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showing that men of shady character frequently try 

 to cover their misconduct by fervent protestations of 

 love of country. Nevertheless, the fact remains 

 that exactly as true patriots should be especially 

 jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise 

 of patriotism, so men who strive for honesty, and 

 for the cleansing of what is corrupt in the dark 

 places of our politics, should emphatically disas 

 sociate themselves from the men whose antics 

 throw discredit upon the reforms they profess to 

 advocate. 



These little knots of extremists are found every 

 where, one type flourishing chiefly in one locality 

 and another type in another. In the particular ob 

 jects they severally profess to champion they are as 

 far asunder as the poles, for one of their character 

 istics is that each little group has its own patent 

 recipe for salvation and pays no attention what 

 ever to the other little groups; but in mental and 

 moral habit they are fundamentally alike. They may 

 be socialists of twenty different types, from the 

 followers of Tolstoi down and up, or they may 

 ostensibly champion some cause in itself excellent, 

 such as temperance or municipal reform, or they 

 may merely with comprehensive vagueness announce 

 themselves as the general enemies of what is bad, 

 of corrupt, machine politics, and the like. Their 

 policies and principles are usually mutually exclu- 



