property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.® But, why doesn't democracy work? Why isn't it a good form of government? The answer lies i ina fatal coos ce someone else. To live, man must either work or steal. Experience shows that he will do whichever is safest and easiest. Thus, the majority will always follow easiest. Thus, the majority will always follow demagogues who promise to use the law to give them other men's property, property usually taken by taxes. Once the law is perverted into a system of legalized plunder to redistribute wealth, a right sense of justice is destroyed. Special interest groups are then formed to lobby government for their share of the wealth. Class hatred is generated, violence and anarchy then usher in the fall of the government and the establishment of a follow This process is explained very well in the 1928 U. S. Army Training Manual as it gives a definition of A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or 67 The American Republic tendency of man to aspire to live off the labors of dictatorship. democracy: