| Show A Political Career J Politics should be he the noblest of tl the e professions p It x xA is the most contemptible A career in public life should be the height of a young mans man's ambition while education It usually is is selected when nothing else rIse turns up There is a reason for all this The avera average e man shuns the game of politics bE because he is afraid of being Roi soiled 1 He lie sees no honor in public office because he has learned to look upon most public officials as mere puppets dancin dancing to the music music of big business business busi busi- ness or crooked bosses His Ilis wife pleads with him to keep away from the game She doesn't want her friends suspecting her husbands husband's honesty And yet many men who enter public life are are arc personally hottest honest and would like to do do right Their ideals arc are crushed by the system system tem tern and they take the easiest wa way like the girl in in B Belasco's lasco 5 play plays It never occurs to thousands of them then that the people pa pay better rewards in the long run for loyalty than the bosses It never enters their minds that th they can beat the system if they ther will refuse to weaken It was we MC believe in the thc golden age age o of Greece who ho showed up the politicians in the ri right in way The gang leaders wanted to humiliate him so they arranged to have him appointed city scavenger t 4 They were naturally surprised when v the great statesman and amI andr r J soldier eagerly accepted r P f The Tile man honors the position position-it position it is n not t the that honors the man said We know that a man has to fi fight ht with superhuman courage with never faltering strength and a above c a all II with confidence that t never flickers if he lie is is to tom win m in in politics without the aid of the I gang The odds odds are are too great for the average man After the s system stem has punished him and made his heart ache I with disappointment i after he has become so discouraged he lIe beli believes be- be li the people do not ot care whether a man is honest hoh st or not i after he wear wearies ts t's of the struggle and aud is is sorel sorely in need of sympathy the g growl owl of the gang tui turns s' s to fo a purr f The system points oli out f the easiest way ti If the man is weak h eagerly grasps the opportunity ity to join t the e bosses' bosses staff Once he betakes takes akes the leap there is is no halting lie I must must go the he limit after that thaU He cant can't kick over the traces r s for the system has has something on him I He simply takes orders fr from frt t then on until his particular political pout pout- ical gang is kicked out by the p people Then he is a jobless and disheartened disheartened disheartened dis dis- heartened politician The people he would like t to call caU friends have no respect r v him BIG BUSINESS WHICH USED UHf HIM SO LONG AS HE HEr r l' l WAS AS USEFUL ALSO LOOKS UPON HIM f WITH CONTEMPT CONTE And worst of all all the manias man has nas no self respect That's the hardest part of a dishonest political career No 1 other othor penalty is so severe as s that It Iris is the punishment that crushes any chance a man ever eyer had of being HAPPY when silver streaks his hair There are five young young men elect elected d by the people of this thi city who ho have before them now the chances of rich rih reward or the sori sorrow sor sor- i row v vand and disappointment that surely sUley come to the dishonest f Ferry Scheid Schei Shearman and Green in the cit city commission and Bock elected by a flattering majority as the city's next auditor have golden opportunities They are all young enough to achieve honors from the people if the they play the game straight from flom now on Some of them can ean make the people forget their past mistakes They will have many obstacles to overcome however At every turn the tempter will be at their shoulders NOT NOl ALL OF THEM ARE FREE FROM E ENTANGLEMENTS NOT NO ALL CAN LIGHTLY SAY THAT THEY THE ARE NOT NO UNDER O OBLIGATIONS S TO SOME SOl PEOPLE WHO VHO MAY lAY WANT VAN TO rO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM I FOR DISHONEST PURPOSES S. S j Those who prove themselves weak will find then their weakness coming back to haunt then them in in later d. d days YR The people e expected ll 11 of them to run the publics public's busi business H as they wo would uld conduct the affairs of a private corporation i We will do JIo our best beRt to let the hp people Know i ones betray that trust i which play dirty politics find and lId which f. f remain remain dean clean I. I 1 |
