The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-08-24

is TRANSFERRED to the realm of

commerce.
The natural course of progress to-day
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 ton of small
firms make these great ones. They once
fought one another. They make COM
bination and fight for one another. Their
success was phenomenal. This is the
basis of every successful trust and great
corporation in our nation to-day. We
antagonize them because we recognize
them as the evidences of social disorder.
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.
WORKING MEMS SUCCESS.
Cooperation, when used by working
men, has resulted in advancing their con-
dition in life. The history of the CO.
operative societies OF England and Scot
land is a most marvellous chapter in the
development of the laboring men of the
world. They have millions of dollars in
capital invested now and ships that pillow
between the great ports of the world and
supply them by simple, fraternal CO.
operation. Simple working men, num-
beriDg hundreds of thousands, have Sc
cured for themselves immunity from
poverty. Some of them-in fact, all of
them-may be considered rich as COM
pared with those who are outside their
ranks, with the same advantages of edu-
cation and personal environment.
Whenever 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 1 cent car fares. The gas is also
owned and managed by the people and
costs them 60 cents where it costs us
1925.
THE DIVINE IN MEN.
This process must continue until evO-
luton has reached a point of develop
ment that revolt is no longer necessary.
We are reaching that condition gradu-
ally now. Our 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 full the whole range of life, and
the people are beginning more and more
to see that they are competent to take
care OF their own affairs if they only
make 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 suffering
We must cooperate with one another.
We cannot endure the sight of the suffer-
inc nd ,f ft,n "
have societies for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals. A man can not beat
his own horse numerically in the streets
without being arrested. The divine in
man more and more goes out to suffer-
| ing 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 commerce, of labor, the heart
| OF humanity can not endure the knowl-
edge. The reorganization of society upon
a cooperative basis is q foregone con-
clusion when the heart OF society recog-
nizes things as they really are to-day.
| THE RACES ENEMIES.
The idea that we are to be benefited
by war and pestilence and famine in the
removal OF our fellow creatures may be
a conception which the political ecOnO.
| AAIAoCc VI q AuuOICu y LuOuRul
scientific, but it is certainly an idea that
the heart OF humanity in the closing oil
this century can not endure. Want
hunger, cold, nakedness, men are more
and more regarding as the grim and
terrible enemies of all the race, and when
We realize their true ravages we have
reached a point that endurance will cease
to be possibility, for it is in proportion
as we bear one anOther's burdens that
We ourselves 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 neighborf
until they are common in SORROWS anG
burdens and joys. 1t means theestimat
ing of life upon a. different basis than
mere money return.
1t 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 he
is capable of being, what he was born to
be. A man rescued three people from
drowning in the East river a short time
ago. Their boat capsized, and they were
about to drown when the brave young
fellow risked his own life, swan out ant
saved the three. In a violent fit of gener
osity after they were safe they took u1
d collection and gave him purse of 81
cents.
DIsPIRITING FACT.
The knowledge that there are sucl
people in the world is dispiriting to III
when we dream of the day of universal
fraternal cooperation. But this co
operation does not imply equality. Il
does imply Christianity. It does i'm
ply that we are to teach the ignorant
we who are strong; that we are to save
those who are even in their own estimate
OF little value, not for what they are, but
! for what they ought to be. They arr
His children. We can not separate our
selves from them, for, after all, we cal
see to be in our hearts the beginnings Of
greater faults than we see DEVELOPED in
others.
We can not separate ourselves from
the race if we would.
We say that the stranger Is nothing
to us, but they are. If we are human
their burdens are our burdens
A railroad train crashes into another
Hundreds OF lives are lost, and we real
the story. We cry over the description
we can not help it. They are nothing
to US. We do not know them. But they
are made in the image of God. They ar,
human. They are some one else's brother
and sisters and fathers, and therefore
they are our brethren. And we wee1
with those who weep.
Our hearts are made so that, if W.
carry out the deepest aspirations anl
truest warnings, we must love one an
other. We must cooperate one with On
other. 1t is this burden bearing, one fol-
another, that makes the brightness o.
the world to-day
1t is only in such hours that we bury
our little animosities and the world be
comes tit place for men and angels te
dwell. When General Garfield was dying
the South as we'll as the North bent ovel
boundless sympathy. The asperities O.
a bitter conflict were all forgotten. Sec
tionalism was buried, and around tn,
bed of suffering the nation patharod ga q