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Show Perilous Friendships "A talent for friendship is a dangerous one for those who sit in hitch places," says the Minneapolis Tribune, which draws a lesson from the experience of President Harding's administration, saying 'a sense of obligation to friends was liis undoing and a faith in loyalty I'.-ft him spiritually bankrupt." This Republican newspaper savs that "Woodrow Wilson will go clown in history as a great president." presi-dent." although "his whole career is marked by the bones of broken friendships." "Had President Harding possessed possess-ed but a share of that icy egotism that was characteristic of his prc-predecessor prc-predecessor in the White House,"' says the northwestern newspaper, "his life would not have come to a close in the bitterness of dis illusion. Wilson found himself frustrated, but he lost no faith In his fellow man, for he had little or none. It may be said that he loved no individual." We call this to the attention of public officers of Sanpete County in the belief that one of the perils per-ils that threaten democratic government gov-ernment throughout the nation today to-day is a false sense of loyalty to friends, which often impels men holding public positions to yield the public interests to the importunity impor-tunity of their friends. |