28 THE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERICANISM 



government war material, have struck and quit work 

 for an increased wage. How can one reconcile this 

 act at this moment with a high degree of patriotism, 

 for which the unions have been constantly given credit 

 since the war began ? 



From the farmers' standpoint, the loyalty of organ- 

 ized labor has only reached the effervescent stage. 

 There is no distillate of the true spirit of patriotism. 

 Patriotism is the love of country. The universal 

 measure of love, whether of country or of kin, is sac- 

 rifice. Working under the most favorable conditions, 

 the shortest days, and for the highest wage ever paid 

 to manual labor in the world's history, with frequent 

 strikes, does not, in the opinion of the farmers, con- 

 stitute sacrifice. 



