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Show PUBLIC OPINION Public opinion is a capricious thing. It can only be guided and directed by the skilled diplomat or the shrewd politician. Just now we are beginning to note that writers are experiencing ex-periencing a revulsion of feeling toward the wets in the latters' denunciation of clvys as being intolerant. 0. 0. Mc-Intire, Mc-Intire, gifted columnist, says that he is getting sick and tired of such talk, ihit there is none so intolerant as the wets in their present attitude.' Republicans are wise in leaving the matter of Al Smith's church affiliations out of the campaign. Aside from whether wheth-er or not it could be :va.ie a pertinent issue, Republicans know that public opinio;: is a pendulum which swings back villi just about as ir.uc'.; force as it swings forward. Already Al-ready a few Republicans have come out with the statement that they are going to vols fcr Al Smith if for no other reason rea-son than as a protest against bigotry. And so it goes. We are willing listeners to others' Ideas up to the point where we begin to get saturated with the present mode of doing and believing. Then we want to assert our independence, if for no other reason than to be contrary. And when we get surfeited with propaganda we, ourselves, take public opinion in our own hands and throw It bade U a boomerang to the erstwhile guiding genius. |
