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which, thank God, is still numU-reil amongst our 

 proudesPt assets ! The briefest stmly of Mr. Vize- 

 telly's book proves conclusively that " stern repres- 

 sive measures " are followed by doses of dynamite 

 which these fierce surgeons deem to be a sjieciJic 

 against that distenijx-r of law and order from 

 which we suffer. Vou may not argue with Anarch- 

 ism ; to liullv is useless, to reason equally vain. 

 What, then, remains? Nothing short of the perfect 

 way. Society beliexes in wajr and bloodshed ; the 

 Anarchist is a man tif |)eace. Society believes in 

 the chiicanejy anil stupidity of the law ; the Anarch- 

 ist seeks to avoid that fir.st-born of the father of 

 lies. Society helitnes in the lirm hajid of authoritv ; 

 the Anarchist knows that hand to be cruel ; he 

 Would restore Kden, even though to do so he would 

 plimge us all into hell. 



Whether w<- l)elie\e and endure, or accept a com- 

 promise or nukeshift, our Anarchist friend (for in 

 theory he is no man's enemy) knows a la^itter wav. 

 He is the complete ideaJist of imagination all com- 

 jjact, and the task for mcxJem civilisation is to do 

 its l)est to take whatever few grains of wheat are 

 to Ik? found in these " despised and forsaken of men," 

 and winnowing the chaff from the grain, reali.se 

 something of the hopes that dimly stir the heart and 

 br.iin of the dumb millions who only become 

 -Anarchi-sts when they lose their wits. Is it not writ- 

 ten, oppression will drive even a wise man mad? 

 And many of the \octims of oppre.ssion axe far from 

 Ijeing wise to start with. 



HI.— THK AP(i.SlLK. 

 Mr. .Stanley I,ee is an .American who has an eye 

 to see and a ix,'n with which he can record what 

 he sees, and. what is more imi^rtant still, he has 

 a mind capable of ,sei-ing and interpreting the signs 

 of the times. The title of his lxx)k, " Inspired 

 Millionaires," has misled many. Inspired employ- 

 ers' managers would convey his meaning IxjCter. 

 But the title doi-.s n<< m.itter. The message of the 

 book is the main thing. That message is that we 

 stand at the |)arting of the ways. The old indi- 

 vidualism, with it^ diMtriiie of laissez fairc, and 

 " the <le\il take the hindmost," is dead and done 

 for. The devil h.is got the hindmost, and is using 

 them in the sha|K' of .Anarchists, syndicalists, and 

 the like to play tli<- d<vil with .S(jciety. 'I'he future 

 lies either wilh indivi(luali.st<<J S<x;iali' m or .socialised 

 indi\idualism. Mr. .Stanley I^ee contributed la.st 

 month to the Daily CliroiiicU and the Wistniitister 

 two articles, extracts from which will .serve my turn 

 better than any commeirts or criticisms of mv own 

 to Set forth the true inwarilness of Mr. .Staiilev 

 Ix-e's message. Spi-aking of Pierpoiu Morgan, Mr. 

 Lee says: — 



In tlio li,-K'kKrnuii(l (if my mind, n-. I see Pirrpoiit 

 MiiiKaM, tliero i» iilttiiv.s tlio man nlio will take liis 



pliico. :niil 1 iV't'l lliaL it I did not .-<■(• tlic man com- 

 ing rapidly, who is ro take Mr. Morgan's place, Mr. 

 Morgan liiinself wonid .seem to me to be a failure, a 

 di.sa.stei', a closed wall at the end of a world. The 

 man who takes Mr. Morgan's place will ju.stify Mor- 

 gan's work l).v beginning to iivet lii.s vision on the 

 world where Mr. Moriian's vi.sion leave.s off. As Jlr. 

 Morgan lia.s fused railroad.s, iron, coal, .steamships, 

 seas and cities, the next iTidnstrial leader will fuse 

 the spirits and the wills of men. The individualists 

 and the Socialists, the aristocracies and democracies, 

 the capitalists and the lal)ourers will be welded to- 

 gether, will be fu.sed and transfu.sed in this man and 

 men like him, into their ultiniate, inevitable, inex- 

 tricable mutual interests. 



The new heaven and the new earth may prove 

 to be au individualised Socialism, or it ma.y jje, as I 

 have believed, a socialised individualism, but what- 

 ever it Ls. the great common ground that is now 

 made ready for it will be largely owed by this world 

 to John Pjerpont ilorgan. 



In an admirable article in the '[Wstminslcr Gazette 

 on " The Striker as the Xew Machine for Making 

 ("rowds Think,'' Mr. Lee thus states his view of 

 the true solution of the industrial i)rol)leni. To him 

 force is no remedy — 



One cannot help being an;iered liy force, liecause 

 one knows that it is noi only a remedy, but is itself 

 the cause of all incompetence and blindness in busi- 

 ness. Force merely heaps incompetence and blind- 

 ness up, postpones co-operation, defeats the mutual 

 interest which is the very substance of business effi- 

 ciency in a nation. Force is itself the injury, mouiit- 

 in<; up more and more, which it seeks to cure, 



I'he most, likely way to prevent indu.xtrial trouble 

 would seem to be to have employers and managers 

 and foremen who have a genius tor getting men to 

 believe in them. We are getting smoke-consinners, 

 computing-macbines. and the rext contrivance is 

 going to be the employer who has the understanding 

 .spirit, and who sees the cash value of human genius, 

 the value in the market of a genius for being fair 

 and getting on with people. 



Success i.s the .science of being believed in. I'ndcr 

 present conditions, if we have in eacJi iiulustry one 

 .<jinglo (•ompet(Mit-employing firm, with brains for 

 being fair and brains for beinp; far-sighted, and for 

 being tbougblfiil for othei-s — in short, with brains 

 for bi'ing believeil in — the control of that industry 

 soon falls into their hands. 



After a reference to the taxjcab strike Mr. Lee 

 humoroti-sly suggests th.at employers should l)e com- 

 pelled to go about the world with fare recorders 

 on their b.tcks. This Ix-ing impassible — 



The only pos.sible alternative is to have in charge 

 men with enough genius for being believed in and 

 for taking nu^.'isures to be believed in to keep em- 

 ploye<\s believing in spit<> of sccrec.v. I'nder tlicwo 

 conditions it eannoi be long bifor(> we will .see in 

 every busiiuvis, on beliall of einployeis and employees 

 both, blio men being put fornard on both .sides who 

 have .'i genius for being believed in. Employers with 

 the power of in.sniring more anil better work from 

 their workmen. Labiiiir men with the power of iu- 

 spiring iiiijdoyers to believe in llii'in. inspiring em- 

 ployers to put up money, .slock, or profits on their 

 liwlief — on till- belief that workmen are <iipable of the 

 highest i|Uiilities of manlKiiMl — hard work, loyalty, 

 persistence, and fnitli toward a commiui end. 



