It counts on the regular list of church benevolences.

The state officers come in to help on the critical local fights.

Any country politician fears their non-partisan denunciation as he does political death.

The local machines thus backed are incurable mugwumps, hold the balance of power, work in both parties, and have voted dry the agricultural territory of the United States everywhere, by the township, county, or state unit.
The only institutions that touch the same territory in a similar way are the Chautauquas in the prosperous agricultural centres.

These, too, by the same sign are emphatically anti-saloon in their propaganda, serving to intellectualize and secularize the dry sentiment without taking it out of the agricultural caste.
There is a definite line between our farm-civilization and the rest.