The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-14

There are two positions from which may consider the economic conditions under which we titude and emphasis of thought action taken with reference to those conditions.
 You may say is the economic condition which makes mankind what is; or you may say that it is mankind that makes the economic condi- tion what
 worthy of notice that wherever a situation is desirable. mankind usually claims of selfdestructive and full of injustice and pain man kind has a tendency charge that nature" So will find large proportion of partsans claiming that it is the economic system which makes men what they are They blaine the faults Of our industrial system for all the faults which We behold in mankind generally.
 And you will find other men who say that man his conditions that if the economic, himself his social conditions being determined by his own nature
 It may be true, of course, that these things in teract; probably would be hard gainsay that the point of beginning. the casual mo-
 wrong industrial system. for ample, is reflection of what is wrong in man him. self. there doubt that after he has creat this system, it begins to react upon him in punitive or other influential ways. is, upon conditions. and conditions character-an endless interacton.
 It ought be hard to admit this. In fact, it seldom is hard when we remove the matter far enough from concerns. Teachers dislike to admit that the faults of the educational system are their faults writ large Physicians dislike to hat present systems of med icine are their own deficiencies organized Manu- hesitate admit that the mistakes of the present industrial methods are, in part at least, mistakes systematized and extended. But take the question outside of mans immediate con-
 
 The workman has trouble whatever in seeing he modern business systems not anything other than the faults of bus mess themselves;- because business men make systems. business just readily fault of labor organizations the faults of workingrnen themselves
 And all of us together-the whole human so- ciety-make the social system.
 Now, you allow relentless logic to take it's with this form of statement, and begin to speak O reforming the social system, then find yourself confronted at once with the problem of making a profound and complete change in human nature And that is a pretty big job It has never been accomplished wholesale.
 just this point that smonpure idealists follow them. And it is also at this point so-caed practical propose programs nat fairly clank with materialism.
 fine idea1ists lose all wit why 1t. that hard headed practical lose completely their contact with idealisrn?
 method could be devised by which e anchored anvil and sledge hammer hard practical men enghten- e refined by dash of Vision and an infusion of venturesome nd divine belief in the supremacy of righteousness. then we should see both these types yield useful service to their kind
 We slow about drawing conclusions before have all data.
 doubt, with less faulty human nature than a faulty social system would have grown up than it is worse system would have grown up though prob ably worse system would not have lasted so long as the It is only its good points that kept in force long.
 things being they are there are very few who will claim mankind deliberately set out to create a faulty social system Granting without hat faults of the social system are in Man himself it follow that he deliber- ately organized his mperfections and established them We shall charge great deal up to ignorance shall not? We shall have to charge a great deal up 70 a certain innocence as we'll Take tbe beginning of our present industrial system, for