If wisely they accept the inevitable, the adjustment will not be hard.

It will do their business no manner of harm to make it conform to the general welfare.

But one way or the other, conform it must.
The overshadowing question before the American people to-day is this: Shall the Nation govern itself or shall the interests run this country?
The one great political demand, underlying all others, giving meaning to all others, is this: The special interests must get out of politics.

The old-style leaders, seeking to switch public attention away from this one absorbing and overwhelming issue are pitifully ridiculous and out of date.

To try to divert the march of an aroused public conscience from this righteous inevitable conflict by means of obsolete political catchwords is like trying to dam the Mississippi with dead leaves.
To drive the special interests out of politics is a vast undertaking, for in politics lies their strength.