Arizona state miner., 1926-10-02
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

The vast army Of government clerks in Washington
is like bunch of maggos in sack Of meal You would
scarcely want to join hem and yet may suppose they
enjoying, after their own manner, their right to the
pursuit of happiness.
The busy little executive secretaries, all on salary,
representing wealthy and welmeaning medders and re-
formers are really enjoying their right to the pursuit
of happiness.
The brigade of propagandists and lobbyists, insidi-
Gus as their influence may be upon government still may
be supposed to enjoy certain right to the pursuit OF
happiness in their own way.
The lawmakers grinding out unending laws that
are only feebv enforced senator's and representatives,
du as their lives NAV be- may vet be supposed to have
penchant for that particular kind OF chase after haPP
pess.
saloon workers. 50 long they keep within the sedton
laws have perfect right to their pursuit Of happi-
STRANGE as it may SEEM with all the vast open spaces
build u the republic bv system Of healthy expansion,
great number Of politicians and those most interested
in government, prefer to mill around and around seek
ing to make what yet exists of the m0heaten robe
of democracy.
Let them alone It is their way Of going after hap
But for all their waste of energy and for all their
failure to see what opportunities the country offers for
public service, they will not be able to get the old sp
onto the rocks We are far from the troubles that have
arisen in England from her, paying out does to Idle
workmen
We are far from the religious difficulties that are
threatening the orient and Mexico We have no dl%atoF
ana Will d1l OuL dpJc1C4t COAloOJt LII EFk w q
strong ingraned tendency toward law We are not an
archists We are individualists.
What of it?
nation of individuals is the highest product Of
history Tt means that the American people, each for
himself must learn to control the old machine. 1t means
that no man need Judge his neighbor 1t means that each
citizen must control his actions even his own de-
sires.
At the present time, chief fault is the fault gf
irving to direct our neighbors. We have learned TO
control ourselves somewhat but have not yet realized
fully that the next door, the the street,
has also made progress along this same lne that the
man in the block knows enough to drive his
fully when nearing school, that the man who lives
around the corner knows the senselessness of drinking
bootleg liquor
We look at the crime and dra Wthe conclusion
that our government is growing weak The truth is, the
crime wave is a breaking out Of hdividuallsm bent on
plumbers the remedy lies in the indvidualsm of the good
citizen benz on protecting his Property and his life 1t
must necessarily result in single handed encounters
but it is as nothing compared with the carnage of great
war. And highly developed ndivduasm is the great
est safeguard against war
It has its compensatlo1E 1t has It's thrills. IT has
it's opportunities. 1t differs from the old safe
nternaism Of the government that dictates every acv
tv It demands alerness in the pursuit of happl-
We are apt to think that tile Eighteenth amendment
is the only one being flouted AS matter of fact the
Fifteenth ia t21e South has always been ignored
Our lawmakers warn as that are UNDERMINING
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