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initiative and all responsibility to others, to keep on one side in order to profit by all advantages, and to criticize what others do, is too easy; everyone should voluntarily contribute his own share, inspired by a healthy spirit of co-operation and giving an example of toleration and disicpline.
Discipline: that is a virtue which is absolutely necessary at the present time, even more so than in the past. The country realizes that in a transition period exceptional ways and means are necessary, but it is determined that these powers should be exercized in a legal manner by the responsible authorities; it mistrusts, not without reason, anonymous actions, subject to no control, which are carried ont to-day in one sense and to-morrow might provoke reaction in a contrary sense, with the effect of destroying that tranquillity which we wish to consolidate, of compromising the results and advantages already attained.
When the State machine was in a condition of dissolution it was necessary that ouside forces should come into play, but as the machine was gradually repaired this
