Glowing Embers
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ISBN10: 1231246685
ISBN13: 9781231246689
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781231246689
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...States, every platform of each party presents notable variations from its predecessors. Thus a man may one year vote with a party expressing his honest convictions in regard to all public questions of tariff, finance, immigration, and other matters, and a few years afterwards he may find the same party has left him. It retains the name, but not the principles.. If he should fail to see the wisdom of a change, shall his fellow-men require of him party allegiance, when by casting his vote with them he would belie his former belief, his acknowledged opinions, his own conscience in regard to what he believes to be right and best for the nation? It matters not what the exponents of a party have taught in the past; it matters not what its records have been when in supremacy; what sentiments cling to revered names, nor what memories to deeds--the party as it exists, its platform and its nominees of the day, are what a man endorses when he casts a vote for it. Should partisanship prevail instead of patriotism? Should allegiance to a name be greater than loyalty to a principle? Should a party be more to a man than his country, his honest opinion, and his conscience? To admit an error is but to acknowledge oneself wiser today than yesterday; but if one is not convinced of error, to advocate the opposite side is to endorse what one disbelieves; yea, it is even to recant what to him is truth. Amiability is a virtue, but stability of character is a nobler quality of manhood. Never will politics become pure and patriotism rise above partisanship till all men accord each other the right to vote at each election as conscience dictates. This system most likely would prove inconvenient to party bosses, to organizers, to office-seekers, and to the prophets of elections--but i...