Show THE PEOPLES PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT b In Iu Mr Ir Bryans Bryan's Commoner r is s a an apostrophe to I free froe government a vivid description of the blessings that accrue acome to a nation when wIlen the people govern themselves themselves them them- selves Helves and a quotation from the great Bancroft that thata a republic is in truth the strongest of governments gO because discarding the implements of terror it dares to build its citadel in the hearts of men That is all true certainly but after niter all it is only half tho the truth troth in our country and for mau many rca rea sons The Thc first is our schools all nIl lack a most essential essential essential essen essen- part part of the education on that ought to be given Second Second We Wo We are aro too careless about naturalizing foreigners with until the result that a multitude vote note every evelY year who really know nothing about our institutions institutions institutions and care less Third Third We We do not properly punish those who whom m misuse suse tho the ballot As to the ilie first reason given gien above let an any man mango mango mango go into any of our high schools and ask a class of bo boys s who are nearing manhood a few questions and he will see the truth Such questions a as s these Give me mc idea of the some form of our om government government govern govern- ment what hat its chief officers are the nature of their duties and how they arc are elected t 1 Tell me in what way our government cli differs from om that of England and of Germany and of J Japan Ja Ja- a- a pan pant t Our belief belier is that in nine cases out oft of ten en the students would utterly fail to answer If boys go out of school into the world wv with so little knowledge of our institutions institution when will the great grent majority of them ever learn 1 j 1 As As to the second S statement go into any m court where foreigners are arc being naturalized Very Ver- often they are forced to answer through an un interpreter the few formal questions required by la law The They rei re- re i ounce allegiance to the country countr of their theiL birth Thc They The y affirm that they are attached to the principles dr of the he government t of the United States Yet we know the court knows know everybody knows cows that they really have hate no comprehension that what they are doing ought to make them w willing to devote their lives and their property properly to the defense of th this s country if necessary Not Kot one oue in a hundred of them theu has bas any comprehension of the sacredness of the ballot balt bal bal- lot t or of their duty to study every cry public question that the they ma may cast that Oil ballot intelligently t Ve often se see a band of or one or two hundred ed made mad f 1 y citizens about as fast as the court can run them then through and brand them We Ve all know moW it i is a farce an arid we practically admit it when we wc tide ask what ticket the thc horde will vote for that question gives awa away the fact that we know some two or three o of their countrymen coun coun- will direct their vote voto an and it will all be one way Again we see the wrong of it all in ill conventions If a large contingent of foreign born voters voter are arc in any state or 01 cit city each party will struggle to get one man elan of or the same countr country y on the ticket to catch th the tho vote Again we often see the foreman or sonic some boss hoss of ofors works s or where a great many men arc are employed m making mak ik ing lug them understand how the company would like to have the men vote with hints that such men as may not be he willing villing to vote yote a certain ticket will win have haye to find employment elsewhere Now this is a n crime which ought to be punished not by a fine but by a healthy tern term in a penitentiary Then the lund laud is filled with partisan sheets and undo demagogue speakers who magnify their side nn and refuse refuse re rc- re- re fuse to tell teU the truth about opponents All this being true trae is it it not riot something o of the nature of a sorrowful sorro joke to boast of the fact that in our countr country the tho p people ople govern themselves 1 llave lIa not about as many elections been carried by bosses and aud 1 corruption funds fiends and arid the pleas of demo- demo gogue papers and speakers as by the calm judgment and patriotism of the people 1 |