ABSTRACT
The reason that the larger number of men who go into politics to-day are inefficient and do get the things done that crowds want, is that they are the kind of men who feel that they must talk and act like servants. The crowd is dumb, massive, silent. There seems to be no one in the world to express it, to express its indomitable desire, its prayer, to lay at last its huge, terrible, beautiful will upon the earth. One finds the miners’ leaders afraid of the mine managers and of what they might do, so that they have no policy except to fight. One finds the mine managers afraid of one another, afraid of their stockholders, afraid of the miners’ leaders, and afraid of the newspapers and afraid of the Government. People who are never Outside, who only see a little way out over the edge of the little crowd in which they are penned up, are naturally afraid.
