The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
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When the world is at last completely
and finally reformed it's reformation will
come through hard common sense. The
trouble with most idealists is that they
never do anything, to make their ideals
real. The millennium will come not
through the elevation of the chosen few
but through the elevation of all. And the
only elevation worth while that we know
anything about on this earth is that which
is brought about by the practical educa-
ton of the masses to live sanely and
work effectively. man over in Philadel-
phia arose the other day to remark that
the millennium will be attained through
scientific management, and he was good
deal more than half right.
Let it be said again that you are wasting
your time if you are trying to find any
other way of directing this worlds affairs
and there is none. Time was when it
the force of the good right arm,
multiplied by the length of the cave man S
club, that decided human destiny. Later
that force was multiplied by brain and
the length of sword and spear and the
number of the kings fighting men. 1t
was still force that ruled and power
meant more than ever. Today it is brain
and moral force that prevail-brain multi
piled by countless engines of industry, by
the lifting force of the printing press,
the cables the wires and the wireless
but force still And it is will be force to
the end of time. Hence it comes that
inequality, save as their hands and brains
are equal or differ. Hence it is, too, that
equality can never be Appropriated until
each man is trained to think and to labor
as efficiently the other.
The real education of the masses is just
beginning. The old education of the
classes is of no less Importance; rather
it is becoming more important through
its adaptation to the everyday needs OF
the world. The gap between the rich and
the Door is cloSing-men are becoming
more nearly equal. The work or the world
is now recognized as common task, and
trusts and combines to the contrary not
of no kind or condition of men to control
that work or to say how 1t shall be done
The increa Sed efficiency OF the masses is
substituting the democracy OF brains Tor
the aristocracy of privilege, and 1t is DO
ing it without a great deal of help from
iestslation or any other political treat
ment administered to the occasionally
alarming symptoms of industrial life
Wherefore, let's take rosy view OF
the situation. The clubs and pr1ckbats
and guns of the strikers may dlsturp the
peace for the time. Here ana there are
a class of employers who provoke strlIe
through their ignorance OF their day ana
their disposition to- cling TO an outWorn
order But in the very nature OF these
things they must pass away. A little
strife now and then is not the worst thlng
IN the world 1t is a symptom OF read1uSt-
ment Out of the seeming chaos one Iact
stands preeminent. The new idea! OF emil
cheney is the key to liberty, equantV ana
fraternity. With these Things on tne way
there is little in the rest OF the sltuanon
to worry the clear sighted were getung
a little closer every day to a basis OF
common horse sense When We nave at
tained it we will have reached the mil
Iennium-(Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)