as long as our competitive system of industry endures.
Democracy has been ousted from industry by autocracy, and, as our political institutions are but a reflection of our industrial institutions, we should not pretend that anything but a sham democratic political state remains. When we see imperialism, which is simply political autocracy, expressing itself in the Philippines or in the bullpen for the Idaho miners, we should not stultify ourselves by striving to prevent a result without first attacking the cause.
The trade-unionists pure and simple, the anti-imperialists, the would-be destroyer of trusts are all right sentimentally, but are too limited in their vision. This nation has the mightiest task cut out before it that the world has ever set to perform. The ship of state is in the Niagara above the falls. It is not yet too late to sail down into the quiet waters of socialistic Ontario around the rapids and the terrible falls if we only have the patience and brains to cut our political Welland canal. Delay is most dangerous. That we shall finally get into our metaphorical Ontario is absolutely certain. The only question is shall we go over the falls or through the canal. Now is the time, if ever, when this country needs earnest men who know the truth and are not afraid to cry it from the housetops. Once let us get into the rapids and nothing can
