The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-25
~ GEORGE MARTIN.

~ oeVnSe "Nnt1N
Consider. a moment, the knob on
your front door.
To you, Mr.. Bank President; to you,
MIR. Factory Owner; to you, Mr.. Pro-
fessional Man; to you, Mr.. Merchant;
to you. Mr.. Clerk; to you. Mr.. Day
Laborer-this request is addressed
When you go home this evening and
transfer from one hand to the other
your bonds Or your dinner-bucket to
open the door, consider, a moment, the
Knob thereon.
o the knob the ends Of many lines of
white Irvine. These lines represent
your personal interest in your home.
your family, your business, your job.
your situation.
You will notice that these white
lines lead down off the porch, out
across the lawn. into the street and
away out of sight around the r
Follow these lines of personal inter-
est to the end, treading carefully the
labyrinth of twists, turns, circles and
that they all terminate in Washington,
District Of Columbia, the seat of Ma
tional Government. Your lines of per-
onal interes in all that you possess
n desire to possess may wander and
ramble and tangle across and up and
down the United States, but every line
starts from the knob on your front
door and ends at the seat of National
Government.
ThnPo terminating with vaI1r 0Un
lines Of personal interest, you will find
millions Of other little white lines of
personal interest which started from
the door-knobs of millions of other
homes belonging to millions of other
Individuals of flesh and blood just like
your own self. These millions of other
ines have twisted and tangled across
and through the country just as has
your little handful Of personal interest
lines-but they all terminate at the
same place.
Washington, District of Columbia, is
a giant house with a great, massive
door and a ponderous knob. About this
| great knob are tied the ends of your
| personal interest lines and with them
thereto are tied the personal interest
lines of ninety million other persons
Just like yourself.
This giant house, The House OF
Washington. is occupied by a body o.
men who have been sem there from
all owe the country by you and your
| ninety million brothers. You and your
brothers sent these men to this great
house to look carefully, honestly, con
s~cientiously after the welfare Of the
millions upon millions of personal in.
terest lines tied to the door-knob OF
the great door. They constitute the
Governing Family.
One Of these men is called The Pres
ident of the United States. Others OF
them are called Representatives, Sen
ators, Judges. Their duty is to pull and
tug at the lines Of personal interest in
a way that will result in mutual advan'
tage and equal opportunity to you and
your ninety million brothers.
But the Governing Family does not
is done in this day and age. And the
little of it that is lone is done by
members Of the Governing Family who
are moral s%quare-toes; honest, consci
entious, and these be few and far be-
tween.
Why?
Because you and your ninety mil
lion brothers, by your negligence, your
indifference toward the ballot, by your
! lack Of interest in the management OF
your city, county, state and national
government have permitted the tash
of placing these members of the Gov
erning family in ONCE to fall from the
dignity Of a public duty. That work