Democracy: Confusion and Agreement

Abstract

There must be as many different kinds of democracy in this country as there are of Baptists, or even more.... Press-agencies must keep half a hundred assorted encomiums on democracy in standing type, like Western Union's canned messages for Mother's Day.... Every time one of our first-string publicists opens his mouth, a "democracy" falls out; and every time he shuts it, he bites one in two that was trying to get out.¹