The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-15
NEW HAVEN MORNING AND COURIER

ship upon the new questions as well as upon the old questions in reference to which their parties were organized In time, as the original questions which led to the formation Ue a party disappear. the party continues with an organization representing it's members no longer for the specific purposes which brought them together, but for the new purposes which they have agreed upon througs the processes of their party organization and activity.
 We often hear remarks made which indicate an impression that politi- clans are rather low set of fellows, with selfish aims and corrupt prac- tices, who manipulate party politics for their own advantage and that the less self-respecting gentlemen have to do with them the better. If that is ev- CT the case and it undoubtedly is the case at some times and in some places, it is always because at such times and in such places political control is all lowed to go by default. Such a condi- tion of political affairs is always due to the fact that the citizens who are honest, upright, and public-spirited, who would not prostitute party power to personal advantage, who would not make a party organization corrupt combination to secure place and profit, fail in the performance of their pub lie duty and permit the party organi- zation which limits and restraints the exercise of their political power to re- main in the hands of unworthy and self-seeking men. There is no party in which the great body of the voters desire that kind of control, and it can not exist unless the voters of the par ty, and the citizens who ought to be active in exercising the powers of the party, fail through indifference and unwillingness to spend the necessary time and take the necessary trouble to exercise the powers that lie within their reach.
 Another reason or excuse for not 1 taking part in political affairs is the direct reverse of those that I have mentioned; it is that party manage ment is satisfactory; that matters go along very well, and that man does | his duty to his party if he supports it's ticket with his vote and perhaps contributes his fair share toward the payment of its. expenses. This posi- tion can never be maintained.
 None of these reasons for not taking part in party politics is ordinarily the real reason. The real reason is that men are unwilling to spend the time and the money and the labor necessary for the due performance of their du- ties as citizens; that they prefer to at tend to their professions, their busi-
 ness, their pleasures, and allow others
 to govern them rather than to take part in governing themselves; that
 they are willing to permit the great
 struggle which is continually proceed ing for the preservation and protection
 of their property, their liberty. theil Opportunities, for sound principles Q finance, for the preservation of society for the correction of social and politi cal and business evils, for the punish,
 ment of wrong-doing, for the further Iance of justice and the maintenance
 of peace and righteousness to go o1
 on without any help from them The! are willing to let the great mass o linen upon whose education and cieai