Philip Dru: Administrator

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PHILIP DRU: ADMINISTRATOR
A STORY OF TOMORROW
1920-1935
"No war of classes, no hostility to existing wealth, no wanton or unjust violation of the
rights of property, but a constant disposition to ameliorate the condition of the classes
least favored by fortune." --MAZZINI.
This book is dedicated to the unhappy many who have lived and died lacking opportunity,
because, in the starting, the world-wide social structure was wrongly begun.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I
GRADUATION DAY II THE VISION OF PHILIP DRU III LOST IN THE DESERT IV
THE SUPREMACY OF MIND V THE TRAGEDY OF THE TURNERS VI THE
PROPHET OF A NEW DAY VII THE WINNING OF A MEDAL VIII THE STORY OF
THE LEVINSKYS IX PHILIP BEGINS A NEW CAREER X GLORIA DECIDES TO
PROSELYTE THE RICH XI SELWYN PLOTS WITH THOR XII SELWYN SEEKS A
CANDIDATE XIII DRU AND SELWYN MEET XIV THE MAKING OF A
PRESIDENT XV THE EXULTANT CONSPIRATORS XVI THE EXPOSURE XVII
SELWYN AND THOR DEFEND THEMSELVES XVIII GLORIA'S WORK BEARS
FRUIT XIX WAR CLOUDS HOVER XX CIVIL WAR BEGINS XXI UPON THE EVE
OF BATTLE XXII THE BATTLE OF ELMA XXIII ELMA'S AFTERMATH XXIV
UNCROWNED HEROES XXV THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE REPUBLIC XXVI
DRU OUTLINES HIS INTENTIONS XXVII A NEW ERA AT WASHINGTON
XXVIII AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS XXIX THE REFORM OF THE JUDICIARY
XXX A NEW CODE OF LAWS XXXI THE QUESTION OF TAXATION XXXII A
FEDERAL INCORPORATION ACT XXXIII THE RAILROAD PROBLEM XXXIV
SELWYN'S STORY XXXV SELWYN'S STORY, CONTINUED XXXVI SELWYN'S
STORY, CONTINUED XXXVII THE COTTON CORNER XXXVIII UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE XXXIX A NEGATIVE GOVERNMENT XL A DEPARTURE IN
BATTLESHIPS XLI THE NEW NATIONAL CONSTITUTION XLII NEW STATE
CONSTITUTIONS XLIII THE RULE OF THE BOSSES XLIV ONE CAUSE OF THE
HIGH COST OF LIVING XLV BURIAL REFORM XLVI THE WISE DISPOSITION
OF A FORTUNE XLVII THE WISE DISPOSITION OF A FORTUNE, CONTINUED
XLVIII AN INTERNATIONAL COALITION XLIX UNEVEN ODDS L THE

BROADENING OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE LI THE BATTLE OF LA TUNA LII
THE UNITY OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
UNDER THE NEW REPUBLIC LIII THE EFFACEMENT OF PHILIP DRU
WHAT CO-PARTNERSHIP CAN DO

PHILIP DRU: ADMINISTRATOR
CHAPTER I
GRADUATION DAY
In the year 1920, the student and the statesman saw many indications that the social,
financial and industrial troubles that had vexed the United States of America for so long a
time were about to culminate in civil war.
Wealth had grown so strong, that the few were about to strangle the many, and among the
great masses of the people, there was sullen and rebellious discontent.
The laborer in the cities, the producer on the farm, the merchant, the professional man
and all save organized capital and its satellites, saw a gloomy and hopeless future.
With these conditions prevailing, the graduation exercises of the class of 1920 of the
National Military Academy at West Point, held for many a foreboding promise of
momentous changes, but the 12th of June found the usual gay scene at the great
institution overlooking the Hudson. The President of the Republic, his Secretary of War
and many other distinguished guests were there to do honor to the occasion, together with
friends, relatives and admirers of the young men who were being sent out to the ultimate
leadership of the Nation's Army. The scene had all the usual charm of West Point
graduations, and the usual intoxicating atmosphere of