rels between the people it is paying to make things
for it as possible. The consumer always pays for all quarrels, and
anything that is good for the employers and employees in the long run can
not but be good for the consumer in the long run.

4. In the last analysis, the consumers in any given industry, if duly
organized as capital and labor are now, will not only have the
disposition to act fairly in a quarrel between the people who are making
something that they buy, and the disposition to act quickly and have the
fight over with, but they will have as buyers the power as a last resort
to choose the factories they will deal with; to do their buying naturally
and cheaply, and from factories that are entirely in the business of
making goods and not half in the business of making goods and half in the
business of making civil war. The nationally organized consumers will
naturally advertise to people which firms take the least time off for
fighting, and put all their work into the goods they expect the people to
pay for.

This national advertising campaign will be operated through national
headquarters, cooeperating with local branches organized in all
manufacturing towns and cities. The national headquarters will act as a
clearing house for the materials, facts, illustrations and demonstrations
which the local centers collect and distribute and apply, proving that
democracy works.

Everything turns, in getting a thing done to-day, on seeing to it that
the people who take it up are the people who can best get the attention
of others.

The consumer class cannot fail because they are the best people in the
country to compel everybody to listen.

The consumers are the best people to get everybody to listen because they
are the best listeners.

The consumers are the best people to start anything in America and keep
it going because everybody in America cares what the consumers think,
wants to be on good terms with them, and to please them, wants to be
heard by them and wants to hear what they say.

XXI

THE WAY FOR A NATION TO SPEAK UP

The Air Line League is not visionary. The people of this country have
expressed an idea. They can do it again.

Not long after the American part in the war was under way our Government
had the idea--which it had not had at all when it began--that if America
was going to do her part in defeating the Germans, or if we were to come
anywhere near defeating the Germans, it wou