One step in this direction, which I personally believe should be taken without delay, is a law forbidding any Senator or Member of Congress or other public servant to perform any services for any corporation engaged in interstate commerce, or to accept any valuable consideration, directly or indirectly, from any such corporation, while he is a representative of the people, and for a reasonable time thereafter.

If such a law would be good for the Nation in its affairs, a similar law should be good for the States and the cities in their affairs.

And I see no reason why Members and Senators and State Legislators should not keep the people informed of their pecuniary interest in interstate or public service corporations, if they have any.
It is certain such publicity would do the public no harm.
This Nation has decided to do away with government by money for profit and return to the government our forefathers died for and gave to us--government by men for human welfare and human progress.
Opposition to progress has produced its natural results.

There is profound dissatisfaction and unrest, and profound cause for both.

Yet the result is good, for at last the country is awake.