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willing; men who work in charitable associations, 

 or, what is even better, strive to get into touch with 

 the wage-workers, to understand them, and to cham 

 pion their cause when it is just. We need the sound 

 and healthy idealist; the theoretic writer, preacher, 

 or teacher; the Emerson or Phillips Brooks, who 

 helps to create the atmosphere of enthusiasm and 

 practical endeavor. In public life we need not only 

 men who are able to work in and through their par 

 ties, but also upright, fearless, rational independents, 

 who will deal impartial justice to all men and all 

 parties. We need men who are far-sighted and 

 resolute; men who combine sincerity with sanity. 

 We need scholarly men, too men who study all 

 the difficult questions of our political life from the 

 standpoint both of practice and of theory ; men who 

 thus study trusts, or municipal government, or 

 finance, or taxation, or civil-service reform, as the 

 authors of the "Federalist" studied the problems of 

 federal government. 



In closing, let me again dwell upon the point I 

 am seeking to emphasize, so that there shall be no 

 chance of honest misunderstanding of what I say. 

 It is vital that every man who is in politics, as a 

 man ought to be, with a disinterested purpose to 

 serve the public, should strive steadily for reform ; 

 that he should have the highest ideals. He must 

 lead, only he must lead in the right direction, and 



