﻿I do not see any difference between the two major platforms—vote for one you vote for all. Both have registered their “say so” and congress, composed of both, proceeds to twindle its thumbs. Before the snow flics Democrats will deny they built a Frankenstein. Republicans will repudiate the steamroller—the octopus will loosen its grip on the people’s counterweight and deny all knowledge as to “who belongs to that boodle”.— A lot of wealth is going to be without visible ownership and it is expected , the working class will be requested to take charge. To obtain benefit from congress, workers must have a majority in both houses and in supreme court. To obtain benefit from union, workers must have majority “on the job”—a majority of two, the boss being expected to vote no. (Ibelieve in giving the boss a vote—only one vote though—that’s how strong I feei this morning. Let him try some of this ballotting business—see how he comes out. Did I hear somebody say “industrial democracy us against industrial slavery?” Might be something to that? Not a bad idea at all! Let me understand this, your idea is to do away with industrial autocracy, is that it? (I won’t call it industrial tyranny.) Well, well, well! Send it following Kaiser Bill, Nick the Tsar and Alfonso the Great? Won’t that be a red letter day in Labor’s history! 
The Iast and worst autocracy, the boss, gets his walking papers but . . . 
I’m afraid it would ruin the aristocracy. 
Yeah! The mob might vote them a job cracking rock. Now, I don’t know how you stand on this: you are either intelligent or ignorant? 
All the great statesmen swear up and down you are intelligent and respectfully request you to drop your vote in their box—even haul you to the polls if your hind feet are big and clumsy. 
On the other hand the boss says you’re just a common dubb and refuses to let you vote in the establishment he runs and that labor built. Not only that, but if you open your trap he will have you condemned to the Siberia of unemployment or to hunt another autocrat to bow to; and your ears better not be sticking up too much. 
Which is it, intelligent or ignorant? 
If the politicians are wrong, and after all you’re just a nut, ‘then the industrial autocrats are perfectly within their rights in denying your voice, vote and volition in the affairs of production and politicians have committed the crime against society by letting you vote on any ticket. But if the bosses are wrong, and you’re a smart guy, then the politicians have performed a great service for their country by allowing you to exercise your suffrage and bosses have committed a crime against you themselves and society by denying you the freedom of expression, proposal and determination through the ballot in industrial matters, establishing thereby industrial slavery. 
Statesmen say you’re bright, bosses say you’re dull—now which is it? 
I feel we ought to have more testimony on this—those birds have spoken their piece and it’s a tie vote. 
I think I’ll let Labor vote on this question, to break the deadlock and, I have every confidence in their ability to decide the question fairly, that is. I don’t think any of them will head for a bughouse. 
 
My personal opinion is the best people have least brains—a smattering of knowledge on the complex and none at all on the obvious. 
 
Ratio: it takes a bushel of complex understanding to make an ounce of wisdom—it’s light stuff, light gold. Let us see, where were we at? We were discussing democracy in the industries, were we not? Same as democracy in the politics, were we not? We were. 
Well, sir, democracy in politics is only half the bicycle. Where is the other half? 
Ah, brethren and case-hardened sinners, industrial democracy in the end eclipses the miles—and to think all these years we have tried to win this race with a pair of handle-bars. 
All right, let us bring these two together— it stands to reason, a country cannot be both autocratic and democratic and survive the resultant depressions. It’s got to be free or slave—the best people believe it should be slave, and rip up every instrument of enslavment from disfranchisement to vagrancy laws. 
Labor is yet to be heard from, and when they get their own big union warmed up, the slaveholders may learn something to their benefit. 
The plenty for all shall be distributed to all—and over-expansion shall not be the means of throwing away substance, to be followed by an age of up-keep cost for a useless establishment, a paranoiac’s dream. Sense shall prevail.—T-b S.