Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-16

Norhs 10 sWindiey 10 Cefraud. j. ferSua-
sion, TO get oil we can y talking and
wheedling. 4. Production, the power to
serve. 10 render service by producing, the
highest form Of conflict. We can put q man
out Of business better by beating him in
production than by beating him up. There
the farmers. If only a few farmers
were producing would get just what they
wanted TO produce, maybe poor potatoes
and poor grains. But there are many farm
srs producing and so get the best. The
conflict IN production makes the world bet
t.- led SUPPOSE everyone was to enter into
r"rtAtu spirit of rivalry, there would be
lot Of Servire rendered. y great deal of
good is done by production. The farmers
ma! fall out over the fence line. They take
the matter to court Thus they resort to
persuasion, which is not such high form
Of conflict, Yet higher than deception. They
may resort to deception. On emay decide
to nov" the landmark Law is merely q
recognition Of the distin gushing of ways
u getting q living. Brutes don't recog
nize 1t. civilized people do. 1t is all no
more OF a struggle than rivalry. The more
Good government draws the line sharply be-
tween tn. first and second aud the third
aud fourth kinds OF conflict The same is
true IN international al affairs. oppose o ma
ton could not have what it wanted by the
third and fourth kinds of conflict then it
would rcsor; to the first and second 1t is
not 50 much a matter Of machinery as q
much chance for international peace until
nation cannot resort 10 destruction and
deception. Not enough is being said on the
psychology OF peace at home and abroad.
Among the many problems to present 10
the people Of internal peace is that of main
tanning resee between capital and labor.
Au'ocrncy democracy, authority and COM
pulsion 10 liberty They are quite different.
We may have democracy with very little
liberty or au,ocracy with much liberty. In
the CANA Zone have seen under General
Go.thaS much liberty but no democracy. In
Russia ind much democracy with no
liberty, A lynching bee is most democratic.
No bad economic condition arises except out
Of a bad balance among economics. There
- no produce ny single factor. II tHerc
IS not a proper balance The bad condition
VII arse For instance. 4 had balanced
fertilizer not good. If The soil is badly
balanced some supply j. lacking. Such phys
icai facts are true here and true in all con
dtion>. a farmer has pcaty soil which is
IN need OF more potash. Someone comes
along and tries to sell to him nitrogen. If
buy nitrogen Someone then tries to sell
to hlm potash Then If the farmer know
his business he viii know that more potash
means more crops and he Will buy potash.
The principle applies all through the. eco
Monies. that supply OF what is not needed
makes d bad balance The first rrca. rrin-
oip' Of business is to get well balanced aud
20 keep well balanced This applies NOT
only TO home relations but to the whole ma
non. This works just the same with ma
tiouS a. IL does with the soil Suppose there
mr. too many workers Of one kind, that .
y bad industrial situation.
As an instance Of the bad industrial sit.
cotton mill town are more weavers than arr
hrins into the town more wcavcrsl How
much should be paid to make them stay ?
They'd balk The same way That nitro
Gen was not needed for the soil. How to
restore the balance The weavers would
s"arn how to spin. at which they could ce,
more pay and for Nhth there was a greater
demand The generation would learn
ha, ~ q
the demand was such. Without this bal
ancinc the extremes would come about. ex-
trcmc poverty. Extend this ali throughout.
Get balanced up 50 that one class will be
just n prosperous as the other.
The doctrine to apply presents itself in
four programs /. Voluntary arrangement
Just explained by Mr.. Smith .. Compul-
sion forcing someone 10 do our bidding. 5.
Enhancing up program. occupations so ar
ranged that all may prosper, tal col
lcctrve bargaining and 90 voting pro
ram ;. \ hchtng program, simply taking
charge. which is called direct action. That
would be IN the case where il the police
would keep away from the factories the
employees might 20 in and PUT ont the en-
pioyers and take charge and ryn things. We
can hav. any Of these programs OF COM
hInation of them. But viii have some
one Of them that certain.
In occupations where there ore many
workers the men find it hard to get goe
wages Collective bargaining is made be-
cause things are unbalanced. II you have
20, 10 have u and he is one among
lew he can bargain If You have TO have
a cook YOU may find that the cook is boss.
Cooks in general are not bosses, but this
particular cook which You might want IS
boss This is true with the ditch digger.
We can get along better without all the pro-
fessors than we can without all the ditch dig.
GERS because We must have ditch dicgers. If
the ditch dggerS could manage TO get TO-
ce,hpr their bargaining powers could be
greater II things are properly balanced
we don't need bargaining. Suppose yon
are few You arc organized and have the
bargaining powers. But YOU want more
than that and you gam il by extortion. That
: the difference between the trust and the
labor union. When collective bargaining
powers are not sufficient and the body is
numerous then more power can be gained
BY the voting program
The fighting program comes into action
when il is thought that the voting pro-
gram is too slow Suppose there was a
class Of unskiiied laborers. Being very nu-
merous they have no voting power, being
ignorant they have no foresight and they
hat hc ntl