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there find a necessary sort of experience which private business 
life will never give him. 
The politician in the American sense, that is the man who 
practices the art of carrying elections, is a necessary part of 
our form of government. It is useless to try to abolish him. It 
is foolish to malign the whole class because among the number 
are some who are corrupt or otherwise disreputable, just as it 
would be foolish to malign the whole class of business men be¬ 
cause many of them are guilty of fraudulent practices. The 
true method is not to abolish but to improve politicians by 
ceasing to treat them with scurrility and by making their work 
attractive to the best men in the community. 
Milwaukee, Wis., 1898. 
