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Show Campaign Contributions THE PROHIBITIONISTS have adopted a plan to raise money for the campaign. They charge 35 cents for admission to hear prohibition pro-hibition speeches. It Is said that it is not working work-ing very well, especially in New England. We suspe"' they would raise more money if they woulu charge 50 cents admission and then give a bottle of beer as a rebate. Prohibition Is a lovely thing. Some men have, through it, grown healthy and wealthy, but a lecture on prohibition is not a drawing card. The Socialists have a more winning device. They have buttons issued for 10 cents. They reissue re-issue them to the state organizations at 15 cents. Then the state organizations sell them to their adherents for 25 cents. It will be seen that there Is a graft all up the line, and we are afraid it would be just so if the party could succeed and elect a president and a congress. The last fellows fel-lows to get the benefit would be the people, and they would have to pay two and a half times as much as the original cost. It is said Mr. Bryan is having a hard game to raise needed funds. The farmers do not respond, the great "common people" that Mr. Bryan has exhausted so much eloquence upon and so much sympathy, do not respond. Mr. Taft, we suspect, is relying chiefly on his rich brother for funds, and if that is all in the family, that is nobody's business. We think Tom Watson, perhaps, has the best plan. He Is running down in Georgia, and with him it seems to be as it was with the Arkansas gentleman. As the story goes, a gentleman stayed over night with the Arkansas man, and getting up in the morning and looking around, he said to his host: "My friend, this is a beautiful country, but when you have to have a few dollars, dol-lars, how do you get it?" "When we have have it?" was the reply. "Yes. In the case of a funeral or of sudden sickness or an accident or any other emergency, in which you positively must have a little money, how do you raise it?" "That's easy," said the Arkansas man. "We just brace up and get along without it." |