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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
2
A critical editorial denounces political agitators who capitalize strife, calling them threats to government and urging elimination from public life. It singles out liquor questions as a breeding ground for imprudent leaders and urges renewed focus on agriculture, industry, and national unity.
The piece extols bankers as noblemen fostering agriculture through low rate loans for livestock, seeds, and storage. It argues banks are building a national farming backbone, turning dollars into soil value and calling the bank a community financial powerhouse and asset.
The piece warns that politicians seek to draw preachers into politics, offering power and banners in processions. It notes most clergy resist, but a few fall and shake pulpit credibility across Christendom.
A heated critique condemns church organized political prayer meetings as fanaticism that compounds social bitterness and harms Christian influence in the community. The writer brands such gatherings as anarchistic and un Christlike, arguing they corrupt religious practice.
Peter Radford argues the agriculture market is the key to real progress and that $180,000,000 spent on soil, seed, and plant improvements in the U S over the last decade is wasted without equal focus on marketing. He calls for a massive organization to unite farmers merchants bankers editors and statesmen to solve this monumental challenge. The Farmers Union supports science and marketing but warns against neglecting either side.
The passage argues the wrong path is over producing goods to fuel factory manufacturing or saturating markets with surplus goods. It cautions against relying on merchants loading shelves and warns such glut threatens agriculture and merchant interests.
The piece recalls a legend where six claimants to the Persian throne swore by the first neigh of a horse to decide succession. It argues modern politicians should avoid public feuds and let disputes be settled away from the forum, lest industry suffer.
Congress enacts a 105 million war tax to offset lost import revenue from European turmoil. Beer contributes about 50 million, with stamps and taxes on capital stock, tobacco, perfumes and theater tickets making up the rest. The piece lauds the taxation as patriotic, noting luxuries and industries support the war effort while protecting national credit.
A long editorial argues against woman suffrage, praising service and family leadership. It condemns women voting while preferring motherhood and home life, and warns that seeking political parity risks social decline. It appeals to tradition, faith, and male leadership as foundations.
L B Johnson of Norfolk and Western outlines West Virginia Supreme Court rulings on two cent passenger rates. He notes states often cross subsidize passenger losses with freight profits and that courts constrain railways from carrying traffic below cost. The decision reinforces that surplus from fair rates belongs to the railroad.
The piece argues farmers should learn railroads and their problems. Kruttschnitt of Southern Pacific writes on railroad financing noting public authorities set rates and legislators and commissioners control earnings while promoters handle securities. He warns many lines need more capital to avoid breakdown and calls for extending earnings to fund rising capital charges.
A Rural State address argues for free ports to cut wharfage fees, boost farm goods exports, and shift congressional funds to sea commerce. It stresses the rural press and local papers as vital leaders in farm problems, urging farmers to subscribe and engage with local media and schools.
A new paper questions woman suffrage as the Texas Farmers Union rejects the proposed legislative measure. The piece reflects farm group attitudes from the state and reproduces Hon. W D Lewins argument that the push for voting rights targets women outside farming duties.
The message emphasizes farmers as crucial to national success urging effort for best results. It suggests steady hard work brings rewards and hints at tenant farming as one of many shared concerns affecting agricultural livelihoods.
The Press and pulpit join with schools as a trio of influence to advance agriculture. The piece urges utilizing this trio to strengthen farming efforts and rural progress through organized outreach and education.
Themistocles argued that true statesmanship lies in building and public works rather than rhetoric. He warned politicians who boast in oratory but fail to create tangible progress. The message urges leaders to focus on roads bridges and farms before seeking power or drafting laws.
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