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...going on the greatest railroad strike ever called, a strike that nothing in the world can avert now, because it is a fight for life or death of the labor organizations. . . . We are not entering into the struggle with closed eyes...
...declared that they would never give them up until they got full control; and though allowance had to be made for the familiar difficulty of moderate leaders who had to talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled by a mixed commission. Whereupon the factories are to be restored, and the loud talk subsides because it is no longer needed...
...gentlemen have had the benefit of a military training. You have learned the need of self-sacrifice and co-operation. If we are to avert the danger of materialism, it will be due to your efforts. You men are to meet the greatest need and the greatest opportunity. It can be met only by a spirit of co-operation...
...order to avert accusations of heresy or originality, we wish to submit two suggestions: (1) that these intimations of direction for the educational process emanating from spiritual development of personality as depending on material opportunities, so recently extant in the columns of the CRIMSON, be hereafter and henceforth so limited in their crass materialism as at no time to exceed two paragraphs not more than one inch in length, and a postscript of not more than one monosyllabic sentence. (2) that the reason for the overemphasis of the philosophy of Mr. Isidor Lazarus be made the subject for further exposition...
...avert accusations of heresy or originality permit me to add that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...