The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-24
THE NEW ORDER.

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It was a wise Providence that linn
tied the scope of human activities and
the length of mans days. A new
generation is required to take up the
worlds problems at each turning
The lesson of cooperation is learned
by this, but new generation must
perfect 1t, and make It an instrument
for good.
The greensboro Messenger sees
nothing but evil in the corporate
system, which succeeds individual eff.
fort, but fails to note that even under
the old system, which exalted the in.
dividual, the world went on just the
same, after that individual was gone
| But to quote:
The comment OF the Messen-
ger on the erect of modern bust
ness methods under which the in
dividual is nothing and the cor
poration everything - speaking
with reference to the late Henry
H. Rogers-is borne out by the
gentleman at the head of the
great corporation of which. for many
years. Mr.. Rogers was the strong and
striking right arm.
"Mr Rogers death is a great
personal loss" said Mr.. Rookie
feller. 81 can only repeat that
his death il great personal loss.
but that the business world will
be in no way affected" Just
that--and nothing morel The
atoms of humanity making up
the great corporations play their
important part and pass away,
but the great corporations con-
tinue with undated force and
yigor-an intangible something
with a name and a franchise and
the utmost power for evil, With
the atoms directing its course for
a time, but always finding other
atoms 10 take their places and
continue on the course mapped
out for them.
In discussing the difference
between the political systems of
the north and south, Thomas
jefferson commended the north
ern adoption of the town as the
political unit because II made
stronger communities, but he
emphatically commended the
adoption of the county as the
| political unit in the south for
the reason that 1t made stronger
and broader men. The men OF
genius in the northern portions
of the union have followed the
northern plan. BY sinking the
individuality of men they have
brought to the front the strong
est possible engines of trade and
commerce and industrial enter
prises.
There are no northern system and
southern system. There never were.
There was an old order OF things,
and there is a new. The old order
set man against man; pitted cunning
against cunning; exalted cleverness
in bargain, and made its motto the
doctrine of "caveat emptor''-let the
purchaser beware. All the evils 70
be found in the modern method OF
Incorporation are inherited from the
old cut-throat competitive system.
To say that the modern system
does not make strong men, gives a
strange aspect to such men as Rookie
Teller, Morgan, the late II. II. Rogers,
and the virile youths, who are begin
ming to grapple with problems Of pol
itics and finance.
In the very case cited. the Messen-
gers example is a refutatlon of its
own theory. The corporate system
Ibid not destroy the individuality Of
In. II. Rogers, else the Messenger
and other daily papers Of the coun-
TRY would not be writing long editor
ials about him. That II did merge
! his individualism into the interests
OF the Standard Oil crowd is true;
but cooperation develops and nour-
ishes, rather than destroys indlyid-
uality
While capitalists and Industrial
leaders are learning their lesson in
Incorporation in one training school,
the toilers are learning their lesson
in cooperation, mutual helpfulness
and self-denial in another. Bye and
bye, they will come together, discover
that lighting is a waste and they will
co-operate.-Not this year OF next,
perhaps. but sometime. after the edi-
tors OF the Messenger and Of The Sun
are gathered to their fathers.
These things are part of a develop
ment. Let us not quarrel with con-
ditions as We find them; but let us
rather eradicate the evil as it appears
and become ourselves instruments in
Fastening the contamination of the
wise purposes of Providence.