Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ours Is the Rule of Dead Men: Or, the Vote of the Masses, the Support and Check of the Classes
In the absence of any accepted or well grounded theory explaining the causes lead ing up to and producing the present distress ing industrial conditions, and in the absence of any satisfactory guiding principles to lead the nation out of said conditions, is to be found the incentives from which has sprung the 1nsp1rat10n and temerity that emboldens, up holds and excuses the author in bringing the principles herein enunciated from obscurity to publicity. The book has a twofold intention. It demonstrates that men with convictions which have been formed by individual study of present and past governmental environ ments are the natural statesmen of the age, regardless of whether they have or have not made money, and that no age or government is in a healthy condition if this class of men have no voice in public affairs, but are choked off by selfish and incapable men declaring said convictions to be undemocraticor unrepublican if they were not laid down by Jefferson, Adams, Webster, Jackson, Lincoln, Clay, Calhoun, or some other of the great dead. In this connection the book clearly brings out the fact that nations during the dead level of their existence subordinate governmental questions to the absorbing passion of money making, and that true statesmen are very much in the way during this period; they must wait until danger is imminent, then the money-makers are perfectly willing to step aside and hide themselves in bomb proof retreats and wait for statesmanship, bravery, valor, and self - sacrifice to take charge and clear the country of the enemy, and how, after the danger is past, the little men slip back and worm'thiemselves again into control.
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