Lanterna Rally

Author: Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781528148818

Excerpt from Problems of Modern Democracy: Political and Economic Essays And, on the other hand, its friends have been roused by the same causes into more vigorous defence of it than they ever ventured on before. There are many persons in America to-day who five years ago looked grave over universal suffrage, or expressed private doubts of its success, but who are now to be found in the ranks of its most enthusiastic defenders, breathing defiance of aris tocrats and aristocracy from every pore, and con signing every form of political organization in which power does not fiow directly from the people, in yearly or biennial driblets, to unutterable failure and confusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.