Municipal government -- United States; Peace; Political participation -- United States; Social justice; Working class -- United States
This substitution will be a natural process 26
Our very hope for it, a surrender to the ideals of the
humble 27
Accounting must be taken between survivals of militarism
and manifestations of newer humanitarianism 28
Tendency to idealization marked eighteenth-century
humanitarian 29
Newer ideals of this century sustained only by
knowledge and companionship 30
CHAPTER II
SURVIVALS OF MILITARISM IN CITY GOVERNMENT
American Republic founded under the influence of
doctrinaire eighteenth-century ideals. Failure in
municipal administration largely due to their inadequacy 31
Modern substitutes of the evolutionary conception of
progress for eighteenth-century idealism 32
Failure of adjustment between the old form of government
and present condition results in reversion
to military and legal type 34
National governmental machinery provides no vehicle
for organized expression of popular will 35
Historic governments dependent upon force of arms 36
Founders placed too exclusive a value upon the
principles defended by the War of the Revolution.
Example of the overestimation of the
spoils of war 37
Immigration problem an illustration of the failure
to treat our growing Republic in a spirit of progressive
and developing democracy 39
Present immigration due partly to the philosophic
dogmas of the eighteenth-century. Theory of
naturalization still rests upon those dogmas 40
No adequate formulization of newer philosophy although
immigration situation has become much
more industrial than political 42
Exploitation of immigrants carried on under guise of
preparation for citizenship 46
Failure to develop a government fitted to varied
peoples 48
Attitude of contempt for immigrant survival of a
spirit of conqueror toward inferior people 49
Contempt reflected by children toward immigrant
parents 50
Universal franchise implies a recognition of social
needs and ideals 52
Difficulties of administering repressive government in
a democracy 54
The attempt inevitably develops the corrupt politician
as a friend of the vicious 56
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