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Show YOUNG MEN AND POLITICS In the souls of all American boys who have red blood in their veins there is a dream of political preferment prefer-ment which is to materialize into full realization after a while. Some are modest and the expectation expecta-tion ranges between a justice of the peace an alderman, a mayor or chief of police, a city or county attorney or a member of the legislature; while I others are early satisfied that some fi states will be vast losers unless they are made governors, and now and then there is one who is convinced convinc-ed that the great republic is liable li-able to totter unsteadily upon its base if the people are so dull as not to see that he is the only one who should be president. p, But how few of them all take the trouble to prepare themselves for the hoped-for promotion, either by studying study-ing the principles of the different parties and what the government stands for or by taking an active part in helping work the machinery by which the government is carried on? But if ours is to remain a government govern-ment of the people, is it not clear that it should be the concernment of all the people? The ambition for office of-fice Js a laudible one but it carries A) with it an implied contract to be worthy of it and to fully understand what its requirements are. Hence all young men should take an active part in ,'c"' Ions and all voters should try to lde upon and elect the ablest and lost energetic candidates. |