They do not belong to the professionally political class to which the American electorate has handed over the business of government. It cannot be too often repeated that are not representative government can just as bad as any form of government ever devised, and frequently it is in America. It makes little difference what the form of government falls into incompetent or vicious hands. Representative government easily falls into such hands because the nature of it requires that it shall have a mandate from the voters. Citizens do not vote, how can we expect government to be representative? And representative citizens do not vote, not as least, in the numbers nor in the unanimity that those citizens vote who are organized for the purpose of bad or unrepresentative government. This is the condition that accounts for the kind of government we have in America today. Because we delegate authority we call it representative government, not stopping to think that government, under what form, takes its character from those who operate it, not from those, matter how able, patriotic or high-minded, who do not participate in it. The average city council is not representative of the community, the average legislature is not representative of the state, congress is becoming and more representative of class no more and occupational interests—blood interests—and is not representative of the interests of the nation. Before we condemn representative government ought we not to really try it?

OREGON SCENTS DANGER
Next Saturday Oregon meets Idaho in what sport experts regard as one of our hardest games of the season. 