French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

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and the jury. His calling is one among
the most sacred callings except that
of the minister of the gospel.
The editor, the doctor and the pracz
teal educated student farmer are
men of no less ability than the law
yer. There is no earthly practical
reason that the lawyer, because he is
a lawyer, is any better qualified than
the editor, the doctor, the minister or
the educated practical engineer or
| farmer, to secure the enactment Of
laws applicable to the industrial de-
velopment of a district, a state or the
nation.
Nor is there any intelligent a
that any of thse professional men are
any better able to secure state and
national legislation than the business
man whose life has been devoted to
the study and practice of industrial
economy, and resource development
along the lines of political economy,
through which ! channel intellectual
talent, industrial, expert and mechan-
ical talent, and labor must work TO
secure the wherewith to employ the
lawyer, to untangle 80 per cent of the
laws the legal profession itself has
written, and caused by its own vote
to be placed on the statute books Of
the state and nation.
The law within itself states the un-
! qualified principle that, "no man is
f~presumed to be ignorant of the law"
That is why we have a jury system in
this country, and no lawyer a serve
on the jury.
The legal profession has no mon
opoly on an intelligent comprehensive
understanding of how laws should be
enforced, or on what laws should be
enacted, for honest, practical. bust
ness industrial. and educational up
build of the country.
OF althevar professions, the
edftor that is a student of the re-
sources and possibilities of the COM
immunity, on whose patronage his paper
depends, should be best qualified.
Except the operating student of in
dustrial economy and should have
the best knowledge &C the resources
and possibilities, and what is requis-
lite for upbuilding In the community
where he moulds public opinion. For
on the practical editor rests the bust
ness education and uplift of the com
munity as much as a community de-
ponds on the product of the farm fol-
the table.
Men have ACTUALLY run for con
gress, not only in this Tenth district
t but in other states for other high of.
fees, and have asked for Office simply
on the ground that they have beer
regular in their party vote, and that
: they need the salary; this being tht
= sum total of their qualification.
There are some men that wish tx
go to congress now, and some tina
: have gone there that never originated
an uplift thought that would pernaa
! nently employ 100 men, or develop :
/, single resource of the district, or ever
f able to earn one-fifth of the salary
/ per annum by their profession thai
| they hope to get as a salary in con.
+, gress.
{ The time has come for ring-rule tt
be sidetracked, and allow the people
t the privilege of nominating men they
want to vote for at the polls, and il
was for this reason this state has
passed a legalized primary law K
: break up the disgraceful trifing in
!, pact conventions with the will of the
| people.
And the people have been expecting
: ring-selected men who peddle out the
!, little offices prior to election for votes
!; to cope with what should be com
posed, and is largely composed of the
best talent of the nation assembled
for making laws for the nations up,
build.
ALI intelligent men know that ring
chosen men do not represent the PEG.
pie; they serve their bosses. Ring.
rule has cost the city of New York