“Business versus Pleasure” from the August 8, 1924 Door County Advocate
BUSINESS VERSUS PLEASURE
Among our pleasures and excitements as American people is what is called “Politics.” There are elements of sport, gambling, speculation and all the chances and ups and downs of a lottery or horse race. Politics for this reason has a fascination that amounts almost to a passion in the minds of thousands of good citizens. The conclusion of an exciting race at the primaries, nominating conventions and elections always sees a great deal of money change hands although betting on elections is strictly forbidden by law. The interests of a great nation of 110,000,000 people, with commerce running into hundreds of millions and billions, when we add manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, mining and public improvements, must in the final correct solution of problems become more and more a matter of business. The most serious question before our country is the relation of our government to foreign affairs, especially the restoration of fairly normal conditions in the late war-stricken nations of Europe. Morally, politically and economically, and above all to ourselves, we owe it to the world to aid in bringing this about as soon as possible. To keep American industries and payrolls on a steady foundation, to see that our farmers and producers have open access to the markets of the world for their surplus products, will take something more than the trickery of politics. It will take the application of the best brains and the soundest business principles, which is statesmanship far beyond party lines. We must forego the pleasure and excitement of old-fashioned politics and serve our country and the interests of all humanity.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
[Either H. J. Sanderson, Arthur T. Harris, or both together, are the authors of this editorial.]
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