ABSTRACT
The student of government, like the student of any other subject, must make his investigations upon amass of raw materials. What are the raw materials of government? This chapter suggests that the Standard Oil Company has been indicted on some thousands of counts for violating the federal laws. The "ideas" and "feelings", as set apart concretely, serve to indicate the values of the activities which are our raw materials. It is of crucial importance in handling our raw materials to give them a statement which will yield the best range of values for our purposes. The "ideas" and the "feelings" flash over the field of action at white heat. Municipal ownership, in and for itself, takes the pulpit and yearns to burn at the stake all objectors. The raw material can be found only in the actually performed legislating-administering-adjudicating activities of the nation and in the streams and currents of activity that gather among the people and rush into spheres.
