The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-18

bombardment that will shake Berlin
letter than any grand battery OF
seventy five-mile guns.
Our coming political activity is not
TO be lessened. on the contrary, what
we want in this country is not less
politics. but more attention to poll
ties. / nave no use for the man who
is too busy or too good to take a part
N the active politics of his commun-
ity. | have no use for those SNUG
individuals who sit with folded hands
and expect governmental affairs to be
right when they do nothing in the
bearing of burdens in any effort to
make them So
The Right to Govern.
I'VE are fighting to make certain
the right of individuals to govern
themselves. Let us exercise that right
here, where we have it. Our institu-
lions must triumph at the polls as
we'll as on the battlefront. This is
Just as essential at the November
elections here as it is on the French
battlefield. One goes with the other
Every man must demonstrate the fact
that it is better to be an American
than it is to be a German by express
ing the privilege of his citizenship,
that priceless heritage for which we
are now drenching the plains of Eu-
rope with our blood That privilege
is not suspended by the war; it is only
by the war.
1.-The man who is too busy to take a
part in politics has no just complaint
to make whatever may happen; he is
riding on another's ticket. We are
freemen, not Prussian slaves. In the
ballot centers everything we hold
dear If we want better candidates
and consequently better government
we can have them, but never If We
are not Interested in politics. Abra-
ham Lincoln was reasonably well
thought of. and from the day of his
r4ajorty until his death he was
lever too busy or too good to take
part in politics. If we get men and
women of character unselfshly in
terested in politics the consequent
good government is certain"
Men of Vision.
DO you believe the coming con-
sress will have new types of men?"
The fire of the war will improve
everything" replied Mr.. Hays. "All
men of hte next congress will be of
even greater vision, men who repre-
sent not only isolated districts, but
he nation; men of newly adjusted
perspectives competent to see the new
Vlstas OF time and opportunity down
which this great republic is launched.
We want the very best men for
our congressional candidates. the very
lblest, the most respected, for actual
accomplishment. OF course. | recog-
llze that the province of the position
occupy is to aid in making plans
which may result in the use of every
lonest means to elect candidates and
not in any sense to control nomina-
ions. | don't expect to help pick the
but only to try to elect
them. At the same time i know it is
me purpose of the republican leaders
70 look everywhere for the biggest
ablest and most loyal men as candi-
iates. 1t is only such men that will
De elected, for the nation Is aroused
IS never before. It's vision is no
onger bounded by a continent or the
past or even by the present. We all
see the vast, illmitable spaces of the
future and of the wide world, and
noneb ut the very ablest men can
there"
"Concretely, do you mean who can
link in terms of foreign trader"
Labor Our Greatest Asset.
Yes, but / also mean a lot more
than that. Increased foreign trade Is
lot only the result for us of this war
There will be increased manufacture
md increased agriculture. With all