The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-04

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feat: Socialism issued in Washington's
lea. With Napoleon the hope of indi-
by the principle itself grows weaker.
We are in an age of trusts, and are
entering into an age of larger ones.
Their motive is by no means unselfsh.
but they are trusts. They are what
their name signifies, viz: an expression
of the confidence one man or set Of
| men has in another man or set Of men.
The fear Of each others competition
has driven them to trust each each f 9tne =
while work hardship to many. 1t IS
tor the better calls into play the dread.
the weak perishes and the strong sur
wives, we have a better and stronger
organism after the struggle some
body is suffering vicariously for future
The trust unmanageable and omin.
GUS as it seems, is tending In the rlght
direction. Not more serious thlng
terly destroy the trusts and turn such
men as ]. j. Hill and j. Pierpont Nor
gan into demons devouring one anoth-
Ell: 1t might destroy an ana ,o,,1 Mor bSHs
! slipped back generations. Those men
are contributing vastly more to the
progress Of society than they intend,
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Breathing Air of Combinations.
! We are breathing the very air of
combinations and unions. At the same
time, competition was never so bitter
as now. But 1t is not the competition
between individuals, but the more aw
full competition between social commu-
mites. It ought not to be called COM
petition;. that is too weak word.
Rather it is a war waged to the death
A few years ago an artizan sought
| his own job, made his own contracts.
and worked on his own responsibility
and cared for his own family. The
and sold independently. The capitalist
invested his own funds and did 1t indie
penden 1 To-Day things are , differ:
union. the :"clerks' union" the mo
tormen's union, the conductors I'M
ION, the sHseap a19 "aion. the
printers union,' the miners union, :"
the .'ironworkers' union ct cetera ad
in7tfinitum: And then, including these
and labor union. When such an insti-
tuition comes in violent contact with
capital, whom it deems its avowed. en-.
envy, the result is not competitions
ants
Is there any blame to be attached to
the organization of capital? In many
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sured, but the deed is what we must
expect. 1t is the only hope of self
preservation, and forms link in the
social evolution. Is labor to be blamed
for uniting? It's motive too. is subject
| to serious censure many times, but the
deed is to be expected; it is the only
| hope of representation, and it forms
! a link in the social evolution.
The Progress of Organization.
Using labor and capital as an illus
tration, L go one step further and ask:
VIII capital eventually overcome la
bor? Certainly not Labor beds too too
eventually overcome capital? Never.
1t, too, holds too long a leverage for
that They are giants of equal
nents of our industrial structure.
| They are as necessary to each other as
ether is to light. Neither can work
WITHOUT o. the ether When this discov
fghting and go to cooperating, shar-
ing results alike.
They, fear each other with a deadly
late on almost any terms if the battle
could thus be terminated. But it has
passed beyond the stage of compro-
mise. Dogged fear will in time bring
cooperate instead of compete. And
another step in the social evolution
will have been completed.
is not workable. This fact, however.
is apparent, that in the midst of evil
good is ever present and working;
and out of this evil inheritance from
the past, good is ever emerging
| To live out the principle Of individu-
alism to-day is impossible. The pro-
fessor turns to the preacher for his
| theology. The preacher turns to the
professor for his science. Each turns
to the archa eologist for his history.
Our beans are baked in Boston. Our
rugs are made in Syria. Our broad
Our lights are manufactured at the
central stations. Our fuel is dug in
Pennsylvania. Our furniture Is made
in Grand Rapids Pittsburg makes our
lamp chimneys. Japan makes our mat
ting Germany makes our music, and
! France makes our fashions. Live in
dependently!! that day has gone for
ever. The individualist must change
his creed. or better still. gently lay it's
ashes in the urn of a loving memory
and fall into line with the onward
! march.
| SectarfaniAn is Disappearing.
Medical sectarianism is disappear
ing. Religious sectarianism is disap-
pearing. Philosophical scholasticsm
is dead and buried Ethnic religions
are going down before the steady
march of a universal one. The last
ccmbinato to be made is the union of
all the forces of truth and righteous
ness. whether civic scientific, moral or
| religious, the one side, against the
united forces of evil and sin and hell
ishness on the other. Here will be the
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