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Volume 9 November 3, 1911. Number 44 
The Coming Election 
On Tuesday the opportunity will 
be given each citizen to avail him- 
self of his rights of franchise on 
State affairs. In democracy the will 
of the people is law and law is the 
accummulation of the experiences of 
the people codified and established 
as statutes. In the end the failures 
and benefits of government are and 
must be attributed to the activity or 
inactivity of the people in express- 
ing and codifying public opinion. 
Public opinion without the rights of 
franchise accompanying the ex- 
pression of that opinion is valueless. 
Many Americans had an opinion on 
the reciprocity question rejected by 
Canada but they had no opportunity 
to express that opinion by ballot. 
Tuesday is the freeman’s day and 
every citizen should be loyal to the 
traditions of the land by using his 
high privilege to express his opinion 
by ballot. 
Ordinarily this would be an “‘off 
year’’ politically speaking, but this 
year there are interests at stake that 
must be carefully guarded. No 
State election should be fought out 
on National lines and as far as our 
National policy is concerned, di- 
rectly, the ballot of Tuesday will be 
negligible. Certain interests have 
endeavored to unite two very im- 
portant issues, the high cost of liv- 
ing and the tariff problem as de- 
fenses in a State campaign. How- 
ever, that error has been corrected 
by the public and but little con- 
fusion now exists. 
-. G. BE. WILLMONTON ... 
-Atterney and Couneeller at Law- 
S HVOonRy 
There is nevertheless a sense in 
which the republican voter can 
pledge his allegiance to the party 
for the election in Massachusetts is 
being watched by careful students 
of political affairs all over the land. 
If Massachusetts should go demo- 
eratic, it would be another indica- 
tion of the sentiment of the public 
toward the republican management 
of affairs. A republican victory will 
mean more than a local state victory 
—it will mean the beginning of the 
turn in the tide forecasting a repub- 
lican President in 1912. Conse- 
quently thousands of loyal republi- 
can votes cast against Draper last 
year will be found recorded for Mr. 
Frothingham and Mr. Luce. The 
new primary law gave the republi- 
can party an opportunity to select 
their leader and no other Governor 
has ever received the nomination 
more as the people’s man, by a di- 
rect vote, than Mr. Frothingham. 
It cannot be gainsaid that previous 
to the primary Mr. Frothingham was 
the choice of the leaders of the 
party and that their choice was so 
substantially endorsed at the pri- 
mary only confirms the wisdom of 
their judgment. This year the re- 
publican voters can record a vote of 
confidence in President Taft’s ad- 
ministration and vote on the man of 
their own selection for Governor— 
Louis A. Frothingham. 
Each year the ballot appears 
longer as the referendum articles in- 
crease; there are three referendum 
clauses. 
to the constitution permitting the 
use of voting machines will receive 
a light vote and it is doubtful 
whether it will prevail. There are 
many favorable things to be said, 
but as far as the principles of de- 
mocracy and secrecy are concerned 
nothing is gained over the ballot and 
there is a large expense involved. 
It is known of course, that the ma- 
chine companies are interested. An- 
other amendment increases’ the 
power of the legislature to author- 
ize the taking of land and property 
for highways or streets. The amend- 
ment is of particular interest to the 
city of Boston but in the event of ex- 
tensive public highway or street im- 
provements the amendment may 
prove of value to any community. 
There is no opportunity for abuses 
to develop under the amendment 
and it is not unlikely that the amend- 
ment will prevail. The third amend- 
ment relates to a special class and 
Willmonton’s Agency! 
SCHOOL ANB URIGH STS, MANCHESTER 
BREEZE 
The proposed amendment ° 
OLD SOOT BLS6, Boston 
provides for the extension of the 
civil service act to the Chiefs of 
Police of certain cities and towns. 
Thanksgiving Proclamation 
The Thanksgiving proclamation is 
at hand and it has the impress of 
the character of William Howard 
Taft. It will repay a careful read- 
ing. It is a ereditable production 
from any point of view but its kindly 
spirit is prominent and gratifying. 
‘“‘Our country has been signally 
favored in many ways. The sound 
of the seasons has brought rich har- 
vests. Our industries have thrived 
far beyond our domestic needs, the 
production of our labor are daily 
finding enlarged markets abroad. 
We have been free from the curses 
of pestilence, of famine and of war. 
Our national councils have furthered 
the cause of peace in other lands and 
the spirit of benevolence has brought 
us into closer touch with other peo- 
ples, to the strengthening of the 
bonds of fellowship and good will 
that link us to our comrades in the 
universal brotherhood of nations. 
Strong in the sense of our own right 
and inspired by as strong a sense of 
the rights of others, we live in peace 
and harmony with the world. Rich 
in the priceless possessions and 
abundant resources, where with the 
unstinted bounty of God _ has en- 
dowed us we are unselfishly glad 
when other peoples pass onward to 
prosperity and peace. That the 
great privileges we enjoy may con- 
tinue, and that each coming year 
may see our country more firmly es- 
tablished in the regard and esteem 
of our fellow nations, is the prayer 
that should arise in every thankful 
heartes 
It is a strong plea for the better 
things of life as well as thanksgiv- 
ing for the more material blessings. 
There is in it all an ethical note 
often conspicuous by its absence 
in thanksgiving proclamations. 
The Honest Physician and the Quack 
For some undefined reason; many .- 
people, often intelligent in many 
other respects, are deceived, muleted 
and physically weakened by the use 
of widely advertised and falsely rec- 
ommended drugs for ordinary and 
more often for the more serious mal- 
adies to which the human constitu- 
tion is susceptible. Frequently an 
unscrupulous fortune hunter will 
stumble upon a receipt of doubtful 
value and exploit it to the limit of 
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