The people of the United States demand a new deal and a square deal.
They have grasped the fact that the special interests are now in control
of public affairs. They have decided once more to take control of their
own business. For the last ten years the determination to do so has been
swelling like a river. They insist that the special interests shall go
out of politics or out of business--one or the other. And the choice
will lie with the interests themselves. If they resist, both the
interests and the people will suffer. If wisely they accept the
inevitable, the adjustment will not be hard. It will do their business
no manner of harm to make it conform to the general welfare. But one way
or the other, conform it must.
The overshadowing question before the American people to-day is this:
Shall the Nation govern itself or shall the interests run this country?
The one great political demand, underlying all others, giving meaning to
all others, is this: The special interests must get out of politics. The
old-style leaders, seeking to switch public attention away from this one
absorbing and overwhelming issue are pitifully ridiculous and out of
date.
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