Show defor IX POLITICS HE ov CAKL in a lee tare bedfor e massachusetts reform club reap ly gome plain truths a n e 0 te country H sh g Q g tendency of tho age is lo 10 ejary class not only to blame the Tern ment for tho depression of ade but to implore governmental aid even the framers remarks mr onca t he sturdiest diest and maat self reliant or all our people they feel themselves in trouble instead of simply demanding tahe removal of the burdens the government has put upon them cant about for all sorts of contrivances by which the government is to tako them into its paternal arma and to charge itself with their welfare and in deed they reason why should they not be as well taken care of as the owner of a copper mine or a woolen if one why not another why not all it is surprising that such reasoning should become more and more general does not the nation rapidly gain ground that the government is a sort of grab bag full of spoil for those who are smart enough to yet their hands into it that those who succeed in doing so are not to ho envied and estimated and that the opportunity to put in the hand is something worth paying for an d have you considered how demoralizing an such a tendency auxt have on our political life Is it not time that we abound pause and inquire how far wo have all ready drifted |