Show it r ivr 0 go is why guv r future assured by president Roo roosevlt Roose sevat veU ANY qualities are needed uy y a people which would preserve cht pow pomer er of self in fact as well as in name a among these qualities are forethought foie thought shrewdness self restraint the M courage which refuses to abandon ones own rights and the file disinterested and I 1 andly good sense which enables one to do justice to the rights of others lack of strength and lack of MI co rage unfit men toi foi self government gov on the one hand and on the other brutal arrogance ano ario gance envy in any man fe station of tl tie e sp i nt it of selfish d are at it whether of one ones s own duties or of the rights of others are equally fatal in the h stor of mai k nd many republics publics ic lai have e r sen sell have floun blied for a less or 01 greiter gre itel itei t me and then hill e fallen tillen because the r citizens lost the pm anvel ei of goa eining themselves them seIN es and thereby of goven in ing their bbate and in ili no ay wiy iy I 1 us as th s loss of poll power er been so often and so clearly shown shonn as in the ev to turn the i ito a gov goi eminent plim alil foi fol the benefit e cliss li it tead of a government foi the benefit of the ie as ag a aholt again and again in tl e cs es of ancient gt greece cece in those of med aceval aci at italy and me I 1 a il I 1 linders th h s tendency was an I 1 wherever the tendency cj becan bec ine e i I 1 abit it in amiably and inevitably proved ed fatal to the bbate in it the nial fit at result it mattered mattei ed not one whit whether the government was in lav fill oi 01 of one cliss or of another the outcome e mas illy fatal whether the counti county 3 fell into ta tie e hands of a 1 wealthy eat thy oligarchy m which aich ted tea the poor or whether it fell ui fidei der the damli aaion of i turbulent tm tul bulent mob wh ch eh plundered the rich in both cases there resulted violent alternations between tyranny ill 11 d disorder and a fin il complete loss of I 1 berty to all citizens citizen s destruction in the end overtaking over tiLing the class wh ch had bad for the moment been MC as well mell as that which had momentarily been defeater defeat ate eq the death knell of the I 1 le public had bad rui rut g as soon as the active poll ei became lodged in the hands of those who sought not to do justice to all citizens neb rich ind pool alike but to baand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others the reason why by our future Is assured lies in the fact that oui out people are enuine genuinely ly skilled in and fitted tor for self government and therefore will spurn the leadership of those who seek to excite this ferocious and fool sh class an ism the file average american knows not that he himself intends to do about what Is right but that his average fellow countryman count iyman has the same in and the same power to make his intention effective he knows whether he be business man professional profesa ional man farmer mechanic em employer or wage worl pr that the welfare of each of these men Is bound up with the welfare of all the others that each Is neighbor to the other is actuated by the same hopes and fears has fundamentally the same ideals and that aba all alike have much the same virtues and the same faults our aselage fellow citizen Is a sane and healthy man who believes in de bency and has a wholesome mind he therefore feela feels an equal scola a ile ike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of arrogance toward those who are less well off and for the man of small means w anh ho 0 in his turn either feels or seeks to excite in others the feeling of mean and base envy for those who ire better off the two feelings envy and arrogance ano gance are but opposite sides of the same shield but different developments of the same spirit |