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 the people for political progress will not be
denied. Does any man, not blinded by personal interest or by the dust of
political dry rot, suppose that the bulk of our people are anything else
but progressive? If such there be, let him ask the young men, in whose
minds the policies of to-morrow first see the light.
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