oing in three
minutes. I was number thirteen. I wanted to get a ticket for Springfield.
The thing for me to do, of course, to rise to the crisis and make
democracy work, was to jump up on my suitcase and address the queue who
were ahead of me: "Ladies and gentlemen! Eighteen or twenty of you in
this line ahead of me want tickets to Springfield on the train going in
three minutes, and the rest of you want tickets on the train going in
half an hour. If you people who are hoping you can get your tickets in
time to go to Springfield will let me cut in ahead of you out of my turn
and get my ticket, I will buy tickets for all of you with this ten dollar
bill in thirty seconds, and you can get your tickets of me on the train,
and in this way we will all catch it."

I did not do it, of course, but it would have been what I call democracy
if I had.

The whole problem of labor and capital, and of political and industrial
freedom, from now on after this war would have been solved in miniature
before that window--if I had. My invention for the future of the Red
Cross is that it should do what I tried to do at that window, for the
American people.

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Democracy is a form of government in which the people are essentially
autocrats. The difference between an autocracy and a democracy is that
the people select their autocrats. The more autocracy the more
efficiency.

A people can not have the autocracy they need to get what they want
unless they are willing to give over to their representatives the
necessary trust pro tem., the necessary ex officio right to be autocrats
in their behalf. Democracy is autocracy of the people, for the people, by
the people--that is, by the people in spirit to their representatives who
express their spirit.

The representatives of the people can not keep the people's autocracy for
them unless they keep in touch with the people--that is, unless they
advertise to the people and the people feel that they can advertise to
them.

In an autocracy the autocracy of the ruler is based on forcing people's
attention. In a democracy the autocracy is based on touching men's
imaginations, on making people want to fall into line in the right order.
If the Kaiser had done this in Germany, Germany would have been the
greatest democracy in the world and the greatest nation. If the Kaiser
had had the power and genius for advertising of the modern kind, if he
had had