Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-11-28
The Matter of URings. -

1t is usual for persons who de-
light in finding fault and trying to
kick up row in any organization
to which they belong, to talk
mysteriously and with bated breath
about the enormous iniquities of
''The Ring" But if called upon
to describe the bugaboo so that
anybody could recognize it, they
would have to draw very literally
upon their imagination.
There are always people who are
by nature insubordinate. You will
find them in churches, in politics,
in lodges and everywhere else that
organization exists. They want to
tear down instead of build up.
They are envious, and love to at
tribute bad motives to everybody.
They do not care to take hold and
help push things along themselves,
but take great pleasure in standing
with their arms folded sneering
and criticising those who are tug
ging away in the harness.
In every organization there are
always some persons who take
greater interest in it than others.
They naturally go ahead and do
what they think ought to be done
for its welfare and success, and
because of their energy and zeal
they come to be looked upon by
others who are interested in the
success of the organization as lead
ers, and their opinions are ac-
counted of more value than the
opinions of those who take little or
no interest. These are denominat-
ed by the drones and kickers as
''The Ring"
If you want to improve an or
ganizatiOn-if you are interested
in its welfare-get into it, and give
it the benefit of your advice and
council. To stand aloof and howl
like a coyote only makes you ridi-
culous. "All the world loves a
lover" and all the world feels like
kicking a kicker.
We hear much of political rings,
but very little that is rational
very little that is not dictated bv
revenge, wounded vanity, or a
chronic disposition to refuse to be
anything unless you can be the
'whole thing" Like Cassius,
these fellows "will not follow any
thing that other men begin" and
they will not begin anything but
row.
A political organization in any
civil division in which the popular
vote is used to determine issues,
must be composed of majority of
the voters, or it cannot succeed.
Those who take the most active
and intelligent interest, who dis
play the most zeal for the success
OF their party-naturally come to
be regarded as leaders. Such has
ever been the case since man has
kept record of events, and such
will continue to be the rule till the
end of time. If leaders become
corrupt and selfish, and it is ap-
parent that they are looking more
to their own than to their party's
welfare, the rank and file of the
organization will soon lose conf
dence in them, and their influence
will die-as it should. New lead
ers will then arise spontaneously,
but they will never come from the
ranks of the chronic fault finder,
whose business it is to destroy,
and not to build. Leaders must
be of the constructive, and not of
the destructive, temperament.
Every Republican, and every
Democrat, who takes an interest in
his party, is member of the
organization. Those who oppose
it call the active list, or workers,
the ring, and point to it as q
diabolical thing. The oldest man
living cannot remember when the
disgruntled ones of his party did
not talk about "The Ring" and
if he should live thousand years
longer he will continue to hear the
same thing.
No considerable body of men can
work together successfully without
organization. If the Republican
party had no organization in the
county. State or Nation. the Demo-