The nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion. Matters should, therefore, be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord they may be compelled to believe by force.

IT HAS OFTEN been observed that the Statue of Liberty, which is visible from the streets of the Horseshoe, stands with her back to Jersey City. Her position is appropriate, because the city behind her has a record for the suppression of civil liberties that cannot be equaled in any other municipality of the same size in the United States. The political machine forms, with its organized group support, the positive side of Jersey City politics; the suppression of criticism forms the negative. The citizens, as far as possible, are to be persuaded by a careful linking up of their interests with those of the organization; beyond that point of persuasion, whether they believe or not, they must be made to acquiesce.