Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-10-07
SOCIALISM OR
 COOPERATION
What Is Meant By the
 Above Doctrine.
Extracts From Speech Delivered at the Court House Last Night
 by Harry Mckee.

People cooperate and establish a nation. They cooperate and con- struct railroads, manufacturing plants, build cities and school houses. Every every noble achievement ever made by mankind collectively is the direct result of cooperation.
 The words cooperation and social ism economically mean the same thing.
 The human race is constantly trying to socialize itself. It will finally suc- ceed.
 As matter of fact there are only two systems of government-one is the system of competition and the other is the system of cooperation.
 The word competition means strife, death and overthrow.
 Illustration: Two men enter the arena to fight duel. They compete to kill each other.
 The word corporation means peace, life and stability.
 "Thou shalt not kill" is the con- mandment of Wisdom. Do not com pete and kill each other but cooper ate and be good. This is harmony, it is civilization, not barbarism.
 'Thou shalt not steal' is another commandment of Wisdom. It means for men to civilize and socialize their efforts in the production and distribu- tion of every necessary to life and happiness. Observe it does not read. | Thou shalt steal by profit taking such as loaning money at interest | which is legalized larceny, for the language is thou shalt not steal.
 Preaching against stealing; enacting | laws against it never put stop to it. Socialism will put an end to stealing. | Illustration: Under the system of CO., operation or socialism the collectivity | or government would own the horses and if man attempted to steal a |
  would at once recognize him as a would be thief-and what is true of horse stealing is equally true of all kinds of stealing.
 The present system of private prop | erty and competition breeds beggars, loafers, thieves, physical and mental prostitutes.
 On the other hand, the system of | cooperation or socialism would eradi- cate the bad incentives above mention ed-and place in its stead the incen- tives to be good and do good. That is, the system of cooperation would make the condition such that men could not steal, and would not beg, loaf or do other evil things. Reader, ask yourself and especially ask your preacher which system he advocates the present immoral or the co-opera tive moral system of pure and unde- filed socialism.
 Again, take the profit out of the saloon business and in less than one year every saloon in the land will be to close its doors for they | must sell and make profits or quit business. Let every moral human be- ing ask themselves, which is the best the open saloon or no saloon?
 Under the present system we are all trying to get rich out of profits but over seventy five per cent of the peo- pie are poor because of profits. Let us then abolish the present profit system and produce and distribute the neces- saries at the actual labor cost of pro- duction and distribution.
 Remember, that it is an admitted fact that with the aid of the present labor saving machinery we can pro duce the necessaries, food, raiment and shelter more rapidly than ever before-that today we do produce as much of these things in three hours as we did fifty years ago in ten hours, that famine is now under the com plete command of modern production and distribution.
 The present system is infamous for it takes the little girls and boys, mere from the school and forces them into the factories, the work and the sweat shops where their lives are ground out into profits. Shame, oh shame on any man or any woman who will defend such system.
 Socialism says let us llberate these little innocents, let us take them from and out of these work shops and place them in the public schools, and edu cate them.
 Cooperation or socialism is not a dream; it is not utopian for it is the only thing that has never been found To the extent it has been put into practice it has never parted and when put into universal practice it will bless the whole human family.
 On the other hand, let us see what the present system of competition has