Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-26

power securing an effective prohibit
lion OF child labor Gin my judgment
preferably by the use Of the taxing
power; securing a living wage and
an eight hour day for working women.
ono days rest in seven. and the eight
hour day i'm continuous industry. and
other such measures.
President Wilson has made mo- eff
fort whatever 20 enforce the sherman
law. Neither has he made any effort
TO. change it. IN one Of his speeches
he used a sentence which seemed TO
indicate that he regards the Federal
Trade Commission as having the
power 10 modify the sherman law. lf
this is what he meant. Il is certainly
not in accordance with the facts. Mr.
Wilson Is, however, a master of sub
tie indirection i'm speech. and this SEN
tence. like so many Of his other SEN
fences. is susceptible of several differ
ent interpretations
Mr. Wilson. before election an
nounced that the trusts must be de-
stroyed by state action AS Gov
ernor of New Jersey. he secured the
passage Of the "sevcn little sisters"
bills. which he asserted would put a
stop to the evils OF the trusts. They
have not done so in even the smallest
degree. The evils Of the corporate
system in the United States have been
left absolutely unchanged and UNI
remedied by anything that Mr.. VIII
son has done either as Governor of
New Jersey or as President OF the
United States.
Must Organize Machinery.
We must ourselves organize. and
furnish machinery to accomplish
those things that labor cannot accom-
Dlish for itself-and which il some
times attempts 10 accomplish i'm WAYS
that would be destructive to itself and
to all of us. Bismarck carried such a
program through I'm Germany. with
the result that Germany has achieved
a literally phenomenal industrial sue
cess, together with an exceptionally
high standard Of average well-being
Germany is infinitely ahead of us in
all Of these matters. Under our sys-
tens the wOrkingman gets but one
third Of what the German working
man gets in such a matter as compen-
sation for injury Even England's CO.
operative societies are immensely
ahead OF ours. In Denmark. and else
where on the Continent, the farmers
cooperative organizations have elm
mated TO an extraordinary degree the
waste in the market.
Neither demagogues nor doctrinar-
ians can do such work. and least Of
all can Il be done by the bitter preach
ers of class hatred. We must apply
under modern industrial conditions a
program that will lead to the fullest
possible life for the great mass Of
our people The very structure of
our national life must be reshaped to
meet the vast new needs. and IL can
best be remade in desirable fashion
if the leadership is furnished by men
Of affairs who understand that. while
they must themselves be encouraged
and aided by the Government the en-
cOuragement and aid must be given
on the condition of their helping to
reshaDe a nationalized United States
in such fashion that the farmers and
e-earners and ordinary business
and professional men shall have their
full share of the benefits. Our people
generally must be made to feel that
they share in the rewards of our
trade, so that il may be obviously to
their interests to support a self-re-
specting and vigorous policy in inter
national affairs. and to accept the dis
cipline and duty of universal service.
New World or Old.
The wise employers must realize
in the future that the productive
power Of our factories will ultimately
depend upon the wellbeing no less
than upon the zeal and good faith OF
our workers; and the education OF
our children along cultural and voca-
tional lines must be so handled as
to give us a trained disciplined and
efficient manhood and wOmanhood.
Our business men must cooperate
heartily in the effort 10 secure states
manlike leadership in support of the
great program OF reconstruction in
our nation, a program I'm many re-
spects such as that laid down by Bis
marck when he organized the internal
forces Of his own nation. When IN &
war is closed, the question OF social
ard industrial justice will come more
strongly TO the front than ever be-
/ fOrp. bocaugQ This war will have