| Show r I CITIZENS HAVE DUTY Duly TO PERFORM Negative Law-Abiding Law One Who Plays Oyster Role F I Is Condemned IS IMPORTANT PRIMARY I p t Senator George Sutherland Sill II rIll lIel f. f C Tells i Men Menk ici k f t lit at V. V M. M i. i C C. A. A They Should Be In Politic I- I Ii i f Tho rho Measure Ica of the Citizen was the subject treated b Senator by George Sutherland at the afternoons afternoon's meeting at the lie Y y M. M C C. A. A A yesterday Senator Sen Son ator Sutherland prefaced his talk with Ith an illustration of citizenship taking the oyster oster as an example of tho the con- con negative and abiding law citizen who Is content to remain Idle doing nothing for fOl which he may be ashamed but too loo doing dolnE nothing of which he ho may be proud He Ho exhorted his hearers not to bo ho oysters but to tobe tobe be 10 up and doing that the commonwealth commonwealth common common- wealth might be better because of their ha having lived Jived Senator Sutherland then thou h treated the hoi Olt t of citizen en who on the tho night of the holding of oC the primaries goes oes to his home finale grumbles at the supper gets gels ets et's himself comfortable in slippers and ami Smoking Jacket sits before the fire with the evening e paper and then thou grumbles about the lie ward heelers deploring de do- the thc fact that the they rule poll poli tics This Is th the sort of oC citizen who belongs to the oyster o Ster class 0 Duties Arc rc Not e The Tho duties dulies of the true Irue citizen said aid Senator Sutherland are ale not negative The citizen does docs not fulfill his obligations obligations obliga obliga- to society unless he lie goes forth to accomplish something In the government gov gov- of this nation While the government 10 Is of ot the people by th the tho people and for the people peopleS said Lil he considering the fact that there thelO are arc some ome me five eighty-five millions of people in inbur our bur ur country counti it I Is easily seen een that the country cannot be run by mob moh action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion or 01 directly by hy the people them them- selves elves This being belnE true hue it follows that the thc citizen n owes It to himself and to his his country to place men In high positions lions who are arc honest and capable to fulfill the lie calling ailing of their Government Got Gov Is not hot separate from flom citizenship citizen citizen- ship It has a no right to demand that the Individual citizen take part in its duties It follows that it is the dut JuLy duly of If the Iho citizen to comprehend the thereat great reat that have havo to be settled b by the government from time timeto to tu time Senator Sl nat l Sutherland told a story of a member o of a n ball team of whom hom he once heard He lie said that one olle of oC the members was asked what Jl position he lie played on the team Lenin The Tho boy that lint he play pia any position po pa- 0 1 ho Ite tC Just b belonged It Is the Qt uL Ithe the el l J t to pa play I. I l' l I U i l nIJ I i i Is lIt taut I Government lInt is 18 a living vitalized affirmative aI a- a I fin force ce In all civic organisations Lions and politics is h really the very CI science of government Of politics the primary Is the most Important part It is then a mans man's duty to b be affiliated with some party that he ma may ta take c an active part hart in the government of his country It is not so important that flint a man belong to a particular party party party par par- ty n ns as It Is he that thai he belong to some party I Both Doth parties he lie helid said lid arc are honest and have ha in their principles only those things 8 which tire arc for the betterment of the thc nations nation's welfare In n a monarchy mon mon- archy where the country is ruled by byone byone one man the time king or an empire or 01 a principality where the same rule obtains obtains ob oh- talus It Is ls of course not so necessary that a a. man n take an active part in politics politic for the reason that the objects objects ob ob- ob- ob sought are arc so vcr very different In character and arc are not so closely allied with willi the actual government of oC the commonwealth In the United States Slates this his state of affairs is altogether different lit dif ferent and a man owes it to himself no than to his Juts country that he hI exercise his constitutional rights and privileges es by voting not only at the tIme polls lolls hut In the primaries and con con- Senator Sutherland explained that in saying that all citizens citizen'S should take an active o part in politics he did not nol mean that all ull should tech seek office but hut ho did menu mean that every man should have his part in the selection of capable and honest candidates for or tho the hl high h which a are e awarded ed at the polls l Duty lIt to tu e. When Thon an of the government goes goos wrong sail said he it Is the duty of or ortho the tho citizen to demand that It be he righted right right- cd ed It Is 18 the tIme duty of the citizen to commend too loo when an officer does docs right It docs does rot not follow that an officer of of- should not be criticised If tr he belongs be be- longs to your our party but that If he docs g wrong and ou see sec it you should criticise the o officers ee I oven even though he be he of your OUI party FollowIng FollowIng Following Follow Follow- ing this rule it also holds that It if a man manIn manIn manin in the other mans man's party loes docs right I It i is your duty to commend him and If tC he goes wrong to demand that he malic good Speaking ot of an going wrong Senator Sutherland said that he lie was us not moL In iii sympathy with the spirit of that is sweeping over the country He lIe said Mid that ho he did not believe be be- lieve- lieve 6 0 that the government go Is la going oln to tho dogs o s as these pessimists would have him hini believe but he said he believed be be- d that never before in the history I of or t this country was the government so st stable tabie ble so gooe good and so well managed managed man mal aged ng-cel as it Is today Considering the fact that there are hundreds of or tho thousands thousands' us- us un ands ands' s' s of or public he marvelled 1 that so few went wrong rong rather rathel than at the number who do go wron wrong Comparatively Com Coin I speaking he asked his hearers hearers hear hear- ers to fo to consider the remarkably small number of officials who went wrong number and to consider the immense who wore were going ahead ahr-ad doing their Iut duty and fulfilling the duties of their and high ollices s with credit honesty faithfulness He said that tho the facts would support him In tn the declaration that today toda there IB I It less graft corruption lIon tion and misfeasance than there has ever been in the administration of ot the attain affairs of this country Senator Sutherland said In closing that he felt folt It to he bo his dut duty and the of oC all aJl patriotic and true truo citizens JuLy duty to Ui know their country and It its affairs Immense Im Im- im- im to help In tho thu administration of oC its undertakings and amid If IC the necessity necessity mense monse arise to bare baro sity sHy to 10 anto antto ant an to the bullet and bayonet breasts to lie dlo In the defense of or It and the principles principles prin prin- of or liberty and freedom announced d that at next Sundays Sundays Sunday's Sun Sundays It was H H. King meeting William days day's the tho subject ol oj a deliver an address upon Conscience In Politics fJ |
