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This survey serves to bring out the large proportion of his teaching which deals with the simplest principles of ethics. These could not possibly perish because of their irresistible vitality. Even the man who can get no religion out of the teaching of Jesus can yet find a priceless treasure in his ethical teachings...
...problems, and the only true reform lies in some broadening method of getting the people into closer touch with the city business. The more members of the council, the better the government will be, because more voters will know of its actions. The New England town meeting is the simplest and best form, because of its extreme personal relations. The German cities have perhaps the best municipal government with universal but not equal suffrage. When we can substitute intelligent suffrage for their system of suffrage based on property, we will have a successful municipal government by commission...
...simplest, narrowest field of political activity is discussion with your neighbor. The widest field at present, with the possible exception of work in a few high offices difficult to reach, is offered by newspaper writing or management. If the college graduate realizes that he has thus far only 'learned to study'; if he combines a desire to learn with a capacity for receiving strong impressions and a real sympathy with the people; if he is willing to wait a long while, and perhaps indefinitely, for wealth, I should advise him to seek political and other useful activity in newspaper work...
...most effective speakers employ the simplest methods. They must have something to say, they must mean what they say, and they must say it so that it can be heard. Sound arguments and plain facts carry more votes than party abuse or flights of rhetoric. Honest purpose, backed by character, does not always succeed, yet never more than today has the sincere advocacy of a cause a better chance of hearing...
...prize of $25 has been offered anonymously to the Department of Economics for the best treatise on "The relative interests of the people of Massachusetts in a protective tariff, such as now exists, or in the simplest form of tariff for revenue only; to be worked out by analyses of occupations as given in the population volume of the census, coupled with analyses of manufactures as given in that volume...