Hearst has understood that principle better than the other reformers, or the conservatives who claim its authority.

He has exhibited its disintegrating and revolutionary implications; and he has convinced a large, though fluctuating, following that he is only fighting for justice.

He personally may or may not have run his course, but it is manifest that his peculiar application of the principle of equal rights to our contemporary economic and political problems has come to stay.

As long as that principle keeps its present high position in the hierarchy of American political ideas, just so long will it afford authority and countenance to agitators like Hearst.

He is not a passing danger, which will disappear in case the truly Herculean efforts to discredit him personally continue to be successful.