Judge — June 15, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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T O R 1 A L_ 8 Busybodies. HIS is a world of busybodies. Every one thinks he knows how to do your work better than you can do it ' , 3. 4, yourself, The shoemaker EN Usually he thinks he can fix the price of commodities, change the stars in their courses and prescribe the orbit of a fugitive comet. Go to a baseball game and watch the crowd. Hear the excited spectator shout to the players what they ought to do. Hear them call the umpire to time if they do not like his decisions. The “*fans"’ all believe in the ‘‘recall,’’ espe- cially if applied to the umpire. Hear the demagogues on the stump telling the ‘‘dear people’’ how they are misgoverned. All these demagogues are looking for offices if they are not already in possession of fat ones. Listen to preachers in sensational pulpits, who, forgetting the humble life and simple teachings of their great Pre- ceptor, seek to attract the multitude by denouncing the ‘‘tainted money”’ of the rich and making hypocritical pleas for the poor whom we have with us always. Read the yellow journals, some of them conducted by men of inherited wealth and upon whose soft hands a cal- lous has never appeared, except from playing golf. Listen to their tirades against the men of success, the captains of industry, the promoters of prosperity and the bankers who seek to maintain the public credit. Busybodies every - where, on all sides, in everything. The less attention we pay to them, the better off we shall be—all of us and every one. thinks he can edit a newspaper, and the ed- itor thinks he can make shoes. May the Best Man Win! This has been an unprecedented pre- liminary presidential campaign. Pri mary elections for delegates in some cases have looked like eruptions on the map. They have made preliminaries in former campaigns seem like Quaker meetings. They have made JuDGE won- der as to what elections of all kinds may resemble in the future. Most of the traditions of strenuous and heated activ- ity related to the meeting of the monkey and the parrot, Donnybrook Fair and the ee Peay ERROR. Cats of Kilkenny have suddenly become obsolete. The two leading candidates have broken most records for fast traveling. Both have come as near to the physical miracle of being in two places simul- taneously as man has yet approached. They have also broken some things be- sides records and traditions, and if either is nominated it would seem that he should go to a rest cure for a space to recuperate for the regular campaign. But at least one of these two promi- nent candidates need not worry after the convention as to immediate leisure, for he—whichever he may be—will have plenty of time for rest. Yet foratime bothmust <& ie) ; keep busy withdelegates 7 and other persons, with @ wary eye out here and there and everywhere for each other and for that apparition of conventions, ‘‘the dark horse.’’ The bands are playing, songs are sing- ing, flags are waving, badges are blink- ing in the sun and the general hurrah is on. Jupce wishes everybody luck— quite conscious of the fact that some must miss it—with malice toward none and charity forall. May the best man win! And may the candidate who comes out of the hurly-burly be elected! o, eZ. Oo Floating Planks. Many a candidate of great promise has turned out to be a poor performer. This government will never be perfect until there are enough offices to go around, r A great many politicians insist that they are libeled, when they are only labeled. a The most hateful person in the world is the man who reminds you of your election predictions. You can kick any man’s political prin- ciples around with impunity, but don’t trifle with his political prejudices. A reformer’s idea of the first step toward ff saving the country is getting a good job. Come to think of it, about the only really independent voters are the single men. comicbooks.com