THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY OF JAMES M. COX

by Charles E. Morris
Secretary to Governor Cox



CHAPTER I

THE NEED FOR A DOER


There come times in the affairs of men which call for "not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work." Such a time is at
hand. A great war, the most devastating in history, has been
concluded. Its moral lesson has been taught by its master minds
and learned in penitence, we may hope, by the erring and wrongly
willful. But the fruits of victory are ungathered and the
beneficence of peace is not yet attained. The call arises for a
"doer of the work."

Two great political parties in the United States, both with
splendid accomplishments behind them and both with grave
mistakes as well, have attempted to respond to this call, and
America, whose proudest boast is that it has always found a man
for every great occasion, chooses between them. It is a solemn
and serious hour. For it has been America's special fortune that
its great teachers and leaders and doers have been found at just
the proper time.