Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-02

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 Said 8 bright-minded friend of mine, enes on 9 time: Common sense can't do much in politics when it is outvoted.''
 As it generally is
 Exactly the same might be said of ev- eryxhing else human. Common sense seems to have been called that because it is so almighty uncommon. We quoted one newspaper ,paragrapher' the other day, as remarkfng that the process of breeding hog and hyena out of human nature was slow one. Most essurediy; and it is yet far from com plete. Similarly, the process of breeding sense and reason into humanity drags pitfully. The brew can hardly be said to have reached the stage of first fer n2entation, yet
 a Whoever it was who wrote 'fVox pop un vox dei,'' must have had pretty low conception of the gods For "the voice the people is most loudly heard in his story in such famous phrases as Cruelty >tirni cruelty him!''
 s ETen Abraham Lincoln's famous die tum that you can't fool all the people all the time" was preceded by his own candid admission that you can fool all khe people some of the time, and some of Inc people all the time" The teachings of the past prove this. And the teach llSS CT lQ6 present dEC duuIIlS O1H44J SO1- drmation to the undeniable-
 Now don't go off in a fit. and charge me with being first. a "high-blow'' des- piser of my neighbors; or a second Pharisee boosting of superior qualifica- lions; or, third, 2 slanderer of popular Government. As 10 the first if any liv- Ing man has ever made a fool of himself more times and on smaller provocation than have, I'm sincerely sorry for him. As to the second, 1 am free 10 admit that there have been several men, since the world began, wiser than I. and more gifted and more sensible. (Wil you ad- Sait any more than that yourself, kind eritic7) As to the third. I am vigor- bus advocate of popular government, not because 1t is all-wise or ideal or the best imaginable, but because it is, on the whole, the best temporarily attainable. When a fairly reasonable child. after crying for the moon. finds he can't get it, he contents himself, for the time be- .1g, with a big, black, bouncing rubber ball Which is better, anyway; for he can have fun with the ball while he couldn't do a thing with the moon. even .f he had it-
 s Popular government would be visibly better if, while being in Lincoln's phrase ~of the people and by the people, it were also flor the people'-which, alas. ss very seldom is. But government by the people i. q. by q majority. however inefficient is still much better than gov eminent by 9 minority or an autocrat, because the majority has 10 pay the big ger part Of the bills for it's own frequent foilies, and ought, in equity. to have the Biggest say by what special kind of folly those bills shall be incurred. Autocracy permits one man to load all sorts of grievous burdens on the backs of the mil lions. while he himself touches them not with one Of his fingers. Democracy per nlits the millions to say what they shall earry-witiin liInits-and how they shall eSrry t. Between the two forms of gov ernment there seems to be no workable sompronise. Our choice does not lie be- tween 9 manifest wrong on one side and ssi inpeccable right on the other, but 5etveen two admittedly imperfect ex- nedients. '1Of two evils, choose the least says the old proverb. Shout with the crowd.' advised MT. Pickwick ''But SUD- pose there are two crowds?" queried MT. Snodgrass Shout with the largest '' vas the sages instant and convincing rpiy.
 We have quoted MT. Lincoln's famous sphorisn about it's being possible to fool all the people some of the time. Doesn' | this particular era in the worlds event tal history strike you as being one of tAe times he referred to? Can you ima- zine the world being much crazier than t is. without going completely off its feet and out Of it's head?
 Here are the rsiIroada of the country, heels over head in debt from govern mental msl-administration, and unable to get back on their feet under private arrangement. And their employees, whose wages have already been boosted two or chree times, are sourly threatening to