longer be endured.[Footnote:  Cf.  Ettor (quoted in Outlook, vol. 101, p. 340):  “They tell us to get what we want by the ballot.  They want us to play the game according to the established rules.  But the rules were made by the capitalists.  They have laid down the laws of the game.  They hold the pick of the cards.  We never can win by political methods.  The right of suffrage is the greatest hoax of history.  Direct action is the only way.”] There is a great deal of idealism among the advocates of violence;[Footnote:  Cf, for example, Giovannitti’s poem, The Cage, in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1913.] there is a great deal of sympathy on the part of the public with lawless strikers, with the I.W.W. gangs that have recently invaded city churches, with all those under-dogs who are now determining to have a share in the good things of life.  Unless the employing and governing classes meet their demands halfway, gunpowder and dynamite pretty surely lie ahead.  Will the spirit of lawlessness spread?  Ought we to slacken our process of lawmaking lest we make the yoke too hard to bear?  As a matter of fact, it is through more laws, better laws, and a better mechanism for punishing infraction of laws, that we can hope to check lawlessness.  Lynching-as we noted in chapter xxv-have been the product of inadequate legislation and judicial procedure; as our laws against the worst crimes become sharper, our police forces more efficient, and our court trials quicker and less hampered by technicalities, they decrease in number.  As education on the liquor question spreads, violations of prohibition laws become fewer.  The kind of lawlessness that is on the increase is that which exists as a protest against and a means of remedying evils that the laws have not yet properly dealt with.  Give us by law an industrial code that will minimize the exploitation of the weak by the strong, bringing a good measure of security and comfort to all, and such outrages as those of the McNamara brothers will cease, or at worst will be merely sporadic and generally condemned.  Allow present conditions to drift on without sharp legal guidance, and such outrages will certainly become more and more numerous.  The alternative that confronts the modern world is plainly evolution by law or revolution by violence.  Individualism:  J. S. Mill, On Liberty.  H. Spencer, Principles of Ethics, part iv, chaps, xxv-xxix; Social Statics; and many other writings.  J. H. Levy, The Outcome of Individualism.  Various publications of the British Personal Rights Association.  W. Donisthorpe, Individualism.  W. Fite, Individualism, lect.  IV.  Legal control:  Florence Kelley, Some Ethical Gains through Legislation.  Jane Addams, Newer Ideals of Peace.  E. A. Ross, Social Control, chap.  XXXI.  D. S. Ritchie, Principles of State Interference.  J. W. Jenks, Government Action for Social Welfare.  A. V. Dicey, Law and Opinion.  J. Seth, Study of Ethical Principles, pp. 297-331.  H. C. Potter, Relation of the Individual