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Show EDITORIALS H , HONORS AND BUSINESS i By L. Av HoIIcnbeck After having been president, John Qulncy Adains became a congressman, lie held that it was a high honor to hord nny' high ' office. Yes, If a man acquits himself right, but for many It ' is rather a dishonor; for their job Is bigger than they are. A great office filled by a big man Is one thing, while a bfg office filled by a pigmy is another. We notice a marked difference in the mental caliber of our presidents. We seldom draw the same discriminating lines as to our judges. A man may be u good s district or supreme court judge, and still not be a particularly great ' man. A really great statesman or great general Is a very scarce article, i and In' the lesser fields, there too, the big man is scarce. While political politi-cal honors have their plnce, let us not forget that the real great honors are In the fields of honest effort and business and of accomplishment. The Spanish proverb, "Nothing suecjeds like success," so when we see a man succeed in either a little or big field he Is the man who is entitled to honors. hon-ors. He is the man who keeps the wheels of industry moving, who pays his own salary nnd the other follows, too, who lies awake nights to keep from crashing onto the rocks and shoals of business uncertainty. Let us take off our hats in profound respect' to that man or class of men, for they are the saviors of good times and prosperity. pros-perity. But one of the obstacles to public ? success are the welfare workers. Idealists, Ideal-ists, visionaries and upllfters. You send a few opportunists to a legislature legislat-ure who are the fuel and clay to be used and moulded by these opportun-its opportun-its and ideallts. We have them in the legislature right now, and they have a tax commission that is the product of these lobbying visionaries and up-Ifters up-Ifters and they are bent on raising the taxes of the people which means ruin and a check! to the progress of the state. Ed. Howe has lately said: "Around fifty I began discovering that the theorists were often unreliable, .troublesome, fnnaticaj and fully as mean as the average and at seventy six I know so far as I can know, that the practical men average better in . every way." These constitution tinkers have sklp-, sklp-, ped the real troubles in' our tax sys-. sys-. . tern and are devising schemes to ntake it much worse than it now is, and have - employed a thousand dollar a month man from Princeton University to tell them how to put that scheme over. ov-er. They have two or three lumps of sugar In the pill In hopes that the real contents may be glossed over. ' The commission some . of them are distinguished people, but if a scientist were to analyze their brain power, he would find not much difference differ-ence between their brains and the brains of anybody else. Let us not be . awed by distinguished propaganda, ibut let us guard against a tax raise . with. Jealous determination. |