Show TUBS THIS A N P THAT by sam hill someone has asked the editor if 11 sam hill conductor ot of tho the this and that column in the times Is not a democrat someone else has hinted that sam Is perhaps a good republican gone wrong while a third maintains that there are no good republicans and that the best of the lad bad ones have only gore democratic from either standpoint a and tor for opposing reas reasons ons tho the arrows seem to point toward the gen ann eral assumption that in either casa care sam Is all wet this would tend to show that thai we well 11 meaning opinions are often at considerable variance 6 while the editor editorially explains to the effect that personal opinions are a mere matter of personal property with n ever enough par value to warrant listing hating on any stock exchange in the after all opinions are tunny funny little things it would seem that nothing should be held more sacred to mankind than a well founded honest opinion while nothing could be more distasteful than a dishonest opinion converted into words the e grenable gre table thing about many honest opinions is that they often conflict with the equally honest opinion of somebody else ehe like the tha six blind blind men of hindustan every opinion with an honest foundation Is at least partly in the right the point of danger in this modern age however is not the man f from orn whose skull emerges an opposing opinion the greatest greate ht danger lies in that legion of voters and non voters with skulls of a type that no sound opinion can possibly pene no political party is a great greal deal different than any other political party every party is composed of men and women a majority of whom want to he be fair there are good republicans public ang ans and bad republicans lust as there are good democrats and bad democrats most host voters who misplace their votes do so as a result of misplaced confidence in some political false teacher while only the vot voter ter who has placed party above principal has to ti the whole of a gigantic political sin too often party success may conflict with public interest the unquestioned control of government by any party represents a paramount danger to the life and well being ot of any nation good republicans and rood good democrats never made i bad combination in any administration and the chief menace to our national welfare Is represented in the bad ones of both parties bad lawm lawman ers are the makers of bad laws as well as too many laws and too many bad laws will trill eventually destroy any government if I 1 we have tou too many leaders from either or any party no ae must expect some bal bad leaders among the number men who will place petty personal per jonal ends above public interest the foregoing Is with reference to the type ot of leader who would sink the whole nation to save his own tace face without regard to whether or riot not said saad face ever had aiole that than imaginary value to begin with this la is with ie reference deference to the type of 0 leader who sees no cause to grow alarmed because a few million people are on the verge of starvation to long as he himself Is not one of the number any government la Is a government only by virtue of those who maintain it and the first duty of any government is to those who make it possible that want and hungar in a land where theres more than enough tor for all are without w justification most of us agree that a serious depression in a country such as ours Is unwarranted preventable and in no way essential to our national well being Is a tact fact well I 1 known to us all it a government is powerless to alter such an unwar ranted condition ot of suffering within its own borders it is a wrong tyre type of government it a government can 01 minate such a condition yet for or political reasons will not it Is a rotten type ot of government under any party leadership one man who has started doing a little thinking for himself recently stated im through voting tor for political parties because in principal both parties are identical henceforth I 1 propose to forget parties and vote for men in our opinion until a few million more of us adopt a policy and ollow follow it without regard tor for parties and political promises we have little cause to hope tor for any thing better r than the present ap all patently endless chadd chaan of national nation ji misery miser Y and chaos and until then the beat that ninety percent of 0 american citizens can with lua calon hope for or Is six feet ot of earth at the end of the road FT |