| Show THE MEASURE Of A PRIVATE CITIZEN Subject of an Interesting Address At Y M C A by Senator Sutherland DUTIES ARE NOT NEGATIVE to elI Not ot OUe iw Goes oes Forth to COI tn In U I S Senator George Sutherland made mado 11 art address yesterday afternoon In the Y lt M C A on The Measure or of a 0 Citizen as the tho com compie pIe to He 11 I Oo ot of the previous Sunday 01 on The Meats Meas uro or of I ii Officer Time Tho speaker said In Time The dute dutIes or of the tho true cItizen Iro are not citIzen dOes not fulfill hil Isis obligations to society unless ho goes forth to In iii the ot of this nation llon I the II 15 ot of this thu by bythe bythe the people sItU for tor time tho people consid erinI erIn the fact that tha t there are aro some millions ot of people II In our country It II is easily sen that thai tho coun country country try bo be run Iun by mob oton action or directly by thu tho People themselves This being true It toll follows that the citizen owes I it to himself arid and to hits his country to men 11 In high positions who use 1 and capable to fulfill the call callIng callIng Ing ot of their II is not ep tram from cItizenship It hal boss a aright right to that thai the tho individual n take lit 15 itt ditties It fOllOWS that It Its Is time tho dut duty ot of th thiS et zen to 10 comprehend tue tho groat problems that have to ho o by the tho gOcr govern Inon front frum to time AN m II is I a living vitalized force lIt In nil ull 1018 und and Is realy really thu very ot of government ot Of politics the primary Is the tho 10 most t important pUll pant I It Is then I ti ln duty to bl be wih with 1110 some that he may take In ott active pint In the tho ot of this county country I It Is not 10 so Important tha that a man belong o 1 a particular par party party ty as It lit Is that thai he Jo to lomo some party Both parties are honest and have In partes ther their principles only those things which are for lor time betterment or of the stations welfare In I a where the tho coultry country Is ruled by one man the kin kinor king kingor or an empIre or I a where the Iho caine ame rul II It Is or of course nt not so necessary aary that n a lan man take al an active part parI In Politics for the tho reason that tho objects fought sought are so very lit In character ant and lre are not ot so FO closely allied with the actual govern cosely ment of f thin the wih In th the United States this state tato of attains I is different and I a man OIO It to lei less than to hil hiss coun country try Y that lie he a his constitutional rights aM privilege by voting nt nut only at the polls but In the tho primaries and IUt LIKE TiE THE OYSTER n There to 10 be an Idea lae current that the tho good citizens anty Is 19 t from rota viola violating the tho law The I oyster r Is an exceedingly he be lives the tha simple le life le leIs lie lieis is slot a good cIti cItizen Is harmless yet ho he If lot n zen in III that ho he deR does not take tako an actIve part In lo life Dont be In an bo be bea 1 a positive character The citizen owes owe certaIn duties to his govern government ment The Tho people In their relation to the tho government are not Ill its creatures neIther II is the tho government the creature ot of the people You Tots have havo 0 a rIght to tie de mind ind protection from the government the government has hall a right to Ia de deman man certain dutes duties from you ou You have havo no right to he be simply an an honorary Ind unless you 01 exercise your our right t to pay who shall be 0 a public om The bus busIness cial yOu ou do not do your duty mess Iness or of the government Is reallY ao are solO thing which any of at us 8 have wih anything to do I It II Is the lIving vital vitalized lol po positive affirmative force In ill so itO sode de And yet there are men In every et community good business that onlY men melt and amid over oer alert lort to sea el good men are elected to olce slices of at their corporation have an uter utter contempt for politics It Is so o wih the I eon cl lve citizen I If the ward heel herl heelers ers mire running thIngs this thiN tro citizen has no fl right to Dont Dont do I It you 01 10 not belong to a political party study the tho I prIncIples of the tho two great parties In thIs country and anI choose the bettor POLiTICAl PARTiES PAnTIES parties nrc absolutely estry nr I It Is not necessary ary for ml ma to 10 esti em which party you should Join partes Parties are good gool both are honest but you should join one ot of them I have no sympathy for tho ot of pessimism which hn wept swept over tho country duro dur InK big the past tow years There never nover hal been beon a time In the history ot of our country where there waS I less dishonesty graft Ind stud corruption among time men lio ho our nur government than thun wonder I is not nol how lany many Jub pith 10 lie go wrung wrong hut but how few The fhe wonder I Is riot how luch much corruption there I is among antong our life but how little I am nn an optimIst Ilelle I believe that the tho world h i bettor better tola today than I it hl has ov ever r beNt been In ni nIl hIstory Amid thIs Is Isa isa a splendid I It its IH n a 10 got lt worth lIving for mimi I It be worth d dInu dy Inu for Judge I II iCing speak lt nt at atthe the tho Y s M I e C A auditorium on Con nCe 11 in Politics nut next Sunday |
