The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-09
AIM OF THE SOCIETY
Members of the High School Doing
Creditable Work.
BY ERNEST CALDERHEAD
He Explains the Benefits of Coop
Grafton in a Nicely Worded
Paper-Election of
Officers.


membership comprises some OF the
brightest young men and women of the
High school, from freshmen to post
graduates At the weekly meetings
the debates and discussions of many
subjects bring out a great deal of orig
inal thought, and the education de-
rived from them is of great practical
benefit TO the members. The principal
paper read at the meeting last night
was by Ernest Calderhead on 1.-THE
Benefits of Cooperation" and shows
the character OF the young peoples
work in their society. 1t is as follows:
''Of all the questions that agitate the
minds of the American people, coop
ration is the simplest-the easiest I'M
derstood. The very word is in itself a
full explanation. To thoroughly under
stand the silver. The tariff, or most any
other live issue. requires months of
study. Joseph Sibley, who spent num-
Der of years in the study OF the finan-
cial question. did not, in his speech here
a few weeks ago, appear TO know much
of anything about II at all. Reading
Coins Financial School will not make
a bimetallist any more than reading
Ragnovok will make a Paleontologist.
Are we to be greatly surprised, then.
at the ignorance Of the masses when IL
takes years OF study to thoroughly
master great issues? Need we stand
aEndSt at the statement lndI the amer
lean people are run by machinery?
Not so with cooperation. / am safe in
saying that a few hours concentrated
study will teach any one the funda-
mental principles of this simple sub
ject- There are, distinctly, two kinds
of cooperation-they being classed as
good and bad. When number of men
club together, each putting into the or
ganization exactly the same amount of
aid, for the attainment of n certain
49,
such a movement good cooperation;
but when our great triumvirate. Cleve-
land, Sherman and Carlisle. unite for
the destruction of American liberties
and American independence. and do all
IN their power to prevent Uncle Sam
from having a cork leg, we class 1t as
decidedly bad cooperation. The power
OF concentration was amply demon
strated in the great A. r. u. strike
when one hundred and fifty thousand
miles of track were abandoned
Chauncey NJ. Depew is reported as
having said that fifty men in the Uni
ted States could stop every wheel of
progress and produce a panic COM
pared TO which the strike of last sum-
mer would be insignificant. The great
manufacturers, merchants and finan-
ciers cooperate and secure a corner on
commodities-hence our mushroom plu-
tocracy. Cooperation will and has al
ready knocked the theory OF dear mon
COInnOQlIleS
a cooked hat. The price of commodi-
ties which are monopolized cost Just
as much now as they did in 1878. when
by one stroke OF the pen silver was de-
monetiZed.
THE benefits of good cooperation are
so numerous that they are nearly be-
yond enumeration. We may sum them
up by saying that the greatest advant-
age is that il enables the common peo-
pie TO help themselves. 1t promotes
thrift, sobriety. morality, neighborli-
ness, kindness, courtesy, intelligence
and good citizenship. 1t touches no
mans fortunes; it seeks no plumber; IL
causes no disturbance in society; IL
gives no trouble 10 statesmen; IL need
enter no secret organization; IL needs
no trade unions TO protect its interests
IL contemplates no violence; IL subverts
TO order; IL envies no dignities; ii ex-
poets no gift nor asks any favor; T.
keeps no terms with the idle; il will
break no faith with the industrious: it
is the only means by which the masses
can advance.
las the author of this essay re- |
marked upon a former occasion. the |
Senior society is only an intellectual |
cooperative society. because the men, |
bers, by their mutual aid and help. as
sist each other in gaining the fruits of |
knowledge. And the only reason why |
this organization has not advanced as |
II should have is because there was /
not enough harmony. And, to quote |
that distinguished socialist, Holyoake.
cooperation was born of the feeling
that at best unmitigated complexion /
was but organized war. and though /
war has its great conquests, it's bards, |
its proud associations and heroic MEM
cries. there was murder in it's march: |
and humanity and genius were things
10 blush FOR, II progress could not be
accomplished by some noble means;
what an enduring truce is to war, CO.
operation is to the never ceasing con-
hict between labor and capital-it is
the peace of industry.
1T is the only avenue OF escape from
the poverty, restitution, beggary. lust.
sensuality, want and the thousand |
other Ills that the human race is heir |
10. They need expect nothing from leg |
islation-the oppressors have too firm
hold on the governmental depart
ments. Even If a bill for the advance
ment OF the masses were passed. II
would be declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court. as was the income |
tax. Our legislators are too easily
bribed and have not the sincerity OF
purpose they should have. Cooperation
is the only means by which property
rights which are held in such high es-
teen I'm this competitive age-this age
OF egotism and thieVery can be dish
laced by human rights
when Altruism supplants egotism:
"ANAA NAAN <AlAifAAtdl people MOIST I'D the
stars and stripes with the motto. AN
for one and one for ALL then. and only !
then, will they realize the liberties our
fought for When they |
unite Tor the attainment Of an object |
instead Of dividing themselves over re-
igious and political controversies. they
will have freedom. When harmony ex- |
SITS In the ranks Of the great common
people We shall have a land Of the free
ana home Of the brave. Let us hope
hen. that the prophecy Of Bobby Burns |
will be fulfilled"
The society last night elected the fol-
owing officers for the ensuing year.
PRESIDENT. Wallace Bretherton: vice
PRESIDENT, Guy Smith: secretary. Jennie
sullivan; treasurer. Richard D,Dstap-
John Wulf: exacu-
i've committee. Charles sullivan and ,
ernest Cslderhead