[burwash] evolution AND DEGENERATION OF PARTY 13 



course, read the hearts of men and human laws cannot control motives. 

 "We can only deal with acts. The political activity that arises directly 

 from zeal for convictions is limited to efforts to disseminate truth, by 

 discussion, by voice and pen. The most radical and effective remedy 

 that we can suggest for political corruption is to make all and every 

 form of personal canvass or propagandism which goes beyond the public 

 dissemination and discussion of opinions illegal. 



We are well aware of the objections which would be raised to such 

 an election law. Political convictions are disseminated, not merely 

 by the press and public meetings, but also by private discussion. 

 Granted, and granted also that the private discussion of public affairs 

 between individual citizens should not be in any way discouraged, but 

 rather promoted, yet to exclude a mere personal canvass by the can- 

 didate, to exclude house to house canvass by agents, and especially to 

 exclude the introduction into a riding of outside people for such a 

 canvass woiild imply no limitations of the individual liberty of the 

 citizen and would remove the opportunity for a great deal that corrupts 

 modern politics. 



