The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-06
Editorial Committee:
KATE S. HlLtiARO.
E, A. SATTEll.
ROY E. SOUTHWICK.


war, We know it. VIC arc preparing
Tor il; we rejoice at its near APP
proach We mean TO break down
competition, and to substitute uniyer-
sal organization and cooperation
There lie around us the necessary
methods. they need but to be applied
But there are many difficulties and
Dangers, the power OF wealth Is great,
tie unscrupulousnegs OF property
knows no bounds? We are well
aware OF this; VIC see and do not
shrink from the inevitable struggle
The Revolution is prepared In the
womb OF society it needs but one
strenuous and organized effort 10
i'anifest the new period in legal and
acknowledged shape TO the world To
attempt to return TO the old forms
OF individual production would he at
the same reactionary and anarchel.
We cannot. II We would, so put back
the hands upon the dial OF human
development II is nowise desirable
we should The increased power of
man over nature is gained by coop
rratlcn, by social machinery, by as
sociated labor. by skilfully concerted
= ork. This has been due to count
less ages of growth and development,
involving often the most horrible op
preston. but ever producing more
wealth with less labor We inherit
the results OF this long martyrdou
OF man TO the forms OF production
md exchange. II is for us to take
mold of and use these improvements
for the entranchisement of The people
2nd for the establishment OF happl-
LESS and organized contentment
After these instances OF disintegra-
ton and disorder, the ugliness. waste,
end adulteration seem comparatively
telling. So long as competitive cont
meTce and production Tor profit con
tinuc, based upon wage-slayery below,
DO change for the better can be
wrought. As capitalism saps all
healthy social relations and reduces
even the closest connection between
the sexes TO mere question of bar
gain and sale, so it threatens TO de-
srroy the springs OF all art-that is.
Of the external beauty of life, and 20
reduce the world TO a state of bar
barlsm; threat which can only be
met by the demands OF social order
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the means OF production. so that la.
Dor may be freed from the merely
useless toll in which it is 10 a large
extent at present employed, so that
while machinery Is uSel for perform
ing labor repulslye to men, the intel
lisentce OF the woTl;men may be made
available for the higher needs OF the
community. 50 that the greater and
better part OF productive labor may
tecome voluntary reasonable and
pieasurable exercise Of the human
faculties. instead OF a compulsory, d.
grading ana unhappy struggle for ex.
istence, human in nothing save Us
suffering. the tragedy OF the battle
against starvation
individuality Is Crushed Today.
How then would individuality that
unceasng cry OF the bore and the dull
lard, be stunted by q system which
should leave full play TO the high
est faculties OF every man in return
Ior Irifling, pleasant social labor, nay.
which should develop those faculties
ior all classes far more than they
are developed today? Under such a
system where mankind collectively
controlled their means OF production
with machinery ever improving by the
genius of their fellows, but used for
instead of against the mass of the
human race, men would at length be
really free in every sense, econom-
cal, social and political save that
they would no longer possess the
freedom 10 enslaye and embrute their
fellow men individuality is crushed
to6ay In every direction The poor
slave To the machine. the over-work-
ed hind, or domestic drudge have no
time for Individuality, no strength
loft for their own education or de-
velopment Under our present sys-
tenn there is no individuality for the
mass OF mankind.
Is This Utopian.
For reconstruction and reorganlza.
ton, therefore. we Socialists continu-
ally strive. looking TO the completest
physical, moral and intellectual de.
volopment Of every human being as
the highest form OF the social state.
as the best and truest happiness for
every individual and for every class,
where, as none need oyerwoTk, so
none shall be able to force others
TO work for their profit And this
is Utopian Nay; il was utopian, per-
baps, when the powers OF man over
nature were trifling compared With
what they are today, and mere divi-
sion OF labor almost necessarily in
VOWED the formation OF casts and
classes. But now steam, electricity.
the forces growing daily under our