Show GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICS There is a tendency in politics to cxmain anv nroblem that may arise on geographical lines It is an easy and handy way of accounting for any thinsr that des rise to discussion in the Dolitic field and when applied Its results are always certain and gen emily satisfactory to those by whom thev are obtained The last person of any prominence In politics to make use of the geographical geo-graphical argument is that eminent lester from Maine the Hon Tom Reed In his Old Orchard speech he said the southern men were men of intellectual Dower and men of learning This was a gracious acknowledgement of their ability But this was not all He said the difficulty with them was that they lacked a thorough knowledge of business busi-ness ai it is carried on in the North The strength of the Democratic party lays In the South and in conseQuence I conse-Quence Is dominated by those who have no thorough knowledge of business and hence was incompetent to manage I the affairs of the Nation The conclusion con-clusion is inevitable from the premises I I the fallacy is in the latter I This Is not an entirely new argument but It is a new application De Tocaueville in his Democracy In America says there was a theory very prevalent in the United States as I to the causes of corruption and immorality im-morality The theory was perfect and if facts were in the way so much the worse for the facts This theory was that the nearer the people were to the eaUator themore corrupt and immoral they were and that all that was necessary neces-sary to be done to determine the moral status of a people was to take a map and a rule and measure the distance they were frOm the m equator The nearer near-er they were toit the more immoral r r < t I 1 thev were and ner contra the further away the more virtuous they were What is easier of application than such a theory and by what other method can results so scientific be obtained in ithe great field of polltics I Tom Reed has adapted this theory 1 to Democracy and the speakers of his party are taking it from him and think they are using the greatest discovery dis-covery of the age They are not There is just as much sense In the original application of the theory as in its application ap-plication to the men of the South by Tom Reed its no good in either I |