CHAPTER XVI 



SCHISMS AND INJUNCTIONS 



THERE never was any country in this 

 world having a free and popular form 

 of government where a movement for social 

 or political reform did not at some time 

 trip or stumble over the personal ambitions 

 or the jealousies of its supporters. This is a 

 condition inseparable from democracy; the 

 temptation is beyond the resistance of ordi- 

 nary human nature. The state government 

 that the complete triumph of the League had 

 swept into office was hardly assured before 

 a cleavage began to appear. 



I have spoken of the League's blunders, 

 which we must view in all their aspects if we 

 are to understand this remarkable movement. 

 One of these blunders, more than once re- 

 peated, has been a too great and too careless 

 confidence in the choosing of its nominees. 

 On any reflection it will be clear enough that, 

 however honest, able, and talented a man 

 might be, he could not be effective for the 

 purposes of this organization unless he had in 

 his temper also enough of the apostolic spirit 



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