Several conservative authors have referenced this article in their books over the last few years. This author Neva Deardorff makes the point that "social control" was a theme that ran throughout this annual meeting - every progressive was about social control, not just the author who was reporting about everybody's mood.
Progressives are always this way. Saul Alinsky was about social control when he wrote and employed the tactics of Rules for Radicals. Obama was about social control over the entirety of his 8 years as president, LBJ, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt. All of them had this one thing in common. They all lusted after more and more social control.
Bigger ever expansive government is how you achieve greater social control.
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When I first read this I thought it was a lampoon, but then I realized these people actually think that way. Thank God for the second amendment.
We need more bureaucrats to manage the economy because they know best.
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Harding-Coolidge were just a respite from this monster of Progressivism.
Coolidge’s July 4th speech of 1926 was a blunt attack on Progressivism.
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2 3 or 4 year bump
There seemed to be no sentiment in favor of labor conscription. Some attention was given to the efforts of the federal government to conserve human life in the war industries by safeguarding workmen against accident. At the last meeting of the association the applicability of the British munitions act to American conditions was discussed briefly. The suggestion of adopting these provisions in the United States, however, met with the immediate objections that, our conditions were different from those in England and that even in England the munitions act had been the cause of much dissatisfaction and unrest. According to an investigator of the London Times, it had been the cause of driving one-half of the workers of England to the verge of revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munitionettes
Neva R Deardorff - Not just social control...............
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2471201.html
annual meetings of the learned societies of the social sciences(1) which were held holiday week in Philadelphia.
Prof. Carl Kelsey of the University of Pennsylvania thought that the need for conscription of labor is now imperative and that the time is coining when strikers should be treated as traitors. On the other hand, the laboring class must, of course, be protected from low wages and other abuses.
They knew “Democracy” precedes Tyranny.