Show cm pr Ljebo ti PAll y P-All the great modern democracies hare to contend almost for existence ugiiiut Popular dihjntilion to treat elective office t aa reprfwntitlro nnd to comideritof i more Import oth 1 they should bo tilled by persons holding ccr tain opinions than by pcreov most com petent to perform their duties The distinction dis-tinction between representing and administering ad-ministering seems plain though and yet tho democratic tendency h is been OT erywhero since the French revolution to obscure This has not unnaturally Iud to the idea I that tho onion urn rewards re-wards for tho prison who lia > done moot to propagate defend DuMlrai which they npn cut and ought to be gie cu to them iudepui lenllyof their Ilt ulna To this confiihion of two ikUict functions 1 must aocrilw oho riotn on tlou which him tern remarked ea fro fluently in Ibo legislature of all demo criitio call attics In reeled times The number of men of experience or special knowledge as well n of conspicuous mell bleb the contain cocoon to do cline steadily while tho interests com knitted to their charge HS steadily oem to increase This disregard of iptrill fitness com tiucxl with Ibo nnwilliugucM to uc knowledge that there call bo anything special about any mUll both ot which I too born of equality constitute tile great defect of modern dimocrucy L L Codkin lu Atlautlc |