The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-17

Tor divine purpose. War and barbar'
ism are to be eliminated. Peace and fra
ternity are the ends aimed at. Natures
watchword is ever onward and upward
It is the language Of creation.
Nam may have risen the first steps Of
the ladder by competition, but it does
not argue that he can never cooperate.
A flower grows out of the soil, but
flower is not disc
Man doubtless developed from the
brute world through the process of di-
vine evolution. The preponderance of
evidence seems to confirm the theory Of
an evolutionary process Of creation, but
man Is not brute because he grew out
Of this underworld any more than a
flower is dirt because it grew out of the
soil.
Nature points onward and upward.
War may be a step in the process of the
development of humanity, but war is
not humanity. War is hell, war is bar
barism, and IL is all the more barbaric
when II is transferred to the realm Of
commerce. l
The natural course of progress today
shows that cooperation is higher prin-
ciple than competition. We observe this
fact in the development of the most sue
cessful corporations. They are made by
combined effort. The combination Of
small firms make these great ones. They
once fought one another. They make
combination and fight for one another.
Their success was phenomenal. This is
! the basis of every successful trust and
great corporation in our nation today.
We antagonize them because we recog-
nize them as the evidences Of social dis
order. They are the evidences Of social
disorder, but they are the index fingers
| that point US to the way of success. Their
abuse does not argue against their value.
woRKINoMEN's SUCCESS.
Cooperation, when used by working
men, has resulted in advancing their con-
dition in life. The history Of the coop
| erative societies Of England and Scotland
is a most marvellous chapter in the de-
| velop,nent Of the laboring men of the
world. They have millions Of dollars in
| capital invested now and ships that plow
between the great ports of the world and
supply them by simple, fraternal coop
| Grafton. Simple worhngmen, number
1 ing hundreds Of thousands, have secured
for themselves immunity from poverty.
| Some Of them-in fact all of them-may
be considered rich as compared with
those who are outside their ranks, with
the same advantages Of education and
| personal environment.
Wherever cooperation in communities
has been substituted for competition it
has proven when thoroughly tested the
higher principle.
In Glasgow the transit facilities of the
city are managed by the people, and
they have cent car fares. The gas is
also owned and managed by the people
and costs them 60 cents where it costs
us s1.25.
THE DIVINE IN MEN.
This process must continue until evo-
luton has reached q point Of develop
ment that revolt Is no longer necessary.
We are reaching that condition gradual
ly now. Orr legislation is more and
more in the direction of cooperation on
the part of the community than it has
been in the past. Our laws touch more
fully the whole range of life, and the
people are ber'nning more and more to
see that they are competent to take care
of their own affairs if they only make up
their mind to do it.
Third-Every instinct of the prophetic
soul of man leaps to the thought of this
dream of the race.
The highest instincts of humanity
throb in harmony with their divine laws.
The divine in man goes out to the suffer
ing. We must cooperate with one an
other. We cannot endure the sight of
the suffering and pain of the world
longer. We have societies for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. A man
cannot beat his own horse Numerically
In the streets without being arrested.
The divine in man more and more goes
out to suffering wherever seen. And
when the world knows really as it is the
suffering of man, because of his war
with man in this world of trade, of COM
merce, Of labor, the heart of humanity
cannot endure the knowledge. The re-
organization of society upon q cooper
ative basis is f0regone conclusion
when the heart of society recognizes
things as they really are today.
THE RACES ENEMIES.
The idea that we are to be benefited by
war and pestilence and famine in the re-
moval of our fellow creatures may be a
conception which the political economists
of hundred years ago thought scientific,
but it is certainly an idea that the heart
of humanity in the closing of this CEN
| tury cannot endure. Want, hunger,
cold, nakedness, men are more and more
regarding as the grim and terrible enc
mics of all the race, and when we realize
their true rayages we have reached a
point that endurance will cease to be a
possibility, for it is in proportion as we
bear one another's burdens that we our
selves attain the highest life and the
world really made the brighter This
\ burden bearing means the pressing of
| our lives into the lives of our neighb0rs
until they are common in sorrows and
burdens ana joys. 1t means the estimat-
ing of life upon different basis than
mere money return.
IL is true there are some people who
are not worth much and who rate them
selves commercially at a low estimate.
But we recognize in man not simply
what he is, but what he ought to be,
what heis capable of being, what he was
born TO be. A man rescued three people
from drowning In the East river short
time ago. Their boat capsized, and they
were about to drown when the brave
young fellow risked his own life, swan