Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-18
BELL APPEALS TO
STATE PATRIOTISM
Points to Progress Made Possible
by Resources and Char
acter of People
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS GOOD
Tells How Landowner Can Best
Contribute to the Gen.
eraI Welfare
BIZ THEOpORE A. nELL

| LudI ali pIOBIcSS lS III pIOpOTLiOH 10
out ability to wor ktogether. History
discloses the family as the primitive
unit of cooperation. In tribal or ma
tional life we behold merely an extern
| sion of the social, cementing force. It's
| tap-root very evidently penetrates deep
| down into human nature, and If the
larger social groups have brought
greater happiness to mankind we may
then set 1t down as an admitted rule
! Of human conduct that each individual
| should cultivate the demand of his
nature for closer relations with his
| fellow man.
This tendency toward community life
is profund fact from which can be
drawn implications of the highest Or
der concerning our ultimate well be-
ing. Yet 1t is not for the purpose of
discussing the philosophical or rellg-
ious aspects of cooperation that this
article Is written, but to bring into re-
lief some practical applications of the
principle. We will confine ourselves to
the community known as the state of
California.
UNUSUAL TOPOGRAPHY
California presents an unusual to-
pography-a physical geography that
| manifests itself in a marvellous diver
sity of animal and vegetable life These
| physical conditions create different hui
man interests and modify human char
acter. The thing called sectionalism
has it's source in a self-interest due to
an imperfect understanding of the law
of interdependence, and, like every
other obstacle to genuine cooperation,
1t requires education and enlighten-
ment to remove It.
1.-THE state for all and all for the
state" expresses the most precious in
terest of every citizen from any angle
fhof h io lOf OI1r
| mon sense warns us that no locality,
however favored by nature, is self-suf-
| ficient and that the same law of de-
pendence which subordinates the indi-
vidual life to the good of the common
whole binds all sections irrevocably
together. There is no argument, sacred
or profane, that can justify a local
| jealousy; for an eternal fiat commands
that all artificial boundary lines be for
ever effaced. Like the annual inunda-
| tion of the Nile, every impulse of genu
inc neighborliness and good will brings
untold blessings to the soil that 1t
touches.
In California II is rare that the voice
| OF the community Is raised in dispar-
agement of another But what we need
is something more than negative
condition. Cooperation implies a con-
scious effort along affirmative lines.
and therefore with both tongue and
pen 5e ought to proclaim the virtues
OF every other spot beneath our sunny
skies. The words of Northern, Central
and Southern California will then be
purely geographical lines, carrying
with them no hint of conflicting inter
| ests In the word California" with
out prefix or limitation let there be
sounded a quickening note that will
stir the blood of all her people. no mat
ter where they have pitched their
| tents.
PRODUCTS VARIED
variety of products increases rath-
er than diminishes the necessity for in
telligent cooperation for the more
complex or specialized production be-
comes the more we are dependent upon
one another's labor and hence more OBJ
servant must we be of the laws gov
erning exchange and distribution. Our
soil. climate and mineral wealth sup
ply nearly everything required for hui
man convenience or comfort, but 1t in
wolves a subdivision of labor and a sys-
tenn of production and exchange like
that which obtains in the worldwide
| economic field; yet we have the decided
advantage of proximity of a nearer
view of things, of a closer contact and
we can therefore more easily take hold
OF the task of cooperation along all
lines.
Land, labor and capital are the joint
agents that serve our wants. Each of
them Is helpless without the other
two Each must share in the joint
product. but in order that the. appor-
tionment-distributi be fairly
and justly made. each must be con-
trolled by its dependence upon the
others.
BREAK UP ESTATES
The land owner can best contribute 20
the general welfare by devoting his
land to it's highest and best uses an
as subdivision into small tracts, under
separate ownership, leads to a more in
tensive cultivation and the establish
ment of more homes the breaking up
of large estates should be encouraged
and promoted. Let a man build his
home upon a column of earth that lc
can call his own, and he becomes a
pillar of strength to the state. The
man who retains a vast acreage, MAX
ing little improvements from year to
year and obtaining from It but a small
percentage of it's real crop values, SIM
ply abiding the time when an increas-
ing population, and the labor and cap
ital Of others will add to his riches.
may be acting wholly within his legal
rights. but, viewed from every ethical
standpoint, his course must be con-
demned.
1t Is impossible legally to establish
a system of weights and measures that
will insure to capital and labor IN
equitable division of the wealth which
they jointly create. The part that each
must receive will always be largely de-
pendent upon economic laws, but these
economic laws ought to be in harmony
with the principles of Righteousness.
Real progress cannot be effected with
out cordial understanding between la
Dor and capital and a conscientious do
termination that justice and fair play
shall divide their joint product. The
spirit of cooperation is writing treaties
of peace between employers and en-
ployes, but 1t is the duty of all good
citizens to encourage relations of trust
and confidence and mutual respect be-
tween them, rather than to play upon
the passions or prejudices of either
That form Of cooperation known as
trades unionism, In which groups of
wage earners express their common in
terests collectively. rather than to
leave the Individual to struggle along
alone the best he can, has proved on
the whole most beneficent thing to