There was a shaking of heads, and mutterings arose.
"All right, then, you prefer to be anachronisms," Ernest laughed.

"You prefer to play atavistic roles.

You are doomed to perish as all atavisms perish.

Have you ever asked what will happen to you when greater combinations than even the present trusts arise?
Have you ever considered where you will stand when the great trusts themselves combine into the combination of combinations--into the social, economic, and political trust ?" He turned abruptly and irrelevantly upon Mr.Calvin.
"Tell me," Ernest said, "if this is not true.

You are compelled to form a new political party because the old parties are in the hands of the trusts.