Excerpt from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 6: July December, 1916

Amplification of the function of what we are pleased to call The Government, is going on with startling ra pidity, until any enterprise which concerns the welfare of a considerable portion of the constituency of a body politic is liable at any time to be taken in hand by the organiza tion which directs the political affairs of that body. And however conservative we may be as regards this socialistic tendency, who is able to set any bounds beyond which he can confidently maintain that it will not, or even that it should not, in future go? The best that we can do is to see to it that the state or the municipality shall not assume new functions faster than ways are found to simplify procedure, lest in the complexity of machinery the force of public opinion be dissipated and baffled, instead of being focused and made effective.

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