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Show E D I T O R I A L S (By I. H. Masters.) ANOTHER VIEWPOINT. The New York World has been vigorous in its denunciation - of the action of the New York legislature whereby five Socialist ; assemblymen were unseated. , The World, Charles E. Hughes and . anany others have pronounced the ousting of the Socialists a blow at representative government. They point out that law and order forces have been appealing for the use of the ballot instead of destruction to bring about political changes. They declare it is illogical, then, to deprive regularly elected representatives of a .certain group the right to represent that group. . One of the ousted Socialists is only 28 years of age. The World draws a lesson from his accomplishments in the following editorial: "Out of weeks of time-wasting in Albany, nothing has yet stood out with the sharpness and evidential value of the brief testimony of Asseblyman Waldman in his own behalf. It contains con-tains a lesson for both sides. "Even now Mr. Waldman is but 28 years old. Coming to the country a boy of 18, he learned English, prepared for a technical . school, won a B. S. degree, became a civil engineer, gained in competitive examination an engineering post in the traction tunnels for the city and became an assemblyman all in eight ambitious, industrial years. "The raw Ukranian boy who could do all that under such lieavy handicap in a time so short must have brought to this country coun-try qualities of talent and energy whose potential value should be apparent even to a Speaker Sweet. Mr. Waldeman attacks his work as an assemblyman with the same eager mind and tireless vigor; other Socialists in the assembly and the board of aldermen have set similar examples of industry applied to public questions not necessarily political. "Should not Mr. Waldman, on the other hand should not his friends and defenders begin to see that the country which offered him the opportunity for such swift advancement, and whose best non-Socialist elements have come to his defense now that he is unjustly accused, is not in such dire need as he may ' have supposed of social and political revolution ? "It is not in man to avoid making mistakes; wise men ar " those who best profit by them. -Have not both the Sweets and the Waldmans of America made mistakes chiefly through arrogance arro-gance and ignorance? Is it not time to begin learning the lesson f their efforts. |