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THE COMET
Published monthly by students of Austin High School.
Entered as second class mail matter at Austin, Texas.
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VOL. VII. AUSTIN, TEXAS, MAY, 1908. No. S.
CITY GOVERNMENT IN AMER ICA.
Democracy is a form of governiwit diflicilit to keep clean and
efficient in any land and among any people. Every person in a
Democracy is supposed to have a part in the organization and man-
agement of affairs, no matter how low his standard of living nor
how ignorant and stupid he naturally may be. So in the very
nature of things all citizens, including the ignorant and stupid,
have power, and these last can he blinded and misled by designing
self-seekers. Illustrations of this thesis may be induced in great
number. The ancient Grecian city, Athens, with its cunning poli-
ticians Cleon and Alcibiades, is an immortal example. Alcibiades,
with his beauty and daring bravery, attracted the admiration of the
multitude, and when still quite young, in spite of his reckless b-
havior, could sway the opinions of the connon crowd. Cleon, on
the other hand, was a vulgar, brawling politician, and, although
pretending to be a friend of the people lie was always in-
- triguing for his own eniichment at the expense of the State. 1
England, too, the political conditions were all but hopelessly bai
before the Reformi Bill of 1832. We read of city officials spenw -
ing large sums of public money in sinecure salaries to themselo-.
in lavish banquets and entertainments, and of other gross forms
of graft and political indecency. But the fact that this corrup-
tion has been done away with and that England now enjoys clean
and efficient government, national and municipal, proves that
Democracy can, be successfully work ed, for England, though in
name a monarchy, is, in fact, an intensely Democratic land. The
manner in which carpet-baggers gained control over the South
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Austin High School (Austin, Tex.). The Comet, Volume 7, Number 8, May 1908, periodical, May 1908; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1218512/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brian W. Schenk Archives, Stephen F. Austin High School.