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platitudes, or inventing apologetics
 

...it should be the duty of our political economists, and our “strong” and “able” men, to show how productive labor is robbed, and by whom or how. This would be much more nobler work for the men of strong brain than giving inane advice in puttering platitudes, or inventing “apologetics” for bourgeois exploitation.
      As to skill. It is well known that ingenious machinery is every day making skilled labor unnecessary; that the skilled worker is being continually relegated to the ranks of the unskilled, while a mere tender to a machine, a woman, or perhaps a child, takes his place at, perhaps, one-third his wages...

ex W. H. Stuart, “Our Social Soothsayers,” The Railroad Telegrapher 19:2 (February 1902) : 161-164 (162)
Stanford copy/scan (via google books) : link

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followed by
“The Railroad Telegrapher in the Philippines; Some of his work, crude appliances, etc.” by “Returned Volunteer,” The Railroad Telegrapher 19:2 (February 1902) : 164-167
 

10 December 2024