Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-03-30
WHAT ABOUT POLITICS?

prominent clergyman said to the editor day. Im
sorry Mr. Hoover has fit align himself with one or the other
the He would make great president but 1t Will
impossible for him anywhere unless he lines up with the
party organization of either the democratic or the republican party
On the same day remarked we have entirely too much
politics country Politics should be kept out of the schools
of the ordinary administrative Offices Par
cuary should schools be kept out of the mre OF politics.
Now which shall take? In democracy where every
the peer of other man. and where the government
it. shall always have to call politics low down and
drty9 Is politics bad that we cannot nave by our niue
children corrupt them7 If man capable of making dem
republican speech he therefore unfit to sit on the
And position drag the ermine in the
mre?" the other hand to align ones self with
and ndevor to bring that party up to the patro
level of the good citizen?
politics attaches it in the COM
speech multitude why 500 Will commit acts for
advantage which they too honest to do business or in
really their beliefs and their conscences IN
by their without regard to the merits OF
the same it true that good who stood for the League OF
found the senate majority going to play politics with
And heeruy do those things all the while knowing that
politics game If So what is there about party name
that will to stultify themselves?
theories Of One autocratc and
believes strong centralized 1t does not trust the people
John Winthrop of early Massachusetts, history expressed this theory
better than else has done He said OF
people, only few wise enough And of those
who enough only few good enough to govern rightly
Therefore only those who both good and should be charge
OF John the and good
Hamilton Theodore Roosevelt nay Netsche him
self could improve that definition of conservative
The other theory democratic best expressed by
jefferson the Declaration of Independence which declares
these rights Ito @ liberty and the of happ
ne instituted deriving their JUST
governed No champion of freedom
has been able that statement of democracy
Now in these two theories always oppo
son One class of people always trying lite
tcpation always
striving little the hands the few
In other words is often said that there for but great
parties conservative and the other third party
spring and flourish under conditions The
first the conservative party reaconary the
radical In such has chance
spring and take the place Of the extremist The second
condition both parties conservative growing tool
alike then will take the place of Of
them.
Party therefore, appears necessary this country
especially where the people by of the ballot Why
should politics of Why
should be Of
parties and and corruption thought be evils
and furnished politicians it natural that
odum should attach the MEN evils
should have attached to the science of government
People should study politics There should be nothing
sacred in party Why study principles stick
rather than the which advocates hem repu
dates themi Is expect people
ense Do favor liberty for the people,
for the fewf Ought line with the party
stands for what believe rather than believe everything
which bearing certain stands fort Is Hoover
refusing to line with until he knows what that
stands for? If there fifteen million
the wouldn't this country be saferi Or would it,
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