Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-01-12
AN IMMUTABLE LAW.
The UnremItting Competition which Ia ~
Work Wherever We May Go.

The Unremltt,ny Competition which Ia NJ
Work Wherever We May Go.
The man who fears to go into an en-
terprise on account OF competition Is
not made OF that sort OF stuff which
leads TO marked success. Whether
recognized or not, there Is no living |
except under the most unremitting |
competition. Whether millionaire or
pauper. old business man or the one
of new enterprises, competition in
some OF its forms is ever at work. and
he who would escape competition must
escape from life. This is we'll illus
trated by Kingsley's ''Do-as-you-like
race" race who were provided for
by tie droppings from trees. With
nothing to do. the race degenerated
below the apes. and finally ceased to
exist-simply because they had nothing
to do.
Competition means strife, antagon-
ism; in short. war; 1t exists both in
the natural world and the business
world. Sir William Grove, in lecture
delivered ut the Royal Institution Of
Great Britain on 'antagonism," says
that lit is necessity Of existence. and
OF the organism Of the universe, so far
as we understand it; that motion and
life can not go on without it; that it is
not mere casual adjunct of nature,
but that without it there would be nc
nature, at all events as we conceive it.
that it is inevitably associated with un.
organized matter. with organized mat.
ter, and with sentient beings" This
is very broad definition, but it is un
qualifiedly true. As an example Of an
tagonism in nature, the lecturer speaks
first Of pulling forces between the
planets. If the one pulling force is no
counterbalanced by the other, then th'
one body falls into the other; ia, in fact
wiped out by competition. In the sub
stance Of the earth force and Resistance
are constantly at work; nothing is a
rest, and every atom seems to be com
peting with it's neighbor. When W
come to organic life we find the law O
competition still more plainly to b
seen; every blade OF grass, every plant
is fighting with its neighbor for tn
means of living. 1t is Darwin's ''strug
gle for existence" and this YER
struggle is necessary to the life OF tn
vegetable world. In animal life tn
struggle or competition is still plaine
to the view. The naturalist no longe
talks OF peaceful nature" for h
knows there is no such thing, but n,
ture is scene of incessant warfar'
Birds in their little nests do not agree
but the stoutest push the weaker one
out.
Coming to man, we find the san
competition, the same struggle for e.
stence. In the most rbarbaric rae,
those who can not stand the competition
who can no lOnge. take care OF ther
, selves, are killed to get them out
the way. In civilized society, howeve
| while there is no change in the wa
t fare going on. the victims are som
what better treated. Instead OF beir
r killed by the victorious competitor
! these latter pass around the hat, SO
r speak, to provide the necessaries
3 life for those who have been conquere
!, This, We suppose. is what may
called the amenities of life.
y Advancing from the individual
, communities, the same warfare is
: work. Community is against comm
nifty, town against town, city again
; city, nation against nation. In Il
1 moral world the same forces are
Q work. From the law OF competiti'
l there is 40 escape, and 1t is a GO
r thing for the well-being Of all.-Stot
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