Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-01-26
LOOKING BACKW WARD

threatened society with form of
ever endured. Meanwhile, the alb
absorption of business by ever larger
monopolies continued
+ There was no opportunity whatever
FOR individual enterprise in any i'm
/ rortant field of industry unless back
ed by a great capital. The railroads
had gone on combining until a few
great syndicates controlled every rail
in the land. In manufactures every
important staple was controlled by a
syndicate. These syndicates or trusts
fixed prices and crushed all compe-
tition except when combinations as
"ast as themselves arose.
The fact that the desperate popu-
lar opposition to the consolidation
, of business in a few powerful hands
had no effect to check it proves that
there must have been a strong eco
nomical reason for it. The small
capitalist had, in fact yielded the
field to the great aggregations of
| wealth because they belonged to the
DAY Of small things and were totally
Incompetent to the gigantic scale of
its enterprises.
The movement toward the conduct
Of business by larger and larger
aggregations of capital the tendency
towards monopolies which had sheer
so desperately and vainly resisted
was recognized at last in its true
significance as a process which only
needed to complete its logical evo1
luton TO open a golden future fol
humanity. The evolution is completed
by the final consolidation of the en-
tire capital of the nation. The ma
ton, that is to the say. organized
as the one great business corporation
in which all other corporations were
absorbed. 1t became the one CAPT
talist-the sole employer-the fina
!. MONOPOLY monopoly in the profit:
and economies of which all citizen!
shared
No man has any care for the NOR
row, for the nation guarantees tn,
nurture and education and comfort
!; able maintenance of every citizel
from the cradle to the grave Al
, share the same through the fact tina
he is a man"
1T would be easy to believe in tn
, 'Fathernood of God and the Broth
| erhood of Man under such circum
: stances.
In Fuller's "A. d. 2500,'' writer
very much in the same prophet
> strain as Bellamy's Looking Back
/ ward, we find these possibilities.
I There are no states-the state gov
, eminent would have interfered wit
the control and discipline of the in
t dustrial army which. of course. re
e qUired to be central and uniform
= Almost the sole function of the ad
$ ministration now is that of direct
4 ing the industries of the country. w
! have no army, or navy. no mlitar
: organization. We have nothing t
f make laws about. The fundamentS
principles on which our society
t strifes and misunderstanding We d
f without lawyers. Falsehood is s
e despised among us that few would Il
t to save themselves. IF lying ha
y gone out of fashion. this is indee
r the new heaven and the new cart
r wherein dwelleth righteousness whic
g the prophet foretold
The inheritance of property is n,
/ now allowable. Wives are not dc
e PENDENT upon their husbands, M
n children on their parents, but/for O
flee of affection. One result whio
= must follow from independence
5. women-there can be no marriag,
d now except those of incinato
= Women are 4 very happy race nows
a Gays. AS for love. one of our at
tEors says that the vacuum left
II the minds of men and women by Il
= absence of care for ones livelihot
d has been entirely taken up by Il
It tender passion. Think of a world
d which there are nothing but match
lie of pure love. Our women have rist
j. to the full height of their respons
1t bility as the wardens of the world