Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-06-23
SUBJECT TO

Is DOW IdISelN OCCuplcu by ldISC COl-
porations, which are exercising a pub
lie use and for that reason subject to
public control.
l believe that eventually the public
ownership of ali public utilities is in
eyitable in this country, but | am
not a believer in the theory that we
are ready to-day for municipal wner
ship in all our cities or for the govern
ment ownership of all our railroads.
Municipal ownership without NUM-
cipal integrity may be a greater evil
than corporate ownership, and the
last condition of that mar be worse
than the first
l believe that political honesty must
come before public ownership, and
that the only way We will ever get
political honesty is to restore the
great majority Of our people to the
land, where they will live close to
nature, and learn the obligations of
man to his fellow men, and the inn
perative need of public integrity, by
learning to unite together to do things
for themselves.
HONESTY THE CORNERSTONE
OF COOPERATION.
! Man Is the product of his environ
AlNhIs a VII III - III liz Il u III
to be. And cooperation will train
men to be honest with each other and
with the public, because honesty and
integrity in the discharge of obliga-
tons to ones fellow men is the
corner stone of cooperation.
Without it cooperation is q house
built upon the sands.
With such integrity. cooperation is
a house built upon h eternal rocks
as a foundation.
And so it is that your movement for
the formation of farmers associations,
In order that You may transact for
yourself the business of selling your
own soil products, is but a single
thread in the great cable of co-opera-
ton which will finally warp Il ship
of state off the rocks, aud draw it to
q safe anchorage.
Theeprofits that you will make for
yourself in the formation of these co
operative associations. and their man
agement, is the least of the reasons
which should impel you onward i'll the
movement.
A CRISIS N OUR HISTORY.
We have reached a crisis in our
country's history.
1t is a crisis threatening greater
danger than when the cloud of dis
union swept up from the south and the
nation was drenched in the blood of Il
civil war.
The cancer of corruption following
In the wake of great wealth is eating
out the yitals of our country.
l have shown You that there is but
one cure, and it is TO men of your class
that we must look for this cure.
In fp1ininu. van pGplVnG IN ~PO-0nnr1tn |
together to do things for yourselves
that one man cannot do for himself,
you are engaged in carrying out a
patriotic purpose just as noble as
though you had enlisted as a soldier
to shoulder your arms and march to
the front and lay down your life, II
need be, in repelling he army of a
foreign invader.
We are spending millions for forts
and nayieS and to maintain an army to
protect ourselves against the other
nations of the earth.
Our greatest danger is not from
foreign nations. 1t is in our midst.
1t is at the very heart of our political
and social life.
And YOU who are here to-day are
pioneers in the great campaign which
will result in ov~erthrowing the cohorts
u u lIlllOI N hA1h Il oAAN -
destroy us.
OPPOSITION \ STIMULANT.
l have been told that your move
ment meets with opposition. Thosa
who oppose ii are most unwise. 1t Is
the lesson of all periods of the history
of our race that reform movements,
movements for the betterment OF man
kind, even movements which merely
purport to be for human betterment,
md are of questionable character, have
beer strengthened and built up n
perpetuated by opposition and per-
secution.
No greater stimulus to the growth of
your movement could exist than 10
have it Systematically opposed. Such
opposition rouscS the cOmbatiyeness
and aggressiyeness which is in every
mans being. stimulates him to greater
effort, and encourages him to perseyere
until obstacles have been overcome
which would otherwise have caused
failure.
STRENGTH COMES FROM
STRUGGLE.
1t is another law of nature that
strength comes from strenuous strug-
gle. The strong arm is the arm that
is used. The strong mine is the mind
that thinks. The strong man is the
man who has developed every fibre of
his physical yigor 10y use. The strong
races of the earth are those which
have survived oppression and over
come great obstacles in their develop
ment.
Be not discouraged by any condition
that may confront you.
BE not discouraged wen by temper
airy failure. 1t is the history OF all
movements that failure must at times
be a part of their record.
But as the wise saying has 1t:
"Failures are but the pillars of sue
cess
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SUCCESSFUL
CO-OPERA1 ON.
What others have done, You can do.
IF Won want successful Illustrations of