The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02
Mr.. Hamilton of Michigan said:

nave their youth, their middle age,
their old age, and they have their dis
eases"
AS a nation we are young in years,
but old in the elements that com
pose us.
Ethnologically we are about all the
nations of all the world and their
descendants.
Zangwill compares us to a melting
pot, in which all nationalities are be.
ing fused and transformed here on
American soil into new nationality;
but we are something more than a
melting pot of nationalities. We are
a melting pot in which all creeds
cults, ideals and institutions are being
fused and transformed.
And sometimes the more radical
and revolutionary the creed, cult, idea,
or ideal, the more attention It attracts
for a time till some other creed, cult
idea or ideal boils to the surface-and
that keeps the pot boiling.
After centuries of warfare with
caste, privilege, prerogative, kings and
dynasties, humanity ID realizing here
IL Ultimate idea and he pc p ara
supreme.
But some people are more supreme
than other eople, Just as they always
were; come people are richer than
other Ieople; some people are wiser
than other people, and some people
are going around telling other people
about It and explaining how much bet.
ter it would be for everybody II Mr..
So-and-so could be given political
job, just as they always did.
Vote for Proclinus today and he
will vote for you tomorrow
They found that proclamation plac-
arded Oh the walls of Herculaneum
after II had been there 1000 years,
covered with ashes, but Proclinus Is
still running for office and soliciting
votes on the same Old terms.
After all, we are nearly all Of us
Just folks, and, fortunately, most folks
want to do right. and so long as most
folks want to dc right in government
by majorities, we shall continue to go
forward on the upgrade.
But In the midst OF so much confu,
sion, in the midst OF so much mega.
phonic political holiness, in the midst
of so many sriouters at the doors of
so many political tents. each adver.
Using his own greatest show on
earth just upon the inside" in the
midst of so many palitical necromanc.
ers and jugglers and sword swallowers
and serpentine dancers and tight.rope
walkers, plain people, who simply
want the privilege of living and pay,
ing taxes, sometimes find 1t difficult
whether, to paraphrase Dickens, we
are living in the best of times or the
worst of times, in an age Of wisdom
or an age of foolishness.
II is easy to imagine an ideal state
Humanity has been imagining an ideal
state ever since time began.
1t is all perfectly plain that every
body ought to be so good as not tc
need any laws or the makers, admins
traitors or construers of laws; and pow
erty ought to be abolished; and no
body ought to have to work too hard
and nobody ought to want to loaf toe
hard; and nobody ought to want to
buy too cheap; and nobody ought to
want to sell too high; and nobody
ought to put the big potatoes on top
and peck ought always to hold eight
quarts; and things ought always to
be true to name without the aid OF
DR.. Wiley; and nobody ought to want
to beat his neighbor in horse trade
and nobody ought to want to move
his line fence over on his neighbor;
and nobody ought to want to fence in
the public domain and there ought
to be no demagogues in politics; and
there ought to be no politics; and
everybody ought to tell the truth and
shame the devil, but they don't do 1t.
And, so far as ! have been able to
observe, you would never be able TO
tell mans politics by the way he
runs his business, except that when he
has no business at all he is likely
TO vote the Democratic ticket.
Mr.. Madden. Does the gentleman
mean to say that a man finds after
he has voted the Democratic ticket
that he has no business?
Mr.. Hamilton OF Michigan. He is
very apt to.
1t is long way yet to the millen'
mum.
Therefore, as Hamilton says in the
Federalist--
Because the passions of men will
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