CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



erable and poor and hungry as though it were a 

 mere province of a European empire. So, by 

 degrees, there came a change in the American 

 point of view, a swing from politicalism to 

 industrialism. The mass of the people were 

 now surfeited with oratory and politics and 

 war. They began to settle down to hard facts 

 and hard work. Instead of declaiming about 

 the rights of man, they began to build roads 

 and weave cloth and organize stock companies. 

 Slowly they came to realize that a second Revo- 

 lution must be wrought, a Revolution that 

 would enable them to write a Declaration of 

 Independence against Hunger and Hardship 

 and Hand Labor. 



Up to the year 1809 the chief topics of interest 

 in American legislatures and grocery stores 

 were the blockades, the Embargo, the treaties, 

 the badness of Napoleon, the blunders of Jef- 

 ferson, and the rudeness of England and France. 

 But after that year the chief topics of interest 

 came to be of a wholly different sort. They 

 were such as the tariff, the currency, the building 

 of factories and canals, the opening of public 



[10] 



