The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-30
MarXian Club Socialists
Editorial Committee;
KATE S. HlLtIARO.
e. A. BATTEll.
ROY e. SOUTHWlCK.


tool of production is so small. that
every single man can operate 1t him
self. he. under that social system,
owns his tool and along with that,
owns the product of his toll If he
started without implements of labor.
he could easily acquire them He was
the architect of his own fortune.
Production at that stage had not a
few satisfactory features; II had.
however, very unsatisfactory tone.
The individual producer could not
produce enough to free him from that
animal condition of having TO gruo
for his material sustenance all his
life. Man aspires 10 freedom from
the necessity or Worrying as to how
he will live. or whether he will enjoy
shelter. Mans ambition Is to be free
from that; and the potentiality of his
freedom in that direction increases
in even step with the perfection ol
the implements OF labor.
Fruitfulness Of Labor.
Hand in hand with this develop
ment goes another The more per-
feet the tool of production becomes.
the more are men compelled to co.
operate in production
Cooperation brings top-notch flow
er Of improved machinery. Cooper
alton brings about a multiplication OF
the fruitfulness Of labor many times
more than the amount the individual
could raise. If ten men produce GER
tain quantity individually, mnder the
cooperative labor super-induced by
the modern perfected machine they
would produce, not ten times as much.
but hundred times more.
However free man may be, there
are things he cannot rise above. He
cannot rise above material evolu-
ton. He would Ike TO ny TO San
Francisco 10 reach a sick friends bed
side, but he is compelled TO submit
TO his physical inability 10 go any
faster than inventive science makes
It possible. Man is compelled to CO.
operate. so that the productivity OF
labor shall be so large that he can
enjoy leisure and develop himself in
tellectually.
Old-time farming. Individual farm
ing, Ia Massachusetts was self-sup.
porting after a style The father
ploughed. and carpentered, and built
the shanty. the mother aud daugh-
ters spun. and the boys as they grew
up, helped the father, unless they be-
came pedlars Ike Huntington and
grew rich by the merchants process
OF selling both purchaser and goods
So long as they remained at home
they could do the work among them
selves
Old Time intellectual Development.
The indiYidualistic farmer was self
supporting and consequently was ex-
posed to all the evils that beset the
beasts OF the jungle These farmers
alternated between a feast and
fast: In cases of drought or a failure
in the crops, they had to suffer pro.
longed hunger. The work of these
people was arduous and continuous.
there was little time for educational
development
pie. as written BY Massachusetts
writer's themselves, picture the old
time intellectual expansion AT a very
low level. The songs they sang. and
Kind of music they performed. etc.
etc. are all very suggestive That
literature was low level of intel
iectudlllHs VI course dpoNe certain
minimum. II told at all points OF
arduous, cuture-nipping toll
That changed by degrees with the
Introduction of the perfected machine
together with the increased productiv.
lily Of cooperative labor that the I'm
proved system Of production forced
upon the people. The FINAL asnert
which the change brought on is that
today, no one man In the United
States is any longer independent OF
all others Today, no one city coun-
ty. or state Is any longer indepon.
dent Of any other city. county or
state
The Massachusetts weayers could