American national cohesion is a matter of national integrity; and national integrity is a matter of loyalty to the requirements of a democratic ideal.

For better or worse the American people have proclaimed themselves to be a democracy, and they have proclaimed that democracy means popular economic, social, and moral emancipation.

The only way to regain their national balance is to remove those obstacles which the economic development of the country has placed in the path of a better democratic fulfillment.

The economic and social changes of the past generation have brought out a serious and a glaring contradiction between the demands of a constructive democratic ideal and the machinery of methods and institutions, which have been considered sufficient for its realization.
This is the fundamental discrepancy which must be at least partially eradicated before American national integrity can be triumphantly re-affirmed.

The cohesion, which is a condition of effective nationality, is endangered by such a contradiction, and as long as it exists the different elements composing American society will be pulling apart rather than together.