Washington County News | 1927-08-04 | Page 5 | Did you Ever Stop to Think

DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK By Edson R. Waite. Shawnee, Shaw-nee, Oklahoma. That the trouble with a lot of people peo-ple is that they want to live without working. That another lot of people either want to rule or ruin. That this rule or ruin bunch are pretty strong, especially among a lot of politicians who don't give a whoop for the people they are supposed to serve. That these busy busy-bodies go out into the country and try to arraign the folks in the country against the folks in the cities, and then go into the cities and try to stir up a feeling against the folks in the country. Then they howl about this and they howl about that. They ro?.r about the seeming prosperity of commercial business busi-ness and then try to make the people believe the government should enter into many lines of commercial business and run those now in business out of business and perhaps out of the country. coun-try. The time has come when the people must face the situation squarely and realize that they cannot lay th? blame on anybody but themselves. As long as they listen with rapt attention to political spell-binders who tell them they are being robber by everybody and their only salvation is legislation made by these same politicians, just so long will they suffer. Much is said about imaginary trusts in commercial business, but little is said about political trusts. Political trusts can cause more woe than all the imaginary business trusts ever thought of. CopjTight 1927