who wishes as
an Associate Member to join the Air Line League--a League for the direct
action of the people in what concerns them all, is invited to send five
dollars as membership fee and his name and address, to ----, Treasurer
National Office of The Air Line League, Number ---- Street, New York.

But the chapter cannot end in this way.

This is merely the pattern of the way I would like to have it end later,
and while I have put the name--The Air Line League--down and am going to
use it for the convenience of this book, I only do so, leaving it open to
the people who have the vision of The League and who put the vision into
action, to change the name if they want to.

XI

THE RIGHT TO WHISPER TOGETHER

Every man like all Gaul is divided into three parts. He is an employee of
somebody, an employer of somebody, and a consumer.

The natural employer left to himself is apt to suppose, if he is making
shoes, that his consumers ought to pay more for shoes, and that his
employees ought to be paid less. As regards hats, and umbrellas, and
overcoats, and underwear, the same man is a rather noble impartial person
towards employers and employees. He wants them to listen to each other
and lower the cost of living by not having strikes and lockouts, and by
not fighting each other ten hours a day.

In 999 out of 1000 labor quarrels a consumer is naturally a fair-minded
person and the best-located person to control and determine how any
particular business shall be run.

The League proposed is planned to operate in its national and local
functions as a national Consumers' Club, with working branches in every
town which shall be engaged in doing specific things every day toward
making the employers and employees in that town listen to each other in
the interests of the consumer public.

It is always to the interests of the consumer-public to see to it that
people who have particular interests in a business should be compelled to
listen to the others' interests.

Consumers naturally prefer experts to run things for them, but if they do
not run them for them, they are the natural people to make them do it.

In the last resort the right to control is with the consumers.

We are going to look to them very soon now as the natural Central
Telephone Exchange in business. It is the consumers who connect everybody
up. They are the switchboard of the World.

XII

THE RIGHT TO TRUST SOMEBODY

Democracy--as pe