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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK The Steamship Fire No Shooting Santa Claus You Need Not Read Billions and Billions Officers of the Morro Castle sug-1 gest that "Reds" set fire to the ship. Perhaps they did ; "Keds" are notorl-; ously wicked. On the other hand, j "Reds" might be a convenient and profitable excuse. Havana reports 28 Cubans arrested ar-rested for plotting to destroy the life of Mr. Cutlery, United States ambassador to Cuba. Of course, they were "Reds." This seems to be the "Reds' " busy season. Cut, when you read about "wicked Reds" setting fire to the Morro Castle for the pleasure of burning people, remember that while nothing may be too wicked for "wicked Reds," It Is also the fact that owners of the Morro Castle Cas-tle would be free from all damage suits If It could be proved that tue ship was set on fire. A distinguished gentleman, former for-mer cabinet member, asked what he thought about this fall's elections, elec-tions, replied, "As you know well, you can't shoot Santa Claus, meaning that President Roosevelt is the national Santa Claus. Maine's election Indicates that "shots" aimed at "Santa Claus" will be few for the present The Republican Repub-lican state of Maine re-elected a Democratic governor and also went wet by a big vote. And Maine was the first dry state with a prohibition prohibi-tion law passed 80 years ago, In 1S54. New York's Supreme court, Appellate Ap-pellate division, decides that It is not necessary to be able to read or write in order to vote, a sound decision. de-cision. Abraham Lincoln's mother couldn't read. She would have voted wisely. Shakespeare's mother moth-er probably couldn't read, his wife and daughter certainly could not. More Important, the ballot Is given to the ordinary citizen not to let him show how learned a person he is, but to let him put dishonest rascals and Incompetent geese out of office. It isn't necessary to know how to read or write In order to know that you have been badly governed and are hard up. The government will refund one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four million dollars' worth of government debts, and rejoices that It will pay only 34 per cent Interest. Why issue more fiat bonds when plain fiat money would be exactly ex-actly as good? Neither Is worth more than the paper It Is printed on, except for the government's signature. During the 12 years for which the new government debt obligations will run taxpayers will have to pay In Interest unnecessarily $692,151,-bio, $692,151,-bio, or, compounding the Interest, $S3S,509,361. Furthermore, the government will have to refinance this year altogether alto-gether $5,309,086,400 of Indebtedness Indebted-ness and will presumably Issue fiat bonds bearing at least 3 per cent Interest. This foolishness will cost United States taxpayers In the 12 years following the Issue $2,093,-943,098. $2,093,-943,098. Two thousand ninety-three million dollars! Why Insist on Issuing fiat bonds when you can Just as well Issue flat money? The mother of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to life Imprisonment In San Quentln prison, but to be released re-leased if Upton Sinclair Is elected governor, died recently. Now it Is proposed to take her body, embalmed, em-balmed, of course, out to San Quentln Quen-tln prison, that her son may look once more upon her face. The warden does not think he can "permit" "per-mit" such a thing." He ought to permit It. On Long Island the mother of three children took poison, as many mothers do, unfortunately. This suicide was unusual because the mother, after taking poison, stood on her front porch screaming that she was sorry she had taken it. It was too late. She was dead when her husband arrived. Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, considered by those that ordinarily think little of labor leaders, "an absolutely ab-solutely honest and very able man," says capital and labor should Join to control the Reds. They might buy a mouse trap, pay In fifty-fifty, but after they got the Red mouse In the trap It would go on squealing about the prisoners of starvation. That little mouse has not had so much fun before tn all Its life, or at least not since Lenin died. Greeley said, "Go West, young man." Wall Street young men and old are going north to Toronto, where they find a new gold rush most profitable. It Is not a rush to reach remote mines, only a rush to the Toronto Stock exchange, where new gold and silver stocks are pouring out every minute and "Wall Street houses." disgusted with their own cold, cruel country, are opening branch offices rapidly. fc, KInj Futures 8yndlcat, Ino. WNU Eorvlc. |