Show THE DUTY OP I 1 constant and hard ard work needed to Over overthrow tilro political boea to overthrow the bosses and th thel methods to establish in place of the lo 10 low ow and narrow door to political dis distinction on high and broad one all men who love their country must go into politics into the primaries and nominating conventions and insist upon their right to select elect the candidates it said by some in excuse of the present indifferent character of candidates for legislative and other offices that first rate men will not consent to accept nominations but experience has shown that this Is a mistake it to Is very seldom that much trouble is found in inducing men of character to stand for public office provided they can be assured that they will be faithfully supported and will have to make no compromising pledges in return for the nomination politics can be purified if the people will insist upon the purification the trouble in IB that I 1 while the politicians work every day of the year to keep politics down to their level their opponents work only spasmodically usually a few weeks before election and during the remainder of the year dismiss the subject from their minds it requires great fervor of patriotism to carry on this work but he be must be a very poor american who is willing to admit that there is not enough of saving grace in our people to produce a sufficient body of men to accomplish it the kind of patriotism required Is of the highest order it must be willing to give time and labor and money to sacrifice the best that a man has on the altar of his country it is undoubtedly more prosaic than dying for ones country on the field of batts but the man who devotes his life to preserving the honor of his country and perpetuating tree free government is as much a hero as the one who falls upon the field of battle happily there Is no demand for him to prove his patriotism in war while there Is a great and pressing demand tor for him to prove it in the peaceful duties of citizenship he Is not the truest or most useful patriot who boasts of his willingness to fight for his country in a war which may never come or ought never to come but he who gives her his hia service in a struggle that is already in progress what our country Is in need of today to day is an army of patriots who will enlist for the extermination of an army of political pirates and freebooters who are slowly but surely filching from us all that made it the best to live in and the esia easiest lest to die tor for we reed recruits in every town and village and great city men who will not give up the fight till the victory is won this la is a patriotism which tries mens souls for it calls tor for quiet self sacrificing fl cing unremitting labor but it is the only patriotism which will save american institutions from destruction and make the american name as the symbol of human progress honored throughout the world patriotism that costs costa tn in the century |