workingmen
from all over the country who stand up for employers.

Of course this is physically inconvenient, but it would pay hundreds of
times over to conduct a national campaign of having laborers bring other
laborers into line and of having employers shame other employers into
competence.

The best substitute for this national demonstration, this national
physical getting together like this, is as I have said before, a book
read by all, by employers and employees looking over each other's
shoulders, each conscious as he reads that the other knows he reads,
knows what he knows and is reading what he knows.

X

TECHNIQUE FOR CAPITAL IN GETTING ITS WAY

I should hate to see Capital, in the form of a National Manufacturers'
Association, realizing the desperateness of the labor situation and that
something has got to be done at last which goes to the bottom, slinking
off privately and confessing its sins to God.

I would rather see a confession of the sins of Capital toward Labor for
the last forty years and of its sins to-day made by Capital in person to
Labor.

God will get it anyway--the confession--and it will mean ten times as
much to Him and to everybody if He overhears it being given to Labor.

Of course Labor has been doing of late wrong things that it is highly
desirable should be confessed and naturally Capital thinks that a good
way to open the exercises would be with a confession from Labor to
Capital to the effect that Labor admits that Labor like the Trusts before
it had had moments or seizures in which it has held up the country,
broken its word, betrayed the people and acted the part the people hate
to believe of it--of the bully and the liar.

Not only the Capital Group but the Public Group feel that a confession
from Labor before we go on to arrange things better is highly to be
desired.

But the practical question that faces us is--supposing that what is
wanted next by all, is a confession from Labor, what is the practical way
from now on, to get Labor to confess?

Some supposing might be done a minute.

Suppose I have a very quick temper and five sons and suppose the oldest
one has my temper and is making it catching to the other sons, what would
any ordinary observer say is the practical course for the poor wicked old
father to take with the boy's temper of which he has made the boy a
present?

My feeling is when my boy loses his temper with me at dinner for instance
in the p