We Are Thus Brought To A Conception

Hundreds Of Poor Laboring Men And Women Are Being Thrown Into Jails And Police Stations Because Of Their Political Beliefs. In Fact, An Attempt Is Being Made To Deport An Entire Political Party.

If In A Democratic Country Nothing Can Be Permanently Achieved Save Through The Masses Of The People, It Will Be Impossible To Establish A Higher Political Life Than The People Themselves Crave.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

As The Acceptance Of Democracy Brings A Certain Life-giving Power, So It Has Its Own Sanctions And Comforts. Perhaps The Most Obvious One Is The Curious Sense Which Comes To Us From Time To Time, That We Belong To The Whole, That A Certain Basic Well Being Can Never Be Taken Away From Us Whatever The Turn Of Fortune.

The Cheap Drama Brings Cause And Effect, Will Power And Action, Once More Into Relation And Gives A Man The Thrilling Conviction That He May Yet Be Master Of His Fate.