# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1906_S330
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

330 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

even though he may be able to do twice as much, and the amount is never
Specified at the capacity of àa good workman anxious to honestly employ
bis time, but is fixed at that of the least efficient. In like manner the
unions so restriet the number of apprentices FVho may be taught trades
that the great majority of the youth of the land are denied this privilege
— nay, this right. The supply of skilled labor must be restricted in order
that the unions may control it. That such restriction results in restriction
of output also, and thus works an injury to the business interests of the
country, is obvious. Amid all the strife for inereased wages and better
hours and conditions, the insistence of the closed shop' is never abated.
In New Vork, during the pending printers' strike, all offers to agree to
the eight-hour day on condition that the shops should be open' and free
to employ competent workmen whether members of the union or not, have
been swiftly and emphatically refused. Rather,' these striking printers
have declared, time and again, rather nine hours with the elosed shop“
than eight hours with the „open shop.“ In the case of the pending
printers' strike, as well as in that of the prospective coal miners' strike,
the union managers always refer to it as an effort to secure the eight-hour
day, and a more equitable adjustment of rates, and 'to secure better
conditions, but back of it is the stubborn, persistent, unyielding purpose
to monopolize employment by means of the closed shop, to deny the right
of any man, not in the union, to earn his living by the labor of his hands.“
— In den Vereinigten Staaten gehören 1,700,000 Arbeiter zu unions.
Und unter diesen unions gibt es wohl wenige, die sich der von Dr. Goodwin
angeführten Ungerechtigkeiten nicht schuldig machen. Ein Zeichen unserer
Zeit ist es auch, daß jetzt überall im Lande Prediger auf ihren Kanzeln für
die unions und ihre teils ungerechten Forderungen eintreten, ja, sogar um
Aufnahme in unions nachsuchen, um die Arbeiter für die Kirche zu gewinnen.

Staat, Kirche und Schule. Dr. Edwards, Pastor einer Episkopalkirche
in Milwaukee, hielt vor der State Teachers' Association of Wisconsin einen
Vortrag, in dem er der „Theologischen Quartalschrift“ zufolge erklärte:
The parochial school may be justified elsewhere, but it ought not to
flourisb in à democracy. The assumption which underlies the parochial
school is that there is an organism within the nation of a higher spiritual
character; that the church, and not the nation, is the kingdom of God,
and that the education of the child ought to come into the hands of those
who have the control of the higher spiritual organization. If this as⸗
sumption were true, this would logieally follow, but the spiritual democ-
racy can never acknowledge that it is so. Whatever may be the height
of individual attainment, whatever the value of the contribution which
this or that organization may make as a member of the state, the state
is supreme; the state is the final expression of the race; the state is the
kingdom of God; the state is the thing which is finally to be saved or
lost; it is the state, not the church, that humanity must finally give full
expression of all the flower of its genius; it is in the state that the com-
plete happiness and usefulness of the individual are to be attained; and
so, in consequence, the state must educate the child. Anything less than
this is un-American, undemocratic, and, when we understand it, unchris-
tian. The church has done a good work in the past in establishing schools