Abstract

The Pot and the Kettle. On Throwing Away Your Vote

According to Norman Thomas, the only way to throw vote away is to cast it for somebody who is not wanted and then get him. There are literally millions of men who despise Herbert Hoover and don't like Franklin Roosevelt who are none the less going to vote for one or the other, thus doing their best to fasten upon all of us the shackles imposed upon us by the present corrupt and worthless political parties. The author states that the man who votes for either Hoover or Roosevelt is the one who is throwing away his vote. The only way to make one's vote really count in the coming election is to cast it for a new and square deal. To protest against intolerable evils when they arise is the chief reason why there is ballot. To use it in this way is not to be impractical and visionary, but in the best sense patriotic.