Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-08-11
PUBLlC0WNBRSHTP COLUMN
Conducted by the New Era
Club of the town y Or Of Gran
stts,,' Morrison County, MINI.

Co0ducCed by the New Era
Club 81 tbs town or Gran
'ztts, Morrison County, MINI.
THE INCENTIVE AGAIN. -,
The editor Of the World Herald,
Omaha, says men will not make prog
ress without the incentive of person.
al gain. Was that jwhat. prompted
Hugo to give the world Ills great mas.
terpiece? Was that the incentive of
any great book or picture or really
great work. Ruskin says that no
great work Of genius was ever done
for money-but for the love of the
work or the love of the person for
whom it was done. Franklin invented
the stove-but he refused to patent it
and thus rob his fellows because q
thought happened to come to him.
But under Socialism there would be q
benefit come to each by every act of
progress. AS it would benefit society
each member Of society would get his
OF her benefit, the doer among the
others. If You were working with
machine and saw wherein you could
make good change or Improvement,
would you refuse to permit that
thought to find expression because no
one would De compelled to become
your slave thereby On the contrary,
YOU would feel q strong impulse to
give expression to your thought, first
for for the pleasure OF it to yourself,
and, second, becauee of the approba.
tion of your fellows, which latter IL
the strongest Of all incentives after
the first two Jaws Of nature. Do men
put themselves up in the line of battle
to be shot at for the measley pay they
getH They must be degraded, indeed,
if they do. They enlist because of the
feeling that others will look at their
parade and admire them; they risk
their lives because they do not like
the acorn attached to running away
that appreciation is higher than even
life itself in some instances. It lie not
contended that men will make the
, sacrifices for society that they will
for their families. az q rule, but do
not the soldiers do that-risk their
lives for society when they 20 to de-
fend their country 1t is no discredit
to them that designing men have in
the past pro6tea by this feeling.
Under the present social organiza-
ton men can work only for themselves
for self benefit, because society ia not
organized on such q basis that the in
dividual can get any benefits BY On.
riching society. Under better sys'
tenn only by enrlching society could
the individual get benefits, hence the
incentive to good work for society
would have back Of it the same mo.
tive that is now back of his work fol
self-interest. Under the present in.
dustrial anarchy' every one is for sell
and the devil take the" hindmost,
while under an industrial system each
would benefit by every goJd act Of an
other and each would be injured by
every bad act Or another. There: is ut
use having a system in (which there
Is any ''risk. " except the risk against
natural obstacles and Ignorance oil
right methods-but today We take q
risk additional by the total factors oil
opposing sef-interests. :'-:,: =" '=@
Under the better system where each
person would have every opportunity
open to him, opportunity not repre-.
sented by money, q social or q politi.
cal pail, the genius Of the nation that,
like Gray's Cromwell innocent of his
country's blood" now never has a
chance to develop. would give u a
khundredfold more progress that We are
now making. When children are given
an industrial as we'll az book training,
when they follow any calling that best
pleases them and for which they are
suited, when they will each be free to
follow any vocation for which they
qualify themselves, We shall have the
best talent in the place it ia fitted for,
and there will be a hundred Edisons
Tesias, Darwins, Rsphsels, Ark
wrights and other geniuses where W
have had one. And where is the MIND
that ever refused to give forth thu
sweetest flowers that bloomed in il
simply because 1t could not get golt
for thema Its worst punishment
would be to prevent it from telling
what new thing 1t had found.-Ap
peal.
Mr.. and Mr.. J. Mecusker and Mar.
jory and Mildred are visiting Mr.. Ne.
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