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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920
POLITICS IS THE NOBLEST OCCU
PATION OF CITIZNSH IP
Politics in a republic like ours is
the means whereby public questions
are determined through the influence
of public opinion.
1 On the part of the citizen it repre
sents the exercise of a sovereignty
and a responsibility quite as real as
that of a single ruler or group of rul
ers in any government where control
of public affairs is left to one or a
fevr
The person who says he is too busy
or too good to take a hand in poli
tics merely declares that he thinks he
is too good or too busy to assume his
share of responsibility for the wise
direction of the affairs of his own
country.
No one in time of war thinks of
boasting that he is either a slacker
or a deserter. But there are actually
men and women who think it is a
sign of superiority to affect a wisdom
and goodness which prevents them
from taking an interest and a hand
in the control of public affairs
through the one means open to the
citizen—the field of politics.
The man who sneers at government
or at politics, and decries the abuses
existing in hem. but who at the same
time neglects to participate in politics
or public affairs, merely advertises
his own cowardice or indifference to
wro»gs he is able to recognize, but
which he is unwilling to help remedy.
Politics and public affairs are as
good as the people who take a hand
in them. If their direction is selfish
and evil elements, then of course sel
fish and evil influence will prevail
there. But on the other hand if the
community give to these fields of en
deavor the attention they ought to
have, then the level of politics and of
public affairs will be lifted up.
Indifference is not merely a nega
tive evil; it is in the public affairs of
a popular government, a positive
vice. The man or woman guilty of
indifference to politics in a republic
has no right to complain of the short
comings of those who actually parti
cipate in politics—because it is not
possible that those who do take a
hand could be worse than the thor
oughly selfish elements involved in
exercising their own influence to cor
rect wrongs and abuses they declare
exist.
It is a favorite pose of people who
wish to explain their own failure to
take a hand in politics tb assume that
in some mysterious and unexplained
way some unseen something called a
"machine” has taken charge of pol
itics and that it is useless for ordi
nary citizens to attempt to resist its
power. But no organization has ever
effected in politics for a selfish or
malign purpose which well intentioned
men might not meet and overcome
through an organization effected for
unselfish and patriotic purposes. The
trouble is in most instances that the
slackers and deserters in politics are
really not as high minded and altru
istic as they claim to be. They are
merely looking around for well sound
ing excuses for their civic treason.
For civic treason is the word to ap
ply to the citizen who repudiates his
birthright of Americanism through a
' refusal to show an active and intelli
gent interest in the performance of
the duties of citizenship. The funda
mental duty of citizenship is to study
public problems, to affiliate with some
movement of citizens, similarly mind
ed on broad questions of public pol
icy, and to use one’s influence, in co
operation with others, for the advance
ment of that political party and that
leadership which comes nearest to
representing one’s own views in gov
ernmental matters.
The man or woman who sneers or
rail at politics and public affairs
without taking a hand in their regu
lation is a legitimate object in a re
America’s Assets: People, Institutions, as
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Well as Physical Resources. j
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By SECRETARY FRANKLIN K. LANE, in New York Times.
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The basis for confidence in the future of America
>, lies in its past and its present; in its past, because we
can see what has been done; in its present, because we
!| know what we have that can be the basis of future
development. Our assets are our people, our institu
| lions, our physical resources. That is to say, we have
! greater resources than the mere continent itself.
The breed of men that we have, their attitude
toward life and each other is more important even than
the number of our acres and the greatness of our
mineral resources and of our industries.
We are in every way a young people, and we look at things with youth
ful daring and with youthful selfishness, too.
No one has said that we are lacking in self-appreciation. We are
emotional, sentimental, romantic, idealistic, and these things go for the
making of standards which affect us- in everything we do. Our sense of
humor and our common sense save us from extremes and keep these up-in
the-air tendencies within the limitations of practicability.
^ ith this kind of a nature, a daring, aggressive, mastering nature,
tempered by standards of fair play, plus a good conceit of ourselves and
an almost inordinate ambition to excel, individually and collectively, there
is not much danger of our becoming stagnant or settling down com
placently or cynically into a flat-footed life.
We shall not do things in the twentieth century in the same way we
did them in the nineteenth, but we shall have the same purpose—which is
to give to every man his chance. We will not permit ourselves as a people
to be rounded up into a mass and rolled into a jelly cake, so to say, but
as individuals we shall feel a responsibility to meet the challenges which
physical and social conditions give.
Leading Commercial Nations May Fix
Gold and Silver Exchange Ratio.
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By SENATOR THOMAS of Colorado, Speech in Congress.
Mr. President, 1 have neither the wish nor the need to revive the old
free-silver controversy which disturbed the political and financial chro
nometers from 1873 to 1900 and which became the paramount issue of
the campaign of 1896. Its fundamental premise disappeared when silver
touched 1.2939 in the markets of last November. It reversed itself when the
price passed that figure. Gold then became ihe defendant in the world’s
j financial courts. There it can say nothing in its behalf.
Events have confirmed the wisdom of bimetallism, justified the argu
ments of its defenders) confounded the contentions of gold-standard per
manency. and demonstrated the great truth that the material composing
money of redemption, whatever it may be, must yield to the inexorable
pressure of demand and supply, and rest its fixity of values upon the fiat
of human laws and customs.
If any illustration were needed to emphasize this fundamental truth,
it can be found in the career of the American silver dollar which has
through all the years passed current at 100 cents, while silver in the mar
ket has fluctuated from 46 cents to 134 cents the ounce.
Bold, indeed, is the man who will today contend that the leading com
mercial nations may not agree upon and enforce a fixed ratio of exchange
between the metals and thereby steady the markets of the world, increase
the volume of standard money, quicken the currents of trade, and establish
the world’s commerce upon a permanent and enduring money basis.
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| In fact this nation must be saved, if
1 it be saved at all, by the citizen who
; gives an intelligent attention to pol
itics incidentally to his everyday work
in other fields.
And what field of duty more invit
ing than that of the intelligent exer
cise of one’s influence in the deter
mination of the affairs of one’s coun
try. What service to society calling
for a higher degree of intelligence
broader information, knowledge of
human nature and ability to “do
things” than politics in a republic like
ours; what area of endeavor throw
ing one into more interesting and en
lightening relationship with one’s fel
lows?
Why should not men and women
show the same zeal in informing
themselves about politics and public
affairs, the proper determination of
which so vitally affects the future of
our nation, as they do in becoming
“fans” along other lines of human
activity, some of them of no bearing
whatever upon public welfare?
The truth is that with all the big
talk about creating a better social,
economic and political order in our
republic, there is only one way in
which this can happen, and that is
through a more general, a more in
telligent and a more effective exercise
of citizenship rights, duties and op
portunities for practical human serv
ice by the every day people of this
country. Political activity, base not
upon mere fealty to individuals or de
sire for officeholding or for power
to be used for personal purposes, but
upon fealty to principle, upon love of
country and aspiration to serve it,
should be held up before the pe<$ple
of this nation as the noblest occupa
tion of citizenship. It should be un
derstood that the man or woman who
refuses to take a hand in politics or
public affairs as a mere “kicker,”
“knocker,” and chronic critic of what
is done by those who do anything, is
not the superior being he professes
to be, but a decidely undesirable cit
izen.
public like ours of pity and contempt.
Whether this course be the result of
ignorance or indifference, the effect
of such self exclusion from the inunc
tions of self government is the
same.
It is not necessary to be a profes
sional politician in order to take an
active and effective hand in politics.
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