is only the old revived and
clothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America.

WOODROW WILSON.

CONTENTS

Preface vii

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Old Order Changeth 3
II. What is Progress? 33
III. Freemen Need No Guardians 55
IV. Life Comes from the Soil 79
V. The Parliament of the People 90
VI. Let There Be Light 111
VII. The Tariff-"Protection," or Special Privilege? 136
VIII. Monopoly, or Opportunity? 163
IX. Benevolence, or Justice? 192
X. The Way to Resume is to Resume 223
XI. The Emancipation of Business 257
XII. The Liberation of a People's Vital Energies 277

THE NEW FREEDOM

I

THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH

There is one great basic fact which underlies all the questions that are
discussed on the political platform at the present moment. That singular
fact is that nothing is done in this country as it was done twenty years
ago.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has
broken away from the past. The life of America is not the life that it was
twenty years ago; it is not the life that it was ten years ago. We have
changed our economic conditions, absolutely, from top to bottom; and, with
our economic society, the organization of our life. The old political
formulas do not fit the present problems; they read now like documents
taken out of a forgotten age. The older cries sound as if they belonged to
a past age which men have almost forgotten. Things which used to be put
into the party platforms of ten years ago would sound antiquated if put
into a platform now. We are facing the necessity of fitting a new social
organization, as we did once fit the old organization, to the happiness
and prosperity of the great body of citizens; for we are conscious that
the new order of society has not been made to fit and provide the
convenience or prosperity of the average man. The life of the nation has
grown infinitely varied. It does not centre now upon questions of
governmental structure or of the distribution of governmental powers. It
centres upon questions of the