ns automatically extreme reactionaries and extreme revolutionists
in industry in getting what they want through the Put-Through Clan, will
have to stand further down the queue than others.

I am only speaking for myself of course, as one person, as
representative--possibly more possibly less of others in the Clan. Any
scintilla or fleck of truth I can pick off from a revolutionary, I take
but I will not take him. The same is true of a standpatter or
reactionary. I want to know all he knows. If I take his truth I can use
it, if I take him I will find him cumbersome. Life is too short to spend
ten hours on him when ten minutes would do as much with some one who
could listen or converse or with whom one could exchange thoughts and
actions instead of papal bulls, orders and explosions.

People who do not listen--extreme reactionaries and extreme
revolutionists, really ought, in getting the attention and the backing
they want in the Put-Through Clan, to have what comes last and what is
left over from the day's work.

It is only fair that people should get attention in proportion as a
little attention goes a great way.

If people do not listen it takes too much time to deal with them. Besides
which, of course, giving what they want to people who do not listen--to
people who in the very face of it, cannot be trusted to notice or
consider others--people who are always getting up and going out, who move
in an idle thoughtless rut of ultimatums, is dangerous.

People who are in the mood and the habit of ultimatums will naturally be
picked out by the Put-Through Clan as the last people they will hurry
with.

Extreme reactionaries and extreme revolutionaries apparently will have to
be carried and supported by society, kept on as it were on the spiritual
town farm or under surveillance, or in the workhouse or slave pen of
thinking they prefer, until they can come out and listen and treat the
rest of us as fellow human beings.

* * * * *

On the same principle of time economy and of being fair to all, the
Put-Through Clan will find itself coming to its decisions and giving its
backing to people--to capital groups and labor groups in proportion as
they are spirited.

The people who give the most return on the investment--the people who
give the most quick thorough and spirited response--in the general
interests of a world that is waiting to be decent must be the ones who
shall be wai