The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-01-09

in working for their chiefs.
| will help in perfecting this work
if there is no suitable place provided
for me, for | think the command
ments and the golden rule do have a
place in politics as elsewhere and if
one goes so far as to adopt st. Paul's
altruistic principle of lin honor pre-
fering one another it certainly
does no harm and may do more
good than to always be looking out
for ones self first.
Why shouldn't some one work pa
triotically for the good of the whole
people?
This idea of letting the people
righteously rule is a solution, at
least in embryo, of the great prob
lem of civil liberty on which all peo-
Piles have been working for thousands
of years. 1t is the greatest issue in
the history of our country unless we
except the issue of war times.
But to free the whites from the
domination of mammon and bossism
in politics, it seems to me, is as i'm
portant as the emancipation and en-
reimbursement of the negro.
This would please the democrats
as well as republicans and the South
as well as the North. and should
make u party paramount for a
century.
Some say now that the President
has stolen all of Bryan's issues, and
if by my scheme of letting the peo-
pie righeously rule, we give them
all that the meaning of the word
democracy implies, we may shortly
have but one party for the country
and the little differences between us
as to candidates and issues will be
fought out in friendly contests in
one or two preliminary or primary
elections.
Then may it be truthfully said
that the democratic mule and the
republican elephant do lie down in
peace together and a little child
tone of the common people, shall
lead them both to drink of the
pleasant streams of happiness and
prosperity at one and the same
time.
Bryan is proudly called the Star of
the West but his light is waning, his
issues are changing; but this prlnci-
pie of civil liberty is eternal and if
| { ever get to be a guiding light in
political matters | want to be called
the Little Star of the North, fixed
and immovable, directing the lost
or bewildered or misled traveller, or
citizen of this great republic, to-
wards the true goal of our best en-
deavor, that is, equal rights and pri-
vileges for every citizen under just
and wholesome laws.
1t is said that the federal house OF
representatives has five times declar-
ed in favor of electing senator's by di-
rect vote of the people; and want to
suggest that we include the executive
officers while we are at it and thus
abolish the old electoral system,
which was long ago obsolete. This
would enfranchise about 200,0 DOC
voters who always lose their votes
in a state like Pennsylvania and pre-
vent a lot Of corrupt scrapping for
the few votes that give the balance
of power in close states like New
York and Indiana.
We have already begun civil sup.
ervision of elections by u Austral,
ian ballot and primary nominating
systems and now the President pro.
poses regulating campaign expenses
and even giving the parties financial
aid. How could the general govern.
ment better regulate executive and
congressional elections than by de.
claring all rings and pledges illega,
and then giving free printing and
franked postage for candidates tc
state their claims and issues to ever,
voter who has a voice in their ina
: election?
If we could have an informa