT MORE PEOPLE would prefer to have Mr. 
 Roosevelt there the THIRD TIME than Mr. Taft the SECOND TIME and 
 in my judgment that is a SEVERE CONDEMNATION OF BOTH. 
 
 I think our Senator tersely expressed prevailing opinion in his tele- 
 gram answering the "FORTY IMMATERIALS" who called on him to re- 
 sign when he replied: "WILL NOT VOTE FOR TAFT; WOULD HAVE 
 VOTED FOR ROOSEVELT HAD HE BEEN REGULAR NOMINEE OF 
 PARTY; WILL NOT FOLLOW HIM INTO NEW PARTY." We certainly 
 got a prize when we drew John D. Works of Los Angeles instead of Mr. 
 Spaulding of San Diego. 
 
 A noted educator and lecturer recently traveled with me; while dis- 
 cussing Universal Peace with him I noticed in his hand a copy of Har- 
 per's showing "Mt. Roosevelt" in eruption; glancing at the cartoon I said, 
 "Doctor, what SHALL we do with Teddy and Taft?" He answered calmly 
 and deliberately without any show of personal feeling or partisan bias, 
 
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"I GUESS WE HAD BETTER DROP THEM BOTH." It does appear to 
 me that his answer clearly and concisely expresses the sober discern- 
 ment of the thinkers of the nation. 
 
 Some scholars have called our attention to the prophecy of English 
 writers of the middle of the nineteenth century who predicted that we 
 were in danger from our great prosperity, which signified easily gotten 
 riches, and that meant a class of ignorant men would come forward with 
 pockets full of money and no ideals in their hearts and this cheap and 
 easy aristocracy would be the undoing of the United States. This illiter- 
 ate wealthy "J. Rufus Wallingford" class HAVE COME FORWARD. To- 
 day they dominate church, state and business; few ministers are preach- 
 ing what they THINK and wha-t they FEEL; most are discoursing what 
 their congregations like to hear and are very careful not to offend those 
 who endow the great temples and pay their big salaries. If you wish 
 to see a true picture of the evil effect of the power of money in our 
 churches and its baneful influence over sincere and conscientious strug- 
 gling clergymen read, "The Calling of Dan Matthew's," by Harold Bell 
 Wright. 
 
 If the prophecy of these English students is not to be fulfilled in its 
 entirety we must take the control of our Spiritual and Temporal, political 
 and commercial affairs out of the hands of this GET RICH QUICK 
 PLUTOCRACY, and give them into the keeping of men of little means 
 and small property who have HIGH IDEALS and GRAND VISIONS, and 
 who are yet ballasted and ballanced with a tremendous weight of com- 
 mon sense to make them safe for a stormy voyage, because the waves 
 of our political sea are going to run rough and high for the next few 
 years. 
 
 Scripture was never quoted with more powerful effect than in Lin- 
 coln's "HOUSE DIVIDED" speech. Applying his thought to present day 
 conditions I say this Nation is again HALF SLAVE and HALF FREE and 
 it cannot continue to exist in that manner. One half are overworked and 
 hungry producers and the other half idle and overfed consumers. One 
 half slaves to unremitting and poorly paid toil, bound hand and foot in 
 our industrial bondage; the other half indolent and free from service 
 of any kind, living at ease and in luxury. "THEY TOIL NOT NEITHER 
 DO THEY SPIN, YET SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT AR- 
 RAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE." Their 1912 model automobiles would 
 make Pharaoh's chariots look like rubbish wagons by comparison, and 
 their private palatial yachts fitted up with sensuous luxuries would put 
 Cleopatra's barge in the fishing smack class; and too many of these pleas- 
 ure vessels and devil juggernauts are owned with the same idea Egypt's 
 voluptious queen had in mind when she sailed to meet Antony. 
 
 I beg to call the attention of these idle and profligate prodigals to 
 Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin's book on "The Passing of the Idle Rich"; 
 read and reflect; take due and timely notice and govern yourselves ac- 
 cordingly. That a man of great wealth who has spent his life among 
 these very people would write and publish such a book gives me courage 
 to believe this Republic will weather the coming cyclone without a revo- 
 lution. 
 
 Mr. Martin has surveyed the SCUM of society from the TOP while 
 I have studied its DREGS at the BOTTOM ; WE HAVE EACH SEEN A 
 
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VISION, WE ARE NOT DISOBEDIENT UNTO IT, AND WE POSSESS 
 THE COURAGE TO PREACH OUR CONVICTIONS. 
 
 Appeal to Chri^endom 
 
 I believe in a Militant Christianity; I'm weary of watching our patient, 
 pious, professed believers in God and His Christ flocking to Church twice 
 every Sabbath and prayer-meeting once a week and strolling home again 
 with UNSEEING eyes; listening to long winded sermons and singing: 
 
 "MUST WE BE CARRIED TO THE SKIES 
 
 ON FLOWERY BEDS OF EASE? 
 
 WHILE OTHERS FOUGHT TO WIN THE PRIZE 
 
 AND SAILED THROUGH BLOODY SEAS." 
 
 And content to JUST PRAY, "THY WILL BE DONE," while the 
 DEVIL and his OWN are running our business, municipal, state and na- 
 tional affairs. Don't your scriptures tell you to WORK and WATCH as 
 well as PREACH and PRAY? Read" Matthew XXVI: 40 "And he cometh 
 unto the disciples, AND FINDETH THEM ASLEEP, and saith unto Peter 
 WHAT, COULD YE NOT WATCH WITH ME ONE HOUR?" 
 
 Study the developments in the murder case of gambler Rosenthal in 
 New York City; the election of Lorimer in Illinois; the Leo O'Neil Brown 
 trial; the conspiring against Clarence S. Funk in Chicago; the McNamara 
 dynamiting cases and the Darrow bribery trial here at home: Then ask 
 yourselves if there isn't MUCH WORK TO BE DONE SOON, IF THIS 
 GOVERNMENT IS TO ENDURE, AND "NOT PERISH FROM THE 
 EARTH." 
 
 AROUSE YE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS; GIRD ON YOUR ARMOR 
 AND GET BUSY; AFFILIATE AND START SOMETHING; TURN TO 
 THAT OTHER OLD FASHIONED HYMN AND SING: 
 
 "SURE WE MUST FIGHT IF WE WOULD WIN, 
 INCREASE OUR COURAGE LORD." 
 For twenty years I have emphatically and persistently declared, I 
 believed I would be permitted to live to see sincere, earnest, honest, con- 
 scientious people control and govern everything in this Nation and evil 
 minded, wicked, corrupt agents of Satan who cumber the earth will be 
 compelled to change their ways and cease to pollute God's footstool. THAT 
 DREAM GROWS BRIGHTER EVERY DAY: 
 
 "MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE, 
 
 THOU LAMB OF CALVARY." 
 "TRUTH FOREVER ON THE SCAFFOLD; 
 
 WRONG FOREVER ON THE THRONE; 
 BUT THAT SCAFFOLD SWAYS THE FUTURE, 
 
 AND BEHIND THE DIM UNKNOWN 
 STANDETH GOD WITHIN THE SHADOW, 
 
 KEEPING WATCH ABOVE HIS OWN." 
 "WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE 
 LORD" 
 
 The Hope of Cardinal Gibbons 
 
 This great churchman is reported as saying: "I hope the Lord will 
 SEND us a president after His own heart." 
 
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My dear Cardinal did you never hear of the old colored brother who 
 prayed long and earnestly for the Lord to SEND him a turkey, and no 
 turkey came. They he prayed for the Lord to SEND HIM FOR a turkey 
 and lo, one appeared unto him. 
 
 Will your gracious Eminence please change the form of your prayer 
 and ask the Lord to GUIDE and DIRECT us and SEND US OUT TO 
 SEEK AND FIND A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART WORTHY TO BE 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 The Jane Addams Chorus 
 
 "THE BEAUTY OF ISRAEL IS SLAIN UPON THY HIGH PLACES: 
 MOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!" 2 Samnel 1:19. 
 
 Dear Miss "DOUBLE D'ED" ADDAMS; my heart aches for you in 
 your FIRST SERIOUS mistake. I do not KNOW things but I FEEL them, 
 and I FEEL in the very depths of my soul that you have made a tre- 
 mendous blunder. I claim to be a TRUE PROGRESSIVE IN POLITICS; 
 I wish to progress FORWARD and UPWARD, not BACKWARD and 
 DOWNWARD. Can't you see that your active efforts to put a war lord 
 back into the White House will do far more harm to the women of the 
 whole world than his latent sympathy for the cause of equal suffrage will 
 ever help those in America? 
 
 Note the interview with James Boyle, once secretary to W^illiam Mc- 
 Kinley, given out from Columbus, Ohio, August 31st. I know we must 
 be very careful how we read such reports during a campaign, but this 
 is so in accord with known facts it seems to ring true. It is history thai 
 if our SAINTED THIRD MARTYRED president, our Spanish Minister, 
 General Stewart L. Woodford and the Queen of Spain had been LET 
 ALONE they would have solved the question of Cuba by diplomacy far 
 better than we settled it (?) by war. If j^u peruse the news from that 
 rebellious island frequentlyy you'll see that the Cuban problem isn't satis- 
 factorily adjusted yet, and that this "PEARL OF THE ANTILLES" is 
 NOT the "PEARL OF GREAT PRICE" but a lusterless one which Uncle 
 Sam will have to polish repeatedly. Now comes a man whom I presume 
 to be serious and responsible, like a voice from the tomb at Canton, Ohio, 
 saying: 
 
 "THE DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST SPAIN WAS AN ACT 
 WHICH HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GREATEST GRIEF 
 OP MY LIFE. THE ONE MAN IN WASHINGTON MORE CLAMOROUS 
 FOR THIS WAR THAN ALL OTHERS, AND MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR 
 THE WAVE OF PASSION WHICH SWEPT OVER THE COUNTRY AND 
 WHICH I FINALLY FOUND IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST, AVAS THEO- 
 DORE ROOSEVELT." 
 
 Many cU-ar but misguided sisters of our glorious Golden State are 
 taking your honored name in vain. They have organized "The Jane Ad- 
 dams Chorus," stolen the music and plagiarized the words of a grand 
 patriotic hymn and are now singing, "ROOSEVELT, MY ROOSEVELT." 
 to incoroprate ANY MAN'S name into these semi-sacred songs in this 
 manner is not progressive politics, ii is retrocession, desecration and 
 idolatry. One step more in the sjinic direction and we will be singing 
 our National Anthem closing "GREAT ROOSEVELT OUR KING." 
 
If our beloved Republic is to answer the greatest call of humanity in 
 the twentieth century and lead the world in the cause of "PEACE ON 
 EARTH," the authoress of "THE NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE," cannot 
 afford to take an active inteerst in the political fortunes of ANY MAN 
 who leans toward militarism, dictatorship and despotism. 
 
 Baroness Von Suttner, advocate of peace; Abdul Baha, servant of 
 God; Rabbi Emil G. Hirsh, great Hebrew teacher; Rev. Jenkin Lloyd 
 Jones, pastor of Abraham Lincoln Center, and ALL PEACE WORKERS 
 AND PEACE LOVERS wherever dispersed on the face of the globe, pray 
 without ceasing that our co-worker may see her error and return to the 
 loving friends who wait to forgive her FIRST great mistake, even as they 
 hope ALL OUR SINS may be FINALLY FORGIVEN. 
 
 My dear sister Jane Addams, YOUR COURSE IN THIS CAMPAIGN 
 MEANS MUCH TO THE WORLD. Believing you to be a sincere christian 
 God-fearing woman, I beseech you to earnestly seek instruction from the 
 Great Source whence cometh all true inspiration; pray in secret over this 
 matter as Samuel J. Tilden evidently did and may you receive the answer 
 that came to him, TO SACRIFICE PERSONAL AMBITION FOR PEACE. 
 
 In the name of Our Common Brotherhood I implore you to cease 
 soiling your skirts following the trail of the Moose Herd through the 
 political wilderness, "LAY DOWN Y'OUR ARMS," and COME BACK, 
 "INTO THE UNION OF ALL WHO LOVE, FOR THE SERVICE OF ALL 
 WHO SUFFER." 
 
 George Washington 
 
 Think of the Father of Our Country; in spirit meek and humble; 
 recall his endurance at Valley Forge; remember his magnanimity at Y'ork- 
 town, declining to accept the sword of Lord Cornwallis; directing Col. 
 Lincoln to receive it and return it. Hear him! "LET THERE BE NO 
 CHEERING TO HUMILIATE THE SOLDIERS OF KING GEORGE; POS- 
 TERITY CAN DO OUR SHOUTING." 
 
 Once when Virginia House of Burgesses tendered him a vote of thanks 
 for his bravery in the cause of the Colonies, he arose to respond but was 
 overcome with emotion and unable to articulate. The speaker said; "SIT 
 DOWN, MR. WASHINGTON, YOUR VALOR IS ONLY EQUALLED BY 
 YOUR MODESTY. AND THAT IS GREATER THAN ANY LANGUAGE 
 1 POSSESS." 
 
 And again when the representatives of the Colonies were bickering 
 and quarreling and the new ship of state threatening to plunge on the 
 rocks, they sought Washington and his advice. Not being an after dinner 
 orator, he wrote his address. When he rose to read it, could not find hip 
 spectacles; while they searched for them he said with infinite pathos, 
 "I'VE GROWN GRAY IN THE SERVICE OF MY COUNTRY AND NOW 
 I'M GROWING BLIND." And their hearts were softened one toward an- 
 other and they took council together, heeded his admonitions and the Con- 
 tinental Congress sailed serenely on. 
 
 Contemplate the close of his public career. When the affairs of the 
 new Republic he had founded could be safely entrusted in the hands of 
 others, he firmly declined a THIRD TERM as president, of any further 
 honors and retired to rest at Mt. Vernon. NEVER CHANGED HIS MIND 
 ABOUT THAT THIRD TERM. 
 
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And now we see this true gentleman who had been Commander-in- 
 Chief of the Armies of the New World, twice President of the New Nation, 
 and one of the greatest figures in all history, serving as vestryman for the 
 church, master in the lodge and justice of the peace. AS HE LIVED SO 
 HE DIED. 
 
 This noble soldier who always hated war and loved peace and his 
 fellowmen, died peacefully in his home surrounded by family and friends, 
 and not amid the carnage of the battlefield. He who had been a great 
 general among men remained the "captain of his soul" until the spirit 
 took its flight. As final dissolution approached he inquired the hour of 
 the day, felt his own pulse, composed himself and fell asleep. 
 "ASLEEP IN JESUS; BLESSED SLEEP, 
 FROM WHICH NONE EVER WAKE TO WEEP." 
 
 I can hear him whispering with his latest breath: FATHER. INTO 
 THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT; RECEIVE THOU MY SOUL 
 BACK TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES; THE SUPREME GRAND LODGE 
 FROM WHENCE IT CAME. 
 
 Theodore Roosevelt 
 
 Now listen to the shouting posterity is doing. "MY HAT IS IN 
 THE RING; WE KNOCKED 'EM OVER THE ROPES IN PENNSYL- 
 VANIA; WE'LL BUST 'EM IN TWO AT CHICAGO; i AM THE COM- 
 PROMISE CANDIDATE." 
 
 They certainly did bust 'em in two at Chicago, and if I can read the 
 handwriting on the wall, by the light from the East, Mr. La Follette should 
 have been the compromise candidate, and THEN the G. O. P. might have 
 again escaped the loosening avalanche. 
 
 What about Mr. Roosevelt's meekness, humbleness, and humility? 
 Did we ever hear of his being overcome with modesty? Has he ever 
 shown any magnanimity in dealing with his adversaries? Has he ever 
 said or done anything to soften men's hearts toward each other, when 
 such action was sorely needed? Many men are testifying that gigantic 
 sums were collected from the OCTOPUSES in 1904, and used in his cam- 
 paign; that this was not only AGREEABLE to him, but that he said, 
 MORE FUNDS FROM THE SAME SOURCES WOULD BE ACCEPT- 
 ABLE. All this testimony seems to SQUARE with the spirit of the 
 "DEAR HARRIMAN" letter, and yet the only answer from the Bull Moose 
 is a bawl and a bellow echoing through the wilderness, Liar! LIAR! 
 LIAR! And with the Psalmist we say in our haste, "ALL MEN MUST BE 
 LIARS." 
 
 Isn't he an advocate of WAR and a progenitor of STRIFE on all oc- 
 casions? Seeking to again reign over nearly one hundred million people 
 when he cannot successfully govern himself. 
 
 "HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER IS BETTER THAN THE MIGHTY; 
 AND HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT THAN HE THAT TAKETH A 
 CITY." Prov. XVI: 32. 
 
 And what about his bravery? Charging recklessly up San Juan Hill 
 and RIDING ROUGHLY DOWN; I've been told his horse was shot in a 
 part you can't mention in the presence of ladies, and from what colored 
 cavalry brethren have also told me, if they had not come to his relief and 
 
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rescue, and done LESS ROUGH RIDING and MORE SMOOTH SHOOT- 
 ING, we might not now be in danger of getting STUNG BY THIS THIRD 
 TERM BUMBLE BEE. 
 
 When Mr. Lorimer was unhorsed, listen to the CROW that came from 
 OYSTER BAY, where LOBSTERS CONGREGATE: "It was MY FIGHT, 
 and MY VICTORY; I didn't do it with MY LITTLE HATCHET but I did 
 it with MY DINNER PLATE." SHADES OF THE ANANIAS AND SAP- 
 PHIRA CLUB! I hear people every day saying that he has ALEXANDER; 
 CAESAR AND NAPOLEON COMBINED, "BACKED OFF THE BOARDS 
 AND BEATEN TO A FRAZZLE." 
 
 "I dare believe that I, 
 
 The Cock, am nature's summons to the dawn; 
 
 I deign to fear that if my voice were silent 
 
 The East would sleep and night would still reign on." 
 
 Abraham Lincoln 
 
 Look upon the pathetic picture of the Emancipator as drawn by Rev. 
 "Bob." Burdette at the Temple Baptist Church for their Lincoln Centen- 
 nary Memorial Service. "God's Man — God's Gentleman — with hatred for 
 the Sham, with pity for the Dupe, and for the Trickster scorn; Patience 
 for those who chide — sorrow for those who mourn ; Honor his breast-plate 
 — Truth his oriflamme." 
 
 Study this strangely serious, sober, solemn soul; consider his infinite 
 patience; his great concern for little things; giving PERSONAL attention 
 to small details because he knew they were VITAL to somebody, and yet 
 his great tender heart was breaking under the terrible strain. Think of 
 his humility and sweet simplicity; almost the day before he died he was 
 planning with Mary about their return to Illinois. Said he; "We have 
 saved a little money and can save a little more and with what I can earn 
 at the law, we can settle down in Springfield or Chicago among our old 
 friends, and live in comfort to a green old age." He never seemed to 
 think about a THIRD TERM, a soft seat on the bench, or of asking a 
 grateful people to keep him in luxury and idleness out of the public treas- 
 ury, but was evidently expecting to continue to earn his living. 
 
 One especially distinguishing feature that in my estimation makes 
 this great character tower above other men was his tolerance and for- 
 bearance with his adversaries, his utter self abnegation and ability to 
 get service out of his opponents. Take the case of Stanton; when friends 
 pointed out that the Secretary of War was inclined to over-shadow the 
 President with his GREATER LEARNING, "Honest Abe" said never mind 
 about that, Mr. Stanton is rendering a valuable service to the Nation and 
 I want him to stay right where he is. Note the result; at about the last 
 cabinet meeting Stanton said with a show of much feeling and pride; 
 "DIDN'T OUR CHIEF LOOK GRAND TODAY." Lincoln hadn't changed; 
 Stanton had: he had begun to understand elemental grandeur. And it 
 was broken hearted Stanton who closed his good friend's eyes in death. 
 
 In the untimely death of Father Abraham I hear the most powerful 
 temperance sermon ever preached in this land. I read that Booth had 
 been drinking heavily for days before he committed his awful crime; and 
 the night of the murder he had passed in and out of Ford's and frequented 
 £1 nearby bar; finally tossing down another drink or two this great actor 
 
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of the MIMIC stage entered a tjieater for the LAST TIME and slew the 
 greater actor on the REAL stage of life. He fired a shot that was heard 
 round the world, and wrote his name in history just underneath those of 
 Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold. 
 
 Liquor was the one and only thing that could have nerved any man 
 to kill Abraham Lincoln, and against the evil effects and ruinous results 
 of this accursed stuff it seems the Lord's annointed are not at all times 
 entirely safe. I have always felt sorry for Booth's family, because Lincoln 
 was really murdered by King Alcohol who has slain his millions and the 
 SLAUGHTER STILL CONTINUES. 
 
 "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though 
 passion may have strained, it must not break the bonds of our affection. 
 The mystic chord of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot 
 grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will 
 yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they 
 will be, by the better angels of our nature." First Inaugural, March 4, 
 1861. 
 
 Death of Jefferson Davis 
 
 NOW SEE THE GREAT PARADOX. Hundreds of thousands of men 
 had been drilling and fighting for four years and singing: "WE'LL HANG 
 JEFF DAVIS ON A SOUR APPLE TREE, AS WE GO MARCHING ON." 
 But we never did it and Mr. Davis lived to die in peace at a ripe old age, 
 while Father Abraham in the dawning of the morning of his triumphant 
 day yielded up his life, "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY 
 FOR ALL." 
 
 Today a United Nation IS MARCHING ON to greater conquests in 
 peace than she ever gained by war, when she watered the roots of the 
 tree of liberty and knowledge with the red blood from the warm hearts 
 of one million noble sons. 
 
 "ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND 
 
 THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD; 
 AND GLORY GUARDS WITH SOLEMN ROUND 
 THE BIVOUAC OF OUR DEAD." 
 "PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES NO LESS RENOWNED THAN 
 WAR." 
 
 "WE ARE COMING FATHER ABRAHAM ONE HUNDRED MILLION 
 STRONG." 
 
 William Howard Taft 
 
 Let us take the measure of our biggest president who now fills the 
 VACANT CHAIR of Washington and Lincoln physically while leaving it 
 empty spiritually. Collier's says Senator Dolliver crystallized public con- 
 ception of him in this terse epigram: "A large, amiable body, closely 
 surrounded by persons who know t .\actly what they want." 
 
 Think of the gaunt Lincoln with deep lines in his serious face and 
 then of the smooth, sleek, well fed, rosy gilled, self-centered and self- 
 satisfied man who wears a smile that WON'T COME OFF, and don't be- 
 lieve in doing anything until somebody first does soniething to him; who 
 might MEET a snail liiit would certainly never ON'Kin'AKE or I'.XSS one 
 
in the JOURNEY OF LIFE although he could possible DISTANCE one in 
 a GOLF GAME. 
 
 He never showed any signs of the "virile virtues and the fighting 
 edge" until Teddy the Terrible whacked him over the head with the Big 
 Stick and prodded him in the fattest place with his harpoon, and then 
 he did the WRONG THING every time and said: NOTHING BUT 
 DEATH CAN KEEP ME OUT OF THE RACE." Even Theodore the First 
 who is GREATER THAN DEATH failed to keep him out of the contest. 
 
 Brother Taft you made a sad mistake when you entered this running 
 and a more mournful one when you asked re-election as an approval of 
 your administration. This is no FAT MAN'S MATCH. If I can read the 
 answer in the stars the Taftian smile WILL COME OFF about November 
 6th, and you will receive the most stinging rebuke any of our Presidents 
 ever got, NOT excepting Andrew Johnson, who came within ONE VOTE 
 of being IMPEACHED. I am doing my little best to help get out the full 
 voting strength of the Nation and what Woodrow, Ted, and the two 
 Eugene's don't get you can have, and I think it will amount to a VIRTUAL 
 IMPEACHMENT BY THE PEOPLE. 
 
 YOU'LL GET A COMIC VALENTINE FROM ARIZONA. You made 
 them change their Constitution before letting them into your Union; then 
 they set their hearts on coming in on Lincoln's birthday and you made it 
 convenient to be out of Washington that particular day "AS PER USUAL," 
 and let them in two days later which makes them the SWEETHEART 
 STATE instead of the LINCOLN STATE, and makes necessary another 
 holiday when we have too many now. They think this was the SMALL- 
 EST THING ANY BIG MAN EVER DID. 
 
 A Prescott friend tells me he once interceded with you to modify an 
 order which he explained had ruined some people and was going to im- 
 poverish several more, and he says you replied that "IT WAS A DE- 
 PARTMENTAL MATTER AND YOU COULDN'T INTERFERE"; but, 
 pleaded my friend; "YOU MADE THE ORDER, MR. PRESIDENT, AND 
 CAN'T YOU MODIFY YOUR OWN ORDER?" Again you responded, "I'VE 
 TURNED IT OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT AND I CAN'T INTER- 
 POSE." We note that when Morse's friends appealed to you, you did not 
 show such firmness of character and you DID MEDDLE with JUSTICE 
 in her due course of procedure IN FAVOR OF A FELON. 
 
 You have likened this government under your administration to what 
 we may expect in heaven under a just God. You being the present head 
 of the Nation don't you see whose place your crude figure of speech makes 
 you assume? I have heard religious people complain of this and I think 
 they will remember you November 5th as they were betrayed into re- 
 membering Brother Bryan in '96. If our public affairs are dispensed by 
 you and your lieutenants, the present senate, judiciary, and some such 
 judges as you have sought to appoint is a miniature of heaven, I am not 
 surprised that many people are preaching discontent and casting their 
 lot with His Satanic Majesty. 
 
 You rave against the spread of Socialism and danger of Anarchy, yet 
 YOU PARDONED MORSE. I listened closely to public comment and I 
 say unto you this WEAKEST ACT of yours put the real spirit of lawless- 
 ness into more hearts than has ALL THE MISTAKES of Eugene V. Debs. 
 These are the things that are making more anarchists that the soap box 
 
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orators or the I. W. W. free speech crusaders. If respect for law, belief 
 ill our courts, and faith in our institutions is ever again to be instilled 
 into the very SOULS OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE, a few WEALTHY 
 ROGUES, RICH RASCALS, and MIGHTY THIEVES MUST DIE IN 
 PRISON. 
 
 What can we expect when the poor and oppressed see such people as 
 Morse hiring the very shrewdest unprincipled lawyers, suborning perjury, 
 bribing jurors, corrupting judges, and taking appeal after appeal with 
 stolen funds; then if they fail to defeat or wear out justice in all these 
 numerous ways, they seek the pardon of compliant governors or weak 
 Presidents and re-enter their nefarious business schemes with tainted 
 money. In Los Angeles Times under date of August 16, from Houston, 
 Tex., I read "that Charles W. Morse, recently released from the Federal 
 prison at Atlanta, Georgia, will begin operating two extensive steamship 
 lines about October 1st, and has INVESTED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY 
 IN THE VENTURE." And again in the same paper under date of Septem- 
 ber 4th, from New York, I read, "this DYING man, nattily dressed with 
 red cheeks, bright eyes and apparently in PERFECT HEALTH has rented 
 a fine suite of office rooms at his old stand and launched the Active Secu- 
 rities Company, incorporated under the laws of MAINE and CAPITAL- 
 IZED AT CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS." Why 
 not under the laws of NEW YORK, since its offices and headquarters are 
 at No. 49 Exchange Place, New York City? WHOSE MONEY IS HE IN- 
 VESTING IN THESE "GAMES"? 
 
 I understand he was convicted for carrying a chain of banks with no 
 adequate security for depositors as required by law; what the money 
 changers of Wall Street call BUILDING A BUSINESS PYRAMID WITH 
 THE APEX DOWNWARD. Therefore these large sums he is now putting 
 into the steamship lines, and the OLD SHELL GAME of Wall Street again, 
 really belong to those whose deposits he risked to get this money. 
 
 "WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ORDER TO 
 FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION, ESTABLISH JUSTICE, INSURE 
 DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENCE, 
 PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESS- 
 INGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY" mean to 
 find out how these things are done, and we intend to STOP them if we 
 have to add many more Amendments to our Constitution and write a 
 revised version of the Declaration of Independence. WE WILL do this 
 without laying impious hands on the Ark of the Covenant, or plying the 
 axe to the root of the tree of Liberty and Law. WE SHALL NOT dese- 
 crate the Flag nor destroy our Fundamental Foundation. Neither shall 
 we let YOU DEVASTATE OR DISSIPATE these priceless legacies be- 
 queathed to us by the Fathers, in the more DANGEROUS and DEADLY 
 way you are going about it, WHILE YOU CLAIM TO BE THEIR 
 DIVINELY APPOINTED CUSTODIAN. 
 
 The New York Dispatch said Morse would take possession of his 
 luxurious suite and KI<:-ENTEH THE GAME FRIDAY. THIS WILL 
 PKOVK TO BE THE BLACKEST FRIDAY WALL STREET EVER SAW. 
 WHEN A DYING MAN RE-ENTERS THIS GAME IT MEANS THE GAME 
 SHALL ALSO DIE. I HKMEN'E I VOICE THE DEKI' KEEMNC.S OF 
 ABOU'J' NIXTY MILLION PEOPLK WHEN I SAY TilKSE G.VMHLKRS 
 
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OF WALL STREET, MUST SOON CEASE TO FINANCIAL»LY RULE OR 
 RUIN THIS WHOLE NATION OF ONE HUNDRED MILLION CITI- 
 
 .ZENS. 
 
 You and your stand-pat bunch such as Aldrich, Cannon, Penrose, 
 Crane, Guggenheim and their ilk, claiming to hold a copyright on the 
 party of Lincoln, say this is the best government on earth; IT IS FOR 
 YOU AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT YOU. You point to the FULL DIN- 
 NER PAIL and say the laborer should be satisfied with his hire. HE IS 
 NOT! "Man does not live by bread alone." Deut. 8:3. Mat. 4:4. Luke 
 4:4. Millions of hearts are aching for BETTER THINGS than we have 
 known; SOUL HUNGER and SPIRITUAL STARVATION are abroad in 
 the land. We do NOT expect the cakes and ale, fine homes, automobiles 
 and champagne of the rich, but in our humble cottages we are praying 
 for the "BREAD AND WATER OF LIFE," which the Master promised He 
 would give FREELY to "ALL THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN," 
 if they would "COME UNTO HIM AND ASK IN HIS NAME." Is. 33:16; 
 Rev. 22:17. .Ter. 2:13. 
 
 I note that when the poor obtain a sack of flour or side of bacon UN- 
 DER FALSE PRETENSES, even to feed a hungry family, they are punish- 
 ed and generally serve out their FULL TERM in jail; yet Morse obtained 
 his FREEDOM UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, re-enters business (?) on 
 a large scale with cash acquired in the same way, and I believe under our 
 laws the people cannot touch him or return him to the penitentiary; but 
 they do have some little satisfaction. THEY CAN RECALL THE MAN 
 WHO OPENED THE DOORS OF THE PRISON. 
 
 You talk about Neurotics, visionary dreamers and the millenium being 
 thousands of years hence, when it is near at hand, EVEN NOW KNOCK- 
 ING AT OUR VERY DOORS. See Prov. 29:18 and Rev. 20: 1 to 4. Your 
 greatest defect is in wearing No. 11 E shoes and Size 1%AA wings. 
 
 In your harsh figure of speech you builded better than you knew; YOU 
 ARE ONLY MISTAKEN AS TO TENSE. Personally, Brother Taft, I 
 wish you good health and long life. I know you will NOT WANT even if 
 you never have another fat job because your millionaire brother whom 
 you credit with having made you president can provide for you if neces- 
 sary. 
 
 I earnestly hope you will live to see this Republic managed as it 
 SHOULD BE and as I believe it WILL BE in your day and mine. Then 
 it may soak through your fat what a glorious golden opportunity passed 
 by the White House while you were out playing golf, riding about the 
 country in luxurious trains working for another term, banqueting or sleep- 
 ing. It would have been a priceless blessing to the burden bearers of the 
 Nation had you been just a little more in the NEUROTIC CLASS, and con- 
 siderably less in the ELEPHANT FAMILY. "Sleep on now and take your 
 rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into 
 the hands of sinners." Mat. 26:45. 
 
 COMRADES IN THE BATTLE f5r BREAD! We need a man in our 
 executive mansion with more SPRING STEEL in his construction, and 
 backed by less UNITED STATE,'? STEEL and TENNESSEE COAL & 
 IRON than his predecessor WAS, and IS when now again seeking to get a 
 HARVESTER TRUST grip on the same office. THE TRUST BUSTER! 
 
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WASN'T IT THE BLIND SENATOR GORE WHO SAID, "THE ONLY 
 TRUST HE EVER REALLY TRIED TO BUST WAS, "IN GOD WE 
 TRUST" ON OUR COINAGE"? 
 
 Lincoln-Douglas Debates 
 
 Go back to the Lincoln-Douglas debates of the '60s and compare them 
 with the Roosevelt-Taft prize fight and Referee Root's decision. See these 
 great political opponents arrayed against each other; debating from the 
 same platform the tremendous question that was soon to plunge us into 
 a black midnight of war that seemed to have no dawn. NOTE THEIR DIG- 
 NIFIED LANGUAGE AND PERSONAL RESPECT; HEAR LINCOLN 
 CLOSING: "THE REAL ISSUE IS THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN 
 RIGHT AND WRONG; IT IS THE ETERNAL PRINCIPLE, NO MATTER 
 IN WHAT SHAPE IT DEVELOPS; IT HAS EXISTED SINCE THE BE- 
 GINNING OF TIME, AND IT WILL CONTINUE WHEN THESE POOR 
 TONGUES OF JUDGE DOUGLAS AND MYSELF SHALL BE SLENT." 
 
 The eloquent tongues of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Arnold Doug- 
 las have long been silent and sacred dust, AND THE GREAT CONFLICT 
 STILL GOES ON AND GROWS EVER MORE FIERCE; BUT IT SHALL 
 NOT LONG CONTINUE. If the Hosts of the Grand Army of Right who 
 believe in God, no matter where or how they found Him will rally under 
 one banner, and affiliate on all civic and civil problems they will soon win 
 a decisive victory over the Legions that work in darkness, and RIGHT- 
 EOUSNESS WILL TRIUMPH, RULE AND GOVERN ALL OUR TEM- 
 PORAL AND MATERIAL AFFAIRS, BEFORE "OUR POOR LISPING, 
 STUTTERING, STAMMERING TONGUES ARE SILENT IN THE TOMB." 
 
 ALL RELIGIONS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY ONE AND ALL SERI- 
 OUS FRATERNITIES HEW THEIR CORNER, KEY AND CAPSTONES 
 OUT OF THE SAME ROCK OF AGES. "ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR 
 ME, LET ME HIDE MYSELF IN THEE." 
 
 Degenerate Statesmen 
 
 During my thirty years work on our railroads, I have had a splendid 
 opportunity to study some of our GREAT sitatesmen at close range. For 
 many years I was in service on the SANTA FE'S CALIFORNIA LIMITED; 
 I called our buffet car the TOBACCO PARLIAMENT. By being a good 
 listener and a close observer I almost got into the SECRETS OF GOV- 
 ERNMENT as administered by the POTHOUSE POLITICIANS and PO- 
 LITICAL SHYSTERS who DISGRACE our state legislatures and INFEST 
 Washington. 
 
 I have watched these fellows swilling whisky, guzzling beer, hanging 
 over high priced champagne in diners and club cars on trains do luxe 
 with women of easy virtue, and I have thought of tliat ancient philosopher 
 Seneca who wrote about "FOOLS THAT LET IN A THIEF AT THE 
 MOUTH TO STEAL AWAY THE BRAINS." Many a time I have lost 
 what few hours sleep I was entitled to take in order to keep these degen- 
 erates out of the berths of said women, or from insulting decent women 
 and enticing into evil ways young ladies traveling alone. 
 
 And in the silent watches of the night T have thought of the CON- 
 STITUENTS of these unworthy PARASITES on our body politic, toiling 
 
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on the farms: delving in the mines; sweating in the factories; sweltering 
 in the sweatshops; paying taxes and high prices; drawing poor wages; 
 drinking water as a beverage; going second class if they ever do take a 
 journey, in order that those who sit in darkness and control these things 
 may provide slush funds and jack pots for these profligates, who in their 
 turn spend this money in the maintenance of the very lowest element of 
 
 society. 
 
 The bipartisan bunch who PUT MR. I^ORIMER OVER in Illinois fur- 
 nished some line specimens of the species of politicians I am trying to 
 describe, and the investigation of this gang developed abundant proof of 
 the things I am charging. Wasn't it conclusively shown that they went 
 out in automobiles with women, drinking and carousing and scattering 
 thousands of dollars in a single night? Who furnished this money and 
 for what purpose? I never saw it growing on trees nor lying around 
 marked and labeled in thousand dollar packages loose in our streets. Don't 
 every sane person believe that these funds are obtained from those who 
 hold high positions in our business world, and that by this corrupt use 
 of money they secure SPECIAL PRIVILEGES and COLLECT BACK 
 FROM THE PEOPLE TEN DOLLARS FOR ONE. 
 
 Under our present system a few of these purchasable politicians can, 
 and often do hold the BALANCE OF POWER in the election of our sen- 
 ators. And what about our United States Senate? I have heard many 
 men who were in touch with Washington life and in position to know 
 whereof they spoke just casually refer to it as a MILLIONAIRES POKER 
 CLUB. WOULDN'T THAT SHOCK YOUR SOUL! 
 
 The UPPER HOUSE of our ELDER STATESMEN which should be 
 the SHEEn' ANCHOR of the Nation deteriorated into a PASTIME PARTY 
 for the IDLE RICH, Avhose chief occupation and entertainment lately has 
 been spending most of their time, and a lot of the people's money in trying 
 to SEAT, rather than UNSEAT one of their number, who no doubt got 
 his election by the same means and methods that many of those who tried 
 him obtained theirs. 
 
 This body has DOUBLY DISGRACED ITSELF by giving out that it 
 unseated this member to APPEASE PUBLIC CLAMOR and NOT ON 
 THE EVIDENCE. THIS CASE SEALS THE DOOM OF ELECTION OF 
 U. S. SENATORS BY STATE LEGISLATURES. 
 
 Evil is so STRONGLY ENTRENCHED that it is next to impossible 
 to obtain evidence against it under our rules of procedure. Many honest 
 people FEAR ITS POWER and keep SILENt! I ponder over all these 
 things when I am rolling along over the mountains where the stars seem 
 SO NEAR; look up at the MILLIONS of these SCINTILLATING DIA- 
 MONDS with the spirit of a MILLION HEIR and say: "WATCHMAN! 
 WHAT OF THE NIGHT?" 
 
 Decadence of Republican Party 
 
 The Republican partj' has held the center of the stage almost con- 
 tinuously for one-half a century. Came into the lime-light enacting a ter- 
 rible tragedy, which ran for four long heart-breaking years, and closed 
 with Lincoln the martyred hero and John Wilkes Booth the villain. Pro- 
 duced many splendid actors and presented wonderful dramas. Then it 
 dropped into comedy and has now fallen into vaudeville. 
 
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GOODBYE OLD PARTY 
 
 Those who control its remnant today, beseeching the people to pre- 
 serve the honor of the OLD GUARD, and perpetuate the party of HONEST 
 ABE, are a shame and a disgrace to his memory. They have departed 
 from the "FAITH OF THE FATHERS," and it does appear the G. O. P. 
 that came into power with LINCOLN will pass into history with TAFT. 
 ROOSEVELT HAS POLITICALLY ASSASSINATED TAFT, AND JOINT- 
 LY THEY HAVE MURDERED THE PARTY THAT HAD SO HIGHLY 
 HONORED BOTH. 
 
 WE COME, NOT TO PRAISE OUR CAESAR. AND HIS BRUTUS 
 BUT TO BURY THEM. 
 
 TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, RING DOWN THE CURTAIN. 
 
 Decay of Statesmanship 
 
 Washington to Roosevelt; Lincoln to Taft; Lincoln-Douglas debates 
 to the Roosevelt-Taft political prize fight. Stephen A. Douglas to William 
 Lorimer! "WHAT A FALL, MY COUNTRYMEN"! 
 
 We are calling for another Washington, noble and sublime. Praying 
 for another Lincoln, patient and pathetic. CAN WE PRODUCE RE- 
 PLICAS OF THEM? OH, PITYING CHRIST, SAVE OUR SUFFERING 
 PEOPLE. HEAR! OH FATHER, HEAR OUR PRAYER. 
 
 The Socialist Vote 
 
 The Socialist Party polled over FIFTY THOUSAND ballots in our 
 charming Angel City last fall. These people are not ALL SOCIALISTS 
 AND ANARCHISTS as one of the great papers here would have us be- 
 lieve; few of them know the true meaning of those words. They were 
 simply PROTESTING against existing conditions. 
 
 Brethren be careful in what manner you express your convictions lest 
 you may develop a remedy that might prove to be worse than the disease. 
 I have LITTLE patience with people w^ho vote carelessly, LESS for those 
 w-ho vote spitefully, and NONE for those who do not vote at all. Witli 
 FIVE political parties in the field and their PAID orators sawing the air 
 and pawing up the earth, large numbers of voters are totally indifferent, 
 utterly unconcerned in the outcome, do not intend to go to the polls — 
 and are saying, "WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A REVOLUTION." The vin- 
 dictiveness often shown in this remark indicates they are just ITCHING 
 TO SEE IT START; these people seem to think it would chastise only 
 those whom in their judgment need punishment; forgetting that the ter- 
 rible burden of all wars in their finality fall on the innocent, non-combat- 
 ants, widows and orphans, and that the particular people they want to 
 see suffer would grab their money bags, rush aboard a MODERN UN- 
 SINKABLE TITANIC ARK. steam swiftly over to Europe and leave us 
 toilers to suffocate in the flood. 
 
 I tell these folks that if enough of them keep THINKING, TALKING 
 and ACTING their way we WILL HAVE a revolution and if it conies 
 "rocks hide us, mountains on us fall!" It won't be any opera-bouffe af- 
 fair; when this Nation makes war it's just exactly what General Sherman 
 said it was AND WORSE. Against this pernicious doctrine I have been 
 preaching in season and out for twenty years. 
 
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I regard the growing STAY AT HOME VOTE as a more dangerous 
 menace to free government that the Red Rag of Anarchy and the Red 
 Bandana of Roosevelt TOGETHER, TWIN HARBINGERS OF AN EVIL 
 TIME. Large numbers of these STAY AT HOMES are really good people 
 but they are DISGUSTED with Taft, NAUSEATED by Roosevelt, SICK 
 of politics in general and have lost faith in ALL PARTIES, OLD OR 
 NEW. 
 
 Entirely too many of us have lost faith in our GOD, faith in our FEL- 
 LOWS and faith in OURSELVES. The old fashioned "Faith of the 
 Fathers" must again be instilled into the hearts of ALL THE PEOPLE 
 or THIS REPUBLIC WILL "PERISH FROM THE EARTH." 
 
 Five Candidates — Choose Ye 
 
 If there is any more than five parties with Presidential tickets in the 
 field they have not yet come to my knowledge. These five leaders men- 
 tioned in the order of their personal fitness for safety and service in the 
 high office to which they aspire, in my judgment would stand as follows: 
 Wilson, Chafin, Debs, Taft and Roosevelt; that's just my private opinion 
 publicly expressed; those who differ have a perfect right to theirs. 
 
 I would like to see the full voting strength of the Union recorded next 
 November. I for one wish to know just what our country is up against. 
 VOTE EARLY and ONCE ONLY; stand up and be counted; you cannot 
 serve God and Mammon. If you think the liquor traffic is our greatest 
 danger and that a successful party can be founded on Prohibition to solve 
 THIS question and ALL OTHERS, vote for Eugene W. Chafin; I hear he 
 is a very fine gentleman; lives over Tucson way and as we say on the 
 plains, IS A GOOD OLD SCOUT. 
 
 If you think Socialism is our ONLY SALVATION vote for Eugene V. 
 Debs of MY OLD HOME TOWN; personally he's a pleasant sympathetic 
 sort of a chap; has made lots of mistakes and been punished severely for 
 them just like tlie balance of us. The Hoosier Poet paid him a beautiful 
 tribute in one of his earlier dialect rhymes entitled: 
 
 Owed To Terre Haute 
 
 "AND I'VE COME BACK WITH WELCOME TREAD 
 
 FROM JOURNEYINGS VAIN, AS I HAVE SAID: 
 
 TO SETTLE X»OWN IN CA'M CONTENT 
 
 AND CUSS THE TOWNS WHERE I HAVE WENT. 
 
 AND BRAG ON OURN AND BOAST AND STRUT 
 
 ABOUT THE STREETS OF TERRE HUT. 
 
 AND THERE'S GENE DEBS, A MAN THAT STANDS 
 
 AND JUST HOLDS OUT IN HIS TWO HANDS 
 
 AS WARM A HEART AS EVER BEAT 
 
 BETWIXT HERE AND THE JEDGMENT SEAT." 
 
 If you think Taft is worthy of his hire, desire him to stay on the 
 job, play golf, sleep, banquet and journey about the country while the 
 cunning men who surround him run the government to the very best in- 
 terest of themselves and their kind, then vote for him. I beg to dissent. 
 
 If you think the SUPERMAN, THEODORE THE FIRST has assumed 
 the place and endeavored to usurp the power of the FATHER, SON AND 
 
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HOLY GHOST, IS OUR ONLY WHITE HOPE HERE AND NO^V, and 
 THE BLACK MAN'S SOLE TRUST HEREAFTER, JUST VOTE FOR 
 HIM. I claim the constitutional right of ONE AVERAGE CITIZEN to 
 interpose a strenuous objection; but much as I dread the possible result 
 of Mr. Roosevelt's election I would rather see people VOTE FOR HIM 
 than to know that they intend to STAY AWAY FROM THE POLLS AND 
 TAKE NO CONCERN in our coming National election. And if he is 
 elected I will stick to my job, look pleasant, continue to fan the fires 
 of optimism with the breath of faith, and do my ONE HUNDRED MIL- 
 LIONTH PART toward making his THIRD administration a greater suc- 
 cess that his FIRST TWO; I will NOT go around with a long disconsolate 
 face thinking, talking and acting hard times, trying to help plunge the 
 whole country in a panic and punish ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE 
 to get even with ONE and THOSE WHO VOTED FOR HIM. 
 
 If we do not cultivate a more tolerant, forbearing and charitable 
 spirit in bowing to the will of A PLURALITY we will soon be in the 
 same conidtion as our wretched sister Republic; each political faction 
 going to war to seat their particular candidate; then we shall have to 
 DIAZIZE our distressed country and the Bull Moose seems to be in special 
 training for the same kind of a job that Brother Porfirio held down so 
 long, while he sat on the lid of the unhappy land which SHED THE 
 BLOOD of Emperor Maximilian and sent his Queen Carlotta back to her 
 native people A RAVING MANIAC. 
 
 But if you think with me that under all these CONFLICTING V\R- 
 CUMSTANCES, CONFUSING CONDITIONS and DANGEROUS DOC- 
 TRINES the only SAFE, SANE and LOGICAL thing to do THIS TIME 
 is to vote for Woodrow Wilson, THEN LET'S JUST MAKE IT PRAC- 
 TICALLY UNANIMOUS. I cast my FIRST ballot for Little Ben Harrison 
 of my native State, and my LAST for Big Bill Taft on ROOSEVELT'S 
 RECOMMENDATION; I don't wish him to select any more Presidents 
 for me and LEAST OF ALL TO PICK HIMSELF. 
 
 Some are saying we can't get Presidential timber out of a college 
 professor; they remind me of those terribly mistaken people who said, 
 "CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH?" The worst 
 they have brought out against Brother Wilson has been to dig up some 
 of his EARLIER WHITINGS and try to prove by them that he is unsound 
 on political economy, tariff, etc. IT IS TO LAUGH! Don't every one 
 who can cipher know that all thinkers and writers, as they grow in grace 
 and years and broaden and develop, wish they could ransack the libraries, 
 burn all their youthful productions and rewrite them? If you don't like 
 some of Woodrow's early philosophy Inuit up the mass of nonsense Theo- 
 dore has written and see how IT SQUARES with present theories and 
 conditions. 
 
 At any rate the Democratic candidate seems to be a SINCERE STU- 
 DENT AND STILL WILLING TO LEARN, and a great many GENTLE- 
 MEN AND SCHOLARS are badly needed in Washington; we have had 
 enough of prize lighters, poker players and figureheads. I note that 
 when Mr. Wilson was told of his nomination he did not reply. "BULLY 
 BY HECK! I FEEL LIKE A BULL MOOSE! " but is reported to have 
 foaid, "MY FEEL!N(]S AUK TOO DEEP FOR EFFEU VESCENCE." I try 
 to read great characters by little things; for cxaini)]!'. when Emi)eror 
 
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Mutsuhito gave out that he would live on TWO SIMPLE DISHES AT 
 EACH MEAL in order to save money for the war, I said look out for a 
 Nation whose Sovereign sets his subjects that precedent. He has passed 
 on into the universe that sets this world right, and they are calling him 
 the DEARLY BELOVED "FATHER OP MODERN JAPAN." I have read 
 many items about Woodrow Wilson that indicate to me the serene deep 
 soul, and I believe "THE ELEMENTS ARE SO MIXED IN HIM, THAT 
 NATURE MIGHT STAND UP, AND SAY TO ALL THE WORLD, THIS 
 IS A MAN." And we are going to need a MAN in Washington soon. 
 BETWEEN THE WILSON DEMOCRATS, WILSON REPUBLICANS, 
 AND WILSON PROGRESSIVES, IT'S WILSON; THAT'S ALL. 
 
 Furthermore, don't forget THAT OTHER grand good Christian gen- 
 tleman on the TAIL END OF THE TICKET. Our Democratic brethren 
 made something more than a "Sunny Jim" joke out of that part of the 
 job. I was "back east" last year and got some first hand information; 
 while others have been writing long-winded atricles for the "Lookout" 
 at something like one dollar per word, and forever TALKING about what 
 OUGHT TO BE DONE, Governor Marshall has been WORKING and 
 DOING THINGS and TAKING THE UPLOOK. 
 
 Stars and Stripes Forever 
 
 Our Star Spangled Banner is a grand old Flag. Its hues are all from 
 heaven — sunrise, blue sky and starlight. Red for sacrifice, white for 
 purity and blue for fidelity. No unclean thing should exist under its 
 sheltering folds. 
 
 Millions have DIED for it and what they thought was right. MY 
 FATHER WAS ONE. I want to LIVE for it and what I believe to be 
 right as God gives me to see the right in the BRIGHT LIGHT OF THE 
 TWENTIETH CENTURY THAT BEATS ON THE TOTTERING 
 THRONES OF THE WORLD. 
 
 I quote the closing stanza of Riley's tribute to our National Ensign 
 recited by this sweet singer of "green fields and running brooks" himself 
 at a banquet of the Iron Brigade: 
 
 "And it spake with a shake in its voice as it said; 
 By the driven snow white and the living blood red 
 Of my bars and their heaven of stars overhead: 
 By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast. 
 As I float from the steeple or flap at the mast. 
 Or droop o'er the sod, where the long grasses nod. 
 My name is as old as the Glory of God." 
 I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED I WOULD LIVE TO SEE THE TIME 
 WHEN IT WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE NECESSARY TO BAPTIZE OLD 
 GLORY IN BLOOD. 
 
 SENATOR DOUGLAS AND THE CONSTITUTION 
 I used to live in Chicago near Douglas Park; loved to wander in 
 there and gaze at the Little Giant standing away up there on his pedestal, 
 dignified, elevated, like the great statesman that he was; stroll around 
 his monument and study the figure groups; Illinois — History, Eloquence 
 and Justice; stop in front of the door and read the inscription on the 
 sarcophagus: STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, BORN APRIL 23RD, 1813; DIED 
 JUNE 3RD, 1861. Judge you died too young; the very day the first skir- 
 
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mish was fought at Philippi. You didn't live to see the great struggle 
 but you did live to see your mistake, and when people live to realize 
 their mistakes there is forgiveness and hope; and if you'll forgive me 
 my comparison I will proclaim to our Nation, with all the power in my 
 soul the message you left us here on your coffin: "TELL MY CHILDREN 
 TO OBEY THE LAWS AND UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION." 
 
 Those are the exact words chiseled into the cold marble that holds 
 the earthly ashes of "Little Dug." I've stood by the door of the sepulcher 
 and pondered them till I could almost hear this great orator again in the 
 flesh thundering forth that splendid sentence. It's a rich inheritance; a 
 glorious message; read it again and engrave it on your hearts: "TELL 
 MY CHILDREN TO OBEY THE LAWS AND UPHOLD THE CONSTI- 
 TUTION." 
 
 BY THE GREAT JEHOVAH AND THE SPIRIT OF THE CONTIN- 
 ENTAL CONGRESS NO IMPIOUS HANDS SHALL PULL DO\VN THE 
 FLAG OF BETSY ROSS AND BARBARA FRITCHIE, NOR TEAR UP 
 THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR PILGRIM FATHERS IF OUR FATHER 
 WHICH ART IN HEAVEN WILL GRANT ME GRACE AND POWER 
 TO AROUSE OUR SLUMBERING PEOPLE. 
 
 Visions and Dreams 
 
 "And it shall come to pass in the LAST DAYS, saith God, I will pour 
 out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall 
 prophesy, and your YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, and your OLD 
 MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS."— Acts 2:17. Joel 2:28. 
 
 Being now at the zenith of my life's journey between youth and old 
 age, where the shadows have ceased to fall westward and have not yet 
 begun to lengthen toward the east, I have BOTH VISIONS AND DREAMS. 
 I have long believed we were living in the LAST DAYS; not the last 
 days of the PHYSICAL EXISTENCE of the world but the last days of 
 the control of Mammon and the rule of evil things; the POWER AND 
 DOMINION OF SATAN WILL SOON BE BOUND, and the SPIRIT OF 
 CHRIST SHALL REIGN over the whole earth and govern the inhabitants 
 thereof even unto its uttermost parts. 
 
 From youth up anything connected with Washington or Lincoln has 
 always exercised a strange and strong influence over me. I presume 
 EVERY SCHOOL BOY who possesses a soul that is QUICK has felt the 
 same electric thrills when he first began to read about the great charac- 
 ters who became the leaders of the people in the epochs of their country's 
 history. These so-called FINER FEELINGS might be analyzed as the 
 ecstasy of youth, poetical emotions of early manhood and the spiritual 
 aspirations of maturer years. As I study people it seems to me most of 
 them lose these beautiful sensations with the ceaseless grind of toil and 
 Struggle for physical existence as time rolls on, but they ABIDE WITH 
 ME and grow steadily stronger with each passing year. 
 
 I shall NEVER FORGET my PECULIAR EXPERIENCE when as a 
 Mason I first looked upon a good portrait of Washington in our lodge 
 rooms. I felt the same perturbation 1 might have received li;ul 1 met in 
 the flesh this brother who has been sleeping at Mt. Vornon uuire than a 
 century, and in all that time "heard only one tread which rhymed with 
 his own." It just seemed as if he would step out of his frame and greet 
 
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me A3 A MASON. I got a lasting impression that he had been a REAL 
 Mason GRAND and TRUE, one who carried our spiritual symbols in the 
 heart more carefully than he displayed the material emblems on his gar- 
 ments, and an involuntary conviction rushed over my soul that I should 
 endeavor to walk upright and seek to be worthy to follow in his footsteps. 
 And in little ways I have tried to do so; in my small sphere I aim to 
 LIVE the SQUARE DEAL and not always and forever JUST TALK 
 about it. If I can't get what I need without snatching it away from my 
 fellow-men I go without; ON that principle I shall continue to LIVE and 
 BY it I shall DIE; if after a long life of steady and faithful service I fail 
 to accumulate enough to give me Christian burial I shall look to my 
 brethren whom I REFUSE TO ROB to provide for and perform that last 
 necessary service. 
 
 I was born under the storm and stress of our awful rebellion. My 
 earliest recollections are of a widowed mother weeping over a soldier's 
 grave, and as reason dawned in my infant mind I figured out that war 
 NEVER WAS and NEVER WOULD BE right. When a boy on the farm 
 before I had read books I dreamed of a plan for the Universal Peace of 
 the World; that has ever been the over-mastering passion of my soul 
 and with an abiding faith that RIGHT finally makes MIGHT, I have al- 
 ways believed I would be permitted to live to see it firmly established; 
 the over-towering ambition of my life is to be able to do something to 
 help promote Peace on Earth and Good Will to all Mankind. 
 
 By the good fortune of chance I attended the meeting of the Second 
 National Peace Congress at Chicago in May, 1909; when I saw prominent 
 people of ALL RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS foregathered there, work- 
 ing together one with another and ALL WITH GOD, in this greatest cause 
 T thought we would soon solve this terrible proposition and the earth 
 should nevermore be drenched with human blood of the children of His 
 creation. 
 
 When Rabbi Hirsh said. "Psychology has shown us the way, we are 
 going to create a NEW MENTAL ATMOSPHERE on this great issue," 
 I thought Brother Hirsh had struck the keynote in the grand symphony. 
 And when this great Jew throwing his whole soul into an impassioned 
 appeal said, "If war is right I misread the life of the best man who ever 
 trod the earth"; referred to Jesus of Nazareth as the noble teacher who 
 was not received by his people because he did not come bearing a sword 
 at the head of a vast temporal and material army with banners as they 
 expected their Messiah to come; the gentle Gallilean who KNEW NOT 
 how to fight, but who DID KNOW how to weep and struggle and sweat 
 blood in Gethsemane and suffer and die on Calvary; who refused to draw 
 the sword yet received the spear thrust in his side saying, "Father! for- 
 give them for they know not what they do." I said Amen! When our 
 Hebrew brethren begin to believe that the CRUCIFIXION WAS A SAD 
 MISTAKE WE ARE NEARING THE SOLUTION OF ALL THE PROB- 
 LEMS THAT VEX THE W^ORLD. 
 
 Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones with pardonable pride told of the great 
 things Chicago had done; when he pointed out that one of her greatest 
 achievments was discovering Abraham Lincoln and giving him to the 
 world, although Father Abraham had been resting at Springfield for 
 nearly half a century I seemed to feel his presence in that meeting, and 
 
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a tremendous persuasion that his spirit was in blissful harmony and 
 sweet accord with all earnest souls working in the great cause for which 
 we were gathered together. 
 
 And yet today if I GAZE STEADILY at a good likeness of our FIRST 
 martyred President the SORROWFUL FACE OF THE GREAT EMANCI- 
 PATOR SEEMS TO SMILE; this reminds me of a story about this exalted 
 soul who himself dearly loved a good story while he was in the flesh. 
 A woman who had been to intercede with him for her son said as she left 
 his presence, "I knew they had been lying to me!" "What about," said 
 her companion. "Why." said she. "They told me Mr. Lincoln was UGLY 
 and he is the HANDSOMEST MAN I EVER SAW." You see the woman 
 looked at Father Abraham with the penetrating vision of the soul and 
 NOT with the unseeing eyes of the body. 
 
 "For NOW we see through a glass, darkly; but THEN face to face* 
 NOW I know in part, but THEN shall I know even as also I am known." — 
 1 Cor. 13:12. We are in the dawning of the morning of grander glorious 
 golden days. The mists and bewildering vapors of superstition are 
 clearing away. We've got the wireless and are steadily improving it, 
 just beginning to learn how to pick up the mysterious magnetic waves: 
 getting a faint glimpse of the possibilities of static electricity; drawing 
 nearer and nearer to an intelligent understanding of the Great Mystic 
 Force that swings the planets in their orbits and rules the Universe 
 with law and order; ever striving to get into communication with the 
 Chief Dispatcher who never has a collision; no fogs obscure His signals; 
 no delays; EVERYTHING ALWAYS ON TIME. 
 
 Standing on the sundown shore of our peaceful sea with nerves high 
 keyed and spirit yearning to catch the sublime harmony and majestic 
 meter, rippling rhyme and rolling rhythm of the music of the spheres; 
 with the vision of the soul I gaze across the vast ocean of eternity and 
 I seem to see the Father of Our Country and the Savior of the Union 
 looking this way from the shores of time. "I HAVE NO VOICE TO 
 REACH THEM WITH" but I appear to FEEL that they are trying to tell 
 the citizens of the dear Republic where they lived and wrought before 
 they crossed over the GREAT DIVIDE, that our paramount patriotic 
 duty in the pending crisis is to cast our ballots for Woodrow \\'ilson of 
 New Jersey and Thomas R. Marshall of my native State. 
 
 During the quarter of a century I have served on our railways I have 
 made many friends from Chicago to Key West, and from the Statue of 
 Liberty catching the first beams of the morning enlightening the world, 
 to the Golden Gate receiving the last rays of the setting sun aiul marking 
 the going down thereof; and 1 sincerely hope and honestly think many 
 people who know me per.sonally and well will be free to say they truly 
 believe no selfish purpose, sinister design, ulterior motive or ALL THE 
 GOLD IN THE WORLD could induce me to make THIS STATEMENT in 
 THIS MANNER if I did not FEEL ITS VERY TRUTH THROHHING IN 
 EVERY FIBER OF MY HEING. and HEAR MY DISTRACTED COUNTRY 
 CALLING ME IN THE HOUR OF HER NEED. 
 
 If any man .'vcr felt CALLED TO TREACH I have b^on impelled by 
 that same IRRESISTIBLE POWER to write UIi^^■ homily, and offer it to 
 the UNION MY FATHER DIED TO SAVE. 
 
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 I pray to be permitted to file this message: 
 
 CHECK 50 PAID 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal., November 6th, 1912 
 President-elect Wocdrow Wilson, Sea Girt, N. J. 
 
 GOD REIGNS AND THE GOVERNMENT STILL LIVES. ONCE 
 MORE OUR BELOVED REPUBLIC RIDES TO SAFE ANCHORAGE 
 THROUGH THE STORM. WE LOOK TO YOU TO RExMOVE THE SEAT 
 OF ITS POWER FROM WALL STREET BACK TO WASHINGTON. 
 HOPE TO MEET YOU AT GETTYSBURG NEXT JULY. 
 
 YOURS FOR HUMANITY, PEACE AND PROSPERITY, 
 
 WILLARD LIGHT. 
 
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