White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-31
Measures and Men
Approued by Writer

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IL makes any sane man tired to Sc.
supposedly rational Americans stand
on a platform and shout. measures
not menu when they know II they are
telling the truth. that II they wanted
to employ a man to TAX charge OF
their personal affairs they would not
TRUST every Tom. Dick and Harry whe
comes along merely a he hap
pens to agree or pretends 10 agree Wilt
them politically.
! Bring this argument right home &c
yourself ard give a candid answer OF
what you. as an Individual. would dc
labout 1t. suppose that the reader OF
this article Is the principal owner OF
even a small s~tockholder of a bank
Would be cast hs vote In h stock
holders meetings to place In charge
iof that bank a man who merely hap
pened to agree with MIN politically. OF
would he vote TO hire one who was
fitted by experience n competent to
Ifn the position"
Public business should in no respect
differ from private business, for tho
interest of everyone In the government
Is his personal affair. made so by be-
ing the owner Of a share therein. There
IL no sense or reason IN this talk oil
hiring a man to manage ones affairs
If that mans sole recommendation is
affability INC inability TO say no.
Carrying further the bank mustra-
ton, II Is an old but true story that a
banker must be a man who can stand
before you. look you in the eye and
be able to say NO" 1t is the man who
cannot say No but says Yes IL
two or moro persons with opposing
demands for the same object, who Is
finally forced to say No" yet In dong
1t gives irreparable offense TO the party
turned down. The one who can say
NO on the start gives no hard feel
ing, his frankness with the rarest ex-
ceptions making friends of those &c
whom he tells the truth. saying IL in
the way that II Is natural for him 70
say 1t.
Admitting that a banker must be a
man of that quality, as oil must admit
to be the case. car any person give an
honest reason why one who Is wishy-
washy and all things to all men. who
promises everything to everybody. final
.ly having to have a row with the hind
most, should be placed in office. high,
low or Indifferent?
Indeed. can any person give an hon
est eason why a man he would not
vote TO entrust with the management
of a bank should be placed at the head
of n state or given an office on n par
herewith?
Issues and net men is n falsehood.
never was the truth. II Is a de-
vice of the devil to place in office men
can be handled. those Whose woe
ful weakness condemns them az being
worse han those who are intentional
ly bad. In this connection Ii Is often
said of such and such men that their
intentions are good. but the writer Is
here to remind them that there is a
place that is paved with good inten
tions.
No mention OF names need be made
10 clinch this argument. The people OF
Nevada are either competent TO select
for office men thac the citizens there
OF. IL they were stockholders OF a
bank. would not hesitate to place in
charge of Its management. or they are
not competent to do so and may b.
found placing their governmental az
fairs In the hands of men whose lack cf
strength of character is c as 10
make their naming In this article SUI
perfluous.
Measures and men'-not Measures
not men L. G. BRANSON.