Finally, having established the spy system and made house-to-house espionage a rule of conventicle, it will become a misdemeanor for a man to kiss his wife.
From fakers who have cards up their sleeves, not to mention snakes in their boots, we hear a great deal about "the people," pronounced by them as if it were spelled "pee-pul." It is the unfailing recourse of the professional politician in quest of place.

Yet scarcely any reference, or referee, were faultier.
The people en masse constitute what we call the mob.

Mobs have rarely been right--never except when capably led.

It was the mob of Jerusalem that did the unoffending Jesus of Nazareth to death.

It was the mob in Paris that made the Reign of Terror.