Show I I er I President Eliot Elot pointed out nut In iii a are are- re recent ic- ic cent paper that few of ur the tw Russian HUlan citizens W were IC taking Id anta advantage c of f tin the tt which the lie new ne rules of or the thel their nation naton placed In their hands Bu Bulie But Hul he lie failed to add that tho those c who vho de declined de- de dined the thc le privilege e vcr enabled bj hr that ab abstinence to save o themselves a n trip to Siberia It I is h different In Iii this country Tot Tom much of the good possible to a re republic re- re public H is lost because men who ho have I great Interest t In fn the laws law and amid ail their thel enforcement lb do iu not take the trouble to e cc the right light of or franchise In man many largo cities where the nice men menOr Of Or wealth aCm and Influence live hive I e they ar ar- never level seen cen at the polls It I was stated at the tho time of tl lie tho New cw York City election last latt November XU that bitt a hundred hun hun- died dred men whose hole fortunes were a aleast at J least al fifty millions each hud had no imo 10 ol voted d In ten temi tel years They rhe had great grea Interests ut at stake The men who a ad administered administered ad- ad ministered the laws law were In a. a t po llo to lo tremendously I affect them lieu Th Thi laws themselves ml might ht be so S CI franie tm-aneil a as to tu l result In actual cont confiscation And lul yet those thou men had never take the tho trouble le to assist In the lie choo ln the h men who we were u to u make nial-ce laws Jaws no nor nOI norin In the other men who vrn were to tu exe exe- cut CUte them In Iii mn many c Casts case I when whet a asked ked th tIle the stated they did did- no nn noll know no Il hi- hi wha ward tile thC they lived The They did not mint know kno J l A T 1 where to gu go gi If they hail had chosen cn tm to vote toti File They knew little 01 nothing or-nothing nothing of lh men who tre contending for fn of uC- Ice fice All 1 lh they did dil know a was that IC the tw election Iclon mutt did not nut suit sui them the thc they would go o do nl to the club after dinner and borrow tt trouble t Jt-Is Jt t I ht the lie common fault of ur Ameri ll l cults cans I In 11 i a republic c It i. i Is ls IA not donlie don alon the lie 11 I o of a to tu cast his hie balut ballot It I Is is' hs his u duty If J he lie not docs not exercise that hint II might light ht and exercise It Il li lithe tl mm the very best of or his his' judgment ho hi la Is I putting pulling In the lie hands of or le less careful anti and loss ICs interested men a u w n which will wi not eel fall fail al to fall tal on ott his shoulders sooner or ot lat later J There are arc thousands ld who have hao o hn tho lie greatest In Interest In- In crest terest In elections Flit They Vel very much want a certain man chu chosen cn or a l certain certain tain thin measure measure- defeated But Hut thc they have ha fallen Into hue lie tho habit of oC regarding politics a as an unlit thing for tOl them to tu bother with wih They Ther do thu nut not deserve C th the protection the they receive And In most cases they ml do 10 not nol get et the thc protection they would c certainly secure If the they were cre In lii 11 fact Cwt as os well vell wel as ns In iii name citizens Never er c yet ct has Ims th the full rul vote ote been beet polled In this country countr And Amid In ju just Jui t 01 the lie measure which it I Cal falls fails short In lust Just that measure do llo Americans fall fail fallin Iii 11 in the thc discharge of uC the highest lu duty that can be bestowed on man |