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. 1899 Excerpt: ... important if he sometimes fails to catch it; but when he is playing a match game, his failure may spoil the score for his side. So it is when a man turns aside from his own business and undertakes to serve the public. All his mistakes and failures now become a public loss. How shall we praise too highly the man in ...
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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. 1899 Excerpt: ... important if he sometimes fails to catch it; but when he is playing a match game, his failure may spoil the score for his side. So it is when a man turns aside from his own business and undertakes to serve the public. All his mistakes and failures now become a public loss. How shall we praise too highly the man in office who does his work for the sake of all of us better, if possible, than he does his own work? Such able and faithful public officers do good to all the people. Who of us is not richer for knowing some brave, skilful, kind, and honest public servant? How many men do we know of this sort? CHAPTER XVI. VOTING, OR CHOOSING OUR LEADERS. How do men become mayors and aldermen in the cities, or selectmen in the towns? In other words, how do we get leaders and managers for the people? In old times the strongest and boldest men made themselves lords over the people. They got soldiers together, and they fought and killed those who resisted them. When the lord of a town died, his oldest son would take the rule and keep it, if he could, for his son after him. In the old countries of the world, in Italy or in Germany, you still are shown the castles, often on a high hill over the town, where the lords lived with their soldiers. Their business mostly was to fight against the lords of other cities. They did not care much how their poor people got on, who often suffered terribly from hunger and oppression, and were compelled to pay their money to the great lord upon the hill. Little did the lords trouble themselves in the old cruel days whether the children of their people ever learned to read and write. Perhaps a king or emperor who lived in Paris, or Vienna, or St. Petersburg, thought that he owned all the cities of the realm. He could appoint his own frie...
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