man a fair chance. If it will, it is good, no matter who proposed it. If
it will not, it is bad, no matter who defends it.

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican
or a good Democrat.

The protest against politics for revenue only is as strong in one party
as in the other, for the servants of the interests are plentiful in
both. In that respect there is little to choose between them.

Differences of purpose and belief between political parties to-day are
vastly less than the differences within the parties. The great gulf of
division which strikes across our whole people pays little heed to
fading party lines, or to any distinction in name only. The vital
separation is between the partisans of government by money for profit
and the believers in government by men for human welfare.

When political parties come to be badly led, when their leaders lose
touch with the people, when their object ceases to be everybody's
welfare and becomes somebody's profit, it is time to change the leaders.
One of the most significant facts of the time is that the professional
politicians appear to be wholly unaware of the great moral change which
has come over political thinking in the last decade. They fail to see
that the political dogmas, the political slogans, and the political
methods of the past generation have lost their power, and that our
people have come at last to judge of politics by the eternal rules of
right and wrong.

A new life is stirring among the dry bones of formal platforms and
artificial issues. Morality has broken into politics. Political leaders,
Trust-bred and Trust-fed, find it harder and harder to conceal their
actual character. The brass-bound collar of privilege has become plain
upon their necks for all men to see. They are known for what they are,
and their time is short. But when they come to be retired it will be of
little use to replace an unfaithful public servant who wears the collar
by another public servant with the same collar around his neck. Above
all, what we need in every office is free men representing a free
people.

The motto in every primary--in every election--should be this: No
watch-dogs of the Interests need apply.

The old order, standing pat in dull failure to sense the great forward
sweep of a nation determined on honesty and publicity in public affairs,
is already wearing thin under the ceaseless hammering of the progressive
onset. The demand of