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The Yale Daily News states that politics is just too dirty to be a fit career for college graduates.
It might be further stated that in many instances politics is too dirty for any decent man.
But there are all kinds of politics; they are just what we make them, or what we allow our politicians to make them. It has often been said that a government is what the people make it, or, to be more accurate, what they allow their officials to make it.
The fact that politics is dirty, in many instances should arouse every intelligent American citizen to the need of doing something about it. This is our country; we have grown up here.
If we were living in a house in which we had a part ownership we would doubtless be interested in those who shared this house with us. It would not please us at all if their part of the house was dirty, contaminated with cockroaches and other bugs that would swarm into our section.
And our situation in politics is the same to a large extent. If our politicians are grafters, if they are robbing their constituents, if they have made politics "dirty", it is entirely our fault if we allow them to continue in office. We get what we deserve in political service from our officials.
The Yale Daily News says that the most serious of all menaces is the increased abhorrence of educated young men for politics.
To that statement we say: "Amen!" with all possible emphasis.
But the spirit of ownership, the idea that this is our country, that we are part owners in this great American enterprise, should be everywhere accepted. When things go wrong we should raise hell," and keep on raising it until something is done to make them go right.
Now that we see the danger of being taxed so heavily that all of us may ultimately have to work for the government, we are somewhat alarmed, and we are wondering what can be done about it. But we should stop wondering, and as individual citizens do everything we can to condemn the present appalling expense of government.
Let us get rid of the red tape the frills and furbelows of governmental activities that are acting the financial heart and life out of this nation at the present time.
The attitude assumed by our college boys and our respectable citizens everywhere should be heartily condemned.
This is OUR country.
Let us get up on our hind legs and fight for what we believe to be right with all the energy and intelligence we can command. Bernarr MacFadden in The New York Evening Graphic.
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