We need interpreters. There ought to be in the political field
men able to translate the language of events. What the physician is
to the body physical, the political leader ought to be to the body
politic. The nation is to-day suffering from half-trained quacks,
each coming with his nostrum for all possible political ills. Said a
mother — "I never am kept awake by my children ; I always give
them a good dose of paregoric, and they drop right off to sleep."
Poor woman ! She thought she struck the pain, when she only
struck the brain, and put upon the faces of her children an expression
far moxt faregorical than categorical. We want for our diseases not
narcotics, but remedies ; not impostors, but physicians. We want
men who can tell the tired, wailing masses the nature of their trouble
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socialism are so evident and monstrous as to make it astounding that
they should deceive even the common man ; but the common man is
looking for results and easily deceived. He is unable to trace the
socialistic stream back to the poisonous fountain of a false philos-
ophy, and through his ignorance, becomes the prey of desijg^ning and
vicious demagogues. Here is a danger that must be met by men of
brain. Socialism carried to its logical conclusion is anarchy. Until
you have equalized brain and heart and morals you cannot equalize
conditions. Your ordinary politician is not able to cope with
socialism. The crisis calls for men of trained and skilful powers.
