When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

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