318 ROBERT H. THURSTON 



The remedies for conditions producing economic ineffi- 

 ciency and industrial anarchy, for moral degeneration and 

 social disorder, are as simple as are the conditions themselves 

 and the causes from which they spring. These remedies may 

 be readily applied and made thoroughly successful provided 

 they are prescribed and enforced by wise, honest, determined, 

 and patriotic men. The primary necessity in their applica- 

 tion is an intelligent body politic; the next requirement is 

 representation of the people by their best element and the 

 construction of legislative bodies of wise, honest, determined, 

 and patriotic representatives of the people. The final neces- 

 sity is power to enforce the will of the well meaning and intelli- 

 gent majority by legal and peaceful ways, when practicable, 

 and by force if need be. The mob must be made powerless, 

 the people all powerful. Disorder and crime must be prompt- 

 ly and sternly repressed and the natural and legal rights of 

 every member of society, however humble or weak, assured 

 against the criminal, the selfish, and the ignorant and foolish 

 rebel against law and order. Educational remedies for the 

 industrial diseases are found in the extension of the public 

 school system throughout the whole nation and in the im- 

 provement of the system as a means of spreading throughout 

 the whole mass of the people an intelligent apprehension of the 

 principles bearing upon industrial questions and of the facts 

 which are revealed by experience and by the history of our 

 own and earlier times, illustrating the results, good and bad, 

 of correct and of incorrect industrial methods. It is the com- 

 mon school system upon which we have learned to mainly 

 rely to secure a general and liberal culture amongst the people, 

 sufficient at least to enable the responsible citizen to under- 

 stand and intelligently to vote upon the questions of the day 

 in politics and in economics. The improvement of this sys- 

 tem also insures a more efficient body of teachers for the next 

 generation of children, for the teachers are mainly supplied 

 by the common school system of education rather than by 

 the colleges and universities. If these teachers are earnest 

 and patriotic and intelligent and well informed, the next 

 generation is likely to be similarly earnest, patriotic, and in- 

 telligent and well informed. If the race of teachers is improv- 



