The universal conviction of those who yet believe in the rights of the people is that the first step toward the prevention of war and the establishme… - Robert M. La Follette

To befool and mislead the people, to falsify public opinion, is to pervert and destroy a republican form of government.
Free government is government by public opinion. Upon the soundness and integrity of public opinion depends the destiny of our democracy.

The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country, within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and independent press.

The basic principle of this government is the will of the people. A system was devised by its founders which seemed to insure the means of ascertaining that will and of enacting it into legislation and supporting it through the administration of the law. This was to be accomplished by electing men to make, and men to execute the laws, who, would represent in the laws so made and executed the will of the people. This was the establishment of a representative government, where every man had equal voice, equal rights, and equal responsibilities. Have we such a government today? Or is this country fast coming to be dominated by forces that threaten the true principle of representative government?