Nov. 30.
We are said to be living in a period when democracy is putting forth every effort to get the veins of government into its own hands, and nations are either ruled or are supposed to be ruled by the people for the people. Yet there was probably never a time when civilized. countries were so much under the control of officials. Russia of course is an extreme case in point. Here the number of professed Bolshevist is not much over 600,000.
Of these no fewer than 500,000 are said to hold government posts. Turning to Britain, we find everywhere discontent with the enormous numbers of officials of one sort and another.
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