nd do it together swiftly to-day.

When one-tenth of the people of America tell the President of the United
States and nine-tenths of the people that they cannot have any coal
unless they do what the one-tenth say; when another one-tenth of the
people tell the nine-tenths that they cannot have anything to eat, and
another one-tenth tell them that they cannot have anything to wear until
the one-tenth get what they want, just how much more democratic America
is than Germany it is difficult to say; and just why anybody should
suppose the emergency is over it is difficult to say. The idea of getting
what you want by hold-up which has been taught to labor by capital, is
now getting ready to be used by labor and capital both, and by everybody.

The really great immediate universal emergency to-day in America is the
holdup. We get rid of one Kaiser other people have three thousand miles
away, to get instead five thousand Kaisers we have to live with next door
here at home, that we have to ask things of and say "please" to every
time we cook, every time we eat, every time we buy something to wear.

The emergency is not only immediate but it is universal, all the people
are concerned in meeting it all the time. We have said to one another and
to everybody for four years that what we have all been sacrificing for
and dying for these four years is to make the world safe for democracy.

This was our emergency. We were right. The emergency we are meeting now
is to make democracy safe for the world. If the Kaiser wanted to dream
his wildest dream of autocratic sneer and autocratic hate he would have
dreamed US; he would have dreamed what we will be unless the men and
women of America--especially the men and women of America formerly active
in the Red Cross, shall meet the emergency and undertake in behalf of the
people to prove to the people how (if anybody will go about and look it
up) industrial democracy in America in distinction from industrial
autocracy, really works.

If it works for some of us in some places, let twenty million people--Red
Cross people get up and say across this land in every village, town and
city, it shall work now in all places for all of us. And then take
steps--all of them every morning, every afternoon, getting together as
they did in the Red Cross, to see to it that the whole town and everybody
in it does something about it.

When the soldiers of the American army we were all helping in the Red
Cro