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ticle, ethan the way in which the
employers frankly recognize that
they must be prepared to look at
the new situation in a new spirit
The employers must recognize the
necessity Of giving to the workmen
larger share of the product of in
dustry and greater share of con-
troll of the management of indus.
try
This new feeling of harmony
that is bound to grow more and
more between capital and labor, is
we'll conveyed in the words of Mr..
w. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor;
ut is an unreasonable and un-
tenable position of modern industry
to assert for itself it's right of com
bination and deny that right to the
laboring people. Labor de-
MED the right Of self-expression al
ways feels itself aggrieved, is never
an efhclent force because of the
discomfort which lies smouldering be-
meath the surface and which may
at any time break out in disastrous
strikes and other industrial disturb
ances. If labor is to be a partner
Of capital in the welding of ma
ton that shall conquer the German
autocracy, a recognition of the
rights of labor to be consulted on
the terms of partnership is essen
tial."
The first step that prompted the
realization Of such an agreement
was taken by the British War. Cabi-
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justifiable not by right but by cir
cumstances. They offered Bucking-
ham Palace for war work. In opening
Parliament the King appeared, not
IN royal purple, but in simplest naval
or military uniform. He and the
Prince of Wales visited the trenches
the camps, the fleet. the hospitals and
munition factories. Wherever needed
they did their bit, keeping strictly
to rations. and as strictly avoiding
interference with the conduct of the
war.
Finally, they cut off their family
from all associatiolNwith German re-
latlons, changing names like Guelph
to Windsor, and Battenberg to
Mount Batten. Prefixes like ROYAL
and Serene Highness are exchanged
for British peerages, and princes are
to- be permitted to marry British
indeed, American-girls. 1t is not
too much to say that these drastic
reforms, amounting to surgical op-
erations, have preserved the Brit
lsh throne, supported as it is by the
self-governing dominions and bv
India.
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The Kings Are
Passing Away

When the Gar was executed,
who she'd tear? When a puppet
Sultan dies at Constantinople who
troubles to recollect the name of his
successor? Not Moslem murmureG
when a pro-German Khedive in
Egypt was replaced by pro-British
Sultan. The Emperor Williams
own sister, Queen Sophie of
Greece, is in ignominious exile, her
only consolation a brotherly tele-
gram. Kaiser Karl is vassal of
Berlin and Ferdinand of Bulgaria
only survives because of Berlin's
bayonets. Every nationality, strug-
Cling to be free-Czecho-S lovak
Finland, Poland, the Ukraine, Ar
menJa, Observation-Disclosures to be
commonwealth, not kingdom.
Elsewhere the institution of mon
archy exists on sufferance.
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people into atheism. Occasionally
men and women ask why the
churches did not prevent the thing
happening. But the very critics
have to acknowledge that many of
the churches had been empty.
ut is not that Christianity has
failed" said Gilbert Chesterton,
"Christianity has not been tried"
Sir George Adam Smith, now
visiting this country, says of the
British, eve are a repentant ma
tion," and this is true. AS great
shrines like Rheims disappear 50
does there emerge a new form of
reverence, content as to externals
with a Y. M. c. A. hut, but ready
all the time for the supreme sacri-
flee. Death has inspired art and
poetry-Raemaekers, for instance,
or Nevinson, or Phillip Brooks-and
SO far as l can gather. all impulses
of religion are intensified. The Zion
lists are more jealous for Zion. The
Catholic priests make daily converts
for Catholicism. Protestant pastors
again mention sin and salvation.
And despite this revival, on lines
which some people might have con-
sidered to be mutually destructive,
there is more cooperation than ever
before. I have heard a Congrega-
tional minister publicly commend
his soldier boy to the care of a Cath
olic chaplain, and l hear of another
Catholic chaplain sharing his room
and his devotions-yes, and even his
pastoral duties-with a grandson of
Dwight l.. Moody. In Syria the
number of Moslems who secretly
practise Christianity is growing
month by month.
The Cold Comfort
Of Rationalism
Amid pestilence and famine,
wounds and loneliness, rationalism
is, after all, cold comfort. Rational
ism is, moreover, the formula that
has been hammered into Germany.
We are bound to judge of such de-
structive criticism by it's fruits.
What case can any one make out for
the Enlightenment" which burnt the
Catholic library at Louvain? Ger
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The Geography Of
European Minds

Having proposed a League of Ma
lions, Americans have been setting
themselves to master geography.
Before the war there was here a GER
tain remoteness from the outer
world-a quiet resolve to let charity
begin at home. And this was re-
f1ected in your newspapers. To-day
/ doubt whether in England herself
there is so keen an interest in the
Danube as there is along the River
Hudson. 1t is not that Americans
desire an empire-quite the reverse
but they do want to see their own
liberties extended far and wide.
incidentally, they are much more
cordial than they used to be toward
England. Perhaps it is because they
are finding that the British system
is not despotic, but educative-es-
sentially we are doing the same work
as the United States. You make a
man citizen in a new home; we
help him to be a citizen in the old
one. In both cases the process some
times seems to be a little rough and
ready. In both cases it is usually
justified by the result.
Among authorities in this uni
verse we must include religion. War
has deeply shocked the ethics of
every nation. But it is not driving
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Public Inquiry
Into Craftsmanship

But, obviously, the hard fate of
monarchs means that all the autho
lty which they symbolized is on trial.
Even IN France there is restless
inquiry into the fundamentals of
craftsmanship. The breakdown of
diplomacy has cost SO many millions
OF lives that diplomacy itself is mis-
trusted. Americans know something
of the Machiavellian intrigue bv
which endeavors were made, when
you were at peace, to stir up trouble
in Mexico, to destroy tonnage, to
apply sabotage to industry, and to
poison the wells of opinion by pur-
chasing or substituting newspapers.
That all this could go on in a re-
sponsible embassy has profoundly
Impressed the working classes of
Europe.
Where certain governments are
convicted of criminal malpractices
all governments are brought under
suspicion, and in exposing her own
ambassadors to disgrace, Germany
has undermined the etiquette on
which the entire diplomatic service
must rely for its usefulness. In the
conversations of the ignorant, guilty
and innocent are Jumped together.
and am not myself surprised to find
working men, not only in Britain
but elsewhere in Europe, who declare
that they will insist on having their
own representatives at any peace
conference which may be called.
A contributing cause of Bolshe-
vlkism is, I believe, this same loss
of confidence in all organized admin
lstration. The Russian peasant
trusts his local village council, but
nothing beyond it. Having been be-
trayed by the centralized state. he
carries this decentralization to all
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kendne OF the Fabric of international Royal ty Public
inquiry Into Dubious Craftsmanship Making Way for Closer
Knit and More Spirtualzed Society With Comne Of Peace

lengths, and may starve in conse-
quence for lack of transportation.
10 some extent, what have been
called the imperialist aims of the
Allies are responsible for these seri-
Gus difficulties. The Russian detests
militarism, and was ready to fight it,
but he did not understand how his
life IN Siberia would be made hap
pier by the possession of CONSTANT
nople. The Italian Socialist hated
Austria, but was not stirred in any
way by the prospect of dying for a
slice of Asia Minor. British labor
was sound enough over Belgium, but
became more than a little FESTIVE at
rumors of clandestine arrangements
for restoring to France not only
Alsace-Lorraine, but the Rhine
boundary. All this piecemeal bust
ness was swept aside by President
Wilson's broadly announced aims
which satisfied precisely those mis-
givings that had been aroused by the
older diplomacy.
On the whole, what we have seen
has been an ever-deepening diplo-
matte perfdy on the part of the
Central Powers, contrasted with an
ever clearer sincerity among the
Allies. If Britain miscalculated
in Bulgaria, it was, after all, be-
cause of her punctilious regard for
the SerboBulgarian treaty obliga-
tions-it was the same fidelity which
had brought her into the war be-
cause Of Belgium. And the Lich-
nowsky memorandum settles what
eyer question there was about Wis.,
count Grey's honesty.
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! ant a scientist as Sir Oliver Lodge
publishes reports of seances atwhich
his gallant boy, Raymond, discusses
the quality Of the cigars. provided
for soldiers. who Ego west" into the
celestial regions.
have known many families be-
reaved by this war. and have always
found that where there had been a
steady observance of Christian rule
and worship the sorrow, when it
came, even when it returned again
and again to the same dwelling, only
confirmed the already tested truths
OF religion. / could mention many
such families where losses were sus-
tanned with dignity and certain
proud happiness.
1t is mere repetition to say that
the war has drawn the whole world
closer. sometimes think that there
is hope to be found in our more init
mate knowledge even of German
psychology. Evil is, after all, a dis
ease to be cured and we are arriv-
ing at diagnosis of this particular
malady. But if our friendships are
to resist the onslaughts of coming
events they must not be based only
upon stirring films which show the
size OF our respective howitzers
while drum beats when the gun
fires. We must hold together be-
cause ours is common task.
Partners in Duty
To Be Done
We are partners, not in praise or
flattering compliment, but in duty
to be done. We are thinking less of
Japan and more of the japanese
less of Russia, and more of the Rus
sians-less of Italy. and more of the
Italians. This means that we have
had enough Of statements farreach-
ing schemes and are thinking rather
of how to rebuild the individual
home, how to rescue the little child.
how to comfort the mother. Hence
the Armenian and Syrian Fund; the
Fund for Fatherless Children of
France, the Red Cross, Belgian and
Serbian Relief.
These enterprises, beginning as
philanthropy, are developing into
| national policy, and they represent
conquest Of the heart. The League
of Nations, like the Kingdom Of
Heaven, is within you and the ex-
pansion Of America is altruism.
One hopes that it will so continue.
for clearly there are dangers ahead.
When the war ends the United
States will be comparatively by far
the richest country on this planet.
Britain will not come near you. Ger
many will be almost bankrupt. This
lmeans that Americans will have to
encounter the eternal perils of pros
perity. Your gifts are simply mag
nificent, and, for your own sakes,
you cannot give away too much.
Your moral leadership abroad de-
ponds on your severity with your
selves at home. 1t is only to a sim
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man guns, often manned and de-
signed by German professors, have
battered German scholarship to pulp.
Kultur is wiped out.
But l am mot sure that the
churches, as churches, are stronger
than they were. Professionalism is
not adorned by the Lutheran DEM
clifton of Dinant on the Mouse.
Catholicism loses at Rome what is
gained at Malines, where Cardinal
MERCER is Archbishop. Many Ital-
ians believe that the Pope aims at
regaining temporal power, which, we
are assured, has been promised to
him by the Kaiser.
Probably we must draw a distinc-
ton between Rome as political
system and Rome as a spiritual re-
llglon. Rome's method of worship is
honored in Britain as never before.
| have heard the trumpeters of the
Irish Guards sound the royal salute
in Westminster Cathedral when the
Host was uplifted at a Requiem
Mass. Many Episcopal and other
churches display calvary" or
shrine with the names of dead SOL
diers inscribed thereon, at which re-
latlves, and especially women, come
with flowers to pray. These shrines
supply the felt want of grave
near by and obviously tend to inspire
the medieval view Of our proper at
titude toward the departed.
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Mantle of Royalty
Spread Over Europe

Before the habitations of our
mind collapsed. we in Europe put
our trust in princes. France alone
dared to be a republic. Over the
old world there spread a delicate
mantle of royalty, international,
each silken fibre inwoven with
the rest, one family in all essentials,
however divided by religion and
language. War roughly rent this
delicate fabric asunder. The two
German emperors expected speedy
triumph, sealed by the usual bargain
between kings, who, be it war or be
it peace, never really quarrel.
The Kaiser now knows that in
attacking the Gar of Russia and
the King of England he was batter
ing down the bulwarks of his own
throne also. For the Hapsburgs
and the Hohenzollerns it was
an i'll day when the Romanoffs fell,
leaving the autocracies of mid
Europe isolated. Revolution is con-
tagious. If Russia can get along
without Nikki, why does Prussia
need Willie? If the kings of Bel
GUM, Serbia, Montenegro and Ru-
mania can be driven roughly from
their palaces what security is there
for the kings of Bavaria, Wurtem-
berg and Saxony?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
The American
View Of Monarchy

Americans, to whom the trappings
OF monarchy seemed merely curl
GUS pageant, can scarcely estimate
the iull meaning of this disillusion.
Even in England, there was still
some shred of divinity that hedged a
kng, but the disclosure of what in
iQuity could he planned in courts
IKE Vienna and Berlin-~the sus-
plclon that the Saraievo murders
themselves were "frame-up" by the
imperial police-the shocking reve-
'a''ohs of depraved treachery. per-
petrated by the Czarina, grand
a'oghter of Queen Victoria-and the
brutal example set by the Crown
rinee of Germany have shaken con
naence IN monarchical institutions to
'oe very foundations.
The situation has been saved by
tue supreme sagacIty Of King George
ana Queen Mary themselves. They
knew that no one wanted to sever
'he INK which. in the Crown, holds
together the British dominions.
therefore, they adapted themselves
lo5a'ly 10 the altered conditions.
WIN the utmost emphasis they &C
eepted republieanism. 30 reducing
'ho throne TO n political expedient.
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alyptic dis
aster to our
c i v i liz a :
ton is sift-
ing out the
h Q a r t S of
m e n a n d
making for
us all q new
m e n t atty.
T h e from
tiers of our
thought are
o b | iterated
by the high
explosives of
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War Anywhere
Is War Everywhere

This war has taught US that war
anywhere is war everywhere-it is
war waged by women as we'll as men,
on women as we'll as men-by civil
lians on soldiers. as we'll as soldiers
on civilians, and the weapons
of war include every resource of
science which will destroy not the
enemy army alone, but the enemy
nation. No limitation Of war can be
relied upon for the future. If war
is tolerated at all, war must be the
sole aim of mankind. Every country
in the Old World and the New World
must be reorganized on German
plans. We must destroy Kaiserdom
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Charlatanism and
The Quest for Comfort

1t is, perhaps, no wonder that the
hysteris inseparable from war
should sometimes assume a super
stltious shape. People who had lived
innocent enough lives, but shallow
lives, are suddenly confronted by
grim actualities of death, in its most
terrible garments. The emergency
finds them unprovided with the ac-
cumulated reserves of lifelong piety
and they snatch at any relief, where
ever offered. Charlatans and fort
une-tellers in London have discov-
cred any number of such victims and
there has been, inevitably, an out
burst of spiritualism. Even so brill
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net through the appointment Of the
Joint Standing Industrial Councils,
in which representatives of both
employers and workingmen meet
on equal terms to work out So
lutions for conflicting interests in
the conduct of industry. These
councils have investigated every
phase of industrial employment and
the conditions of the laborers, and
it was upon their reports that a
number of measures, such as in
crease of wages, reduction in the
hours Of labor, the betterment of
housing conditions, etc., were taken
to improve their deplorable condi-
tions. These Industrial Councils
will also be the bodies which the
government will consult during the
reconstruction period which must
follow after the war,
What Is Being
Done in u. S.
Here in the United States our
government has formed the Com
mittee on Labor as part of the
Council of National Defence, with
the objects: % to advise in regard
to the conservation and welfare of
the workers in national industries,
and (2) to advise in regard to means
of adjustment of employment prob
lens without interruption of in
dustry.
Some of our captains of industry
have generously responded to the
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cere and generous nation that an
outsider, as am, can speak in terms
so uncompromising and direct. But
/ only repeat what thoughtful Amer
leans themselves know to be the
truth.
The Relation Of
Individual to State
This, then, is the difference be-
tween US and the Germans. We
make the state a servant of. the indi-
vidual; they make the individual a
servant Of the state. With US, the
state is means to an end. With
them the state is an end in itself.
With them, as with US, state activity
is increasing and is not likely to
diminish. Railways, housing, manu-
facture, are all being socialized. But
we draw the line at the home.
Every one is aware that nerve
stress, due to battle, exposes the
soldier to moral laxity, against
which he should be constantly on
guard. Whether Europe provides
adequately against this tendency is
matter for consideration, but the
Allies are to-day taking especial
care of young children. At last we
begin to know their value. The
cleverness of the German is mex
haustible; he turns his very vices
into patriotism, and there is nothing
in his creed that discourages pro-
miscuous unions for increasing the
population, which are among the in
novations alleged against "the Hum -
though possibly improved by evil
dence. Not only in Moscow, but
throughout Europe, we must expect
no little chaos in the domestic rela-
ton. ;Hasty marriages, early wild
owhood, romance suddenly cut short
these emergencies will test char
acter.
On the other hand, the presence
among US Of only too many Of the
permanently injured will draw out
the best sympathies of the race.
Where so many of the young are
helpless we shall no longer consider
man too old at forty. There will
be enough for all to do, and the call
for service is, after all, the best
guarantee of virtue.
Incidentally, the notion that
Europe is overcrowded. based al
ways on fallacy, now disappears.
There is even talk of preventing
emigration by law. If the fruits of
industry are properly distributed
among the Industrious there is
enough in every country for all who
live there.
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recognition of the labor situation,
and have introduced profit-sharing
systems which have produced very
gratifying results to all involved.
Greater efficiency in industry, a
better utilization of productive po-
tentialities of both man and ma
terial, more perfect business organ
lzations, elimination of waste by CO.
ordination and cooperation, and the
doing away with many non esser-
tials and extravagances-these are
results, accelerated by the war.
which will remain as permanent as
sets in our life. This increased
productivity, which will eventually
, result IN more adequate satisfac-
ton of human wants, is thing that
has come to stay.
Not only the United States has
performed wonders in its rapid and
marvellous extension of the ship
building industry, of it's agricultu-
rally cultivated area, of it's coal and
steel production, stock raising, ETC..
but even war-weary France has in
creased its output of coke and steel
IN spite of the fact that the greater
part of the area that supplied her
with these articles is now under
German domination.
Political Effects
In This Country
In looking at the positive effects
Of the war it must be recognized
that some of the effects are clearly
DO und up with the social and eco
nomic and political causes of the
war. In this sense the war will be
an aid in fastening a development
of these factors. America has been
known as melting pot of nations
in which streams of throbbing HUI
manity were moving at the call of
opportunity to become free Ameri-
cans. But this process had not been
completed, and there were little for
eign nations within our boundaries.
The real assimilated American
was ready for declaration of war
long before it was made; but the
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day we enter, wearied and
saddened, on q fifth year, yet there
is not one of us who can foretell
precisely what will be the peace map
inscribed by destiny over provinces
shattered by shells and bombs.
But do we know that this apoc-
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-03-14
home and that the people are against

it.
 Don't spread the falsehood that . this is rich mans war. It is being fought for the welfare of the poor oi the whole world. Rich men and their sons are making sacrifices of life wealth, and comfort in due proportion 10 their number. Activities that tend to destroy. discredit, or discourage honest wealth attack the prosperity (. the entire Nation and cripple its power. Gigantic industries make this Nation gigantic. and give it taxpay ing. money-srending, money-lending powers equal to armies of soldiers. Don't rail against conscription. T. is the fairest. squarest. most demo cratic method ever devised. It was forced on the country by the terrific man power of the enemy. based on a ccnscrpi,ion policy in force for gener. ations.
 Don't underestimate your own abil- ity to help. The day has long passed when women were expected to sit idle and wait for wars to end. Women are invaluable not only at the front as nurses, ambulance drivers. clerks. and canteen managers, but just as valua ble at home. Knitting and bandage mak- ing are important. and there are hun dreds Of activities of direct service. no- to mention the numberless indus tries in which women are replacing the men al the front
 Don't stop hunting till7you find your job.
 Don't look for niche or pedestal, but find job and work it for all it is worth.
 Don't forget that many mickles make muckle." The little bit of in formation you have may seem utterly unimportant. yet it may furnish spy with just the confirmation he or she needs; or it may piece out some fabric that needs only patch or two to be complete; or it may give him, or her. ? hint or clue leading to discoveries Of fatal consequence 10 the ones you love. or to others, or 10 the Nation.
 Don't minimize the minor matters. For want of nail the she was lost; for want of the horse the rider was lost; for want O., etc, the Nation was