The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-19
DO UNTO OTHERS.

Economic wrongs never right themselves Il
those wrongs which the people suffer are to b.
remedied, the people will have to apply the remedy
Those guilty of perpetrating the wrongs will NOT
In the modern business world it is pretty hard f,
draw distinguishing line between right and wrong
There are differences of opinion The time prob
ably will never come when there will not be diff
ferences of opinion. The enforcement of laws like
the Sherman antitrust law will undoubtedly effect
some remedial changes in the prices of commodities
although that law will never strike at the root Of
the trouble which is contained in the Golden Rule
"Do unto Others"
In the matter of the packing business it must
be recognized that it costs great deal of money to
carry on the business. The men in it are not in for
their health, so they want profits. And they want
those profits as big as they be made. Modern
methods have taught them to eliminate competition.
and they have the bull by the horns. Cost of opera
ton is reduced by consolidation. To say that the
men who capable of organizing and conducting
great business are not entitled to Just profit
would necessarily imply that no other person,
throughout the entire social fabric is entitled to
just profit. The question of gust profit Is All
swered in the Golden Rule, "Do unto Others"
Congress is investigating the high cost of living
The department of agriculture is doing the same
thing. The department of justice is seeking evil
dence to show conspiracy in restraint Of trade
Nearly every big institution in the country has been
brought under suspicion and many of them have
been scandalized Some of the individuals con-
nected with these same institutions are now in the
penitentiary. Others are expected to follow them
Still others hope to escape prosecution through
techncalities. The business world has been shaken
to its foundations. We fear there has been a lax
observance of that same Golden Rule, '.Do unto
others"
The developments in the business of manufac-
turing have been wonderful during the past twenty
years. In the old days, before manufacturing had
become so well established every village and cross
roads had It's cooper, its blacksmith and its shoe
maker. The cooper supplied the buckets and bar
rels, the blacksmith furnished the wagons and shod
the horses and the cobbler made the boots for the
neighborhood. Manufacturing establishments special
lied in these lines and "froze the little fellows out"
The fellows affected took their sorry plight in
philosophical way, and remarked that progress is
the spirit of the age Many of them returned to the
SOIL and were probably better off than before the
lamity overlook them. Those who established the
factories did not think of the Golden Rule "Do
unto Others"
That same process is being repeated today. The
small manufacturer is being squeezed by the larger
manufacturer. The process is identical, but more
people are affected. Now we have laws restraining
the more powerful. In the old days of handmade
buckets and barrels, handmade wagons and hand
made shoes there were such laws The Golden
Rule, "Do unto Others" is now entirely forgotten.