hapter to political
democracy applies still more forcibly to democracy in industry, and to
the right of the people to be waited on by skilled labor and by skilled
capital.

I do not wish to bother to know everything about how everything I buy
every day is made, but I do want to have arrangements made through a
national league to which I belong, for instance, so that I can
practically know about the conditions under which anything is made, the
moment I wish to.

There should be as it were a card catalogue or authority in my town that
I can go to and consult, which represents me and a hundred million
people. This is my conception of what the National League through its
local branches could do and do for everybody. It would only cost a few
cents more to have a hundred million men know about a particular article
what ten, twenty or a hundred or a thousand know, the moment they happen
to need it, by looking it up in the League's national opinion of it and
national experience with it, in a card catalogue or what would operate
practically as a card catalogue.

We all have the right in this country to spend our money intelligently.
If people want to get our thousand dollars a year, or two thousand a
year, or three, five, or ten thousand a year, they must show cause why
they should have it, dollar for dollar. We want our dollars to help
people to help us, laborers who are helping the country and capitalists
who are helping the country. Every time I spend ten cents I want to know
that I am getting ten cents' worth of democracy, ten cents' worth of
skilled capital and skilled labor working for all of us. I propose to
vote with my money on the fate of my country and the fate of democracy
with silver coins and with dollar bills every day. The other kind of
ballot, the paper ballot, I can only use in the nature of the case once
or twice a year.

XIV

THE SKILLED CONSUMER

The way to control the world and govern the well-being of men is not
through the time they have left over, or the time they choose to lay one
side for it, but directly and through their most important engagements
and things they do and are sure to do all the time.

A man's first important engagement in this world is with his own breath.

His second engagement is with his own stomach.

His third is with the night and with sleep.

His fourth is with posterity, with the unborn, with his children and
children's children.

His fifth is with his anc