The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-06-20

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thinks about him. And then let the
lawmaker drop in on this TRADE.
The complaining voice Is silent. And
1t Is not because he is afraid of the
new arrival. But somehow or other
he feels that 1t would be a mean sort
Of trick to continue the complain
ing. He realizes in the presence Of
that broad smile and rollicking laugh
that the sacrifices which the law de-
mands are for his own good and the
good Of the community, that they are
not inspired by some dislike for him
And for time at least his opposition
melts away.
This all proves that a little per-
sonal presence is good "sugaring'
for any law. whether it be a little law
Of the family, a law Of the shop or
a law Of God.
The parent who by kindness or
happy influences instils into the child
q reverence for the laws Of the home
is much more powerful than the
strong-armed parent who clubs his
children into maturity-and very
often into Jail. This suggestion is
not to be misinterpreted. By kind
rooo o~H norcn~ol |r R1uonooo xpo IN
not mean that maudlin sympathy and
soft overindulgence by which some
parents spoil their children. Neither
do we mean that we are to abandon
entirely the old-fashioned "cat-o'-
nine-tails.'' This instrument may be
useful in the future. If used OCCASION
ally and with decision. But, as q
matter Of fact. isn't it better to win
children over to the observance Of
household laws through personal.
kindly influence than to have them
chinging in perpetual fear Of tho
Strap? Where father and son.
mother and daughter are chums. re-
spect for authority is given person
al support that means better parents
better children and better homes.
Likewise, a little mixture of the
personal element into the industrial
affairs of life would give to Social
ism and other economic clicks" a
very powerful colt" You never
heard Of I. w. w. riots and Colorado
strikes when the old-fashioned. kind
hearted employer mingled with his
men. This personal contact was
good for the boss and good for the
men. It gave the boss f1rst-hand
knowledge Of his help. He saw per-
sonnally the sources of their discon-
tent and he felt their needs with
them. Poverty and injustice never
appear in their true colors when they
are made to appear in written COM
plant. You see them as they really
are only when you visit a squalid.
overcrowded tenement or the child
rens department in a canning factory
Even the stilted, arrogant. unsympa-
thetic employer would thaw out after
a few personal visits to these haunts
of suffering where he sees his own
greed and arrogance reflected back
to him in the wan faces Of the
straved mothers and stinted babies.
II he made his laws and his requests
with a little knowledge of the real
things of life they would be more
just, more sympathetic. more gener-
GUS and more powerful than the laws
which he now makes with a know
ledge no broader nor warmer than
the mahogany table in the marble
room where he writes them.
On the other hand, personal con-
tact on the part of the employer
would make the workman more toll
Grant and reasonable. An iceberg
chills everybody within its influence;
antagonism begets antagonism. But
the sympathetic interest Of the man
higher up" would dispel about ninety
per cent. of the dissatisfaction of the
men on the payroll. Personal infiu-
ence will do more than the state
militia in keeping order and good
feeling in the industrial world. Per-
sonal influence radiates sympathy,
begets contentment and causes mu-
tual understanding. The State milit-
ia shoots down the dissatisfied, but
it cannot kill the dissatisfaction.
That, intensified hundredfold,
spreads like contagion. A sympa-
thatic employer is our hope. because
a sympathetic employer means a
sympathetic workman. All this
means SOCIALISM," which is the
electric chair for Socialism.
Personal influence in the home or
in the, shop depends on the good dis
positions of the parties concerned.
Before we can expect good conduct
we must look for honest hearts, gen.
erous minds and firm wills. How
are we to get these qualities on
which this all-important "Sociabl-