The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-11
LEAGUE Of NATIONS
FOR WORLDS SAFETY
Episcopal Bishop of Michigan Fayors
New Political Party for Indus
trial Reform.

New Political Party for Indus
trial Reform.
New York, August 9.-The Right
Rev. Charles David Williams, d. D..
Episcopal bishop OF Michigan, while
in this city made an earnest appeal
to the Episcopal church to get be-
hind the characterization of labor.
which he believes offers one of the
greatest hopes for the future of the
United States.
The church must wake up de-
clared Bishop Williams. The crisis
is upon us. Unless We face our re-
sponsibilities and meet the issue
which has been thrust upon us. we
may as well put up our shutters and
go out of business. Democracy's
fundamental creed is confidence in
the innermost worth of the under
most men. We have got to have that
belief If We are going to discharge
our duty in the new day which is
upon u.s. Christ had that vision; the
Whole Gospel is based upon it. and
If the Episcopal church is going to
be true to itself it will not falter
now
: The democra tization OF industry
is coming as sure as tomorrow. We
have gone through all the stages of
o Nor and slave, lord and serf. ON
ployer and employee. The next step
is co-partnership consisting OF en-
ployer--empioyec and the puhlic-the
public coming in to regulate both and
see that justice Is done to all and
that the ultimate consumer does not
suffer.
I'm the denlpcratization OF labor
and the league of nations l see the
greatest hope for the future and II
is the duty of the church to be allied
with every cause which makes for
hLmanity's betterment."
Il am glad he continued, that
the church in the nation wide cam
pa gn. and the every name campaign
In this diocese. is undertaking the
Kine's business in business-like way.
Certainly, il this war has taught us
anything il is the necessity of CO.
ordination and cooperation in order
TO react achievement. The church's
work has hitherto been done in an
entirely too haphazard and miscel-
laneous a manner. The creation of
a common executive board embracing
the three great branches of our work,
and the m1king of a common budget
certainly promise the coordination
we SO imperatively need in this great
! crisis, 1t ought to appeal to the
business sense of the average Arneri-
can. We have proved in this war
! that we are a people of the finest
idealism and the most practical eff
cheney. II the church can present
her work to her people so as to APP
/ peal TO these characteristics OF the
American mind and heart. l think
she will achieve as she never has
before.
The war. OF course. has fastened
! it along Wise leaders are setting
| their faces toward it now, some
through fear of the Lord and some
through fear of what Is to happen.
, But the progress toward an indus
trial democracy has been steady ever
since the French revolution.
political democracy came first
and republics were established over
the face of the earth. 1t has been
found, however. that a political de-
which hides economic and industrial
autocracies. So the demand for de-
mocracy In economical and industrial
spheres began long before the war,
. though the war has imm easurably
quickened it.
President Wilson's proclamation OF
the ideals OF the war, and his con-
slant talks on the rights of the COM
mon man have also been powerful
the great crisis.
"On the one hand we have the
shadow of Bolshevism. Bolshevism
is simply an inversion of the old
order, and Is everywhere the enemy
of democracy. Both Bolshevism and
the older order are based upon the
principle of the public be damned.
In the old order we had autocracy on
top with the proletariat underneath
and the people being crushed in be-S
tween. IL we are wise enough to
accept the industrial democracy
v hich will embody on equal terms all
three elements the ideal social CO.
partnership will have been achieved
III Bolshevism comes to the United
States-and | don't believe it Wilt
will not be through the I. w. w. or
any other of the organizations Of that
class, but because OF the repressions
of the reaH ionaries who are not wise
enough to recognize present tenden-
cies and adopt themselves to them.
The reactionaries are the most dan
gerous element with which we have
to contend now. But as have said
1 do not fear Bolshevism. The church
is getting the. vision, and one of the
en- ouraging signs is this effort OF the
Episcopal church through its nation
wide and every name campaigns to
muster its forces 10 grapple with
these problems OF after the war re-
construction
Bishop Williams is inclined to favor
new political party committed to the
reforms embraced in industrial demo-
cracy. and is in fact a member of the
recently formed committee OF forty
eight which aaeEa IN ~or, hfr> L. ~~>