Show I I REAL DEMOCRACY Mr John B Cleveland a cotton mill I owner in South Carolina addressed n I I meeting at Union In that State a few days ago and made a statement at the I meeting which must havo seemed queer to the South Carolina audience Held He-ld I may startle you but It is nevertheless true that the truest form of Democracy In this country today Is found In Republican New England where the affairs of a community tho roads and bridges the schools and taxes I I are all looked after not by boards of commissioners but the people themselves them-selves at township meetings where alma I al-ma hear and all may vote And that Is real democracy that Is I local selfgovernment The host thing about It Islhat the people there have caught the Idea that the Government of this country will be what the units 1 make It and when the units hold themselves them-selves aloof that Is the valuable units and let tho useless units run the government l govern-ment the government will reflect Its makers it cannot be otherwise In our cities the corruption Is a theme of regret re-gret among the decent people and it simply means that the decent people have neglected their manifest duties 1 I under a free government They have remained away from the primaries the conventions and the polls They have let the rogues fill tho places and now they stand aloof and mourn the degeneracy degen-eracy of the times and the corruption of those In power A government Is simply sim-ply a photograph and it Is a true as the suns light paints a photograph I the picture before the camera Is only the tough men of the city the tough mon and the schemers why the negative will reflect only tough men and schemers and the government vlll take all Its tints from that negative The thought of the fathers was that If they would give the people absolute freedom and the absolute right to rule the people would have such an appreciation of that honor and that blessing and that duty that they never would even by neglect degrade It and the answer to men who complain of the government Is that the government only reflects the people and If It Is bad it Is simply a startling proof that the decent people of the country have not performed their duty |