The Arvada enterprise., 1911-08-31
FARM ETHICS.
Written for "Our Commun.
ity" by H. T. Graf
tan.

among the farming class Among
the professions we find what is called
professional courtesy. One Doctor
does not charge another for personal
services. One physician will scare
ely speak i'll of another of his pro-
fession. Lawyers in a heated con-
test OF opposition will not refuse one
another courtesies and accommoda
tions, while their behavior in hun
dred ways is hemmed in by what is
known as professional courtesy.
These courtesies are taught in the
law school and are enforced by the
bar associations. The pity is that
they do not more often extend them
beyond their own class.
The merchants have their trade
courtesies. The bankers likewise
certain line of class duties that
they never overreach. A banker Will
extend many courtesy to another
banker that he will not extend to an
outsider, altho there may be strong
competition between them for busi-
ness.
The blacksmith, the carpenter and
SO on thru the list has certain fra
ternal feeling for his kind thai nat
uraly deyelopes a sort OF a class
ethics.
hi har a low oil ~,
to point OF gentlemen 5 agreement
as TO prices. The slaughtering OF
prices IS almost a thing OF the past
with every class except the farmer
Inis class eInlcs mas been a steady
growth OF better sense, better feeling
and greater development. People
their own class only brings greater
burdens and more unpleasantness loI
all, and hinders a proper develop
ment. 1t takes more energy to teal
down the other fellow than 1T does
to build Dotn yourself and hlm up, 50
thru years OF experience certaL
llHe VI uuly uaS peeH iouhu uiOl (
profitable from the matter OF douaf-
and cents by the business interests
while the professions nave MAINTAIN.
ed a standard ot ethics winch would
not seem to have u direct dOlars ana
cents bearing.
| Not denying that the world has
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good and some bad, yet | am to write
ON those tnat relate to the farmer.
Al no time in our history has the
question OF public ethics been SC
much blaze as since the advent OF
| rh eodore Roosevelt as president, and
probably no other man has ever done
SO much to keep aDlaze this question
calling for higher and better
ethical standard CT public as well as
private life.
me farmer must learn what good
ethics are. We must demand it i'll
our public officials. We are voting
Tor men who use the Infamous spoils
system in their appointments. No
nation could long exist under the
authority of officials placed III posi-
tion regardless OF quaIiincatIons
JUS. to pay on the pouIlCai debts OF
some party or some individual. Bao
ethics kills the individual, Kills the
community, kills the nation.
People are not at heart generally
bad. They are generally good. NOst
OF our trouble comes from ignorance
not book Ignorance but experience
ignorance. II we could only know
the other fellows point OF view, ans
We can never exactly know 1t until
we have the same experiences that
ne has had. This is the reason that
there has grown up class ethics.
those in the same line OF work have
mad the same experiences. thus Civ
ing each the other fellows point OF
view. Thus the banker will do diff
forent. will talk different, with the
other banker because they under
stand eacn others point of view.
When the man with the bicycle
wanted me to turn my team out OF
the road for him thought he was
foolish. But when the man with the
team made me get of OF my wheel
TO let him drive leisurally by |
thought he was hog. l may yet
get out OF the road for the auto
that comes footing up behind me
although il would change au DID
road custom.
Ethics involves then human CON
duct, conduct towards our Iellow
man and as We gain in our exper-
ience, or in the experiences of other
people we know better how to treat
them. Tolstoi kept up the garb and
the experiences OF the Russion peas
ant. not allowing himself the
uNuries that his wealth would afford,