ower of this country is divided so
that each man is a sovereign.

Now, the laboring people are largely in the majority in this country.
If there are any laws oppressing them, they should have them
repealed. I want the laboring people--and by the word "laboring"
now, I include only the men that they include by that word--to
unite; I want them to show that they have the intelligence to act
together, and sense enough to vote for a friend. I want them to
convince both the other great parties that they cannot be purchased.
This will be an immense step in the right direction.

I have sometimes thought that I should like to see the laboring
men in power, so that they would realize how little, after all,
can be done by law. All that any man should ask, so far as the
Government is concerned, is a fair chance to compete with his
neighbors. Personally, I am for the abolition of all special
privileges that are not for the general good. My principal hope
of the future is the civilization of my race; the development not
only of the brain, but of the heart. I believe the time will come
when we shall stop raising failures, when we shall know something
of the laws governing human beings. I believe the time will come
when we shall not produce deformed persons, natural criminals. In
other words, I think the world is going to grow better and better.
This may not happen to this nation or to what we call our race,
but it may happen to some other race, and all that we do in the
right direction hastens that day and that race.

_Question_. Do you think that the old parties are about to die?

_Answer_. It is very hard to say. The country is not old enough
for tables of mortality to have been calculated upon parties. I
suppose a party, like anything else, has a period of youth, of
manhood and decay. The Democratic party is not dead. Some men
grow physically strong as they grow mentally weak. The Democratic
party lived out of office, and in disgrace, for twenty-five years,
and lived to elect a President. If the Democratic party could live
on disgrace for twenty-five years it now looks as though the
Republican party, on the memory of its glory and of its wonderful
and unparalleled achievements, might manage to creep along for a
few years more.

--_New York World_, October 26, 1886.

HENRY GEORGE AND SOCIALISM.

_Question_. What is your opinion of the result of the election?

_Answer_. I find many dead on the field who