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Show GOVERNOR SPROUL'S ADDRESS. Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania is la candidate for president He was one of the governors who, at The Hermit age In ogden canyon last summer, en-trrtained en-trrtained the assembled banqueters with wit and humor. He is clever in 'coining striking sentences and dealing deal-ing in the epigrammatic. He is a par. jtlsan of partisans and sees through glasses highly colored. In a speech to-day, to-day, he made this declaration: I "The rape of the railroads was con-iceived con-iceived in an unholy lust for power and partisan advantage ' Governor Sproul should not be so extravagant ex-travagant in language. When the rail roads were taken over, they were congested con-gested at every great terminal and in distress every wher. They -wore breaK-ing breaK-ing down from coast to coast Within 30 days after they were in government hands, the roads began to function normally and they went through the war period without collapse In the meantime, nearly every electric road Mn the United States all of which were left in private control either ent into, or verged on, bankruptcy Will Governor Sproul tell us more about this rape of the railroads? Then Governor Sproul indulges in this rich conceit: ' We must prepare not only to clsan 'up the governmental mess in which we find ourselves, but we must lay our plans for restoring our nation to the position of respect which it one held." America, up to the time of the fall jure of the United States senate to up .hold the dignity of the nation, held the highest position ever accord d I country In the affairs of men. Amer 'lea. six months ego, wee the hope of the world and the acknowledged mas-ttr mas-ttr of the destiny of all peoples. Today To-day America Is best represented as like the Arab who silently fold hi- tent and steals away. America, proud America, stealing awaj rrom the great problems and obligations left b world cataclysm! Oh. America! Then Governor Sproul close his appeal ap-peal In those words. "If we will como down out r,f the fool's paradise of extravagance and in-! efficiency in which we ha been soar, ing and get back to work in earnest, our troubles und tn our debts will soon vanish." That which has afflicted Auurlca, and is referred to as a fool's paradise, is not wholly American or peculiarly American. It Is an upset world wide. It is in France. In England, in Germany, Ger-many, in Italy, in Russia, in Japan. It is the unrest, the discontent, the unbalance, un-balance, the grief, the sorrow, the turmoil, tur-moil, the pain of vast masses of people peo-ple trying to find themselves after four years of the mightiest clash and disorganization that ever t re down the supporting pillars of orderly government. |