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ong and danceo Of Armageddon.

Take out OF the Democratic party the
"Progressiyes, as they call themselves,
and join them to the "Progressives"
who rally to Roosevelt, and no man can
predict the state of the country and the
complexion OF the Congress. AS Will
son strives to fulfill the promises of the
Democratic platform and to meet the
requirements of rational progress, will
the standards of Progressivism be raised.
All who do not bow down and worship
at the shrine Of Bull Moose having no
responsibilities to carry and playing to
the fanciful, the emotional and the
poor, whom we have always with us no
matter what laws Congress may pass
and what wisdom and virtue may reside
in the White House-all who do not
demand the preposterous will be de-
scribed as Reactionaries and be relegat-
ed TO outer darkness. By 1916 it will
be a contest between the possible and
the impossible in government, compll-
Gated by Democratic factionism and the
ghost Of Republicanism, unknowing or
unwilling to admit, that it is dead.
The Bull Moose propaganda is
a.religious cult not political pro-
gram. The one tangible thing en-
bodied BY it in the campaign just
ended was Third Term for lheo-
dore Roosevelt. That could only
mean life-tenure and an absolute
autocracy. The pretension that it
would not Mexicanize the Govern
ment and Diazify the Presidency is
the milk-and-water which conspir-
acy employs to dupe the immature
and credulous.
That the zealots of the Woman
Suffrage crusade should be caught
by it attests their incapacity to dis
eliminate and their unhtness for
political leadership. Stripped of
Third Termism, bereft of the Roose-
welt resources and activities, moth
ing remains of the Bull Moose
scheme of regeneration except its
rescript of humanity, which as
sprung from the teaching of the
idealists of Christendom, belongs
to the ethics Of life and holds but
an indirect relation to the science
of Government. Yet the visionary
and hysterical are carried away by
the sheer passion of Onward,
Christian Soldiers" just as during
the war of sections they marched
to battle chanting John Browns
Body" - the song, the shibboleth,
not any fixed, coherent idea in
their minds.
There is nothing fanatical about either
Democracy or the new leader it has ele
waited to the Chief Magistracy. The
has come to a parting of the
ways between the government of organ
zed corruption which we have had and
"a new birth of freedom" which we
seek. Before we attain this latter we
shall surely pass through fire. The
horrible story of how the Presidency
erm-in and term-out has been bought
md sold will 60 far and for long time
o protect us against the Vaccinations
If the Money Devil. The dangers ahead
ire of quite a different kind. They will
spring from the sentimental and i'm
practicable who call themselves Demo-
rats and fancy that now the skies have
allen the poorest will be able to catch
arks.
1t has been observed that we are
eaching everybody to read and nobody
O think, whilst steadily charging the
rea of suffrage. This means that the
aw of Force, which has ruled so long,
will be succeeded by the law of Num-
,ers. Woodrow Wilson will be the first
Imong American Presidents to meet the
evolution and to adjust its problems to
he actualities and possibilities of gov
by the people, of the people
md for the people. "
God gave him wisdom and grace and
end prosperous gales to the ship of
tate about to be entrusted to his keep
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
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