The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-05-16
PRO R[SS AND
POLITICS
BY o. M. Thomason.

By o. NJ. Thomson.
There is politics and politics. There
are politicians and statesmen. Poll
tics is the science of government and
politics is a game-a game at which
politicians play and the country fur
nishes the stakes. Politics, when
played as a game becames the means
whereby the cunning, cowardly, &C
cusing, cringing cur, stacks the cards
in the interest of INSCRIPTIONS cor
porate greed and cold-decks the gull
lible public.
Politics as a science, is the means
whereby the common business of the
nation is managed; whereby the bur-
dens of government are equitably ad-
justed; and the affairs of the coun-
try justly, honestly and fairly oper-
ated in the interest of all the peo-
pie, according to the wish and will
of all the people, regardless of Sec
ton, cline or cast. 1t is the pros
titution of this science that has
brought politics into disrepute in the
eyes of many good men and furnish
ed an excuse for clean men to stay
"out of politics." This is, as the
thieves and traitors and political
puppets would have it be, and the
ultra nice, who sand back and leave
dirty politics" for dirty men, are
doing the will of the dirty men.
Scientific standards of the past
are every day being shattered into
fragments, and new ones set up.
Deductions of yesterday are upset by
demonstrations of today and they in
turn will be reconstructed by dis
coveries of tomorrow. Anything, re-
ligion, business, machinery, transport
tation, communication and education
are progressing and growing-or dy-
ing AS the chick in the shell grows,
the shell must likewise grow, or
burst and drop off. AS the business
of our government grows, enlarges
and expands, the methods by which
it is run must likewise grow to fit
it, or be cast aside, as a useless frag-
ment. The strides of progress are
rapid and he who keeps up must
hurry. The man who sits in the
shade of the dead past is either go
ing to be left behind or will be gull
ty of retarding progress. II he pos
sesses the power to prevent progress
and exercises that power to the graf
ification Of his own whims and be-
cause it is the wish and to the in
terest of those who profit by stag
nation, corruption and retrogression.
he is a traitor to the best interests
Of bis 1(?), country and deserves to
be sloughei off, dumped into the
with other muck where
he belongs.
Our country is growing in more
ways than one-and we want it to|
grow, and to become more and more
a government by all the people, etc,
and we must enlarge our political
to fit the growing needs
and thus avoid stunning or discourage
ng further growth and delevopment.
Political parties are organizations
Of different types or patents, design
I'd to run the government, each in
It's own peculiar way. Some of these
parties are designedly intended to
run the government in the interest
Of the people. But self-seeking, un-
patriotic men have got control of
,hese parties and are endeavoring to
run them in their own selfish inter-
EST. Because of these facts such par
les cease to justly serve the people
and are relegated to the rear. This
IS as it should be. A party that
lOT d CldSS, tIlCh VI COItO6O
1t the sacrifice of the whole people
Is not worthy of a place among our
American institutions. When a par
" ceases to be a weapon of defense
and also of offense, protecting and
the masses against the I'M
lerhanded assaults of American plu-
.ocracy, it deserves to be stamped I'M
der foot of righteous contempt.
The man who best serves his coun-
try is the man who, regardless Of
party, present or past, cautiously and
yet vigorously pushes to the front
along every avenue of progress and
We are always i'm
proving by the experience of the past.
and while mistakes may occur by
going too fast, the danger Is not as
great as that of standing still or re-
ceding. Good government, like all
other things, is a work of conquest
and utilizing all that Is
good for the benefit of the whole.