to keep Labor and Capital from being off on their
facts about each other.

There are two policies to choose from.

First Policy: Have Capital tell Labor what is the matter with Labor, and
have Labor tell Capital what is the matter with Capital. (Results:
Strikes heaped on lockouts and lockouts heaped on strikes.)

Second Policy: Turn the whole truth-telling policy around.

The way to make a truth count is to get the utmost possible attention to
it.

The way to get the utmost possible attention to a truth is to have people
one does not expect it from telling it. The way to advertise the sins of
Capital is to have Capital tell them. Employers and capitalists can
attract twenty times as much attention in telling things that are the
matter with them, and will be believed forty times as much. And they not
only can tell the facts against themselves more fairly, but while they
are telling the facts against themselves they are in a position to change
them. They can tell facts against themselves with one hand and change
them with the other. Or they can begin changing them--begin getting labor
to help them change them.

If I had to save the world in a week or rather get assurance in a week
that it could be saved, I would get all the people in it to agree for a
year to read each other's papers. Have every man read two papers. We
would start up for America the national Parallel Column Habit. Each man
by himself daily putting his own little world and other people's world
alongside until they got used to it, and then together.

There is no limit to what reading the wrong papers would not do for this
nation. It is not a matter to argue about. It is a mere plain matter of
fact in ordinary every day psychology. The veriest tyro in human
engineering can see it,--that the way to get a truth noticed about
Capital or Labor, the way to make a truth of some use and get it believed
and acted on, is to have the wrong people tell it.

Judge Gary could say some of the things Mr. Gompers is saying a great
deal better than Mr. Gompers could.

There is one thing I am going to do when I put this up to the people. I
am not going to let them think I am putting it up to them as a Christian.
The way to introduce the idea is to speak as a plain practical engineer
in folks and in the way human nature works. I don't know as I would mind
people having fine religious feelings about it, when they did it, if they
liked, but I would prefer to call it