Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-17
NOT WHO, But WHAT?

Indianapolis News: There are two fea-
lures Of modern development that seem
at first contradictory. but which really
go together, and they are the increase
of enterprises in their magnitude, togeth-
er with the decrease of the Importance
of the individual. The great store stands
in the place of the great Individual. 1t
is so in everything, even in professional
work where the personal equation is the
greatest. Specialization has SO divided
work that the specialist, though a 1n.n
of lesser force and weight of character
than the great man of his profession, has
become so expert as to be an authority
ir his limited field; and, thus, the multi
tude of smaller men each attending to
some one phase Of the profession. come
to the front, divide business and count
for more thai the one great man that
trie d to do all things.
TO administer this kind of organiza-
ton, manifestly many minds are needed,
each doing it's part, the whole welded
toether, with a result that the public
looks to the thing and not to the per-
SON.. 1t is doubtful if there is a phase
of modern life that has not been thus
developed. 1t is so in journalism as ii
is in other professions and kinds of bust
ness. The great figures of journalism
have passed or are passing away. Nc
one has risen to take the place OF loWles
Greeley, the elder Bennett, Raymond
o" later of Dana and Medill, iu; the NeM
York Sun is, perhaps, more powerful to-
day than it was on any dav Of Dana
life. The Chicago Tribun survives Mr.
Medill. Who directs it's fortunes? Who
does the work: The people that take
the paper and pay for it do no. know
indeed, they do not care. They lool
to the paper, if that satisfies them, the.
are content. Thus it seems that tn,
whole of modern life is following an inc
|vilable law that teaches the weakness o
the individual. the strength Of the mul
titude.
And the individual withers, and tn
- world is more and more
No one is sufficient unto himself. TIL
time has gone by when one man powe
can effect much. Men must work by as
ISOLATION. The law of life is more plain
ly felt every day in making success pos
sible only by union of effort. There is
2 and always will be, room at the top, a
6 Webster says. There will never be a tim
when mentality will be rated less; indeed
it never has been rated SO high as o
but it can become most effective only i
combination. 1t must work in its spher
and with it's phase in conjunction wit
other forces, all to be combined in the re
suit. In almost any walk of life, a gene
ton or two ago, a name was sOmethin
" to cOnjure With. VINO did a thing MAD
a a vast difference. 1t is so no more. (
who u what is now the question
Behind the great organizations whic
e dominate every phase of life, whateve
master mind there may be, it is the pul
pose and not the person that speaks nov
n The people will be served. They will ha,
the best; and with modern appliance
the best can be attained only by associs
- ton. The people do not know nor ca
&c uyl,o+ no rtiolllaV man controls this anfp
- prise or that-whether it be a hotel, or
= newspaper, or a railroad, or a store. The
demand the service; getting this, they a
satisfied.