nizing a national "I will if you will" between capital and labor. The
men who produce with their minds will say to those who work with their
hands, "We will agree to take less profits and reduce the prices that you
pay for goods, if you will agree to take less wages and produce more."

Capital will say to labor, "If you will produce ten per cent more, we
will scale down prices, make your dollar buy twenty per cent more. For
every sacrifice by which you make a dollar buy more, we will make twice
the sacrifice."

Having a larger margin and more time to think things out than men who
work with their hands have to think things out, many employers are going
to feel that it is up to them not to ask their men to do anything they do
not do twice as much of themselves. They will have machinery for being
confidential with the men and for letting the men see they are doing it.

Instead of having everybody rushing wildly around organizing to say "I
won't if you won't" we will arrange to have a hundred thousand picked
capitalists and picked laboring men in ten thousand cities, who will set
going everywhere a huge public voluntary national "I WILL IF YOU WILL."

Instead of proceeding from now on to assume that we are a mean people in
America, and making larger and more handsome arrangements for being
meaner than ever, still mightier engines for bracing against each other,
we will turn to all together and make in the next four years a machine
together that will express our better natures as well as our present one
does our worst ones.

There is one thing we propose to stand out for and that we do not intend
to be wheedled out of, in our next two political conventions and during
our next President's next four years, and that is that our two great
machines in this country, our industrial one and our political one, shall
be taken out of the hands of men who are fooled about themselves and who
will not listen to others.

We do not believe that there is anything essentially the matter with what
is called our capitalistic system or our labor union system except
men--the men who think they belong in the front ranks of capital and the
front ranks of labor.

The scared men and the men who are fooled about themselves in politics
and business and who are trying to fool the rest of us, who are trying to
make a great, simple, clean-hearted, clear-eyed, generous country like
ours look and act every few weeks or every few days as if all the peo