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Its material interests were quite too much the football of parties as it was." "No doubt you were right," rejoined Dr. Leete, "but all that is changed now. We have no parties or politicians, and as for demagoguery and corruption, they are words having only an historical significance." "Human nature itself must have changed very much," I said. "Not at all," was Dr.
"I warrant," said Sergius, gloomily, "that every pot-house politician from the Etruscan Street was declaiming on how much better he could command than could Quintus Fabius." "Until at last," went on Agathocles, "Marcus Metilius " "The tribune? a corrupt knave!" broke in Sergius. "Surely; yes. Well, this Marcus Metilius made a speech " "Full of rank demagoguery, I warrant."
"To rescue it from the combination of demagoguery and plutagoguery that is wrecking it," said I without heat, "and make it again an instrument of at least sanity, perhaps of patriotism." "We control the platform committee," he went on, "and I can tell you now, Senator Sayler, that that there platform, nor nothing like it, will never be reported."
Putting aside the obvious point that the American Constitution deliberately protected slavery, which is the primal foe of all Democracy, the broader fact remains that the entire trend of the Constitution was intended to keep the educated and aristocratic classes in control and to protect them from the dangers of ignorance and rascally demagoguery.
We have seen that the gravest menaces of democracy are the faults in mind and character in the multitude. Selfishness, fickleness, ignorance, irreverence in the people, with demagoguery in the leader these are the menaces of American democracy. How then can the people be trusted, since democracy depends upon trusting them? This is an old indictment, searching to the very heart of democracy.
No; but men must be made capable and worthy of it, otherwise public life becomes impossible, and the nation, undisciplined and unrestrained, goes on through license into the inextricable tangles of demagoguery.
One such instance as the running-down of Miss Cleary bears within it far more than the extremest demagoguery the potentialities of an unleashed hate. It is a lesson in lawlessness." Still in the afterglow of composition, Hal, tinkering lightly with the proofs, felt a hand on his shoulder. "Well, Boy-ee," said the voice of Dr. Surtaine. "Hello, father," returned Hal. "Sit down. What's up?"
Laxity of discipline, straggling, desertion, demagoguery in place of military spirit, giving commissions as the reward of mere recruiting, making new regiments instead of filling up the old ones, absence of proper staff corps, every one of these things had been suffered in France till they could no longer be endured, and we had faithfully copied their errors without profiting by the lesson.
And not until the United States Attorney General a vain Goodrich creature whose talents were crippled by his contempt for "the rabble" and "demagoguery" not until he had it forced upon him that Ferguson could not be counter-mined, did they begin to treat with me for peace. I shall not retail the negotiations.
It may be doubted whether such a convention, if called to-day, either in your country or mine, could achieve like results, for in this day of unlimited publicity, when men divide not as individuals but in powerful and organized groups, a constitutional convention would, I fear, prove a witches' cauldron of class legislation and demagoguery.
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