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Show our country but what the right men wero found to meet it bravely and successfully. suc-cessfully. There are peoplo whose natural nat-ural bent for politics make them useful public servants, whereas in other occupations occu-pations they might prove failures; and vice versa it does not follow that scholars schol-ars and artists and poets, .however gifted in their own spheres, would of necessity be the best men to conduct our government. The oflice holder is a much abused class. We read the sollowing plaintive wail in the lioston Herald: Richard H. Dana, whose biography Is ahont to be v.rlttsn, la probably the ablest public man Massachusetts has produced In his generation gen-eration who never succeeded In holding any important public oflice In the gift of the people. There is more than a local application applica-tion to the statement, and yet it is not one entirely to be regretted. There has never been a crisis in the history of, - . |