The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-30
SCIENTISTS DISCUSS AR6HP6 AND POSSIBILITIES OF RADIUM TODAY

LOT is TO be made unendurable, the answer
is likely to be one that unionists will not
hear with Indifference.
."The feryor enlisted against tyranny In
.he. name of home and freside will put an
Intensity into protest as dynamic as that
which is retained by the first organization.
What considerations specially warrant ,r;a, the
expectation that this modifying innuence
will be increasingly potent3
1.-The elevation OF the family into posi-
tion of central interest is a feature of tha
times The wider range of comforts witf-
in reach of Industrial families; the In
fiuences of refinement and culture through
public school education, through libraries
and by the press; the multiplied points OF
contact between families hitherto socially
separate, of which the social settienent
work Is O remarkable manifestation and
sure. prophecy; the stimulus 10 lamny
pride through the operation OF the prin-
ciules of modern democracy; the intrinsic
Purifying of the family IDEAL, OF WHICH
even its apparent contradiction In freedom
of divorce is partly an evidence since IN
snite of license and often by means OF
liberty the welfare of the family does not
suffer and even improves SO 1ar az ~ iS
given a natural rather than an artInclai
root; the suggestions conveyed more i'm
peratiyely through family influences tnan
by any other toward thrift, good habits
and affectionate ambitions; these are IN
huenceS which. when gained Dy lnoepehu,
ent industry, will work nightly toward
mitigating the constraints which hamper
true Industrial development.
'Ihey are influences Oh primary
and. while held in check by an arbitrary
and mechanical structure, which lacks
some of the essential elements OF vital
organization, they Will inevitably gain
their legitimate ascendency ana compea
reconstruction.
INFLUENCE OF FAMILY
1.-THE dependence that is to be placed on
the influence of the family in assisting
the working out of the labor problem may
be said to be directly in proportion to the
order of labor involved and to the indirect
ness of this influence. 1t will be much less
in the lower orders OF labor. where labor
troubles are most violent, because family
sentiment Is not so firm and family In
huences are not so elevating. The man
who walks off and deserts his family at
the advent of the third baby Will not be
led to endure much suffering for the sake
of his family in maintaining his industrial
rights.
,'And the more indirect this agency the
surer VIII be ito results. Whatever makes
the family more worth while and natures
its Industrial interest in its welfare sub
stitutes for Irritating questions of rival
interests position and ,unquestioned mo-
tive of conservatism and constructive pa
tience. The direct methods of solving the
labor problem generally push further or
the result they seek. To settle quarrel
is a much more difficult affair than TO pre-
vent 1t. The more indirect the purpose the
more probable its accomplishment. And
when this indirection works through the
ueNciOEIlleHI Ol IdTlIiy lHe lIH-
provetnent of family conditions. and the
reassertion of the family as the unit Of
civilization as against an industrial
oligarchy. our confidence in its efficacy Is
50 much less likely to be disappointed.
THE devotion. however. must be sincere
and single-rniiided. The union which in
vokeS 1t for the obnoxious purpose of ac-
complishing its own ends will fail for the
same reason that the employer fails who
uses beneficent schemes apparently for
the Improvement Of social condition Of
the employed, but really with no genuine
interest but that of selfiprotection and
profit. -fr''" '-'t
Let the laboring man see the real pre-
eminence of the family. and value at its
possible worth his own freside, let the
ilization such that he must see its su-
premacy, and he will have rallying cry
for a new reformation. The bull OF IN
dustriaI accommodation will not make
him afraid and the ban of the Industrial
interdict will be robbed of its ferrors.
When the welfare of their wives and
children really becomes the chief concern
of their supporters the unions whose
leaders insolently claim irifalEbility OF
Judgment and indisputable rights Of dis.
position viii learn over again the les
son long ago forced upon an fntolerant
and intolerable ecclesiasticism- =
They will learn that the natural rights
OF man are first IN right" and will at the
stand against the right and duty Of a
man to exercise his private Judgment to
work out his own Industrial salvation, and
to set before every other loyalty the 10y.
atty to the highest and most sacred OF
human obligatioii." ii-T ~ i'-7 =