The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they wantLee, Gerald Stanley
Philosophy
The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want
Lee, Gerald Stanley
Democracy; United States -- Politics and government
But the People Who Eat Meat in America have no whisper. In other words,
it is because Mr. Doe's employers are absolutely dumb, and Mr. Doe is
absolutely deaf to any one except his employers, that two pairs of shoes
are not enough for the workmen's children.
It is for the purpose of letting the People Who Eat Meat in
America--whisper and learn to whisper in this country that the new League
organized to operate as a kind of People's Advertising Guild or
Consumers' Advertising Club, with its national office in New York and its
local branches in ten thousand towns and cities, now offers its services
to all people who eat meat in America.
The employers of America have organized to do anything with their
business, and anything with their workmen, and anything with the country
that they like.
The workmen of America have organized to do now, and are deliberately
planning to do anything with their work, and anything with their
employers, and anything with the country that they like.
The new national League is now to be organized as the voice of the
American people, as the whisper of the will of the consumer in every
industry in America.
The people to get the attention of employers are the employers of the
employers.
Every civil war we are having in this country can be settled and the
attention of the fighters on both sides can be got, and the country can
work as one man in making democracy safe for the world, the moment the
employers of the employers whisper.
* * * * *
The way I would like to end this chapter--with the blanks filled in, of
course, would be this.
Anybody who wants to be a part of this whisper, who knows of any industry
he would like to see a whisper from the people tried in, or who wishes as
an Associate Member to join the Air Line League--a League for the direct
action of the people in what concerns them all, is invited to send five
dollars as membership fee and his name and address, to ----, Treasurer
National Office of The Air Line League, Number ---- Street, New York.
But the chapter cannot end in this way.
This is merely the pattern of the way I would like to have it end later,
and while I have put the name--The Air Line League--down and am going to
use it for the convenience of this book, I only do so, leaving it open to
the people who have the vision of The League and who put the vision into
action, to change the name if they want to.
XI
THE RIGHT TO WHISPER TOGETHER
Every man like all Gaul is divided into three parts. He is an employee of
somebody, an employer of somebody, and a consumer.
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