The People Are What Matter To Government,

To One Who Believes That Really Good Industrial Conditions Are The Hope For A Machine Civilization, Nothing Is More Heartening Than To Watch Conference Methods And Education Replacing Police Methods

This Leads To A Question - If A Great Many People Are For A Certain Project, Is It Necessarily Right? If The Vast Majority Is For It, Is It Even More Certainly Right? This, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Tricky Points Of Democracy. The Minority Often Turns Out To Be Right, And Though One Believes In The Efficacy Of The Democratic Process, One Has Also To Recognize That The Demand Of The Many For A Particular Project At A Particular Time May Mean Only Disaster.

In America, Public Opinion Is The Leader

Most Of Man's Problems Upon This Planet, In The Long History Of The Race, Have Been Met And Solved Either Partially Or As A Whole By Experiment Based On Common Sense And Carried Out With Courage.

But With The Slow Menace Of A Glacier, Depression Came On. No One Had Any Measure Of Its Progress; No One Had Any Plan For Stopping It. Everyone Tried To Get Out Of Its Way.