Tfcr RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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war, and there is worse trouble now and 
always will be till the thing is settled and 
settled right. 
Why Wrong? —Why doesn’t our so- 
called wage system work? The industrial 
world seems to be honeycombed with ill- 
will. distrust, and suspicion. The work¬ 
ing man imagines all sorts of things being 
put over on him behind the glass doors 
of the office. lie imagines the company 
is coining all sorts of money out of his 
labor. He knows he has nothing to say 
about the hours of work, or whether the 
shop will shut down altogether or not. 
Some years ago a big local ■ tory shut 
down for the Summer. The head man in 
it spent the time touring Europe, in an 
automobile, while the employes could 
“root hog or die” while he was gone. It 
is stated as a fact that the British soldiers 
in the trenches were much more concerned 
about the status of the working man when 
they got home than they were about lick¬ 
ing the Germans. 
Democracy. —A man enjoys a certain 
amount of democracy in politics—he can 
cast his vote for the candidate he prefers, j 
lie enjoys a certain amount of democracy: 
in school matters—he can attend the dis¬ 
trict meeting and express his opinion and; 
cast his vote. But when it comes to his 
work, in which he puts his life, day after 
day, and on which hit* life depends, he 
has nothing to say. Even if he is assured 
that he is getting his share of the earn¬ 
ings. he wants a voice in the manage¬ 
ment—a chance for his self-expression. 
How we are going to bring about demo¬ 
cracy in industry is a thing that probably 
no one knows just now, but a thing that 1 
practically all thinkers admit has got to 
come about. The days of secret big busi¬ 
ness are past. Is it too much to say that 
the day of the old-time wage system is 
doomed, too? 
The Place of the Church. —What 
can the church do with all this? If she 
holds the solution for all ills, why not! 
out with it? Everybody wants it, and 
wants it now. The church cannot solve 
the details of the problem. In the first 
place, it is not her business, and in the 
second place she does not know enough 
in that line. But she can point out with 
perfect confidence and assurance the 
principles which must underlie its ulti¬ 
mate solution. No permanent structure 
of society can possibly be built except on 
the basis of common brotherhood, of a 
common service and a square deal. God 
made the world to go on together, to 
make progress along all lines, hand in 
hand. The fellow who is getting ahead 
is to stop and look back down the line. ] 
and when he sees some far in the rear he 
is to pause and go back after them and: 
fetch them up. Somehow the social para¬ 
site must become a producer. The grasp¬ 
ing and greedy must become generous: 
and he that serveth must become great 
among us. 
The Third Party. —That those who 
hire and those who are hired must under¬ 
stand each other goes without saying. A 
League of Nations can never hold the 
world together unless those that comprise 
it strive to understand each other and 
appreciate each other’s viewpoint. Many 
industrial plants are running on a co¬ 
operative and fairly democratic basis 
when a representative of organized labor 
blows in. Avhom the men never heard of 
and the office never saw, and begins to 
dictate what shall be done and what shall 
not be done. From what the Parson can 
learn from sincere men who study this 
thing all the time, this third party prob¬ 
lem is the most difficult one just now to 
be solved. The Steel Corporation will 
confer and deal with its own men. but it 
will not be dictated to or have its business 
managed by this third party. If you are 
doing well by your hired man and he is 
doing well and contented, and the neigh¬ 
bor’s hired man persists in stirring him 
up till at last he quits you in silo time 
and goes off to the city, how do you feel 
about it? 
A Fictitious Character. —The Par¬ 
son has just had a letter asking if he is 
a fictitious character or a real character. 
The writer adds that she herself con¬ 
siders him very real and very much alive. 
Many have tend her that all his letters 
are just made up to make interesting 
reading. The Parson is glad to know 
that they are, at least, interesting. Some¬ 
thing like the above occurred one day 
after he had spoken at n Grange meeting. 
A woman rushed up and begged him to 
come out and speak to her father, who 
was waiting outside in his buggy. “He 
never hat? believed it could be true that 
anyone would really live in his day to do 
the things in connection with the churches 
that you do.” He, too, thought the whole 
thing must be made up. 
Real and Lasting. —The Parson be¬ 
lieves that this kind of work is not only 
real, but it; going to be lasting in the • 
churches that try it. It. is the real thing. 
Those ministers who walk around as 
though they had a ramrod down their 
back and go through the same mechanical 
and perfunctory duties week after week 
are not real ministers at all. And the 
churches who dingdong along in the same 
old way with the same old handful, tick-! 
eted right through to the Golden Gate, 
are not real churches at all. That people! 
are more and more waking up to this 
kind of real salvation was strikingly illus¬ 
trated the other day when a man who was 
there wrote the Parson that one of his 
Rural New-Yorker letters had been read 
aloud last Winter at a conference of the 
clergy of Loudou aud the Board of Agri¬ 
culture. 
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