The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 6, 1960 Page: 3 of 23
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everywhere. Good voting comes under the
heading of both of the great command-
ments — love God, and love one’s neigh-
bor. Good voting is an exercise of civic
virtue which is pleasing to God and vital
to the future of humanity.
In a special sense, in our time, we
owe it to the people of other nations to
vote with all the wisdom and piety of
which we are capable. Hundreds of mil-
lions of our fellow human being are held
captive under governments which deny
their right to be mature, to make decisions,
to determine the course of their tomorrows.
For their sake, we must make the demo-
cratic system of government a beacon' of
truth for all the world. We must show that
their masters are wrong, and that they,
in their desire for self-determination, are
right.
HEN I said that there could be
times when the best advice would be, “Do
not vote,” what I meant was this: If we
find ourselves in a situation in which we
are unable to determine which is the best
course for our city or state or country to
choose, we would be wiser to leave the
decision in the hands of voters who are
able to judge better than we are. This,
for instance, could happen if we moved to
another state where we did not under-
stand issues and candidates, or if illness,
say, prevented us from obtaining the in-
formation we need for intelligent voting.
What should govern our voting is our
prayerful and thoughtful judgment of what
is best for the common good. And the com-
mon good today includes not only the prob-
lems of our own country, but the. problems
of all the world. Petitioning God for divine
guidance — but also studying the issues and
candidates as carefully as possible — we
should approach the ballot box nowadays
with the deepest sense of responsibility,
and with no desire save that of serving the
good of our people and of all other peoples.
Intelligent voting does not require that
each of us be an expert on everything con-
nected with government — domestic and
foreign policy, fiscal matters, law, geo-
politics and all the rest. But it does de-
mand of us what is called civic virtue,
which means that we realize the import-
ance of the act of voting, that we express
our honest convictions without shabby
self-interest, that we choose between
candidates on the basis of their demon-
strated abilities and their capacity for
leadership and good judgment, and that
we vote prayerfully and thoughtfully.
With that understanding, it is good
that we should be exhorted to cast our
ballots. Voting is a right for which mil-
lions in the past have labored and suffered
and even died. We should treasure it, we
should understand it, and we should deter-
mine that to the best of our ability we will
be worthy of it as a great gift handed down
to us from brave and sacrificial ancestors,
who held it to be a self-evident truth that
governments, under God, are , instituted to
secure the inalienable rights of God’s
creatures, and that one of those rights is
that of rising to the stature of full citizen-
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A THOUSAND times, ' you and I
have been told that we ought to vote. Right
now, we are being urged, over and over,
to be sure to cast our ballots. Television,
radio and the public prints are filled with
exhortations to go to the polls.
Yet the astonishing truth is that the
advice to vote — to vote no matter how —
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In fact, at times it may be downright fool-
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There can be occasions when for some
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some neglected facts about voting.
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has never heard and has never even re-
motely imagined, more than about one-
tenth of the good reasons he should vote.
Voting is far more important than
most of us realize. Merely telling us to vote,
without enlightening us about the deep and
•wide considerations involved, is to speak
or write inadequately.
Another fact is that no one should
vote without either a sufficient under-
standing of the issues, or direction from
some trustworthy person who does under-
stand them.
In other words, -the only truly wise
advice is, “Vote intelligently. Vote if you
know what you’re doing, and why. If not,
refrain from voting until you have in-
formed yourself.”
It is customary for writers and
speakers to tell us that voting is a patri-
otic duty. But voting is much more than
a patriotic duty — although it is certainly
that, and that is tremendously important.
We owe it to the whole human race
to vote — intelligently. All kinds of argu-
ments are advanced to show that what
we call the democratic system of society
is the best system. But the strongest argu-
ment is seldom or never mentioned.
The strongest argument is not the ef-
fect upon our country, or on other coun-
tries, but upon ourselves. Our system of
government, in my view, is best because
it demands of all of us that we become
mature, responsible, thinking men and wo-
men — that we develop the powers that
God has placed in our minds and hearts
and souls.
What I am getting at is that you and
I — and everybody else — owe it first and
foremost to God to vote . . . intelligently.
We have no right to stagnate in sloth. We
were not created for that; and if that is
what we do with ourselves, we are failing
in gratitude to our Creator.
Second, we owe it to ourselves to vote
. . . intelligently. Decent self-respect de-
mands that we rise to the challenge that
is given to us to do our part in leaving
the world better than we found it. Intelli-
gent voting is an extremely important part
of meeting that challenge.
Third, we owe it to our country to
vote intelligently, because upon intelligent
voting depends the progress, prosperity and
fullness of achievement that our nation,
under God, is meant to attain. To vote in-
telligently is indeed a patriotic duty —
and a privilege of patriotism and citizen-
ship.
Fourth, we owe it to the human race
to vote with knowledge and intelligence.
God intends other peoples to become re-
sponsible and mature, just as He intended
us to do. They have that right — and they
have the right to receive from us good ex-
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into maturity and self-determination.
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Francis, Dale. The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 6, 1960, newspaper, November 6, 1960; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528592/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Edward’s University.