Show SOME OP OF OUR OUE HABITS every four ears the citizens of this enlightened country calmly declare that as a election is approaching times must inevitably be dull plato was of the opinion that the person who is is best qualified to be entrusted with power Is he who Is least willing to accept it the founders intended such a man to be selected by chosen representatives without excitement not only would the president by such election have been generally of larger mold but the economic depression depres 0 of every four years would have been avoided and legislation would w have hava reached a higher plane mr roosevelt in his message postpones postpones tariff revisions of undoubted need to a date following 1908 on the same now long camillar ground john stuart mill rill in t the he main a profound believer in our institutions tut ions was one of many to state powerfully that our choice of a president every few years by popular vote kept everybody electioneering electioneer ing all the time and thinking less of principles than ot or pers personalities tonalities onali ties among many advantages to be had from the d decrease decrease of partisanship there may be hoped a lessening or of the needless habit of depression which precedes elections the choice of better men and an improvement in the quality both of public and of legislative thought colliers weekly |