'TIS DIFFERENT NOW
Last November Senator La Follette was re-elected in Wisconsin by a plurality of more than 116,000—several times as great as that Hughes received. This is taken to mean that the senator will dominate the campaign for the choice of a successor to Senator But such a conclusion is by no means certain. La Follette as a candidate in his own right and as a dominating if not dominating figure in a panvass where another is to be the real beneficiary are two different forces. No man can deliver his own strength to another. In addition, the conditions last fall, were very different from what they are now. Then pacificism was more fashionable than it has been of late.
Husting.
THE TEST IS AT HAND
The military expert of the London Times has given General Pershing's men the once-over, and pronounces them good to look upon, some is as handsome does, and that it will be a sorry day for the Boche when he goes up against the American. All this is pleasing to our national pride; and when the test comes we shall have proof that it is truth and not taffy.
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STRANGLE THE GAMBLERS
Samuel Untermyer says: "There is no greater and more insidious enemy to this country in these terrible times than the short selling gambler. The disheartening effect of his practice in the flotation of our government loan is in itself convincing proof of the viciousness of the practice." Mr. Untermyer urges that if the exchange refuses to forbid short selling the government should prohibit the use of the mail, telephone.  and telegraph for its quotations and eliminate such quotations from all publications. 