Abstract

Editorials

The article presents discusses American politics. Progressives and liberals may take heart from the great protest registered by the voters of the country on November 4, 1930. They will find much encouragement in the sharp but well-deserved rebuke administered to U.S. president Herbert Hoover, who came into power two short years ago as the high priest of prosperity, but whose promised miracles have dwindled to a timid and stupid defense of the status quo. They should find more encouragement in the fact that despite the widespread apathy of the public toward politics, the spirit of protest still lives and can when necessary express itself decisively at the polls; without this potential capacity for protest among the voters there could be no dependable foundation upon which to base a genuine progressive or liberal movement.