[The Fight For Conservation by Gifford Pinchot]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fight For Conservation CHAPTER XII 8/16
The vital separation is between the partisans of government by money for profit and the believers in government by men for human welfare. When political parties come to be badly led, when their leaders lose touch with the people, when their object ceases to be everybody's welfare and becomes somebody's profit, it is time to change the leaders. One of the most significant facts of the time is that the professional politicians appear to be wholly unaware of the great moral change which has come over political thinking in the last decade.
They fail to see that the political dogmas, the political slogans, and the political methods of the past generation have lost their power, and that our people have come at last to judge of politics by the eternal rules of right and wrong. A new life is stirring among the dry bones of formal platforms and artificial issues.
Morality has broken into politics.
Political leaders, Trust-bred and Trust-fed, find it harder and harder to conceal their actual character.
The brass-bound collar of privilege has become plain upon their necks for all men to see.
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