The daily sentinel., 1904-02-10
THE DAILY SENTINEL
LEE s BUNTING, Proprietor.
L. N. BUNTING. Editor.
1.-THE BEST WAYS IN POLITICS.. >

SuuuaY prluteu du auuIees VI I1Ou.
Alva Adams which was delivered be-
fore the Y. NJ G. A. of Colorado Col
lege at recent date. the subject be-
ing 1.-THE Best Ways OF Politics. -
The subject is one that Mr. Adams
should be very familiar with as he
has been a public man and statesman
in Colorado for 10 these many years.
A student. a scholar and one of the
best po sted men in the country regard
ing current politics. Mr.. Adams ad-
dress was clean cut and to the point
at issue. In order to give the readers
of the Sentinel some idea as TO the
substance contained in the address ex-
tracts are taken therefrom as follows.
Honesty tegrity-character are
the only solvent capital in the man
hood trust; all else are wind. water
and delusion. When the second NOR
tai was placed in its Garden of Eden
these eternal principles became the
rule of human conduct. God cannot
repeal them, nor can legislator. law
y,r or politician amend them.
The statement of the subject you
have assigned me, 1.-The Best Ways in
Politics. - implies that there may be
an option in political methods or NOR
ais. We may with clear conscience
believe in double standard of money,
but every trae man knows that there
can be only a single standard of NOR
ais. In the management of public
affairs, right, Justice and 10y atty are
imperative. A departure from these
inexorable laws have brought stain
and reproach to the nation. Our sys-
tenn of government is not to blame;
it is the best yet devised. bnt we are
defective in ministration, and for
this the people. and the people alone.
are responsi BILE In the spoils systems
of politics officials will be as bad as
| their constituents will permit or as
good as they demand. l do not indict
| the agent but the principle. not the
official but the man that creates him.
If we see servant stealing from
us and still retain him we deserve to
be paupers.
In pious terms they deplore the use
of money in elections and yet by their
own neglect compel campaign chair
men and committees to send thousands
of dollars to do that which every 10y
al voter should do for himself.
Only good citizens can make a good
government and no man is a good cit
izen who does not do his part. who
does not consider the character of can
didates, attend primaries and go to the
polls.
Let the press and the people be
honest themselves and then insist
that laws shall be executed, that Off
Gals must do their duty or go into
private life or into Jail. and our poll
tical scandals will vanish.
We suffer as much from incompe-
tency. from the stupid laundering of
the fellow who didn't mean to do
it," as from the rascal.
The genius of free government is
the responsibility of the individual. q
My indictment of the press refers
only to their treatment OF politics dur
ing campaigns and to this there are
some splendid exceptions. as iii the
ludhhkSlnoAbO VI biiO phpcAS Ill NOuI OWh
city and Others.
There is not a political crime for
which the law does not provide a
penalty but the mass of our people
take as little personal interest in the
execution of these laws as an old maid
does in a birthday party.
Civic duties cannot be performed
~.
love by telephone.
To take an interest in local politics
is a duty as sacred as that we owe the
church-as holy as the claim of tho
home.
You may think these sentiments
trite and commonplace. and they are ;
but,they must be cIystalized into civic
conduct before we can come to the
best ways of politics. For reform
the nation must look TO the youth of
the land. You cannot expect those
who are responsible for present condi-
tions to change. The evangelist will
tell you that the middle-a aged and the
old seldom seek the penitent's bench
1t was said that no doctor over 4C
years of age who lived in Harvey
time accepted his discovery of the cir,
culation of tine blood. The hope OF
better political methods is with the
young men and women now attendin.
the schools and colleges of our country
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The year 1904 has been a record
breaker so Tar as big fires and fataitiu
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