Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — METHODS OF DEMOCRACY. [ARTICLE]

METHODS OF DEMOCRACY.

The extent to which the United States Food Administrator has relied on the voluntary support of the American people is shown by a statement made by the United States Food Administrator speaking before the Senate Agricultural Committee less than three months after this country entered the war._ That he was justified In his implicit confidence in the strength of democracy has been clearly reflected by the measure of support we have lent the Allies. “If democracy is worth anything,” Mr. Hoover declared, “we can do these things by co-opera-tion, by stimulation, by self-sac-rifice, by the patriotic mobilization of the brains of this country. If it cannot be done'in this manner it is better that we accept German domination and confess to failure of our political ideals, acquiesce in the superiority of the German conception and send for the Germans to instruct us in its use.”