In America, Public Opinion Is The Leader

Our Idea Of What Constitutes Social Good Has Advanced With The Procession Of The Ages, From Those Desperate Times When Just To Keep Body And Soul Together Was An Achievement, To The Great Present When "good" Includes An Agreeable, Stable Civilization Accessible To All, The Opportunity Of Each To Develop His Particular Genius And The Privilege Of Mutual Usefulness.

To One Who Believes That Really Good Industrial Conditions Are The Hope For A Machine Civilization, Nothing Is More Heartening Than To Watch Conference Methods And Education Replacing Police Methods

But With The Slow Menace Of A Glacier, Depression Came On. No One Had Any Measure Of Its Progress; No One Had Any Plan For Stopping It. Everyone Tried To Get Out Of Its Way.

Out Of Our First Century Of National Life We Evolved The Ethical Principle That It Was Not Right Or Just That An Honest And Industrious Man Should Live And Die In Misery. He Was Entitled To Some Degree Of Sympathy And Security. Our Conscience Declared Against The Honest Workman's Becoming A Pauper, But Our Eyes Told Us That He Very Often Did.

You Can Always Get Sympathy By Using The Word Small. With Little Industries You Feel As You Do About A Little Puppy.