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Show - . j Opportunity Seized by Men of Small Caliber j Intrinsic qualities of leadership, but ! because they are pleasingly vocal. Nor Is this phenomenon peculiar to any class. Oratory has passed for statesmanship In every phase and every period of our political his tory, and many a man has risen to the governance of state with no other qualifications than his aptitude for epi grams and sonorous peroration. I-gar I-gar Wallace in "Peonle Let this fact sink into your mind It Is the non-commissioned officers of life who hurt, and against whom resentment re-sentment Is felt. The foremen and the petty overseers; the small men with near horizons and no vision beyond; be-yond; the little go-betweens who have acquired the habit of tyranny these form the habit of tyranny these form the grit of the machinery of industry. Sometimes they are for the bosses and make life hell for the men undet them. Sometimes they stand for rebellion re-bellion against the higher direction, hut invariably their objective is power They are ready to adopt the shibboleths shibbo-leths of either side so long as they naln authority therehy. If they learn the trick of oratory i hey become leaders on one side or the other, not because they possesa the |