Part 3 (1/2)
”I may or I may not,” said the youth, with soht to vote for the best candidate, especially in local affairs”
”Then,--aheht place This is a straight organization, you know Maybe you can find an 'independent'”
(pronounced with scorn) ”organization so We have found these 'independents' a sort of obstruction to the transaction of business,--a kind of kickers, you know, though of course, you ht not turn out so Still,”--with decision,--”you really don't belong here”
”I wasthe story later
”I was disgusted with the looks of the man and with those ere in there with him I just turned on ain”
Was that patriotic? Was not that boy deliberately turning over the governrafters”?
”But,” you may say, ”should he have stayed on where he was not wanted?”
Certainly he should He had a right there, as any citizen had He should have taken time to find other voters like hiether they could have maintained themselves
He saw that this man and his coanization of his party, and he should have done his best, even at the sacrifice of considerable tiet better men in He was no patriot
CHAPTER IV
TEACHING THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY
In a country like ours, there is a public opinion of almost uncontrollable power The educated and the intellectual may have a decisive voice in its formation; or they norant and depraved to form that public opinion--HORACE MANN
ONE of the s in the world to a true patriot, is the visitor at his table, who exalts the superiority of other nations to our own
Not that nearly every other nation may not have some one or ed and en usually makes a blanket indictuest at a certain table just before the war He had recently returned froreat wealth and iave hiely control the life over there
”How are the people abroad thinking of us nowadays?” inquired his hostess rather lightly ”Do they despise us as reat man emphatically
”But I hope you stood up for us?”
”I wish I could say that I did,” he had the effrontery to reply calmly; ”but how could I? They consider that the corruption of our govern I couldn't deny it, could I? I agreed with them entirely that ere nearly at the end of our rope”
”Really?” gasped his hostess ”Are you in earnest?”
”I never was more so in my life Look at the condition of affairs in Blank and Blank and Blank,”--naislative scandals had been lately unearthed,--”How long do you think that things can go on like that and a governovernreat dream of the fathers, but it has proved to be as iood many other rainbow visions Sometime the world may be ready for it, but it evidently is not now”
”And what do you think will follow?” asked his hostess, holding on to her temper with difficulty ”Are you in favor of an autocracy like Germany, or of a liarchy a better foret our royal family? Should we elect one from candidates that present themselves? Or should we request Europe to send us one?”
”Now you are
”Oh, no, not exactly,” she laughed ”But really, if Europe is unani our republic a failure, therein it' You have been inpeople, and you knohat you are talking about If we are truly on the verge of a revolution, it is to the men like you, our foremost and ablest ht to be thinking of ways and means Here is a nation of nearly a hundred overnment is so rotten that it cannot last, what should be done?”