What I want to do is to place before the American public a calm and dispassionate statement of certain curable ills as a basis upon which to rest an earnest plea for action; to waken, if possible, all those dormant and neglected powers and impulses for good which need to be called into active cooperation in order that the evils may be remedied.”

What did John Spargo want according to the passage?

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What John Spargo wanted according to the passage was to offer the American people a series of ideas to be reflected upon in order to make American people get into action and stop being a witness of the happenings of the time. Spargo believed that people could exert a formidable power through organized action to produce positive change in society.

Immigrant Joh Spargo (1876-1966) was a politician and a historian that spend some time supporting socialists ideology and then turned to be a supporter of democratic ideas, although expressed tough critics to Franklin D Roosevelt and his New Deal.