They are honest financially, if not intellectually, and do not consciously yield to "the interests." They are correct in their private lives and likely to be somewhat bigoted.

Many are convinced that cities are essentially wicked and conceive them to be inhabited by vampires and parasites.

Few can think in national terms, and fewer have either knowledge or comprehension of international relations.

For a generation the South was excluded from any real participation in national affairs and was wholly occupied with local questions.

It is therefore difficult for such men to realize the present position of the United States in world politics.