Socialists would meet the needs of workingmen by socialized legislation, but refuse to deal with the present state 86 At present radical changes must come from forces outside life of the people 87 Imperial governments are now concerning themselves with primitive essential needs of workingmen 88 Republics restrict functions of the government 90 Is America, in clinging to eighteenth-century traditions, losing its belief in the average man? 91 CHAPTER IV MILITARISM AND INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION American cities slow to consider immigration in relation to industry 93 Workingmen alone must regard them in relation to industrial situations 94 Assimilation of immigrants by workingman due both to economic pressure and to idealism 95 Illustrated by Stock Yards Strike 96 And by the strike in Anthracite Coal Fields 97 In the latter aroused public opinion forced Federal Government to deal with industrial conditions 98 In complicated modern society not always easy to see where social order lies 101 Chicago Stock Yards Strike illustrates such a situation 104 Government should have gained the enthusiasm immigrants gave to union 107 War element an essential part of strike 109 Appeal to loyalty the nearest approach to a moral appeal 110 Reluctance of United States Government to recognize matters of industry as germane to government 112 Resulting neglect of civic duty 113 The workingman’s attitude toward war as expressed by his international organization 114 Commerce the modern representative of conquest 116 Standard of life should be the test of a nation’s prosperity, so recognized by workingmen 117 Social amelioration undertaken by those in closest contact with social maladjustments 118 Present difficulties in social reform will continue until class interests are subordinated to a broader conception of social progress 119 If self-government were inaugurated by advanced thinkers now, they would make research into early forms of industrial governments 121