The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-15
WHY DEMOCRACY IS BEST

T HERE ARE ways which control of govern 1 may be taken by individual, a group a power may acquired by conquest of by in heritance, by consent of the governed.
 The first sort of power held by William the Conquer and by Napoleon; by the Allies
 The second sort of power held whenever throne from keeper his and the complete in the degree that the throne is absolute.
 The third sort of is exhibited by the United States and all other countries the choice of rulers in the hands of the people.
 Thos2 govern by of the governed the they represent in government many people it beyond the understand ing of the people It seldom be much better than they willing it. The people select for their rulers those whom they most admire, who please them most The result is never quite popular in it's results.
 Popular governments frequently represent class views they do popular y.ews for this
 That of not themselves competent to conduct government choose those whom they deem competent than themselves and m making the choce nave to accept the individuals they have placed in office just they
 The difference between popular government like that of the United States and the two other main foHns of govern men consists in ths that the people within brief establish those power who most acceptable to them.
 instance nothing whatever, excepting the will of the people, to prevent socialist anarchist taning presidency the United States In any election the people could they had the mind socialist to each office.
 They the mind In the whole they prefer those the United States could if they wished do it. their constitution that the would have the of Soviet The United States has soldiers sailors and wormen the material which Sovies constructed
 The Soves of Europe however have arrived not by pop uar selection but by conquest by force of The sove
  in the name of class which is very little consulted.
 In time doubt the Sovets will lose their limit ed class domination and call to the aid of the brains that it possesses The the people modify the original program modify Sovets will perish. Just the brains the body paratvely small portion of it, the highly endowed trained citizenship of nation the smallest part of it, most necessary any except agraran type like Abyssina in which the people exist primitive manner with the aid of flocks and herds.
 Before states restored there would thinning of populations The dense numbers that upon the would disappear like the sum- highly trained endowed of their number be from exercising their abilities.
 Having asserted that the Soviets subject correction and that they may be expanded until all elements of popu laon admitted to government what is the difference tween Soviets and democracy of the American type?
 It is this The American democracy permits the people do whatever they desire to do without anarchy boodshed painful disturbance. Progress may without violence The living need suffer postery may benefited
 Granting that from the Soviets benefits come those benefits which might be obtained comfortably ained intolerable confusion anguish murder famine and sudden death
 The governments distinguish between friend and foe. Being based upon force, they kill who stand in the whether the foe of their thought death sentence follows attempt share in the goveHpment.
 Democracy good travel. has carried Amer ica safe for Democracy includes all that other system includes provides the people with any government they desire, whether it be monarchy Soviet a republican government.