The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-02-12
As The Editor Sees 1t

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People are doing quite a little talk
ing and reasoning OF political topics
these days, and they will continue to
buzz around until after the years ell
e%ctions have become history. Then
they will promptly forget all about it
and the people they have placed in
office will proceed to do as they please
throughout their terms, and there are
times when what p~leases the office
holder is anything but pleasing to the
men who put him there.
Right there, Mr.. Voter, is where we
make a very great mistake. We
should keep right after the office hold
er with as much persistency after ell
ection as he employed in Fostering
us for our votes before election.
We should talk things over among
ourselves, and decide what We need,
and what is best for our collective
welfare, and then we should hang on
to the office holder like a hungry dog
grips a bone until he gets what we
want or it is shown not to be within
the bounds of possibility.
If the official goes to veering off on
some fool course it should be up to us
to tell him in pointed terms to veer
hack again and travel the road that
we select for him.
He may be governor, or congress
man, or senator, or city official, all of
which looks and sounds big to those
who like it. But we are the people
and we are a whole lot bigger than
al of the governors, the congress-
men and other officials combined. Of
fcials are merely the hired servants
of the people who place them in office
and who pay them their salaries, and
their duties are to obey the will of
their masters.
Keep right on talking politics, and
discussing men and conditions, and
pointing out the needs and require
ments of the people of our section of
the state. And don't be afraid to let
our public servants hear you talk,
for the more you talk the closer they
will listen, and that will all lead to
results favorable to us as a people and
as a community.
After we have talked people into
office we should continue right along
and talk them into doing the right
thing after they get there. If any
office holder doesn't like our brand of
talk then we are justified in assum-
ing that we have made a mistake in
placing him there.
Sane discussion of conditions, and
people, and events is good for this
community, for it serves two distinct
and wholesome purposes. It brings
forcibly to the fore those things that
are best for US, and it lets our offic-
ials know that we are keeping both
eyes on them with a view to seeing
that they perform their duties as ex-
pressed by our will in a name ac-
ceptable to us.
Every dav should be campaign time
in this community.
n u u
February 81 to 26, inclusive, will
be pay-up week all over this country,
and every citizen is presumed to walk
in to his creditors and square up his
accounts. The good citizen will do
this if it is within the bounds of
reasonable possibility. The man who
fails to square up because he doesn't
arr is not worthy of further credit
and should not receive it. Business
men are not allowed by their creditors
to wait until Feb. q or 26. They
must forward their checks every
thirty days or their credit is shut off.
1t therefore becomes a great hardship
to the business man when he Is com
PEELED to pay his own bills promptly
and yet is required to carry the ac-
counts of hundreds of people for in
definite periods. We have a lot of
faith in our people and we believe
they will walk right up and square
their little accounts between the 21st
and the 26th, and we don't for one
minute think they will forget the edi-
tor in their rounds. We have faith
that this will be one time when they
will not forget to think.