The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-10
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good roads, with which the state
alone can deal. and where all tina
the national government AN do i
to cooperate with them. The sam
F is true Of the education of the Ameri
can farmer. 4 number of state
have themselves started to help II
this work, and the department o
agriculture does an immense amour
which is in the proper sense of The
word educational. and educational il
the most practical way.
1t is, therefore, clearly true tina
a gn=at advance has been made il
the direction of finding ways by
! which the government can help the
farmer to help himselI-the only
kind of help which a self RESPECTING
man will accept, or | may add, which
will in the end do him any good
Much has been done in these ways
and farm lire and farm processes
continually change for the better
/ The farmer himself still retains, be
cause of his surroundings and the
nature OF his work, to a eminent
degree the qualities which we like
in considering our early history. The
man who tills his own farm. whether
on the prairie or in the woodland, the
| man who grows what we eat and the
raw material which is worked I'D in
to what we wear, still exists more
n ri I'll.
obtained when the 'embattled farm
ers of '76' made this country ma
ton than is true of others of our
people.
But the wage workers in our cities
like the capitalists in our cities, face
totally changed conditions. The de-
velopment of machinery and the ex-
traordinary change in business con-
ditions have rendered the employ
ment of capital and of persons in
large aggregations not merely profit
able but often necessary for success,
and have specialized the labor of the
wage-wOrker at the same time that
they have brought great aggrega-
i'ons of wage workers together
More and more in our great indus
trial centers men have come to real
ize that they cannot live as indie
pendently of one another as in the
old days was the. case everywhere,
and as is now the case in the country
districts.
OF course, fundamentally each man
will yet find that the chief factor in
determining his success or failure
in life is the sum of his own individ-
ual qualities. He cannot afford to
lose his individual initiative, his in
Glvidual will and power; but he can
Best use hat power if for certain OBJ
jects he unites with his fellows
Much can be done by organization
combination, union among the wage
workers: finally something can be
done by the direct action of the state
II is not possible empirically to de-
clare when the interference of the
state should be deemed legitimate
and when ilegitimate.
The line Of demarkalon between
over-interferance and ui1. !
healthy lack of regulation is not al
ways well defined, and shifts with
the change in our industrial needs.
Most certainly We should never in
nation unless it is absolutely neces-
sary; but it is equally true that when
confident Of it's necessity we should
not on academic grounds refuse it. |
Wise factory laws, laws to forbid the
employment of child labor and to |
safeguard the employees against the
eff cts of culpable negligence by the
employer are necessary, not merely
in the interest of the wage-wOrker, |
but in the interest of the honest and
humane employer, who should not be
penalized for his honesty and human
ity being exposed to unchecked com
petition with an INSCRIPTIONS rival.
Ii is far more difficult to deal with
the greed that works through cum
ming than with the greed that works
through violence. but the effort to
deal with it must be steadily made.
Very much of our effort in refer
ence to labor matters should be by
every device and eXpcdient to try to
secure constantly better under
standing between employer and en-
rloye. Everything possible should
be done to increase the sympathy
and fellowfeeling between them, and
every chance taken to allow each to
look at all questions, especially at
questions in dispute, somewhat
through the others eyes. If met
with sincere desire to act fairly by
one another, and if there is, further
more, power by each to appreciate
the others standpoint, the chance
for trouble is minimized | suppose
every thinking man rejoices when by
mediation or arbitration it proves
possible 10 settle troubles in time to
avert the suffering and bitterness
caus d by strikes. Moreover. a con
Citation committee can do best