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pie. Favors enjoyed by all are not favors, but rights. 

 A favor is something enjoyed by one at the ex- 

 pense of others. If we can secure the granting 

 of justice to all and the withdrawal of privileges 

 enjoyed only by the few, we shall destroy the 

 "pull" and the whole system based on it. So 

 this is a movement for democratic government — 

 government for all and by all, in which all shall 

 participate. With this secured most of the evils 

 from which we are now suffering would disappear. 

 The pull would not work when there is nothing to 

 be gained by it. The people would not be interested 

 in stealing from themselves. If there was nothing 

 for corruption to win there would be no corruption. 

 In brief, the remedy is to be sought in a simple ad- 

 herence to what is the true American system, from 

 which we have so widely departed, and in a loyal ad- 

 herence to the old American ideals. 



One other point is made by President Hadley that 

 bears directly on this discussion. He calls attention 

 to the fact that business and politics are now both re- 

 garded as games, and he says : 



"A wider discretionary power for good or ill is 

 placed in the hands of those by whom the public 

 affairs of the city or state are conducted. These 

 affairs will not be safe while politics is regarded as a 

 game. * * * Under an imperialistic policy our 

 government can not remain what it is. It must 

 grow either worse or better. It can not remain a 

 game in which the struggle for success is as far as 

 possible disassociated from the moral sense of the 





