The Glenwood post., 1916-10-28

nc ouBnt 10 ADMIT the ht6N0nu
snd laaeatabIe blunder Of lis Who'll.
Msa,ss. n.,s policy for the last three and
a. sslf Years, or else he does stand ON
~. ms Ms.ic.n record. and II SO. hi. ask
aisy. II Mr.. Wilson will, not by subtle
rhd ri9bt aafoit af OF ,, evasion, but with down
answer a!ns this question. believe ne will
what he calls his 'inteiiectuai pro-
Now for Ourselves. @
democratic Ne party. Now for ourselves.
We who believe In protecting the leKit-
innate interests of business men, in en-
courasing i the great corporate 1nstru-
ern business and in rewardfng enter
prise and leadership, must do all this
@ LOT me very reason that we treat as
OF the first Importance the needs of
lapor. Our aim II to secure the maxi
mum Of good results for tse average
mn, man: Tor the ordinary. decent. hard
we hnve primarily In mind. The sue
cessful business man is entitled to jus
tiee lor his own sake; and, moreover,
unless we grant him such justice we
can do nothing for anyone else; but
unless his profit Is shared by farmer
man ana working: workinngman. by the ordinary
achieved we must see the Corporate
viewpoint; but we must see very much
more than the corporate viewpoint
We must not offer to labor such empty
Ereedom"-which In practice IL merely
the oid-old freedom of the strong to
coerce capital by sinister and imDroper
action tending to the tation Of out
Put We must correlnte the demand
1or. .or ."e ~ en1oyment I,';, Of right. with the
duties. We must raise. collectively and
Individually, IND our industrial standard.
we must develop the power OF self
help; and We must supplement this
power by the wise use Of governmental
power. We must ourselves organize
and furnish the use Of satisfactory
chinery to accomplish those things that
labor cannot accomplish for itself-and
W,tsS whiSh IL 1t sometimes attempts TO accom-
to Itself and to all of US.
..l Bismarck's Method.
.,Insns bismarck carried such a program
through in Germany. with the result
that that Germany has achieved a literally
standard Of average weII-beinx. He
deliberately undertook to better tns
net by adding, to the cost Of produc.
tion, but by eliminating waste and In.
troducing scientific-that Is. rational,
the work of production and Of distrl-
button. 1t was one prime object OF his
policy to SEQ that business was sue
rewarded; for otherwise the commue
nifty would either stagnate or go back
ward, and nobody would get any re-
ward at all. But 1t was also with him
prime object to secure for the wage
workers their legitimate share Of the
benefits; not only in wages, but in
standard Of living. and in such ways
and the like. Germany is Infinitely
ahead of us in all of these matters
Germany gives better care. at less cost.
sickness. by her system of orEanixa-
tion under government direction. a.d
odos.",1an Of orx.na..ttS. b. perfected private
lated indIvidualism. Under our sys-
tenn the workingman gets but one
third of what the German workingman
FOR injury England IS net so far ahsad
Of US as Germany is. But even Eng
lands cooperative societies are i'm
mensely ahead Of ours. In Denmark
farmers cooperative organizations
have eliminated to an extraordinary
degree the waste in the market.
Neither demaEoEues nor dOctrinar-
nsa It be done by the bitter preacher.
structionists must not be permitted to
stand in the way Our strongest and
ablest men are needed to give the lead
n.
We must apply under moder. indus
trial conditions q PROGRAM that will
lead to the fullest pos~ikIe life for the
structure OF our national life mus, os
reshaped to meet the vast new needs,
and 1T can best be remade In desirable
by men of affairs who understand that,
while they must themselves be encour-
aged and aided by the government, the
encouragement and aid must be given
nf hat hnlr tn
reshape a nationalized United States
in such fashion that the farmers and
wageworkers and ordinary. business
and professional men shall have ,neir
full share of the benefits.
Share the Rewards.
Our people generally must be made
to feel that they share In the rewards
Of our world trade: 80 that It may Ne
a self-respectinR and vigorous policy
in International affairs. and to accept
the discipline and duty Of universal
realize in the futur. that the prodmo.
tive power of our factories will ulti.
mntely depend upon the weil-beins ns
of our workers, md the education oi
our children nIonr cultural ana vocn.
tionnl lines must he SO handled as to
give us trained. disciplined and eff
business men must cooperate heartily
In the EFFORT to secure statesmanlike
leadership in support of the great pro-
gram of reconstruction IN our nation.
a program in many respects such as
that laid down by Bismarck when he
organized the internal forces of his
own nation. When this is closed the
questions of social and industrial JUS
tice viii come more strongly to the
front than ever before; because this
war will have turned the European
states into communities more modern
than we ourselves now are. After this
war. II we do not face the new condi-
tions. we shall be the Old World, and
Europe the New World.
AdrOit DemaGoKy.
The adrOit demaEoEy Of the Demo-
cratic leaders Offers worse than no
solution of the problems affecting rs.
1t behooves sincere and sane men Of
vision to do their part in orrering
constructive program. Fhis program
must not aim at the destruction of
business to crafty envy, nor at the
diminution Of the efficiency OF labor
In a spirit Of narrow and bitter ignor-
ance: 1t must seek to expand and re-
ward business; 1t must seek to increase
the efficiency and the output Of labor;