The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-06-30
CO-OperatiOn IL All Right as u
Voluntary Business.

to our desk. 1t Is published at I'LL
rard. Kansas, and is the official or
gan OF socialism. It's title is altogeth-
er a misnomer. 1t 10 an appeal to
prejudice and passion. or anything
else but reason. and simply seeks to
fatten off the prejudices OF the worst
element of the laborers' unions. Its
unreasoning demands and disturbing
advice is doing more to disorganize
honest labor than anything In the
country. The cooperative COM
monwealth" is n fallacy, and it has
always failed. from the days OF Greece
and Rome, when the Athenian De-
mocracy thought they could assume
the powers of government by the
people rs mob. and 1t resulted III
anarchy and ruin.
Quite n following Of this theory we
understand has been built up here In
Grant parish. In our younger days
for several years we belonged TO the
Typographical Union and some other
labor organizations, and have heard
this question discussed in pretty well
all of It's phases for the last iorty
wears. Our interest I'm all union ques-
tions has always continued active
and sincere, and in the main the Ia
borers have our sympathy and sup
mort. But we abhor the walking
tlel+Cate-the agitatOr.
The cooperation Of individuals In
onv number and I'm any business. Is
all right. The mistake Is always
made whenever the commonwealth
il logged I'm, and men suppose they
can make the support of the govern
ment their business. or require tine
government to make men support
their husiness. The idea is to live nj
ease. and every man to he free ana
email. That IL the condition Oh al
fairs In this government already, but
men by their different capacities ana
efforts of industry become unequal
and there IL no reason under the sun
why drones and laggards shUiid pt
entitled to division of the honest
accumuIations Of industry.
(,apitalists and laborers frequently
pool their issues, and unite their cap
ital and labor in cooperative associ
ntions. wherein all are Interested II
an enterprise succeeding. But thi
ia always done by persons having al
identity of business purpose. am
scarcely more than one or TWO on
iects may be embraced In the sam
organization. TO extend the organ
ization and embrace multiplicity
objects will only create CONFUSION an
end In final disaster.
Az matter OF fact, shrewd cap
talists Of late years are fighting tf
cncrnachments and unreasoning gu
monds Of labor organizations
the co-oLcratiye system. They mn
it pays to have eiremployees sha
the profits Of the business. The rest'
"a that where the men are nferest'
in the profits they desire To ma
those profits rs large az possible. /"
if,t n necessary to work9or III hou
da; to make the business prof.
mile. they viii do so cheerfuily. The
"a no contention that hours IL
DAYS work, or protection tn I've
for,led to incompetent ami indoie
workmen.
The farmer works 6. or :. or
hours, as may best suit his intefes
and the questioned the ''co-operat'
commonwealth never bothers hin
bit. other callings and busih
should likewise enjoy freedom ir'
the impertinence and interference
the agitator II left to theinse'
the workmen and the employers
adjust their differences without
extraneous aid.
The appeal to Reason, In
outrageous attacks on the fresiu
Of the United States, the Supr'
Court, the governors and the 81
municipal authorities OF hall a do
commemorative, Is subverting eV
pr,uciple OF law, order and just
that should prevail I'm Republic
the one we live under. Its utteral
would he intolerable rot, even In
tocratic Russia. and II uttered q
would land the editors and puo
ers IN prison within an hour aft'
was printed. -.
II the President. and the 81
county and municipal officers OF
country, who are elected by the
ple every two or four years. car
he trusted to administer the
then is this free Republic iailur
deed. But Is it n failure? A tn
and times.-Nol Socialism canno'
rect any OF the evils In this Demos
country, where the people col
their own affairs.
Examination of Teachers
Baton Rouge. La. May %, IL
To fbe Parish Superintendent:
a. TNoar S;r.-Rv authority oil