of discord by laboring against disagreeable facts; it is not achieved by mere pit-pats on the back of untoward conditions.
There is no doubt that had one approached William Howard Taft a year ago and said: “Mr. Taft, you know there are evil forces in the world which ought to be resisted,” he would have replied, “Cer¬ tainly, by all means.”
If one had said, “Mr. Taft, some of this evil is just ignorant inclination, which can be dealt with by various means of enlightenment, but some of it repre¬ sents a deliberate philosophy which has gathered about itself a definite organization for action,” he would have responded: “I am afraid it is true.”
And then had one said: “Mr. Taft, the people should be made aware of this, given a key to it, that they may keep their eyes open and learn the meaning of certain tendencies that have puzzled them,” hev would in all likelihood have replied, “I believe in enlightening the public mind that it may take care of itself.”