Arizona republican., 1910-09-14
Current Comments
POLITICS, THE NATIONAL FRET

Rightly reviewed, politics affects the average citizen only in so far as | through them the party in power is able to keep the business of the coun- try moving at that steady hum which guarantees every man a job. The aV- craze citizen-And that means the man who in mass makes up the nation that is governed-is not directly interested whether his party rules or that only in so far as the political principles for which that party stands are calculated
 to check the whirr of the wheels of commerce or accelerate them.
 Strictly speaking, all the people of the nation ask of their government is ! peace at home and abroad. sound financial policy, a protective tariff that will shield the adequately paid Ameri- can workman from competition with his lilly nourished and poorly paid
 brother workman of the old world. Who holds the offices, who is admins
 tering the laws, what those laws may
 be so long as they are fair and equit-
 able in all matters which directly con-
 cern him. strictly speaking, matters
 not at all to the man whose business
 in life it is to earn a living for himself and family, give his children all the
 education they can absorb and use to
 advantage, and look a little ahead to
 the future way of doing his best toward seeing to it that neither he nor his
 will ever have to accept a poorer lot
 in life He who is doing that need not
 worry about the government, need not
 fret himself over the fact that others
 ur fn need mt lose
 the chance for joy in living the life he
 may be worrying and stewing because far away in Washington, or up at the
 state house or down at the city hall
 the outs are fighting against the ins and finding some things to complain of.
 As a people we make too much of politics, lay too heavy stress upon mat ters which after all affect us person ally but little or not at all. 1t is bor- rowing trouble, erecting windmills of menace in order that we may have at them with our lances which better, much better might be rusting in the corner the while we are getting what pleasure of living is to be derived from our family interests and friends. If all the talk that is wasted in airing the imagined grievances suffered through imaginary wrongs worked through pol
 itics were only expended in ways that would help to improve the time one has to spend in this world, we as people would be making much faster progress in those things which really concern us.
 The we'll managed home is the great est safeguard of a wellmanaged re- public; a family in which the several members are holding to right princi- pies, living upright lives, working in harmony and accord with one another is the model for that nation that will longest endure and achieve best results for all it's citizens. Every member of that kind of a family will vote right without talking about it. Strife, hag- gling, fault-finding, tale bearing, back | biting, fretting about matters which do not directly and closely concern us, | is worse than wasting effort since it only disturbs the waters and keeps our | public concerns in a fret and stew 1 that minimizes our chances for sue cess in those things which are our di- | rect concern.-Denver Republican.