There is no reason why you should sweat to fatten others."
Tell them this often enough, stir up their determination
sufficiently--they will find their own remedies.
If you want to drive out the handful of organized rogues that
control politics and traffic in votes, don't talk smooth
platitudes. Tell the people over and over again that the thieves
ARE thieves, that they should be in jail, that honest government
would mean happier citizens, that the INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN is
responsible. Keep at it, and the country will be made better by
those who alone can make it better--the people. ----
On the front platform a fat policeman said, after deep thought:
"Well, it's an ill wind that blows nobody good."
The driver, this writer and an Italian workman looked at the
policeman in deep admiration. It was so evident that he had the
making in him of an expensive editorial writer. He could say so
solemnly and authoritatively what every living man knew by heart.
Suppose you stop spouting platitudes, editorial gentlemen, and
try your hand at stirring up plain, everyday antagonism to
existing false conditions. "Disturb the public peace," as Ruskin
put it. You must know that you can't win the fights
individually, so be like the Norse maidens that stirred up the
real fighters to do their duty.
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