(Starkweather again closes note-book on finger and listens as Knox begins to speak.)
Knox
Very simply. By changing the governmental machinery by which this household of ninety millions of people conducts its affairs.
Sakari
I thought—I was taught so at Yale—that your governmental machinery was excellent, most excellent.
Knox
It is antiquated. It is ready for the scrap-heap. Instead of being our servant, it has mastered us. We are its slaves. All the political brood of grafters and hypocrites have run away with it, and with us as well. In short, from the municipalities up, we are dominated by the grafters. It is a reign of theft.
Hubbard
But any government is representative of its people. No people is worthy of a better government than it possesses. Were it worthier, it would possess a better government.
(Starkweather nods his head approvingly.)