The people who swept into and took over the Red Cross, who dramatized the American people in the war abroad—are the people who are going to make war at home impossible.
The big spiritual or material fact about the Red Cross is that it has been a dramatic organization, that for four years it has been an organization for acting out the feelings, desires, wills and beliefs of a great people toward men who were fighting for liberty.
The Red Cross has been a great emotional epic play, an expression in action, of the heart and brain of a mighty nation.
Emotions by great peoples have been spectacular before, and they have been sentimental and they have been occupied with enjoying themselves.
But in the Red Cross twenty million people have been as inspired as Saint Francis and as practical as a Steel Trust in the same breath.
The vision of the future of the Put-Through Clan that lies ahead is that it shall keep on dramatizing these qualities in the American character at home, selecting things to do which shall dramatize our people to one another, to themselves and to the people of other nations.
The way to make democracy work is for the people to use their brains, their spirit and their imagination to do team-work with the inventors and engineers who help express their democracy for them.
The platform of the Put-Through Clan is the right of all to be waited on.
Skilled labor has a right to be waited on by skilled capital.