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while glorifying the importance of your own personal will and opinion. There is a poem by Edward Rowland Sill, entitled "Dare You?" which puts this problem well. I think it is not misusing it to apply it even in the political field. "Doubting Thomas" says to "loving John":

Tell me now, John, dare you be
One of the minority

To be lonely in your thought

Never visited or sought?

If you dare, come now with me,
Fearless, confident, and free.

To this John replies:

Thomas, do you dare to be
Of the great majority?

The poet would suggest that sometimes it takes a higher courage to sink one's own individuality of thought and action in the cause of some higher "unity." In all walks of life the problem of when and to what extent this should be done will confront you, puzzling and recurring; nowhere more than in the field of politics.

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American politics (Nineteenth Century), compared

with Eighteenth Century English (Hadley) ....139-141

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Bills, legislative, process of formation and enactment,

160-161

Blaine, James G., 91; quoted, 92.

"Boss," unreasonable prejudice against, 57-59; impor-

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Candidate, should be chosen according to leader he will

Catholics

obey

Caucus, party,

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153;
153-154;

- policies framed and amended in, 152-
debated upon in, 158; —growth in power,
analyzed and criticised, 154–155;

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open or closed, 158; — secret legislation in, 158;
- constituents' interests defended in, 170.

Claims, of country, as against party and district

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165-166

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Clearing house of information on matters of public

policy needed

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Commercial matters, interference of legislator in.. .109

Commission system of government

Common welfare, how best achieved

Compromise in legislation often necessary

Confidence in representatives needed

Congress, a forum for argument

.70

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.76-77

.89-92

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.80-81, 145

.71

Congressional representatives, relation to the Presi-

dent

Congressional votes, their importance

Congressmen,

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- should they work solely for interests
of constituents? 102-103, 120-121; -bravery in
right action, 121; - concerned with federal affairs
in their districts, 121-127; tariff questions before,

132-133.

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Congressmen. See also Representatives, Congressional.
Conscience and judgment in choice of party.....
Constituents, claims of, as against those of country,
104-108, 114, 120-129; - great variety of interests,
116-120; -duty of representative in following
opinions of, 104-106; - interests defended in
caucus, 170; loyalty of representatives to, - when
wrong, 169.
Constitutional system in United States Government

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Deadlocks, occurrence in United States Government,
135-136, 140-141, 162-163

Debate in Congress, no longer effective?

Democratic Congress elected

Democratic Party, in South, 39; and Republican

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Party, 40.

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Editors, — large following, 37; — less trustworthy than
supposed, 14.

Elections, local, - should be separate from national in
time of holding, 45, 64-65, 69; -possible bearing

on national elections, 68-69.

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.127-129

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Hadley, President A. T., quoted ..101-102, 135-136, 139-140
Hale, Senator

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