Article December 13, 1919 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Thomas A. Edison

[Thomas A. Edison in National Electric Light Association Bulletin]

A new order of things is emerging from the events of the last five years. Whatever may intervene, the ultimate result is going to approach more closely a square deal—for labor, for capital, for the merchant, for the farmer, for the farmer, The employer who is not square with his employees, or the employee who is not square with his employer, is going to be out of step with the times.

Demagogues may muster a following of illogical radicals who advocate injustice as a means of gaining justice, and stiff-necked reactionaries may selfishly oppose the progress which destiny has decreed as humanity's reward for the sacrifices that have been made, but in the end there will prevail a just and honest basis for the relations between capital and labor. This new relationship cannot be legislated into existence. It will spring from the conscience and patriotism of the people. The time is coming when the unjust employer and the disloyal employee will share equal odium in the esteem of society at large.

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