The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-13
WORLD WIDE PEACE THROUGH INDUSTRY
Working Capital and Working People Instead of Food
 for Powder'' to Become Means of Peace.

finds it less profitable and less possi- ble to be ''in business for himself.' .'
 As partnerships supplant individuals, so corporations supersede partnerships and are superseded in turn by syndi-
 cates and larger combinations of capi- tai.
 Labor is forced to combine by the
 same economic necessity. Collective
 bargaining is the only way by which it can preserve it's freedom of con-
 tract in dealing with collected capital. As employers and employees recognize their own and each others necessity to combine. they naturally and inevit- ably deal jointly. The joint trade
 agreement necessarily includes provi- sions for consolidating and arbitrating their differences. Thus the very ele- ments which have been creating in ternal strife and provoking foreign wars are training themselves and each other in the ways of peace. In their separate and collective interest. orga- nized capital and organized labor promise yet to be the chief impediments to war and the mainstay of the worlds peace. For within every nation this industrial organization on both sides is clearly evolving larger liberty. at least for the class; a rising standard of living for the mass; a stronger de- fense against the aggression of one class upon another and a firmer basis and more authoritative power to make and maintain peaceful and permanent settlements of industrial differences. More slowly yet surely, there are de- veloping legal forms and sanctions which not only make for justice and peace between parties at variance but recognize and secure the final author ity of the public as the third and great est party to every industrial interest and difference.
 Thus by associating with larger and more diverse groups the people under stand each other better. are less likely to be divided by prejudice and passion from those with whom they work and deal,, and are preparing to fulfil Mag zinfs prophecy of "the association of the peoples"
 Modern industrialism tends to bring men into international relationships. Capital has necessarily become cos mopolitan. It has largely expatriated itself. Commerce floats its ships and cargoes under any flag that pays best. However sinister may be the influence which commercial interests have had upon politics, there is a. larger good evolving out of them. Organized frighten the world by ignoring na- tfonaI boundaries, are naturally de- ve1oping ,interna tionaf unions out of their national organizations. without the loss of patriotism. By stretching hearts and hands across seas. to or ganize for their common interest across every frontier, these great craft broth erhoods bid fair to command the peace DV InelI IeIuSSll to HSnC each other. Socialism is nothing If not international. However decisive it may be among the people of each coun- try it can never array one nation against another without committing suicide. However impracticab1e or dangerous its deals may be considered by others. socialists themselves hon ,estly think their theory furnishes the final and only basis of peace, by de- stroying the competitive incentive to war. N
 Industrial migration and immigration are playing fundamental part in pioneering peace. Beneath all the un- rest. waste and wreckage attending the modern mobility. of labor. the working people who are drawn or driven from land to land are, like the shuttles in a reat loom that is weaving a new