in the mass of the people is to the nation’s interests, just as much as keeping them healthy.
If unsocial or unworthy treatment of men provokes resistance, then, until the lawful judicial authorities are prepared to do away with the evil, this struggle can only be decided by the side which is strongest. It is evident, moreover, that the individual employer, sup¬ ported by the concentrated strength of his business, may have to face the united body of employees, if he is not to be compelled to give up any hope of victory from the very start.
In the course of a few decades, under the expert hand of Social Democracy, the Trades Union movement grew from being the means for protecting the social rights of man into an instrument for laying national economics in ruins. The interests of the workers were not going to count at all with the promoters of this object. For in politics the use of economic pressure always permits extortion, whenever one side is suf¬ ficiently unscrupulous and the other has sufficient stupid, sheepish patience.