But it also means that if, as we hold, the people are fit for self-government--if, in other words, our talk and our institutions are not shams--we will get good government.

I do not contend that my theory will automatically bring good government.

I do contend that it will enable us to get as good government as we deserve, and that the other way will not.
The then government of the Police Department was so devised as to render it most difficult to accomplish anything good, while the field for intrigue and conspiracy was limitless.

There were four Commissioners, two supposed to belong to one party and two to the other, although, as a matter of fact, they never divided on party lines.

There was a Chief, appointed by the Commissioners, but whom they could not remove without a regular trial subject to review by the courts of law.