Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-09-13
EACH FOR ALL.


EACH FOR ALL.
a great problem indeed, is the right
adjustment of the relations between
the individual and society. Neither
war nor savage isolation is the estate
OF nature; only one alternative and
that is cooperation, and that implies Il
common end for which all cooperate.
The great end of society is accomplished
in the highest possible development OF
all its individual members, according
to the law of their natural individuali-
ties. The individual cannot develop
in isolation, independently of social
helps. From birth to death, men are
dependent on each other in countless
ways; there is no such thing as human
independence, except in a very Pick
wickian sense. The completest posi-
BILE education-in the broadcast sense
of that word-of all its individuals,
their most perfect development in all
directions, is the grand end and func-
ton of society. This end attained, the
highest welfare of all is secured in the
highest welfare of each. 1t is the duty
of society to aim at the accomplish
ment OF this end, and it is the duty of
the individual to cooperate in achiev-
ing it. Society defeats its own end if
it violates the individuality of any one
OF its members; the individual defeats
at once his own end and the end of So
ciety, if he refuses to co operate with
his fellows. The prosperity of State
or community depends on commerce,
in the high and wide sense of that
term; for the free commerce of intel
lectual and moral influences, the I'M
stinted interchange OF enrolling ideas,
sentiments, and social helps of every
kind, is the very condition of true So
cial progress; and all this is co-opera-
ton, mutual giving and taking, prac-
teal outcome and income, OF all that is
best in humanity. In no other way
than by this perpetual cooperation of
each with all, can society attain its le-
Ultimate end.
How clear, then, is the duty of So
ciety to respect to the utmost the
liberty of the individual. The good of
society is at once sacrificed by any re-
striction on the individuals free activ-
ity, whether of body or mind, so long
as the same is exercised with proper
regard for the rights and interests of
each and all. How clear, on the other
hand, is the duty of the individual to
work heartily for the welfare of society.
His own highest good, in which that
OF society is involved, is sacrificed by
selfish refusal to bear his part of the
burden, and to perform his part in pro-
noting the public good. Private Gull
ture and public usefulness are thus re-
ciprOcally ends and means; the high
est individual culture is impossible UNI
less dedicated TO public uses,
and the highest usefulness to so.
ciety is impossible except through the
most perfect culture of the individual
This mutual existence OF the individu-
al for society, and OF society for the
individual, constitutes the human race
a single organism, which an eminent
thinker defines as THAT in which
the whole and the parts are mutually
means and ends" The more highly
society becomes thus organized, the
richer, freer and grander is each indi-
vidual life. Let society and the indi-
vidual be faithful in the performance
of these reciprocal duties, and the
greatest ofhuman triumphs is achieved
Liberty in union and the harmonious
working of all for the highest good of
each. -..
By virtue Of this law of nature if a
great idea or vital movement takes pos
session of mems minds it will organize
them naturally and necessarily and
will bring them together as inevitably
as the force of gravitation brings to-
gether the tiny streams, trickling
down the mountain side. into the lar.
ger stream of the valley. There is no
use fighting against Nature. If men
keep apart it is because they have no
common purpose or principle to unite
them; continued separation or indif-
ference and inactivity when the public
good is at stake is a verdict pronounced
against their principles" guilty of
worthlessness in the first degree"
This statement of a great natural
law has an immediate bearing on the
requirements of the present hour.
When nature has done so much for
our beautiful city and society has done
SO much for the prosperity, comfort
and enjoyment of the individuals con-
shutting it, as we'll as for their intel
lectual, moral and social elevation it
behooves them to evince their appre-
citation of the advantages they are
blessed with by active individual and
cooperative efforts to promote the
general welfare of the State in having
a verdict at the coming election that
will permanently retain the capital
here at Olympia, where it will best ac-
commodate the great mass of the peo-
pie, and which verdict will emphatic
ally rebuke the selfish spectators at
Ellensburg and North Yakima, who
would disregard and sacrifice the in.
terests Of the many for the aggran-
dizement of the few.