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

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By Temple

example. There then indication to how it would grow, to the points in which it would begin. Every new advance hailed with joy No ever thought of "capitar and labor" hostile interests. No ever dreamed that the very fact of would bring insidious dangers with it.
 in the system to light. A mans business than knew by their first but that fact And vet see what it has since led to,-an imper- system become something less than flesh and blood, mere part of a system
 believes. course, that this dehumaniz- ing process deliberately invented. It just whole early system, Only prodigious and unheard of development could bring it to light
 But there is yet another consideration which the first set of facts do not include Take the indus trial idea; what is it? The true industrial idea is not to make money. The industrial idea is to express serviceable idea, duplicate useful idea, by thousands as there are people who need it. To pro- duce produce; to get system that Will reduce pro- duction to a fine art; to put production such basis will provide means for expansion and the building of still more shops, the production of still more thousands of useful things-that is the real
 'Yes, but what about the workingmen?" An. brings the point. When the system grows by it's momentum to such proportions that it begins to press upon fundamental rights to violate fundamental human instincts. the social question arises
 And social question? Simply the question of how this industrial system be adjusted recognize human rights.
 The industrial idea did not start out with the intention of violating human rights Nevertheless that is what it's extreme development tended to do Therefore the clash which is called the social tion.
 Here again approach the problem: Which is first, it's social industrial a system and human nature come into conflict, human nature human rights represent the force Mankind is enough o change sys- to conform. with human imperatives of Right
 This also has a bearing on the changeabity of Those who sometimes discOur- aged by reflecting the fmpossibility of chang ing nature wholesale and for the better changing the social system for the better also their reflections little further They should reflect the impossibility of system matter how important, changing human nature make it content with violations of its needs rights system of government, indus try business curtail contravene fundamental human rights, and it is not human nature that changes-it is that system!
 that, after all, the inflexibility of human be most hopeful fact
 We all know all feel that the only way by wh could influenced condone support bad system of any kind would render that bad system profitable to humanity at large.
 Now, know that no bad system be pro- fitable to humanity a large A system universally and unexceptionally bad would simply collapse It would be like trying to maintain sound currency ply be impossible. counterfeit has its fleeting value simply because the mass of money is sound And unfair, greedy, inhuman wicked systems last long they do only because the opposite majority qualities for profitable play.
 No doubt the fautness of human nature is the of the faultiness of social system. But system is not the intention of humanity. faults would not be universally denounced and opposed
 Our ignorance is responsible faults being social that makes it impossible for the remain there forever
 is not perfect by But mankind yet given its collective to the Devil