at people a thousand a minute, on the busiest part of the busiest street
in New York.

Whoever the man is, he stands for the business men we want for the
Put-Through Clan first.

One of the first things the Put-Through Clan is going to dramatize is
this sign on the Marble Collegiate Church.

The men in America in the next twenty years who are going to carry
everything before them in business, drive everybody and everything out of
their way, take possession of the great streets and the great factories
in the name of God and the people, are the men who practice daily the
spirit of this sign, the men in business who refuse to go tumtytumming
along in a kind of thoughtless inertia of motion, doing what everybody's
doing in business--the men who turn one side (by whatever name they call
it) to pray, to snuggle up to God and think.

Men who have success before them in business are the men who have the
most imagination in business.

Imagination with most of us consists in taking time to see things before
other people do, in connecting up what we do with its larger, deeper,
more permanent relations, relating what we do to ourselves, to others, to
our time and generation, to the things we have done before and to the
things that must be done next.

"Prayer, Meditation and Business."

It is wonderful how these words, when one comes on a man who does not say
anything about it and puts them together, tone each other up.

The first thing the Put-Through Clan is going to do in a town in this
present tipply and tragic world, is to stand by and help make known to
everybody across a continent the men in business who stand by these
words--who mix them so people cannot tell them apart.

BOOK VI

WHAT THE PEOPLE EXPECT OF THE PRESIDENT

I

THE BIG BROTHER OF THE PEOPLE

If I were writing a book to be used during a Presidential campaign, used
as a handbook of the beliefs of the people--a book in the next few weeks
for a nation to say yes or no to, for a great people to go before their
conventions with, the first belief I would put down for the new President
to run on would be the belief that every man in this country is a bigger,
better and truer man than the present arrangements of our industrial and
social life seem willing to let him express.

We are all practically waiting in crowds to-day, all over this
country--in held-in and held-back crowds, to act better than we look.

This belief is the first belief