The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-05-03
ABOUT BUSINESS SUCCESS.
How to Win F'ortune-A Leaf Out of
Successful Business Mans Book of

| Successful Business Mans Book of
Experience.
| Labor is divided into two great
armies-the agricultural and the
industrial. In these diverse forces are
in operation. In the former every
thing tends to further distribution of
land among the many; in the latter
everything tends to a concentration of
business in the hands of the few. One
of the two great fallacies upon which
Progress and Poverty George $
book-is founded, is that. the land is
getting more and more into the hands
of the few. Now the only source from
which Mr.. George could obtain correct
Information upon this point is the CEN
sus, and this tells us that in 1850 the
average extent of farms in the United
States was 203 acres; in 1860, 1879 acres;
in 1900 it was stu further reduced to
1874 acres, The reason is obvious for
this rapid distribution of the land.
The farmer who cultivates small
farm by his own labor Is able to
drive out of the field the ambitious
capitalist who attempts to farm upon
scale with the labor of others. In
Great Britain nothing has been more
significant than that the tillers of
small farms have passed through the
agricultural depression there far better
than those who cultivated la-ge
farms. So in both countries we
have proof that under the
free play of equal laws land is be-
coming more and more divided
among the masses Of people. In the
whole range of social questions no fact
is more important than this, and moth
ing gives the thoughtful student great
er satisfaction. The triumph of the
small proprietor over the large propri-
etor insures the growth and mainten-
ance of that element in society upon
which civilization can most securely
depend, for there is no force in nation
so conservative of what is good, so fair
so virtuous as race of men who till
the soil they own. Happily for man
kind experience proves that man cam
not work more soil profitably than he
can till himself with the aid Of his own
family.
When we turn to the other army of
labor-the industrial-we are obliged
to confess that it is swayed by the OPP
posite law, which tends to concentrate
and business affairs
generally in a. few vast establishments.
The fall in prices of manufactured arti-
cles has been startling. Never were the
articles of consumption so low
as they are to-day. This cheapening
is made possible only by con-
centration. We find 1,700 watches per
day turned out by one company, and
watches are sold for a few dollars
apiece. We have mills making many
thousand yards Of calico per day, and
this necessary article is to be had for
steel make $500 tons per day, and four
pounds Of finished steel are sold for 5
cents. And so on through the entire
4 few cents a yard, Manufacturers of
range of industries. Divide the huge
into smaller establishments
and it will be found impossible to
some of the articles at all
The success of the process being often
dependent on its being operated upon
4 large scale, while the cost of such !
articles as could be produced in small |
Establishments would be two or three
lines their present prices. There does |
lot appear to any counteraCting force |
o this law of concentration in the |
world. On the contrary, the |
Ictive forces at work seem to demand |
,reater and greater output or turn 7
'ver from each establishment in order !
hat the minimum Of cost should be
cached Hence comes the rapid and I
ontinuous increase of the capital of [
and commercial con-
erns, five, ten, fifteen and even
wenty millions being sometimes
nassed in one corporation.--Fro
andrew Carnegie's 1.-THE Empire of
business.