Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-04
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 MUNICIPAL STUDY
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 shall be the deliberately formed will of the people, and when that public policy shall be enforced through the chosen representatives of the people, a representative Democracy will have been achieved. If you want to serve) your country you must be in full sympathy with that Democratic ideal. You must study your country's his tory from that point of view.
 "Given this sympathy, given this knowledge and confidence and this desire to help, and your oppOrtunI- ties for public service are illimitable
 Almost without eXceptlon, every important step forward, politically, whether in policy or in administra- ton, has been taken upon the initia- tive of the private citizen and under the pressure of public opinion which he has created. Let me give you two or three illustrations. The civil serv- ice reform movement owes it's initia tive and the measure of success al ready won not to any governmental officer, not to any governor or pres1- dent or senator or member of the leg islature or any board of aldermen, but to ppblc-spirited private citi- zens; and the progress yet to be made and the final victory when it shall come will be due to private citizens and the public opinion they will have created and educated.
 "Take any of the numerous phases of the great electoral reform movement, another movement which has ills root in the desire of the peo- pie for emancipation from political tyranny and bondage. Personal reg istratiCn, an honest count of the vote, a secret ballot free from intimidation or bribery have been won, so far as they have been won, through the in- telligent effort and public spirit of private citizens and the public opin- ion which they have created.
 "The campaign now going on for free undictated nominations to public elective office, from what source did that spring? From anybody in public office? It is, again, the private cit1- zen. What progress has been made in this campaign anywhere, except un- der the pressure of public opinion that the private citizen has educated
 "This is the Democratic way. Any other way would do us no good. If we have not the vitality, if we have not the energy, if we have not the patriotism to investigate these sub jects, to initiate these movements, to create the public opinion and to keep up the pressure, then we are not fit to be citizens of our common country.
 ''The choice of field for public service by the citizen in private sta- tion is boundless. But why go far to seek it? Why not take the home field Why not be public-spirited citizen in your own town? Why not do some public service in the town and to the town where you live, even if you are not mayor, or director, of public works, or a member of the board of aldermen? Here is a field for public service right at your very doors that will give abundant room for all your energy.
 Do not think that because you dc not hold office you cannot be of the greatest public service to your city Here, too, the struggle is to free the people from political bondage.
 "You can help in this municipal betterment campaign. You can helE in a thousand ways. You can helr create or sustain local organization that will labor to have the funda- mental principles of honest, efficient progressive, municipal government embodied in law and realized in prac tice. You can find ample scope anf outlet for your energies in your city whatever phase of public service ap' peals to you. Are you interested ir education? In the problems tha come from the unsanitary and immor' al crowding of the poorer classes? II the administration of justice in the subordinate magistrates courts where the poor get their idea of American justice? Are you concerning about the growing political and economic importance of our public service cor porations? One might go on and on The field is simply boundless for the intelligent and effective public service of the citizen in private station.
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