The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-21
GOOD MEDICINE-BEFO AND
 AFTER

ddCpeES NOtemucT 4Noului. ptiutS a election sermon which contains advice which is even more worthy of careful study and consideration now
 that the contest is over. The lesson
 is one which should commend itself
 to the serious thought of every true and patriotic American citizen no
 matter what may be his party pro- clivites. "If," says Harper, lever
 one asked ones self, Why have
 elections every four years when in one
 generation nature will supply you
 with chief of the state for forty or
 fifty years, if the prince lives so long,?
 one is enlightened by the clear Amer
 can sun to answer one's self, Be cause you cannot have kings without
 lords, or lords without commons, and
 these differences are worse than the
 worst that a measureless equality can
 iU Iu itself iu the must corrupt elec
 tions and administrations. Very
 likely if party adverse to the pres
 ent now comes into power, the ola
 presidential rotation in office will rage
 in some form or measure, but this
 will Lot be parable to the degrad
 ing and insulting persistence in power of class because it is a class. and not because it is party. " If doubt again urges that there is at least one sovereign in Europe now trying non-
 archy without an aristocracy, you answer again that the experiment in
 Norway is new, and has yet to prove successful in the long run. If we
 wish to see how it will work on our own scale. we can, without going in
 for royal family, easily, have the effects of hereditary monarchy by r,. electing some favorite President in- definitely r ..ss
 There is nothing in the Constitu- tion-an instrument of really hexi- bility, though apparently so unyield- ing-which fcrbids this.. Pobably after few re elections there would ont be so much injury to business in- terests from the repeated choice of the same incumbent: the opposition might cease to nominate candidates but this is not certain. We suppose that in Mexico, where Senor Diaz has been President longer than any prince has reigned in Europe, except the Emperor of A ustria, and the good King of Belgium and Congo, there must be an Anti-Diaz party which goes through the motions of being de- feated at the polls, so as to keep up the popular belief that Mexico is a | republic. Something like this might happen with us. Otherwise we do | not see how we can help having Pres. idental elections more or less obstrep- | erous. as we have always hau them. | At the worst, they form for the won't ed activities of life sort of Sabbatical year, and probably we get a great deal more pleasure and profit out of and it is advisable in common wealth for the body polite to give itself to season of athletics which must prevent the accumulation of fat and the degeneration of the civic tissues, by causing the blood to circu- late more rapidly through the veins. For time we may wholesomely aban- don ourselves to the delights of make e-belieye, a dream of faery. in which half of us pretend that the other half means the destruction of the courts, the deification of the trusts the apotheosis of the unions, the robbery of the rich, the enslave- Dent of the poor, the subversion of the Constitution, and the ruin of the republic by wicked and wanton wars. Of course we all know better but in the meantime it is like play in the theatre, a meIodrama that lasts three l: months. There is, it must be owned, i ! good deal that is clumsy and un- in the working of the machine, and always, no matter what he event. there is sore disappoint- nent with the gods that como out of 1t. The defeated like to contend that I hey were defeated by . minority,