On the other hand, a community in which no man or no group of men are granted by law any advantage over their fellow-citizens is the type of the perfect and fruitful democratic state.

Society is organized politically for the benefit of all the people.

Such an organization may permit radical differences among individuals in the opportunities and possessions they actually enjoy; but no man would be able to impute his own success or failure to the legal framework of society.

Every citizen would be getting a "Square Deal." Such is the idea of the democratic state, which the majority of good Americans believe to be entirely satisfactory.

It should endure indefinitely, because it seeks to satisfy every interest essential to associated life.