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Show THIS GOVERNMENT IS NOTTHE BEST Milwaukee. Wis . Oct 22. "Roys. I J believe you did wrong to pattern your government after that of the United Slates," said Mayor Seldel, Milwau- ; kee's Socialist executive, at the In-, augural exercises yesterday of the ' "Hoys' Republic" Y. M C. A. "I be- ' I lieve you ought to start a revolution I I right now You should have the Inltl- I alive and referendum. You should ' make vour own laws, and not allow 1 a set of ofi leers to make them for v ou. 'The senate you have elected lues no right to repeal the laws thai your ; hom-.e of representatives has suggest- ', cd The repeal of those laws should ' be lo yourselves. The most Important men In any community are the hardworking hard-working citizens. They are the ones who are the sinew of the nation and not the lawmakers, not the executive. The platform of tho government of tho I tilled States Is not tho best after which to pattern yours." The new re public w;ls Inaugurated to givothe boys an intelligent Idea of government, said C. It. Willis, head of the Y. M. C. A. "We thought In us Ing the L'nlted States as a pattern wo were picking the best government on 1 earth, and I still believe it." |