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Show LET'S ALL VOTE The right to vote has distinguished the free man from the serf and the slave ever, ever since citizens of ancient Greece and burgesses bur-gesses of republican Rome rioted around their ballot boxes since half-savage Angles and Saxons shouted "yea" and "nay" at their folk-meetings in the primeval forests. Men have fought for and died for this privilege and right. In our own mother's day, American women marched and cheered and endured sneers and jeers under their suffragette suffrag-ette banners all for the right to vote. These are things to remember when the polls open Tuesday, November 6, and while it may be just a ciy election with seemingly no particular difference to be ' made either way it goes, it is a privilege to have a voice in naming those to help. run the town. It is your right and privilege to vote, no matter how seemingly unimportant the results may be. Many citizens now-a-days, secure in their right to vote, refuse to go to the polls and then grumble at the way the governments are run. These people should not forget that failure of the ancient Greeks to elect wise rulers led to the Romans conquest of Greece that public corruption in ancient Rome brought on the reign of the Caesars; that befuddled German and Italians voters allowed Hitler and Mussolini Muss-olini to rise to power. The fathers and mothers of American citizens the country over, won the right to vote. Let's not forget on Tuesday TO VOTE! |