Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-05
LET THE PEOPLE THINK.

tiers of the globe the senator's words
were telegraphed, and they were read
by millions.
The charges were very promptly de-
MED by the president. However, his
denial did not gain the same credence
as the charge. Why? Because the
people did not think.
Every four years the country goes
through period o. upheaval and dis
turfbance, so to speak, because of the
presidential campaign, and every two
years the same conditions obtain be
cause of the election of congressman.
At these times each party charges the
other with being responsible for all Of
the ills With which the country is af-
ficted and predicts even worse calam-
tiles.
The successful party Immediately
proceeds to hold the other responsible
and to a strict accountability for what
is, or ever will be, wrong. The presi,
dent elected is made to stand for his
party and is held responsible for all of
its shortcomings neither getting any
support from the defeated party, be-
cause politics" is greater than citi-
zenship. Why? Because the people
do not think.
Parties are aggregations of politi-
clans, according to the popular concep-
ton, though voters enroll under the
several parties Once upon a time,
perhaps half a century ago a noted
politician said, the people be damn
ed" Since that time the people have
damned the politicians, and again they
damned themselves, and the rest of
the time followed the leadership of the
usually without reason.
Just at this time the politicians of DEM
Ocracy are in condemnation. The pres
ident of the United States is being
classed among these politicians,
though this classification must be at
trlbuted to the lack of a proper dis
tinction on the part of the classifiers.
Why? Because the thinking apparatus
Of the average citizen is clogged it'll
unreasonable prejudices.
Nowadays, politics and business have
become somewhat mixed and not I'm
naturally so, for in the mixing the sym.
pathies and the prejudices of the one
nave in a measure become those of the
1ther. To illustrate when the repubH-
can party became the champion OF
big business" it then becomes the
province of the democratic party to
the cause of little business"
Or in other words, the democratic par
W becomes the champion and protector
Of the smaller enterprises, the peoples |
business, as against the corporations
and the wealthy powers, with the re .
suit that the people deposed one and
erthroned the other. At the same time
hey did not discover any material diff
ference in the governments relation to |
business. Why? Because in the first
place the people did not stop to think
that in the general order of things oui
party could be so vastly different from
that of the other, and further, because
they have not sought a proper know
ledge of financial and economic law
S relates to capital and labor.
From time immemorial, capital and
abor have been dependent upon each
other, the one cannot get along with I
out the other At the same time each |
IS distrustful of the other, and not
without cause.
In the various contentious that
come up between capital and labor
rom time to time, both ignore tina.
here Is a third party, the great con-
;uming party, the party that foots the
oils and has rights that should be con
'idered. That such conditions as
would soon come to the conclusion that
)nly by honest and hearty cooperation !
hese prevail, and all of this is be- /
'aNSp DppD1p do NOT think thav suStf !