New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The legs that lured us fhen--mere IN.
nocuous onktes-wouId pass uano,
ficed do1Un any Main Street to-day
tsee THE Passing of a Great Nans~)
Fermentation of Sweef Alice

CONSIDERING women in politics and tie
major blessings they bring to a wicket
world 1t may be well here and now to put ii
the record a warning. They should learn to
take their medicine Nothing Is so blessed
politics as good loser. Politics is noasa
for the "only child" Upon the shores dfA
vitriol sea of politics, not the defeat but be
rejected, are men who see why Greece dscaye@
and why Rome fell so much more clearly than
they did before they were licked foF sonf
little dinky office. Men who grumbe st The
gratitude of republics and who fringe The
soiled petticoats of misfortune, peddling insur
after brilliant but thwarted careers as politics
pap-suckers, do more than any other elamsH
in modern life to create the impression sht
politics is dirty game.
The truth is that politics is as clean as ny
other department of life, as clean as %
church or as commerce or as teaching OF 8
the law or as the home. Politics is plays.
by men and women who take the same moia
standards and the same habits of probfty iuh
public life that their fellows display in oths
avocations
People hire public servants because .
voters and the candidates for political SER
tude agree about certain public affairs. A.
then some fine day the people who hire fnss
public servants change their minds An
because the only way people can express us
changed views is by changing their puhe "
wants those servants who have foolss Ass
that they have life tenure on their Joy a1A
rise up and wall at the base, fickles sEsslss''s9
attitude of their constituents. Woaen s0ll's
into Office holding should learn that tasse ~
election pouts are execrable. Ana ~ :
stance, some one should take Miss Alsce -
ertson, Congresswonian from Oklahonss, 81,
and tell her to quit railing at her good if,'s..
and neighbors in Muskogee. They eleessu s
two years ago not because she was pslsss
of political virtue but because they we1s 81,
ing In an anti Wilson, anti-war, anu -
cratic frame of mind. The noble qualass
mind which Miss Robertson displayed w.:
her cafeteria had little to do with ner 81.
to Congress. They were the same ~ SIS.
kindly folk who have just defeated ass
they were two years ago, and Miss kooe1s 4,
proves herself untitled for public lifs 3 &,
gloomy forebodings about the destiny 9 S.. {.
the depravity of her neighbors and 'n' 4
state of the cosmos. ..y
Sweet Alice has soured. And ais psss.. &
her Muskogee friends are dubious aOaa' 3. !.
efficacy of warmed-over normalcy as 9 pa',ss .,s
for sick and disjointed world MISS S.. 81,
should sweeten up. She could do TINS RS s
for the honor of her sex and parity ps'ss s.;
after all Muskogee is not to blame Iol ,s, !. .rs
against her Muskogee giveth and M',a,s ,sr,e
taketh away; blessed be the name of mas'ss ,s,,
The right to hire and fire in peiities 0s'1,s &,
to the people, SO Miss Alice, heaven ossss 8 s
should be thankful for what she has ~ q
not knock the shop Just because some -
has her job. 81
If women are to be happy IN poi'1'ss .ssks
must learn that only a cheerful ioset 's'a
wise winner, IS
copyrisss. 1894 New York Tribune -