The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-11-06

whether n is selfish, one is greedy,
n is weak, one is strong. or that
one is black or one is white, all are
looking for the same thing. Neces-
sity has brought them together in the
same channel. Industrial necessity,
if you please. This being true. then
out of this personal industrial contact
the social problem is born.
The Social.
Think of it, what is properly called
society starts, not from the high and
mighty notions of men, but down in
the netherlands of industry. Not
from the arts and graces, but from
the cold fact of necessity. Men are
bound to come in contact where their
interest is the same. Here, then, is
the basis for the claim of social equal
ity. That there can be any inequality
other than the varying ability of the
individual units is beyond u under
standing. But the world is surfeited
with ideas of distinction of birth, SUI
periority of race, supremacy OF white
and so on. Yet here the question of
equality so far as Truth is concerned
is settled forever. Men may scorn or
forget the Biblical injunction that God
hath made the nations of the earth
of one blood, but the hard knocks
that the economic impose upon the
greater portion of mankind will per-
petually remind all of their humanity,
their oneness of impulse even though
they are blinded by competitive strife
which %engenders jealousy, hate, muir
der and death. All, how history has
shown us by the remotest ages that
the %compulsion of work has always
inspired the social among men!
Now while the social is surely born
out of the industrial we do not claim
by any means that it is confined
there. In this study we are rather
looking for fundamental causes rather
than any effects. We want to learn
why men are equal or why they are
not equal. We have already learned
that the ECANOMIC is imposed upon
men by nature. That the INDUS,
TRIAL automatically grows out of the
economic, and that the SOCIAL is
the inevitable result of the contact of
the industrial units, units whose in.
terest is essentially the same.
Here we might reasonably end the
discussion, as We have showed the
natural stages of economic evolution.
But this universal group of men we
are discussion have minds and hearts
as well as stomachs. These, too, make
their peculiar demands, and while
they are stronger in some ways than
the goad of the economic, they are
certainly less constant. Anyhow. af-
ter the industrial or social units have
realized that their interest is the
same, it is the restless human mind
and heart that creates the multiple.
ity of problems foreign to the eco
nomic.
1t is these problems that men claim
it necessitates POLITY to adjust in
the larger interest of humanity. And
SO through the restlessness of the hui
man mind and heart, and o neces-
sarily out of the social contact, comes
The Political.
That which hard necessity controls
and develops ceases with the com.
PEELED social contact.
There is in the Scriptures a saying
that God in the beginning made man
upright, but he (man) has sought out
many inventions. Now Politics is one
of the necessities in the ann or
sense that the industrial or social is
that grow out of the economic. The
most pertinent question ever asked
by a social unit is put in the Bible:
I"WHO MADE THEE A RULER OVER
US?' While the most abject AND
MISERABLE GROUP of social units
were those found in the same refer
ence) who said: GIVE US A KING
TO RULE OVER U.s."
They say that Politics is the science
of good government, but it has not
yet been demonstrated in governing
any body polite of the world. By
way of refuting this statement would
you nominate America, with its many
ills-the Negro problem in particular?