The second class-conscious capitalist organization is called the
National Economic League. It likewise manifests the frankness of
men who do not dilly-dally with terms, but who say what they mean,
and who mean to settle down to a long, hard fight. Their letter of
invitation to prospective members opens boldly. "We beg to inform
you that the National Economic League will render its services in an
impartial educational movement TO OPPOSE SOCIALISM AND CLASS
HATRED." Among its class-conscious members, men who recognize that
the opening guns of the class struggle have been fired, may be
instanced the following names: Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Ex-Secretary U.
S. Treasury; Hon. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Ex-Minister to France;
Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop New York Diocese; Hon. John D. Long,
Ex-Secretary U. S. Navy; Hon. Levi P. Morton, Ex-Vice President
United States; Henry Clews; John F. Dryden, President Prudential
Life Insurance Co.; John A. McCall, President New York Life
Insurance Co.; J. L. Greatsinger, President Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Co.; the shipbuilding firm of William Cramp & Sons, the Southern
Railway system, and the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway
Company.

Instances of the troubled editorial voice have not been rare during
the last several years. There were many cries from the press during
the last days of the anthracite coal strike that the mine owners, by
their stubbornness, were sowing the regrettable seeds of socialism.
The World's Work for December, 1902, said: "The next significant
fact is the recommendation by the Illinois State Federation of Labor
that all members of labor unions who are also members of the state
militia shall resign from the militia. This proposition has been
favorably regarded by some other labor organizations. It has done