“You are wrong!” is the increasing answer of the increasing multitude of the increasingly intelligent members of the working class. The kings of capitalism will come down. They must. The working class will go up—to industrial democracy. They must. This will be progress. IF DESPOTISM IS ALL WRONG IN POLITICS, IT CAN NOT BE ALL RIGHT IN INDUSTRY. INCREASING DEMOCRACY IS ON THE INCREASING PROGRAM OF MANKIND. The master of ceremonies is the _political party_ of the working _class_ to secure, to inaugurate, to “render the next number on the program,”—industrial democracy. This is the “road to power.” Forward! Forward! On!—to the last great battle in the civil war in industry. “Evolution makes hope scientific.” Evolution leads to revolution. That is a law of nature. Laws of nature cannot be ignored, suspended, amended or repealed. Learn the road to power, great splendid multitude of toilers. The world is ours just as soon as we learn the road to power. Prepare for the revolution—and Life.[187] (=10=) That there is civil war in industry under capitalism has concrete illustration in the facts of strikes and lockouts. Here are some of them for a short term of years—in our own country:— From 1881 to 1901 there were in the United States 22,793 strikes, which involved 117,509 establishments, threw 6,105,694 persons out of employment for an average of 21 and 8/10 [Illustration: THE WAR IS THE CLASS WAR ] days, lost these workers in wages $257,863,478, consumed $16,174,793 in assistance from labor organizations, and lost to the employers over $122,731,121. Of these strikes less than 51 per cent. succeeded, slightly more than 13 per cent. partly succeeded, and over 36 per cent. failed altogether. During these same years there were 1,005 lockouts which involved 9,933 establishments, threw 504,307 persons out of employment for an average of 97 days, lost $48,819,745 in wages, cost $3,451,745 in assistance from labor organizations, lost for the employers $19,927,983. About 51 per cent. of these lockouts succeeded, less than 7 per cent. partly succeeded, and about 43 per cent. failed.[188] “In legalizing labor wars,” says Waldo F. Cook,[189] “the state virtually recognizes industrial classes as belligerents; and enough time has now elapsed to enable one to say that the long series of these wars and their highly probable continuance for an indefinite period under present conditions, establishes the presumption that the wage-system is a failure and must sometime be replaced by another, which will not produce industrial classes with hostile interests and exacerbate society by their class antagonisms and hates. For the labor war, no less than the war between nations, cultivates prejudice, bitterness and hatred—only these feelings affect classes within a nation rather than the nations themselves in their relations with each other.... Law makes violence by nations right; law makes violence by strikes wrong.”