Seward daily gateway., 1924-08-25

nary age. The question of politics and government is the master top ic, and during the century and a quarter of our government it has intensively occupied the thoughts of men. We learn from the result of experiment how fortunate is our own condition and how admirably the character of our people was calcu- lated for making the great example of popular government. Under the influence of rapidly increasing knowledge the people have begun to think and to reason on affairs of state. Regarding government as an institution for the public good, they demand knowledge of it's operation and participation in it's exercise. Knowledge that the powers of gov ernment are but trust, and that they can not be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community.
 AHo iIo" ISI uo IlIuuISc an honest exultation in the conviction of the benefit which the example of our country has produced, and is likely to produce on human freedom and human happiness. And let us en- deavor to comprehend in all it's mag nitude and to feel in all its import ance the part assigned to us in the great drama of human affairs. We are placed at the head of the sys- tenn of representative and popular government. Thus far our example shows that such governments are compatible, not only with respectabil- ity and power, but with repose, with peace, with security of personal rights, and with good laws and just administration.
 With reference to President Cool idge, it might be we'll to say that in his long and brilliant political ca reer, personal considerations never for a single instant caused him to swerve from the strict line of duty, and none have ever doubted his deep sincerity in all his actions. The life of President Coolidge is a striking example of the abiding fame which surely awaits the direct and candid statesman. The entire absence of equivocation or disguise, in all his acts was his master-key to the popu- lar heart.
 T6 win such fame, thus unsullied as MT. Coolidge has won, is worth any mans ambition. And how has he won it, By courting the shifting gales of popularity? No. Never.- By trucking to the schemes, the arts, and seductions of the demagog? Never. His hardest battles as a pub lie man,-his greatest achievements have been against, at first, an ad- verse public opinion.
 His unprecedented triumph with people, as reflected in the wishes of his own party, came to him after republican congress-republican at least in name-had Haunted him as no President has been defied, not even Cleveland or Roosevelt. He found himself at out with congress from the beginning to the end of the one session which has been held since he became President on August ! 2, last. One of the first of the Cool idge declarations was that he would attempt so far as possible to carry out the policies of the lamented President Harding. The one out standing Harding policy at the time of his death was that America should give adherence to the World Court of Justice as organized under the League of Nations Mir. Coolidge has been able to make no headway with a recalcitrant Senate Senator Lodge, from his own state of Massachusetts, having been one of the big stumbling blocks encountered
 | Outside of legislative circles at 1 Washington, MT. Coolidge's strength with the party was not undeniable, but altogether striking. All along the line from New England to Cal ifornia, his popular strength was shown in the primaries. Congress had failed to support him chiefly be- cause the nominal Republican major ity was completely helpless and all ways at the mercy of combination of the Democrats and Insurgent Re publicans. There was no resentment against his veto of the bonus bill, because every intelligent man in the United States knew that the bonus bill was an unworthy affair that ought not to have been passed, and that merited precisely the criticism that were passed upon it in the veto message. The same can be said of the Bursum Pension bill, which Mr. Harding had previously vetoed and was an unsuitable measure.
 It must be remembered that every ,I Congressional seat was to be filled in the November election, and that Congressmen in general were think ing and acting in relation to what they regarded as the particular sit uation in their own districts.