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Show j 3SetSSS9EEE9SS iHHOl'LD ALSO BE TRAINED TO THE USE I OF THE BALLOT. j Next to a citizenry trained to the use of arms, wo also need a citizenry trained to the uso of the ballot. Take the case of Henry Ford, for in-I in-I stance. Ford has admitted that in thirty-one 'years he only voted six times. He has bt'en n very ioor citizen. Any man that will violate the (hi ties of citizenship in such a manner is not entitled to lament at the degeneracy of the times, the rottenness of politics, the mounting tax rate or the disposition of people to let a favored fa-vored few do their thinking for tliem. One of the threatening evils from within the republic is the lack of interest manifested throughout large sections of the country in the duties of citizenship. At every election, hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of the best and mentally most able citizens of tho country do not take the trouble to vote. In our large cities hundreds of thousands of voters do not know the name of their congressman or the district in which they live. Politically they are stone blind, and go through the formalities of citizenship without expending an extra ounce of thinking power. They don't care. In a republic, which depends upon the individual citizen, such an attitude is uellnigh criminal. |