Our city governments are, in many instances, foul cancers on the body politic; and for us to boast of having solved the problem of local self-government is as fatuous as for a strong man to exult in his health when his body is covered with running sores.
Beck uses a vivid metaphor to describe the failures of local self-government.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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