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The politicians,
absorbed in their profession, neglect to devise the best policy for you and have
joined the ranks of the office-seekers; and you conduct your party-politics as
you used to conduct your tax-paying—by syndicates.1 There is an
orator for chairman, with a general under him, and three hundred to do the
shouting. The rest of you are attached now to one party and now to another.
Hence all that you gain is that So-and-so has a public statue and So-and-so
makes his fortune—just one or two men profiting at the expense of the
State. The rest of you are idle witnesses of their prosperity, surrendering to
them, for the sake of an easy life from day to day, the great and glorious
prosperity which is yours by inheritance.
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