Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-29

n"'n o''o oiino W ieaih' LOT, as | have said
If ever there was time when it would ~
been possible to successfully launch a oro.'
scheme of cooperation, like the Amor;os'
Trades Alliance for instance, that timo H.
passed The great aggregation of csr;,.,
which now control production and trado a
now far too powerful and selfish to allow ~
such plan to succeed for any length Of t;rs
Their certain opposition, added to the otbo.
objections | have mentioned will prove oro.
wheming. Do you think that these mo, =,
debauch congress and courts and no,;t;a.,
conventions and municipal councils ,h.
resort to every artifice and method. fair az
unfair, lawful and unlawful. to DESTROY 49,
petition and maintain their power and =
crease their wealth, will tamely permit :.
operation to become system? Do Won tbinL
that the vast capacity and resources and a.
perence of these individuals will M. |.
massed against you the moment Won sho,.
signs of aggressive growth? COMPETING r
inously against you, undermining Won in,no
ducing traitors into your camp slanderins
you, shaking public confidence in your mo
tives and integrity and even arrayino aho,
itself against you? Do you think that tbo
power that controls the nation, its indnstr;o,
it's laws, its finance its trade the press and
the pulpit, will not find means to subdue Won
and control you? 1t surely will. No NJ,
Cavendish, the way out of your trouble is mt
through the A. r. A. or cooperation. Ta
odds are too great against you and your tina
too limited. 1t is too late to begin to build
fire engine after the house is ablaze. yn
must fight it with the me ms at hand
81 know what we have to meet only N.
WE'LL" sad Cavendish, "and | admit tberp !, i
much truth in what you have said as to III.
opposition we will encounter. In fact tbink
that the grand climateric of the labor strug.
gle will be a fight to finish between orgapi.
zed cooperation and organized capital under
private control. But the latter is as sI,re,
doomed to defeat as was the Light Bricada
at Balaalava. 1t will but rush into the yawn.
ing mouth of inevitable fate The organ.
zing powers of the times, apparently in js
favor are really dead against it. The whole
trend and mighty movement of civilizations
towards a supervised cooperation, and |
against private control. The latter must %
down before it. But that the forces Of ew
luton and civilization are in our favor will
not lessen the necessity for us personally and
for the A. T. A. as a society to be alert tos
threatening danger. The gathering Of The
opposing clans will be well watched | assure
you. But have no more doubt of the fnl
outcome, than | have of the result OF head
end collision between a railroad train and
flock of Sheep
Cavendish had evidently forgotten in bis
interest in the subject, that his only obieaiu
this conversation was to draw out Daltoa and
learn the prompting motives of such as be in
advocating extreme measures So AFTER a
moments silence, he said: And you must I'd.
nit Dalton that the Alliance has so far been
fairly successful. 1t is widely extended and
has several million dollars invested in its ID
rious enterprises
Eyes replied the latter apparently
has succeeded very well: but actually so
as it has been a movement of the people o.
ganizing and employing their own capita
and resources, it has made no very Hatterilg
progress. The most of its capital has been
furnished aud its industries projected
by the men of large wealth who init
ate il and have been drawn into
it by their influence. | am ready to %.
NIT that cooperation is practicable and feas
BILE If the capitalists of the country, the men
who control and operate great wealth wola
join you and help inaugurate the system
They could make it successful. But that
about the same as saying that if the mend
financial and commercial influence wOuda
right there would practically be no law
problem to speak Of II they would in gOa
faith reorganize their factories and shop
and stores and mills on the cooperative pla
rs some big Drained and big hearted na
have done, and as some in the Ameri1
Trades Alliance have done, they could brius
about general system of cooperation Im
people would then sit in peace under then
own vine and fig tree Labor would no longs
have to sleep on its arms Strikes aA
riots would be as dreams of the past and On
Chicago Vigilance Clubs could disband VIII
hands uncarnadined. Would that such
thing might be; but it cannot be done byf
people. IL cannot be done without and agsns
the capitalists
1.-THE Chicago Vigilance Club is a soceV
Of which had not heard before said CAV
endish with interest. Il It one 10 which -
belongY' Dalton evidently hesitated be'a
answering, then lifting his eyes to those
Cayendish he said determinedly and deelslr
ly, II do, and its objects are such as the ar,
of my talk would intimate, yet although
know | could trust YOU TO reveal nothing