The Mena weekly star., 1913-09-25
Ross Ford on Voting.

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 You have asked me why I am continually writing 10 The Star
 You have even suggested that I am
 an otlice-seeker. Charlie, let me say here that my head is too bald for me to go into a minority party to seek office. Of course l have more than one reason for writing to The Star, One is for improve mcnt, another is for pleasure: but Charlie, here is my paramount req son. Now please do not get mad, for 1 am going to ask you some pointed questions and give you a piece of my mind. Now, Charlie, did you ever seriously consider what will he the future of your boys and girls under the fast grow ing rule of the trusts? If you have a hard time to make both ends meet. how will they even do that when the great corporations have eobbIcd up all the industries? Charlie, you may console your poor little self by saying that they can rustic like you have, but they will not have as favorable condi- lions as you have had As wealth and power concentrates the poor will be more helpless, more de- pendent and more degraded than they now are. And Charlie, you will not even cast your vote that they may have an easier time than you have had. You think more of voting for and uphoIding a system that is solely for the benefit and profit of the rich than 10 vote for the benefit of your own children's future. | cannot understand the lack of reasoning of men who will dO this. Never in your life have you got any benefit from your votes, and yet you think you are doing the best thing when you keep on voting the same old way. Char lie, if you were getting paid for your votes; if you received any as surance Of being benefited in the future, l could understand that you were selling your children into Scr- Vilude io trusts for present good or hope of good: but you do not get anything, nor have you the hope of anything in the future. Charlie. just to be plain, you vote the old ticket just as Mohammedans sup port their system, because you are too ignorant or stupid to see that you are being used for the benefit of others. Why not wake up, Charlie, and get some benefit for yourself and your children? It costs only the effort to vote diff ferently from what you have been trained to vote. And, Charlie, there is another question l will put here: Suppose you should go out into the woods and see a great many squir- rels, and among them you should discover that a few of them had all the nuts heaped up in a few piles a great many more than those few could COnsume-While the rest of the squirrels went hungry. What would be your thoughts? Would you not say that these squirrels were somewhat bughOuse? Really, Charlie, you expect squirrels to have more judgment than you ex- ercise. because that is the cOndi- ton of our society today and you are satisfied with the conditions; or, if you are not, you have a very poor way of letting anyone know that you are not. Charlie, I will not say you are bughouse I will let you draw your own conclu- sions. Now, Charlie, I have given these things serious consideration. and if is my aim to do everything in my power for the benefit of my self and children. Hence I am con- tinually talking, writing and think ing. Why not you try something .of the kind and see where you are at? Without using hattery. I will say that you have sense if you would only use it. Does this sat isfy you why I am continually writing to The Star?
 Ross Ford.
 Egger, Ark.