each industry in such a way as to drive the worst ones out. Probably from
a publicity point of view the best way to do would be for the League to
pick out the nine best factories in the country in which the laborers
have a working understanding and a practical listening arrangement with
their employers, and help the laborers in these nine factories advertise
to other laborers in the country, at specific times and places, and to
capital throughout the country, how they like it. One factory in ten, if
necessary, could be selected for national discipline. A notorious factory
could be picked out in which the laborers had the worst listening
arrangement, and in which both the employers and employees were imposing
upon each other to their own detriment and the detriment of their
customers the most; and could be publicly disciplined by the National
League acting through its local clubs everywhere. Cooperating with nine
factories and disciplining one would be my idea of the best way to get
results. All that would need to be done would be to make a list of all
the industries in the country and keep the buyers of the country informed
about them through the local Clubs.

Industrial democracy is coming in this country one industry at a time.
Each industry is going to work out its own salvation by emancipating and
freeing the hands of the men who can run it best in the interests of the
public--that is, run it with the lowest prices to the public, the highest
prices to the wage earners, and a surplus for improvements, inventions
and experiments in rendering its product of more service to all.

I am not in favor of having capitalists try to convince labor as a class,
nor having labor try to convince capital as a class. The skilled labor
which has been convinced by capital should convince the others through
the services of twenty thousand local Clubs, and skilled capital which
has succeeded in being believed in by its labor will do the same in
convincing other capital.

XIX

MAKING A RIGHT START

It will be seen that the idea I have in mind might be imagined as a kind
of civic federation club, a super-consumers' league, and a
super-advertising club rolled into one. Rolling these three ideas into
one is a temperament, and the men who are full of the vision of what can
be done with them rolled into one, and of what is the matter with them if
they are not rolled into one, must be the controlling powers in the new
organizatio