Show POLITICS AS A profession the population of the state of utah and of many of its municipal subdivisions is small in to the number of offices that equi aquire re to be filled there are nearly as many offices as would be required for a commonwealth containing several times its present population and this statement also applies to many cities and counties the result of this condition to is to offer to a much enuch larger percentage of men in the state alme acme chance of procuring an office than Is the case in the older and inere populous states in other words utah offers more numerous openings for political preferment than do the older states this condition in turn affords greatly increased Inert ased encouragement for men who aspire to political office and a large number of them including both younk young and middle aged are gravely considering the advisability of adopting politics as a profession to the young men in this state who are revolving this question in their minds the news takes the liberty of offering a word of advice dont to adopt politics as a profession almost inevitably necessitates the doing of things that are morally wrong under political conditions and that prevail almost universally throughout the united states estates at the present time it is extremely dim biffl j cult for a man to maintain a high moral standard oar or an exalted self respect and at the same time be a party leader or i a successful aspirant for political office the professional politician of the present day Is generally obliged to be a conspirator he is compelled to enter into objectionable deals and combinations and he cannot well avoid the practice of duplicity city it is next to impossible for him to be frank open truthful and straightforward in n his methods method g were he to practice these virtues the probability to Is that he could not achieve J success for his party and consequent i ly would lose its support every everyn young man in an endeavor to decide upon a career should remember that the true object of all effort in this life is happiness whatever provision he makes for the future is presumed to be made with a view to the peace contentment and satisfaction of future years but it Is impossible to secure these if self respect and a high moral standard are sacrificed in pursuit of them it is not here intended to convey the idea that young men always ought to refuse political honors on the contrary these should be accepted when they can be acquired in the proper way when a mans fellow citizens by their own spontaneous action and without scheming wire pulling or other improper methods on his part select him for the dignity and responsibility lity of public office it is eminently proper that he should respond and act in the position assigned him by his friends but for a young man to enter deliberately upon a career of office seeking Is for him to lay aside the true standard of american manhood his self respect and moral stamina are j undermined and he is rendered rend ered too weak in a moral sense to resist the temptations that are inseparable from political life when the office seeks the man the man can occupy the office with honor dignity and highest form of manliness but when the man seeks the office in the manner usual with professional politicians tic ians tans there is un an abandonment on hla his part either partial or complete of these traits the tinsel and glitter of power and popularity that surround an officeholder can never alter the fact that his moral nature has suffered deterioration if he has sought or acquired it by improper methods and no young man should require to be told that his future peace and happiness are secured more effectively by maintaining his hie self respect and a high moral standard than by any other means 9 the people who comprise the bulk of inhabitants are a people of destiny their decreed mission is to introduce great reforms into the world the time will come when men will be sought bought for among them to fill 1111 positions of the highest honor and responsibility for which only men of the st ernest integrity and highest moral worth will be chosen the young man in utah who plunges plu neres into politics under existing conditions with a view to making it a profession and a source of livelihood pursuant to prevalent methods makes EL a great mistake and Is in grave danger of disqualifying himself tor for the opportunities the future has in store for him |