Don't you suppose, Jim, that most of
the strikers think they are right?"
The man stirred uneasily. "I can't help what they think. I can consider
only the facts as they are."
"That is just what I want, Jim," she cried. "Only it seems to me that
you are leaving out some of the most important facts. I can't help
believing that if our great captains of industry and kings of finance
and teachers of economics and labor leaders would consider _all_ the
facts they could find some way to settle these differences between
employers and employees and save the industries of the country without
starving little girls and boys and their mothers."
"If I could have my way the government would settle the difficulty in a
hurry," he said, grimly.
"You mean the soldiers?"
"Yes, the government should put enough troops from the regular army in
here to drive these men back to their jobs."
"But aren't these working people just as much a part of our government
as you employers? Forgive me, Jim, but your plan sounds to me too much
like the very imperialism that our soldiers fought against in France."
"Imperialism or not!" he retorted, "the business men of this country
will never submit to the dictatorship of Jake Vodell and his kind. It
would be chaos and utter ruin.
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