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s as great as the total number of employers and employees in that industry combined. If, for instance, ninety-five per cent, of the people are asked to freeze while the mine owners and the mine workers (numbering possibly five per cent.) fight out their differences, have they not a right to demand information as to the merits of the dispute before the shivering begins? If the home builders are asked to suspend construction while the steel manufacturers and steel workers (but a small fraction of the population) go to war over the terms of employment, have they not a right to inquire why before they begin to move into tents? And so with disputes between railroads and their employees. Compulsory _arbitration_ of _all_ disputes between labour and capital is as improbable as compulsory arbitration of _all_ disputes between nations, but the compulsory _investigation_ of all disputes (before lockout or strike) will come as soon as the Golden Rule--an expression of brotherhood--is adopted in industry. When each man loves his neighbour as himself all rights will be safeguarded--the rights of employees, the rights of employers and the rights of the public--that important third party that furnishes the profits for the employer and the wages for the employee. Ambition has been a disturbing factor in government. The ambitions of monarchs have overthrown governments and enslaved races. In republics, the ambitions of aspirants for office have caused revolutions and corrupted politics. No form of government is immune to the evils that flow from ambition, or proof against those who plot for their own political advancement. For this evil, too, Christ has a remedy. He changes the point of view. It seems a simple thing, but behold the transformation! "Let him who would be chiefest among you be servant of all." He makes service the measure of greatness. This is one of the most important of the many great doctrines taught by the Saviour. It puts the accent on _giving_ instead of _getting_; it measures a life by the _outflow_ rather than by the _income_. Men had been in the habit of estimating their greatness by the amount of service they could coerce or buy; Christ taught them to measure their greatness by service rendered to others. A wonderful transformation will take place in this old world when all are animated by a desire to contribute to the public good rather than by an ambition to absorb as much as possible from society. Brot
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