Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1889 — The Value of a Vote. [ARTICLE]

The Value of a Vote.

Anna L. Davis, in Wide Awake. Why should a man vote anyway? and why is it the proudest day of an American boy’s life when he casts his first vote for President? Because a vote governs. One of the greatest acts a man can perform is to govern. To rule a tribe is the privilege of the strongest in it. To rule a kingdom is the ambition of the wisest. The pomp and circumstance of an Emperor is only an outward expression of how magnificent a! thing it is to rule. But after all, the real grandeur lies in the opportunity and responsibility" underneath the splendor. The cabinet where the King meets his ministers and discusses and decides the fate of his people is greater place than the throneroom where he receives embassadors. But every man who votes is himself a ruler of a nation. In the United States the baliot-box—simple and unromantic as it is—-is the throne of the President; and when our executive decides the course of' affairs, i£ ia every man in' the land behind him who does it, who is g&veming the'country. Every voter shares in the government, every vote expresses his conviction as to how the country shall be governed, and who shall put this same conviction into practice. The man who votes thereby records his Bolemn conviction as to the government, and in so doing he himself governs the land. He who neglects- to use that power to rule for which men have gladly given their lives; he who exchanges it for profit barters away his own individual ty, his voice, his country; he who sells his vote sells th® nows of his soul. • *'- k Tbe Popnla i a of the United State* Is about 00,000,000, and we would say at least one-half are troubled frith some affection of the Throat and Langs, as those complaints are, according to statistiesmore numerous than others. We would advise all oar readers not to neglect the opportunity to call on their drnggist and get a bottle of Kemp’s Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Trial sizes free. Large bottles 50c and sl. Sold by all druggists. -

Anger at a feast betrays the boo^. The old question- - where Shull I get rny seed thi* year-- presents itself to thousands of our readers at tuis season of the ye r. It yen will turn to our advertising oniumm yen will find the announcement of John A. BxU-r.La Cross-, Wi»„ who nuk s s rp-cialty of Northern Grown Seeds. Tbe»e are early, productive and fall of liie, and will increase every yield.

It's very, rery. very strange, Il’a very strange to me, 1 » ' , How Mr. Champ, who's lately {ailed, ’ Gets on so swimmingly. Bat when I come to; think, it’s plain That I this fact forget; t < That tho’ he seems to swim, he sails Upon his floating debt.