He's got the people behind him and
congress has got the corporations be
hind 'em and we're goin' to watch
which one wins out. There's so many
Ananiases abroad nowdays that a fel
low can't tell by the papers about^how
the cat will jump. It makes me just,
tired and boilin' to have the railroad
lobby lie so like a pirate about Roose
velt's idees. He says that regulatin'
railroad rates by the government won't
necessarily mean at all that rates are to
be lowered as a whole. What he is af
ter is a square deal without partiality
I can't .dee if the published rate on oil
by the car is twenty cents for a certain
distance how the railroads are goin' to
suffer if the government makes the
Standard Oil monopoly pay the twenty
cents same as the small producer insted
of gettin' a rebate and a rakeoff from
the railrpad company. Ain't the tar
iff rate of twenty cents mdre profitable
than when it is cut down by takin' out
part and givin' it back to the Standard
for rebate? It's the same all along the
line. Roosevelt wants to hav the small
dealer in the identical conditions get
the same rate squarely that the big fel
low does
Dr. Anna Shaw is tryin' to hold up
the men of the United States with the
promulgation of the woman's suffrage
slogan "No ballot^ no babies." It looks
like this might be turned around by
the men and they ought to inscribe on
their banners, "No babies, no ballot"
Wouldn't this cut lots of the prominent
women's suffrage advocates out of a
vote? You'd think that the ballot for
women would transform this-/ead and
dreary world in to a paradise andthat
it would makewomenprolific in child
bearin' and that there neyer woiild be
any more temptation!" in' the path of
men so that they would never sacrifice
more upon the shrines of Bacchus and
Eros and that, the $rhole bunch wottld
iv henceforth pure, strong and health
ful lives. I reckon1 that the suffragists
aint onto tbe real hold whiph ol&Nlck
has on the average man. It'll take
more than a woman's yote to flrive the
old chap out of the ordinary man slick
and -ciean and for good. 