Great and powerful groups had suddenly discovered--and it may be the most portentous political discovery of the twentieth century--that the power involved in their control over the necessaries of life, as compared with the power of the voting franchise, was as a forty-two centimetre cannon to the bow and arrow.
Beck compares the power of economic control to military might, suggesting a shift in political dynamics.
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Pennsylvania and New York, with nearly one-sixth of the entire population of the United States, have only four votes in ninety-six votes in the Senate.
The great evil of the world to-day is this aversion to work.
It speaks well for the honour of the delegates that although their differences became so acute as to lead at times to bitter expressions, neither side divulged them to the outside public.
The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.
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