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HUGHKH, THE STABILIZED.
Justice Hughes speech before the
Detroit employers will be taken by
many as a noble plea for labor. It
is rather an important discovery to
have made that while labor is an
economic unit, the worker is also a
human being, and must be treated
as such.
We believe that however recent
may have been Judge Hughes per
sonal discovery of this, formula for
the stabilization of society, he Is
simply re-hashing a point of view
long ago promulgated by the own
ers of chattel slaves as the Christian
aspect of slave-holding, and it was
quite the thing witli ethical slave
holders to preach that the owners
should remember that while a slave
was a chattel, it was also a human
being.
It would appear rather a late day
therefore, to come before the Amer
ican people with this re-hash us
anything in the way of a new doc
trine; and it almost is a certainty
that the workers themselves would
much prefer that some positive
means were had of curbing the driv
ing propensities of employers, than
to trust in the tender mercies of
educating them up to the slave own
ing idealism that after all they
were human Wings and had to be
treated as such.
We see no reason for an imme
diate cessation upon the part of
labor for its efforts to better itselt
because Hughes, the social stabil
izer, makes himself the mouthpiece
of a renovated slave doctrine of the
social relations between employer
and employee. And it is very po
sitively to he stated that those who
do relax their efforts and live upon
the hopes of a beneficient employ
ing class doing what the workers
should do to help themselves, they
like as not will die fasting.
There are few employers who do
not grasp the fact that their work
ers are entitled, as Hughes said, to
every industrial , consideration
short of any such consideration as
is likely to interfere with the pro
fitable operation of the business.
And it is within this strict limita
tion that the activities of an up
lifting nature upon the part of em
ployers and employers associations
for that end, are allowed to operate
Neither Hughes nor any man will
be able to predicate a state of
society where justice intereferes with
the profitably operations of those in
control. And usually, there is hard
ly an exception, when profitable ope
rations are allowed to be interfered
with, It is because such as are,
would if allowed to continue,
menace the entire profit system and
prudence curtails an otherwise un
restricted exploitation.
Indeed Hughes himself admits as
much, for he intimates that good
buslnes enterprise and industrial ex
pansion necessitate the workers re
ceiving such industrial considera
tion. It is elementary prudence to
feed the goose that lay* the golden
egg and the folly of humanity is
typified in the gentleman who kil
led the valuable bird.
Industrial expansion and business
enterprise is in reality the reason
for all reforms. And the welfare
workers when beseeching employers
for financial aid or for sympathetic
support do so deliberately with the
reason candidly advanced that it is
for their benefit that such reforms
be effected.
But there is no such thing involv
ed as justice. No such question is
Involved as right and wrong. But
the consequences are foretold and
it is declared that they may be dis
astrous, and the fear of the hell ol
industrial revolution is the dictator
of reformist action, rather than is
it inspired by the heaven of social
justice.
It is a question whether or not
welfare work will prevent the ulti
mate prevalence of Industrial and
social justice. It certainly will re
tard it. What hastens the improve
ment in conditions for labor is per
petual agitation and economic dis
content. The strife that Hughes con
demns and which he without doubt
fears for its social consequences is
the main hope of Labor. Economic
discontent is the symptom which
manifests the disease within the
body politic. It is the revolt of the
system against the poison of indus
trial injustice, and without it, the
world would degenerate to a condi
tion of social gangrene or the diy
rot of social decay.
It is manifest in every ago that
those who agitated were those who
led to progress. The conservatives
and the followers of laisses faire;
the reactionists or the stand pats
were those who believed that the
world had reached the ultinu thule
of advancement, and because they
were free, saw freedom everywhere
because they were well off and well
favored saw prosperity and good
fortune and happiness everywhere.
The idea of sfand patism
in America today would be
repugnant to any acute sense of jus
ti-e.4’ That that sense is not enter
tallied is due to ignorance o' condi
tions, of the social facts, and the ac
tual effects of actual causes are
ignored .or forgotten and unappreci
ated.
And it would he very difficult to
conceive a more nauseating concept
of things than that the slaves be
better tended so that a master class
may reap millions from their busi
ness enterprise and industrial ex
pansion.
it is the same idea of feeding up
the stall fed steer that it may get
a better price for its owner in the
cattle market or of treating the
chattel slave with some regard for
human decency so that he will pick
a little more cotton or plough a
few more acres than if he was lash
ed from morn until night. The
workers idea of their status can
have no possible thing in common
with the Hughes idea. The work
ers status must be founded upon
the status written long ago as fun
damental. the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness—not
as a favor from some magnate con
trolling business enterprise and
making way for industrial expan
sion, but as an idividual, undeni
able right: a right to be maintained
at all costs even at the costs of re
rebellion against the government
or the power that provides a con
trary concept of human justice and
human liberty. This is American
ism. It is the Americanism that is
embodied in the Declaration of In
dependence, and remarkably enough
that document did not consider it ol
importance to provide that human
rights to life, liberty and happiness
were worthy because of other per
son’s business enterprise or indus
trial expansion being otherwise jeo
pardized, but, because it was an in
ate right upon the part of the indi
vidual citizen.
The best that the workers gel
from capitalist parties is such ai
emasculate justice as is championed
for the stabilization ol’ society by
Justice Hughes. The end is stabi
iization, not anything else but a me
chanical stability wherein industria
activities can still be pursued anc
millions reaped by those who own
from the toil of those who do not.
But stabilization itself is no very
worthy idea. China has been the
embodiment of stabilization. Ther<
peaceful conditions reigned, anc
the established order prevailed foi
thousands of years. Reaction oi
stand patism was a materialized faci
there, and throughout the entire
world there was no such a reaction
ary, ignorant and hapless nation.
The great periods of a nation’!
history were usually the period!
when stabilization was smashed tc
pieces in an effort to prevent the
crystalization of reactionary tyran
nies; and what we owe to all peo
ples, we owe to the fact that they
preferred strife and struggle and
agitation and war and battle to sub
mission to the stabilization tha;
favored only the few and ignored
the many.
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