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It's in making other people think you are. Men don't like to be told
that they are ignorant and wrong, and this assumption is the basis of
most of the so-called educational campaigns. To give impetus to a new
movement takes immense experience, shrewdness, tact, and many other
qualities. The people are obstructive--that is conservative--in most
things, and need plenty of time."
"Unless _you_ tell them what they are to do," laughed Watts. "Then they
know quick enough."
"Well, that has taken them fifteen years to learn. Don't you see how
absurd it is to suppose that the people are going to take the opinions
of the better element off-hand? At the end of a three months' campaign?
Men have come into my ward and spoken to empty halls; they've flooded it
with campaign literature, which has served to light fires; their papers
have argued, and nobody read them. But the ward knows me. There's hardly
a voter who doesn't. They've tested me. Most of them like me. I've lived
among them for years.


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