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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Voters' League The use of the schoolhouse in every neighborhood as the headquarters of the all-inclusive district organization of the electorate, for such orderly deliberation as voting, if it is to be intelligent, furnishes the convenient and practical means whereby the whole together- business of politics may be simplified and rationalized. For the neighborhood, town, county, state, nation,? this means making conscious, alive, effective, the single Voters' League, which is now united in the common membership of responsibility focused in the ballot-box in each district. When the chosen agents of the citizenship have demonstrated by their administration of the business put into their hands, that snap-judgment, touch-and-go, vote- 'em-straight selections are likely to be poor, or that only the exceptional employee can prove faithful when the company that employs him goes out of existence as a company immediately after his appointment, or that only a miraculously endowed seer can tell what the people want when they never get together so that their agents can talk things over with them, then in the average community a group of volunteers forms what they call the voters' league. These men use up some energy in forming an organization and persuading people to join and some more in raising funds to secure a headquarters and a secretary who will give his time to the work. If they have any left, it is devoted to the attempt to make the public's servants do something that they are neglecting or stop something that they are doing. In their efforts to make the people's servants conform to their standard, they are under the bad handicap of being regarded as interferers, which they are. They are not the people. They are not the duly authorized representatives of...
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