The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-30

, ton. It will tend to preserve indus | trial order and to maintain things as they are. It will prevent the l sporadic revolts which have impair
 ed the efficiency of profit making, and places in the hands of the em- ploying class 8 means of keeping ill subject subordination the workers
 who balk at the tasks or conditions of labor allotted them.
 As far as having to play the poli- tician, Wilson's day of humiliation in this regard is past. Reelected to the highest office, he has no req son to act in any other way than as his social conscience and his own opinions dictate. He need no longer feel or affect to feel any obligation to support the demands of labor which he has said in the past were almost impossible. These are days when he can give new turns to the policy of reassuring business as a businessman, or as a professional man or as an educator with a businessman's interests at heart, and a business mans instincts.
 It is quite safe to say that there will be no reason to complain of any lack of firmness upon the part of Wilson during the present ad- | mic ctro int, in, e.,N1,o n do as he sees fit, not with one hand upon the public pulse and the other upon his Princetonian principles. Under such circumstances his policy towards labor will be more consist ent and more rational coming from him. It will err in excess neither in favor of labor, nor in ultra reac tionary tendency. He is wise pre- sident who knows that the way of of ultra radicalism. It will be safe, sane and conservative always look ing towards the stability of industri- al things, compatible with such le- l gislation as may secure also the ! highest possible efficiency.
 What people mean by construc. tive legislation is such that will let things stand as they are even by the addition of governmental or legis- lative props where such are requir. ed.
 Wilson said that the industrial maximum of efficiency is reached when there in minimum of indus
 trial unrest. That does not mean that he intends to see to it that the cause of such unrest be removed. No such thing! It means that the unrest must be taken in hand and quelled even though the exciting causes be untouched. Such construc- tive legislation as this which will prevent strikes, does not propose to go to the roots of the matter by eli minating strikes, but by preventing them and making them a crime.
 That has been the safe, sane ana conseryatively constructive way from time immemorial. The man that places a bucket of water on the floor to catch the rain that drips through the roof is old as the cave man. It is possible that the cave man did not regard the placing ot the respectable upn the floor as na- turally constructive. It is quite possible that in his primitive way he would have repaired the roof and made it rain proof. But we are living in a more civilized and constructive age. That is why such a policy as the suppression of strikes is so highly civilized and constructive. It may have later on worse result It almost certainly will. But suffici- ent for the day is the evil thereof, is the keynote of constructive stand patism. It is to be sounded until the welkin rings by President Wilson.