The Sauk Centre herald., 1917-12-06
A POLITICLESS YEAR.

In these times of stress and ruction
-fless" days are all the vogue. A large
number are already on the tapis and
more are being proposed every day
by philosophers and cranks. We al
ready have "wheatless" days, "meat-
less" days and "sugarless" days in
augurated by the government. 1t
looks as if we are going to have
-4:coalless" days forced on US by the
dealers. Women have proposed
"boozeless" days and "smokeless'
days and long-suffering man has got
tight back at the dear creatures by
suggesting "gumless" days, insisting
that the cash saved will be quite a
Consideration and the jaw effort
economical could be utilized in SO,
liciting Red Cross funds, and "powder-
less" days, declaring that the only
proper place for powder in these times
is in ammunition, but in order to start
real innovation we hop to it by pro-
posing to make the year 1918, a
"Politicless" year in Minnesota.
Under our hotchpotch election legis-
lation we have made partizanship a
farce and partyism stupendous
joke. We have eliminated party out
of every place where it belongs
and put it in every place where it is
useless and as result we have the
biggest bunch of ciphers in public
place that ever represented us ir
legislation and operated state. The
only strong men we have are those
that have come down to US by inheri.
tance from our former system.
There never was a time when
honesty, ability, experience, courage
and wisdom was so badly needed i.
public service as at the present time
There never was time when dead
wood was of as little use as now.
The people, as never before, are en-
titled to the he = there is in public
service and if the best does not offe,
itself it should be .conscripted by the
public.
We propose to the citizens of Min,
nesota to eliminate politics in the
1918 selection and elections contests,
to make capability and not party thu
test, to relegate all the assistant
kaisers, the hedgers and jokes to priv
ate life and if the other states but
follow the lead there will be safe
able and wise handling of the great
questions that are confronting the
nation ard the states.
History is going to be made in the
two next legislative years and the
kind of history that. is made depends
on the kind of men the voters choose
to make it.
We have the opportunity to make a
brilliant record that will stand as :
glorious precedent for the world re-
generation that will follow the wal
or we may piffie, parleyfox, strive for
local advantage and mar the historical
page with action that will cause fu-
ture generation to hang their heads
with shame.
Personally we don't care a CONT
mental, whether affairs are run by
Democrats or Republicans, but we do
want them to be run by Americans,
strong men, able men, zen who are
striving for something more than a
mere salary, men with broad vision
men with commanding ability who
can put the United States of America
on a pinacle and make it the great
dominating force in future action and
not allow this land of the free to play
second fiddle to monarchies in deciding
the momentus issues that are de-
manding settlement.
If the only way this can be done is
to dump partisanship on the ash heap.
dump it there.