American political and social leaders will find that in a democracy the problem cannot be evaded.

The American people have no irremediable political grievances.

No good American denies the desirability of popular sovereignty and of a government which should somehow represent the popular will.

While our national institutions may not be a perfect embodiment of these doctrines, a decisive and a resolute popular majority has the power to alter American institutions and give them a more immediately representative character.

Existing political evils and abuses are serious enough; but inasmuch as they have come into being, not against the will, but with the connivance of the American people, the latter are responsible for their persistence.