ctical course of procedure.

The way a man runs a church or any disinterested enterprise is not to be
compared as a test of the man's real spiritual or religious value to the
state--to the way he runs an interested enterprise or business.

If I were the rich young man in the New Testament I would not have sold
all my goods to feed the poor--as that particular person (being what he
was) was advised to. I would hold on to my money--and found a religious
order with it. I would make a whip of cords of my money and my brains
woven together and would drive out the peddlers, the economic fiddlers,
the moral and business idiots out of the Temple. I would do it not by
being a pure, sterilized, holy-looking person, but by having more
imagination in business, by using higher levels and higher voltage of
human motive power in business than they can use, by having more brains
about human nature than they have, and by my power to get the public to
be religious, _i.e._, my power as a sheer matter of business, to make the
public prefer, as a matter of course, my way of competing in business
until it drives out and makes absent-minded, mooning, feeble and
shortsighted, theirs.

This is not the kind of thing that I happen to have the natural technique
or gift to do--to found a live deep natural religious order like this,
but there are thousands of men I know and that other men know in America,
who have the natural typical American technique for putting their higher
gifts to work in business and who are crowding to the wall men who can
only use their lower ones, and the power, the opportunities that go with
these men are daily being outlined by events and daily being sketched out
before our eyes.

The way to be a prophet and to interpret and establish in a nation is to
lead in the business world to-day in establishing principles of
competition, which exalt and interpret human nature, free the common
sense, the will, the glory and the religion of the people.

The way to be a President, the next four years, is to use the White House
and all the resources of the Government to cooeperate with and back up
this type of American business man.

V

THE RED FLAG AND THE WHITE HOUSE

The first qualification the next President should run for the Presidency
on is his vision or program for the nation with regard to backing up men
in American life--democracy and the Red Flag.

The first thing a President should see about the Red Flag i