The
Unpopular Review
Vol. II, No. 3
July-September, 1914
Published Quarterly at 35 West 32d Street, New York, by
Henry Holt and Company
Contents
| UnsocialInvestments | A.S. Johnson |
| A Stubborn Relic ofFeudalism | The Editor |
| An Experiment inSyndicalism | Hugh H. Lusk |
| Labor: “TrueDemand” and Immigrant Supply | Arthur J. Todd |
| The Way toFlatland | Fabian Franklin |
| The Disfranchisement ofProperty | David McGregor Means |
| RailwayJunctions | Clayton Hamilton |
| Minor Uses of theMiddling Rich | F.J. Mather, Jr. |
| Lecturing atChautauqua | Clayton Hamilton |
| AcademicLeadership | Paul Elmer More |
| Hypnotism, Telepathy,and Dreams | The Editor |
| The Muses on theHearth | Mrs. F.G. Allinson |
| The Land of theSleepless Watchdog | David Starr Jordan |
| EnCasserole Special to ourReaders—Philosophy in Fly Time—Setting Bounds toLaughter (A.S. Johnson)—A Post-Graduate School for AcademicDonors (F.J. Mather, Jr.)—A Suggestion RegardingVacations—Advertisement—Simplified Spelling | |
Unsocial Investments
The “new social conscience” is essentially a classphenomenon. While it pretends to the rôle of inner monitorand guide to conduct for all mankind, it interprets good and evilin class terms. It manifests a special solicitude for the welfareof one social group, and a mute hostility toward another. Labor isits Esau, Capital its Jacob. Let strife arise between workingmenand their employers, and you will see the new social consciencealigning itself with the former, accepting at face value all theclaims of labor, reiterating all labor’s formulæ. Thesuggestion that judgment should be suspended until the facts atissue are established is repudiated as the prompting of a secretsin. For, to paraphrase a recent utterance of the Survey,one of the foremost organs of the new conscience, is it not truethat the workers are fighting for their livings, while theemployers are fighting only for their profits? It would appear,then, that the