The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
THE PEOPLES BUSINESS

The semi-annual campaign may be
said to be on; in couple of weeks it
will be in full blast; the elections are
coming on apace.
The newspapers are trying their
best to save the country, and can
didates are hurrying to and fro In the
interests of the people(?) and the
voice of the spellbinder is heard
throughout the land.
Every public official from the Pres
iGent down to members of the leglsla-
ture thinks he holds sort OF COM
mission universal to tell the people
what they ought to think on political
questions; how they should act IN po-
litical matters and for whom they
should vote in the elections.
Papers and individuals outside of
the state presume to advise Mime
sofa citizens what to do and papers
published in Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Duluth impudently assume that they
are better qualified to select men for
presidency and for national and state
officials than the voters are to select
them for themselves.
This has always been the case and
will always be the case until the vo-
tiers come to a realizing sense that
mans political actions, and political
opinions are as much his own affairs
as any other matter of business.
Politics should be, whether it is or
not, made a matter of business; for
business is politics and politics is bus
mess and it is by far, the most i'm
portant business that the citizens of
Minnesota will have to attend to this
fall.
The character of laws enacted and
manner in which the laws enacted are
enforced have more to do with the
welfare, prosperity and happiness of
the country than any other one thing
and the character of the laws and the
manner of their enforcement depends
on the individual, indicated action of
the individual voter.
1t is just as much out of place for a
newspaper or campaign speaker to
tell man what church he should be-
long to as to tell him the party with
which he should affiliate, or what can
didate, or candidates he should favor
with his suffrage.
1t Is just as muck out of place for
2 newspaper or campaign speaker
to tell a farmer whom he should en-
ploy to feed his pigs, milk his cows or
pillow his farm as it is to tell him who
ne should employ to make and admin
lister his laws for him in Washington
or st. Paul, and it is just as much
out of place for men to mount the
rostrum and tell them what particular
fraternal order they should join as
to harangue them as to how they
should affiliate themselves politically.
Every man should be a politician
but he should be his own politician.
No man is good enough, or great
enough, or wise enough to tell another
man how to vote. A man who allows
another to dictate his suffrage action
is just as corrupt and ten times more
foolish than the man who sells his
vote. His politics is his own bust
ness as much as his own store or farm
and he should run them himself.
When citizens do this, then an end
will come to all the political evils a.
bout which so much complaint has
been made, and justly made, in times
past.
Much has been said about "Cam-
paign of Education" We are hearth
ly in favor of such campaign but we
believe the newspapers, candidates
AID campaign speakers need education
worse than the people.