Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-02
A I,U1y OF CITIZENSHIP.


but next Saturday is no less important
as being The last day Of registration.
The Importance Of Tuesday will make
small difference to the city voter who
has failed to register. He can not
vote. So FIR as his voice in the set
Element Of national, state or county
politics and the selection OF the men
who are TO make and execute laws Is
concerned, he will be us silent as
Chinaman. The right to vote Is a privi-
lege at once sacred and splendid. 1t is
more than privilege. 1t is II right
and a duty. The voter who fails to
register or to vote evades or neglects
z his obligation as good citizen ana
drops into the clam class. Don't be
clam. Get out and register Get out
and vote with such common sense and
honesty as the good Lord has endowed
you. If you belong in the United
States be part Of it.
The differences of political opinion
are too widely varied to permit men to
vote their exact convictions, but they
can always strike an average There
are great issues and principles that are
common ground for ALL, II it is impos-
sible to vote precisely as seems desir-
able it III always possible to strike an
average. One party or another stands
closer to the voters conception Of the
common good. Men may always vote
some of their convictions. Get out and
do It. There are but two national par
ties that have any hope of success.
One afiil'ms and the other denies. One
does things and the other denounces.
One pus hes and the other pulls. One
leads ard the other follows. One has
built the United States into a world
power in industry and commerce and
finance. The other has ridden as a
parasite, to the prosperity gained and
kept by the progressive party. One
party is assertive, the other apollo
getic. 1t is up to the voter to classify
himself
The republican party justly claims the
credit for American Industrial suprem-
acy. 1t has protected the American
manufacturer and the American work.
ing man by beneficent laws. Not only
against the aggression Of cheap, for
eien labor, but against the n1achina-
tions of the party which has always
opposed its policies. 1t has made the
home Of the American working man
comfortable and prosperous. 1t has
made American money good wherever
It is offered In payment or for pur-
chase. It protects American citizens
at home and abroad and has placed
American citizenship on the plane of
the older Roman when to be Roman
citizen was to be safe everywhere in
side civilization. It is opening the
greatest waterway in the worlds his
tory. It is protecting the peace OF
the world, while extending the trade
relations of our own country.
It is for the voter to ask himself
4 which party suffers under the limelight
of history The party which Danish
ed slavery, built up the barriers that
protect American Industrial prosperity
against foreign competition, establish-
ed American currency on an absolute
basis, originated the rural mail deliv-
cry, made Cuba republic instead OF
a Spanish dependency, that has fought
the fight and kept the faith; or the
party which has constantly and sys-
tematically set its face against every
step forward and denounced every
great reform instituted by the repub-
licans. Choose We which We will serve,
but choose. Get out and vote right If
possible, wrong If you must.