Show 1 1 CITIZEN SHIRKS t T I I HOIK hili i G orge or e 11 V. Yo a cJ attorn attorney e v b genera c lelal ral ralf f t of r the thc United invited Stat States t delivered a lecture 1 rc the ot other he 1 b in hl honor of T T. T Buchanan Reid th the tho o pot poet t Ind am l Da Ba Bayard ard Taylor the traveler I The sew Lor L'or York tk S Sun Sur l t ri denounces i mcc s the t h c l a as still silly because e c in inthe the the coul course sc of it Mr l 1 1 n Advocated d compulsory voting Nf The 1 performance 0 of this t 1 i dut r 17 tt t lC 1 s duty he sai sold said should b be compelled b bj Jaw av ari arid ri n l-n n failure p punished b by an odor adequate 1 pen P efi a alty U y and a n d if iJ persisted is d in in by 1 loss of th the fran fran- t f Ye 1 edo do not see an anything a thing sill s III i in l' l that The n of oE the United St 1 ter would woul be willing o f to fi fight figh ht were t the P proposition ro p made to talc take e tb the e f f franchise tan ranch chi is sc front from them the tl for fOl tile the franchise franchis c i is rIO not 1 t n at gift i it is 8 a 1 privilege c and 1 the he life of o our nr country o l ul t r o c depends ends I upon ti n on the intelligent voters voters' of the rho country T This being eing b true flue it is isa a at responsibility it to vote which no iz en should be p permitted d to shirk The Thc truth that hat n n. t great ny unworthy men do dOi vote cote ote does not char eh change bg e the situation at all an r because th the whole structure o of or our Ul government nt rests on the decision oL of the P people as oo P le ns as manifested b by Y their votes and the d duty dots t l of bf voting ou ought ht to be im impressed P It upon P on children shill children chil shil- dren r it ou ought to be tau taught ht in the schools schools' r and i it 1 persistently evaded and the fact of the evasion proton pro a man so sinning takes no special interest in n his his' country Ol and ho is not entitled to any share shale sharen in n it it I Just now uoN the women of England are breaking heads cads to win rein suffrage the right to vote In our countr country the they Y arc almost as fierce in P places laces if not quite so brutal If that is a sacred privilege ge thou then it t sh should ou ld not rat be sli slighted g h to d and the more intelli intelligent g ent the he man iron is who vho shirks that dut duty the more is is' he to blame lame We had a sample of it last spring The agents of one Theodore Roosevelt with immense sacks of money started out in the rho cities cities' of Pennsylvania anti and New ew Jersey and other states and carried the primaries which men had b been en clamoring for f l' l by bya bya a a as a's s shameful minority of th the Republican voters voters Had lad the lea real 1 th thinking in b i n g bus business i ne ss me men u of any an any Y of those hose states P performed their dot duty Y the whole business busi bust ness Hess would have been quashed gnashed and a summer of beart heartburning burning avoided I Libert Liberty in this country is not a voluntary gift to fo o the people It implies on their part a contract to o attend to their business s as good citizens and the lie foremost duty of citizenship P in a r republic eP is iso isto to o vote ote at every ery e election either cither in support or in protest of ot some cause |