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Show y p COMMOX SENSE AGAINST VISIONARY PROMISE 3 ! J President Colidge talked common sense to his Philadelphia Philadel-phia audience unadorned and unemotional comm6n sense. The value "of such a speech is that it helps people te think, and to think clearly. "With railways and electrical utilities under political control, the domination of a group would be so frimly entrenched entren-ched in the whole direction of our government that the privilege privil-ege of citizenship for the rest of the people would consist largely large-ly in the payment of taxes." The President's words are an admirable ad-mirable summing up of the inevitable political consequence What we saw when Congress cowered before the railroad bro therhoods and passed the Adamson law would become the normal nor-mal situation at Washington. A bureaucracy, supported by millions of goverment employees, and holding the life of the nation in its hands by control of its arteries of trade and natural nat-ural sources of mechanical power, could convert the rest of uf into mere supplicants for mercy, paying compulsory-tribute t.t our masters. "The naturalization of all industry oould soon bo expected," declares the President, and if any one thinks he is exaggerating the danger let him ask himself but a review oi the past. Corrective measures are ever necessary. The President is relying upon the common sense of the voters. He is appealing calmly and potently to their reason He and his associates on the ticket are holding firmly to tin real issues in the campaign, and talking sound, .fundamenta' Americanism. Chicago Post. The average guy never thinks about saving until he gets to where all he's got left to save is for a shroud. , |