In our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations. There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships.

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control…

We must ever bear in mind that the great end in view is righteousness, justice as between man and man, nation and nation, the chance to lead our lives on a som…

Where men are gathered together in great masses it inevitably results that they must work far more largely through combinations than where they live scattered …

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of r…

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industrie…

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.