Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — Men Who Fail to Exercise Suffrage or Shirk Jury Duty Should Not Criticise [ARTICLE]

Men Who Fail to Exercise Suffrage or Shirk Jury Duty Should Not Criticise

By DR. J. P. KERR

President of Council of Pittsburgh, Pa.

It is an everyday occurrence for us to stand up in the streetcars and demand our rights, or sit at home and criticize the work of the municipal and national governmente? We all shout that the city owes it to us to do this or to do that, but did you ever stop what you owe the city or the nation? Why criticize the administrations when you sit in your office on election da/and fail to register your vote for the party or man who will right your grievances? Why leave it to'the professional voters to elect'candidates? Don’t sit at honje and criticize the verdict that has been rendered by a jury in our courts when you have pulled every available string to keep from serving on that jury, thereby leaving an opening for a professional juror. As a duty to ourselves, to the city and to the nation, we should go to the polls oh election day and vote for the right man or party that will be free from political corruption, such as has marked so.many past admijiistrations. We should go willingly and serve on the jury when duty calls. If you don’t do this, then don’t criticize.