Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-12-21
BRIEF SUMMARY
Of the Industrial Plan of Natonalism Set
Forth in Hooking Backward"
For Class Study.

The labor question, so-called, and all problems
growing out of the division of labor and its results
have been solved by the union of the entire nation
in general business partnership, in which every
man and woman is an equal partner. The conduct
of the industries, commerce and general business
of the country is committed by the national firm
to so-called army of industry, which includes all
able-boded citizens, men and women, between the
ages of 81 and 45, the intellectual and professional
services being rendered by associated corps All
persons choose their occupations in the army Of in
dustry, according to natural tastes and gifts, pro-
vded Of course, when there are too many volun-
teers for the needs of particular branch that the
fttest are taken. In order to equaize the attrac-
tiveness of different occupations, the hours of
work in those which are more laborious or other
wise unattractive, are shortened as compared
with the easier and more attractive trades. The
conditions of a trade which does not attract vol
unteers are lightened until the necessary force is
attracted and on the other hend a persistent ex-
cess of volunteers for particular trade is taken
to indicate that its conditions are unfairly easy
The intellectual pursuits are as open to all as the
industrial on the sole condition that the fttest find
preference.
In view of the fact that most women marry and
become mothers, and in view also of the compare
tive weakness and uncertainty of their health, the
feminine half of the army of industry is organized
under exclusively feminine control, and is alto
gether devoted to the lighter classes of occupa-
tons, the discipline being IN all ways adapted to
feminine conditions.
There is also an invalid corps attached to the
industrial army in which the sckly and feeble who
still desire and are able to do something, are en-
abed to undertake what they safely can for the
commonwealth.
At the age of As both men and women are dis
charged from further service, and remain absolutely
free to occupy themselves as they will for the re-
mainder of life.
That is to say, the industrial duty of citizens
has been placed upon the same basis on which
their military duty now rests. AS it is at present
held to be the duty of all citizens to fight for their
country so then it is held their equally obvious
duty to work for it, and it is considered self-evi
dent that to be efficient, working requires system
and unity of action quite as much as fighting. The
nation has, in fine, been organized for peace as at
present for war. The people stand shoulder Ito
shoulder, not now, to resist the foreign foe for
that peril is no longer known) but against hunger,
and cold, and nakedness, and every wrong and
every want that human valor can repel; an IN
vincble square of men, with the women and the
children, the sick, the aged and the infrm in the
center
As all the members of nation of today, whether
able to fight not, share equally in the protection
of the army and the prosperity 1t insures, so in
the nation of the year 1000, all alike, whether men
orwomen, strong or weak ablebodied or defective,
share in the wealth produced by the industrial
army, and the share of all is equal This share,
varying only with the general prosperity of the
national business, is the sole income and means of
maintenance of all, whether during active indus
trial service or after discharge from it.
Owing to the method of organizing industry
upon the mutual obligation of citizen to nation,
and nation to citizen, duty has wholly taken the
place of contract as the basis of industry and the
cement of society.
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