The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-30
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peculiarly Significant political cam
paign. | have felt moved to indlte
scme observations apropos thereof.
Perhaps they win not seem very inn
pregnnted with politics in these pip.
ing times than an occasional indui-
gence ought to be pardoned, even II
its relevauce to anything In particular
may not be quite obvious.
You will have been told, so many
times that IL is no longer capable of
making an impression, that we are
conducting a new governmental ex-
pertinent I'm this country. True enough,
even IL the idea is no longer capable
of inducing a thrill. But ! am going
to ruminatc briefly about another eN-
pertinent, and much more recent; an
experiment with the substance, not the
form, of republican government; an
attempt to develop representative gov
crnment into really popular govern
ment We are trying to superimpose
the fact of government by the people,
upon a system whose structure was
reared with only the thought Of ad.
ministration by the representatives of
the people. And whether 1t is our
destiny TO fail or TO succeed in this
departure, / conceive viii find index
in the results of the polling that will
take place on November Sth.
Count on Country Conservatism
II is, I think, "up to- the farmers.
Historically, traditionally. the rural
masses have been disposed too much
to accept that government which was
imposed upon them by the people of
the cities. Ancient Greece was, In
additionally, more Athens than
Greece. Old italy was more Rome
than Italy. Pre-revolutionary France
was mostly Paris; Paris led, France
followed. When Pitt went in for a
strong protection program in England
shutting out the manufactures OF
Partisan factories, Paris was plunged
into hard times, and the French revo-
luton started. not with long-sufferins
rural peasantry of the provinces, but
with the unemployed and hungry arti'
zans and shophands of the capital
When wars We're to be borne and
when the devastation of internal dis.
order must be sustained. then the
farming community came In for Its
participa ton. 1t was permitted t1
contribute its crops, its taxes. IL
flesh and blood: but the big towns
managed the big game of affairs and
the countryman was rather silent
partner.
1t has been much the same down to
our own times. How many times have
| sat. on election night, in the office
of county central committee and,
when the city wards sent in returns
of revolutionary cast. heard the sea-
soned politi 'ia1s speak up with re-
reassuring tone:
"Oh, don't worry; wait till the coun.
try townships get in; they'll stick ana
i'm come out all right"
Which was very apt to prove true.
The country is, and always has been,
the headquarters of conservation.
But the country is breaking away
from its old moorings. 1t'is getting
prosperous, self-confident and reliant.
II reads better stuff" and reads II
more. carefully: it studies and thinks
more. why. you can't get anybody IN
the big cities, powadays to read much
farther than the baseball scores and
the racing done" Ihe city folks
want SelsatloHs' not lue"S' ~ 10 VI.
countryman who IL doing the real
cerebral work in this country, and
right now he has the opportunity to
make. the whole nation sit up and take
notice Of the fact that he II going
hcnccforwurd to demand considcra
ton.
Don't set ali this down as CUFF and
buncombc. You know mighty well
that 1t is neither, when YOU stop and
thing how the farmer Is entrenchec
economically. He has the world by
tail. with a down-hill pull. and TIA,
world knows 1t. 1t didn't know j
until recent times. The farmer Away
had the power but he didn't appre
ciate it and neither did the man II
town.