Instances are not needed in this connection for every person who has worked or who desires to work for social betterment finds this question at the gateway of organized effort.

Shall one turn to the centralizing tendency in political life of our country for support of a given measure, or shall one make a breakwater in that tendency and concentrate attention upon the smaller political units?
=Preferential Voting.=--The second problem of political science and art which presses upon the attention of our electorate is one which is bound up in methods of selection and election of our legislators and executives.

The ever-recurring question of, "For whom shall we vote ?"--rests back upon the deeper question, "For whom shall we have a chance to vote ?" The primary was supposed to end the acknowledged corruption and inadequacy of the caucus system.

The primary is an advance on the secret caucus with its choice of men for the highest office by a few partisan politicians only, whose business it is to keep party lines strong and to make them carry their candidate into office.

The primary, however, we see, is a very expensive method and open to many dangers, and progressive students of political methods are not satisfied with it.