ilson with which I cordially
agree. There are, however, certain things he has said, even as regards
matters of abstract morality, with which I emphatically disagree.
For example, in arguing for proper business publicity, as to which I
cordially agree with Mr. Wilson, he commits himself to the following
statement:

"You know there is temptation in loneliness and secrecy. Haven't you
experienced it? I have. We are never so proper in our conduct as when
everybody can look and see exactly what we are doing. If you are off in
some distant part of the world and suppose that nobody who lives within
a mile of your home is anywhere around, there are times when you adjourn
your ordinary standards. You say to yourself, 'Well, I'll have a fling
this time; nobody will know anything about it.' If you were on the
Desert of Sahara, you would feel that you might permit yourself--well,
say, some slight latitude of conduct; but if you saw one of your
immediate neighbors coming the other way on a camel, you would behave
yourself until he got out of sight. The most dangerous thing in the
world is to get off where nobody knows you. I advise you to stay around
among the neighbors, and then you may keep out of jail. That is the only
way some of us can keep out of jail."

I emphatically disagree with what seems to be the morality inculcated
in this statement, which is that a man is expected to do and is to be
pardoned for doing all kinds of immoral things if he does them alone
and does not expect to be found out. Surely it is not necessary, in
insisting upon proper publicity, to preach a morality of so basely
material a character.

There is much more that Mr. Wilson says as to which I do not understand
him clearly, and where I condemn what I do understand. In economic
matters the course he advocates as part of the "New Freedom" simply
means the old, old "freedom" of leaving the individual strong man
at liberty, unchecked by common action, to prey on the weak and the
helpless. The "New Freedom" in the abstract seems to be the freedom
of the big to devour the little. In the concrete I may add that Mr.
Wilson's misrepresentations of what I have said seem to indicate that he
regards the new freedom as freedom from all obligation to obey the Ninth
Commandment.

But, after all, my views or the principles of the Progressive party are
of much less importance now than the purposes of Mr. Wilson. These are
wrapped in impenetrable mystery. His speech