"Do you think he can be anything truthfully ?" "Oh, yes, even if it is only a demagogue." "Only a demagogue! My dear Corinna, the demagogue is the one everlasting and unalterable American institution.

He is the idol of the Senate chamber; the power behind the Constitution." "But what does he really stand for--Vetch, I mean ?" "Ask him.

He would enjoy telling you." "Would he enjoy telling me the truth ?" With the laughter still in his eyes Benham drew nearer and stood looking down on her.

"Oh, I don't mean that he is pure humbug.

I haven't a doubt, as I told you, that he believes, sufficiently at least for election purposes, in the fallacies that he advocates, even in the old age pension, the minimum, or more accurately, the maximum wage, and of course in what doesn't sound so Utopian since we have experimented with it, that favourite dogma of the near-Socialists, the Government ownership of railroads.