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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1916
Page
4
A conversation on building and enacting picture plays leads to a two reel scenario featuring Rosalind and Jenkins. They stage the second reel by a stream, dramatizing a past misunderstanding about a letter of acceptance versus rejection, with commentary on performance and romance.
Republican congressional candidate Tom Corkery says if elected he will push a constitutional amendment to ban booze nationwide, arguing that what is worth having is worth fighting for. He states his readiness to take on the fight for Prohibition.
The Battle Creek address argues Washington and Lincoln valued righteousness over peace and condemns leaders who kept the nation out of war as akin to Tories and Copperheads. It frames Wilson supporters as fearing conflict, praising those who faced peril to uphold just and righteous causes.
The excerpt cites Roosevelt’s Battle Creek speech supporting Hughes, noting Wilson’s earlier harsh criticism of labor unions while president of a university, then his shift after entering politics. It quotes his 1905 and 1907 remarks and a 1909 letter praising open shop, concluding his convictions did not clearly change.
A speaker argues Congress can regulate labor groups and extends a plan for newspaper workers to work six hours daily and earn about ten dollars weekly more, challenging current wage structures.
A narrator follows a family abroad from New York to Naples Rome Florence and Switzerland. He spies a young woman, an ensuing pin incident breaks the ice, and an engagement forms after a cautious courtship while traveling.
The text argues President Wilson bowed to labor leaders and Congress faced with coercion and political gain. It contends the eight hour question was secondary to wage increases and was settled without inquiry or knowledge, driven by fear and hope of political profit.
An advertising tract argues the dry law failed to curb private alcohol use. It claims homes held more liquor than ever after January 1916, spurring bootlegging, permits surges, more arrests, and rising crime, and urges passage of Initiative Measure No. 24 to allow limited private beer purchases.
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