Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-23


Thou shalt provide out of all the
sounds, and yet it was uttered to a
people of Theocratic government.
But ii was God and the people, Theo-
cracy and Democracy united IN one.
by the people guided by the fuier
of all men. Here we come TO the
kind of men, the only men considered
worthy to rule.
Able Men.'-Men who are cautious,
claer in judgment, fine in detectioh'
able to discover deception or crookeu
ness in any document drawn up 10 De
voted upon in order to become law
and perhaps protect this or that IN
terest, not of all the people, put 10
benefit a few people, and winch may
become an injury to all the rest.
cable men, men who can THINK, ana
think along right lines and who can
not only think, but who are aple 10
express their thoughts in most Iorce-
full manner; and men who are anle 10
act up to their thoughts and conVlc-1
tons when it comes time To cast the
vote. which may make possible certain
influences that may lift people to-
the highest pinnacle of political glory
Q, it is great to be men. To be an
able man, but how odions, how dam
natory to be blind. and blind leader
flea ding the blind till both fall in the
ditch of unrecovery and disgrace
Further. Men who Fear God'.-l
think it is time that God should be
considered as an adjunct TO worthy
leader in the great field of politics.
How He is evaded in evrey speech
upon the arena of action. VIII
man be a less man because he fears
or reverences God? Rather had we
not better fear the man who has no
fear of God, and who cuts Him alto
gether out of all his views, all his
plans and acts in life? Our great
men have all been God fearing men.
Look at our Washington, who prayed
before every battle, and being once ov-
erheard by an Englishman, he went
away saying: mo use. we are defeat
ed. No army can stand out long
against that mans prayer. Then
there is our Lincoln as we see him
stealing away from the Capitol ana
going all the way to New York that
he might he sure that the great
preacher and companion in tribula
ton was praying for him. What made
the great liberator, Cromwell?s His
trust in God, and his love of right.
There are proofs that great men are
good men. and good men are God
fearing men. Our trouble today is
among many in that they are afraid
of little old-fashioned piety mixed
up with their politics.
Men of Truth."-Gethro was con-
sidering the whole man in order to
make him a safe leader. He must
be man of truth" That is a man
who speaks the truth and never tries
to dress up lie in clothes belonging
to the other fellow and palm the thing
off as the real thing of the laws,
Woe to the man who deals in the
merchandise of political lies, and give
shoddy for wool in his fair speech of ,
enticing and bewitching words. Be
ware of such man. He is in the
game for what is in the fleece. and
has no regard for man or God.
Hating unjust gain" Here is an
other attribute to the credit of the poll
tieian He doesn't sell his vote when
some important issue is at stake.
Neither does he absent himself or
keep silent when he is tempted by that
worst of all eorruptions, political
graft. He is not in the office for what
he can get, but for what he can give,
of his time. of his brain, of his energy,
for the sake of benefitting humanity.
"Place such over them to be rulers.
That was wisdom. 1t was logic of
the highest order, and it is the only
thing that will bring our State and our
nation up to the standard of efficiency.
We need men, not weak men, not pill
able men. not men OF low standards,
but men, strong men, men Of thought,
men of action, God given men.
w. j. McNEII.L.
Augusta, Me-, July o.