The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-19
THE HOE, PURSE, PEN, IDEA
FOUR NECESSITIES IN THE DEVEL-
OPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
Discussion of Industrial OrgnniLn'
ton by President Prince of
Brown University.

New York, February 1s.-Cooper Union
was filed tonight With an audience gather
cd 10 hear a discussion on the ethical basis
of industrial organization under the aus
pieces of the Peoples Institute, Prof.
Charles sprague Smith presided
Edward Markham was introduced and
read one of his poems entitled The End
of the Century" MIR MARKHAM was
heartily cheered and was recalled, the au
dlence demanding the reading Of The
Man With the Hoe to which he re-
sponded.
W, Fl. p. Prince, president OF the
Brown university. the principal speaker
VI the evening. was then Introduced He
began by saying: In order that we
may study the human brotherhood more
closely l want to consider with you the
man with the hoe, the man with the pen,
the man with a purse and the man with
an idea" He then went on TO say that
the man with tie hoe had been minor
taized by Miilet. The man with a pen,
the apeaker said. was also tolling in the
service OF the world. Without h!m all
the great thoughts aud inspirations OF the
world would die almost as soon as spoken.
The man with purse is a type, Dr..
Prince said whom we can readily DIS
pern. he question ia wat IS he doing
with 1t, II be is using it as a mere mlu-
Is .er Of luxury and pers nal qualification,
then he is a man without conscience and
foe to society which has made his purse
possible. II he is using Il as a trustee,
believing that God and men have called
MIN 10 take charge OF what he must soon
Z surrender. then he may be another Peter
Cooper The man with an idea. the
speaker said is one that can u . 50 read
lily be portrayed. but behind purse. pen
and hoe lies the idea. Every mans work
is valuable lust in proportion as II is
mixed with ideas. Unintelligent labor
simply damages raw material and defaces
the beauty Of the world. We should then
value the man with the idea 1t may not
De our idea, but give him a chance so ex
press 1t,
Prof. Smith then read letter from DR..
Heber Newton, which was in part as fol-
lows Il do not quite understand the
fitting OF the subject, but take 1t TO
mtan what is peculiarly known MS the
trust The medieval system OF regula lca
or this business by great guilds broke
down by its own weight. There follcwei
an era in the Eighteenth century and the
beginning OF tho Nineteenth century oil
pure individualism, of almost unche ,ked
competition. This III turn is breakns
down o. i;s own weight. Labor organiza
ticns capital organizati Ms. CAPITAL i
organizing faster and further than labor
Unless labor can organize on the same
gigantic scale II will be more at the mercy
OF capital than ever Hosts OF men wi
be thrown out OF employment. The MARIE
being In the contrcl OF few hands. pr cel
can be forced up, Taxation beyond the
dream OF the past can be laid by private
hands upon the whole community and tn.
entire Nation. The enormous power o
aggrandlzed capital can corrupt and de-
banch our city councils. our lessla ure.
and our congresses. What revelation Of
the spirit OF our modern corporation ha!
been given In the last few days in the as.
founding statements OF the profit Of the
Carnegie company for the last year 4
/ company expecting to make from s40,0
900 TO $4,000 900 in the current year OF
a capital OF $50 coo, 900 10 what ext an
water we do not know asking the Stat,
to tax the whole Nation under the guise o
a tariff that Il NAV be able TO increase TIL
wages Of its workingmen. No more re
the Standard Oil Trust. as Henry L
FLOYD has given It. Regulation and con
troll mus; be assumed by the State ant
pushed forward as fast and as far as need
ful. The end OF that control is not (,
break dawn the high organization OF capt
tai. but to safeguard II from its ow'
greed and rapacity, TO humanize II and Il
naturallze II and ultimately to socla'iz
III. The ultimate outcome OF the trust
seems to me what is practical in the dream
\ CT socialism"