Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1916 — A Great Disadvantage. [ARTICLE]

A Great Disadvantage.

• "Well, if you don’t like the way this country is run, why don’t you become a candidate for office, get yourself elected and institute some reforms?” “My friend,” answered Mr. Blowster, “if I devoted my undivided attention to running for office, by the time I got elected to one a new crop of evils would have sprung up with which I would be totally unfamiliar.”