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.
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