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"Why?"
"Because I would not dare to become responsible for so much, and because
a government of the 'best' men is not an American government."
"Why not?"
"That is the aristocratic idea. That the better element, so called,
shall compel the masses to be good, whether they wish it or no. Just as
one makes a child behave without regard to its own desires. With grown
men, such a system only results in widening the distance between the
classes and masses, making the latter more dependent and unthinking.
Whereas, if we make every man vote he must think a little for himself,
because different people advise him contrarily, and thus we bring him
nearer to the more educated. He even educates himself by his own
mistakes; for every bad man elected, and every bad law passed, make him
suffer the results, and he can only blame himself. Of course we don't
get as good a government or laws, but then we have other offsetting
advantages."
"What are those?"
"We get men and laws which are the wish of the majority.


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