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Show REAPING AS WE SOW As a people we Americans are too indifferent to matters of national concern. We are indifferent because we do not enter actively into the discussing and shaping of such affairs. We have no time to devote to the national welfare wel-fare because we are engaged almost exclusively in the accumulation ac-cumulation of money for our necessities and pleasures. This trait is not found only in the republican party, or in the democratic party, or among any certain class of people. We are all tarred with the same brush, and the tar is thick and black, and sticks. If things don't go to suit us Washington we roar chestily tf or a day or two, and then for-jget for-jget all about it. "We don't follow up the roars with definite defi-nite action. Because of this weakness we sutler from appalling waste and extravagance in our na tional life. We see officials vacillating in their weakness and indecision when they should be firm and aggressive in their action. And, above everything else, we see crime rampant throughout through-out the country, and taxation scraping the lining of the skies. We reap as we sow, and the yield is no more than we sow. |