The sun., 1919-08-10

newspapers they can hurl their shafts
at him, and all that ought TO hit VIII
hit because he will be a target In the
open---he will be a person and can be
definitely aimed at. You can't aim at
a commission. Shoot at commits
sion till you've worn out your bow and
1t won't feel your arrows. but will
hold on to its fat jobs and be entirely
comfortable.
Herbert Spencer's law always will
be admitted to be true because he alb
solutely proved 1t: That in all delib-
erative bodies of men the sum total
OF the results will be below the intel
lisence OF the least intelligent MEN,
ber.' II Spencer were alive he would
BIO pleased by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. 1t would delight
him.
These are great days in the world,
full of big questions. There is the
question OF autocracy and hereditary
rulers. 1t is answered by the German
Crown Prince--he absolutely answers
1.-THE, and Germany's escape from
having him as Emperor. Democracy
is the only possible stable system OF
government. but 1t may build for itself
a fatal adjunct in a bureaucracy. The
smaller it's bureaucracy is kept the bet
ter If it's bureaucracy is allowed slowly
and silently to increase in size and
power the day will come when your
democracy will slide, slide. and be
| transformed into an autocracy. Bureau
cracy rules Russia; the Gar was its
| puppet. Bureaucracy Is the curse OF
France. Bureaucracy will ruin any
thing.
| "At present the American public
playing straight into the hands of the
bureaucracy which recently has grown
up in Washington. A democracy
never should operate any public
utilities save those necessary for ma
tional defence and such others as
lighthouses, &C. In democracies busf-
ness should be given free handful
! liberty, that is, to tread straight
line. Business must not be killed; II
must be kept honest. That's the duty
Of a government. I think.
with regard to socialism 1 have
had this thought: II all there Is known
about government were contained In
twenty-five volumes l would admit
that the followers of Karl Marx had
read the first one and are disputine
about It. while the Bolshevik Soviets
are looking at the shelf of books with
interest, but being unable to read are
laetting little good from them.
Nothing interests me more thar
the ideas of the so-called proletariai
about the capitalist. OF course yor
know that work and for years have
worked directly and continually among
the employees who help me. They
really are pretty good men individu
ally, pretty shrewd in minor matters
they have horse sense and help eacf
other: but with regard to the large
. and more complicated affairs OF human
: life and their relationships to the grea
scheme of things their ignorance Il
sublime. .-.s
Their sense Of loyalty TO each othe
is very strong. At time Of strikes
they and their families will endur,
almost to the verge or starvation be
fore they will go back on their com
panions. In this they differ from SOM
Of the higher type financial and bust
ness men. These get together, agre'
to do a certain thing, and when thu
meeting Is through are likely to rusl
to the nearest telegraph Office so tina
they may sell each other out quickly
, They can't wait to do it, such is thei
: eagerness.
Labor Trouble Psychology.
when workmen think they hav,
not been treated fairly. that the fac
tory or company employing them i
, making large profits while they ar
} not getting their proportion of pros
, perity, they do not merely work them
: selves up into nasty frame OF mind
but achieve a stage in which thei
: mind ceases to function. Often the.
strike and give no reason. They ar
surly. Any one who tries to do any
thing with or for them for the frs
two weeks after this has happene,
. will get into trouble.
1.-THE thing to do in such circum
stances, am convinced. is just to lie
them have their time off, let them coo
down. Then endeavor to talk bushes
, and It will be found that three OF fou
of their elder men will find It easy I
come to an understanding with a prop
, erly disposed executive Representing
, the other side.
'One Of the worst enemies OF tn
, worker is badly managed factory
/ Often have wondered why men 4
r such factories don't strike against sue