This is only one of many illustrations that the traditional American system has broken down.

The American state can regain the loyal adhesion of the economically less independent class only by positive service.

What the wage-earner needs, and what it is to the interest of a democratic state he should obtain, is a constantly higher standard of living.

The state can help him to conquer a higher standard of living without doing any necessary injury to his employers and with a positive benefit to general economic and social efficiency.
If it is to earn the loyalty of the wage-earners, it must recognize the legitimacy of his demand, and make the satisfaction of it an essential part of its public policy.
The American state is dedicated to such a duty, not only by its democratic purpose, but by its national tradition.

So far as the former is concerned, it is absurd and fatal to ask a popular majority to respect the rights of a minority, when those rights are interpreted so as seriously to hamper, if not to forbid, the majority from obtaining the essential condition of individual freedom and development--viz.