The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 8

.- him to live off the fruits of the labor of the people. : When you speak of our Meat Kings and our Railway Kings and our Coal Barons, did it ever occur to you that those names represent real facts? The stage now reached in industrial life is distinctly feudal and monarchic. The wealthiest businesses in recent years have been organized and run on autocratic lines. The Kaiser and the American profiteer are chums. Both are doing their utmost to prevent a victory for democracy. Here at home the exploiters’ war-game is played with dollars, and not with men and cannon. Time was when the captains of industry had a docile army of producers who never questioned the right of those who ordered them about. That’s where the profiteer got his idea of divine right. Like the Kaiser, he imagines that heaven designed THE BATTLE FOR HUMAN FREEDOM HAS TO BE FOUGHT ALL OVER AGAIN, AND WITH NEW WEAPONS. After economic autocracy, what? The answer to all Nonparti- sans is clear: INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY. - We Americans long have had a POLITICAL DEMOCRACY. And we thought that was all that was hecessary. Tradition held us : PAGE EIGHT el R L 2 R RGN A 7 e A e et et e T e e A N S e AP oS ek by o b e back, while the government of our states was handed over to politi- cians who enter into politics simply because they can get something out of it for themselves. The people have paid the bills in the shape of high tlaxes altlndzeyf)cessive pz('lices. 2 ile we have been guar ing our POLITICAL democéracy, our - INDUSTRIAL democracy disappeared. Monopolies and 'wa)s'teful middlemen stole it away. Only lately have we discovered that the = | right to vote means nothing unless it is wisely used. = ltsil thle‘;e a single political issue before the American people today? oth o get the offices. The contest that is being waged by the Nonparti- san league is more economic than politieal. trial democracy it means to insure that industries will be conducted: by and for the people. ; be carried on, not for the sake of that production, or for the privi- LR lege which wealth secures, but for the sake of the people. 3 Already the_ transition from autocracy to democracy has begun. e German kaiser is slipping beneath the waves of the world’s ~ wrath, still defiant. The profiteering kaisers here are panic stricken and helpless. SR gt S —Drawn, expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris In supporting indus- This means, or course, that production will s CAN'T YOU HEAR THEM SQUEAL? /