So far as his charges are true, they are a denial that the American political and economic organization is accomplishing the results which its traditional claims require.

If, as Mr.Muirhead charges, Americans permit the existence of economic slavery, if they grind the face of the poor, if they exploit the weak and distribute wealth unjustly, if they allow monopolies to prevail and laws to be unequal, if they are disgracefully ignorant, politically corrupt, commercially unscrupulous, socially snobbish, vulgarly boastful, and morally coarse,--if the substance of the foregoing indictment is really true, why, the less that is said about a noble national theory, the better.

A man who is a sturdy sinner all the week hardly improves his moral standing by attending church on Sunday and professing a noble Christian theory of life.

There must surely be some better way of excusing our sins than by raising aloft a noble theory of which these sins are a glaring violation.
I have quoted from Mr.Muirhead, not because his antithetic characterization of American life is very illuminating, but because of the precise terms of his charges against America.

His indictment is practically equivalent to the assertion that the American system is not, or at least is no longer, achieving as much as has been claimed on its behalf.