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Let Us Be SensibleTHE Reverend Billy Sunday, glowing, dynamic, magnetic and compelling — and here in the flesh is one proposition.The Reverend Billy Sunday viewed in the perspective of a week's absence in another proposition.And without undertaking to go Into a philosophical analysis of those two points nf view we believe this postulate will be a eptable to all, to-wit: Visitors comeand visitors go, but here is where wa live. This is our town. This is our home. Ms problems are our problems. And by their solution shall we build wisely or unwisely.The resultant of Mr. Sunday’s effort* in this city takes visible form in the matter of the local option election to he held January 27. That the people have a right, by the authority both of law and morals, to say whether the legalized saloon shall be abolished or continued is not debatable. We still cling to the inspired doctrine of majority rule. If the conception of American liberty is to live that doctrine must continue to be “the rock of ages. Though history be garlanded with legend, soug and poetry we know, If we look backward with any real intelligence, that the American ideal of government was the first message of light. We know that it supplanted tyranny. We know, too, that the doctrine of majority rule can only he supplantedby tyranny.Knowing this, or, if you are a sticklerfor exactness, believing it implicitly, The Globe wishes to say that it will abide, not merely formally, but approvingly, by the v^rdiot of the vote in this city on January 2 7.If it be the will of the people teat Joplin be “dry” The Globe will not only record the decision, but it will exert what influence It has in seeing that the decree is carried out in the letter and the spirit.Meanwhile the question of prohibition or the legalized saloon is In its debatable stage. Lot us remember that it is a question regarding which there are honest differences of opinion. And the man on one side is likely to be quite as sincere as the man on the other side.To denounce a man a* a scattered-braln fanatic because he believes in prohibitionmerely an epithet, possessing no argumentative meHt either constructive or defensive.To indict a man as an apologist for the evils of the saloon business because he opposes prohibition Is both bigotry andbanality.To consider the question in its moraldebated, considered; that whatever theoutcome we as a comm unity must bear the burden. The result of election day may tell a story of triumph or defeat, but the day after election there is neither victor nor vanquished—the day after election and all the days thereafter.There is an essential difference between the citizenship of hat-rack and suit-case and the citizenship of home, family, occupation and established residence. With all due respect to the one, we are primarily and permanently concerned about the other, inasmuch as we are of the thousandsthat constitute the other.Lot us take counsel of one another! Let the pit.ched-battle atmosphere of this thing difappear! The affairs of our temporalsalvation are not subordinate.Let us be sensible.THE DISMISSAL OF PINOHOT.GIFFORD PINCHOT was one of the fair-haired boys of the Roosevelt ad-m In 1st ration.Gifford Pinchot has been a thorn in the flesh of the Taft administration.There has been no charge in Gifford Pinchot.But there has been a mighty change in the administration, and because of that change we find a man honored of bis fellows a short while ago for the work he was doing now dismissed from the service.Mr. Taft may feel that the dlglnlty of his office was affronted by the letter Pinchot wrote to Senator Dolliver in apparent violation of executive orders. So. the offender has been punished for contempt of court. Rut if Pinchot failed in the proper respect for the presidential office there is nobody at fault excepting the incumbent of that office.For months it has been apparent that the administration whs not big enough for both Ballinger and P nchot. Either thesecretary of the interior had to go, or the chief of the forestry service had to go. Fearful of public opinion, which recognizes in Gifford Pinchot a servant of the people, the administration did not dare to dismiss the forestry chief. But it did dare, in defiance of public opinion, to retain Ballinger as secretary of the interior, notwithstanding many chargee preferred against him and notwithstanding his suspected alliance with the avowed vultures seeking to devour ihe people's lands.The dismissal of Pinchot is acclaimed Inthe circles of big privilege.It is deplored by the rank and file of the nation’s citizenry.A ad this is the inevitable verdict that seemingly must be rendered in all the issues of the moment in the Taft administration.Thai the president’s dismissal of Pinchot can be bolstered up to look plausible
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Jan 09, 1910
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