The militant unionists are beginning to talk and believe as if they were at war with the existing social and political order--as if the American political system was as inimical to their interests as would be that of any European monarchy or aristocracy.

The idea is being systematically propagated that the American government is one which favors the millionaire rather than the wage-earner; and the facts which either superficially or really support this view are sufficiently numerous to win for it an apparently increasing number of adherents.

The union laborer is tending to become suspicious, not merely of his employer, but of the constitution of American society.

His morals are becoming those of men engaged in a struggle for life.

The manifestations of this state of mind in notion are not very numerous, although on many occasions they have worn a sufficiently sinister aspect.