Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-20
GIVES MESSAGE
To ROTAR|ANS
Speaker of House GiIIett
Warns Against Discomfort
in Anniversary Talk

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20
GAS the sick man, discouraged, be-
comes the easy prey of the quack,
so the citizen, disconnected, becomes
the ready mark of the demagogue.
Don't let your discomfort lead you
to blindly follow the first man who
promises a panacea. The quack and
the demagogue alike always follow
one method. They paint sympa-
~thetically your sufferings, which are
real, in order to win your confidence
in their remedy, which is generally
chimerical."
The speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives, Frederick H. Gillett of
Massachusetts,, makes this statement
in the curse of a brief message to
the people of the United States to-
day, through the Rotary Clubs Of the
country, on the subject of the indivi-
dual citizens responsibility for leg
islation.
In twenty-seven countries Of the
world ninety thousand Rotarians
are this week carrying on a gigantic
campaign to set before the people of
the communities in which they live
the responsibilities of the individual
citizen. The campaign is incident
to the annual observance of the
founding Of the first Rotary Club in
Chicago, February %, 1906, and is
designed to be a demonstration Of
the sort of community service Ro-
tary has been organized to do.
In each country where the cam
paign is in progress messages on the
responsibility of the citizen for the
various branches Of the government
are being relayed to the citizens of
those countries from the heads of
the various branches Of government.
The messages do not concern poll
teal parties or controversial ques-
tons. In the United States the mes
sages follow the outlines of repre-
sentative government laid down in
the constitution. President Harding
has sent out the message on the
individual citizens responsibility for
the execution of the laws Of the
country through the proper choosing
of executives and backing them up
in their efforts to administer the
duties Of their Offices. The speaker
Of the House of Representatives
speaks on the individual citizens
responsibility for legislation and the
attorney general of the United
States, Mr.. Daugherty. is the author
of the message on the individual
citizens responsibility to the courts.
The full text Of Speaker Gillett's
message follows:
"The Speakers Rooms,
"House of Representatives,
Washington, D. c.
ITO International Rotary:
1.-THE individual citizens response
bility for legislation is mainly indi-
rect. We are not a democracy; we
are a republic. We elect representa-
tives to legislate for us. And the
first duty and responsibility of the
citizen toward legislation is to select
well his representative, to discrimi-
nate wisely between those candidates
who seek to fiatter him by pandering
to his temporary whims, and those
who seek to serve him by honest and
intelligent independence.
1.-THE other chief responsibility of
the citizen is to keep informed on
questions of legislation. That every
citizen should master every question
that will vex our national and state
legislatures no one will claim. But
if you live up to your responsibility
you will not'only scrutinize the char