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...believe that the effect of great discoveries and inventions of machinery has provided an injury to working classes as a whole. But the effect of the growth of the factory system and the division of labor was to place the workman at a disadvantage by depriving him of all control over the conditions of his employment. With this change has come the remedy of organization among laborers, for only by organization could workmen bargain on equal terms with capitalist employers. Under the influence of old economic principles, society and all its forces combined to crush labor organizations...
...assumed that combinations of employers had done harm to laborers, yet they had not at all. It was only through such combinations that great capitalistic projects could be realized. This large employment of capital made increased demand for labor. Second, he had assumed that association of employers can control wages. But if wages are anywhere, put higher than what exist elsewhere, prices must also rise, the sale of goods will fall off, and the result of these inflated wages will inevitably be to throw workmen out of employment. Third, he had assumed that there was a necessary antagonism between employers...
...members of the Faculty chiefly interested have asked the advice of a number of representative college men, showing that no step will be taken which is not likely to meet the approval of all college men. It is plainly not the desire of these members of the Faculty to control the conferences, but simply to establish them and then trust to student control...
...this mode of treatment which calls out the best actions from students. It is a pleasure to know that men in the Faculty are sincerely sympathetic; it is a great pleasure to know that they believe in the worth of student judgement and their powers of control...
...Annexation is unnecessary. - (a) Present treaty secures all rights: Nation, above. - (b) Annexation would not alter trade relations. - (c) No danger of foreign control. - (1) England does not want Hawaii. - (2) Hawaiian sympathies are with the U. S. - (d) We do not need Hawaii as a stronghold...