Here another evil threatened, for the individual soldiers
would sometimes prove to be in deep sympathy with the workmen who were
making the trouble. At such crises, also, there would appear on the scene
the anarchist, who wanted to overthrow society at once in the hope of
bringing himself out nearer the top, and who was kept comparatively
harmless in quiet times.
"You can imagine something of the disorder and apprehension caused by
these troubles. No contract for work could be made without the stipulation
that its fulfillment must depend upon freedom from strikes in that
particular trade, and no man could start on a journey with any certainty
that he would be allowed to finish it in peace and at the appointed time.
"To decide how these evils should be remedied proved to be one of the
greatest problems ever presented to the people of that age.
"Political sages had long before promulgated the doctrine upon which
society was governed, that every man had a natural right to life, liberty,
and his own method of pursuing happiness.
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