and partnership based upon a real community of interest and participation in control. . . . Labor legislation lies, of course, chiefly with the States; but the new spirit and method of organization which must be effected are not to be brought about by legislation so much as by the common counsel and voluntary coöperation of capitalist, manager, and workman. Legislation can go only a very little way in commanding what shall be done. . . . Those who really desire a new relationship between capital and labor can readily find a way to bring it about; and perhaps Federal legislation can help more than State legislation could. The object of all reform in this essential matter must be the genuine democratization of industry, based upon a full recognition of the right of those who work, in whatever rank, to participate in some organic way in every decision which directly affects their welfare or the part they are to play in industry. Some positive legislation is practicable. The Congress has already shown the way to one reform which should be world wide, by establishing the eight-hour day as the standard day in every field of labor over which it can exercise control. It has sought to find the way to prevent child labor, and will, I hope and believe, presently find it. It has served the whole community by leading the way in developing the means of preserving and safeguarding life and health in dangerous industries. It can now help in the difficult task of giving a new form and spirit to industrial organization. . . . Agencies of international counsel and suggestion are presently to be created in connection with the League of Nations in this very field [see preceding extract]; but it is national action and the enlightened policy of individuals, corporations, and societies within each nation that must bring about the actual reforms. The members of the committees on labor in the two houses will hardly need suggestions from me as to what means they shall seek to make the Federal Government the agent of the whole nation in pointing out, and, if need be, guiding the process of reorganization and reform. A B C Powers, 575 INDEX Abolitionists, 301 f., 318 f., 319 n., Aceldama, 33 n. Adams, Charles Francis, 419, Adams, John, 138n.; envoy in Paris, Adams, John Quincy, 247; ulti- Alabama, 400 f., 435 Alabama, the, 473 f., 478 Alaska, 480 Albany, 51, 90, 92 f., 95 325 n. Albany plan of union, the, 94 f. Alexander, General E. P., 425 f. n. 4 American army in France, 584 f. Bacon, Francis, 236 Bacon, Nathaniel, 30 f. Baltimore, 243, 286, 365 f. Bancroft, George, 328 n. 2, 332 f. Bank, National, 245, 267 Barbados, 49 Barlow, Joel, 204 f. Barron, James, 224, 227 Bates, Edward, 385 f. and n. Bede, the Venerable, 5 Berkeley, Admiral, 226 n. Bernard, Governor Francis, 124 Blair, Francis P., 385 Blair, Montgomery, 437 n. Blockade, proclamation of, 410 Boston, Mass., 48 f., 114, 212, 240, Bowman, Captain Joseph, 148 f., Bradford, Governor William, 34, Bradshawe, John, 27 Bragg, General Braxton, 508 Breckenridge, J. C., 209 Bright, John, 417 f., 418 n., 475 Bryan, William J., 542 f., 577 f. Bull Run, 414 Burgoyne, General John, 143 Burton, Thomas E., 562 Butler, General B. F., 413 n., 423, Byrd, Colonel William, 99 n. Callender, Guy S., 305, 306 n. Camden, Lord Chancellor, 121 n. Canada, 88 n., 92, 107, 259, 351, Canning, George, 260, 324 and n., Canning, Stratford, 306 n. 2 Cape Diamond, 104 Cape of Eleven Thousand Virgins, Clark, George Rogers, 148 f., 218n. in election of 1824, 255 f.; criti- Cobb, Howell, 352, 394 f., 398 f., Cobden, Richard, 418 n., 475 Colon, 557 f. Colonies, American, 72 f., 77 f., Colton, Reverend Walter, 335 Columbia River and valley, 212 and n., 259 f., 323 f. Columbus, 4 f., 9 f., 22 Columbus, Diego, 9 Columbus, New Mexico, 574 on, 192 f.; violated, 206 f.; ex- Continental Congress, 115 Cooper Institute speech, 378, 381 Coxe, Tench, 166 f., 168 n. Crawford, William H., 255 f. Cuba, 16, 304, 353 f., 547 f., 550 Danckaerts, Jasper, 82 Davis, Jefferson, 378, 430 f., 436 f., Dawson, Sarah M., 421 f. Day, William R., 550 Deane, Silas, 118, 142, 144 Depew, Chauncey M., 518 n. De Tocqueville, Alexis, 265, 309 f. |