Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — Every Bit of Reform Counts. [ARTICLE]

Every Bit of Reform Counts.

The effect upon the public mind of reform defeats following reform victories constitutes a serious hindrance to the orderly and continuous progress toward better political conditions, says E. A. Van Valkenburg in Success Magazine. Pendulum-like, there always is a back swing to every reform movement forward. But, unlike the pendulum, it never swings backward so far as it has swung forward. In this country every period of seeming reaction Is in reality merely the marking of a new starting point from which progress will make a greater gain than from any earlier one. . When any reform movement is regarded in its entirety, a gain always can be counted. If the millions of earnest citizens who every year give their support to good causes with seemingly scant results could be made to understand this demonstrable fact, the forwarding of civic betterments would be encouraged and simplified.